PETERS – Strategic Plan the key to a productive term for this council
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IF YOU’VE EVER WORKED in a fractious workplace with a coworker or two you can’t stand, you know there’s only one tried and true way to keep your sanity — and that’s to take pride in your work.
It’s the same thing at Kamloops City Hall right now.
We pay a lot of attention to the griping and sniping between Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson and the rest of council.
It’s not even veiled anymore, with Hamer-Jackson and various councillors openly insulting each other in open meetings.
When it escalates into lawsuits, investigations and new codes of conduct, the friction becomes impossible for the rest of the city to ignore.
In a way, it’s a good sign that we are so preoccupied by the discord. It means we’re not used to it and don’t tolerate it as normal and acceptable.
Mel Rothenburger is a regular contributor to CFJC Today, publishes the ArmchairMayor.ca opinion website, and is a recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served as mayor of Kamloops, school board chair and TNRD director, and is a retired daily newspaper editor. He can be reached at mrothenburger@armchairmayor.ca.
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A “strategic plan” of single statements in point form is not an example of good, valuable work by this council and the staff who helped them form it.
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