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The TNRD Building is also home to the Kamloops Art Gallery and Kamloops Library. The board is recommending deferral of a decision until the fall. The decision will be ratified at a future meeting. The recommendation was carried unanimously. TNRD area I (Blue Sky Country) director Steven Rice questioned why COVID-19 relief funds would be used in such a scenario, noting the optics. TNRD CAO Scott Hildebrand said the regional district spends $4,000 monthly renting space at Sandman Centre to host meetings during the pandemic, noting the regional district is growing, necessitating a new multi-...

Portland Loo-style washrooms were previously planned for the city, but later cancelled, in part out of concern for cost. Cost of the bathrooms has also raised eyebrows in the Lower Mainland, due to high cost of installation. The city estimates cost of the bathrooms to be between $100,000 and $150,000 each and wants to install four, with two downtown and two on the North Shore, for a total of between $400,000 and $600,000 for the units, not including installation. Council and staff heard concerns from the public about those who don’t have access to washrooms and subsequently urinate or d...

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Sinclair said with everything that has been happening lately, with respect to the TNRD’s spending controversy, it is the right time to reconvene the committee and take a “comprehensive look” at regional district policies. The call to reconvene the policy committee comes in the wake of scrutiny over regional district policies that permitted spending of taxpayer dollars on parties, high-end restaurants, regular coffee shop visits, luxury hotels, wineries, liquor stores and expensive gifts. “I’m especially curious to look at other regional districts and compare them and maybe there�...

On Monday afternoon (March 8) during the city’s civic operations committee meeting, parks manager Jeff Putnam said the city received feedback from the Kamloops Naturalist Club, Kamloops Outdoor Club, Kamloops Hiking Club and city’s parks engagement group. Gregson’s family is also apparently in support of the recommendation. Putnam said the name will be added to the sign on the existing pathway, which covers the west end of McArthur Island. Putnam said it is appropriate for the Gregson name to appear in the popular North Kamloops park. “Mr. Gregson was actually instrumental in the c...