Islands Trust Conservancy Board community information meeting, March 16, 2022

[0:00:00] Trustee Luckham: So good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bolinas-Winchelsea Islands Local Trust Committee meeting.

[0:00:11] Trustee Luckham: The Executive Committee of the Islands Trust is the local trust committee members here.

[0:00:18] Trustee Luckham: And that says laid out in the legislation.

[0:00:21] Trustee Luckham: My name is Peter Luckum. I'm elected here on Thetis Island in the territory of the Penelakut and Laiakson Nations.

[0:00:30] Trustee Luckham: and we are meeting broadly across the Salish Sea here today.

[0:00:35] Trustee Luckham: And, of course, the Bolinus-Winchelsea Islands are within the Nenus,

[0:00:41] Trustee Luckham: or S'nananas, I believe is the pronunciation, nation.

[0:00:45] Trustee Luckham: Although, of course, there are a number of other nations that have interests

[0:00:49] Trustee Luckham: in the Bolinus-Winchelsea Islands, which, in my mind,

[0:00:54] Trustee Luckham: is also a very special place in the Islands Trust area.

[0:00:57] Trustee Luckham: area. So I am joined today and I'll just ask you to give us a wave. And if you want to make a

[0:01:02] Trustee Luckham: territorial remark of where you are today, that'd be great. Trustee Sue Ellenfast and Trustee Dan

[0:01:16] Trustee Luckham: Rogers and Trustee Patrick. And we are also ably joined here today by Heather Cower, our

[0:01:28] Trustee Luckham: our planning manager for the region.

[0:01:31] Trustee Luckham: And also we have Laurie Foster in the background running the Zoom meeting for us.

[0:01:37] Trustee Luckham: I am noting that there are no attendees at this moment,

[0:01:41] Trustee Luckham: but certainly hopeful that there are people viewing the recording,

[0:01:46] Trustee Luckham: if not now, at a later point in time.

[0:01:49] Trustee Luckham: So I have an agenda before us.

[0:01:54] Trustee Luckham: And so I want to call the meeting to order.

[0:01:57] Trustee Luckham: and indeed, as I have already spoken,

[0:01:59] Trustee Luckham: acknowledge that we are meeting in Coastal Territory

[0:02:02] Trustee Luckham: and grateful to be here and we will continue on here now.

[0:02:09] Trustee Luckham: So the approval of the agenda,

[0:02:10] Trustee Luckham: is there anything else to add or remove from the agenda?

[0:02:14] Trustee Luckham: Heather, vice-chairs?

[0:02:16] Trustee Luckham: No, okay, so then we'll just adopt the agenda

[0:02:19] Trustee Luckham: by general consent as presented.

[0:02:21] Trustee Luckham: The first item is town hall.

[0:02:24] Trustee Luckham: I'm not seeing any attendees,

[0:02:25] Trustee Luckham: attendees nor do I see any folks that don't recognize their names on the panelists list so

[0:02:31] Trustee Luckham: I'm going to assume that there are no attendees if somebody shows up late we could certainly

[0:02:37] Trustee Luckham: accommodate them if if they showed up so we have a number of minutes here before us in section four

[0:02:46] Trustee Luckham: local trust committee minutes dated November 30th here for adoption are there any concerns with

[0:02:53] Trustee Luckham: those minutes? No. So then I'm going to adopt those by general consent as presented. The next

[0:03:00] Trustee Luckham: one is at 4.2, special meeting minutes dated January the 24th. Also here for adoption. Any

[0:03:07] Trustee Luckham: changes there? No. All right. Then so then I will adopt those by general consent also as presented.

[0:03:16] Trustee Luckham: Just a report here at 4.3, resolution without meeting report. And that is ostensibly to conduct

[0:03:25] Trustee Luckham: conduct administrative functions without physically meeting, and there was two items

[0:03:32] Trustee Luckham: there, and that's in the agenda package. So, business arising from the minutes,

[0:03:38] Trustee Luckham: the follow-up action list on page 12 of the package, and I'll just ask, I'll turn to Heather,

[0:03:48] Trustee Luckham: Regional Planning Manager Cowher, to ask us if there's any remarks you'd like to make about the

[0:03:53] Trustee Luckham: the follow-up action list, and then I'll just go

[0:03:54] Trustee Luckham: to the trustees to ask if they have any questions.

