June 15, 2009 - District of Mission
June 15, 2009 - District of Mission
June 15, 2009 - District of Mission
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DISTRICT OF<br />
Mfission<br />
ON THE FRASER<br />
Inspection Services<br />
Memorandum<br />
228<br />
To: Chief Administrative Officer<br />
From: Manager <strong>of</strong> Inspection Services<br />
Date: <strong>June</strong> 1, <strong>2009</strong><br />
Subject: Business Licence Statistics and Compliance<br />
The following chart shows the number <strong>of</strong> business licences issued over the past four years and<br />
licences issued to-date, as per Council request.<br />
2005 2006 2007 2008<br />
<strong>2009</strong><br />
To Date<br />
Resident 534 600 634 647 611<br />
Home Occupations 543 525 578 667 593<br />
Non-Resident 464 431 506 611 443<br />
TOTAL LICENCES <strong>15</strong>41 <strong>15</strong>56 1718 1925 1647<br />
The following steps are carried out yearly by staff to ensure that the previous years business<br />
licences are renewed:<br />
■<br />
■<br />
▪<br />
■<br />
Prior to December 10th : Business licence renewal notices are mailed out to all existing<br />
business licence holders.<br />
Mid January: Final renewal notices are sent to all outstanding accounts with notification<br />
that a 25% late payment penalty will be applied if payment is not received by January<br />
31st.<br />
After January 31st: All non-resident contractor accounts are inactivated and renewed<br />
as need arises throughout the year.<br />
Mid February: The bylaw enforcement <strong>of</strong>ficer endeavours to contact all known business<br />
owners <strong>of</strong> resident and home occupation businesses that have not renewed their licence<br />
within 30 days from the date <strong>of</strong> the second notice mailing to help avoid an additional<br />
25% penalty if payment is not received by March 1 st .<br />
To date 67 <strong>of</strong> the 2008 businesses have not renewed their business licences for <strong>2009</strong>. 33 <strong>of</strong><br />
these are home occupations and the balance resident businesses. The bylaw enforcement<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers will be following up with these outstanding business licences to ensure they are either<br />
no longer in business, or a business licence is purchased. Normally when outstanding Business<br />
Licences are followed up it results in 100% compliance for those still in business.<br />
Non Resident Contractors are not followed up in the same manner as Resident and Home<br />
Occupation. They are typically out <strong>of</strong> town businesses that have applied on a one-time basis<br />
only.<br />
Throughout the year staff also actively seek out new businesses to ensure licences are<br />
obtained. ,<br />
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Beverly Endersby<br />
a \inspect \busIness1<strong>2009</strong> report<br />
PILE: ADM.LIC.VAG PAGE 1 OF 1<br />
Business Licence Statistics
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