Province provides funding for fire and safety upgrades
The province is providing funding for repairs, renovations, upgrades and fire safety at Guelph and Wellington County agencies to provide better, more secure and accessible facilities for the people who use their services.
Funding announced by Guelph MPP Liz Sandals on July 11 includes:
- $90,000 for Family Counselling and Support Services of Guelph-Wellington towards building out the agency’s current facility to support program needs; and
- $38,000 for Community Living Guelph Wellington to install phase II of the sprinkler system and $5,200 towards repairing the driveway.
This investment is part of Ontario’s Partner Facility Renewal program, which helps local agencies repair and renovate their facilities to better serve people in the community.
“These investments will help the agencies make important safety upgrades and ensures that they are able to continue to provide people with safe, accessible places to go when they need support,” said Sandals.
Ontario is the first province to make sprinklers mandatory in residential occupancy facilities servicing clients with cognitive and physical limitations and are incapable of evacuating the occupancy without assistance. An amendment to the Fire Code that took effect on Jan. 1, 2014 introduced new retrofit requirements requiring facility modifications.
