Trust Programs Committee Regular Meeting Agenda Addendum

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Islands Trust Briefing Page 1 
 
 
 
 
 
BRIEFING 
 
  
To: Trust Programs Committee,               
Working Group on service integration 
For the Meeting of: May 14, 2018 
 
 
From: Russ Hotsenpiller File No.: NA 
 
SUBJECT: SUMMARY REPORT ON SERVICE INTEGRATION REVIEW 
  
DESCRIPTION OF ISSUE:  To provide a summary of the service integration review being conducted by a 
working group of the Trust Programs Committee (TPC).  
 
BACKGROUND: 
 
The TPC working group has had three meetings: 
 
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Victoria 
Monday, February 19, 2018 in Nanaimo  
Monday, April 16, 2018 on Salt Spring Island 
 
The working group has been meeting to consider potential improvements to service delivery by the various 
government service providers, including the Islands Trust, to Salt Spring Island and the wider Trust area.  This 
work was initiated in response to the incorporation process on Salt Spring Island in 2017, and specifically, to 
address a critique of the governance model on Salt Spring Island that is characterized by multiple agencies 
delivering community services in a non-coordinated manner. 
 
The working group itself does not have specific terms of reference; rather Trust Council (TC) has tasked the 
working group to:  
Identify potential governance or operational changes that could be adopted in order to improve the 
delivery and integration of all the types of services that are delivered to the Islands Trust Area. 
(2017-09-12, TC resolution) 
 
As such, the working group is a forum for Trustees to review and discuss issues and to formulate 
recommendations to TPC and Trust Council.  There is no specific budget allocated to this function.  
 
The working group has been informed by Executive Committee’s meeting with Selena Robinson, the Minister 
of Municipal Affairs and Housing, in January 2018, during which the Executive Committee requested that the 
Province play a leadership role with regard to better service integration on Salt Spring Island, in particular 
with brokering discussions between the Capital Regional District (CRD), Islands Trust, other relevant 
Ministries and improvement districts.  The Islands Trust is also in receipt of two letters - post incorporation 
vote  - from the Minister, that recommend ‘the local agencies to seek opportunities to address the concerns 
that caused some voters to wish to see a change in governance,’ and ‘for the local planning and service 
agencies to work together.’  Both in the meeting and through her communications, the Minister appears to 
be encouraging the various service providers to self-organize to address any governance or servicing issues.   
 

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A request was also made to the Minister for access to $125,000 of transition funding to aid in the service 
integration enquiry.  The response by the Ministry to the financial request was non-committal and the 
Executive Committee was told that any funds would require a full business case. 
 
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