In 2017/2018, RMA, AUMA, and Infrastructure and Asset Management Alberta (IAMA) partnered to develop and deliver asset management workshops for elected officials, senior administration, and municipal staff. These workshops were made available for free through funding from received from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Municipal Asset Management Program (MAMP).
Workshops were geared towards rural and small urban municipalities with limited asset management experience. The workshops reached 130 municipalities across Alberta – a huge success.
You can access the workbooks from each of the workshops below.
Asset Management for Elected Officials: The Strategic Basics
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to guide you through the basics of asset management and how you as an elected official or senior administrator can champion asset management in your community.
- Modules include but are not limited to:
- Many written and group activities throughout
- Defining asset management and using an asset management mindset
- Communicating the benefits of asset management to your community
- Risk
Asset Management for Elected Officials: Asset Management and Climate Change
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to equip you, as elected officials and senior administration, with an understanding of the impacts of climate change on asset management and the ways through which asset management can support community goals related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Asset Management for Elected Officials: Engaging the Public in Asset Management
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to equip you, as elected officials and senior administration, with a strong understanding of how to engage the public in relevant discussions about asset management.
Asset Management for Elected Officials: Communicating Levels of Service
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to equip you, as elected officials and senior administration, with deeper knowledge of the role that levels of service play in asset management. Asset management, at its core, is about delivering services. This course will help you think through what big ideas of level of service mean to constituents and businesses in your community, as well as how they impact staff, activities, and resources.
Asset Management for Elected Officials: Asset Management Policy
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to equip you, as elected officials and senior administration, with a better understanding the role of policy in municipal governance and asset management, connecting asset management to the organization’s strategic objectives, values, priorities, and community objectives, and principles that guide decision-making about assets.
Asset Management for Elected Officials: Asset Management and Risk
- This content is geared towards elected officials and senior administration.
- The workbook’s intent is to equip you, as elected officials and senior administration, with defining risk and identifying specific risks to your municipality, learning which asset management tools to use for risk management, and understanding council’s role in the risk management process.
Asset Management for Municipal Staff: The Technical Basics
- This content is geared towards municipal staff and also suitable for senior administration.
- The workbook’s content is thorough and includes many reference materials. Modules in this workbook cover asset management awareness, data requirements, and guide you through building a basic asset management plan.
- Module 1
- Asset management terminology and key concepts, how it can support organization strategies and objectives, and frameworks, policies and strategies
- Module 2
- Basic registry requirements (i.e. data structure and basic attributes), template and spatial components (i.e. maps), overview of existing data requirements and public resources that support asset management plan development, and data you may need to collect that may not be readily available to enhance your asset management plan
- Module 3
- Asset management decision-making, objectives related to levels of service, and asset management plans
Stay tuned for updates on the RMA, AUMA, and IAMA’s second phase of the MAMP program that will be begin fall 2018.
This initiative is offered through the Municipal Asset Management Program, which is delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and funded by the Government of Canada.
To view the MAMP program, click here.