City news release (Nov 25, 2025):

“Council reaffirmed its confidence in the project’s funding strategy, which ensures

no additional tax increases are required to build the venue.”

Councillor Karpuk:

The project “requires millions from reserves that will need to be refilled… likely with future tax increases.”

Those two statements cannot both be true.

Councillor Bass: “This is not impacting the tax rate… All the money is allocated. It’s not coming from taxes.”

Councillor Bass, need we remind you that the allocated money came from taxpayers?

City Staff may have plugged the holes with reserves and budget gymnastics, but the ripple will absolutely arrive later.

With councillors contradicting each other and the City’s own communications, it’s becoming even more apparent that Council didn’t have the core facts when they approved the millions in spending.

• No updated business case,

• No full site-conditions assessment,

• No operating-cost projections,

• No risk analysis.

City Council must bring its messaging into alignment so that everyone —including Council—receives the information needed to make responsible decisions—after a pause on the project.

Read the iNFOnews article here: Internal strife on Kamloops council over $211M arts centre groundbreaking

Petition to Pause the PAC—please click on it, sign it, and share it!

Pause the $211M PAC—No Plans, No Vote—Referendum in 2026 – Online petition

The City is advancing a now- $211M Performing Arts Centre with no updated business case, no independent review, no archaeological assessment, and no real vote — during the steepest tax increase in city history. We are calling on the City to pause the project now, and to let residents decide in a referendum during the municipal election on October 17, 2026

www.openpetition.org