Whereas the emergency Alert Ready system used in the province of British Columbia provides warnings related to major disasters of a potential life threatening nature such as Tsunamis and Earthquakes; And whereas local governments would benefit greatly if this system could provide rapid local access for major local emergencies: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM works with the Province of British Columbia to provide access to the Alert Ready emergency alert system to local governments in order to allow them to broadcast critical and potentially life threatening alerts to residents of their respective communities using the framework of the Alert Ready System.
Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Emergency Management BC EMBC is procuring a web-based software interface that will provide local authorities an alerting capability for both broadcast-immediate and informational alerts related to all hazards within their areas of authority. Broadcast-immediate alerts will be pushed to the National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination system also known as Alert Ready for immediate broadcast on radio, television and LTE smart phones as well as other attached systems e.g., Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure road signs, local mass notification systems, applications, etc. within the affected area. In addition, all broadcast-immediate and information alerts will be posted to www.emergencyinfoBC.gov.bc.ca and pushed out to open feeds. EMBC released a request for proposals on August 7, 2018 for the on-demand software interface to enable managed access to Alert Ready and other connected media. A phased introduction of this enhanced system across the province is anticipated to start in 2019.