The Thompson-Nicola Regional District board is adding its voice to a choir of concerns over plans to move documents from the Kamloops Land Title office to Victoria.

The board has voted unanimously in favour of asking the Land Title Authority to put a moratorium on moving documents out of Kamloops.

Chair of the board Ken Gillis says the Land Title office in Kamloops just underwent an expensive upgrade seven years ago.

“So that those documents could be protected. They’re humidity governed and so on and so forth so that the documents would be safely preserved,” he says. “I can’t understand the rationale behind suddenly packing them up and carting them off to Victoria. It makes no sense whatsoever.”

The motion was brought up by Kamloops councillor Mike O’Reilly, who will bring the same motion to Kamloops city council next week.

“He’s presented it as a notice of motion, I expect it will probably pass next week. But in the meantime we went ahead with our own motion and it did pass unanimously,” Gillis says.

The province plans to move 10,000 square feet of documents to Victoria which will reduce operations at the Kamloops Land Title Office by two-thirds. Both local MLAs in Kamloops, several local First Nations have also decried the decision by the province to move those documents.

While speaking to NL News this week, the Registrar of Land Titles defended the move of documents to the B.C. capital.