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Asset Management Plan

View the Township's 2022 Core Asset Management Plan Update

View the Township's 2014 Asset Management Plan

The Asset Management Plan is for core infrastructure services such as water, wastewater, storm, roads and bridges. It provides reference for renewing, operating, maintaining, building, replacing and disposing of core infrastructure assets. The AMP relates to guidelines in the Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure's Building Together Guide for Municipal Asset Management Plans.

View the Township's current Asset Management Policy

Under the updated legislation of Ontario Regulation 588/17, Asset Management Planning for Municipal Infrastructure, municipal Councils are required to approve a Strategic Asset Management Policy.

The Strategic Asset Management Policy is the first requirement in a staged process in order to comply with Ontario Regulation 588/17.  This policy applies to all identifiable municipally owned infrastructure assets such as roads, sidewalks, bridges, water mains, sewers, fleet, buildings, Information Technology and parks. Assets will be evaluated based on their full lifecycle costs, including the costs of acquiring, operating, maintaining, renewing and disposal.

Conservation and Demand Management Plan

View the Township's Conservation and Demand Management Plan

In accordance with the Electricity Act 1998, Ontario Regulation 507/18, broader public sector agencies within Ontario are required to develop an energy Conservation and Demand Management plan (CDM) and update every five years. A summary of the public agency’s annual energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for its operations must be provided. The CDM plan is to include a record of measures for conserving and reducing energy consumption by the public agency’s operations, and the results of these measures. 

The Township of Woolwich is prescribed as a public agency and is required to record and make public our annual energy consumption and CDM plan update. The Township’s updated plan was developed in compliance with the regulation and covers the period from 2020 to 2024. The plan was approved by Senior Management on June 25, 2019.

The updated plan describes the Township’s:

  • Energy conservation goals and objectives;
  • Results from the 2014 CDM plan; and
  • Proposed energy conservation initiatives.

The Township’s updated CDM plan builds on the municipality’s initial plan, developed in 2014, and the experience gained in energy conservation over the past five years.

In addition to energy conservation, the updated CDM plan supports the Township’s Strategic Plan, Asset Management Plan, Annual Business plan and both the capital forecast and budget process.

The Township dedicates funds in its annual capital budget to support a wide range of energy efficiencies, retrofits and equipment upgrades. Additionally, the Township has committed $50,000 annually to leverage additional funding from both provincial and federal grant programs to support energy efficiencies.

Hard copies of the plan are available at the Township Administration Building located at 24 Church Street West, Elmira.

2019 Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting
Operation NameTotal Floor Area
(Square Meters)
Avg hrs/wkElectricity Quantity (kWh)Natural Gas Quantity (Cubic Meter)Propane Quantity
(Litre)
 GHG Emissions
(Kg)
Energy Intensity
(ekWh/sqft)

Administration Building

1,622.00 40.01 265,866.75000 17,548.64000    41,279.69159 25.91030

Bloomingdale Recreation Park

194.00 26.01 26,605.07000   6,627.70000 11,023.91595 35.05483

Breslau Community Centre

1,221.00 36.99  149,498.79000 22,871.67000   47,797.47377 29.87001

Breslau Fire Station

129.00 1.99 75,486.88000 18,558.20000   37,386.94569 196.40651

Conestogo Fire Station

213.00 1.99 6,827.12000 3,628.20000   7,067.61571 19.79611

Conestoga Club House

129.00 20 6,359.73000   2,835.00000 4,562.48969 18.93446

Conestoga Works

662.00 40.01 9,016.54000 27,832.55000   52,895.73153 42.77673

Elmira Fire Station

482.00 1.99 33,512.90000 9,738.31000   19,432.75042 26.40787

Elmira Lawn Bowling Club

134.00 5.01 16,842.55000     513.24303 11.67704

Elmira Public Works

351.00 39.99 15,263.49000 15,000.51000   28,825.49355 46.23593

Elmira Public Works

464.00 40.01 32,455.28000 20,756.53000   40,231.86579 50.66638

Floradale Fire Station

589.00 1.99 17,646.67000 17,410.72000   33,454.92430 31.96934

Heidelberg Community Centre

134.00 22 19,052.89000 3,967.40000   8,081.47228 42.44248

Maryhill Fire Station

249.00 1.99 22,251.53000 9,060.01000   17,807.17040 44.22753

Maryhill Heritage

354.00 13.23 35,956.02000 3,723.75000   8,135.91009 19.82225

St. Jacobs Arena

2,736.00 42 355,672.54000 39,201.84000   84,954.46525 26.22408

St. Jacobs Fire Hall

887.00 40.01 27,741.01000 12,772.67000   24,993.70656 17.12328

Warehouse

1,000.00 39.99 48,690.09000 23,177.65000   45,304.02400 27.40796

Warehouse

1,000.00 40.01 18,916.97000     576.45683 1.75744

Woolwich Memorial Centre

10,912.00 118.98 3,174,855.88000  243,081.68000   556,324.24259 49.02502

Woolwich Youth Soccer Building

39.00 27.98 11,040.01000     336.4222 26.29872

 

 

Corporate Business Plan

View the 2023 Corporate Business Plan

The Township updates the Corporate Business Plan annually and aims to achieve the following:

  • Identify and document projects
  • Track work progress
  • Ensure staff development
  • Align with Strategic Plan
  • Ensure resource allocation for programs and services
  • Support pursuit and implementation of goals within Strategic Plan
  • Ensure delivery of high quality services

Elmira Green Infrastructure Report

The Elmira Green Infrastructure Report was prepared for the Township of Woolwich Environmental Enhancement Committee (TWEEC) by Natural Resource Solutions Inc.

