Asset management planning is something that FCM has been advancing and supporting our members with for a number of years now, in part through a program funded by Infrastructure Canada called the municipal asset management program.
One of our recommendations to the federal government, as part of the national adaptation strategy, is that asset management planning can be a very effective way to integrate climate considerations throughout a municipal government's operations.
With the funding that we've received for the green municipal fund to expand the programming we have available for climate adaptation, we are certainly going to be using asset management planning as a way to help especially smaller municipalities better understand the risks to their municipal assets and then to identify where they need to be prioritizing action through an asset management plan.