PENTICTON, B.C. — It’s been more than three months since the Boonstock music festival received its bill for policing, but promoters have not yet paid the tab.
But the Ministry of Justice says it’s still waiting.
“The Province has been in contact with the promoters urging payment,” says Perry Clark, the Executive Director of the Policing and Security Branch from the Ministry of Justice.
The outstanding bill is for $176,901.10, which is part of the policing costs. The federal government is invoicing Boonstock organizers the remaining $75,000.
When the music festival’s promoter first received the bill, he scrutinized it.
Colin Kobza requested a “resources breakdown of the RCMP services provided to Boonstock Productions Inc., including receipts and additional details of costs incurred.”
The police costs for the three-day weekend was initially anticipated to be about $200,000.
But Penticton’s RCMP commander Supt. Hewco explained that security gaps were identified during policing at the Boonstock event, prompting the need for extra resources.
Sup. Hewco also said that he couldn’t call the music festival a success because a young woman died.
There were 150 police files created by the event with 38 people arrested.
Global News contacted Kobza but was not successful.
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