ROTHENBURGER: Say goodbye to any hope of peace between mayor and council
AS THE NOON HOUR APPROACHED Friday, six Kamloops City councillors got up and left a Thompson-Nicola Regional District strategic planning meeting at the Delta Hotel.
The seventh City director, Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, stayed behind with the rest of the TNRD board.
A couple of minutes after 12, the six were joined at City Hall by the other two councillors and they all walked into chambers for a news conference. “I wasn’t invited,” Hamer-Jackson said later, adding he wouldn’t have left the TNRD meeting anyway because it was important.
By the time Coun. Katie Neustaeter read a brief statement on behalf of the group and they all filed back out a side door without taking questions (a few returned to the TNRD session), any chance of reconciliation between them and the mayor was pretty well gone.