Meadow Lake city staff return from 2016 SUMA Conference

As the 111th annual Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) conference wraps up Wednesday, Meadow Lake mayor Gary Vidal is returning home.

“There’s a lot of valuable information we get,” Vidal said. “They do some education sessions for us, there’s an awful lot of opportunity to network with other people…I mean we had the premiere (Monday).

He said the conference was full of opportunity and ideas were broken down further to encompass a range of different sized communities.

Some of the education sessions included how to fill voids in volunteers, lessons learned through the 2015 forest fires, and taking a chance on change; how to positively react, and even embrace it.

“There’s always something you garner in your conversations with people,” Vidal said, looking back at the conference. “I know I had some conversations with the mayors of other cities over the last couple of days and there’s some information that we’ve taken out of that that we’ll go back and put into practice at home or have some discussions at home.”

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Nothing will be brought to Council at the Feb. 8 meeting since they will still be ingesting, researching and discussing the information at that point, according to Vidal.

Vidal went with four councillors and the acting city manager.

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