Who were the original Board member responsible for changing the contract?
Gordie Logan, Chair, Colwood Councillor
Denise Blackwell of Langford
David McLean, former Victoria City Councillor
Dean Fortin
Jody Twa, Colwood Mayor
others?
This excerpt from a 2005 Saanich News article tells the story:
Regional wrangling between CREST's 39 user agencies forced the board to scale down the cost of the system, despite the prospect of coverage problems down the road.
"The board at the time was sensitive to communities that might have had concerns about the cost," Logan said.
"Perhaps we went a little cheap on the system... perhaps when this system was pitched the expectations were a little higher. There just wasn't a case made at the time to spend more."
Former Victoria councillor David McLean, who worked closely on the CREST system before going down to defeat in the 2002 civic elections, said unionized police and firefighters have never been happy that volunteer fire departments were included in the CREST model.