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Advanced Municipal Asset Management: The Town of Gibsons’ experience in financial planning and reporting
Author: Gibsons, Town of
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Posting Date: April 25, 2018
Year Published: 2018
Abstract:
The Town of Gibsons, a coastal community of 4,600 people on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, was North America’s first community to experiment with strategies to integrate natural assets into asset management and financial planning. The intention of this document is to provide information to help other communities adopt municipal asset management. This report specifically describes the financial planning and reporting lessons learned by the Town that can be used immediately by other local government staff, and recommended areas for future research and policy development. Audiences for this document include any municipal staff with responsibility for managing municipal assets, municipal decision-makers, and financial and accounting staff.
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Full Text Word Count: 8307