Trust Programs Committee Regular Meeting Agenda

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Trust Programs Committee
Agenda
 
 

Date:April 8, 2022
Time:9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location:Electronic meeting, Public venue
Islands Trust
200-1627 Fort Street
Victoria, BC V8R 1H8
Pages
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.AGENDA
2.1.New Items and Re-Ordering of the Agenda
2.2.Approval of Agenda
3.PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
4.DELEGATIONS
None
5.CORRESPONDENCE
5.1.2022-02-28 Tony Law
3 - 11
Copied to TPC by the Executive Committee at its March 8, 2022 meeting
5.2.2022-03-26 Mary Beth Rondeau
12 - 13
5.3.2022-03-31 Harlene Holm
14 - 15
6.ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION
6.1.Draft Minutes of Previous Meetings
6.1.1.Trust Programs Committee Minutes of February 11, 2022
16 - 22
For review and approval
6.2.Resolutions Without Meeting
None

6.3.Follow up Action List
23 - 25
For review
7.BUSINESS - WORK PROGRAM ITEMS
7.1.Secretariat Role to Forums Within the Trust Area
Priority #2
7.1.1.Secretariat Services to Coordination Groups in the Trust Area - RFD
26 - 68
8.BUSINESS - NEW
9.WORK PROGRAM
For review and referral to Trust Council before each quarterly TC meeting
10.NEXT MEETING
Friday, May 13, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
11.CLOSED MEETING
If required:
That the meeting be closed to the public in accordance with the Community Charter, Part 4,
Division 3, s.90, (quote the pertinent section here, for example, (1)(a) personal information
about...) and that the recorder and staff attend the meeting.
12.RISE AND REPORT
If required
13.ADJOURNMENT
*Approximate time is provided for the convenience of the public only and is subject to change
without notice.
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Tony Law
Hornby Island, BC, V0R1Z0
To Islands Trust Council
28 February 2022
re: Draft Policy Statement: A suggestion
Introduction
When I first read the Draft Policy statement, I thought; “This is really good.”
But as I step back, I realize I am not typical of the Trust Area electorate.
For one thing, after serving as a trustee for twenty years, I am a bit of a policy wonk – one of only two 
people I know on Hornby Island (apart from the trustees) who has read the complete 39 page draft (the
other being the super-diligent chair of the APC).
For another, I am part of a rapidly disappearing cohort that came to the Islands in the 1970s and 1980s 
to lead simple lives in an area that we valued as being preserved and protected by the Islands Trust. We
went to meetings. We provided input.
We are being replaced by people who are not choosing – or don’t have the option of choosing – such 
simple lives or experience connectivity with the Islands Trust. There are those whose complicated lives
involve having one foot on the islands and the other in the city. And those who are struggling to get a 
toe hold on the islands with the challenges of establishing housing and livelihoods.
I fully understand that many such islanders do not have the time, energy, interest or inclination to 
engage in Islands Trust processes in the context of other priorities. I sense that many, perhaps most, see
the Islands Trust as a centralized external bureaucracy rather than b

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