FCM and CNAM signed a partnership agreement last week related to FCM's new Leadership in Asset Management Program (LAMP). The partnership will strengthen peer networks and knowledge sharing to support innovation in asset management.
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New GMF Program
Leadership in Asset Management Program (LAMP)
• New focus for GMF
• Still a young discipline in Canada,
limited uptake in many provinces
• Organizational adoption of asset
management as a strategic business
approach still limited
• AM has potential to strongly embed
environmental, social and financial
sustainability into municipal decision
making
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Benefits of integrating corporate level asset
management & sustainability objectives
• Promotes an organizational culture that encourages questioning,
innovation, and systems-thinking.
• Uses sustainability commitments to establish strategies, goals, and decision
factors to help guide AM plans and programs.
• Recognizes the impacts of AM programs on environmental, social and
economic sustainability.
• Uses AM’s powerful data collection and tracking mechanisms to monitor
and report continuous improvement toward sustainability goals.
• Forges links between sustainability and asset management leaders (and
programs)
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Who can apply? • Municipalities and regional districts only
Asset management
experience required?
• No, early or advanced stage in asset management
can apply
LAMP Overview
• Combines GMF grant funding with peer learning to
support innovation in asset management in Canadian
municipalities
Up to $175K in grant funding available to each
participating municipality
• To develop good practices and tools that will be
shared nationally through FCM and AM networks
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LAMP Design & Objectives
Phase 1 (Required): To strengthen organizational adoption of AM
Develop or refresh AM strategy, policy and governance framework (total project
value up to $65K)
Phase 2 (Optional): To
strengthen and better
integrate sustainability
considerations into
decision making
(Total project value
estimated at between
$50k and $300K)
Levels of service frameworks that place emphasis on the
service, not the asset to support meaningful
conversations with Council and the public
Risk assessment frameworks that explicitly incorporate
environmental as well social and economic risks (e.g.
climate vulnerability, carbon emissions)
Lifecycle management built on full lifecycle costing or
triple bottom line assessment
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• National level knowledge dissemination
• Co-development of workshops at FCM events (FCM Annual Conference and
Trade Show, Sustainable Communities Conference to build political
awareness and support of asset management
• Strengthened peer networks
• Sharing of lessons from LAMP at CNAM annual conference
• LAMP face-to-face meetings to coincide with CNAM annual conference
• CNAM advisory role in programming
• Co-promotion of events
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has been the national voice of municipal government since 1901. It fosters the development of sustainable communities to improve quality of life by promoting strong, effective, and accountable municipal government.
With over 2,000 members, FCM represents the interests of municipalities on policy and program matters that fall within federal jurisdiction. Members include Canada's largest cities, small urban and rural communities, and 19 provincial and territorial municipal associations.
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Getting Results for Our Members
Economic Action Plan
Long-term infrastructure plan
$1.4-billion affordable housing program until 2014
Gas Tax Fund safeguarded from budget cuts
GST rebate = $800 million/yr for municipalities
In 2000, the Government of Canada endowed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities with $550 million to establish the Green Municipal Fund.
(click) The Green Municipal Fund is your partner in sustainability; offering you the tools and resources that can help move your project forward, in areas as diverse as brownfields, energy performance, water performance, and waste reduction.
MORE INFOR TO COME
The main reason why I’m here today with you is to introduce you to our new GMF Program
Example of Project Specific Benefits: Roadways
Better planning &design: optimizes use of infrastructure (i.e. installing a proper drainage system initially prevents future problems)
Lower capital costs: recycled materials, reduced waste/lower disposal costs
Lower O &M costs: materials, technologies and systems are designed to last longer
Fewer environmental impacts due to less stormwater runoff and improvements to sensitive ecosystems.
Fewer traffic impacts: longer lasting roadway requires fewer construction projects to repair issues (plus GHG emission reductions over lifecycle).
Higher property values for commercial and residential properties surrounded by smart and durable infrastructure.
-- reimbursement of 50% of the costs incurred up to a maximum of $175k per participant
seeking 5 – 10 anglophone municipalities to be approved in September
-- 5 – 10 francophone municipalities to be approved next Spring.
-- bringing municipalities together as a cohort to support and learn from each other over the course of the program
Phase 1 is highly collaborative, involves peer learning & technical support from a common institution that municipalities select together
Phase 2 can be tailored to municipality´s current needs and priorities
CNAM will provide advisory support in selection of LAMP cohort and development of knowledge resources