Islands Trust Annual Report 2017-2018

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Preserving island communities, culture and environment
Islands Trust
2017 – 2018
Annual Report

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Contents
4 Message from the Islands Trust Council Chair
7 Message from the Islands Trust Fund Board Chair
9 Message from the Chief Administrative Officer 
13 The Islands Trust Area
16 2017 – 2018  Accomplishments 
16 1. Executive Summary of Strategic Plan and Policy 
Statement Accomplishments
20 2. Islands Trust Council
34 3. Islands Trust Council Committees
42 4. Trust Fund Board
57 5. Local Trust Committees and Bowen Island Municipality 
66 6. Climate Change Action 
68 7. Legislative Services —    Administrative Fairness and 
Freedom of Information
69 8. Enforcement and Legal Action 
71 Appendix A: Strategic Plan 2014 –   2018  
95 Appendix B: Islands Trust Financial Statements
113 Appendix C: Islands Trust Fund Financial Statements
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Message from the 
Islands Trust  
Council Chair
I am honoured to be on the ancestral homeland and waters of the 
First Peoples of the Salish Sea. The Islands Trust Area includes  
the traditional territories of numerous First Nations, and I want  
to thank them for allowing us to call this beautiful place home.  
I further want to acknowledge and recognize that the Trust Area  
is unceded territory.
These are exciting and challenging times nationally, provincially, and 
also at the regional level. The Islands Trust has been asked to address a 
myriad of issues, including: pipelines, oil spill prevention, and freighter 
anchorages; the impacts of forestry and aquaculture; and balancing 
a serious shortage of affordable housing with stresses on freshwater 
resources.  
It is against this backdrop, and with less than five months remaining 
in this term, that I reflect on the past year, and our efforts to advance the 
Islands Trust’s legislated mandate to preserve and protect the islands in 
the Salish Sea.
In 2014, the current Trust Council began the first year of a four year 
term, a first for local government in British Columbia. This change from 
three to four years was received with mixed feelings as the then new 
council of 26 trustees from across the Trust Area reviewed the previous 
council’s work program, the strategic plan, and laid out its own ambi-
tious plans for the term ahead. 
The main strategic items included: affordable housing; preparation 
for the potential incorporation of Salt Spring Island; potential legisla-
tive amendments; Policy Statement amendments; and First Nations 
engagement.
We have now substantially completed housing needs assessments for 
both the southern and northern regions. These in-depth analyses will 
aid our communities in planning for future housing needs. The Islands 
Trust and our partner, the Capital Regional District, can be proud of 
initiating this work ahead of the recently announced provincial require-
ments for such assessments across the province.
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