School Site Joint Use and Planning Agreements

Amendments to the Municipal Government Act and the Education Act were proclaimed in June 2020 requiring municipalities to enter into Joint Use and Planning Agreements (JUPAs) with school boards within their municipal boundaries.  

According to the new requirements, JUPAs are to be in place by June 2023. Alberta Municipal Affairs published an Implementation Fact Sheet that provides the basic information on JUPAs that municipalities need to know. This resource defines a JUPA as “a formal partnership between a municipality and a school board to enable the integrated and long-term planning and use of school sites on municipal reserve (MR), school reserve (SR), and municipal and school reserve (MSR) land”.

If your municipality has already started working on one or more JUPAs, AUMA would like to hear how your process is going. What obstacles have you encountered? What strategies have been beneficial?

For members that have not started on their JUPAs, are there supports or resources that would assist you? AUMA is seeking your input so we can determine if or how we can develop resources to assist you.

Please contact AUMA Policy Analyst, Jody Dittrich, at jdittrich [at] auma.ca (jdittrich[at]auma[dot]ca) if you have any questions or input on JUPAs.