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By Michael Reeve

PROGRESS REPORT

Kamloops council hoping to provide insight to ongoing dysfunction through publication of 433-page progress report

Jun 10, 2025 | 12:00 PM

KAMLOOPS — This week, the City of Kamloops made the entirety of the progress report into the implementation of the municipal adviser’s recommendations public. The document contains the original municipal adviser’s report from Henry Braun, along with correspondence back and forth between the city and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ravi Kahlon.

Four-hundred-thirty-three pages of reports, correspondence and Code of Conduct investigations — the hope from council is interested members of the public can read the documents and form their conclusions about the issues that have plagued the chambers.

“I think it’s good for the public to start to understand the chaos we are dealing with on a daily basis and some of the rationale and reasoning why we are doing these things and putting the measures in place to protect the taxpayer, protect our staff and protect our corporation,” said Deputy Mayor Mike O’Reilly.

As the public combs through the documents, they will read about more than 20 substantiated claims of workplace bullying and harassment incidents involving Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

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“First being 24 substantiated workplace bullying, harassment around the workplace. Twenty-four is a substantial number. Two is too many, one is too much — but 24. And I think now residents can start to understand the measures we are putting in place is to protect our staff,” O’Reilly told CFJC News.

Credit – City of Kamloops

O’Reilly stated the report also highlights 21 substantiated cases of privacy and confidentially breaches by Hamer-Jackson.

“These are things that expose the corporation to extreme risk, and these are the things we need to try and protect not just the corporation but the taxpayers. I think right now we are well over $1 million in costs that we the taxpayer have had to bear due to the mayor’s mistakes,” said O’Reilly.

Credit – City of Kamloops

As for completing the recommendations outlined by Braun, the city has reached it’s peak, not able to proceed further without active participation from the mayor.

Credit – City of Kamloops

The full report can be read here.