Policy 6.2.1 Priority Setting/Review Guidelines

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POLICY – 6.2.1 Priority Setting/Review Guidelines Page 1 
 
Policy: 6.2.1 
Approved By: Trust Council 
Approval Date: June 6, 1992 
Amendment Date(s):  June 10, 2004; Sept. 21, 
2022 
 
Policy Holder: Chief Administrative Officer 
 
PRIORITY SETTING/REVIEW GUIDELINES 
Purpose 
1. To outline priority setting and review, within the Islands Trust's strategic planning function. 
2.  To focus political and administrative attention, in a results-oriented fashion, to the realistic pursuit and 
achievement of the Trust's policies and organizational strategic plans, long term goals, objectives and 
current issues/opportunities. 
3. To provide a basis for budgeting, resource allocation and work programming decisions by the Trust's 
political bodies and management. 
4. To monitor, adjust and evaluate the Trust's progress toward and achievement of performance targets. 
A. Definitions 
Action Plan - an outline of activities, considerations and resource requirements to implement a 
specific strategy. 
Organizational Units - the following specific bodies of the Islands Trust which have some form of 
direction-setting authority including political units: Trust Council, Local Trust Committees (13), Council 
Committees (3), and Executive Committee; and the Management Unit:  Directors and the Chief 
Administrative Officer. 
Priorities - matters which have been assessed as being of key importance for response. 
Priorities/Strategies Report - the summary document of the Islands Trust’s structural units’ endorsed 
strategies to respond to key priority areas in pursuit of the Trust's identified policy statements, 
policies, goals, objectives and current issues/opportunities. 
Strategy - a preferred course of action among alternative responses to respond to and/or implement a 
priority. 
Work Programs - the working document of specific organizational units of the Trust outlining their key 
priorities and listing of future topics to be considered. 
  

 
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B. Policy 
1. Priorities/Strategies Report 
1.1  The priorities/strategies report summarizes the top priorities of the Islands Trust's 
various structural units work programs: 
    1.1.1 the Executive Committee; 
    1.1.2  each of Trust Council's committees; 
    1.1.3  the Islands Trust's 13 local trust committees as follows: 
a. up to one active minor project at a time per Local Trust Committee other 
than Salt Spring Island;   
b. Salt Spring Island is allotted three active projects; and 
c. a list of major and extraordinary projects will be identified through the Trust 
Council budget process. This list would generally reflect rotational OCP 
amendment projects for LTCs so that the Islands Trust can begin to update all 
of its long range planning documents. 
    1.1.4 the Islands Trust Conservancy Board. 
1.2 The top priorities of an organizational unit must be those of the Trust Council's top 
priorities that fall within their terms of reference. 
1.3  At ea

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