Even more restrictions have been brought down against Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

This time, City Council is banning the Mayor from attending any closed sessions of council’s Select Committee meetings for the next year – unless invited because of “continued and repeated privacy breaches pose potential legal and reputational risks for the City.”

At issue are allegations that Hamer-Jackson publicly releases privileged information.

Councillor Kelly Hall, speaking to Radio NL after the move became public on Thursday afternoon, says if the Mayor takes courses on how to respect confidentiality and privacy, the ban on his attendance at closed sessions of Select Committee meetings will be revoked.

“We are a board of governance. As it says in Section 9 of the Braun Report, there’s some training opportunities for him there. Education. Mentoring opportunities,” Hall said.

Hall argues the move is not to punish the Mayor, but protect the City of Kamloops itself.

“The Mayor is very good at playing the victim card. The, oh poor me.. council is picking on me again. That’s not the case,” Hall said. “Anything that we’re doing is a direct reflection of the challenges that he’s presented to council.”

But at the same time, Hall is also calling on the Mayor to step down from office.

“I say the laundry list of reasons why this individual needs to consider the recommendations that came from Margot Middleton with respect to him resigning… he needs to take a really close look at that,” Hall said.

The decision by council to keep the Mayor out of closed committee meetings comes just a day after council cut his salary by 10 per cent for the next six months after he failed to issue an apology for a Code of Conduct violation against councillor Katie Neustaeter.