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In 2008, the RMOW formed a volunteer steering committee
comprised of financial experts from external organizations, and RMOW council
and senior staff representatives to update its Long-Term Financial Plan.
Whistler's Long-Term Financial Plan with a ten-year vision was originally
completed in the late 1990s.
Click here to download the Long-Term Financial Plan.
The revised Long-Term Financial Plan looks at Whistler's
current financial position, which is considered to be strong, and will plan for
future challenges.
The role of the committee is to review the current and future financial and economic scenarios for
Whistler, and establish guiding principles and policies to guide staff and
council in the development of the annual Five-Year Financial Plan. It will
provide a forward-thinking, long range overview and set of priorities on which
to base financial decisions, and plan for continued economic sustainability for
Whistler.
Read more.
Members of the steering
committee include:
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Peter Adams,
Partner, Victoria Consulting Network Ltd.
- Jamie Bruce,
Partner, Capital West Partners
- Bill Cox,
Partner in Charge, BDO
- Ken Dobell,
Board of Directors, VANOC
- Fiona
Famulak
- Allan
Neilson-Welch, Principal, Neilson-Welch Consulting Inc.
- Scott Riley,
Branch Manager, Royal Bank of Canada
- Tamara
Vrooman, CEO, Vancity
- Ken Melamed,
Mayor, RMOW
- Bob
Lorriman, Councillor, RMOW
Read bios for the steering committee members below:
Peter Adams, Partner, Victoria
Consulting Network Ltd.
For the past
20 years, Peter has been an independent consultant based in Victoria, BC. For
most of this time, Peter was one of the two partners of Semmens & Adams.
Prior to that, he was a Principal with the national management consulting firm
Stevenson Kellogg Ernst & Whinney (now Bearing Point), a position he held
for over three years.
For ten
years prior to joining the consulting field, Peter provided policy advice at a
senior level to the governments of British Columbia, Ontario, and Canada.
His fields
of expertise include public finance, taxation policy, policy analysis, business
case analysis, program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, financial planning,
and management practice within the public sector.
Peter is an
economist by training with Bachelor and Master's degrees from the London School
of Economics and Political Science.
Jamie Bruce, Partner, Capital
West Partners
Jamie brings
more than 25 years of investment banking experience to the Long Term Financial
Plan Steering Committee, having worked at Pemberton Securities, RBC Capital
Markets and TD Securities. At TD
Securities he was head of Investment Banking and Corporate Credit for British
Columbia.
Jamie has
led hundreds of transactions to successful completion including merger and
acquisition assignments, IPO's, private equity issues, debt financings, and
numerous other advisory assignments.
Jamie is a
Mechanical Engineer with an MBA. He is also a Certified Management Accountant
and Chartered Business Valuator. He serves or has served on several non-profit
and corporate boards.
Jamie has
been a Whistler property owner since 1983.
Bill Cox, Partner in Charge, BDO
Bill Cox,
CA, is an observer to the Whistler Long Term Financial Plan Steering Committee.
Bill is a chartered accountant and a partner at BDO Dunwoody LLP with over 25
years experience working with local government. Bill's practice includes provision of audit
services to over 25 municipalities in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory.
Bill has also provided consulting services to audit clients and other local
governments in areas related to:
- Financial
consulting
- Investigative
reviews
- Fraud loss
quantification
- Governance
reviews
Bill has
worked on the audit of the financial statements for Whistler for over 10 years
and has an in-depth understanding of the municipality and its finances.
Ken Dobell, Board of Directors,
VANOC
Ken Dobell
served as Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary, from 2001 to
2005. He continued to serve as the
Province's lead negotiator on softwood lumber, and advised the City of
Vancouver on housing issues and the City's plan for its cultural precinct. He
was the first CEO of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority until 2001.
Until 1999, Ken worked at the City of Vancouver in the Engineering Department
and for ten years as City Manager.