[0:03:59] Voice 4: None for me, none for me.

[0:04:02] Trustee Luckham: Okay, thank you very much, Heather.

[0:04:04] Trustee Luckham: By chair, this is confusing, trustees,

[0:04:08] Trustee Luckham: do you have any questions for the planning staff

[0:04:11] Trustee Luckham: on the follow-up action list?

[0:04:13] Trustee Luckham: No, okay, so all is good.

[0:04:16] Trustee Luckham: So then just gonna move through,

[0:04:18] Trustee Luckham: no applications or referrals,

[0:04:20] Trustee Luckham: no local trust committee projects,

[0:04:21] Trustee Luckham: no delegations, no correspondence. One piece of new business that we have before us is the

[0:04:27] Trustee Luckham: shoreline briefing on page 15. I don't know how many of you have seen this before. We've seen it

[0:04:34] Trustee Luckham: at a couple of LTCs. It's a really all-encompassing report from a consultant via the Regional Planning

[0:04:45] Trustee Luckham: and committee and um is here to help us in our work so we if we chose to do anything with respect

[0:04:53] Trustee Luckham: to shorelines um any i'm just going to jump right to uh unless well i should out of fairness uh

[0:05:00] Trustee Luckham: planning our planner heather cower um do you have any remarks with respect to the shoreline report

[0:05:06] Trustee Luckham: over and above what i've just said no okay thank you so trustees do you have any remarks

[0:05:13] Trustee Luckham: Mark's respect to, I imagine maybe some of you

[0:05:16] Trustee Luckham: have seen this already at your LTCs.

[0:05:21] Trustee Luckham: Sue Ellen Fast.

[0:05:23] Trustee Fast: Yes, thank you, Chair.

[0:05:25] Trustee Fast: I'm interested in this report.

[0:05:27] Trustee Fast: I think it's more of a discussion paper kind of tool

[0:05:34] Trustee Fast: that we could use at some point.

[0:05:37] Trustee Fast: Personally, I thought about it a bit

[0:05:38] Trustee Fast: and I thought it would be better to wait

[0:05:43] Trustee Fast: Wait until we've got an updated trust policy statement, because that has shoreline elements in it and things about docks, or I'm happy to discuss it now.

[0:05:56] Trustee Fast: Over.

[0:05:58] Voice 5: You cut

[0:05:59] Trustee Luckham: out there, just for me anyway, the last bit there, you're happy to what?

[0:06:02] Trustee Luckham: And then you said over.

[0:06:04] Trustee Fast: Happy to discuss it now, if people would like.

[0:06:07] Trustee Fast: Sorry, my internet is cutting in and out, and so I might freeze up occasionally.

[0:06:11] Trustee Luckham: Okay.

[0:06:12] Trustee Luckham: Okay. Turn the heat up in there. We don't want you getting cold. So any other remarks on this one, Dan Rogers?

[0:06:24] Trustee Rogers: So it's been at least the LTCs that I'm familiar with. I don't think we've seen it at Gambier yet. We might get it at the end of the month.

[0:06:33] Voice 5: Anyway, of

[0:06:34] Trustee Rogers: course, we are doing the project on Keats right now.

[0:06:36] Trustee Rogers: but the um uh it's been sort of received with in my experience sort of a mixed review nobody

[0:06:43] Trustee Rogers: really wants to take a project on at this time of the term uh i believe we put it on the projects

[0:06:49] Trustee Rogers: list on gabriola i could be wrong um on galliano we referred it to the apc to say go pick the

[0:06:57] Trustee Rogers: pieces out and compare it to our current lub and ocp because they have a

[0:07:01] Trustee Rogers: lot of this stuff already

[0:07:02] Trustee Rogers: in there and consider whether or not and give us a report back but i don't see this two things one

[0:07:09] Trustee Rogers: is it's kind of late in the term to start any work on something like this um and second of all uh i'm

[0:07:16] Trustee Rogers: not sure how applicable it is to an area where there is one permanent resident one permanent

[0:07:23] Trustee Rogers: residential property um as i understand it and maybe i'm wrong about boonies when chelsea but

[0:07:28] Trustee Rogers: But my understanding is there was only the one family slash couple that lived on the islands permanently.

