PARCS UPDATE #163 - Oct. 11, 2021
To RESORT VILLAGES
To ORGANIZED HAMLETS
To RURAL MUNICIPALITIES
BOTH
Members
and
Non-Members
HERE'S ANOTHER REMINDER FOR NEXT SATURDAY! We offer two special convention speakers (see below). There's NO COST to attend our combined CONVENTION and ANNUAL MEETING via GO-TO-WEBINAR on SAT., OCT. 16. REGISTER NOW by clicking BOTH links below (one for the morning speakers & another for the afternoon meeting).
2021 PARCS CONVENTION & ANNUAL MEETING

First Morning Session (9:00 – 10:00 am)
This summer (on July 6, 2021), the Melville Advance published an article written by Jim Harding, Director of the Qu’Appelle Valley Environmental Association, and retired professor of environmental and justice studies.
Harding pointed to “urban sewage and agricultural runoff, along with decades of wetland destruction and government deregulation” as being guilty of “intensifying climate impacts” on our lakes, claiming that “prairie bioregions are particularly vulnerable.”
At the PARCS Spring Seminar (A series of webinars held during May/June, 2021 about the Environment and our Lakes), several prominent speakers also pointed to the effects of wetland destruction on our lakes. At our upcoming PARCS convention on Saturday, October 16th PARCS has invited Chuck Deschamps of Ducks Unlimited Canada to review these allegations about the loss of wetlands contributing to the degeneration of water quality on our prairie lakes. To hear Chuck’s presentation, click on the MORNING LINK to ADVANCE REGISTER for this FREE session (9:00 to 10:00 am, Sat. Oct. 16).

Second Morning Session (10:15 – 12:00 am)
To: Mayors, Reeves, Councillors, Administators, plus Members of Organized Hamlet Boards.
  • Are you ever unsure regarding misinformation and myths about basic meeting ground rules?
  • Do your meetings consistenly run over their allocated time?
  • Do you ever use a Consent Agenda to help your meetings stay on track and on time?
  • What is the role of your Chair (and the role of your 1st Vice Chair)?
  • What is Conflict of Interest and when does it trigger abstaining from voting or other meeting deliberations?
  • What is the best voting process and what is a quorum?
  • What are the best practices for handling corrections to the minutes?
  • What are the tips and tricks for keeping the meeting on track?
You will be eligible for a recording of this session. Shari Hildred of Valmore Consulting has promised a copy of the training materials for PARCS for distribution to attendees by email after the training.
CLICK ON THIS registration link for the morning convention: 


Enter your name, email address, and name of your community. Check the last box in order to receive information from the organizers.
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12:00 – 12:30 pm: Lunch Break
Highlights of the Afternoon Annual Meeting:
  • If you would like to read the minutes of last year's annual meeting, just go to the PARCS website, to What's New at the top of the site.
  • You will also find a copy of PARCS BYLAWS in the same spot.
  • Reports at the meeting will include:
  • An update from President Garry Dixon
  • A financial & membership update from Coordinator Lynne Saas
  • A special feature of this meeting will include a joint session from the current 7 Board members in which each will describe his or her priorities for the upcoming year.
  • If new Board Members are nominated from the floor, voting will occur after the meeting with ballots emailed to attendees.
  • Only PARCS members are eligible to vote.
  • An input session led by President Dixon will aim at the group identifying PARCS priorities for the upcoming year(s).
CLICK ON this link for the afternoon annual meeting.


Enter your name, email address, and name of your community. Check the last box in order to receive information from the organizers.