North Pender LTC Regular Meeting Minutes

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North Pender Island 
Local Trust Committee Minutes 
February 25, 2016  ADOPTED Page 1 of 9 
 
    A D O P T E D 
 
North Pender Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of a Regular Meeting 
 
Date: 
Location: 
February 25, 2016 
Pender Island Community Hall 
4418 Canal Road, North Pender Island, BC 
 
Members Present: George Grams, Chair 
Derek Masselink , Local Trustee 
Diane Barber, Local Trustee 
 
Staff Present: Robert Kojima, Regional Planning Manager 
Lisa Gordon, Director of Trust Area Services   
Shannon Brayford, Recorder     
  
Others Present: 
  
Ten (10) members of the public present.  
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
 
Chair Grams called the meeting to order at 9:45 am. He acknowledged that the meeting 
was being held in traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations and introduced the 
Trustees and staff present.  
 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
 
Regional Planning Manager (RPM) Kojima noted that for item 6.3.2 he had distributed a 
set of adopted minutes for the North Pender Island Advisory Planning Commission 
(APC) meeting of Tuesday, February 2, 2016.  
 
By general consent the agenda was approved, as amended. 
 
3.  TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS  
 
Donn Korbin noted an apparent change of attitude between the Trustees’ Pender Post 
article which stated they looked forward to further work by the Waste and Resource 
Management Commission (WRMC) (North Pender Island Special APC), and their 
subsequent decision to dissolve the commission.  He asked the Local Trust Committee 
(LTC) to explain the change of opinion and questioned whether threat of a lawsuit, 
Islands Trust Executive intervention, or staff intervention played a role.   
 
The LTC addressed Donn Korbin’s concern, noting that the Trustees are not able to 
discuss matters until the public meeting and thus could not have formed their intent to 
dissolve the Commission when they wrote the article. They further noted that they did 
not receive outside pressure from a threatened lawsuit, Islands Trust Executive, or staff.  
 

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Local Trust Committee Minutes 
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Donn Korbin asked that the information that was received in camera which informed the 
decision to dissolve the WRMC be made public.  
 
Chair Grams provided an overview of the legislative process for in camera meetings, the 
types of matters discussed therein, and the confidentiality of those matters. 
  
Donn Korbin requested that Trustee Masselink remove himself from discussions about 
waste and resource management issues because his sheep flock was housed on one of 
the relevant properties and that flock would be returning there.  
 
Trustee Masselink addressed the concern, noting that his wife did have sheep on the 
property and a horse housed there.  He reported that he had sought legal advice and as 
he is not beholden to the land because the animals could be housd elsewhere, there is 
no conflict.  He further noted that he had no intention to return the sheep flock to

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