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by John Rodgers 3 years ago

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Hard Point Rural Infrastructure

The document outlines a comprehensive strategy for improving rural infrastructure through a coordinated effort among various stakeholders. It includes a call to action for key individuals and discusses the formation and purpose of an ad hoc committee to explore the concept of a working group.

Hard Point Rural Infrastructure

Hard Point Rural Infrastructure

Board Report April 26

Organizations involved in Rural Infrastructure
Interaction of Groups

Connection to OGRA is less apparent

OFA plays a supporting role in ROMA

ROMA and OFA coordinate

Lobbying

Good Roads Association

Study

Roads and Bridges - Peggy van Mierlo-West Apirl 7 2:30

What would stimulate investment in maintaining and upgrading?
Rural Infrastructure from a CAO perspective
General Overview of B and R results to date

programs

players

Adhoc committee Genisis and Purpose

participants

timeline

terms of reference

explore the concept of a working group

Minutes

Libro Professorship

Shovel worthy v shovel ready
Asset management
Program design
Asset management Plan

has a benefit

Double Layer

political advocacy

direction setting

mandate setting

staff advocacy

product of staff work
align messages

rural development in 2018?

Good Roads
individual delegations to political bodies
Strong research

James?

tension in the relationnship?
delegation days

Advocacy

rural broadband toolkit

AMO

Ad Hoc Committee

Meeting One
Agenda

Next Meeting

ROI and Rural Dev

Ad Hoc Committee: Terms of reference

Inventory the current rural infrastructure efforts

Identify resource requirements for a Working Group

BCFA resources?

Develop a Working Group Terms of Reference

Membership

County federations of ag

Ruraldev project?

ROMA?

Responsibilities

create and execute a workplan to increase

role

Increase investment in rural infrastructure

Identify potential program designs

Increae the profile of rural iunfrastructure

Identify Key government partners

identify an appropropriate politcal avenues to advocate for rural infrastructure

Identify the potential participants of a working group

Data

Political

Identify the viability of a working group

ruraldev.org

Discussion with Ashleigh Weedon
Probably can work with the working group
Follow-up with asheigh

Formation of working group

Works on problems associated with rural infrastructure
Access to OMAFRA program staff

Presentation

Ray
Problem
Programs target not so rural infrastructure
Upgrades are expensive
No good data
Rural infrastructure is old (sometimes a century)
Impetus
Property tax Increases

Better Infrastructure

Lower tax?

Working group strategy

Executive Director
Home for working group?
Contact Norm
Call Alex Ruff
Call Sandra
Call Milt

Work Plan?

What would a legitimate workplan look like to move the cause of rural infrastructure forward?


What things owuld come first?

Timeline and Milestones?
Rural Data Standards

Approachable- Can we aquire resources

Stats Cananda - Alexandro Allase

Norm is working with group on choosing indicators

Existence/quality of Data?

Can the working group reinforce the need for data

Have the work group prepare a report with a dealine?

Size of ask?

Capitalization requirements and Avaialability?

Size, criteria for slection?

Have OFA anchor a working group?

How will we work with the board?

Director at large?

Zone Director?

resolution

Resolutions are non-binding

OFA resolution adopted

Paul Vickers Call 2
subtext

Rural Infrastructure

already taken a run at this

room for articulation
Paul Vickers call
Paul Will Liase
Strategic Plan

Human Resources

What people would be involved? What would their roles be?

What agencies would be involved? What would their role be?

ROMA
Asset management plans

Currently incomplete

Treasurers of ROMA

can they provide data?

Can we get resources for work on data
Two working groups?
Terms of reference?

broadly defined to create

data gaps on captial deficit

distribution

scale

Senior government?
Municipal
ROI
Subtopic
research and network
County Federations
Do we keep property tax out of the issue?

Tension exists on property tax

Municpalities will say no?

Lobbying lower and intermediate tier municpalities

resource package?

media package?

OFA
Have worked with AMO for data
Providing research on INfrastructure
Lobbying provincial bodies
OMAFRA
Can we get an endorsment from here
Ministry of Infrastructure