Oliver Airport User Fee Proposal Fails to Gain Council Support

Oliver Airport user fee proposal fails to gain council support

Oliver Airport will not be seeing additional user hangar fees-for now. During the Oct. 13 meeting, outgoing Coun. David Mattes put forward the motion to direct staff to look into imposing user fees for hangar lessees to cover town financial deficits. "It is proposed that a user fee be implement...

Motion to increase airport user fees in Oliver does not fly with Council

A new structure for airport user fees in Oliver, B.C., will not take off under the current Council, after it was proposed as a solution to combat funding shortfalls for the site. A Notice of Motion had been put forth by outgoing Councillor David Mattes to include user fees for leases of the hangars at the airport. Such a move would have come into effect for the “2027 budget and beyond”, with the goal of better covering all operating costs at the…