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The quick read: Kelowna's new 2026-2030 council holds its first regular meeting today, Monday, November 9, at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 1435 Water Street. Mayor Tom Dyas was re-elected with 19,454 votes, and the eight councillors were sworn in on November 2. The meeting is livestreamed at kelowna.ca/council, and the council's first public hearing follows on Tuesday, November 17.

The speeches are over.

Today, Kelowna's new council gets to work.

First regular meeting

The 2026-2030 council holds its first regular meeting today, Monday, November 9, at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 1435 Water Street.

The meeting is open to the public and livestreamed at kelowna.ca/council.

The council was sworn in a week ago, on November 2, at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, where Judge Clarke Burnett administered the oath of office to Mayor Tom Dyas and the eight councillors.

Dyas was re-elected mayor with 19,454 votes in the October 17 municipal election.

The councillors are Les Bellamy, Kevin Kraft, Davis Kyle, Gord Lovegrove, Brady Rogers, Mohini Singh, Laura Thurnheer, and Rick Webber.

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A new council means new priorities.

Council priorities follow the four-year term, so the incoming council will refresh them to reflect its own vision, and the 2026 budget was the final year of the last council's term.

That puts the new council in charge of the next budget cycle from the start, and the first real test of what this council actually believes will be what it is willing to spend, and what it is willing to cut.

Kelowna is one of Canada's fastest-growing cities, and the pressures on this council are the same ones residents feel every day: housing costs, property taxes, traffic, and public safety downtown.

Growth is a good problem to have, but only if the city manages it instead of letting it manage the city.

The council's first public hearing is set for Tuesday, November 17, when residents get their first formal chance to speak to the new council on development and planning matters.

Between now and then, the job is straightforward: show up, do the work, and remember who hired you.

The voters did.

Sources: City of Kelowna, kelowna.ca; Kelowna's 103-1 Beach Radio, October 30, 2026.