PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

APRIL 24, 2023

WORKSHOP A  8:30 am–12:00 pm (Registration Opens at 8:00 am)

Your Complete Guide to Asset Management: Tracking Repairs for a First Nations Housing Portfolio and Implementing a Multi-Year Maintenance Strategy microphone-alt James Struthers, Founder and Lawyer, James Struthers

Stuart Thomas, President, Terra Social Purpose Real Estate

This workshop is especially designed for community land managers, housing managers and construction contractors. Delegates will learn the skills needed to take care of a home, and a housing portfolio including tracking repair work and budgeting for maintenance. Topics to be covered will include:

• Conducting energy audits and reducing your hydro bill

• Capacity building

• Condition assessments

• Data management from IT systems and budgeting for asset management over a 10-year period

• Understanding consequences of not maintaining your assets

• Capital planning

• Security funding

• Homeownership transfers

• Procurement – putting maintenance and capital planning first

• Whole project lifecycle assistance

• Human Resource management

• Office practices

WORKSHOP B  1:00 pm–4:30 pm (Registration Opens at 12:30 pm)

Housing Manager Bootcamp: Everything You Need to Know from Day-to-Day Operations to Funding Applications and Succession Planning microphone-alt Andrew George, Director, Director of Truth, and Reconciliation, SkillsTrades BC

• Part One: BUILD AND DISCOVER: The database and training tools that will make you more confidant in your role

• Part Two: GROUNDING Your Role and BUILDING the Housing Department - Structuring a Supportive Succession Strategy & Managing the

» Identifying how a housing manager can build, train and retain a team

» Sticking to the departmental budget and understanding where the funding comes from

» Educating members and tenants on housing department policies and expectations for general upkeep

» Maintaining cultural appreciation while being assertive and effective in your role

» Interacting effectively with other departments

» Implementing positive coping mechanisms and healthy habits to mitigate stress

» Analyzing how to ease the workload by developing strategies and creating boundaries within the housing role

• Part Three: WHAT IS THIS DOCUMENT FOR? – Document Dissection: Clarifying and Applying Useful Paperwork

» Analyzing and understanding the various types of documents

» Learn how to draft and organize a document system that will make being a housing manager much more manageable and alleviate some of the stresses

• Part Four: GUTS ON CONTRACTS – Navigating a Contract and Ensuring You Never Feel Mislead Again

» Analyzing CCDC contracts for contractors including design builds, construction management, open build and cost plots

» Explanation of contracts

» The ins and outs of consulting fees

*Workshops are offered In-Person only. A light luncheon will be served to delegates attending both Workshops A and B.