Whereas local governments who choose to provide additional pre-hospital care to their citizens, through the First Responder Program, must sign an agreement to follow a model that is used province-wide, from metropolitan areas to the most rural parts of the province, and which may not address the individual needs or circumstances of the community or jurisdiction; And whereas collaborative pilot projects have proven successful in both addressing the needs and capacities of individual communities as well as being beneficial to the care of the citizens of British Columbia; And whereas municipal fire services are fully funded from municipal government or local authority: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM petition the Province of British Columbia through BC Emergency Health Services, to allow individual local authorities to decide the level of service, dispatching protocols and local resource utilization for all pre-hospital care events to meet the specific needs of the individual community.