[0:07:37] Trustee Rogers: So I'm not sure there's really, I mean, my inclination subject to what others might say is it doesn't really seem to be very impactful to the Bolinas or the Chelsea area where we could consider the particular foreshores of those particular areas.

[0:07:54] Trustee Rogers: And hopefully they're well protected anyway.

[0:07:56] Trustee Rogers: but that would be my view when I see trustee Patrick

[0:07:58] Trustee Rogers: who actually sits on the RPC and will know more than I do.

[0:08:05] Voice 5: My

[0:08:06] Voice 2: only comment is that there is a shoreline

[0:08:10] Voice 2: development permit area already, at least in this area.

[0:08:12] Voice 2: So there is some form of protection and I think, yes,

[0:08:17] Voice 2: they would benefit if more work comes down the road

[0:08:21] Voice 2: through some of

[0:08:22] Voice 5: the model work.

[0:08:28] Voice 5: Okay, very good.

[0:08:32] Trustee Luckham: I agree for the most part with all of the

[0:08:35] Trustee Luckham: All of the comments there. I do, however, think that Belenus Island itself, which we did actually down zone years ago, is vulnerable. If somebody with enough money wants to come in and do something on that island, we would have to preserve and protect.

[0:08:56] Trustee Luckham: check. And this report may be helpful in that and whether or not there's any groundwork that

[0:09:01] Trustee Luckham: we could do to message that for potential developer out there. I guess we'd have to

[0:09:06] Trustee Luckham: figure that out. But I agree that there's only the one family of residents and Bolinas Island

[0:09:14] Trustee Luckham: just sits out there quietly by itself. And I'll just remark that on Thetis, we have actually

[0:09:22] Trustee Luckham: embraced this report because we are on a project and was the one LTC that said, yes, we would like

[0:09:28] Trustee Luckham: some guidelines. And actually, Doug and I have read the report a few times and feel that it needs

[0:09:38] Trustee Luckham: sort of an executive summary, I guess, although more of a consumer-ready highlights of the

[0:09:48] Trustee Luckham: document too that might encourage people to read the full document or at least understand

[0:09:52] Trustee Luckham: the principles behind shoreline protection. And Doug was even making some noise the other day

[0:10:00] Trustee Luckham: about actually making a start on that. I'm not sure how that would work with the planning work

[0:10:06] Trustee Luckham: and the like. But indeed, we're off on a very slow boat, literally, next week, starting with

[0:10:16] Trustee Luckham: the penelicate and the laxon to do a boat tour to look look at the shoreline with those nations to

[0:10:23] Trustee Luckham: determine what their interests are to inform us with respect to shoreline protection which has

[0:10:29] Trustee Luckham: been on our interest list for quite a long time so i'm just going to receive this for information at

[0:10:35] Trustee Luckham: this time um and um thank the staff and our rpc for all the work that they've done so let's go to

[0:10:42] Trustee Luckham: 10.2, if that's all right, which is the Mount Aerosmith Biosphere Region upcoming events.

[0:10:48] Trustee Luckham: Looks like we've actually missed a couple of those. I think that maybe the BioBlitz is the

[0:10:52] Trustee Luckham: remaining event. And I think, Dan, you asked to have this specifically on the agenda, and I thank

[0:10:56] Trustee Luckham: you for that because it's important that we be at a minimum aware of what's going on. I have attended

[0:11:03] Trustee Luckham: one or more events in the past and met with the director of the Biosphere Region. She used to be

[0:11:10] Trustee Luckham: be a contractor for us actually at one time uh judy shaw i think it is i can't remember exactly

[0:11:18] Trustee Luckham: now um anyway um what are our what dan i'll just turn it over to you you asked to have this on the

[0:11:25] Trustee Luckham: agenda so what are your thoughts

[0:11:27] Voice 5: here uh

[0:11:32] Trustee Rogers: sorry i was muted and i i'm having i have to find a way

