City of Kelowna does an about-face on crime forum admission fee after business pushback
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This weekend's reversal came after business operators blasted the city for implementing a $5 fee to attend the Jan. 27 event at the Kelowna Community Theatre.
Todd Daniels is pleased the City of Kelowna had a change of heart and eliminated an admission fee for a public forum on crime and safety .
“They should have never done it in the first place,” Daniels told Global News. “It’s ridiculous.”
This weekend’s reversal came after business operators blasted the city for implementing a $5 fee to attend the Jan. 27 event at the Kelowna Community Theatre.
“Kudos to them for getting us our money back but now they’re going to have to do all that accounting and paying everyone back, which is going cost more money,” Daniels said.
Unlike last week, the online pre-registration to attend no longer comes with a fee.
“It’s not surprising,” said Kristina Loewen, Conservative MLA for Kelowna Centre. “The outcry was pretty significant, so I’m glad to see that they’ve done the right thing and reversed that fee.”
Loewen is also holding a similar forum in early February but hers has been free all along.
The January forum is one of the city’s responses to the growing and increasingly louder business complaints about ongoing crime and social disorder.
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