We had a great meeting on Wednesday January 20.
Joan Coyle recently had back surgery, she is recovering from her surgery. That is good news. We are all thinking about you Joan.
Our Speaker this week was Kent McMullin Kent is one of Judy’s co–workers and she describes him as “on of the good ones”
Kent is with the Department of Economic Development. Kent gave us a very interesting presentation on the City structure and efforts that are being made to attract and keep economic development in Edmonton and the Edmonton region. He talked about
- The recent change of focus to attract business to the region and reduce completion between neighbouring municipalities and counties (Edmonton metro regional board)
- regional transit
- Waste energy
- Climate change
- Economic development
- Breakdown of City Departments and their roles
- Annexation negotiations
- Calgary has 8 satellite municipalities while Edmonton has 13. This gives the Calgary region a significant competitive advantage when marketing the region to potential businesses.
- A large Hydrogen plant that is planned to be constructed in Edmonton ($1.5 billion project)
Great presentation. Interesting things that our City is doing.
