Seniors advocate pans parking pass increase

A Nelson seniors advocate says the city seems hell-bent on making life difficult for them.

Joan Reichardt of the Seniors Co-ordinating Society isn’t impressed with a hike in parking pass fees.

Nor does she think much of new rules that require garbage bags to be removed from their containers for pick-up.

Reichardt notes that while the city plans to hike taxes 4.8 per cent their pensions won’t go up by nearly that amount.

She says it doesn’t make Nelson a very seniors-friendly community.

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