Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) board and staff members spent six-and-a-half hours at a special meeting on Feb. 25 trimming the regional district’s proposed budget. The RDOS budget that received first reading from the board on Feb. 18 included an overall tax requisition of $13,460,590. [...more]
The Town of Osoyoos has agreed to forward an application to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) with council’s blessing to have the Wish property removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). But the decision was not unanimous. [...more]
The tender for Phase 1 of the Northwest Sector Sewer Project has been assigned and that means shovels will likely be in the ground within the next two weeks. At their March 1 meeting, Osoyoos town councillors agreed to give the tender for the first part of the project, which encompasses an area from Osoyoos’s northern boundary to the end of 89th Street, to a Penticton company called Sunland Utilities. [...more]
At its Feb. 24 meeting, the trustees of School District 53 passed a motion to allow full-day kindergarten classes for all the elementary schools within the district for the next school year except Osoyoos Elementary School. The province has allotted funding for a total of 111 full-day kindergarten spots within the district. [...more]
Editor: I read with interest your editorial on requests for information from the Town of Osoyoos. While I respect the Osoyoos Times in their responsibility as a vocal guardian of free speech and information, to express concern that the Town’s action was the start of a slippery slope, in this instance I do not agree. I believe that the Mayor [...] [...more]
