UBCM Staff

UBCM Executive

Left to Right, back row: Councillor Lori Mindnich, Councillor Sarah Fowler, Mayor Clara Reinhardt, Director Grace McGregor, Mayor Gaby Wickstrom, Councillor Craig Hodge, Councillor Jen Ford, Mayor Ange Qualizza, Councillor Claire Moglove, Mayor Val van den Broek, Mayor Sarrah Storey, Councillor Trish Mandewo, Councillor Laura Dupont

Left to Right, front row: Councillor Cori Ramsay, Councillor Pete Fry, Councillor Laurey-Anne Roodenburg, Councillor Brian Frenkel, Councillor Sadie Hunter, Director Ian Morrison

Not shown: Councillor Gord Klassen, Councillor Amy Lubik,

UBCM Staff

Left to Right, back row: Josh van Loon, Senior Policy Analyst; Hervinder Bains, Senior Financial Accountant; Bhar Sihota, Senior Policy Analyst

Left to Right, middle row: Marylyn Chiang, Senior Policy Analyst; Kathleen Spalek, Chief Financial Officer; Jennifer Kwok, Event & Corporate Operations Assistant (no longer with UBCM); Kelsey MackaySmith, Event & Sponsorship Coordinator

Left to Right, front row: Jamee Justason, Resolutions and Policy Analyst; Marie Crawford, General Manager of Richmond Operations; Gary MacIsaac, Executive Director; Anna-Maria Wijesinghe, Manager, Member & Association Services (no longer with UBCM); Lilliana Kang, Convention Assistant (no longer with UBCM)

Not shown: Raelene Adamson, Office Administrator; Reiko Tagami, Policy Analyst; Julia Carandang, Finance & Corporate Operations Administrator

Left to Right, back row: Peter Ronald, LGPS Program Officer (Retired); Brant Felker, CCBF Policy & Program Manager; Rebecca Williams, Program Administrator; CCBF Program Services; Rebecca Bishop, LGPS Program Officer; Gary MacIsaac, Executive Director; Glen Brown, General Manager of Victoria Operations; Jared Wright, Director of Advocacy & Government Relations; Toby Simpson, Program Officer, CCBF Program Services

Left to Right, front row: Karen Borden, BC FireSmart Committee Coordinator (Retired); Paul Taylor, Director of Communications; Liz Cookson, Senior Finance Policy Analyst; Sasha Prynn, LGPS Program Officer; Christina Arsens, LGPS Program Officer; Danyta Welch, Manager, LGPS

Not shown: Lynn Eileen, BC FireSmart Committee Coordinator; Gabi Vindisch, Executive Coordinator, LGLA; Jonas Woodrow, Program Officer, LGPS

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and Advocacy

UBCM’s mandate is to advocate on behalf of BC local governments and member First Nations for the development and implementation of legislation, regulation, policies and programs that support the membership’s needs. Our goal is to effect change that will benefit our members. To facilitate reaching that goal, UBCM participates in policy development and implementation processes in a number of ways:

• proactively – presenting our own independent initiatives to other governments (i.e. UBCM’s housing report “A Home for Everyone” sets out member direction and defines our advocacy efforts to provincial and federal governments.) • reactively – responding to proposed provincial or federal policy changes (i.e. federal legislation to legalize cannabis)) • ongoing involvement – participating in Ministry-UBCM or multi-party policy development processes which are many and varied with some requiring sustained involvement while others may only require limited intervention (i.e. Local

Government RCMP Contract Management Committee).

Much of UBCM’s policy work is done through the Executive and its Committees. The following pages provide an overview of the extensive policy work undertaken and outlines progress to date on various issues identified through annual Committee work plans.

In addition to the Executive and Committees, many policy topics are covered off through ongoing working groups, committees and meetings that UBCM appointments and staff attend. These policy matters are summarized in the section that follows the Committee overviews.

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