I just wanted to point out that this budget was was very meaningful and thought out. And if you notice that all of the ratings are at a five and a four. The other stuff has been paired out because we know it’s a tight budget year, but these things are a necessity to keep our our sworn members safe and also a requirement under the legislation. I mean, there’s a lot of things in this budget that, you know, [are] mandated to have. We can’t do without. We have to make sure that our staff is is well equipped to do their job.
And on the CRV, we talked about stats and when it could have been deployed, could it have been used – they never know when they get into a situation how it’s going to blow up and when it’s going to blow up. Just to have something like that in the toolbox like the firefighters do have certain things in their toolbox that they may not use on the daily, but its there in case we need it.
And now that we have some funding from from people outside with generous donations now is the time I think to bring this forward.
Councillor Barbara Enright-Miller, who sits on the Belleville Police Services Board to Police Chief Murray Rodd during the 2026 Capital Budget meeting
Later in the meeting:
It’s a piece of equipment that would be in their arsenal to use and we can say that we could borrow one from somewhere else, but again when you’re in a situation where you need to borrow such a vehicle, who knows if it would be available, who knows the circumstances, and these are high-risk times when something like that might be needed. Could be a matter of life and death. So, I think that now is the time to add this to the fleet, especially when there’s other funding resources that are going to help to provide it.
I am cognizant of taxpayers’ dollars but if this saves some lives for us down the road, I think it would be money well spent
Councillor Enright-Miller
