Sussex Mayor Marc Thorne tells CHSJ News what is does mean is an increase in user fees of 200 to 300 dollars a person to use the arena.
Thorne says regionalising costs will be an uphill battle because the people in the local service districts will oppose anything that would raise their tax rates.
The same vote result happened in Grand Bay-Westfield with the River Valley Community Centre and, despite that, Mayor Grace Losier, who chairs the Fundy Regional Services Commission plans to keep pressing to have recreation services regionalised and cost shared.