[0:11:36] Trustee Rogers: to pull up the agenda package in front of me can can uh um i i just wondered i mean my theory was

[0:11:45] Trustee Rogers: was partly was we made connection on Gabriel with the biosphere and because they were our

[0:11:54] Trustee Rogers: contractor. I don't know that I asked for this to be put on, but it's, I think it's great that it's

[0:11:59] Trustee Rogers: on. And I guess the question would be whether there is any, any connection between what they're

[0:12:07] Trustee Rogers: working on and the work that they were in responsibilities that we have in relation to

[0:12:12] Trustee Rogers: the islands which are occasionally overlooked it's unfortunate we never got our our one plant

[0:12:17] Trustee Rogers: activity for this term which is our boat tour because we could have brought the mount air

[0:12:22] Trustee Rogers: smith group with us um so they could have an eye on all of this um so uh i i don't have any

[0:12:32] Trustee Rogers: particular um uh id i i don't have an agenda here but if if somebody wanted to be part and i think

[0:12:40] Trustee Rogers: we do we still have staff sitting on their advisory board rpm tower not

[0:12:46] Voice 4: at the moment

[0:12:47] Voice 4: there's a there's a spot for us we get invited i think we'll start attending again when we're

[0:12:52] Voice 4: fully staffed

[0:12:52] Trustee Luckham: right sonja zupanek has been our correct me if i'm wrong um has been our lead into

[0:12:59] Trustee Luckham: that um you know not only does she have the interest of the alums trust uh but a professional

[0:13:05] Trustee Luckham: and personal interest in that work.

[0:13:08] Trustee Luckham: And yeah, so would that be your expectation

[0:13:18] Trustee Luckham: that Sonia might pick up that role

[0:13:20] Trustee Luckham: once you get some adequate staff resources?

[0:13:24] Voice 4: Possibly.

[0:13:25] Voice 4: Sonia is currently working a part-time schedule herself.

[0:13:29] Voice 4: So it'll depend on how long that might last as well.

[0:13:35] Voice 5: Okay, fair enough.

[0:13:39] Trustee Luckham: All right. So is there any action that anybody wants to take?

[0:13:45] Trustee Luckham: The bio blitz, I'll just note, because I know a little bit about the bio blitzes that happen across the Salish Sea.

[0:13:52] Trustee Luckham: I think that's the same week that the bio blitz has happened in a number of places.

[0:13:57] Trustee Luckham: I've participated in them in association with the Valdez Island Conservancy and the Galliano Island Conservancy in prior years.

[0:14:07] Trustee Luckham: and I actually get involved as a citizen scientist in my scuba gear

[0:14:12] Trustee Luckham: and we go, we jump in the water for a couple of days

[0:14:15] Trustee Luckham: and count species and take people out to have a look at what's going on.

[0:14:19] Trustee Luckham: It's quite a fun, exciting thing to be involved in

[0:14:22] Trustee Luckham: and I'm desperate to get back in the water

[0:14:25] Trustee Luckham: but I don't think I can do it by April 9th and 10th

[0:14:27] Trustee Luckham: and it's actually something that we should do more frequently

[0:14:33] Trustee Luckham: and engaging with First Nations as well

[0:14:35] Trustee Luckham: because, of course, the marine world and the plant resources are obviously of significant interest to the First Nations' needs.

[0:14:51] Trustee Luckham: So, Sue Ellen Fass, and I'll just ask if we just want to receive this information.

[0:14:56] Trustee Fast: Sue Ellen Fass?

[0:14:57] Trustee Fast: Yeah, thank you, Chair.

[0:14:59] Trustee Fast: Chair, I think this is just terrific that we've got another biosphere region to work with in Bolinas-Winchelsea local trust area.

[0:15:13] Trustee Fast: And I look forward to working with them when we can get together after COVID.

[0:15:18] Trustee Fast: I haven't had a chance to be involved in any of these yet.

