The Community Emergency Preparedness Fund supports projects that help local governments and First Nations to better prepare for emergencies. This funding is provided by the Province and administered through the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. Local governments and First Nations throughout British Columbia will receive nearly $7 million from the emergency operations centre (EOC) equipment and training funding stream as follows: ?Esdilagh First Nation – Cargo trailer for mobile EOC, foundational training and tabletop exercise for staff.
Amount: $39,720 Abbotsford – Training and hands‑on mock event exercises to practice essential procedures.
Amount: $39,587 Adams Lake Indian Band – Comprehensive EOC training, tabletop exercise and supplies for EOC.
Amount: $40,000 Regional: Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District – This project provides EOC training and a multi-jurisdictional simulation exercise, and supplies IT equipment, communications equipment and office supplies.
Amount: $117,790
Sub-applicants: Port Alberni, Tofino Regional: Alert Bay – Cormorant Island’s EOC will receive EOC training and IT, operational and communications equipment, including solar power system.
Amount: $80,000
Sub-applicant: ‘Namgis First Nation Anspayaxw Band– The project boosts EOC capacity by supplying essential IT equipment and conducting a functional exercise.
Amount: $40,000 Armstrong – This project delivers EOC essentials and radio training, and supplies office equipment and drones to bolster EOC readiness.
Amount: $30,083 Ashcroft – Equips emergency operations centre with portable EOC kits, delivers Level 1 EOC training and runs exercises to practice essential emergency procedures.
Amount: $40,000 Barriere – This project provides EOC with office supplies, provides introductory EOC training and conducts tabletop exercises to practice critical procedures.
Amount: $37,944 Belcarra – This project provides a mobile trailer for storing and relocating EOC equipment.
Amount: $33,150 Blueberry River First Nations – Communications equipment, office supplies and training to manage emergency situations.
Amount: $39,984 Bowen Island – This project supplies mobile EOC equipment, distributes Rapid Damage Assessment kits and delivers a one-day EOC refresher course.
Amount: $40,000 Bulkley-Nechako Regional District – Facilitates EOC exercises and evacuation workshops to rehearse response co-ordination and safe evacuation procedures.
Amount: $36,863 Capital Regional District – This project provides EOC training and exercise to rehearse procedures and strengthen co-ordinated response.
Amount: $40,000 Cariboo Regional District – Mobile EOC and foundational training for staff.
Amount: $21,966 Central Coast Regional District – This project provides foundational EOC training, IT equipment and internet connectivity.
Amount: $39,999 Regional: Central Okanagan Regional District – This project provides staff development and training to enhance EOC capabilities.
Amount: $240,000
Sub-applicants: Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland, West Kelowna, Westbank First Nation Central Saanich – This project provides EOC training, exercises and IT equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Chawathil First Nation – This project provides portable/deployable EOC kits.
Amount: $39,102 Clearwater – This project provides EOC training, office supplies and IT, operational and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Coldstream – This project provides EOC training, tabletop exercise and IT, operational and communications equipment.
Amount: $39,979 Columbia Shuswap Regional District – This project provides a workflow-management system and EOC staff training.
Amount: $39,350 Colwood – This project provides EOC training and supplies office, IT and operational equipment.
Amount: $24,184 Regional: Comox Valley Regional District - This project provides multi‑jurisdictional EOC training and supplies IT and operational equipment.
Amount: $195,000
Sub-applicants: Comox, Courtenay, Cumberland, K’ómoks First Nation Cook’s Ferry Indian Band – This project provides EOC training and IT equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Coquitlam – This project provides Incident Command System 200 training and exercises.
Amount: $40,000 Cowichan Tribes – This project provides IT, communications and office supplies.
Amount: $40,000 Regional: Cowichan Valley Regional District – This project provides EOC position training and supplies office, IT and operational equipment.
Amount: $200,000
Sub-applicants: Duncan, Ladysmith, Lake Cowichan, North Cowichan Creston – This project provides EOC training, exercises and IT equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Doig River First Nation – Radio equipment and evacuation-operation supplies.
Amount: $29,328 Regional: East Kootenay Regional District – This project provides full‑scale EOC training and exercises and supplies operational, communications and IT equipment.
Amount: $320,000
Sub-applicants: ʔaq’am, Canal Flats, Cranbrook, Fernie, Invermere, Kimberley, Radium Hot Springs, Shuswap Band Elkford – This project provides drone training and EOC training (Introduction, Essentials and Incident Command System courses).
Amount: $40,000 Enderby – This project provides IT equipment, office supplies and operational-equipment upgrades.
Amount: $23,435 Esk’etemc First Nation – This project provides communications equipment and operational supplies.
Amount: $31,818 Regional: Fort St. James – This project provides EOC training and supplies IT, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $79,198
Sub-applicant: Nak’azdli Whut’en Fraser Valley Regional District – Simulation exercise and emergency operations centre supplies.
