OSOYOOS TIMES-May 20, 2009
By Karen Knelsen
Osoyoos Times
At its May 19 meeting, Osoyoos town council gave first, second and third readings to bylaw amendments that would give local mobile business owners the opportunity to obtain business licences that would allow them to work outside their home community.
Right now, Osoyoos business owners who service multiple communities must obtain separate business licences for each community they work in.
If the amendments are passed, mobile business owners could pay extra for an “inter-community” business licence— a concept introduced by former MLA Rick Thorpe— that would allow them to work in other communities that have similar policies.
Although council has previously stated it would prefer to limit the Town’s involvement in the inter-community licence system to the Okanagan-Similkameen region or scrap the idea all together, council members said they wanted to have some public input on the idea.
A public hearing on the matter was set for June 15 in council chambers.
