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The Commission has published a Service Plan and Budget (a PDF download requiring Adobe Acrobat) which outlines its future activities including its revenue and expenditures expected through March, 2010.
In future, the Commission will be:
continuing through 2010, a review of fare caps for performance term three, which is the four years starting April 1, 2012. Here is a timeline of steps for the review (a one-page pdf file).
every three months, reviewing the quarterly reports of BC Ferries to determine (1) if it is meeting the service requirements in its contract with the Province, (2) what changes have occurred in the quality of service as measure by on-time performance and the number of full sailings which leave customers behind, and (3) if the actual fares charged are within the allowed maximums (or price caps) for each of seven groups of routes. You will find graphs of the history of actual fares vs. caps for each route group here.
reviewing and considering (at any time) any applications for extraordinary price cap increases.
monitoring what information BC Ferries provides to the public.
monitoring BC Ferries implementation of its plan to seek alternate ferry service providers on its routes, required under section 69 of the Coastal Ferry Act. For more on this, see the “Other Ferry Companies” button on the left, the ASP Plan Milestones page on this webs site, and BC Ferries Alternative Service Providers Plan for Performance Term Two.
reviewing and considering any applications by BC Ferries for reductions in service (temporary reductions would occur immediately)
reviewing and considering any applications by BC Ferries for route discontinuation. The determination process takes 9 months.
determining whether to deregulate a route, i.e. remove the route designation for a route upon which sufficient competition exists so that regulation of that route is no longer necessary.
ordering inspections of the records of BC Ferries as necessary.
issuing orders for non-compliance with the legislation as necessary.
handling BC Ferries applications for a declaration by the Commission that a capital expenditure is “reasonably required”.
publishing every decision, determination, order or proceeding made by the Commission.
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