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main sustainable while reducing their back-
log. One of the functions making this plan
as efficient and unique as it is, is to view proj-
ects from a full asset management perspec-
tive. As an example, they look holistically at
projects with all three components of what
the city owns (water, sewer, and street), so if
a street needs to be restored or construction
work completed, it also assesses the subse-
quent work that could be completed with
water and sewer.
“What’s interesting is that not a lot of
people have thirty-year plans,” explains Mr.
Richard, “Typically we were looking at capi-
tal projects in five year cycles, so the program
would project out all the money we were ex-
pected to spend for five years. What the city
is also looking at is in a thirty-year cycle, how
can we achieve decreasing our backlogs and
what will that do to taxes over the next thir-
ty-years.”
One such notable project is the Sewer
Review Master Plan. As the result of flood-
ing in the late 1990s, the Master Plan was