Teslin Pilot Project
Village of Teslin
Teslin Tlingit Council
Yukon Government
Asset Management Conference
November 5 – 6, 2015
Project History
•2010 Need for asset management identified in
Our Towns, Our Future.
•2011-12 Two conferences, and a plan to
purchase comprehensive software: pay to
collect data and store it within a centralized
database.
•Committed to a pilot project with Teslin.
Restarting the project
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Training – a better understanding
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Condition assessments (over emphasis)
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What information do we need? What don’t
we need?
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Focus on AM theory, not on software
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Asset Registers
A New Approach
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Asset Management BC
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No one answer on how to best approach
Asset Management
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Conference; Funding; Community of Practice.
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Test drive NAMS
National Asset
National
Asset
Management
System
Management
System
(NAMS)
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Provides useful training without software
commitment
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Uses MS Word & Excel
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Manageable asset register size
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Could be a useful first step
Building the Asset Register
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Keep it simple
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Don’t overthink it
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Start with existing financial info
NAMS Tools
Building the Asset Register
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PSAB 3150 info
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Insurance evaluations/asset appraisal
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Financial statements
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Depreciation schedules
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Rely on staff + community knowledge
NAMS Training
Reflections:
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General impressions
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Necessary
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Holistic approach
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Set time aside for the team
NAMS Training
What we learned:
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Use sample data during training
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Need the right people on the team
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Don’t get hung up on condition
assessments
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Ongoing training (webinar, videos)
NAMS Tools
• Easy to use and affordable
• Excel and word based
• Work with one asset class at a time
• Don’t expect your register to be
perfect
NAMS Tools
NAMS Tools
Steps:
• Copy and paste asset register into
expenditure template
• Enter additional information into the
expenditure planning template.
• Email to [email protected]
NAMS Tools
Steps:
• Information returned overnight in the
form of graphs, charts, etc.
AM Plan template
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Importance of ICSP/Joint Community Plan
AM Plan template
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Upload the charts & graphs into the Wordbased AM plan template
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This completes your AM plan for that asset
class – this is where we are now
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Update plan once a year
In Closing…
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We don’t have all the answers
Multi-year process
AM is a team sport
Start simple
Time & capacity are real challenges
Ongoing NAMS training is important
Any Questions?