Road Rescue Funding

Whereas local governments voluntarily provide road rescue service to out of region travellers using Provincial Highways in support of the BC Ambulance Service and the RCMP, and Emergency Management BCs EMBC reimbursement levels are not adequate to cover the cost of providing the service, and are not available to local governments that support road rescue through taxation; And whereas the EMBC road rescue reimbursement policy forces local governments to choose between not providing the service, providing the service funded only by inadequate EMBC reimbursements, or providing the service funded only by local taxpayers: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM petition the Province of BC to work cooperatively with local governments in funding road rescue service for the benefit of the users of provincial highways, and establish an adequate, sustainable and consistent funding and governance model for the provision of road rescue services.