Islands Trust Conservancy Board community information meeting, April 21, 2021

[0:00:00] Trustee Luckham (probable): Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Executive Committee acting as a Local Trust Committee

[0:00:05] Trustee Luckham (probable): for the Bolinas-Winchelsea Islands. I want to thank you for joining us today for this

[0:00:11] Trustee Luckham (probable): electronic business meeting of the Executive Committee acting as the Local Trust Committee

[0:00:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): for the Bolinas-Winchelsea Islands Local Trust Area, which is, of course, a spectacular area

[0:00:22] Trustee Luckham (probable): in the Salish Sea. I want to begin the meeting by acknowledging that we are fortunate to

[0:00:29] Trustee Luckham (probable): to be able to gather today in locations

[0:00:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): across the traditional territories

[0:00:32] Trustee Luckham (probable): of the Coast Salish people.

[0:00:35] Trustee Luckham (probable): I am elected on Thetis Island,

[0:00:38] Trustee Luckham (probable): which is in Penelakut and Laiakson territory.

[0:00:42] Trustee Luckham (probable): And it's an honor and privilege to be able to work here

[0:00:47] Trustee Luckham (probable): and just reflect upon the rich history and culture

[0:00:53] Trustee Luckham (probable): that has been here since the beginning of time.

[0:00:57] Trustee Luckham (probable): and so grateful for that. I'm joined today by Vice Chair Sue Ellen Fast, Vice Chair and

[0:01:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): Councillor of Bowen Island Municipality over Bowen Island. Good morning, Sue Ellen. Thank

[0:01:12] Trustee Luckham (probable): you for joining us. I also want to recognize Laura Patrick, Vice Chair, Salt Spring resident,

[0:01:21] Trustee Luckham (probable): and thank you also Laura for joining us today Dan Rogers offer his regrets today

[0:01:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): he's on a short-term rental committee with the province today also important

[0:01:38] Trustee Luckham (probable): work that we're involved in at the honest trust and so I thank Dan for

[0:01:44] Trustee Luckham (probable): for moving over into that role to free me up actually

[0:01:49] Trustee Luckham (probable): from that work.

[0:01:51] Trustee Luckham (probable): So, and he's elected on Keats Island,

[0:01:55] Trustee Luckham (probable): Alcatsum territory, I think Dan says.

[0:01:59] Trustee Luckham (probable): So also joining us today is elected director, Bob Rogers,

[0:02:04] Trustee Luckham (probable): with the Regional District of Nanaimo Electoral Area E.

[0:02:09] Trustee Luckham (probable): Welcome Bob, thank you for joining us.

[0:02:14] Voice 2: Thanks for the invitation.

[0:02:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): Yeah, so just mentioned that this meeting is being conducted electronically and being

[0:02:21] Trustee Luckham (probable): recorded. It's also being live streamed so that people can view it at home. The recording

[0:02:26] Trustee Luckham (probable): will be available later on for review for anybody that's interested that isn't with

[0:02:33] Trustee Luckham (probable): us today. That'll be a few days. When we get to the town hall portion, just note that if

[0:02:40] Trustee Luckham (probable): If you have joined us and you wish to speak to the local trust committee, I'd ask you

[0:02:46] Trustee Luckham (probable): to raise your digital hand and you need to be in the webinar link to do that rather than

[0:02:53] Trustee Luckham (probable): viewing via the streaming.

[0:02:56] Trustee Luckham (probable): So if you need to switch over, that'd be great.

[0:02:58] Trustee Luckham (probable): If you've phoned in, you can press star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute

[0:03:03] Trustee Luckham (probable): your phone.

[0:03:05] Trustee Luckham (probable): uh so we appreciate your understanding and assistance in this uh meeting format uh there

[0:03:11] Trustee Luckham (probable): may be some technical challenges that seems to be not a perfect system and uh so just ask you to

[0:03:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): work with us as we get through those um just mentioned we have a number of staff members

[0:03:23] Trustee Luckham (probable): with us today that provide the support work for the berlin and swin chelsea islands uh will

[0:03:28] Trustee Luckham (probable): codding is our office administrative assistant we'll be administering the meeting today thank

[0:03:33] Trustee Luckham (probable): you, Will. Catherine Voigt is our minute taker and Heather Cower is the regional planning manager,

[0:03:41] Trustee Luckham (probable): also acting as our planner today, I guess. So this meeting is an official forum for the local

[0:03:49] Trustee Luckham (probable): trust committee to make decisions about land use planning matters and discuss relevant business.

