File #: 19-662    Version: 1 Name: Process & Steps for Unified Fire Dispatch
Type: Action Report Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 6/28/2019 In control: Planning and Protective Services Committee
On agenda: 9/18/2019 Final action: 9/18/2019
Title: Process and Steps to Create a Unified Fire Dispatch in the New South Island 911/Police Dispatch Centre
Attachments: 1. Staff Report: Process & Steps to Create a Unified Fire Dispatch, 2. Appendix A: Notice with Motion, 3. Appendix B: E-Comm Memo-Consolidated Fire Dispatch-Initial Assessment, 4. Appendix C: Comments on Draft Staff Report from Fire Chiefs

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Process and Steps to Create a Unified Fire Dispatch in the New South Island 911/Police Dispatch Centre

 

Recommendation

[The original staff recommendation was amended, then postponed, at the July 17, 2019 meeting as follows:]

 

That the Planning and Protective Services Committee recommend to the Capital Regional District Board:

1. That staff be directed to bring forward a budget proposal of $50,000 within the 2020 Legislative and General Service's budget to complete an independent feasibility process to look at a unified fire dispatch model for the region that may include the Saanich facility, the E-Comm facility, the CRD Langford facility and the Surrey dispatch facility; and

2. Ensure that the feasibility report includes direct involvement and a complete and comprehensive response from all the region's fire chiefs.