SNC Lavalin might have been persuaded to wait for the outcome of Kelowna's attempts to use the old bridge pontoons for a public breakwater, according to Mayor Sharon Shepherd. But only if Kelowna was willing to take on the bridge builder's additional costs for doing so, Shepherd says B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's office told council in a letter. And that, council decided Monday, it was not prepared to do, so it passed a motion declaring its interest in reusing the pontoons to be officially at an end. Council had directed the mayor to write Campbell asking for his assistance in finding more time for the city to come up with approvals for the project several weeks ago. The city was about to fail to meet a deadline that SNC Lavalin had set for fulfilling its contractual obligations to dispose of the pontoons. "We did our best to make this project happen," Shepherd said in an interview following the council meeting. "Now it's time to move on."
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