[0:03:53] Trustee Luckham (probable): It's also a place of employment and many staff are working at home through this pandemic situation

[0:04:00] Trustee Luckham (probable): and everybody has a right to a safe and respectful workplace and just ask

[0:04:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): everybody to be cognizant of that so the first item of business although before I

[0:04:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): move on to business just do want to acknowledge that indeed this pandemic is

[0:04:23] Trustee Luckham (probable): hitting many of our communities hard I'm sure everybody knows somebody that has

[0:04:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): certainly suffered from it. It's also obviously in our First Nations, in the First Nations

[0:04:37] Trustee Luckham (probable): communities up and down the coast. I drove through the Malahat Reserve just last week on my way to

[0:04:44] Trustee Luckham (probable): town and noticed that their community is locked down and certainly some lockdowns on other

[0:04:52] Trustee Luckham (probable): communities nearby and so our hearts and thoughts go out to them in these difficult times as well.

[0:05:02] Trustee Luckham (probable): So without further ado we have an agenda before us which was published electronically

[0:05:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): and I'm just going to ask if there's any additions or deletions from the agenda.

[0:05:13] Trustee Luckham (probable): Not seeing anything from trustees or staff then I'm going to adopt the agenda by general consent

[0:05:20] Trustee Luckham (probable): as presented. So the first item on our agenda is Town Hall. Looking at the screen, I don't see any

[0:05:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): attendees there, nor as panelists already. And so just remind folks that are live streaming,

[0:05:42] Trustee Luckham (probable): if you wanted to speak to the LTC today, then you'd have to switch over to the other format

[0:05:47] Trustee Luckham (probable): and and then and then that we would then promote you to a speaker on our speaking

[0:05:54] Trustee Luckham (probable): list not seeing anybody coming in I'll just note that if indeed somebody does

[0:06:01] Trustee Luckham (probable): want to come in later with the permission of the LTC if we'll brought

[0:06:06] Trustee Luckham (probable): it to our attention that somebody else somebody had come in as an attendee and

[0:06:09] Trustee Luckham (probable): wanted to speak with us that we might consider allowing that later on in the

[0:06:14] Trustee Luckham (probable): meeting if that's all right with trustees with vice chairs trustees in this role or vice chairs

[0:06:20] Trustee Luckham (probable): in this role uh vice chair patrick over to you you have a question i

[0:06:23] Trustee Patrick (probable): just said would suggest that

[0:06:25] Trustee Patrick (probable): there's a general email for the north office that would be good to invite people to always use if

[0:06:32] Trustee Patrick (probable): they wish to correspond with this uh trust committee absolutely i

[0:06:36] Trustee Patrick (probable): i just might look to

[0:06:38] Trustee Patrick (probable): staff for that proper email i

[0:06:40] Voice 3: can let you know the email is north info which is short for northern

[0:06:46] Voice 3: information at islandstrust.bc.ca okay

[0:06:51] Trustee Luckham (probable): thank you for that will all right then let's uh go to uh

[0:06:55] Trustee Luckham (probable): minutes um although it says uh local trust committee minutes none we would have adopted

[0:07:01] Trustee Luckham (probable): the previous minutes by RWM and they will be they are posted to the website

[0:07:09] Trustee Luckham (probable): at this time section 26 resolution without meeting report of April the 7th

[0:07:14] Trustee Luckham (probable): would have been when we were adopting the minutes so business arising from the

[0:07:21] Trustee Luckham (probable): minutes if there's no questions about those topics we'll go to the follow-up

[0:07:25] Trustee Luckham (probable): action list and now I'll turn to Heather Cower to give us a brief summary on the

[0:07:32] Trustee Luckham (probable): follow-up action list or updates if you have any otherwise if there's questions i'll go to the

[0:07:37] Trustee Luckham (probable): trustees to ask those questions i think there's just one

[0:07:43] Voice 6: yep i think there's just one item it's the boat tour issue so we have a couple of fual items

[0:07:50] Voice 6: related to the boat tour um i guess our question is should it remain on the fual is it something

[0:07:58] Voice 6: that we just wanna postpone and keep trying to do?

