City council

CITY COUNCIL – Answers to the question, ‘What work is getting done’?

May 22, 2024 // 11 Comments

By KELLY HALL Kamloops City Councillor MUNICIPAL COUNCILS are empowered to address the existing and future needs of a community by making collective decisions that are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Outcome of suspension should have been easy to predict

March 28, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LATEST BIT of turmoil at City Hall was always bound to end badly. When Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson suspended acting CAO Byron McCorkell on [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Latest council investigation is a strange prelude to bringing in a referee

September 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

ON THE SAME DAY Coun. Margot Middleton made a motion to ask the B.C. Municipal Affairs Ministry to step in and help council get its act together, councillors retreated behind [Continue]

CITY HALL WARS – Mayor fires back at statement by ‘Kamloops City Council’

August 8, 2023 // 8 Comments

Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson fired back today (Aug. 8, 2023) at a “Statement From Kamloops City Council” emailed to media late last week. Hamer-Jackson sent out his [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Recall legislation doesn’t exist for local governments, but it should

July 15, 2023 // 2 Comments

THE MOST COMMON QUESTION I get asked these days is, “How do we fire a City council?” The answer is, very slowly, if at all. It’s hard enough getting rid of one member [Continue]

PETERS – Little chance a community forum would be constructive

June 10, 2023 // 2 Comments

IF MAYOR REID HAMER-JACKSON gets his wish to hold a large community town hall meeting, I will not be volunteering to moderate. Unlike the Armchair Mayor, I don’t see any [Continue]