2022-2031 FINANCIAL PLAN
APPENDIX 4 Legend Teal Text - Change to Planned Date
APPROVED ONGOING NEW SERVICE LEVELS Index
Department
Project Name
Project Description
Project Justification Since 2001 Campbell River’s population has grown by 28.6% representing an increase of approx. 8,280 additional residents, and the community continues to experience steady population growth. Recognizing that there had not been an increase in police protective services since 2002 at a ratio equal to population growth, Council approved an increase of one RCMP Member (“RM”) in the 2018 Financial Plan, and a further increase of one RM in the 2019 Financial Plan. Notwithstanding, the steady population growth,
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630 - Police Protection
Increase Police Resources
Improve police protection resources.
fundamental changes in society, and profound changes within the policing profession has placed growing demands on already stretched police resources. This imbalance makes it increasingly difficult to implement necessary pro-active crime prevention initiatives designed to deter crime and keep residents safe. Further, it also poses an increased risk to both public and officer safety resulting from increased incidents with extremely violent offenders and volatile situations. It is prudent and necessary to fill existing gaps in immediate service delivery as well as regular incremental increases to meet the service delivery expectations as the population grows in years to come. The City currently provides municipal administrative Major Case Management (“MCM”) disclosure services to the RCMP’s Major Crime Unit (“MCU”) and General Investigation Section (“GIS”) at 35 hours per week. The number of violent offences investigated by MCU in Campbell River is twice that of the provincial average. As a result of ongoing judicial process changes, the demand for MCM document disclosure on major case files (eg. assaults, sex assaults, homicides, child pornography) by Crown Counsel is increasingly cumbersome to
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630 - Police Protection
Electronic File Disclosure Services
Additional Major Case Management services.
meet for these two units, and is grossly exceeding the capacity of the existing budgeted municipal administrative support to sustain. To meet the current elevated judicial electronic disclosure requirements, RCMP Members (“RMs”) of these two units are again having to supplement this service as municipal administrative support are unable to meet the demand due to the increase of violent offences triggering major case files. The provision of this service by RMs is taking them away from their police investigational files to work on preparing comprehensive electronic disclosure packages for major case files that municipal staff could otherwise perform.
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430 - IT
Network Security Support
3rd party security support.
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430 - IT
Network Security Software
Purchase of additional security software.
Resource for the Senior Network Admin (Security Specialist) to ensure network vulnerabilities are addressed. The City receives over 400 emails and a million threats per day with 91% categorized as high risk. Security software helps to eliminate vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of security breaches. The expanded Airport Manager position, responsible for both the daily operations and the strategic development and growth of the
Campbell River Airport, supported by the resources necessary for success, will allow the vision for the Campbell River Airport to become 8
710 - Airport
Realign Management Structure
Realignment of manager and supervisor positions; addition
reality. Hiring an Airport Manager responsible for the management, administration, operation, and strategic development and growth of
of Specialist position.
the Campbell River Airport, reporting to the Economic Development Manager, and supported with adequate resources as we move forward. By undertaking this move, it provides the best chance of success in achieving the vision for change at the Airport, which will deliver significant positive economic health, growth and livability gains for the community. The airport is a valuable asset for existing primary industries and is an asset to help attract new industry to Campbell River. Currently
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112 - Economic Development
Airport Marketing / Investment Attraction
Promote the Campbell River Airport to ensure its viability.
there is no budget for marketing the airport. By providing funding, the department will be able to implement action items to promote the Campbell River Airport and achieve goal 3-8 of the June 2021 Council approved economic development’s 5-year rolling strategy “Innovative by Nature”.
Presently Development Planning has 4 planners on the
team. Two of these planners currently share a full time 11
510 - Development Services
Increased hours for Planner I & II
Development Planning is experiencing a high rate and increased complexity in planning applications that come in. These additional
position, and supplement with auxiliary hours, in order to
permanent hours will increase productivity and allow Development Planning to process more applications in a timely manner in order to
work part time. More recently, both of these part time
keep our service levels high and meet our strategic priorities. Development Planning has benefited greatly from the experience and talent
planners have expressed interest in taking on more
these planners have and an increase in permanent hours would mean that we would have better employee retention, rather than
permanent hours (28 hrs max and 25 hours max,
spending additional time and costs on job advertising and training.
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510 - Development Services
Building Inspector 1 wage adjustment
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510 - Development Services
Building Inspector 1
Building Inspector Level 1 upgrade to correspond with
The current FTE funding for a BI-1 would become the base for the Building inspector In Training (BIIT) and a new FTE amount would be
introduction of a BIIT position.
an averaged rate falling between current BI-1 and BI-2.
Transition of Building Inspector In Training (BIIT) to a FTE
To ensure staff retention and continue to meet service levels demands, the BIIT position would be upgraded to a FTE BI-1 position upon
Building Inspector 1 (BI-1) position.
successful completion of certification. To provide day to day clerical support to the fire department and the public at the new fire station reception area. Currently the fire
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620 - Fire Protection
Administrative Support
Administrative clerk - front reception No. 2 Fire Hall.
dispatch staff handle all clerical support at the reception area at the fire department. With increasing call volume demands in the fire dispatch center, they are no longer able to provide this support and need to focus on emergency calls and dispatching. 351
