Recorded vote

Although emergency medical services are the responsibility of the provincial government, issues with dispatch and sequencing on emergency response calls results in the Calgary Fire Department (CFD) often being first responder on calls that are medical in nature, resulting in medical calls comprising 49.2% of all CFD calls in 2020, 51.8% in 2021, and 54.6% of calls to date in 2022. For this reason, Council direct Administration to engage with the provincial government, and requests that the Mayor to write a letter to the Premier, to request compensation for the portion of the CFD budget used to provide medical responses, by either: Permitting the City of Calgary to retain a proportionate amount of the provincial share of property tax; or Through another compensation model mutually agreeable to both parties.