Trust Council Regular Meeting Minutes

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March 2016 Islands Trust Council Minutes         Page 1 
 
 
Islands Trust Council 
Minutes of Quarterly Meeting 
March 22-24, 2016 
Hornby Island, BC 
 
 
Present: 
 
Executive Committee:  Peter Luckham, Chair (Thetis) 
    Laura Busheikin, Vice Chair (Denman) 
George Grams, Vice Chair (Salt Spring) 
Susan Morrison, Vice Chair (Lasqueti) 
 
Local Trustees:  David Critchley, Denman 
    Melanie Mamoser, Gabriola 
    Heather O’Sullivan, Gabriola 
    Sandy Pottle, Galiano 
    Dan Rogers, Gambier 
    Kate Louise Stamford, Gambier 
    Alex Allen, Hornby (March 22) 
    Tony Law, Hornby 
    Tim Peterson, Lasqueti 
    Brian Crumblehulme, Mayne 
    Jeanine Dodds, Mayne 
    Dianne Barber, North Pender  
    Derek Masselink, North Pender  
    Peter Grove, Salt Spring 
   Paul Brent, Saturna 
Lee Middleton, Saturna 
    Bruce McConchie, South Pender 
    Wendy Scholefield, South Pender 
 
Municipal Trustees:  Sue Ellen Fast, Bowen 
    Alison Morse, Bowen 
 
Regrets:   George Harris, Galiano 
    Ken Hunter, Thetis  
 
Staff:     Russ Hotsenpiller, Chief Administrative Officer 
    Lisa Gordon, Director, Trust Area Services 
    David Marlor, Director, Local Planning Services 
    Cindy Shelest, Director, Administrative Services  
    Mandy Giesbrecht, Executive Coordinator 
    Carmen Thiel, Corporate Secretary (Recorder) 
 Nancy Roggers, Finance Officer (March 22) 
 
  

 
March 2016 Islands Trust Council Minutes         Page 2 
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016 
 
Call to Order 
 
The meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m. Twenty-two trustees were in attendance with Trustees Dodds 
and Pottle expected shortly. Trustees absent: George Harris, Galiano and Ken Hunter, Thetis. 
 
Chair Luckham acknowledged that the meeting was being held in traditional territory of the Coast 
Salish First Nations and that Hornby Island was inhabited by the Pentlatch band 5,000 years ago. 
 
Trustee Law welcomed trustees to Hornby Island, encouraged trustees to see the island in their free time 
and provided history on the community hall.  Trustee Allen gave some statistics about Hornby Island’s size 
and population.   
 
Russ Hotsenpiller, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Mandy Giesbrecht, Executive Coordinator, were 
introduced and welcomed. Chair Luckham extended thanks to Marie Smith, former Executive Coordinator, 
who served Islands Trust flawlessly for many years and recognized other staff that supported Marie’s 
position in her absence. 
 
Notice of New Items and Approval of the Agenda 
 
The Chair referred to the three-day Decision and Information Items and Sessions agendas for 
adoption. He asked if there were any items of new business, other than the addition of the proposed 
motions from Trustee Law in response to the delegation of Association of Denman Island Marine 
Stewards under section 9. of the Decision and Information Items agenda. 
 
By general consent the Decision and Information Items agenda, as amended, and the 
Sessions agenda, as presented, f

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