The city will be hosting the 2022 SILGA conference and annual general meeting – or Southern Interior Local Government Association AGM, scheduled from Tuesday, April 26 to Friday, April 29.
Salmon Arm last hosted the SILGA conference in 2013, when former Canucks’ captain Trevor Linden was a featured speaker.
The three main days of the SILGA conference will include debates on resolutions, as well as round tables, keynote addresses and AGM business.
Keynote speaker this year is Jesse Wente with a talk entitled ‘Dreaming Our Future: Storytelling and Healing Our Way Forward.’ Wente is well-known for his two decades on CBC Radio and his bio described him as “an outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights and First Nations, Métis and Inuit art.” Born and raised in Toronto, he is a member of the Serpent River First Nation.
Other resolution topics include: the order in which Interior roads are cleared in winter, from the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen; amending the BC Building Code to allow local government to control light pollution, from Coldstream; and an alternative funding model to attract more family doctors to B.C.