[0:08:02] Voice 6: Or is that something that I guess with conversations

[0:08:06] Voice 6: with our senior intergovernmental policy advisor

[0:08:09] Voice 6: suggests that it may be something that arises

[0:08:13] Voice 6: in our conversations with the First Nation,

[0:08:15] Voice 6: but is really sort of based on their interest.

[0:08:20] Voice 6: And so do we wanna keep it on the FUAL is the question.

[0:08:24] Voice 6: Yeah,

[0:08:27] Trustee Luckham (probable): thank you and I'll ask the Vice-Chairs first of all what your thoughts are and then

[0:08:33] Trustee Luckham (probable): I can share some ideas that I have. Vice-Chairs, do you have any thoughts on the tour? Vice-Chair

[0:08:39] Trustee Luckham (probable): Fast.

[0:08:40] Trustee Fast (probable): Sure and I saw Director Rogers hand was up too. I think it's a good idea to consult

[0:08:48] Trustee Fast (probable): with our senior governmental advisor if this is the advice that staff are getting and there's

[0:08:54] Trustee Fast (probable): There's so much work in putting the boat tour together, and I gather that it's expensive,

[0:08:58] Trustee Fast (probable): and it takes a lot of time for all involved, and there's a lot going on, especially with

[0:09:02] Trustee Fast (probable): COVID, that I think we might want to revisit this.

[0:09:06] Trustee Fast (probable): That's my suggestion.

[0:09:08] Trustee Fast (probable): And get advice in the presence of the senior governmental advisor.

[0:09:13] Trustee Fast (probable): Lisa, over.

[0:09:15] Trustee Luckham (probable): Okay, thank you.

[0:09:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): Trustee Patrick.

[0:09:18] Trustee Luckham (probable): I

[0:09:19] Trustee Patrick (probable): mean, maybe the simple, you know, it exists. I think, you know, the idea is there. So it either sits there as waiting for the appropriate opportunity to link with other conversations or something of that nature so that we do acknowledge that, you know, that it exists.

[0:09:45] Trustee Patrick (probable): There has been some work taken to think about one.

[0:09:49] Trustee Patrick (probable): And then if we get into a conversation in either community to community or with other nations, that this could be moved forward more quickly.

[0:09:59] Trustee Patrick (probable): So I think just it signals it exists, but certainly saying it's in progress or on hold might be a better word.

[0:10:07] Trustee Patrick (probable): Right.

[0:10:08] Trustee Luckham (probable): Okay. Director Rogers, did you have a remark?

[0:10:12] Voice 2: If I might, if not out of order.

[0:10:14] Voice 2: I would I think it's something that you should try to keep on the list there was certainly interest

[0:10:18] Voice 2: from the Sonowish um to do it and certainly I think also since the time that the north north

[0:10:25] Voice 2: or west Bolinas has gained its park status and so on and I've certainly had questions from members

[0:10:31] Voice 2: of the community relative to to the area and whether it's a boating community the boating

[0:10:38] Voice 2: community or not but I think it's something that you should keep on the list for possibility

[0:10:42] Voice 2: possibility post-COVID, whenever things permit, and also when it can become a bit of an ongoing

[0:10:52] Voice 2: thing, because I think it would be good to get this analysis out there. Plus, also, there were

[0:10:56] Voice 2: interests from other members of the community, you know, talking about the owners of Mistaken

[0:11:02] Voice 2: Island and so on. So, I think it's worthwhile to still keep on your potential future out there.

[0:11:10] Voice 2: Okay,

[0:11:12] Trustee Luckham (probable): thank you, Director Rogers. So my thoughts on this are, you know, it's hard to imagine, but this late in the term, where we may be running out of time, part of the idea was to introduce the new LTC and the director to the islands in a way that is not possible other than visiting the location.

[0:11:38] Trustee Luckham (probable): So it may become apparent that, as we maybe run out of time in this term, that that element of it is less significant.

[0:11:47] Trustee Luckham (probable): I do, however, think, as expressed, I think, by all of you, that it's certainly an important thing and is an important thing, particularly as an opportunity for engagement with the Sinawas Nation.

