A 2009 fiscal plan laid out the National Parks Trust’s intention to increase revenue and eliminate its need for a subvention from government each year, but Cabinet has yet to approve the requisite fee increases.
Annual fees were set to increase to $400 for private moorings and $600 for commercial moorings, acting NPT Director Lynda Varlack told the Standing Finance Committee in November. Currently, mooring ball leaseholders pay $400 per year at the most.
Deputy Premier Dr. Kedrick Pickering told the committee that the change hadn’t been approved by Cabinet, according to the report on the SFC’s closed-door deliberations.
“[Dr. Pickering] stated that he will endeavour to encourage his honourable colleagues to move in that direction: Hopefully in the coming year there may be some action on it,” the report states.
Dr. Pickering, the minister of natural resources and labour, added that because the change is a statutory fee increase “only the minister of finance could move it forward,” according to the document.
See the Jan. 15, 2015 edition for full coverage.
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