Yorkton Council is hoping to acquire a grant to help the City with its asset management plan.
At Council’s regular meeting, held last Tuesday, (Aug. 8), it was a unanimous decision to support the application to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’- Municipal Asset Management Program.
“In order to make informed decisions as part of our asset management rational, the City requires condition assessments for linear assets. These assessments are a critical tool to help prioritize and schedule preventative maintenance and replacement projects,” explained René Richard, Director of Engineering & Asset Management, with the city as way of background to the application.
“In 2017, our office contacted Associated Engineering (AE) to provide proposals for both pavement assessment and sidewalk assessment for our city. Both of these assessments are extensions of work already performed by AE for the City in 2012 and 2013. We believe these assessments should be performed every five years or so.”
Richard said the assessment work was already planned.
“Public Works has authorized these assessments to proceed at a total cost of $83,000.00 plus taxes with funding coming from the 2017 operational budgets for street and sidewalk repair,” he told Council.
But the work was put on hold pending a decision on the application.
“We have recently learned that these types of projects are eligible for grant funding (up to $50,000.00) through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Municipal Asset Management Program for work performed after receipt of the grant application. Therefore the assessments are on hold until an application has been submitted to FCM,” said Richard.
“As part of the application process, a resolution from Council in support of the project is required and Administration is seeking a resolution. There is no guarantee the City will receive the grant funding, but this work is scheduled to be completed in 2017 with or without grant funding.”
It was that resolution which Council passed.
