ROTHENBURGER: Turning a City council meeting into a complete gong show
A GONG SHOW. A circus. A comedy of errors.
Those are some of the ways to describe Tuesday’s Kamloops City council meeting. It was painful to watch, all four and a half hours of it, not counting the public hearing that followed.
The action revolved around a simple motion presented by Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson asking for a review and potential relocation of 48 Victoria St. West, the storage facility used by homeless folks.
Under public inquiries on the agenda, several citizens spoke on it, clearly demonstrating the division between those who put the interests of the homeless first, and those who live the nightmare of constant criminal activity that has come with the concentration of several housing facilities and services on the street.