After publishing evidence showing that the City of Kamloops’ January 13, 2026 Regular Council Meeting minutes omit a completed vote and conceal multiple procedural breakdowns visible in the City’s own meeting video, I wrote to the Corporate Officer requesting that Legislative Services review the video and correct the minutes where necessary.
Instead of receiving a response addressing the evidence, I received a reply from Deputy Mayor Kelly Hall stating:
“Please be advised that council is receiving your correspondence, but unless your concerns are related to legitimate city business (ie. land use, community planning, licensing, taxation etc.) I will not be responding to you further. I have advised staff to do the same.
If you have complaints related to council, please feel free to reach out to the ombudsperson who can independently evaluate their legitimacy and act appropriately.”
Notably, the Deputy Mayor’s message does not:
- Dispute that a vote is missing from the minutes
- Dispute that two votes occurred on Item 10.4
- Dispute that fiscal questions were suppressed
- Dispute that the video record differs from the written record
The response does not engage with any specific fact.
Instead, it asserts that concerns about the accuracy of council minutes, vote recording, and conflict-of-interest administration are not “legitimate city business.”
That position is difficult to reconcile with basic municipal governance.
Council minutes are the City’s official legal record. Their accuracy underpins transparency, accountability, and public trust. If a completed vote is missing from the minutes, that is not a political disagreement. It is a record-keeping failure.
Requesting that Legislative Services verify the City’s own video against its own minutes is not a complaint about policy outcomes. It is a request for correction of the public record.
The Deputy Mayor’s refusal to engage on this point raises a larger concern than the original discrepancies themselves:
If Council will not even acknowledge documented inconsistencies between its video record and its written minutes, how can residents have confidence that future records will be accurate?
This issue is not about personalities. It is not about who won or lost a vote. It is about whether Kamloops is willing to maintain an honest institutional memory.
So far, Council’s answer appears to be no.
Editor’s Note:
This article follows a detailed investigation published earlier on KamloopsCritic.ca documenting discrepancies between the City’s January 13, 2026 council meeting video and the official minutes, including a missing vote and multiple procedural omissions. Readers are encouraged to review the original analysis for full context.
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