[0:12:01] Trustee Luckham (probable): so I'm inclined to take the suggestion that we change the status to put on hold with maybe a

[0:12:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): remark in there pending direction from the LTC and then maybe just clean up all those other items

[0:12:14] Trustee Luckham (probable): and just remark that indeed we were very close there and we even had the MLA was interested in

[0:12:21] Trustee Luckham (probable): attending and at the time and so I think that there's relationship it's part of our relationship

[0:12:29] Trustee Luckham (probable): building exercise and I would like to see us continuing at that in some way I

[0:12:35] Trustee Luckham (probable): have been thinking about our relationship with Sananas recently and I

[0:12:41] Trustee Luckham (probable): know we've leaned on staff quite a bit to have that dialogue and that

[0:12:46] Trustee Luckham (probable): communication and sometimes maybe that is right and sometimes maybe there's

[0:12:50] Trustee Luckham (probable): other approaches and I know that when I first wanted was keen on speaking with

[0:12:57] Trustee Luckham (probable): with the Snenemo First Nation,

[0:12:59] Trustee Luckham (probable): in the end, I just ended up phoning up the chief and say,

[0:13:02] Trustee Luckham (probable): hey, how about I come for a visit, have coffee.

[0:13:04] Trustee Luckham (probable): And so maybe that's what we need to do

[0:13:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): to break the ice there,

[0:13:08] Trustee Luckham (probable): because even with Chief Seymour at Cowichan,

[0:13:13] Trustee Luckham (probable): he appreciates me phoning up and say,

[0:13:15] Trustee Luckham (probable): hey, let's get together for lunch.

[0:13:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): And that works out.

[0:13:19] Trustee Luckham (probable): So maybe there's some proactive activity

[0:13:21] Trustee Luckham (probable): I might do there with this nation.

[0:13:23] Trustee Luckham (probable): so and of course there's other interests across the trust with respect to their

[0:13:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): interests so Heather is that helpful put it on hold pending further direction of

[0:13:39] Trustee Luckham (probable): the LTC okay you don't get a motion to that effect it's Dan also for your

[0:13:50] Trustee Luckham (probable): remarks anything else on your follow-up action list no okay so then that's good so uh uh we'll

[0:14:02] Trustee Luckham (probable): just uh move through these items here um not uh no local trust committee projects delegations or

[0:14:09] Trustee Luckham (probable): correspondence um uh we've got the forest conservation outreach briefing which i think

[0:14:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): many of the vice chairs have seen this um the trustees have seen this in their role as vice

[0:14:22] Trustee Luckham (probable): vice-chairs on other LTCs where the Conservancy did some forest conservation outreach. The

[0:14:29] Trustee Luckham (probable): Bolinas-Gwen-Chelsea Islands were not identified as having lands that met that criteria and

[0:14:36] Trustee Luckham (probable): so there was no mail out to the residents or residents of the trust area. And so I think

[0:14:44] Trustee Luckham (probable): this is just here for information. Is that correct, Heather? Vice-chairs are certainly

[0:14:48] Trustee Luckham (probable): familiar with it okay so and it's a it's good work um um and uh certainly is helping feed the

[0:14:57] Trustee Luckham (probable): conversation um with respect to the coastal douglas fir project and other tree cutting activities

[0:15:05] Trustee Fast (probable): mr chair yes

[0:15:06] Trustee Luckham (probable): um

[0:15:07] Trustee Fast (probable): i just uh would just take a few seconds of our meeting to um reflect that

[0:15:12] Trustee Fast (probable): But this focus on large areas of forest isn't that appropriate really for Bolinas-Winchelsea because what we've got here is more of a kelp forest or more marine than islands, right?

[0:15:27] Trustee Fast (probable): Right. So this, to me, this is sort of an invitation to start thinking about the marine ecology more in Bolinas-Winchelsea and perhaps more tools, islands trust-wide, that deal with the underwater marine ecology.

[0:15:47] Trustee Fast (probable): and I'll have some things to say I think maybe under the trust

[0:15:53] Trustee Fast (probable): conservancy report or trustee reports just a few more ideas to bring into the

[0:15:58] Trustee Fast (probable): conversation make our meeting more interesting okay

[0:16:01] Trustee Luckham (probable): and director Rogers

[0:16:06] Trustee Luckham (probable): please chime in if you think you have any remarks you'd like to share as we go

[0:16:11] Trustee Luckham (probable): through the agenda here no

[0:16:13] Voice 2: yeah and thanks peter i can understand that that's not part of it from

[0:16:18] Voice 2: the bolinas when chelsea aren't part of it from the um forest conservation but i do agree with

[0:16:23] Voice 2: vice chair fast with respect to the marine one that's something i was going to bring up in just

[0:16:29] Voice 2: in my comments later on is questions because we had a lot of discussion about the risk to the kelp

[0:16:35] Voice 2: in the area and just what that's telling us about the marine ecology there but certainly

[0:16:41] Voice 2: I think the new park status is going to make people want to get on, get out there with kayaks and get onto the island some more.

