Community service manager Tammy Blundell said the officers will support a daily 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift something not previously done with the city’s bylaws department. The changes will lead to city staff eventually replacing private security now on contract to patrol areas of Kamloops. “Ultimately, it comes down to a presence on the street and having a security presence, having the ability to direct individuals to the shelters, if needed, connecting outreach services with individuals,” Blundell told
KTW. “Of course, this all comes with the heightened awareness of all of our social issues. This is council’s directive. They want that presence on the street.”
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On March 5, Kamloops This Week editor Christopher Foulds, 52, reporter Jessica Wallace, 32, and Kamloops Coun. Mike O’Reilly, 37, took the new fitness assessment, which is called the Community Services Officers’ Physical Abilities Test (CSOPAT). All three participants admitted to being out of shape amid the COVID-19 pandemic. None had trained for the test nor had taken it before. City staff demonstrated the test elements, which include running up and down a set of stairs six times, zigzagging and jumping through 30 metres of cones and three 18-inch hurdles, pushing and pulling 50 pounds of weight via a simulator 12 times, 10 burpee-vault-situp-repeats and a 70-pound bag carry.
The city’s survey on parking is available online at
https://letstalk.kamloops.ca/parking until midnight on Sunday, March 14. The parking review is being undertaken by the City of Kamloops, Blunt & Associates and Allnorth Engineering. Information revealed on Thursday was based on 208 responses to the survey to date. Mike Furuya, project manager with Blunt & Associates, noted there are 214 on-street spaces along the Tranquille Corridor, an area that runs along Tranquille Road from Fortune Drive to the Tranquille Road overpass. Those stalls have two-hour parking limits, Mondays to Fridays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Based on a count conducted on Dec. 9, 2020, at noon, 116 (55 per cent) of those 214 spots were occupied, while 98 (45 per cent) spots were empty.