BEING MAYOR – Life at City Hall, Chapter 8: ‘The Beginning of a Process’
KAMLOOPS — This is the eighth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005.
By MEL ROTHENBURGER
“I firmly believe we the new Council have a strong mandate to do certain things. Fundamentally, we’ve been handed an assignment to work in close consultation with the people of Kamloops. . . . To that end, I’m convinced that we as Council have a duty to create new opportunities for the residents of Kamloops to access civic government. Our job is to make it less intimidating, more inviting. We have to make people more comfortable with City hall, and we have to take civic government to the neighbourhoods.”
— Inaugural address, Dec. 6, 1999.