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Kamloops city council has now adopted a bylaw to allow an inter-communal business license.
The city’s business license inspector Dave Jones says the license will be $75 dollars and allow contractors and others to work in 11 communities.
“What it is, is small business, obviously there’s an administrative burden of ensuring they have a business license in every little community they go in. This is an opportunity now for the City of Kamloops and 10 other communities to be involved, in the Thompson-Nicola region.”
Jones says only Kamloops, Merritt, and Tk’emlups have passed a bylaw for the license at this point, but he says the other eight have given support for it and are going through the process of approving it.
Meanwhile the Kamloops Chamber has thrown its support behind the new bylaw. The chamber came up with the idea years ago which has been adopted in many regions of the province since then, but not the Thompson-Nicola.
“The Kamloops Chamber originally brought this forward to the BC Chamber in 2010 and to see it finally come to fruition in Kamloops is fantastic. This means our businesses can now operate in smaller communities where their services are needed,” Chamber president Joshua Knaak says, adding the move will increase consumer confidence by giving more choices for people.
The program is expected to be rolled out in 2020, and more information will be available for contractors next month according to the city.
