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 Municipal Hall shows the largest expenditures over the 20 year period (Page 11 – https://www.centralsaanich.ca/sites/default/files/2025-05/f-lamp_report_0_-_master_final_2015.pdf), the TOTAL over the twenty year period ending 2035 is given as $1,027,140.

Taxpaying citizens might well prefer this lower cost maintenance based option over the shiny, new and very expensive scheme being promoted by Council estimated at more than 55 million dollars, but no actual tested cost estimates have yet been made public.

One might well ask why is this option not being presented to the public, and when or why did Council choose to deviate from this conservative maintain-current facilities option to pursue the shiny and new.