Amount: $40,000 Fraser-Fort George Regional District – Operation supplies and EOC essentials training.
Amount: $40,000 Gibsons – Operations training and supplies to create and maintain an EOC in an existing facility.
Amount: $40,000 Gitga’at First Nation – This project provides training and supplies IT and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Golden – This project provides operational supplies and first-aid kits.
Amount: $38,490 Granisle – This project provides EOC training and supplies IT and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Haisla Nation – This project provides IT equipment, electrical upgrades for sea can storage radios and tabletop exercises.
Amount: $39,755 Harrison Hot Springs – This project provides section training and operational equipment.
Amount: $34,835 Hope – This project provides foundational training and operational equipment, including a generator.
Amount: $40,000 Houston – This project provides EOC training through the emergency-management program.
Amount: $40,000 Hudson’s Hope – Portable/deployable emergency operations centre kit and sections training.
Amount: $40,000 Huu-ay-aht First Nations – This project provides IT and operational equipment, training and tabletop exercises.
Amount: $39,830 Iskut First Nation – This project provides IT and communications equipment, including drone for communications and supplies a backup generator for reliable power and situational awareness.
Amount: $40,000 Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k’tles7et’h’ First Nations – EOC capacity expanded with a mobile trailer for on‑site emergency co-ordination.
Amount: $40,000 Kamloops – This project provides IT equipment, EOC materials and staff training.
Amount: $40,000 Kanaka Bar Indian Band – This project provides EOC kits and staff grab-and-go bags.
Amount: $37,240 Kent – Foundational training and functional exercise.
Amount: $39,911 Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation – IT, communications and operational equipment, including generator and trailer.
Amount: $40,000 Kitimat – Communication equipment and training enhancements.
Amount: $21,549 Kitselas First Nation – This project provides training and exercises and supplies IT, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Kwakiutl Band Council – This project provides IT and communications equipment, orientation and exercises.
Amount: $40,000 Kwikwetlem First Nation – Tabletop exercise and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Langley City – This project provides section‑specific and foundational training.
Amount: $39,870 Langley Township – Operational equipment and foundational training.
Amount: $40,000 Lheidli-T’enneh First Nation (Northside) – This project provides tabletop walkthrough and foundational training.
Amount: $34,794 Lheidli-T’enneh First Nation (Southside) – This project provides tabletop walkthrough and foundational training.
Amount: $34,794 Lhtako Dene Nation – Radio equipment, generator and operation supplies.
Amount: $30,000 Lillooet – This project provides refresher training and IT equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Lytton First Nation – This project provides office and communications equipment.
Amount: $38,947 Mackenzie – This project provides communications equipment and training.
Amount: $39,890 Maple Ridge – Functional exercise and operational equipment.
Amount: $39,538 McLeod Lake Indian Band – Operations supplies and EOC training.
Amount: $39,190 Merritt – EOC capacity building through training and new equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Metchosin – Mobile EOC and power-supply project, includes office supplies, operational and communications equipment, and training and exercises.
Amount: $39,700 Mission – Functional exercise and operation supplies.
Amount: $32,776 Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations – Enhancements to the emergency-management program, including EOC training.
Amount: $39,765 Nanaimo – This project provides IT equipment, communications equipment and operational supplies.
Amount: $34,000 Regional: Nanaimo Regional District – This project provides section training, mock exercises, operational equipment and office supplies, including rapid damage assessment kits.
Amount: $80,000
Sub-applicant: District of Lantzville Nelson – EOC improvements through IT and communications equipment and staff-training exercise.
Amount: $40,000 North Okanagan Regional District – This project provides IT and communications equipment and EOC training.
Amount: $40,000 North Saanich – This project provides operational equipment, including a generator to operate during power outage.
Amount: $40,000 Regional: North Vancouver District – Functional exercise to test municipal evacuation plan and section-specific training.
Amount: $120,000
Sub-applicants: North Vancouver City, West Vancouver Northern Rockies Regional Municipality – Mobile EOC and operation supplies.
Amount: $39,000 Nuxalk Nation – This project provides operational equipment, including a generator.
Amount: $40,000 Oak Bay – This project provides EOC training and supplies office and operational equipment.
Amount: $39,800 Regional: Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District – This project provides EOC section training and supplies grab‑and‑go kits, communication and mapping tools, identification equipment and operational supplies.
Amount: $199,600
Sub-applicants: Keremeos, Oliver, Osoyoos, Summerland Pacheedaht First Nation – This project provides training, exercises and supplies sea can storage, IT equipment and first-aid supplies.
Amount: $38,655 Peace River Regional District – This project provides office, IT and operational equipment, including 72-hour kits.
Amount: $39,853 Pemberton – Conferencing equipment and foundational training.
Amount: $40,000 Penticton – This project provides EOC training and tabletop exercises and supplies IT and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Pitt Meadows – Mobile emergency operations centre equipment and functional exercise.
