CITY – July 4 deadline looms for payment of property taxes
Kamloops property owners have one more week to pay their property taxes before a 10 per cent penalty for late payment is applied on July 5. Property tax notices for 2022 were [Continue]
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ON THE AGENDA – Notices of motion on tax bills, biosolids applications
Highlights on Kamloops City council agenda, Tuesday, May 15, 2018: Staff will recommend that council authorize a joint venture with the Kamloops Blazers Hockey Club for [Continue]
BIOSOLIDS – Kamloops sets up committee on ‘management options’
Kamloops has joined in the search for an answer to biosolids. The City announced today (Friday, May 4, 2018) it has formed a Biosolids Management Stakeholder Committee to [Continue]
CITY POLITICS – The Cascadia tweet that has Coun. Donovan Cavers under fire
Coun. Donovan Cavers is tweeting again. This one is raising some ire. Click on it to follow the thread. Morneau go for it. Cancel equalization payments to #BC. I dare [Continue]
CITY HALL – Shakeup in corporate structure unveiled after review
The City of Kamloops has a new corporate structure. A new organizational chart was released today (Feb. 28, 2018) that results from a review prompted by the departure of [Continue]
CITY HALL – Corporate services director David Duckworth moving to Calgary
The City of Kamloops will lose one of its top administrators when David Duckworth leaves for a new job in Calgary. The corporate services and community safety director will [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Political hopefuls could learn a lot from Pat Wallace
PAT WALLACE hasn’t been on Kamloops City council forever. It just seems like it, in a good way. When I arrived in Kamloops in 1970, it was the time of Mayor Peter Wing and [Continue]
DUDY – Some comparisons on how various cities handle snow removal
Posted on Facebook by Coun. Dieter Dudy: IT SEEMS that snow removal (or lack thereof) is the topic of choice these days. Many seem to think that the City isn’t getting to [Continue]
CITY HALL – Wendy Heshka named as new communications manager
The City of Kamloops has hired a new communications manager. Wendy Heshka, a long-time communications consultant in Kamloops, will take over her new role Jan. 15. In addition [Continue]
PASSING – City lowers flags to half-staff in honour of late councillor Marg Spina
Flags at City Hall were lowered to half-staff today for former Kamloops city councilor Marg Spina, who died this morning (Dec. 15, 2017) with her family at her side. She was [Continue]
CITY COUNCIL – $100,000 downtown parking study rejected on tie vote
A $100,000 downtown parking study was rejected by Kamloops City council on the closest of votes Tuesday (Nov. 7, 2017). After more than an hour of debate, the proposed study [Continue]
PASSING – Services planned for former City councillor Dave Gracey
Memorial services are being planned for former Kamloops City councillor Dave Gracey, who died at his home in Japan on Aug. 21. Gracey, 50, died at his home in Yachioyo City, [Continue]
BY-ELECTION – McQuarrie enters race for mayor, proposes zero% tax hike
The number of mayoral candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops by-election is back up to four with the announcement today (Aug. 15, 2017) that business owner Bill McQuarrie is [Continue]
AJAX – ‘Heightened uncertainties’ on air quality, health, says SLR’s final report
A short excerpt from the SLR Consulting final report on the Ajax mine application released by the City today (June 13, 2017). The full 70-page report is available online on [Continue]
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