[0:16:49] Voice 2: So it's going to have an impact also on the upland aspect.

[0:16:55] For

[0:16:58] Trustee Luckham (probable): sure. Thank you, Director Rogers.

[0:17:02] Trustee Luckham (probable): I'm struggling with a little bit because, of course, Dan Rogers is one of our trustees on the committee and you're Director Rogers.

[0:17:10] Trustee Fast (probable): I think it's Bob. Is it Bob?

[0:17:12] Trustee Luckham (probable): It's Bob, yeah.

[0:17:13] Voice 2: Bob works for me.

[0:17:14] Trustee Luckham (probable): Great.

[0:17:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): Dave Kuntz, Okay, so the next item at 9.2 is a change it from the on the November 10 2021 meeting date for discussion i'll turn that over to.

[0:17:25] Trustee Luckham (probable): Dave Kuntz, regional planning manager car i'm assuming you brought that and I see that indeed there's not necessarily direct conflict, but certainly a busy day on November, the 10th over to you.

[0:17:38] Voice 6: right there is a busy day that day so we thought um we'd suggest changing the date of this meeting

[0:17:43] Voice 6: and the alternative date we're proposing is october 13th um and i and we and will will

[0:17:52] Voice 6: might be able to speak more to this i um it's based on we reviewed everybody's calendars and

[0:17:57] Voice 6: all the meetings that are going on that day and that seemed to be a day that might be available

[0:18:04] Trustee Luckham (probable): for me yeah and so what time would you be thinking of having that meeting as well

[0:18:10] Trustee Luckham (probable): um

[0:18:11] Voice 6: likely around the same time we're having this so at 10 30 right

[0:18:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): because there is a um it's not

[0:18:19] Trustee Luckham (probable): obvious to you because it maybe isn't properly on all of everybody's calendars but the vancouver

[0:18:24] Trustee Luckham (probable): island coastal climate leadership communities which i sit on um is meeting on that 13th um

[0:18:32] Trustee Luckham (probable): it's from 11 till 1 so if it was earlier or later that day right be best for me

[0:18:41] Trustee Luckham (probable): um let me just ask the or am i on the right yeah it must be november 13th

[0:18:48] Trustee Luckham (probable): that's a monday right we're

[0:18:50] Voice 6: looking at october 13th sorry

[0:18:55] Trustee Luckham (probable): uh

[0:18:56] Voice 6: which is like which is wednesday

[0:18:59] Voice 6: wednesday oh sorry it

[0:19:02] Voice 3: would again it would get uh excuse me chair luckham it would again follow me

[0:19:07] Voice 3: follow follow immediately after your ec weekly call in just like this meeting oh

[0:19:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): i see okay right

[0:19:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): i i was in the wrong uh section of my calendar so i see that so that's fine by me so is that fine

[0:19:24] Trustee Luckham (probable): with the other uh trustees yes all right then so do you need a motion to that effect

[0:19:32] Trustee Luckham (probable): um meeting not necessarily no we'll we'll go ahead and put that down okay thank you

[0:19:39] Trustee Luckham (probable): so then let us go to the trustee reports section if you have is that we're not terribly active in

[0:19:48] Trustee Luckham (probable): this particular trust area and so trustees did you have anything to report about the

[0:19:54] Trustee Luckham (probable): Bolinas from Chelsea Islands vice chair fast I

[0:19:58] Trustee Fast (probable): have a couple of things to report from my role

[0:20:01] Trustee Fast (probable): as the islands trust conservancy board member and so this is another part of the trust as you know

[0:20:07] Trustee Fast (probable): director Rogers and I'm trying to bring it up highlighted a little more in our LTC meetings

[0:20:16] Trustee Fast (probable): anyway you referred to the BC Parks Foundation purchase of West Bolinas Island from a conservation

[0:20:23] Trustee Fast (probable): perspective Islands Trust Conservancy is aware of this and how we might be able to work together

[0:20:29] Trustee Fast (probable): as another reason to keep the boat trip and other opportunities to connect on the radar

[0:20:34] Trustee Fast (probable): are um uh i looked at the mount arrowsmith bioreserve and you can probably speak to all

[0:20:41] Trustee Fast (probable): this better uh bob actually but mount arrowsmith bioregion um uh newsletter and um it referred to

[0:20:50] Trustee Fast (probable): the uh well a number of interesting things they've got an april newsletter and uh like this month and

[0:20:56] Trustee Fast (probable): And they referred to the Marine Park application for the whole area of 4,900 hectares.

