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Kamloops Cuts Services While Raising Taxes
A 7.1% Tax Hike – and They Want a Medal? City Hall just announced a 7.21% property tax increase, down from the 10.76% they originally projected, and they’re congratulating themselves for it. They didn’t trim the top-heavy administrative layer. They didn’t reduce...
City Hall Must do Better Providing Public Access to Meetings
A KCU member suggested an interesting solution that we’ll be passing on. The City now encourages public participation via Zoom rather than in-person attendance at meetings. When seating capacity becomes an issue, could staff who are present join the meeting by Zoom...
Update 2: Residents Turned Away From Kamloops Public Hearing
A further update on our communication with Deputy Mayor Kelly Hall regarding members of the public being turned away from last week’s statutory public hearing due to space constraints. Shown are Councillor Hall’s latest reply, followed by our subsequent letter to...
Kamloops Growth Claims Don’t Match the Data
Build Kamloops was sold to the public on city growth. It’s unclear where the City sourced the claim that Kamloops is “Canada’s third fastest-growing city,” but neither Statistics Canada nor provincial population data support that description for our municipal growth....
Update: Residents Turned Away From Kamloops Public Hearing
An update to our letter regarding residents being turned away at Tuesday's public hearing due to space limitations. Attached is the reply received, and our response. (If you missed reading the original letter, it's in our previous post.)
Residents Turned Away From Kamloops Public Hearing
On Tuesday, some residents were turned away from a public hearing at City Hall due to space constraints. Below is a letter sent today to Council and Administration, and copied to the Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs and local media.
When the City’s news releases become propaganda
Read the Armchair Mayor's article here: EDITORIAL - When the City's news releases become propaganda
KCU Requests Correction to PAC Budget Number
The Administrative Report to Council on Capital Projects Update, prepared by City staff, will be presented to Council this Tuesday Jan 13/25. It spends pages praising the City’s capital project management and is the type of report relied on by external reviewers and...
Merry Christmas
‘Twas the Year of the Golden Shovel In the year before Christmas, at Kamloops, BC,Where council met often, sans public, you see.The chambers were quiet, the questions were light,Accountability slipped out the door overnight. Big visions were promised with glossy...
Which is it, City of Kamloops?
It can't be both. Which is it, City of Kamloops?
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