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Princeton and district agree to continue cost-sharing recreation

Contract to be renewed for five years
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Princeton’s recreation facilities will continue to be funded in part by the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, after council moved to renew a three-year-old agreement with that body during the last December council meeting.

Mayor Frank Armitage said the deal mirrors the original cost-share contract inked in 2014.

It commits the RDOS Area H to contributing 43 per cent of the total operating budgets of the arena, Riverside Centre, the outdoor pool, the fairgrounds and recreational programs.

In a report to council interim CAO Bob Wilson said: “this agreement does not cover any capital costs of any new recreation facilities.”

When asked by a member of the public how the agreement would be impacted by the proposed indoor aquatic center Mayor Frank Armitage replied that issue would be negotiated separately if Area H expresses an interest in the pool project.

The new agreement is for five years, and will renew automatically every three years after that unless one of the parties provides a year’s written notice that it wishes to renegotiate or terminate the deal.



Andrea DeMeer

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