{"title":"Facilities management","authors":"S. Jacques, B. Christe","doi":"10.4324/9781315270326-78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270326-78","url":null,"abstract":"8-1 Overview A Vermont municipalities maintain some public facilities to serve local residents, property owners, and businesses. Very early on, communities invested heavily in the development of local road networks to promote settlement and to access regional markets. Today, very rural towns may be able to afford only the basics: a town garage and highway equipment for road and bridge maintenance, a town office and vault to store land records, and some equipment. Larger urban or suburban communities may also support town halls and administrative offices, one or more public schools, municipal water and sewer systems, fire and police stations, libraries, public parks, sidewalks, recreation trails, cemeteries, and extensive equipment inventories. Ultimately, the facilities owned and maintained by a municipality reflect the types and levels of service that local residents are willing to fund, given available resources. One of the state planning goals under the Vermont Planning and Development Act (Chapter 117) states that a community’s rate of growth “should not exceed the ability of the community and the area to provide facilities and services” (§4303). Growing communities, especially those experiencing rapid growth, eventually face the need for new or larger facilities. If unmanaged, growing facility needs can overwhelm limited budgets. Even communities that are growing slowly, or are in decline, benefit from anticipating when existing facilities will require replacement or upgrades. Facilities management is a way to proactively identify facility needs and to balance the demands of growth and use with the financial resources of the community. Chapter 117 requires that municipal plans include a utility and facilities plan, which serves as the basis for local facility planning and asset management. Facilities management is very closely tied to the capital improvement program. (See topic paper, Capital Improvement Program.)","PeriodicalId":441978,"journal":{"name":"Introduction to Clinical Engineering","volume":"508 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116202830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"The profession","authors":"S. Jacques, B. Christe","doi":"10.1016/b978-0-12-818103-4.00001-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818103-4.00001-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":441978,"journal":{"name":"Introduction to Clinical Engineering","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132357193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}