Maintenance Management School

Maintenance Management School offers practical and innovative education for professional management and maintenance operations personnel.

What will you learn?
How a Maintenance Management Plan (MMP) can improve your agency, your team, and the work you do, all while leading to both professional and personal growth.   You'll walk away with actionable tools to create a customized MMP (maintenance management plan), as well as resources on how to best manage the resources you are responsible for while understanding the fiscal impact of the work you do.

Your first year in our program, you will learn:

• How to develop a quantitative system to identify needed resources for maintenance
• How to create a solid and complete maintenance budget for decision-makers
• How to provide service-level options to meet budget constraints for decision-makers and the general public
• Teamwork
• Advancement skills

After completion of the first-year program, you’ll have a “toolbox” of skills and techniques to increase efficiency, productivity, and performance that will help you keep pace with changing societal and organizational trends.

Meet your First-Year Regents:

Dan Fonner, Lead Regent and Parks Superintendent, Placer County Department of Parks and Open Space
Levi Winebrenner, Parks and Facilities Manager, City of Hanford
Emiliano Barajas, Parks Crew Leader, City of Sunnyvale
Robert Sustaita, Park Maintenance Supervisor I, OC Parks

Limited to 75 students.

Once you've completed the first-year curriculum, join us for the second of our five year program. Just like first-year, most components are taught by your peers, our School Regents.

What will you learn?
MMS second-year focuses on the 'politics' of being a supervisor and the importance of succession planning.  You'll hone your skills in how to advocate for your program needs, using data gathered through your MMP (maintenance management plan).  Work on budget development helps round out your potential career advancement opportunities taught through this curriculum.

Limited to 45 students.

Students must have completed both first- and second-year curriculums to be eligible to attend MMS Grad Forum.  

What will you learn?
Our Grad Forum focuses on leadership development and requires personal investment.  Think 'Executive Coaching'... if you are ready to take your career to a new level, this is the forum for you.  All Grad Forum participants can expect to produce a final project on-site.  

Note that our Grad Year is actually THREE years of learning which rotate annually:
Year 1:  Personal Career Development
Year 2:  Planning Forward (last provided in 2023)
Year 3:  Leadership & Management (to be provided in 2024)

The 2024 school will offer grad forum participants the Leadership & Management curriculum focusing on negotiations, delegation, communication, difficult conversations, time management and more. 

Examples of specific topics include: 

• Leadership
• Critical Thinking/ Decision Making
• Delegation
• Time Management
• Are you a leader or manager?
• Political Savvy. What is it?

Meet your Grad Forum Regents:

Tara Gee, Lead Regent and Park Planning and Development Superintendent, City of Roseville
Henry Perezalonso, Recreation, Arts & Community Services Director, Town of Danville

Limited to 25 students.

The schedule depicted above is the general daily schedule of events which is subject to change.  Students will receive a more detailed schedule specific to their year of programming once on-site if not sooner. 

All MMS students are provided four nights of lodging at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge as part of their registration.  All dwellings offer private sleeping quarters and many offer private bathrooms, however, some are limited to a shared bathroom.  

At the time of registration, students are asked if they have any roommate requests.  We welcome you to let us know about your preferences for both who you want and do not want to be paired with (e.g., a preference to not be roomed with someone from the same agency).  Registrants may update their response to this question up until the registration deadline of October 1, 2024 either online via the registration page or by calling CPRS HQ at (916) 665-2777. 

Students will be paired with another student of the same gender; please reach out to Lauren Oakley at Lauren@cprs.org if this approach may fall short of your comfort levels or if you have concerns.  CPRS HQ is responsible for assigning all student roommates, taking the roommate request responses into consideration.  We will do our best but cannot guarantee being paired with your requested roommate.  After gender and requests have been considered, CPRS aims to pair students in the same year of programming.  

Students will receive notice of their assigned roommate 1-3 weeks in advance of the school via email. 

Lodging is provided to all MMS students for four nights checking in on Monday, 11/04 and checking out on Friday, 11/08. 

If students choose to arrive early, they may contact UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge directly to inquire about reserving a room at their own expense.  This may be a helpful option depending on the timing of your travel plans/options.  

Similarly, students may inquire with UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge directly about opportunities to extend their stay beyond Friday at their own expense.  

MMS students are provided with all meals while on-site including four breakfasts, four lunches, and four dinners beginning with lunch on Monday, November 4th and ending with breakfast on Friday, November 8th.  All meals are served in the restaurant of the main lodge.

Breakfast will be served as a buffet daily at 7 - 8 am.

Lunch will be served as a buffet daily at 12 - 1 pm. 

Dinner will be served as a plated, multi-course meal at 5:30 - 7 pm.  

Students can look forward to greeting the MMS Regents and CPRS HQ team each morning as they lead the breakfast line before stepping away for a planning meeting at the outset of each school day.

Per the general schedule (see above) an optional networking social is offered every evening of the school.  Students are welcome to attend once their program has concluded for the evening. 

On Wednesday, 11/06, school regents invite students interested in learning more about regent service to dine with them during dinner.  Tables will be reserved in the parlor of the dining room for the Regent Meet & Greet Dinner.  (Students who complete the second-year program are eligible to apply to serve as regents.) 
After dinner, school regents will host a more formal Q&A in the tavern with students interested in learning more about regent service and the application process.  

On Thursday, 11/07, all students are invited to attend the annual football-themed party.  Represent your favorite team, connect with fellow students, celebrate your hard work, and enjoy the DJ!  

Each year of programming has a limited number of seats: approximately 75 for first-year, 45 for second-year, and 25 for the graduate forum.  Every year there are some students who are not able to register in time.

CPRS HQ will maintain a wait list of folks who are interested in registering in the event an appropriate space opens up.  To get on the waitlist, email CPRS HQ at cprs@cprs.org with the full name, email, title, gender, & program year of the person joining the waitlist. We anticipate the wait list will be most active in September and early October.  CPRS HQ team members will reach out to the contact on file as soon as an appropriate spot opens up for the wait-listed student.  

Those on the wait list are encouraged to be prepared to issue payment via credit card over the phone in the event they have an opportunity to register.  CPRS cannot guarantee participation until payment is received. 

Students who remain on the waitlist will be among the first to receive notice when registration opens for the 2025 school.  

First-Year students are asked to please bring a laptop (or similar device) to participate in some of the educational programming & projects.  

We highly recommend packing layers.  While the weather is generally beautiful, at a high elevation near the lake you can look forward to experiencing a variety of conditions.  We will spend a great deal of time indoors, but programming and activities will also be conducted outdoors at various times of day.  There are no water activities planned.  Each student will be provided with a windbreaker jacket branded with the school emblem.
Other recommended gear includes sunglasses, hat, closed-toe shoes, warm socks, full-length pants, flash light, and chap stick.  When it comes to apparel, please use good sense and when in doubt, lean professional; if you wouldn't wear that graphic t-shirt to work, please do not wear it to school. 

Please bring a refillable water bottle with you.  At high elevation it is critical to stay hydrated.  Please be advised, the dwellings are rustic and do not have water service like you might expect at a metropolitan hotel.  There will be water stations throughout the main lodge to refill your bottle.  

Past students can speak to the benefits of bringing cash with you.  There will be a variety of fundraising efforts at the school to support the school's scholarship fund including a modest selection of merch available for purchase on-site and the annual football pool.  Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available for purchase during the evening networking socials (also contributing to the scholarship fund).  Opportunities to utilize electronic payment may be limited on-site.  

If you still have questions about what to bring, we recommend reaching out to a past student (if you know one) or the regents for your year of programming.  See the information specific to each year of programming above for regent contact information.