KSAR garage (image credit - CFJC Today)

By Michael Reeve

KSAR NEW HOME

TNRD Board to consider supporting Kamloops Search and Rescue in search for a new home

Nov 23, 2023 | 5:04 AM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) needs a new home. They have for quite some time with their current building bursting at the seams, and only 13 months before they need to vacate their current space.

That has led the leadership of KSAR to tackle two problems at once, the short-term issue of finding a new home, and the long-term goal of building a proper Search and Rescue Hall in Kamloops.

On Thursday, KSAR representatives will make a presentation to the Thompson Nicola Regional District Board of Directors to outline their challenges.

The board is being presented with a single recommendation from staff, direct staff to work with KSAR executive to seek suitable land for a new hall in the Kamloops area, and create a funding strategy which would included options for a public assent process for borrowing of capital funds.

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While the board is not being asked to provide money to KSAR at this time it is expected that a new hall would cost approximately $3.7 million.

The discussion is set for this afternoon at the regular meeting, scheduled for 1:30 P.M.