The Elmira Green Infrastructure Report was endorsed by Committee of the Whole on September 25, 2018 and Council at their meeting on October 2, 2018.

Emergency Plan

View the Township's Emergency Plan 

Emergencies can happen at any time. The Emergency Plan sets out a plan of action to provide the earliest possible response.

Community Exercise

The plan is tested and updated annually through a community exercise. The exercise is design to do the following:

  • Test Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) and Emergency Plan
  • Improve communications, cooperation and collaboration
  • Learn and practice using emergency event management software
  • Meet requirements of the Emergency Management Act
  • Build skills and confidence of staff and volunteers by training them in their roles

Declaration of an Emergency

The Head of Council is responsible for declaring an emergency in order to:

  • Alert the public to take necessary actions
  • Protect volunteers assisting with the emergency, so that they are covered by WSIB
  • Meet the criteria to receive the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program (ODRAP)

Emergency Preparedness Programs

Please view the Emergency Preparedness Page.

 

Fire Master Plan 

Please view the Township's Fire Master Plan Recommendations.

Appendix 1 - Maps

  • Three Stations
  • Five Stations (Remove Conestogo)
  • Five Stations (Remove Maryhill)
  • Five Stations (Remove Maryhill and Conestogo)
  • Six Stations (Including Breslau, Elmira Station Unchanged)
  • Six Stations (Including Breslau, Elmira Station Moved)

Appendix 2

  • Financial Information

Appendix 3

  • Floradale Fire Station

Appendix 4

  • Aid Agreement

Appendix 5

  • Risk Assessment
 

Official Plan

The Township of Woolwich Official Plan consists of policies that govern land use for long-term growth. It is under regular review to make sure that it meets changing needs. 

Strategic Plan 

 View the Township's new Strategic Plan

Why is it important?

The plan will guide the Township into 2020. It acts as a tool to help determine key issues and forms a basis of actions while outlining focus areas to accomplish goals.

What are the benefits?

  • Gives Councillors a greater range of politically defensible options for tough resource allocations and an improved capacity for fulfilling promises.
  • Ensures staff benefit from leadership, managerial autonomy and communication.
  • Demonstrates to the public a more proactive and accountable approach to decision making.
  • Demonstrates a more consistent use of resources.

TransformWR: Waterloo Region's community-wide response to the global climate crisis

TransformWR is Waterloo Region’s community-wide response to the global climate crisis. It outlines our long term strategy to achieve an 80% local greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction target, and identifies local actions needed to reduce our emissions by 30% by the year 2030.

The TransformWR Plan outlines 6 transformative changes to guide the journey. For each Transformative Change, a set of strategies and action items have been identified, along with key milestones to help track our progress. The outcome of this collective action will lead to achieving our vision for 2050, and ultimately transform Waterloo Region into an equitable, prosperous, resilient low carbon community.

All municipalities in Waterloo Region endorsed the plan in 2021.

The TransformWR Plan was endorsed by Township of Woolwich Committee of the Whole on June 2, 2021 and at their
meeting on June 8, 2021, as follows:

That the Council of the Township of Woolwich, considering Report R07-2021 respecting TransformWR: Waterloo Region Community Climate Action Strategy:

  1. endorse the attached TransformWR strategy (Appendix A) as the community climate change mitigation strategy for the Township of Woolwich;
  2. direct staff across the organization to develop detailed plans to implement the strategy for the Township of Woolwich. This direction includes the implementation of actions in the strategy subject to available funds and/or approved budget and appropriate human resources;
  3. direct staff to work with local partners on implementation, monitoring, and reporting progress on the goals outlined in the strategy;
  4. advocate for provincial and federal support and action to achieve the community transformations outlined in TransformWR (Appendix A);
  5. submit this report to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities as the Township of Woolwich community scope progress on the Partners for Climate Protection Program Milestones 1-3 as renewed. And further that Council endorse in principle an interim absolute community GHG emissions reduction target of 50% by 2030. Recognizing that the bold and immediate local actions in the attached TransformWR strategy (Appendix A) are expected to achieve a 30% reduction by 2030, Council commits $100,000 from additional levy collection to support the community climate strategy and emphasizes that bold and immediate actions from the provincial and federal government will also be required to reach this deeper reduction target.

Visit the Climate Action WR website for more information.

 
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