1.All municipalities would…

1.All municipalities would be required to develop and adopt a strategic asset management policy by January 1, 2019. At least every five years from that date the municipality would be required to review the policy and if necessary update it.

MOI needs to collect the information, gap analysis. No clear snapshot from municipal official asset management plans in Ontario and the greater golden horseshoe. It is not feasible to let all 444 municipalities in Ontario to develop and adopt a strategic asset management policy. It will need people, time, money and resource to create framework, roadmap, tool, technique and methodology for three tiers of municipalities. How many municipalities already have their own official asset management plan? How many further municipalities have coverage through an upper tier or planning board (committee/working group) official asset management plan?

2.Municipalities would be required to prepare an asset management plan in three phases.

We fully support an asset management plan in three phases. It is very helpful if Province can choose typical municipalities from three different tiers to pilot in order to minimum the risk.

3.Municipalities would be required to update the asset management plan, aligned with the requirements identified in Phase III, at least every 5 years after January 1, 2022. The asset management plan would be required to be approved in writing by a licensed engineering practitioner representing the municipality, and the executive lead of the municipality prior to it being presented to the municipal council for approval. Municipalities would be required to provide council with an annual update on asset management planning progress, starting in 2021.

Asset management is a multidisciplinary function involving many professional engineering practitioners from engineering, operations, maintenance, human resource, finance, information technology and business administration, etc. The objective of the consultation is to define regulation workflows and procedures that will allow the municipalities to operate infrastructure at an optimum level throughout the asset management plan. The licensed practitioners shall be able to identify and assess the municipalities’ current state on the asset care management maturity continuum by comparing the existing operation or best practice, identifying areas for improvement and opportunities for return on investment. Once an assessment is completed, a gap analysis is performed and a comprehensive policy outline is developed providing detailed steps for each improvement action and the subsequent task that need to be executed from asset management plan.

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