Province requests update from Kamloops council on implementation of Braun report
KAMLOOPS — B.C.’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs wants Kamloops City Council to provide a report on the work it has done to implement the recommendations made by municipal adviser Henry Braun.
In a letter to council that was included in Tuesday’s (Jan. 14) regular meeting agenda, BC Municipal Affairs Minister Ravi Kahlon also said he wants to meet with Kamloops council early this year “when council is ready to meet.”
“I support the work of the [Municipal Adviser] and the recommendations made in his report,” Kahlon wrote in the letter dated Dec. 24, 2024. “While I recognize that council has made some progress towards implementing the recommendations of the report, I also understand that governance challenges are continuing.”
Braun, the former mayor of Abbotsford, was appointed by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs in February 2024. Kamloops council requested a municipal adviser in September 2023 in the hopes of improving the working relationship between council and Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.