He has a Bachelor
of Science from UBC and a Master of Science in Operations Research from the
University of Birmingham.
Ken served as Chair of the
Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project, until its amalgamation with
another Crown corporation; is a director of VANOC, where he co-chairs the
Finance Committee; and is a director of the 2010 Legacies Now Society. He
served as a lay bencher of the Law Society of BC, and was a director of the
Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
Ken has received a number of
awards, including the Lieutenant-Governor's award for Excellence in Public
Service; the Municipal Officers of BC Professional Award; the Queens Golden
Jubilee Medal; the BC HMRA Award of Excellence; and the Association of
Professional Engineers of BC Meritorious Service Award.
Fiona
Famulak
Fiona
was recently hired as President of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, having served
on the Board since 2004 and, most recently, as Chair of the Board of Directors.
A member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, she brings 22
years of business experience to the table, including 9 years international
consulting experience in both private and public sectors in Hong Kong and
throughout Asia, as well as 8 years experience managing businesses in Canada.
Fiona
has volunteered considerable time to a variety of community organizations, including
the Canadian Home Builders Association and the Community Futures Development
Corp. of Howe Sound and currently serves on the Board of Maurice Young Millennium
Place Society.
Fiona
has been a Whistler property owner since 1997 and a small business owner since 2003.
Allan Neilson-Welch, Principal,
Neilson-Welch Consulting Inc
Allan Neilson-Welch
is the principal of Neilson-Welch Consulting Inc. (NWCI), a BC-based local
government consultancy. NWCI regularly assists councils and managers in
the development of policy and program approaches designed to address needs and
challenges in a variety of local government service areas. NWCI also
advises local governments on matters related to finance, governance and
inter-jurisdictional service arrangements.
Allan began working
as a consultant to government in 1992 after graduating with his Master of
Public Administration from Queen's University.
Allan's principal role in RMOW's long-term financial
planning process is as facilitator of the Steering Committee meetings.
Scott Riley, Branch Manager,
Royal Bank of Canada
Scott brings more than 17 years of banking experience to the Long term
Financial Plan Steering Committee having worked with RBC Financial Group, TD
Bank Financial Group, TD Waterhouse, TD Commercial Banking, and North Shore
Credit Union.
Scott
has a solid background in all areas of personal banking, commercial banking,
and private Banking. His educational background includes numerous
industry-related courses including the Canadian Securities Course (CSC),
Associate, and Institute of Canadian Bankers (AICB), and Investment Funds in
Canada (IFIC) courses.
Scott
has lived in Whistler on two separate occasions and his family has owned
property in Whistler since 1996.
Tamara Vrooman, CEO, Vancity
As Chief
Executive Officer, Tamara Vrooman harnesses the strength, breadth and diversity
across Vancity to encourage growth and prosperity for the greater good. As the
head of Canada's largest credit union, Tamara considers her role as a
continuation of her career in public service as Vancity extends its financial
success to facilitate positive social and environmental change.
As Deputy
Minister of Finance for British Columbia from 2004 through mid-2007, Tamara
also served as Secretary to the Treasury Board and CEO of the Public Sector
Employers' Council. Among her achievements in that time, Tamara led the
strategy development and implementation to successfully renegotiate 100 per
cent of expiring collective agreements in the public sector without strike or
mediation and led the Ministry to two AAA credit rating upgrades. Her role
included overseeing the government's annual $100 billion borrowing and cash
requirements and developing the government's $36 billion fiscal plan. Her prior
portfolio was as Deputy Minister and Executive Financial Officer for the
Ministry of Health where she balanced the budget and developed the Ministry's
financial management plan.
Tamara holds
a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (History) from the University of
Victoria. Her accomplishments have been recognized with the 2007 Knowledge and
Leadership Award from the Association of Women in Finance; inclusion on
Canada's Top 40 Under 40TM and the 2003 Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for
outstanding contributions to public service in B.C.
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