The record
What Reid brought to the council table this term, and what happened to each one. The City publishes the minutes and the motion documents. Go and read them — that is the point of this page.
Motions that Reid brought forward this term
Every motion, in full
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Three of these come up at the next council meeting. This council's term runs to election day, and the issues in them — services and parking at 48 Victoria Street West, the pace of Build Kamloops spending, an independent review of council's communications — are live now. A term does not stop being a term because there is a campaign on.
Sept 2026 48 Victoria Street West — service consolidation and municipal parking Pending
Filed 1 September 2026. Two parts, and the motion is careful about its own limits.
The parking. The City owns the property and parking area at 48 Victoria Street West, directly across from City Hall. The motion says that area is not currently being used by a social-service agency while the City pays for City Hall staff parking at the BC Lotteries property. It asks that the lot be returned to municipal use immediately, that the paid arrangement be ended as soon as contractually possible, and that Administration report the number of spaces, the monthly and annual cost, the earliest termination date and the estimated annual saving.
The services. It asks for a review of what the Cllémentem facility provides — storage, laundry, showers, washrooms, mail — and whether the same or substantially similar services are already available elsewhere in Kamloops. It raises pedestrian safety, since users travelling between locations may have to cross Lansdowne Street and other high-traffic roads. It asks Administration to work with the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society, BC Housing and other providers on whether essential services could be consolidated while maintaining continuity.
What the motion says it is not. It states that KAFS provides important services and support to vulnerable people and that the motion is not intended to diminish or criticize that work. It applies to 48 Victoria Street West specifically, and expressly not to any other social-service agency on Victoria Street or elsewhere in Kamloops.
Sept 2026 Build Kamloops financial review and pause Pending
Filed 1 September 2026 — the second time Reid brought this argument, after a one-year pause was defeated 8–1 in March. The motion sets out how far the numbers have moved since electors approved the programme in 2024.
- Kamloops Centre for the Arts: about $154 million → about $211 million
- Arena Multiplex: about $154 million → about $168 million, and down from four ice sheets to three
- Grant funding secured: about $7 million of the roughly $211 million arts centre budget
It is not a stop-work order. The pause covers discretionary advancement and new contractual commitments only, and explicitly excepts anything needed to avoid legal or financial penalties. It lifts once council has a consolidated financial picture: total costs, borrowing, lifetime interest, debt-servicing and the property-tax implications — plus an operating business plan for the arts centre.
The motion also records that the RCMP wrote to the mayor directly about the urgency of the postponed police services building.
Sept 2026 An independent review of council communications concerning the mayor Pending
Filed 1 September 2026. It asks council to appoint an independent external reviewer — one who has not worked for the City this term and who has declared any conflicts — and to give that reviewer, not City administration, sole control of what is collected, redacted and released.
It applies to Reid as well. The mayor, every councillor, current and former managers and directors, and any legal counsel the City retained would all hand over their records from the start of the term. Reid states in the motion that he will provide his own.
The reviewer would also have to report publicly whether each person produced records, certified they had none, or refused.
Mar 2026 Postpone the arts centre and arena multiplex for one year Defeated 8–1
Notice given 10 March 2026, debated 24 March. It asked council to postpone the Kamloops Centre for the Arts and the arena multiplex for one year, or until a newly elected council gave direction, and to suspend new procurement, contracts, design advancement and construction — except where legally required to avoid material financial penalties.
The motion states plainly that nothing in it cancels the projects or invalidates the planning, engagement and studies done to date, and it asks Administration to report the contractual, financial and legal implications of a pause.
Reid was the only vote in favour. The minutes record it plainly — Affirmative: Mayor Hamer-Jackson. Opposed: Councillors Bass, Bepple, Hall, Karpuk, Middleton, Neustaeter, O'Reilly and Sarai. DEFEATED.
Source: City of Kamloops minutes, regular council meeting, 24 March 2026 (PDF).
Councillor Kelly Hall, who chairs the Build Kamloops Select Committee, argued a delay would raise costs, putting the figure at $38.85 million. Councillor Middleton told the meeting she had received about 364 emails about the motion; Reid said 276 of the ones he saw were in support.
He brought the same argument back in September, with figures attached. See that motion above.
Feb 2026 End paid and catered meals for council, management and staff No seconder
The second time Reid brought this. The minutes of 3 February 2026 record it in one line: "Mayor Hamer-Jackson's Notice of Motion on Paid Meals at Council and Committee Meetings was not seconded." No debate, no vote.
