Resolutions news, updates, and actions related to resolutions.
The 2026 Resolutions Book is now available. This book includes the complete list of resolutions to be considered by our membership at the 2026 UBCM Convention. Resolutions sessions begin at 10:30 am on Wednesday, September 16.
Members are reminded they can submit resolutions directly to UBCM by June 15. As you draft your resolutions, please keep in mind the new framework that was adopted last year, which will ensure resolutions are: focused on new issues, within local government scope, province-wide in nature, and clearly written.
The Province has provided its responses to resolutions that were endorsed at the 2025 UBCM Convention. These responses will be shared directly with the sponsors, and have been added to the resolutions database on the UBCM website.
While the Area Association resolutions deadlines have passed, members can submit resolutions directly to UBCM by June 15. If you do so, please keep in mind the new framework that was adopted last year, which will ensure resolutions are: focused on new issues, within local government scope, province-wide in nature, and clearly written.
As members begin drafting resolutions for the 2026 Area Association conventions, please keep in mind the extraordinary resolution that passed in 2025 which will apply a new framework to ensure resolutions considered by the membership at Convention are: focused on new issues, within local government scope, province-wide in nature, and clearly written.
UBCM held its first full quarterly meeting with the 2025-2026 Executive Board members on November 13-14, welcoming new and returning members. Executive members made decisions on all 57 resolutions that didn’t make it to the floor at 2025 Convention – see the full table below. Executive met with ministers Brittny Anderson and Christine Boyle to discuss several matters, including the Okanagan Falls incorporation process, regional district legislative reform, and the potential impact of bill M216 – Professional Reliance Act on local governments.
Of the 200+ resolutions brought forward to Convention this year, 57 have been referred to Executive to consider. Most of these are resolutions that were not considered at Convention due to lack of time.
Executive will address these resolutions during the next quarterly meeting in November, and decisions will be shared in The Compass. Endorsed resolutions will be conveyed to the appropriate order of government.
Resolutions referred to Executive are as follows:
Every year the UBCM Executive sponsors special resolutions that address priority issues. This year they get at some of the specific areas where coordination is needed to respond to complex social issues that are beyond the jurisdiction of any one body.
These resolutions will be individually considered by the membership at the first resolutions session on Wednesday morning, including one extraordinary resolution that proposes a new framework to evaluate resolutions in future years.
UBCM Resolutions are an essential part of local government advocacy in BC. Each year hundreds of issues are raised for debate at the UBCM Convention. The volume is an indicator of the wide range of issues that communities deal with – but the sheer number poses some challenges. UBCM Executive is proposing a new framework to streamline the process.
UBCM’s 2025 Convention will be held in Victoria September 22-26. Our annual report and resolutions that will be considered during the business session are now available.