The 2021 FPEIM Semi-Annual Meeting will be hosted by the City of Summerside on Saturday, November 6, 2021, at Credit Union Place.
Switch Program
Maddy Crowell, Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, Town of Stratford
Maddy Crowell is the Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for the Town of Stratford, and has been in this position since it was created a year and half ago. She has a Master’s degree from Dalhousie University in Resource and Environmental Management. She has a background working in the fields of watershed management as well as recycling. Her role with the Town is to coordinate environmental sustainability related programs and projects and to help Stratford meet its sustainability goals.
Julian Boyle, President of PACE Atlantic
Julian Boyle is President of PACE Atlantic CIC, whose mission is to “accelerate the pace of change toward a lower carbon future.” As the first 3rd party administrator of PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) programming in Canada, PACE Atlantic CIC is delivering turn-key financing and programming to municipalities throughout Canada.
His team is executing a regional PACE program in a collaboration of Nova Scotia and PEI municipalities, with funding from the FCM’s Community Efficiency Financing Program. The PEI Switch programs were launched in July 2021 and have seen the fastest ramp up of PACE ever in Canada, with the communities in Charlottetown and Stratford on track to retrofit 3-5% of their housing stock per year.
Julian was the developer and architect of the first PACE program in Canada in 2010: Halifax’s award-winning Solar City initiative. The Solar City Program won a national sustainability award from FCM in 2015 and is also highlighted in FCM’s recent 20th-anniversary celebration of the Green Municipal Fund (GMF). As the longest-running, largest, and most successful PACE program in Canada it has catalyzed a local and national market transformation.
He represented the city at COP15 in Copenhagen and attended COP21 in Paris, both of which have served as the inspiration to think big but act local in the defining issue of our time, climate change.
Land Matters
Dr. Bobby Cameron, Director, Strategic Policy and Evaluation Division, Agriculture and Land
Dr. Cameron has a PhD – Policy Studies (Ryerson), a MA – Public Policy (Ryerson), and is a Credentialed Evaluator (Canadian Evaluation Society). He is the Director of Strategic Policy and Evaluation with the Department of Agriculture and Land. Previous roles were in policy with aquaculture, fisheries, rural development and health.
Glenda MacKinnon-Peters, Director, Land Division, Agriculture and Land
Glenda MacKinnon-Peters is a Professional Engineer with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the UNB. Glenda is the Director of Land with the Department of Agriculture and Land and has over twenty-five years of extensive experience in the development, administration, delivery and enforcement of regulations in the areas of planning, inspections and environment.
Andrea Triolo, Senior Legislative Analyst, Agriculture and Land
Andrea Triolo LL.B., has a Master of Environmental Law. She is the Senior Legislative and Applied Research Analyst with the Department of Agriculture and Land. Prior to joining the Department of Agriculture and Land worked as a lawyer in a private practice.
Summerside Green Energy
Greg Gaudet, Municipal Services Director, City of Summerside
As Director of Municipal Services, Greg brings 30 years of engineering experience and expertise to the City of Summerside. In this role, Greg directs capital projects and all operations aspects of the infrastructure for the City of Summerside municipal government including its electric, water and sewer utilities, storm drainage, and roadways.
Prior to joining City of Summerside, Greg held positions as microelectronics board designer, project engineer on large scale projects and consulting engineering in design and construction.
Currently, Greg is working towards the local integration of renewable energy and implementation of a smart grid as part of the Summerside Sunbank Project. Greg holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the University of New Brunswick in the electrical discipline.
A Conservation Conversation
Kathrin Munro, Conservation Coordinator, FPEIM
Born and raised in Montague, PEI, Kathrin was a budding biologist from a young age. Her passion for science took her to Dalhousie for her BSc., then to Memorial University for her MSc. where she studied Boreal Owl habitat use and forest management practices.
After some wonderful jobs around North America, Kathrin is very happy to be back in her home province working on local forest conservation issues with Federation of PEI Municipalities. In her spare time, you can likely find her cooking up some local seafood, listening to East Coast music, and spending as much time as she can playing ball with her very energetic Border Collie, Scout.
Samantha Murphy, S J Murphy Planning and Consulting
Samantha Murphy has a graduate degree in urban and rural planning. She has worked at the municipal level with the Town of Cornwall and at the provincial level as a provincial planner, rising to the level of Manager of Municipal Affairs in 2007, before moving to the private sector in September 2020. Samantha’s professional experience has ranged from public engagement and consultation, policy and governance, municipal planning, provincial planning standards, and the modernization of the municipal governance framework in Prince Edward Island. Samantha is the principal of SJ Murphy Consulting firm and currently providing planning support and consulting services to a range of towns and rural municipalities across PEI.
PEI Coastal Hazards – Data, Tools and Resources
Peter Nishimura & Hope Parnham, Senior Climate Adaptation Policy Advisors, Environment, Energy and Climate Change
Peter Nishimura and Hope Parnham are the Senior Climate Adaptation Policy Advisors with the PEI Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action.
Peter has been with the department for over 10 years. His background in environmental science supports his work in coastal hazard assessment, capacity building and program development.
Hope has been with the department for the past 2 years and previously worked as a planner with municipalities across PEI and on climate adaptation research in Atlantic Canada.
Municipalities Building Communities through Small Projects
Shari MacDonald, CAO, Rural Municipality of Miltonvale Park
Shari has been the CAO at the Rural Municipality of Miltonvale Park for 15 years, after working as a home economics teacher in Maryston NL and High Level, AB, and as coordinator of a provincial volunteerism initiative. In order to avoid housework, she spends her time involved with the Wheatley River 4-H Club, North Milton Women’s Institute, the Association of Rural Community Halls and (mostly) the Milton Community Hall. Shari lives in a messy house in the woods in North Milton with her hermits: husband Gordon, gamer-son Cameron, and his furniture -destroying cat Merpy. Daughter Zoë is living and (finally!) working in Halifax.
Wendy Watts, Community and Business Engagement Manager, Town of Stratford
Wendy Watts is the Community and Business Engagement Manager with the Town of Stratford, where she has worked since 2015. Prior to that she spent almost 8 years at the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce. In Wendy’s role with the Town of Stratford she oversees the Town’s communications, social media, and website; works closely with the local business community, and is the staff lead in the area of diversity and inclusion work.
Jessica Brown, Sustainability Officer, City of Charlottetown
Jessica Brown began working at the City of Charlottetown in 2016 as the Sustainability Outreach Coordinator. She has been in the role of Sustainability Officer since 2019. She has a BA from the University of Prince Edward Island specializing in Environmental Studies and Psychology as well as an Environmental Science and Technology certification from Holland College. In 2019, Jessica received a ‘Sustainability and Behaviour Change’ certificate from the UC San Diego extension. Her background in both human and environmental sciences has been very beneficial in developing projects that connect community and environment/sustainability and engage the public on topics like climate change.