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• Vancouver: $20,359,547
• Kamloops: $1,112,000
• Kelowna: $1,264,000
• Prince George: $348,000

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John Zukowski was a member of the Mayor’s Standing Committee on Public Safety. As was Councillor Brian Skakun.

“On that list, Kelowna was over a million dollars,” he says. “I mean, we’re not isolated to what’s happening, but I’m really concerned. And even the RCMP, I think last budget, it said getting more members is not going to solve the problem.”

And the situation is getting worse, especially in the downtown.

“I don’t think it matters what we’re doing with the amount of people that are coming to town. I was talking to one of the folks that run one of the soup lines downtown and they said they’re getting new people daily. And I interviewed actually probably a couple dozen people on the street, and probably a third of them were from out of town,” says Councillor Brian Skakun.

The breakdown of the costs locally are: Of the $348,000, $230,000 goes to general cleaning, $10,000 to graffiti removal and $20,000 to safety and security.

“The DBIA is being pulled away from what it’s supposed to be doing,’ says Zukowski. “To doing things that are outside its realm. So you’ve got somebody that doesn’t know what they’re doing. Being forced to do something they don’t know how to fix.”

He points to a recent joint submission to the Public Safety Committee meeting of the $4.5 million in damages to downtown businesses over the course of a 12-month period, ending last September.