Denman LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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Local Trust Committee Minutes 
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Denman Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date:  
Location:  
March 17, 2026 
Denman Activity Centre 
1111 Northwest Rd, Denman Island, BC 
 
Members Present: David Maude, Chair  
 David Graham, Trustee  
 Sam Borthwick, Trustee  
   
Staff Present: Narissa Chadwick, Island Planner (electronic)  
 Marlis McCargar, Island Planner (electronic) 
Warren Dingman, Bylaw Enforcement Manager (electronic) 
 
 Emily Bryant, Meeting Administrator (electronic) 
Katherine Vogt, Recorder (electronic) 
 
   
Others Present: There were approximately seven members of the public in attendance.  
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Chair Maude called the meeting to order at 10:01 am.   
2. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
Chair Maude acknowledged that the meeting was held on the territory of the Coast Salish First 
Nations. 
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
The following additions to the agenda were presented for consideration: 
• Add Item 12.1: Subdivision Discussion 
By general consent, the agenda was approved as amended.  
4. REPORTS 
4.1 Trustee Reports 
Trustee Borthwick reported on the following: 
• Attendance at last week’s Trust Council meeting during which the proposed Trust 
budget increase was reduced from 13% to 8.1%; 
• Attendance on March 15 at the Denman Community Housing Association’s 
community consultation on affordable housing event held at the Community Hall; it 

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was discussed that a BC Housing grant has been cut, but that other exciting new 
funding options which will allow greater local autonomy are being explored.  
Trustee Graham reported on the following: 
• The Islands Trust Draft Policy Statement referral period is now closed; many 
comments, letters and survey responses have been received, and these are now 
online; 
• The current iteration of the Policy Statement has gone through the Trust Programs 
Committee and then the Trust Council Committee of the Whole, which includes all 
trustees, is going through the document line by line with the best of intentions and 
competence; 
• Trust Programs Committee staff are crafting a report for trustees on the recent 
responses to the Draft Policy Statement;  
• A recent response letter received regarding the Draft Policy Statement, prepared by 
a lawyer, seems to adopt a tone that may be unnecessarily confrontational.  
4.2 Chair's Report 
Chair Maude reported on the following: 
• The Trust Budget process was primarily affected by uncontrollable outside forces 
such as the cutting of a provincial grant of $450,000 that makes up 4.5% of the Trust 
budget; and the BCGEU staff compensation increases swelling Trust budget costs by 
2.8%; 
• An 8.1% Trust Budget increase, considering that about 7.1% of it was uncontrollable, 
is a commendable result of some very hard, excellent, and creative work by many 
trustees and staff; 
• Ministerial app

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