Maintenance Management School (MMS)

Whether it's your 1st Year attending, 2nd Year learning with us or you are ready for the Grad Forum, there is a place for you at Maintenance Management School!

Registration is Full for 2025

To add an individual to the waitlist, please email cprs@cprs.org with the full name, title, employer, gender, and intended year of programming of the interested attendee.

MMS - First Year

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 Residents

Dan Fonner

Lead Regent and Parks Superintendent,
Placer County Department of Parks and Open Space

Emiliano Barajas

Parks Crew Leader,
City of Sunnyvale

Matt McNey

Groundskeeper III,
Conejo Recreation & Park District

Robert Sustaita

Park Maintenance Supervisor I,
OC Parks

Limited to 75 students.

MMS - Second Year

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.

The second-year in our program, you will learn about implementing a Maintenance Management Plan through total resource management:

  • How to develop and manage a budget while keeping up with the politics and ethical issues of modern government
  • Principles of contracting and outsourcing services
  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Public Speaking

Innovative Elements - Student Presentations!

Second -year builds on the curriculum of first-year with an emphasis on the popular “Innovative Elements” student presentations.  You will learn more about managing budgets, the politics of maintenance management, ethical and professional issues, the principals of contracting and outsourcing, public speaking, and leadership for the maintenance profession. Each student will also present to the class an idea that your agency has creatively implemented in the area of park operations, maintenance, programming or management.  The “Innovative Element” may involve personnel, safety, equipment, preventive maintenance, operations, design or any other area related to outdoor maintenance management.  The presentation will be verbal and will include the use of a PowerPoint slide presentation that must not exceed 5 minutes in length.

  • The presentation will be verbal and will include the use of a PowerPoint or Prezi slide presentation. Images on your slides help tell your story.
  • The presentation must not exceed 5 minutes in length.
  • Each student is asked to bring the PowerPoint or Prezi presentation on a thumb drive for use during your presentation.
  • Be creative!  Use of handouts, visual aids, and video in addition to the PowerPoint or Prezi slides are encouraged.

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 Second Year Residents

Melanie Goss

Park Maintenance Supervisor,
OC Parks

Cynthia Alvarado-Crawford

Director of Parks & Recreation,
City of Rialto

Jacob Lichtenberger

Parks Superintendent,
City of Eastvale

Levi Winebrenner

Parks and Facilities Manager,
City of Hanford

Limited to 45 students.

MMS - Graduate Forum

Students must have completed both first- and second-year curriculums to be eligible to attend MMS Graduate Forum.  The Graduate Forum is a three-year program on its own offering participants unique curriculum one year after the next (see below to learn when each curriculum is/has been offered).

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 (last provided in 2025)
  • Year 2:  Planning Forward (last provided in 2023 & will be taught in 2026)
  • Year 3:  Leadership & Management (last provided in 2024)

Meet your Grad Forum Regents:

Tara Gee

Lead Regent and Park Planning and Development Superintendent,
City of Roseville

Henry Perezalonso

Parks and Community Services Director,
City of San Ramon

Limited to 26 students.

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Level up your skills with expert insights and hands-on learning in public facility maintenance.

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