Members of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMD&C), including Mountain View and Red Deer County councillors, will be considering more than 40 resolutions at the organization's 2012 convention this week.MVC Div. 7 councillor Al Kemmere is the chairman of the AAMD&C resolution committee this year.“These are our marching orders, the words of our members to advocate our member positions to the government,” said Kemmere. “Typically 95 per cent of our activity deals directly with the provincial government. Some of the time we will deal with the federal government, but mostly it's with the provincial government.”Among the resolutions AAMD&C members will consider this week are ones dealing with physician licensing and privileges, the recruitment of registered nurses, insurance coverage for wildland firefighting costs, and public access to Alberta lakes and rivers.The resolution regarding physician licensing and privileges urges the provincial government to “increase its efforts in recruiting physicians to rural Alberta, especially Canadian trained physicians; work with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta to shorten the assessment period; and/or allow assessments to occur in the recruiting community; and ensure that Alberta Health Services review and streamline its assessment process for granting privileges.”The resolution regarding the recruitment of registered nurses urges the provincial government to “work with the College & Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta to accept satisfactory document reviews completed by other provinces and to license foreign trained nurses when they successfully complete the Canadian Registered Nurses examination.”Coun. Kemmere said: “There are some resolutions that are going to affect our region, but as the chairman I am supposed to be as non-biased as possible, so I will refrain from adding any editorial comments.”The convention goes Nov. 13-15 in Edmonton.
