Kamloops mayor's 11th-hour pitch to move $211M arts centre not feasible, city director says

Kamloops mayor's 11th-hour pitch to move $211M arts centre not feasible, city director says

City of Kamloops staff, councillors say mayor’s effort to pause or relocate arts centre project are impossible

KAMLOOPS — As officials break ground on the Kamloops Centre for the Arts Wednesday (Nov. 26), City of Kamloops staff say there’s no practical way to either pause or move the project. At Tuesday’s Governance and Service Excellence Committee meeting, staff and councillors set aside time to correct what they termed ‘misinformation’ being spread by Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson about the arts centre project. On CFJC Today last week, Hamer-Jackson suggest…

Kamloops mayor's 11th-hour pitch to move $211M arts centre not feasible, city director says

Kamloops officials push back on claims of rising arts centre costs, tax impacts

City of Kamloops officials spent much of the Nov. 25 Governance and Service Excellence Select Committee meeting pushing back against what they describe as widespread misinformation surrounding the Kamloops Centre for the Arts — including key assertions in a Nov. 20 Castanet article that reported the project’s total cost at $211 million, roughly $45 million higher than previously stated. Staff stressed repeatedly that the project is not over budg…