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...
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...
Kamloops Voters Society Rallies at City Hall
KCU thanks KVS for organizing the rally, as well as everyone who was able to attend. We hope City Council will consider moving council meetings to the evening so that people who are working (to pay taxes and rent) have a fair chance to attend. View the rally video...
Budget Meeting Tomorrow
Council has already locked in a permanent 5% property tax hike for the PAC and Multiplex. Soon they will ask for another 5.45% for a new RCMP building. That’s 10.45% in PERMANENT tax increases— OVER AND ABOVE any yearly property tax tax increases, such as the 2026...In the News
SOUND OFF: Kamloops deserves the full story | CFJC Today Kamloops
A VIDEO CONTAINING CLIPS from last week's city council meeting is drawing strong reaction on social media. Bey...
SOUND OFF: Build first, explain later — the real story behind the PAC | CFJC Today Kamloops
THE NEWS THAT THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE (PAC) cost has climbed to $211 million shouldn't surprise anyone - le...
Ahead of public submissions, KCU outlines concerns with proposed AAP policy changes | CFJC Today Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops city council has begun the work of formalizing a policy around future Alternative Approval...
STATEMENTS – City withdraws appeal, so does Kamloops Citizens United – ArmchairMayor.ca
NOTE: The City of Kamloops and Kamloops Citizens United have both issued news releases on the Alternative Approval Process legal case. Here’s the full text of both: News release from City of Kamloops, March 24, 2025 Build Kamloops Definitively Moves Forward Kamloops, BC — Build Kamloops is moving forward after months of delay following a legal challenge.…
SOUND OFF: Transparency and accountability — setting the record straight | CFJC Today Kamloops
RECENT CFJC EDITORIALS by James Peters and Joey Jack have suggested that Kamloops Citizens United (KCU) should...
Kamloops council adopts new guidelines for holding AAPs; staff to report back on mail out option - CastanetKamloops.net