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-use meeting space post-pandemic. The proposed plan is to build a multi-purpose meeting space on the second floor of the library for use by the board and library. In addition, it would be rented out to external groups/committees as a way to generate revenue.
April 11, 2021 - 6:00 PM In the last 10 to 15 years, moose populations across B.C. have declined between 50 to 70% and researchers are finding wolves are the leading cause of death in both female adult moose and calf populations in the Interior. Chris Procter, senior biologist with the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Fish and Wildlife, gave a presentation on Interior moose populations through a B.C. Wildlife Federation Zoom conference April 1. During the presentation, he said declining populations overlap with habitat changes due to intense forest development associated with pine beetle timber salvage. The study areas of Interior moose populations include Bonaparte Plateau north of Kamloops, Big Creek southwest of Williams Lake, Prince George south, Entiako Provincial Park and northwest of Prince George.
Reached by KTW, Talarico said he is in favour of a financial review or audit in principle, but thinks the optics of the board setting out terms of the review will render the results unacceptable to the public. He said the goal should be instilling confidence in the regional district. “The board should be as transparent as possible,” Talarico said. “We’ve used that term often in the last few weeks and, in my opinion, the only way to be totally transparent is to have an independent outside group put the criteria together, which they feel is important to the people in the regional district and oversee the review, not the regional district.”
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A former city councillor is speaking out about travel by municipal politicians to conferences, such as the Union of BC Municipalities, in the wake of the TNRD spending controversy. During a press. . .