Capital Funding for Emergency Programs

WHEREAS UBCM provides funding for emergency preparedness planning on a continual basis to allow local governments to undertake a variety of studies on emergency planning; AND WHEREAS no provision has been made to make available capital dollars for implementing the results of those studies or to enable communities to respond to fire or disaster situations through construction or purchase of required emergency infrastructure or equipment: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that funding be made available to local governments so they may make appropriate infrastructure or capital acquisition improvements to deal with forest fires, floods, windstorms, and the breakdown in utility systems and earthquakes.