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Governance Systems and Municipal Governing—One City's Experience
Author(s) -
Lewis Rob
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.30105
Subject(s) - vanguard , corporate governance , public administration , certification , political science , management , sociology , law , geography , economics , archaeology
Rob Lewis currently serves as program coordinator with the City of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. He has a diploma in theology from Vanguard College, Edmonton, Alberta, and is certified in Policy Governance proficiency. In this article, he looks at the unique challenges and solutions related to implementing Policy Governance in a municipal council environment in Red Deer. It gives the history of the city's municipal governance and talks about why it looked to do something different, why it landed on Policy Governance, and the results the city has seen thus far.