Amount: $40,000 Port Coquitlam – Tabletop exercise and section training.
Amount: $40,000 Port Edward – This project provides emergency support services training and supplies office, IT and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Port Hardy – This project provides EOC exercises and supplies operational equipment, including solar backup power.
Amount: $37,200 Port Moody – Functional tabletop exercise and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Princeton – This project provides first-aid supplies, incident command vests, communications equipment and EOC training.
Amount: $40,000 qathet Regional District – This project provides operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Regional: Qualicum Beach – This project provides training, exercises and IT equipment.
Amount: $80,000
Sub-applicant: Parksville Quatsino First Nation – This project provides training and supplies operational and communications equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Saanich – This project provides EOC with conferencing equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Saik’uz First Nation – This project provides a mobile EOC trailer, IT, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $38,425 Seabird Island Band – Functional exercise, foundational training and operation supplies.
Amount: $33,660 Sékw’elw’as – This project provides communications equipment and tabletop exercises.
Amount: $40,000 Sidney – EOC training for staff.
Amount: $35,500 Regional: Siska Band – This project enhances the operation of EOC through communications equipment.
Amount: $159,043
Sub-applicants: Nicomen Indian Band, Oregon Jack Creek Band, Shackan Indian Band Skeetchestn Indian Band – This project provides operational equipment, including an auxiliary power generator.
Amount: $39,128 Skowkale First Nation – This project provides foundational and section training.
Amount: $30,173 Skwláx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw – This project provides EOC with IT, communications equipment and activation exercises.
Amount: $39,904 Smithers – Joint training operations and communications equipment.
Amount: $39,900 SnPink’tn – Implementing technology into the EOC through IT equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Songhees Nation – This project provides training and supplies operational and office equipment, including storage and a generator.
Amount: $39,935 Sooke – This project provides EOC training, exercises and operational equipment, including a drone.
Amount: $40,000 Spuzzum First Nation – Section training and functional exercise.
Amount: $40,000 Squamish – This project provides a functional exercise and Incident Command System training.
Amount: $35,000 Sqwá First Nation – This project provides IT and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 SȾÁUTW̱ First Nation – This project provides EOC training and IT, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $31,395 Stewart – This project provides communications equipment updates.
Amount: $10,116 Regional: Strathcona Regional District – This project provides EOC training and supplies IT equipment, communications equipment, operational equipment and office supplies.
Amount: $360,000
Sub-applicants: Campbell River, Ehattesaht First Nation, Gold River, Nuchatlaht First Nation, Port McNeill, Sayward, Tahsis, Zeballos Takla Nation – This project provides training and supplies IT equipment, communications equipment and operational equipment.
Amount: $39,774 Taylor – Tabletop exercise and foundational training.
Amount: $23,919 Telkwa – This project provides EOC training and supplies IT equipment, communications equipment and office supplies.
Amount: $39,994 Thompson-Nicola Regional District – EOC equipment and training improvements.
Amount: $40,000 Tl’azt’en Nation – Emergency operations centre enhancement through training and generator purchase.
Amount: $40,000 Ts’il kaz koh – EOC project includes mobile trailer, training and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Tsal’alh – Portable/deployable EOC kit and sections training.
Amount: $39,197 Tsartlip First Nation – This project provides EOC exercises and supplies IT, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $29,895 Tseshaht First Nation – This project provides EOC training, office supplies and portable operational and communications equipment.
Amount: $39,991 Tsilhqot’in National Government – Tabletop exercise and foundational training.
Amount: $37,500 Tsleil-waututh Nation – Section training and tabletop exercise.
Amount: $39,958 Ucluelet – This project revitalizes the tsunami siren warning system.
Amount: $34,549 Valemount – Operation supplies and sections training.
Amount: $35,159 Vancouver – Incident Command Systems and section training for staff.
Amount: $36,621 Vanderhoof - This project provides IT, communications, operational and office equipment.
Amount: $27,066 Vernon – Rapid damage assessment kits and EOC training courses.
Amount: $40,000 Victoria – EOC update through IT supplies and earthquake exercise.
Amount: $39,055 We Wai Kai Nation – This project provides communications equipment and training.
Amount: $39,425 Wells – This project provides IT, office and operational equipment.
Amount: $33,165 West Moberly First Nations – This project provides functional tabletop exercise.
Amount: $32,612 Whistler – Essentials training and IT equipment.
Amount: $24,650 Williams Lake First Nation – Mock activation exercise and operational equipment.
Amount: $39,265 Witset First Nation – This project provides EOC training, communications and operational equipment.
Amount: $40,000 Xaxli’p First Nation (fountain) – Mobile EOC centre operation supplies.
Amount: $39,688 Yakweakwioose First Nation – Foundational training and operation supplies.
Amount: $26,245 Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi ‘it (tobacco plains) – This project provides a mobile EOC trailer, training and communications equipment.
Amount: $39,928 |
