18% Voter Turnout at Referendum

And of that 18 per cent, 47.65 per cent said No, with 52.35 per cent saying Yes to borrowing $7.5 million for the Community Sports Facility adjacent to Okanagan College on Highway 97.

The perennial question after any vote is "Did the non-voters (36,875 in this case) favour the referendum?"
Or does the low voter turnout indicate yet more apathy among North Okanagan residents?
People should care, but often don't cast a ballot to support their opinion.

A total of 45,095 were eligible to vote.

"I'd better not hear any whining from any of the 82 percenters who didn't vote," asserts Kia.

The only aspect I'm personally dead against is that tenants--who do not own property--are permitted to vote in provincial borrowing referenda.  And companies that operate in the area get no vote.  That's the thoughtless manner in which voting rules are applied in British Columbia.

To calculate how much this sports facility will cost your family, here's the residential calculator.   

Multiply that by the 20 year term.
And then hope that (municipal) interest rates remain low.