[0:21:05] Trustee Fast (probable): And I wasn't aware of that.

[0:21:07] Trustee Fast (probable): And I'd be interested if anybody's got any information about it.

[0:21:11] Trustee Fast (probable): And I wanted to also just flag that the Islands Trust Conservancy at our last meeting, which

[0:21:20] Trustee Fast (probable): was just March the 30th, we heard about the...

[0:21:27] Trustee Fast (probable): The Islands Trust Conservancy is joining the research group for BC Kelp Resiliency Project.

[0:21:38] Trustee Fast (probable): So this is, Islands Trust Conservancy will be involved in this and it involves mapping and planning for resilience of kelp forests in times of climate change.

[0:21:53] Trustee Fast (probable): So that's, I just wanted to flag a few things there that I, that I looked at and, and see if, if I could learn more about the Marine Park sort of project that 4,900 hectares that I wasn't aware of. Anyway, maybe somebody can fill me in on that but that's, that's my report.

[0:22:14] Trustee Fast (probable): Okay.

[0:22:17] Trustee Luckham (probable): Thank you, Sue Ellen. Yeah, I think that that initiative has been in the works for a very

[0:22:22] Trustee Luckham (probable): long time. I don't have the details in front of me, but I was aware of that, but it didn't seem

[0:22:28] Trustee Luckham (probable): to be advancing, and maybe, indeed, Director Rogers might also have something, and you can

[0:22:34] Trustee Luckham (probable): have your opportunity when we get to your chair's report. So I'll just continue on with the reports.

[0:22:40] Trustee Luckham (probable): Laura Patrick, do you have anything you'd like to remark?

[0:22:43] Trustee Luckham (probable): Mark.

[0:22:43] Trustee Patrick (probable): I'll just, I was thrilled with the acquisition

[0:22:46] Trustee Patrick (probable): of the island and was very happy to see that happen.

[0:22:50] Trustee Patrick (probable): I think just a general desire that as we continue

[0:22:55] Trustee Patrick (probable): our shoreline protection work and projects

[0:22:57] Trustee Patrick (probable): at the regional planning committee

[0:22:59] Trustee Patrick (probable): that we have to always remember that, you know,

[0:23:01] Trustee Patrick (probable): this grouping of islands and that we wanna make sure

[0:23:04] Trustee Patrick (probable): that they're captured and thought of in these opportunities

[0:23:07] Trustee Patrick (probable): as we develop work at the federation level.

[0:23:11] Trustee Patrick (probable): level

[0:23:13] Trustee Luckham (probable): indeed thank you yeah so from my own remarks I'm certainly was very

[0:23:23] Trustee Luckham (probable): excited to hear about that the park acquisition and that's good and and I

[0:23:30] Trustee Luckham (probable): recall that the marine park initiative was wanting to recognize that all the

[0:23:37] Trustee Luckham (probable): little tiny eyelets and things um can inadvertently be damaged by uh um visitors and dogs as a typical

[0:23:50] Trustee Luckham (probable): the two that i remember being spoken of and so i think part of that initiative is to try and provide

[0:23:55] Trustee Luckham (probable): some protection to those places because as crown land which they are um they actually have full

[0:24:01] Trustee Luckham (probable): public access and people can have fires and run their dogs and do all these kinds of things so

[0:24:06] Trustee Luckham (probable): of some kind of park status would indeed be helpful.

[0:24:10] Trustee Luckham (probable): And just note that there's conversations going on.

[0:24:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): Yeah, there's just conversations going on

[0:24:18] Trustee Luckham (probable): about that entire region.

[0:24:20] Trustee Luckham (probable): And very pleased to see the work

[0:24:22] Trustee Luckham (probable): of the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve.

[0:24:26] Trustee Luckham (probable): And I think that planner Zupanak

[0:24:33] Trustee Luckham (probable): actually sits on that Mount Arrowsmith group.

