Campbell River is going ahead with plans to reject two non-profit organizations’ property-tax exemption requests for 2024, but held out the prospect the town’s art gallery could still have its tax covered if it meets certain conditions.
Mayor Kermit Dahl told the audience in a packed council meeting on Thursday that the city and art gallery staff will work together to “build back a positive relationship.”Art gallery board chair Denise Mitchell said Friday the gallery is “looking forward to working with the city on a positive relationship.”
Coun. Ron Kerr said at a previous council meeting that the gallery and the Vancouver Island Mental Health Society, which runs a supervised injection site downtown, had “poor neighbourly manners” and were having “significant negative effects on our downtown community.” The Nanaimo-based society runs a sobering and assessment centre at its downtown site as well as two other residential facilities in the community.
“I know it’s not easy. I know people get frustrated and they’re tired and they want the problem just to be solved. But the only way they address it is by working together.”It voted to spend $471,000 per year for three years — a total of $1.4 million — to beef up the city’s public works and downtown safety office to address public safety concerns.
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