Islands Trust Annual Report 2016-2017

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Annual  
Report
Preserving island communities, culture and environment
Islands Trust
2016 – 2017

Contents
3 Message from the Islands Trust Council Chair
5 Message from the Islands Trust Fund Board Chair
7 Message from the Chief Administrative Officer 
10 The Islands Trust Area
13 2016 – 2017  Accomplishments 
13 1. Executive Summary of Strategic Plan and Policy 
Statement Accomplishments
16 2. Islands Trust Council
28 3. Islands Trust Council Committees
37 4. Trust Fund Board
52 5. Local Trust Committees and Bowen Island Municipality 
61 6. Climate Change Action 
63 7. Legislative Services —    Administrative Fairness and 
Freedom of Information
64 8. Enforcement and Legal Action 
66 Appendix A  Strategic Plan 2014 –   2018  
88 Appendix B  Islands Trust Financial Statements
105 Appendix C  Islands Trust Fund Financial Statements
photos by kristine mayes except where indicated

Message from the 
Islands Trust Council 
Chair
This year marks 42 years of leadership and governance of our 
Object to preserve and protect the Trust Area and its unique  
amenities and environment for the benefit of the residents of the 
Trust Area and of British Columbia generally in co-operation with 
others. This report chronicles the unique work of Islands Trust 
Council and the 13 individual local governments of the Islands Trust 
in 2016 –   2017. These past 12 months have been a time of change as 
we gained understanding of First Nations and began a process of 
Reconciliation with the 37 First Nations with territorial interest in 
the islands of the Salish Sea. We know we have much to learn.
In 2016 –  2017 the Islands Trust developed engagement principles to 
help us build meaningful relationships with First Nations. The Islands 
Trust now has a strong desire and vision of enduring relationship with 
First Nations based on trust, honour and goodwill. The Islands Trust is 
committed to changing its organizational approach to relations with the 
First Nations based on a goal to move beyond formality and have inter-
actions rooted in a sincere and genuine relationship of mutual respect.
In other efforts, trustees and staff continued to implement our spe-
cial mandate: “Preserve and Protect” through our land use planning. 
Another focus of our work is the Islands Trust Fund, which is guided 
by the Regional Conservation Plan to collaborate with others to protect 
ecologically important spaces.
Our Object to preserve and protect also encourages us to work with 
others and one way we do this is through advocacy. It is with advocacy 
that the expectations of island residents and trustees are furthered. 
Much of this work is often pressing and urgent with respect to pre-
serving and protecting these islands for British Columbians. Advocacy 
undertaken this year included concerns with oil pipelines, freighter 
anchorage and species at risk. Advocating on marine issues has been, 
and will continue to be, a high priority. This focus on marine issues has 
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