B.C. Government Says More Oversight Coming for Dysfunctional Municipalities

B.C. government says more oversight coming for dysfunctional municipalities

The ongoing dysfunction in the City of Kamloops has gotten so bad that the B.C. government is considering major changes to the oversight of feuding city councils across the province.

Minister blames Hamer-Jackson for dysfunction at Kamloops city hall, says change is coming

B.C.’s Minister of Municipal Affairs sees Kamloops city council as the “poster child” in the need for greater provincial oversight of municipalities.

Kamloops council hoping to provide insight to ongoing dysfunction through publication of 433-page progress report

KAMLOOPS — This week, the City of Kamloops made the entirety of the progress report into the implementation of the municipal adviser’s recommendations public. The document contains the original municipal adviser’s report from Henry Braun, along with correspondence back and forth between the city and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ravi Kahlon. Four-hundred-thirty-three pages of reports, correspondence and Code of Conduct investigations…

Call for Ministerial “intervention” by Kamloops Council into Mayor’s continued role at City Hall

Kamloops City Council has unveiled the full report it submitted earlier this year to Municipal Affairs Minister Ravi Kahlon, detailing what the collective group sees as the root of the schism between itself and the Mayor of Kamloops. Submitted to Victoria on February 13th of this year, the report is a follow-up to a request made by Ravi Kahlon through a December 2024 letter requesting an update on how things were progressing when it came to impl…