Kamloops Search and Rescue is urgently looking for a new place to call home as it faces a looming deadline to vacate the Mission Flats Hall in early 2025.

President Paula Davies says the request comes after KSAR was given notice by the City of Kamloops that they will have to vacate the space they’ve been using for the past 10 years by January 31, 2025.

Davies says that notice from the City prompted KSAR to go before this afternoon’s (Nov. 23) Thompson Nicola Regional District’s board meeting.

“Ideally, what we are asking for is that the City of Kamloops and the TNRD work together so that they can provide us with land and a purpose-built building so we can continue to do the services we currently do,” Davies said on NL Newsday.

Davies says the want the new space to be large enough to accommodate both vehicles and equipment, telling Radio NL it could cost about $3.7-million

“If the City and the TNRD aren’t able to come up with a plan, then maybe we have to look elsewhere like a donor or something,” Davies said. “We hope we don’t have to get to the point where we say we cannot offer our services anymore because we have no facility.”

“It kind of becomes a bit of a time crunch, but we need to figure out what our long-term plan is. If that is getting a purpose-built hall, we have to figure out where we will be until that hall is ready for us to move in.”

Kamloops Search and Rescue was set to move into the Cooper Centre at the corner of York Avenue and Eighth Street, though last year it said that things had changed and that situation “wasn’t going to work out.”

TNRD staff are recommending that the board approve the process to work with Kamloops Search and Rescue to find suitable land for the new purpose-built training hall.

The board is also being asked to identify a funding strategy, which would include options for a public assent process which is required before money can be borrowed to pay for the facility.

The decision will be made at the TNRD Meeting on Thursday, November 23.