Whereas the Fire Safety Act increases accountability for fire safety and strains financial resources of small municipalities that lack the capacity to conduct additional inspections and manage higher reporting, compliance, and training demands: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM lobby the provincial government to provide financial support to small municipalities in the form of grant funding to offset the cost of hiring of additional staff to manage new responsibilities under the Fire Safety Act; And be it further resolved that the grant funding be set at an amount to offset 100 of the cost to hire new staff in the first year, with the grant funding decreasing by 20 each year over the following five years, to allow time for small municipalities to adjust to the costs associated with implementing the Fire Safety Act.
