1. Community Safety Services
2019 Budget Presentation

2. Core Service Areas Emergency Program and Preparedness Initiatives
Bylaw Enforcement
Animal Management
Building Inspections and Permits
Business Licensing
Liaison with Victoria Police Department
These are the core areas of service through CSS – reminding Mayor and Council that Animal Management is a contracted service
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3. 2018 Budget Summary Total FTE = 4.5 (5 employees) Capital Budget = $0
Operating Revenue = $325,000
Operating Expenditures = $732,889
Not included on this slide, relating to staff, are four Aux staff, 2 Building Inspector and 2 Bylaw Management Officer - fill in for leave illness etc.
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4. Strategic Priorities/Objectives
We strengthen the health, liveability and diversity of the community
We will build and enhance partnerships with community groups and other governments
We encourage a resilient and diverse economic environment
We efficiently and effectively provide local services and infrastructure
We achieve excellence in public service
H and L Com is at the essence of CSS, all activities feed up into this Priority
Additionally, through Emergency Management, a significant portion of these efforts are directed towards working exploring efficiencies locally and regionally through the LGEPAC and the REPAC and the REMP – any large scale disaster will impact all of the CRD municipalities and Electoral Districts, therefore a great deal of work is done planning and exercising with these partners.
Additionally, Esq is part of a business licencing group that is working to expand inter-municipal business licences to encompass the entire south island – to this end, ICBL was passed last year, sales beginning this year
in support of R and D economy, in both Business licencing and Building permits we have worked to stream line processes, remove unnecessary fees and deposits and reduced red tape in order to issue BL’s and Building Permits much more quickly than in the past.
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5. 2018 Achievements Emergency Management
Preparedness presentations 120 people via 8 presentations - 5 Workshops (30) – 6 Strata Presentations (72) – Tsunami Presentation (80) – 167 Grade 4 students
2 Grant Applications – Emergency Operations Centre (Training and Exercises) and Emergency Social Services (Training and Exercises)
In house EOC training and starter kits
Internal notification system
Fully integrated with REMP – participation on Regional Public Education Working group; Regional Concept of Operations Working Group, Regional Hazards, Risk, Vulnerability Analysis Working Group.
Completed grant application to the National Disaster Mitigation Program through CRD Climate Action Program
Esquimalt is a significant contributor to the Regional Emergency Management through the LGEPAC / REPAC and REMP
We are seeking innovate ways to fund all of the streams and acquire necessary equipment and infrastructure. And conduct needed training and exercises.
In house training – able to deliver more quickly and efficiently, delivery training to more
Starter emergency kits
Internal notification system in place
Grant app for sea level rise and tsunami modeling (Regional )
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6. 2018 Achievements Building Inspection
Facilitated Evacuation Planning grants for Regional Evacuation planning with a portion assigned to regional planning.
Post January Tsunami Alert - updating Regional Emergency Tsunami Communication Plan and updated Tsunami Public Education materials.
Building Inspection
Enhanced process improved communication with public.
Increased work load handled with current staffing levels
Process to prevent expired permits
118 Building permits issued with a total construction value of nearly $57,000,000
Building permit fees of nearly $532,000
Evacuation Grants
Updated Tsunami protocols
Building
Calls are sent to David’s cell – return call in 15 min
Increased work load, ensuring processes are efficient
Prevent expired permits
2017 construction value was 23 million increase of 34 million
2017 permit fees – increase of

7. 2018 Achievements Business Licensing 118 Plumbing permits issued
Permit applications are processed in a timely manner
Business Licensing
Esquimalt led the CRD in adoption of the new Intercommunity Business Licence Bylaw
Updated Business Licence application and posted on the website
725 active business licences (increase of 25 over previous year)
Business Lic – increase of 18 over last year and an increase of more than 40 in the last two years
Greater Victoria Business Licencing Group – continues to meet to try and create consistency in business licencing practices and to expand the use of “inter-municipal”
Business licence to include mid island businesses
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8. 2018 Achievements Bylaw Enforcement
Animal Management – increase patrols in parks and green spaces
Completed second Deer Count Survey to inform Deer Management Strategy
501 investigative Bylaw files
517 Bylaw Offence Notices issued $26,000 in fines (56% increase over 2017) – 305 warning tickets issued.
Significant progress on chronic unsightly properties.
Removal of two boats from the Gorge Waterway - One through Transport Canada Abandoned Boats Program.
Worked with Engineering and Parks to improve signage for more efficient enforcement.
Electronic file management
Proactive patrols directly lead to
- increase of 90 dog tags sold over 2017
- increase in licence and leash violations in parks/public areas
- double # of written warnings
Bylaw enforcement
- Approx 200 more BON’s issued than 2017
- more than 120 more written warnings than 2017
- Good progress on chronic unsightly
- transition to electronic file management via the “Calls for service module of Tempest”

9. Key Challenges Short term
Continuing to ensure local government priorities are integrated into the Regional Emergency Management Partnership
Research and test a Public Alert System
Complex property investigations
Increased workload in all areas
Emergency Management is an ongoing process
Public alerting system on radar last year, however, federal system Alert Ready came out – we wanted to evaluate – looking at a system with more utility and more usability – IE may not be a National/Provincial emergency, but may be an Esquimalt Emergency
Property investigations are difficult and both a short and long term challenge – I will address more in the next slide
Increased work load in all departments
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10. Key Challenges Longer term Information and Preparedness (emergency)
Cannabis use in public places
Safety and health concerns related to nuisance properties
Complex property investigations
Collection of Municipal fines
Restrictive court decisions
Emergency Management is an ongoing process
Regulatory framework is in place in terms of determining how to open a shop – does Council wish put any other conditions or restriction on Cannabis use within the Township?
Unsightly properties continue to consume significant bylaw enforcement resources – these can be long term investigations – however, making good progress on chronic properties
Issues relating to public use of private land, Short term rentals and nonstandard housing continue to be issues – Seeking direction from Council in the near future
Still working on refining processes to receive a greater percentage of fines issued – electronic payment
Court decisions relating to both marihuana and use of public spaces result in a increased burden on municipal resources, including policing

11. 2019 Initiatives
Continuing to enhance public safety in parks and public areas (We strengthen the health, liveability and diversity of the community)
Maintaining enhanced focus on enforcement initiatives relating to chronic unsightly properties (We strengthen the health, liveability and diversity of the community)
Emergency Management - Conducting large scale exercise in the Township (Enhance the Health and Liveability of the Community; We will build and enhance partnerships with community groups and other governments)
Developing and enacting a strategy to protect public lands from private incursion (We strengthen the health, liveability and diversity of the community)
Continue with enhanced park patrols by animal control
Continue with enhanced enforcement efforts relating to unsightly properties
Developed and implemented a process to integrate existing EM organizations into the REMP
Marihuana work
Public Alert system
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12. 2019 Initiatives
Public Alert System for Township residents (Enhance the Health and Liveability of the Community)
Review and update Building/Demo Permit applications and revisit fee schedule (We encourage a resilient and diverse economic environment)
Examine the feasibility of “on-line” payments for BON’s/Dog Licences/Business Licences etc. (We achieve excellence in public service)
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