PREDA Annual General Meeting
Friday June 26th, 2026 (Agenda – Coming Soon!)
Theme: Duplication of Mandates – Why?
PREDA has always been an advocate of not doing what other organizations do better. As PREDA enters its final year of Government funding after 25 years of existence, we invite local service / advocacy groups to review together our mandates, and membership demands on our municipal members. Perhaps more importantly is why our local service / advocacy groups emerged competing for municipal funds, often overlapping each other, and putting undue conflicting demands on our municipal councils (ie.. local rate payers) in the last 10 years?
PREDA contends it is a complete withdrawal of the financial, local, and advocate influence of the Northern Alberta Development Council (NADC). The NADC received 5M+ annually from Alberta taxpayers since the 1960’s. A decade ago the NADC housed 20 Northern Alberta research / content / local community engaged experts in Peace River, Fort McMurray, and Cold Lake. Today there is one contact in the PREDA region? The Executive Director position of the NADC was moved to Edmonton in 2016 (PREDA advocated against this to no avail). PREDA contends instead of fighting for local municipal member dollars perhaps we should collectively be challenging the non-existence of the NADC in our communities while it still receives $Millions of taxpayer dollars?
