Kelowna council has signed off on roughly $1.1 million in retroactive pay, that the city now owes its RCMP officers.
This past April, the federal government approved retroactive pay increases for officers who worked in 2015 and 2016, as the last pay agreement had expired at the end of 2014.
The city's Director of Corporate and Protective Services Rob Mayne says the city has no say when it comes to those negotiations.
"We have an agreement with the province, and then there's an agreement between the province and the federal government," he said.
"So we really have no say in the contract price or the compensation the RCMP have on a day-to-day basis."
Mayne says because they knew a payout was coming, staff had already set the cash aside.
"There is no tax impact for these additional costs, which were set aside in the RCMP contract reserve in prior years, in anticipation of this agreement," he said.
The total amounts to about 6500 dollars for each of the detachment's 170 members.