[0:15:21] Trustee Fast: and yet our interests are so aligned

[0:15:26] Trustee Fast: as they are over here

[0:15:27] Trustee Fast: and I'll get somehow sound

[0:15:29] Trustee Fast: and I think there's great potential here

[0:15:32] Trustee Fast: and I appreciate having this on the agenda

[0:15:36] Trustee Fast: to remind us about our partners

[0:15:38] Trustee Fast: that we could perhaps work more closely with.

[0:15:41] Trustee Fast: Thank you.

[0:15:43] Trustee Rogers: Dan Rogers.

[0:15:45] Trustee Rogers: I was just going to say, RPM Carrier,

[0:15:47] Trustee Rogers: do we know if we have contact information

[0:15:52] Trustee Rogers: for the people that have occasionally joined us

[0:15:55] Trustee Rogers: at our willingness when Chelsea LTC meetings.

[0:15:59] Trustee Rogers: I've forgotten, I apologize if they're watching,

[0:16:02] Trustee Rogers: I've forgotten their names.

[0:16:03] Trustee Rogers: They've come and spoken to us a couple of times.

[0:16:05] Trustee Rogers: I just, I guess the other thought I might've had about this

[0:16:08] Trustee Rogers: is this was good public information.

[0:16:10] Trustee Rogers: They knew that the,

[0:16:11] Trustee Rogers: and if it had appeared on our agenda package,

[0:16:14] Trustee Rogers: it might, they could see that this was occurring

[0:16:17] Trustee Rogers: in their area.

[0:16:18] Trustee Rogers: But I'm now wondering given that,

[0:16:21] Trustee Rogers: you know about that about whether we could just flip an email or if we if someone sent me the the

[0:16:29] Trustee Rogers: their contact information I'd be happy to just write them a quick email and say we just want

[0:16:33] Trustee Rogers: you to know this is going on out there and you might be interested in what's happening with

[0:16:38] Trustee Rogers: Aerosmith and maybe they already know but I'd be happy to do that or our staff could do it if the

[0:16:42] Trustee Rogers: staff would like to do it but I don't know I

[0:16:45] Voice 4: can follow up on that thanks because

[0:16:47] Voice 4: none

[0:16:50] Trustee Rogers: of us live

[0:16:50] Trustee Rogers: I live in this region, of course, and so it's a challenge.

[0:16:54] Trustee Rogers: Actually, I was in Colica Beach on the 15th

[0:16:58] Trustee Rogers: and if I'd been paying attention to my package,

[0:17:00] Trustee Rogers: I could have stopped in and seen what was going on.

[0:17:02] Trustee Rogers: But thank you.

[0:17:03] Trustee Rogers: I

[0:17:09] Voice 5: hope to be everywhere

[0:17:11] Trustee Luckham: and be all things to all people

[0:17:14] Trustee Luckham: as usual, but let us receive information.

[0:17:19] Trustee Luckham: If Heather, you want to reach out,

[0:17:25] Trustee Luckham: somehow communicate via email or otherwise about this,

[0:17:30] Trustee Luckham: although I suspect that they probably already know

[0:17:34] Trustee Luckham: more so than we do even, but fair enough.

[0:17:39] Trustee Luckham: I'm going to move on the agenda, if that's all right,

[0:17:43] Trustee Luckham: to trust your reports, just gives the opportunity.

[0:17:48] Trustee Luckham: Anybody have anything to report?

[0:17:49] Trustee Luckham: I don't believe so, no.

[0:17:51] Trustee Luckham: and the chair's report,

[0:17:54] Trustee Luckham: only that we've just come back from council

[0:17:56] Trustee Luckham: and a budget has been adopted for the 2022-23 term,

[0:18:04] Trustee Luckham: not without challenges,

[0:18:10] Trustee Luckham: but we did manage to reduce the proposed council,

[0:18:13] Trustee Luckham: managed to reduce the proposed budget by a small amount

[0:18:17] Trustee Luckham: and I'm grateful for everybody and staff

[0:18:20] Trustee Luckham: for the work that was undertaken to do that.

