OPINION

Letters To The Editor

City Council Needs To Focus On Issues

Editor:

I am very disappointed with Kamloops city council, with the exception of Coun. Dale Bass.

I wrote letters about my concerns to all city councillors and only Bass bothered to respond. I also asked to make a fiveminute presentation about my concerns to council and never received a response.

Our council is too busy attacking and bullying our mayor to focus on their elected duties.

I ask that council stop using our mayor as their personal scapegoat to divert attention from its lack of action on a host of issues facing Kamloops, including the homeless problem and issues with the bylaws department.

It seems city council’s strategy is to ignore all problems until they go away and blame the mayor for everything to avoid accountability for their actions.

Rest assured, I will not vote for those councillors in the 2026 civic election.

Antonio Berardi Kamloops

WE ASKED:

Given the increase in incidents of floods and wildfires, what is your household’s level of emergency preparedness?

Editor:

The City of Kamloops is planning fire drills to show Juniper residents the three newly prepared emergency escape routes out of the Juniper Ridge neighbourhood should another public evacuation be needed, as happened during a wildfire on Canada Day in 2021.

It is heartening to know the three additional routes have been developed and very nice to hear that community service officers will be opening the locked gates and escorting fire drill participants along the new routes to ensure people stay on the right roadways.

But who unlocks the gates when an emergency actually happens?

Rather than await city employees with keys to actually get on site (or three sites) in a timely manner, perhaps the city could sign out keys to local residents who live near each of