[0:24:37] Trustee Luckham (probable): I have attended on occasion can you confirm that regional planning manager

[0:24:43] Trustee Luckham (probable): car is Sonia still a member of that body I

[0:24:51] Voice 6: don't think she is I'd have to I'd

[0:24:55] Voice 6: have to double-check sorry I don't know off the top of my head

[0:24:58] Trustee Luckham (probable): okay

[0:24:59] Trustee Luckham (probable): certainly she was an advocate for the islands trust on that and it was

[0:25:03] Trustee Luckham (probable): grateful for that work and so I if she's not I guess it's worthy of consideration

[0:25:09] Trustee Luckham (probable): as to whether or not there shouldn't be some representation there I thought the

[0:25:14] Trustee Luckham (probable): meetings I've attended have always been informative so how about I go to some

[0:25:22] Trustee Luckham (probable): reason we don't have you listed here Bob oh here we are the regional district and

[0:25:29] Trustee Luckham (probable): I'm electoral area director update okay so that comes after trust conservancy

[0:25:32] Trustee Luckham (probable): report so did you want to say anything further with respect to trust

[0:25:35] Trustee Luckham (probable): trust conservancy report uh sue ellen uh

[0:25:38] Trustee Fast (probable): no i it's from january the 26th and we've had a lot

[0:25:42] Trustee Fast (probable): going on since then so i um i'd take any questions but otherwise no okay

[0:25:48] Trustee Luckham (probable): thank you i'm more interested

[0:25:50] Trustee Fast (probable): in what bob's got to say

[0:25:51] Trustee Luckham (probable): okay well let's move on to regional district and i'm a electoral area

[0:25:56] Trustee Luckham (probable): director uh bob rogers thank you for joining us over to you okay

[0:26:01] Voice 2: yeah thanks very much everybody

[0:26:02] Voice 2: And I don't have to report at all. And one of the things with respect to the Mount Aerosmith Biosphere, I am not the RDN member on that one.

[0:26:13] Voice 2: So we do have one of our directors that is a member on that and attends the meetings.

[0:26:18] Voice 2: We have no formal MOU between RDN and Aerosmith Biosphere.

[0:26:26] Voice 2: so i'm certainly aware of of this um project and some of the efforts to look at the marine park

[0:26:32] Voice 2: but i'm not um as up to date on that as i should be or perhaps as i might be so

[0:26:38] Voice 2: um one of the things certainly we have had strong feedback and there was good support um locally

[0:26:46] Voice 2: within area e particularly here in the noose because we a lot of us look out onto to those

[0:26:52] Voice 2: islands the um for the acquisition of that as a park and it's and it's changing status um so there

[0:26:59] Voice 2: were um lots of financial contributions some from the area to help make it happen and the and some

[0:27:06] Voice 2: strong movers on that so it's um it's something that um quite pleased to have happened but it is

[0:27:13] Voice 2: not at all um it wasn't put forward um from the RDN or no finances going from from the RDN towards

[0:27:22] Voice 2: towards that.

[0:27:24] Voice 2: So I had wanted to bring up with respect

[0:27:26] Voice 2: where I think it's still valuable to get out there

[0:27:28] Voice 2: on a boat tour for this group as you move along

[0:27:31] Voice 2: and with the invitations to the appropriate

[0:27:34] Voice 2: to the and others.

[0:27:36] Voice 2: And certainly with a new MLA for this area,

[0:27:42] Voice 2: I think it would be,

[0:27:43] Voice 2: he would very likely be interested in attending too.

[0:27:47] Voice 2: And I agree with Chair Luckman that the best way

[0:27:50] Voice 2: to get in touch with so now it's just going to be a direct call with the Chief and he is very

[0:27:57] Voice 2: amenable for that type of meeting if you can meet with him and then also during non-COVID times he's

[0:28:04] Voice 2: very open to getting together for coffee and having a chance to chat. So the and one of the

[0:28:13] Voice 2: things that I've got to go back you know the last couple of years where we had that discussion on

[0:28:17] Voice 2: the marine environment and highlighted by just the lack of kelp that is something that certainly

[0:28:22] Voice 2: concerned me at the time it's something that I think would be good for this group to be able to

[0:28:28] Voice 2: put some attention to if it's if it's possible and also the concerns relative to the public

[0:28:36] Voice 2: wanting to get onto these islands and going out there with parks so it'll be it'll be something

[0:28:42] Voice 2: that is is challenging I think we'll have to watch that it's not overdone and

