The ATM in the Dawson Creek and District Memorial Arena will see a one cent fee increase after its operator’s contract was renewed with the city.
Dawson Creek city council voted to waive the ATM fees for Jade Cash ATM, who has operated the machine inside the Memorial Arena since 2009 – they have not had a formal agreement with the city since March of this year.
City staff said after their negotiations with the cash dispenser company, they reached a contract with the same conditions as its previous version, except it did not include the city’s license fee.
The license fee is a 2 per cent increase applied to all the government’s contracts, except community service fees and charges. This fee would raise the ATM’s transaction by a total of four cents in 2028.
Jade Cash ATM requested the city waive the fee and impose a flat rate of 60 cents per transaction, one cent higher than its current fee. Over a four-year contract with the fee waived, city staff said they would lose a total of $113.28.
Dawson Creek’s councillors voted in agreement with the contract recommended by staff and imposed a flat rate of 60 cents for the next four years.
