Agenda
Emergency Services Committee
Emergency Services Committee Meeting
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Tom Davies Square
Rene Lapierre, Chair
Mark Signoretti, Vice Chair
*MEETING CANCELLED*
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4:00 p.m.
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EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING
COMMITTEE ROOM C-11 |
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CORRESPONDENCE FOR INFORMATION ONLY
Report dated October 6, 2017 from the Chief of Fire and Paramedic Services, General Manager of Community Safety regarding Emergency Services Department Update.
(FOR INFORMATION ONLY)
(This report provides a summary of the Emergency Services Department statistics from July 1, 2017 to September 15, 2017 and a briefing on current and upcoming activities.)
(This report for information only was prepared following the August 21, 2017 Emergency Services Committee meeting, where staff were directed to provide a report at the October 2017 meeting outlining illness and absences for full-time Firefighters. This report provides information regarding full-time Firefighter non-occupational and occupational absences.)
MEMBERS' MOTIONS
Creation of Emergency Services Chief's Seniors Fund
As presented by Councillor Lapierre:
WHEREAS according to the Statistics Canada census results in 2016, the current population of Greater Sudbury is an estimated 161,000 people;
AND WHEREAS according to the World Health Organization, World Report on Ageing and Health, the number of people 60 years of age and older will exceed 30% of Canada’s total population, which will outnumber all children under 14 years by 2050;
AND WHEREAS the Council Strategic Plan indicates that the City of Greater Sudbury will strive to make the community even greater and further enhance the quality of life by creating programs and services designed to improve the health and well-being of youth, families and seniors;
AND WHEREAS Paramedic Services respond to over 30,000 calls for service per year, and 57% of the patients who call for Paramedic Services are over the age of 60;
AND WHEREAS the Greater Sudbury Police Service created the Board’s Chief’s Youth Initiative Fund, which has a mandate to support initiatives of the Greater Sudbury Police Service or the community that benefit youth; initiatives benefiting children and/or youth and/or their families; initiatives addressing violence prevention or repetition or causes of violence; initiatives reducing the need for policing intervention or those that strengthen police-community relationships;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Greater Sudbury directs the General Manager of Community Safety to develop a similar fund to support initiatives geared to seniors within the City of Greater Sudbury, called Emergency Services Chief’s Seniors Fund, establishing a mandate applicable to the City of Greater Sudbury Emergency Services, terms of reference and financial options, to be brought back to the Emergency Service Committee in first quarter of 2018 for its consideration.
ADDENDUM
CIVIC PETITIONS
QUESTION PERIOD AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTICES OF MOTION
ADJOURNMENT