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Community Emergency Preparedness Fund for heat preparedness

Local governments and First Nations throughout British Columbia will receive $1,896,821.80 from the provincial Community Emergency Preparedness Fund as follows:

Armstrong, Lumby – Regional: Armstrong/Lumby heat event vulnerable population response planning
Total approved funding: $49,500

Capital Regional District, Langford, Saanich, Sidney and Victoria – Regional: Capital Regional District extreme heat vulnerability mapping dashboard project
Total approved funding: $150,000

Central Coast Regional District – Extreme heat risk mapping
Total approved funding: $30,000

Central Saanich – Extreme heat: Understanding risk
Total approved funding: $30,000

Chase – Heat event vulnerable population response planning
Total approved funding: $23,000

Chetwynd, West Moberly First Nations – Regional: Chetwynd extreme heat plan
Total approved funding: $60,000

Coldstream – Coldstream heat-risk mapping, assessment and planning project
Total approved funding: $29,610

Delta, Tsawwassen First Nation – Regional: Extreme heat risk mapping, assessment and planning for City of Delta (Ladner, Tsawwassen & North Delta) and Tsawwassen First Nation
Total approved funding: $60,000

Enderby – Extreme heat risk mapping, assessment and planning
Total approved funding: $30,000

Kamloops – Extreme heat risk mapping, assessment and plan
Total approved funding: $30,000

Kanaka Bar Indian Band – Extreme heat adaptation plan
Total approved funding: $30,000

Langley Township – Langley’s cool parks
Total approved funding: $30,000

Leq’a:mel First Nation – Extreme heat resilience and capacity building project
Total approved funding: $30,000

Metchosin, Scia’new First Nation – Regional partnership: Heat risk mapping and planning roject
Total approved funding: $58,500

Mission – Extreme heat project
Total approved funding: $30,000

Nanaimo – Extreme heat risk mapping
Total approved funding: $30,000

Nazko First Nation – Extreme heat risk mapping
Total approved funding: $30,000

North Vancouver District, North Vancouver City, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, West Vancouver – Regional North Shore extreme heat vulnerability reduction: Socio-economic and cultural risk assessment and mapping
Total approved funding: $120,000

Okanagan-Similkameen Region, Keremeos, Lower Similkameen Indian Band, Oliver, Osoyoos, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton Indian Band, Princeton, Summerland, Upper Similkameen Indian Band – Regional: Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen extreme heat assessment and response planning
Total approved funding: $300,000

Pauquachin First Nation, Tsartlip First Nation, Tseycum First Nation, Tsawout First Nation – Regional: Extreme heat: Understanding risk
Total approved funding: $116,109

Penticton – Extreme heat risk analysis and planning
Total approved funding: $30,000

Revelstoke – Heat emergency plan
Total approved funding: $13,000

Sema:th First Nation – Extreme heat adaptation and evaluation project
Total approved funding: $30,000

Skeetchestn Indian Band – Extreme heat emergency response plan
Total approved funding: $25,600

Skuppah Indian Band – Extreme heat priorities and action plan
Total approved funding: $25,500

Smithers, Telkwa – Regional: Heat emergency resiliency project
Total approved funding: $56,713.80

Spallumcheen – Extreme heat risk assessment and mapping
Total approved funding: $30,000

Squamish – Extreme heat: Understanding risk
Total approved funding: $29,569

Squamish Nation: Extreme heat risk planning
Total approved funding: $30,000

Sunshine Coast Regional District, Gibsons, Sechelt, Sechelt Indian Government District – Regional: Sunshine Coast extreme heat plan
Total approved funding: $120,000

Tahltan Nation – Extreme heat response plan
Total approved funding: $30,000

Tk’emlups te Secwepemc – Heat event vulnerable population response planning
Total approved funding: $30,000

View Royal – Extreme heat: Understanding risk
Total approved funding: $30,000

Whispering Pines/Clinton Band: Extreme heat response plan
Total approved funding: $30,000

Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, Quesnel – Regional: Cariboo urban centre extreme heat assessment and planning
Total approved funding: $89,800

Xeni Gwet’in First Nation – Heat resiliency and climate adaptation
Total approved funding: $29,920