Overview

Facility Inventory Tracking System (FITS)

The Alberta Recreation and Parks Association’s Facility Inventory Tracking System (FITS) a project (under construction), to be accessible via the Internet that is designed to collect, analyze and report on all aspects of community recreation and parks facilities in Alberta.

FITS provides the opportunity for municipal partners and allied stakeholders to engage in a common, integrated and comprehensive inventory of community recreation and parks facilities across the province.

Originally launched in 2007, funding from Rural Alberta’s Development Fund provided the opportunity to enhance FITS by broadening the scope of the information collected, track and analyze trends and provide a consistent mechanism for data collection and comparison.

Recreation Facilities Energy Assessment Program

In 2010, ARPA’s Infrastructure and Utilities Committee launched of Phase I of its Recreation Facilities Energy Assessment Program.

The primary goals of Phase I of the Community Recreation Facilities Energy Assessment Program were to:

• Report on similar initiatives related to public facilities and best practices;
• Provide members a tool for energy assessment of recreation facilities;
• Provide assessment information to Alberta recreation facility operators;
• Provide ARPA members recommendations on energy efficiency technology for their respective facilities;
• Provide ARPA members information on energy efficiency best practices; and
• Provide timely and accurate costing and cost recovery projections for energy efficiency upgrades and improvements.

With support from Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation, the Infrastructure and Utilities Committee contracted the services of Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd. to develop and undertake the above initiatives, as well as the coordination of testing of the energy assessment template at two pilot facilities. Information derived from the pilot facility testing and accumulated best practices were presented at the 2010 Conference. This document will be available online shortly.