It is impossible to produce maintenance-free buildings, but it can be minimized at the design and construction stages by using; good design, skilled labor and quality material during construction. The main aim of the study is assessment of public building maintenance management practice in Bahir Dar City, by assessing operational condition of maintenance departments and the current maintenance practices, determining causing factors, effects and improvement strategies of poor public building maintenance management practices. The methodology used in this study was literature reviews, questionnaire survey, case studies, interviews and archival documents. The data for this work was surveyed from clients, contractors and consultants. Quantitative as well as qualitative analysis was also used. For quantitative analysis, descriptive statistics by IBM SPSS 20 and content analysis for qualitative data was used. The study has identified the finding for each specific objective. Corrective maintenance is the mostly practiced type of maintenance in all organizations. Immediate maintenance is also applicable next to corrective in emergency cases especially in hospitals and universities in Bahir Dar city. Routine and preventive maintenance were conducted very rarely. There is no building historical information, policy guidelines, and manuals available. The study has also identified and ranked twenty-six significant factors that cause poor building maintenance management practices and grouped into five factor groups; technical, financial, human resources, building user and organizational related factors with mean score values of 3.82, 3.73, 3.68, 3.66 and 3.53 respectively. Ten critical effects of poor public building maintenance management practices were identified and grouped into three groups; economic value-related, suitability and safety-related, and building physical feature-related effects with mean values of 3.81, 3.60 and 3.56 respectively. The study concluded by setting improvement strategies of poor building maintenance for the future. It is also recommended Computerized Maintenance Management System for building maintenance activities and as whole for good building management system throughout life of buildings. The finding of this study will benefit different stakeholders like; academic researchers, government policymakers and Bahir Dar City public organizations in Bahir Dar City. Key words; maintenance management, public buildings, economic value, stakeholders