AMO Watchfile - January 9, 2025

- Get access to MIDAS!
- Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 Act consultation.
- Implementation date of excess soil landfill restriction changed.
- Book your AMO 2025 Conference Hotel!
- See you next week at the ROMA 2025 Annual Conference.
- AMO Education - Workshops addressing and supporting your leadership.
- Blog: An Electric Road Trip.
- Municipal Series: Net Zero Planning and Low Carbon Initiatives.
- IPAC Emerging Leaders Conference.
- Save the date: Scotiabank 2025 Affordable Housing Summit.
- Careers.

AMO Matters
MIDAS - the Municipal Information & Data Analysis System - provides access to the Financial Information Returns (FIRs) data to all Ontario municipalities. MIDAS converts FIR data into meaningful reports and identify multiple year trends. For access, municipal elected officials and municipal staff can email MIDASAdmin@amo.on.ca.

Provincial Matters
The province is currently consulting on regulations related to the sale and transfer of dogs in Ontario, record-keeping requirements and potential exceptions to puppy mill prohibitions (PAWS Act). Comments due February 1.

Ontario has made amendments to Ontario Regulation 406/19 to change the in-effect date of a provision to restrict landfilling cleaner excess soil, from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027.

Education Opportunities
Mark your calendar for January 14 at 10:00am to book your 2025 AMO Conference hotel room. Here is where you will want to click for all the information you need and links to conference hotels.

There is still time to register online for this years ROMA Annual Conference online. You have until January 13 one minute before midnight to take advantage of registration savings. After this, all registration will be onsite where higher rates apply. Register here. Check out this years amazing program here.

AMO has assembled an array of workshops focused on supporting and strengthening your role as a local leader. From asset management planning, land use planning, indigenous-municipal relations, navigating conflict, communications through local crisis, strategic thinking, planning and communication, understanding anti-semitism and islamophobia and so much more. AMO is also offering registration discounts. Check it all out here.

LAS
Our staff love to visit with municipalities to discuss their challenges and opportunities. Read our latest blog about the fall road trip experience of one of our Municipal Program Specialists.

Have you made a commitment to net zero and don’t know where to start? Join the IESO’s guest speaker, our very own Christian Tham, in the next Municipal Series webinar on January 31. Christian will lay out practical steps to take and provide real life examples to help you on your low carbon journey. Click here for more information and to register.

Municipal Wire*
The Institute of Public Administration of Canada is hosting a professional development event for early-to-mid career public servants in Toronto on January 24.

Join industry experts in meaningful discussions on February 19th to tackle housing-related challenges at regional and national levels. Please reach out to Scotiabank’s events team for additional information.

Careers
Program Administrator (Workforce Development) - AMO. Closing date: January 31.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Commercial Transportation Safety and Enforcement - Ministry of Transportation. Closing date: January 17.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Transit - Ministry of Transportation. Closing date: January 17.

Senior Economic Development Officer - County of Simcoe. Closing date: January 9.

Health Care Manager - Ministry of the Solicitor General. Closing date: January 20.

General Manager, Human Resources - City of Guelph. Closing date: February 3.

Chief Administrative Officer - Township of Norwich. Closing date: January 10.

Hosting Project Lead - Township of Ignace. Closing date: January 31.

Director, Life Stabilization - City of London. Closing date: January 28.