Kamloops mayor watched Tuesday council meeting from home over ASK Wellness defamation concerns
KAMLOOPS — Reid Hamer-Jackson felt he had no choice but to step away from Tuesday’s city council meeting and watch it from home instead.
“If I didn’t, there are a lot of things in the agenda — if I had the choice, I wouldn’t have approved the agenda — and there’s a lot of items in there, important items that if I would’ve asked questions about, I would’ve been in conflict of interest,” the Kamloops mayor told CFJC Today Tuesday evening (Dec. 6).
Hamer-Jackson said he sat in his office at City Hall on Tuesday morning as city staff and councillors spoke about the afternoon’s agenda. It’s ultimately why he decided, before council even started, that he would be recusing himself from the entire meeting.
“I sat in my office for two hours while I was excluded from the meeting in the morning, so if I got into the council meeting and had to recuse myself of the meeting, who’s to say I wouldn’t have had to sit in my office for another two hours?” noted Hamer-Jackson.