[0:18:24] Trustee Luckham: Trust Conservancy, we have two reports here

[0:18:27] Trustee Luckham: from November and January,

[0:18:29] Trustee Luckham: and I have the great opportunity to turn it over

[0:18:32] Trustee Luckham: to Sue Ellen Fast, the Executive Committee Representative

[0:18:35] Trustee Luckham: on the Conservancy to just say what you wish

[0:18:40] Trustee Luckham: about these two reports and anything else that's ongoing

[0:18:44] Trustee Luckham: that may be pertinent to Bellina Swin-Chelsea.

[0:18:47] Trustee Fast: Thank you, Chair.

[0:18:48] Trustee Fast: Chair. Just briefly, you've got the two reports there in front of you. And I'll just add that

[0:18:54] Trustee Fast: for anybody who may be watching that we're Islands Trust Conservancy protects over 111

[0:19:01] Trustee Fast: properties. This is another arm of the Islands Trust that holds nature reserves and conservation

[0:19:12] Trustee Fast: covenants on proper on private lands uh and um we just had a meeting yesterday of the islands

[0:19:19] Trustee Fast: trust conservancy of which i'm a vice chair and um we uh uh i'm looking at our uh agenda and i

[0:19:30] Trustee Fast: don't see any business that took place within bolinas uh win chelsea except that we're going

[0:19:36] Trustee Fast: to be going into a five-year plan review which is required by the um ministry but that's more

[0:19:42] Trustee Fast: of an administrative um thing and uh but it'll include aspects of the regional conservation plan

[0:19:51] Trustee Fast: uh as well in terms of the process so that we'll be going ahead and i don't uh the acquisition

[0:19:58] Trustee Fast: public acquisitions reports and those things are all in the public agendas of the islands

[0:20:02] Trustee Fast: trust conservancy at the islands trust website and i discovered that it's got its own title if

[0:20:08] Trustee Fast: If you just wanted to look for islandstrustconservancy.ca, you can find the material about the organization.

[0:20:17] Trustee Fast: Thank you.

[0:20:18] Trustee Fast: Thank

[0:20:19] Trustee Luckham: you very much.

[0:20:20] Trustee Luckham: I'm going to move on.

[0:20:21] Trustee Luckham: The regional district director has not joined us today.

[0:20:27] Trustee Luckham: He often does.

[0:20:29] Trustee Luckham: And these are busy times across the entire region.

[0:20:33] Trustee Luckham: So I certainly look forward to anything from the director in the future.

[0:20:37] Trustee Luckham: Sure.

[0:20:39] Trustee Luckham: SNANANAS, the News First Nation representative report.

[0:20:42] Trustee Luckham: This is a standing item on our agenda.

[0:20:44] Trustee Luckham: And Heather, do we have anything

[0:20:49] Trustee Luckham: from the SNANANAS First Nations?

[0:20:52] Trustee Luckham: No.

[0:20:53] Trustee Luckham: All right, thank you.

[0:20:54] Trustee Luckham: So certainly we have ongoing interest to reach out

[0:20:58] Trustee Luckham: and communicate and share what we have

[0:21:02] Trustee Luckham: and learn from the SNANANAS Nation

[0:21:05] Trustee Luckham: with respect to these islands so the rest of the agenda fairly administrative not really anything

[0:21:13] Trustee Luckham: there to report uh probably 11.9 uh local trust me web page there's uh i believe there was uh

[0:21:22] Trustee Luckham: funding uh to facilitate some updates to the website and certainly there'll be other

[0:21:27] Trustee Luckham: ongoing maintenance work associated there there certainly have been some problems identified with

[0:21:33] Trustee Luckham: the website and we are hoping that they might be rectified in the coming months and i don't have

[0:21:39] Trustee Luckham: anything else to add there unless anybody else does i'll move on to the top priorities report

[0:21:45] Trustee Luckham: dated march 8th um and then that also the project list report march 8th and are there any thoughts

[0:21:53] Trustee Luckham: around any of that at this time nope all right then so we'll receive those for information

[0:21:59] Trustee Luckham: We don't have a closed meeting today. The next meeting for this local trust committee is scheduled for June the 29th, 1030.

[0:22:10] Trustee Luckham: I'm presuming that this would be electronic, but it's hard for me to guess or even know what happens next because, of course, we're moving back to in-person meetings.

