Productive week for Vernon’s Mayor at UBCM
Victor Cumming had a busy week attending the Union of British Columbia Municipalities Convention.
Vernon’s Mayor was in Vancouver for the annual UBCM Convention from Sept. 18 to 22 where he had face to face meetings with numerous provincial ministers to discuss key issues.
“The first one was the minister of mental health and addictions and the issue there is [drug] use in public and I think that has been fairly well articulated from the City of Vernon that that doesn’t work. That was not a surprise to her and not a surprise to a number of people at UBCM so that’s something that’s consistent with other municipalities,” Cumming told Vernon Matters.
“We had good discussions with the minister of forests regarding fuel loads, this is fire prevention, up on the Aberdeen Plateau which is a huge source of our drinking water and our irrigation water and the fire risk is very high. So we were trying to get the minister of forests lined up with a number of other ministries to see how we can move along a significant project to decrease the fuel load and do some substantial FireSmarting around both our facilities and our reservoirs.”