N1.4Maintain or expand the current fuel treatment program, for both forest and grass fuels, integrating with ecosystem and biodiversity objectives as was done at the McKinley Park pilot project.

The Parks Services department currently has sufficient in-house expertise to prioritize areas of municipal land for treatment, effectively reducing patches of hazardous fuels. Allocating a percentage of the City's operating budget towards fuel management would allow this program to expand and enable the City to leverage grant funding for novel community wildfire resiliency projects (e.g. hiring a FireSmart Coordinator and expanding FireSmart education programs). Additional support could be achieved by obtaining funding to hire student crews (e.g. through Canada Summer Jobs grants) to complete light duty fuel treatment work in interface neighborhoods or municipal parks.

In 2024, the total hectares of high threat or high priority areas that received wildfire fuel mitigation in the city was 35.7 hectares. Through the first half of 2025, 44.62 hectares had already received mitigation works.