[0:22:21] Trustee Luckham: We were meeting there before COVID in the health center at this Nonanos First Nations, and it would be nice to go back there to even just be in that community and have that opportunity to engage with this Nonanos Nation there.

[0:22:38] Trustee Luckham: Did you have any thoughts or would you like to confirm one way or the other about your expectations, RPM, Cara, with respect to our next meeting?

[0:22:46] Trustee Luckham: I

[0:22:48] Voice 4: mean, it is up to the LTC. I think from our perspective, it seems like assuming that

[0:22:56] Voice 4: Bolinas-Winchelsey meetings are electronic, unless we hear otherwise, might be the easiest

[0:23:03] Voice 4: way to approach it. I agree. Yeah. Dan Rogers?

[0:23:10] Trustee Rogers: I agree. I think the only circumstance under which

[0:23:16] Trustee Rogers: we needed to would need to plan an in-person meeting with it somehow or other a sorry a

[0:23:23] Trustee Rogers: specific meeting with the look the first nation arose we have never I know we had contact mostly

[0:23:32] Trustee Rogers: through staff when we were trying to arrange the unfortunate boat tour that never occurred

[0:23:37] Trustee Rogers: um i know we tried at least twice and uh but it if there was an opportunity to uh to

[0:23:46] Trustee Rogers: meet with them in person it is it was their beautiful hall that we or or was it a medical

[0:23:52] Trustee Rogers: center i thought it was their community hall whatever it was uh it was a beautiful hall that

[0:23:57] Trustee Rogers: we met in and uh and if there was an opportunity for them to join us or us to join them that would

[0:24:04] Trustee Rogers: would be the only reason I would say to meet it.

[0:24:07] Voice 5: Right.

[0:24:08] Voice 5: I would also like

[0:24:10] Trustee Luckham: to add that,

[0:24:11] Trustee Luckham: and maybe there's potential there as much as anything,

[0:24:14] Trustee Luckham: if there was a chance to meet

[0:24:15] Trustee Luckham: with the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere region,

[0:24:17] Trustee Luckham: and it's not enough,

[0:24:18] Trustee Luckham: and maybe do that at the university,

[0:24:21] Trustee Luckham: which they might be able to provide the space for,

[0:24:24] Trustee Luckham: that would also be a very worthwhile.

[0:24:27] Trustee Luckham: And maybe there's, we could think about that.

[0:24:29] Trustee Luckham: I could certainly talk to, I think it's Pam Shaw actually,

[0:24:33] Trustee Luckham: about what their relationship is

[0:24:36] Trustee Luckham: and whether or not that potential

[0:24:38] Trustee Luckham: might be there to draw us all together

[0:24:40] Trustee Luckham: because I think it's certainly worthwhile

[0:24:45] Trustee Luckham: to support communications in that group.

[0:24:49] Trustee Luckham: And of course, if we did do that,

[0:24:51] Trustee Luckham: invite the one residence

[0:24:52] Trustee Luckham: and the other landowner

[0:24:54] Trustee Luckham: if they chose to come,

[0:24:55] Trustee Luckham: it would be a good...

[0:24:58] Trustee Luckham: It's one of those interesting moments

[0:24:59] Trustee Luckham: where you can actually draw 100%

[0:25:01] Trustee Luckham: and have the interested parties together, which is unusual.

[0:25:07] Trustee Luckham: Okay, so then let's leave it at that.

[0:25:10] Trustee Luckham: Then on June 29th would be electronic unless otherwise something changes.

[0:25:15] Trustee Luckham: And so I'll just ask, is there any other business today?

[0:25:19] Trustee Luckham: That'll be the shortest LTC meeting on record.

[0:25:23] Trustee Luckham: So I'll call for adjournment and ask for all those in favor.

[0:25:28] Trustee Luckham: And that carries.

[0:25:29] Trustee Luckham: and thank you very much executive committee for your work on this committee and thank you Heather

[0:25:35] Trustee Luckham: for your work and thank you Lori for organizing this today. So let us all go about our days the

[0:25:41] Trustee Luckham: sun is shining here on Thetis and I'm looking forward to a pleasant afternoon. Thanks everyone.