Emergency Preparedness Historical Information

"Historical information about how the residents of Napatak decided to vote on whether or not to move forward with the development of a Multipurpose, Emergency Preparedness, FireSmart, Community Centre.  Thank you for informing yourself regarding the facts about the upcoming vote.  Specific information regarding the building options will be posted shortly."

Pam Sanderson

 

History - Decision Time - Emergency Preparedness

The community has been discussing proposals for fire prevention and mitigation for many years. Our first priority was to get an Emergency Preparedness plan completed as per Northern Municipal Services requirements. We then moved to fire prevention planning including forest thinning, fireguard development, and becoming a FireSmart community. Recent decisions voted on at AGMs include:

- 2016 Motion: Find a combination of new and used equipment for a total of $64,000 to $70,000 to make a pump and sprinkler line system along the community side of the fireguard on both A and B side.

- 2017 Motion: Pursue, purchase, and installation of dry hydrants. Get best price and proceed.

The above options were met with objections from both inside the community and the government partners we needed on board to move forward.

- 2018 Motion: Northern Municipal Services is going to arrange a meeting with the La Ronge Fire Department and Sask. Government Fire Management/Fire Cache and Napatak Executive to determine the best investment our community can make for emergency preparedness and fire suppression. The outcome of this meeting was shared at the 2019 AGM.

- 2019 Motion: that current fire plan presented today that was developed by all parties be adopted, and then once details are better known, Executive and NMS will bring those forward to the community.

A group of fifteen community members stepped forward to research the options for an Emergency Preparedness, FireSmart Community Centre

Link for PDF of above information:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yg-AK1xCMHB70Z0gSd0hT5kfbDhgLABy/view?usp=sharing