Kamloops City council will finalize the 2020 budget in a little more than three weeks and Kamloops RCMP have a number of items up for discussion within this year as well as in the future.

City council accepted supplemental budget items this week and police have three items to be discussed. One on the table is $750,000 to study the possibility of renovating the Battle Street detachment.

Speaking on The Jeff Andreas Show Superintendent Syd Lecky says the building was originally mean for about 110 people and there are now more than 200 working out of it.

“As we continue to grow and needs and technology changes, because that impacts the building itself in terms of wiring and that sort of thing. So lots of calls and demands, but the biggest pressure is just people, where do you put people?… “We are quite a bit jammed in here. It’s a building that was originally built to house about 100 people, maybe 110. We’re now over the 200 mark. So that kind of gives you an idea of space.”

Lecky says it will just deal with the situation regardless of what council decides.

“We just work with what we have and we will continue to do that as long as we have to. If we don’t have a building expansion or a new building, or anything like that, then we just have to seek space off-site, that’s all.”

Council could also elect to do nothing or it build a brand new facility which would cost upwards of $50 million. Renovations would cost in the neighbourhood of $8 million.

Council will meet on February 25th when they aim to finalize the 2020 budget.

Listen below for the full interview with Supt. Lecky.