UBCM 2025 Community Excellence Award Winners

UBCM Community Excellence Awards

On September 23, 2025, at the 2025 UBCM Conference, UBCM announced the winners of the Community Excellence Awards.

The City of Greenwood was the recipient of the 2025 UBCM Community Award for Excellence in Asset Management for their implementation of  Resilient Greenwood – Building the Future Together.

The City of Greenwood is pioneering a transformative approach to infrasturcture planning by integrating strategic asset management with proactive community engagement. This forward-thinking initiative, led in partnership with Strategic Leadership Solutions and LandInfo Technologies Inc., is redefining how municipalities sustain essential services like water, roads, and waste management – and how they shift the narrative from talking about taxes to focusing on services.

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The District of Saanich was the recipient of the 2025 UBCM Presidents Committee Choice Award for their Asset management Strategy and Implementation Plan.

In 2023, Council approved Saanich’s first-generation Asset Management Strategy and Implementation Plan, providing a road map for the continuous improvement of Saanich’s asset management practices towards the goal of sustainable service delivery.

The project scope covers all of Saanich’s built and natural assets. Project activities included assessing current state, identifying gaps, and prioritizing actions for continuous improvement. The Asset Management Strategy and Implementation Plan prioritizes ten strategic themes with forty-eight projects to be completed from 2023-2027.

Congratulations to the City of Greenwood and District of Saanich on their asset management accomplishments, and to the other award winners this year.

You can find more information on the Community Excellence Awards on the UBCM website at:

https://www.ubcm.ca/convention-resolutions/awards/community-excellence-awards