Emergency Operations Centre for McBride Gets Funding

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 01:16 PM

McBride has picked up $400 thousand dollars in funding from the provincial government to add an Emergency Operations Centre to its new Community Hall.

The EOC will provide emergency shelter, food services and a gathering place for the community as well as neighbouring communities from Dunster to Dome Creek. The work required to develop the EOC will include: electrical and telecommunications work, interior construction and installation of required equipment and furniture.

The funding comes from theTowns for Tomorrow program under which the Province of B.C. will provide up to 80% of eligible costs for projects up to $500 thousand dollars in communities with populations of 5,000 or less. The projects have to be designed to improve the community's infrastructure.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 01:16 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: northerngal on August 21 2007 8:38 PM

Hopefully they do not give the Village Council the funds to distribute themselves. The community hall is currently overbudget and extremely behind schedule. Council members quit left, right an center. Two of them don't even live in the town anymore. Something seems fishy to me.

Posted by: metalman on August 22 2007 9:28 AM

Sounds like northerngal lives in McBride, the comments are similar to those I have heard from other locals. It appears to me that the hall project is, while behind schedule, still a boost for the community. Most of the labour has come from local people, including the supervision. In my mind, that approach brings about the maximum benefit to McBride. It keeps most of the money in the village, and the few out of town contractors all eat and stay in town which adds to the mix. Now they have more money to spend, and I say good!
The village, unlike cities such as Prince George, believes in buying local,as far as I can tell. The E.O.C. is someones' good planning (thinking ahead, not waiting for a disaster to occur to illustrate the need)
The 400K is money well spent, in my opinion, and you have to know that it is a rare day when I agree with anything a government does.
By the way I am not from McBride, although I would like to live there.
metalman.