The top bureaucrat at Kamloops City Hall says its his belief the mayor is not in a conflict-of-interest by putting forward a motion, suggesting the city look at moving a popular service for the homeless located near the mayor’s personal business.
CAO David Trawin says Reid Hamer-Jackson did consult him before putting forward the motion to possibly move the mini-storage at 48 Victoria Street West.
Trawin says he told the mayor he doesn’t believe it’s a conflict, given Tru Market Auto — the mayor’s business — is well-beyond the 100-meter standard they use to consider when looking at proximity of property when reviewing potential conflict among elected municipal officials.
“The mayor’s property is about 400 to 500 yards [meters] away, I believe,” Trawin told NL Newsday with Brett Mineer. “I may be off on that a little bit. But it’s definitely outside the 100 yard [meter] mark looked at.”
As for whether this will satisfy the rest of Council, Trawin says that’s out of his hands.
“It’s up to council whether they want to move it forward,” said Trawin. “They could first-and-second it, and just for discussion, and reframe it, and ask for it to be reframed. All kinds of stuff could happen. That’s up to council’s purvue on what they want to do to move it forward.”
Meanwhile, Trawin says the Mayor has now reached out to the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society, which runs the mini-storage, after it complained about being excluded from any of the mayor’s decision-making process.