While the City of Kamloops is still waiting for the province to approve the use of the Alternative Approval Process to fund Build Kamloops, it has released more details about the process.

Acting Deputy Corporate Officer Denise Anderson says people who are opposed to the proposal to borrow up to $275 million to fund the new Performing Arts Centre and the four-plex ice rink will need to return response forms to the city.

Anderson says the forms will be available online, by email, or at City Hall during business hours.

“This submissions options after a form is filled out is by mailing it to City Hall, you can hand deliver it, there is a drop box outside of City Hall for after-hours, or it can be scanned or photographed and emailed to Legislative Services,” Anderson said at a Build Kamloops meeting this morning.

“The forms that are available online and that can be emailed will not be fillable forms. They won’t have a ‘submit’ button where people can just fill out [the form] and have it automatically emailed. It needs to be a hand-signed form and it needs to be received by the [4 p.m.] deadline. Postmarks are not accepted.”

There will be a separate form for residents and non-resident property electors who own property in Kamloops but don’t live in the City. There will also be separate forms for both loan bylaws.

“If you are a resident elector, that means you live in Kamloops,” Anderson said. “A non-resident property owner is still able to vote but there is one vote per property. If there are two people that own the property, one person is able to submit the form. It the property is owned by multiple people, the majority of the owners must sign the form allowing one [vote.]”

“Another thing to note is if the property is owned in part or in-whole by a corporation, there is no vote. And there is only one vote per elector. Let’s say you live in Kamloops and you own property in Kamloops, you don’t get two votes, you get one.”

Anderson says all of the forms will have to be signed by hand and include a person’s full name and an address within the City of Kamloops.

“If these conditions are met, the petition will be stamped as ‘accepted’ and the elector’s information will be entered into a spreadsheet that will be sorted periodically to ensure no duplication,” Anderson said. “Duplicate elector response forms and elector response forms that do not meet the first three conditions will be stamped ‘rejected.'”

“Legislative Services staff will keep elector response forms confidential and track the number of accepted elector response forms received. After the deadline, a final count of the elector response forms will be conducted and verified by the Corporate Officer.”

At this time, it is not clear how the City of Kamloops will ensure that people aren’t misrepresenting their name or address if they are voting in opposition.

Anderson says the deadline for when forms will be due could be either Sept. 6 or Sept. 20, depending on when the City hears back from the Inspector of Municipalities.

“If we were to hear from the Inspector of Municipalities in time for next week’s council meeting, then the deadline to submit forms will be Sept. 6,” Anderson added. “If we do not hear from the Inspector of Municipalities by that time, it will go to the August 13 council meeting and the deadline for submission of forms will be Sept. 20.”