[0:28:48] Voice 2: then there are also people that have been out there with their boats and have

[0:28:51] Voice 2: been anchored in the bay between the two Bolinas and so on and then have been

[0:28:55] Voice 2: approached by the military police about what they're doing out there so there's

[0:29:00] Voice 2: there's certainly interest from from across the community on just activity

[0:29:05] Voice 2: around there. So

[0:29:06] Trustee Patrick (probable): just

[0:29:07] Voice 2: for staff perspectives, the RDN, we are looking for and doing a search right

[0:29:15] Voice 2: now for a new general manager of our community development and strategic planning. So because

[0:29:26] Voice 2: our general manager left the RDN and went up to Courtney as CAO of the city of Courtney. So we

[0:29:35] Voice 2: are also in a search program for our a new CAO for the regional district so and also for a general

[0:29:44] Voice 2: manager for our community utilities which includes solid waste so when you take a look at our the

[0:29:50] Voice 2: our wastewater treatment plants as we move forward and we are doing a secondary upgrade to the

[0:30:00] Voice 2: treatment plant that has to be done by the end of 2023 and 2024 and we just completed the one in

[0:30:07] Voice 2: in Nanaimo the greater Nanaimo pollution control and both of those involve marine outfalls so it

[0:30:14] Voice 2: certainly is something that the neighbors and residents and the RDN as a whole are

[0:30:20] Voice 2: interested in ensuring that we proceed properly with those so I think that's about all I've got

[0:30:27] Voice 2: right now it's it's been very active we've been affected as much as anybody with um with COVID

[0:30:33] Voice 2: and the and certainly with the fact that Nanaimo um general hospital is is one of the two centers

[0:30:39] Voice 2: on the island for um COVID treatment so but um the um we're basically not in too bad shape so

[0:30:49] Voice 2: as long as vaccinations continue I think we'll all you know get a little better so anyhow that's um

[0:30:55] Voice 2: that's about all I've got. I can answer any questions, but right now I'm not up to date

[0:31:00] Voice 2: on the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere 1 as much as I should be.

[0:31:05] Trustee Luckham (probable): All right, thank you, Bob.

[0:31:08] Trustee Luckham (probable): Any questions? No, thank you. That's great. Okay, so I'm going to continue on to the agenda.

[0:31:16] Trustee Luckham (probable): The next item really is our work program, 11.1, top priorities, April the 12th. I'm not

[0:31:24] Trustee Luckham (probable): anticipating there are too many changes there at this time heather do you have any remarks

[0:31:33] Trustee Fast (probable): no she shook her head

[0:31:34] Trustee Fast (probable): no i shook my

[0:31:35] Trustee Luckham (probable): head sorry no that's fine so um yeah so unless there's any

[0:31:40] Trustee Luckham (probable): changes or suggestions then we'll just uh take that for information and the projects list um

[0:31:46] Trustee Luckham (probable): is uh at 11.2 is similar and um this is definitely one of the quieter ltcs so no closed meeting today

[0:31:56] Trustee Luckham (probable): And we've made a decision about when our next meeting will be, which is October the 13th, I think, at 11 o'clock.

[0:32:05] Trustee Luckham (probable): And so that will be made so.

[0:32:07] Trustee Luckham (probable): So unless there's any further business today, I thank you for taking time out.

[0:32:12] Trustee Luckham (probable): And thank you, Bob, for joining us.

[0:32:15] Trustee Luckham (probable): And we look forward to seeing you all again at some point in the future.

[0:32:20] Trustee Luckham (probable): And I wish you all the best through this, hopefully, what is the remaining period of this COVID times.

[0:32:25] Trustee Luckham (probable): I'm looking forward to my shot next Wednesday and it

[0:32:30] Voice 2: doesn't hurt okay

[0:32:33] Trustee Luckham (probable): I had

[0:32:34] Voice 2: mine on Saturday

[0:32:35] Voice 2: oh

[0:32:36] Trustee Luckham (probable): I heard the needle was this long

[0:32:37] Voice 2: well

[0:32:38] Trustee Luckham (probable): it looks that

[0:32:39] Voice 2: long on tv but it's not as bad

[0:32:42] Trustee Luckham (probable): okay everybody enjoy the rest of the day thank you for being here

[0:32:46] Voice 2: okay thank you thanks for the invitation thanks bye-bye bye-bye