TC - Local Trust Committees’ Meeting Procedure Bylaw No. 197

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TRUST COUNCIL 
BYLAW NO. 197, 2024 
 
A bylaw to establish procedures for meetings of local trust committees 
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WHEREAS Section 11 of the Islands Trust Act states that Trust Council may, by bylaw adopted by at least 2/3 of its 
members present at the meeting at which the vote on adoption takes place, establish procedures that one or 
more local trust committees, as specified in the bylaw, must follow in exercising their authority and carrying out 
their responsibilities under this or any other enactment;  
 
And WHEREAS The Islands Trust Council, having jurisdiction in respect of the Trust Area in the Province of British 
Columbia pursuant to the Islands Trust Act, enacts as follows: 
 
SHORT TITLE 
 
1. This bylaw may be cited as “Local Trust Committees’ Meeting Procedure Bylaw No. 197, 2024”. 
 
APPLICATION 
2. This bylaw applies to Denman Island Local Trust Committee, Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee, 
Galiano Island Local Trust Committee, Gambier Island Local Trust Committee, Hornby Island Local Trust 
Committee, Lasqueti Island Local Trust Committee, Mayne Island Local Trust Committee, North Pender 
Island Local Trust Committee, Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee, Saturna Island Local Trust 
Committee, South Pender Island Local Trust Committee, Thetis Island Local Trust Committee and the 
Executive Committee Acting as a Local Trust Committee.  
 
DEFINITIONS 
3. “Principal Office” means the headquarters office location of the Islands Trust. 
 
 
MEETINGS AND NOTICE OF MEETINGS 
4. The first regular meeting of a local trust committee shall be held on a date to be determined by each 
Local Trust Committee by Resolution Without Meeting following a general local election. 
 
5. At the first regular meeting referred to in Section 4, and at the last regular meeting of each of the first, 
second, and third years following a general election, or by Resolution Without Meeting, each Local Trust 
Committee shall establish a schedule of the date, time and place of its regular Local Trust Committee 
meetings for the following fiscal year, of which there shall be at least two held in-person except for the 
Executive Committee Acting as a Local Trust Committee, in which case all regular meetings may be 
electronic. 
 
6. The meeting schedule:  
a. for the Galiano Island Local Trust Committee, Mayne Island Local Trust Committee, North 
Pender Island Local Trust Committee, Saturna Island Local Trust Committee, and South Pender 
Island Local Trust Committee, shall be posted on a bulletin board located at the Victoria Office of 
the Islands Trust, and the schedule shall be posted on a notice board on the relevant island that 
is accessible to the public; 
b. for the Denman Island Local Trust Committee, Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee, Gambier 
Island Local Trust Committee, Hornby Island Local Trust Committee, Thetis Island Local Trust 
Committee, and Lasqueti Island L

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