Feb 2026 Policy against the City hiring councillors' immediate familyThree councillors recused — each had family employed by the City Defeated 4–1
Notice given 27 January 2026, debated 3 February. It asked staff to report on a policy prohibiting the City from employing immediate family members of sitting councillors — going forward only, explicitly not affecting anyone already employed. The motion listed six BC municipalities that already have such policies: Vancouver, Richmond, Sechelt, Central Coast Regional District, Port Alberni and Logan Lake.
Three of the eight councillors could not vote on it
Before the motion was debated, the minutes record Councillor Karpuk declaring a conflict of interest — a family member employed with the City — and leaving the chamber at 2:12 pm. Councillor Middleton did the same at 2:13 pm, family members employed with the City. Councillor O'Reilly did the same at 2:13 pm, a family member employed with the City.
That is the official record of the meeting, not a characterisation. Whether it changes how you read the vote is for you to decide — read the minutes yourself.
Councillor Hall seconded the motion, then voted against it. Councillor Bass was absent. The minutes read — Affirmative: Mayor Hamer-Jackson. Opposed: Councillors Bepple, Hall, Neustaeter and Sarai. DEFEATED.
Source: City of Kamloops minutes, regular council meeting, 3 February 2026 (PDF). All minutes are published at kamloops.ca.
June 2025 Forensic audit of all City departments and management practices Defeated 8–1
Would have hired an accredited outside firm to carry out a forensic audit of every City department and its management practices.
Nov 2025 Independent performance audit of BC Housing facilities in Kamloops Carried, amended
Called for an independent external performance audit of BC Housing-funded facilities in Kamloops. Council amended it three times — removing the term Reid had used, adding the Safety and Security Select Committee to the work, and clarifying that the review was of BC Housing programming rather than local operators. The amended motion carried 8–1. Reid was the one vote against it, saying he could not support what the amendments had made of it.
Sept 2023 End paid and catered meals for council, management and staff No seconder
The first attempt to end paid and catered meals at council and committee meetings. Reid argued the money would be better spent on people on the streets.
Sept 2023 Continue operation of the Noble Creek irrigation system No seconder
Brought at the same meeting as the first catered-meals motion, on 26 September 2023, and it met the same silence. Noble Creek supplied Westsyde farms from the North Thompson; council had voted to decommission it. What Reid did next is below.
Sept 2023 Transport vouchers to help homeless people return to home communities Withdrawn
Would have provided bus or air travel vouchers to help homeless people return to their home communities, something Reid campaigned on in 2022. He withdrew it on 12 September 2023 after staff advised the federal Reaching Home funding he had counted on was no longer available — then, the same evening, filed a fresh notice of motion proposing the catered-meals budget pay for it instead.
Jan 2023 Review of the West Victoria Street storage facility serving the unhoused Carried, amended
Reid's first motion. Asked staff to review the storage facility for unhoused people at 48 West Victoria Street, including whether it could be relocated. It carried, but only after two amendments: one widening it to all social services along the route, and one removing the relocation question altogether. Reid abstained — the corporate officer advised the widened motion could pose a perceived conflict, since he owned a business on the same street.
Noble Creek
In 2023 council voted to decommission the Noble Creek Irrigation System, which had supplied Westsyde farms from the North Thompson for decades. Reid's motion to keep it running died without a seconder. What he did after that is the part that isn't in the minutes.
What Reid did
He went to the growers and to people in the irrigation sector and came back with options council hadn't been given. He raised the riprap extension directly with the provincial minister. When council wouldn't move, he used his authority under the Community Charter to force a reconsideration of the decommissioning vote.
What happened
The reconsideration didn't carry. But the system kept running through that summer, and council went on to fund a temporary irrigation system that carried Westsyde growers through the 2024 growing season.
Why it still matters
Those are the farms the food-security argument is actually about. Water infrastructure that serves agricultural land is not a line item to be switched off when it becomes inconvenient — and a mayor who can only get somewhere by forcing a reconsideration vote is a mayor working without a council.
On "no seconder"
A motion that is defeated has at least been debated. A motion that dies for want of a seconder never reached the floor at all — nobody argued against it, because nobody let it be argued.
Three motions died that way. Two were the same motion — end paid and catered meals for council, senior management and staff. The third, brought the same evening in September 2023, was to keep the Noble Creek irrigation system running for Westsyde farms.
Read them and decide for yourself whether they deserved a seconder. That is the whole of Reid's case, and he would rather you reached it on your own than took his word for it.
A fair question
If Reid spent his working life building teams, why couldn't he build one at this table?
Because a mayor does not pick the council. In business he chose who he hired, who he promoted and who he let go. At the council table he was handed eight colleagues and one vote, and no authority over any of them.
Building a team starts with people willing to be on one. That is the one thing a mayor cannot supply by himself — and it is the one thing a ballot can. It is the entire reason he is asking for a team rather than another term.