Gary Losier, APWA President - an IPWEA Profile
In his role at the APWA, Losier brings the perspective that asset managers face similar issues around climate change, financial sustainability and challenges in professional development which span both the USA and Canada as they do big and small towns. APWA convenes a Global Big Cities/Counties group twice a year. It is there it is learned that small and large have the same issue just on different scales and we can learn from each other.
"I can be speaking with someone who is a public works director from the city of Los Angeles and they have a budget of US$500 million and I'm sitting on C$20 million," he says.
"That sounds like an astronomical difference, but we start talking about HR issues and getting people into asset management and climate change and you understand that they have the same issues but on a larger scale."
In some ways, Losier says he can be a little more "nimble" in his decision-making in Quispamsis.
This makes for interesting reading - catch Gary's full profile at https://insite.ipwea.org/tackling-the-big-themes-in-asset-management/
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Chris Champion
Secretary-General
International Federation of Municipal Engineering
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