A.
Managing Mental Health in the Workplace, "Getting Started"
When you are finished this workshop you will know how to make Mental Health and Mental Illness Education a priority in your municipality. You will also learn easy cost effective ways to accomplish this.
- Geraldine Cole, CHRL, Labour Relations Officer, County of Grey
B.
Post Elections – What You Need to Prepare
As most election preparation processes will be well underway, this session will focus on post-election matters like candidate financial filing, compliance audit committee considerations, recounts, election wrap-up reporting and Council inaugurals. This practical and interactive session will look at post-election requirements, work to be completed and considerations needed for several scenarios.
- Stephen O’ Brien, City Clerk, City Clerk’s Office, Corporate Services, City of Guelph
- Tyler Cox, Dipl.M.A. Manager, Legislative Services at the City of Ottawa
- Michael Di Lullo AOMC , City Clerk/Director of Council and Administrative Services, city of Cambridge
C. Bill 68 & the Tax Sale Forum
PIPS—Prescribed Information for the Purposes of Section 5.0.1 of the Land Transfer Tax Act
Purchasers of qualifying tax sale properties must submit the prescribed information to the Ministry of Finance, or they will be guilty of an offence. We'll be discussing municipality's obligations in this regard.
NRST—Non Resident Speculation Tax
When a qualifying property is purchased by a non-resident, 15% tax must be pre-paid to the Ministry of Finance. This could cause problems with your tax sales, as it slows down the registration of a tax deed, when time is of the essence. Tax deeds must now include statements regarding the residency of the purchaser.
Bill 68
Numerous important changes to tax registrations and tax sales have come in to effect because of Bill 68. Our presentation will look at what problems these changes have solved and what problems they have caused.
Tax Sale Forum
Here's where attendees, and the Realtax team, can share their unique experiences, and the lessons they learned, with everyone in the room. And with all the key changes to legislation in the past year, no doubt there will be many unique experiences to share, so that we can all learn from one another.
- Mary MacCallum, Tax Sale Consultant, Realtax Inc.
- Jeff Oberman, President, Realtax Inc.
D. Preparing for the Development Charge Process
In Ontario there are over 200 municipalities with Development Charge by-laws. During 2018 and 2019, approximately 66% of these by-laws will expire resulting in the need to undertake the mandatory process to implement new by-laws. In January, 2016, the Province introduced changes to the Development Charges Act (Bill 73) which will modify the process and study requirements from previous studies.
This presentation will inform attendees of various aspects of the Development Charges Act methodology and process including:
- Changes to the Act resulting from Bill 73
- Calculation approach
- Statutory process
- Communicating with the development community
- Emerging Issues and Appeal matters
- Residential and Non-Residential Charges in effect across Ontario
- Gary Scandlan Director and Managing Partner with Watson & Associates