My Initial Comments on the…

My Initial Comments on the new Regulation:

1.If licenced engineer to sign off on – need to provide ongoing funding for municipalities too small to have in-house engineers.

2.If reviewed by engineer, but is a financial plan – why is it not signed off by either the Treasurer or the auditor?

3.Funding to produce the plan – or update the plan – including inventory and levels of service needs to be provided – regardless of municipal size.

4.Training needs to be in place for staff and Council to understand the plan – and it needs to be ongoing – not before the plans are in place and then forgotten about. The Training should be funded by the province.

5.The legislation that required annual reporting of Energy Efficiency
-submitted to BPS
- should be tied into the Asset Management Plan

6.The Asset Management Plan requirements should tie into the Financial Information Return.

7.Province requires Water Financial Plans – these should be tied into the Asset Management Plan.

8. There needs to be a review scenario built in
- where Municipalities can get something like the AMP it up project to review plans and provide feedback
- but this should be paid for by the province.

9. A depository of AMP should be available on a Ministry website or if posted on Municipal websites
- a list of the website links to the Municipal Asset Management Plans shoudl be avaialble
- for assistance to review plans by other municipalities. 10 What level of detail will be required in the plans? If too much detail
- is this a problem for assets that need some sort of security
- such as water plants?

[Original Comment ID: 209933]