2014 – Long term Asset Management Plan

The District retains Levelton Consulting to develop a facility asset management plan for 46 District owned buildings. Levelton submitted their report in June of 2015, concentrating on 11 buildings including those dealing with municipal government, emergency services, public works and community development. The report DOES NOT recommend replacement of the municipal hall. Rather, it recommends a careful program of maintenance and upgrades that would provide the most efficient and cost effective method of extending the life of the building to the year 2035.

It is noteworthy that while the cost of maintenance for the municipal hall is the largest expenditure over 20 years among the 11 municipal facilities listed (see table 5 on page 8 – https://www.centralsaanich.ca/sites/default/files/2025-05/f-lamp_report_0_-_master_final_2015.pdf). The TOTAL maintenance cost of the municipal hall over that period, ending in 2035, is shown as as $1,027,140.

So, it begs the question, when did Council choose to remove the community from the decision making process? If the public had been consulted, its highly unlikely they would have decided to spend tens of millions of theirs dollars for a new municipal hall complex.