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Reid Hamer-Jackson
Mayor of Kamloops
For the Citizens.
I will continue to be Honest with YOU.
I will continue to be Open with YOU.
I will continue to Work for YOU.
The pillars, reordered
Reid is running on the same goals he ran on in 2022. After four years at the council table, he's running on them in a different order — and the change is the argument.
You cannot get a safer community without accountability first. Safety costs money, and money without oversight goes nowhere. Operators who answer to no one don't change how they operate.
Open the doors at City Hall — wide
Four years of doors closing on public input and on how decisions get made. Reid intends to get the public voice back inside City Hall — into the decisions, and into the process behind them.
We work for the citizens. They're the boss.
Where Reid stands
Eight positions, one line each. Follow any of them for the detail.
- AccountabilityFirst goal, not second. Fewer decisions behind closed doors, a full review of civic and management spending, and every dollar treated like it came out of your household.
- Community safetyA standard every social-service operator has to meet, a full review of the Community Service Office program, and real pathways into recovery rather than a revolving door.
- The police services buildingSettle it before Build Kamloops goes any further. Review the current plan, and don't demolish a sound building the citizens already own.
- Build KamloopsPause and review the pace and the spending. Not an argument against building — an argument against building faster than the city can manage.
- InfrastructureTake care of what we already own before we build more. May 2026 showed what deferred asset management costs.
- Food securityProtect farmland and the water that serves it. Every road into this valley has closed at some point — local farms are the shortest supply line we have.
- ProsperityFinish the revitalization zones already started, fix the roads properly the first time, and connect the cycling network that exists in pieces.
- The councilA mayor is one vote of nine. Vote for as many councillors as you trust and no more — and none you have not looked into.
The police services building
The police services building is not part of Build Kamloops. It should still come first. Citizens have said overwhelmingly that safety is the number one priority, so before any further Build Kamloops project proceeds — before the arts centre, before the multiplex — the facility our RCMP need should be settled. It has been kicked down the road instead.
A full review of the current plans
Before another dollar is committed, the existing police services building plan needs to be examined properly — the site, the cost, and whether it actually serves policing in this city for the next forty years.
Don't demolish a usable city asset
The building on Battle Street is a multi-million-dollar asset the citizens already own and it is still very usable. Knocking it down is a decision that needs justifying, not assuming.
A practical vision, not a nostalgia project
Once a new police services building is built on a site that actually suits policing, this one does not come down. It becomes the new City Hall — central, solid, well kept, already owned by the citizens, with decades of service left in it. Two problems solved with one asset.
There are better locations
Other sites would give better highway access, more room for the expansion a growing city will need, and would leave the existing building in the hands of the people who paid for it. Better access, room to grow, and an asset kept rather than levelled.
Go and stand in front of 560 Battle Street. Walk around it. Look at the brickwork, the grounds, the Wall of Honour in the courtyard. It is in good shape and it is in the right part of town.
Then picture it as a community hub for your city leadership — while the RCMP get the purpose-built facility they need, on a site that suits the job.
That isn't sentiment. It's common sense with a building attached.
Reid has a plan, a potential location and a vision. What Kamloops needs is a council with the same — practical, fiscally responsible, and unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The job's not done
The goals haven't moved. What moved is the order they have to be done in — and that took four years at the council table to learn.
The record
Twelve motions brought to the council table in four years. Three were never even seconded — they never reached the floor at all.
A team, not a voice
Not four more years of one voice against eight. A team of like-minded independent thinkers — people who agree on what the big problems are, and who still say exactly what they think at that table.
Why he ran
Reid was homeless in Edmonton as a young man. Someone gave him a way forward. He has never forgotten what that opportunity meant.
The last four years
The last four years at City Hall have been difficult, and they have been public. People in Kamloops hold very different views about what happened and about who was responsible. Some of those views are not kind to Reid, and he knows it.
He isn't asking anyone to agree with his account. He's asking to be judged on what he brought to the table and what happened to it — and that part is in the minutes.
Four years taught him that one person at odds with eight serves nobody — least of all the people waiting for something to get done.
That's why the ask is different this time.
A mayor is one vote out of nine.
The other eight are yours to give.
Five of nine
A motion carries with five votes. Not nine, not unanimity — five. That is the entire arithmetic of Kamloops City Council, and it is why the last four years went the way they did.
Five shaded seats carry a motion. Reid has one of the nine.
Not a slate. A standard.
Reid is not asking you to vote for a bloc. He is asking you to elect people who agree on what the big problems are, and who will say so at the table.
You can vote for as few as one councillor or as many as eight — and those votes will matter more to the next four years than the name at the top of the ballot.
“Someone once gave me an opportunity to rebuild my life. I believe Kamloops can offer others that same opportunity.”
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