Ontario Good Roads Association Presentation to NOMA Conference April 26, 2012
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org Our Mandate To represent the infrastructure interests of municipalities through advocacy, consultation, training and the delivery of identified services.
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org 5 Business Objectives Advocate for sustainable funding. Advocate the collective interests Provide education and training services. Promote leadership in infrastructure asset management. Delivery of services
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org Advocacy 2011 Issues Roads & Bridge Review AODA – Built Environment Standards “A” Licencing Aggregate Royalties Excess Soils Source Water Protection Road Pricing Energy Rates (Class A Customer) Smart About Salt MMS Review Two legal challenges Appeal to Supreme Court
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org Education public works officials trained in 2011 Award Winning Snow School Guelph Road School Municipal Infrastructure Training – 535 Technology Transfer (T 2 ) Snow & Ice Colloquium Pavement Rehabilitation Workshop MDW Training New – Asset Management Certification
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org Member Services The Road Authority Municipal DataWorks The Weekly Detour E-Tendering New
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org The Road Authority OPS Standards now available Coming Soon –CMATS –E-Tendering
MTO Bridge Data Funding –$1,050,000 funds available –Bridge Data collection –Input into MDW –OGRA administered –5,000 structures – 18,000 March 31, 2010www.ogra.org MDW Bridge Data Collection
March 31, 2010www.ogra.org E-Newsletter –Sent out every Wednesday –OGRA Content – Provided by staff –Canadian/World Content - Sourced by Web-crawlers OGRA sets search criteria –User controls subscription
e-Tendering MERX to deliver an Electronic Procurement Solution for Infrastructure to our membership at no cost to our members Phased implementation planned; Phase 1 in April 2012 Phase 2 in November 2012 Pre-qualification of Contractors Contract Preparation Include an integration with TRA and OIBC
Plans for 2012 Advocacy OGRA Day at Queens Park Education Asset Management Certification Program Member Services e-Tendering SmartPhone Apps
April 26, 2010www.ogra.org Questions? Joe Tiernay, Executive Director Ontario Good Roads Association