Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 8, 2025

[0:00:00] do this May 8th, 2025

[0:00:03] Voice 4: meeting of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee. I want

[0:00:08] Voice 4: to begin the meeting today by acknowledging that we're fortunate to be able to gather

[0:00:11] Voice 4: on the

[0:00:13] Voice 12: territories of Coast Salish peoples, the stewards of these lands and waters. It's

[0:00:17] Voice 12: time for the memorial. Land and territory acknowledgements are important today because

[0:00:23] Voice 12: colonialism is not just a historical problem, it's ongoing and present day. Monday was Red

[0:00:29] Red Dress Day, an occasion to reflect on the issues

[0:00:32] Voice 12: around missing and murdered women and girls

[0:00:35] Voice 12: and the experience of LGBTQ plus people.

[0:00:39] Voice 12: Racism and the devaluation of human life

[0:00:42] Voice 12: lead to horrific

[0:00:43] Voice 4: abuse and deaths.

[0:00:46] Voice 12: And as we reflect, it's important to consider

[0:00:48] Voice 12: how the senseless loss of these lives

[0:00:50] Voice 12: deeply affect those left behind.

[0:00:54] Voice 12: If we put ourselves in the shoes of the bereaved

[0:00:56] Voice 12: and imagined our loved ones, our sisters, our mothers,

[0:01:00] Voice 12: our daughters, missing or murdered, never to be seen or heard or embraced again.

[0:01:07] Voice 12: Perhaps we can empathize and take the importance of Day of Reflection to heart.

[0:01:16] Voice 12: So with that, I want everyone to be aware we're live streaming the meeting,

[0:01:26] and a recording will be posted on the Islands Trust website.

[0:01:32] And my name is Tim Peterson, I'm elected on Mesquite Island,

[0:01:36] and I'm the appointed chair of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee.

[0:01:40] Joining me today are local trustees Jamie Harris and Laura Patrick and together we comprise the

[0:01:48] Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee and we

[0:01:55] Voice 12: have regrets from Regional Planning Manager Chris

[0:01:59] Voice 12: Hutton, although I think he's going to join us via Zoom, and Ralph Ingalls here, sorry,

[0:02:13] Voice 12: right chris bucket and um lisa millard's our meeting administrator uh this meeting is an

[0:02:22] Voice 12: official forum for the local trust committee to make decisions about land use planning matters

[0:02:26] Voice 12: and to discuss relevant business it's also a place of employment and our staff have the right to a

[0:02:32] Voice 12: safe and respectful workplace uh also point out joining us is uh local community commission

[0:02:39] Voice 12: chair earl rook appreciate having you here um so we have an agenda before us and i will look to see

[0:02:46] Voice 12: if there's any amendments to today's agenda yes sir oh just to be noted we had the addendum yes

[0:02:57] and one of those items was not on the agenda

[0:03:00] Voice 7: so just to be noted that it's always that tricky

[0:03:07] Voice 7: piece we publish the agenda and then when we publish the addendum okay to note that the items

[0:03:14] Voice 7: are had are being added to the agenda publicly okay so

[0:03:18] Voice 4: then um we can just note that item 17.4

[0:03:25] uh will be on today's agenda which is the united stress conservancy board report

[0:03:29] uh or no not report

[0:03:31] Voice 12: but the natural area tax exemption application closer and that sets

[0:03:38] Voice 12: 17.4 uh so can i take it by general consent we'll adopt the agenda as amended that uh so first up we

[0:03:48] Voice 12: have um where did i go of town hall town hall is your opportunity to speak uh we want to hear your

[0:03:57] questions and comments and um we request that you direct comments to the elected

[0:04:06] Voice 4: uh and not the

[0:04:08] Voice 4: audience or staff speak about individual or issues not not other individuals uh bleed be uh clear

[0:04:17] Voice 4: concise

[0:04:18] Voice 12: and respectful and i'll look to see if there's members of the public that wish to address

[0:04:23] Voice 12: the local trust committee today i see one please go ahead please go ahead

[0:04:31] Voice 4: i'm

[0:04:32] Voice 10: going to stand here

[0:04:33] Voice 10: yeah that'd be great my

[0:04:38] Voice 2: name is mina lee johnstone been a resident of salt spring island

[0:04:43] Voice 2: for 38 years and um i've been on various different boards and commissions um last one was the

[0:04:54] Voice 2: transportation commission um i've been following the trust for a long time and i'm here to tell

[0:05:03] Voice 2: you today that unless you the whole island i've been to the lcc about it and now i i'm going

[0:05:10] Voice 2: publicly with you you've got to look at transportation what is going on in this island

[0:05:16] Voice 2: is become you know absurd it's like the old thing of the boiling frog you know finally there's just

[0:05:24] Voice 2: so many frogs they can't hop out anymore that's what's happening with the traffic here this past

[0:05:29] Voice 2: us while the construction's been going on you know you see facebook and everybody complaining

[0:05:35] Voice 2: complain oh two hours it took me and all this sort of thing well they don't think about what

[0:05:42] Voice 2: what's causing that it's everybody driving and now you look at the ocp the ocp didn't think of

[0:05:49] Voice 2: the future and you really have to start thinking of the future how much more traffic can we actually

[0:05:55] Voice 2: have on this island when we have that construction and there's the emergency what's it going to be

[0:05:59] Voice 2: you'd like you know as seniors we're living with like the noise of not only multi lawnmowers and

[0:06:07] Voice 2: but the traffic noise and when you get older it's it's no fun it's like who wants to die on this

[0:06:14] Voice 2: island now you know in the midst of all the noise and traffic and fumes you look at country grocery

[0:06:20] Voice 2: the parking lots are full you look at gandhi 10 o'clock in the morning the parking lots are full

[0:06:25] Voice 2: you know there are solutions but when you and now i'm telling you about housing when you get to

[0:06:32] Voice 2: housing you've got to think are you going to provide a whole bunch of parking spaces or what

[0:06:36] Voice 2: you know because the whole island has got to look at this thing of transportation and i do know

[0:06:42] Voice 2: that you have submitted to climate change and i see a bit of you know you're committed to housing

[0:06:48] Voice 2: and i see the word transportation in there but what does it mean to you what does transportation

[0:06:53] Voice 2: mean to you and the whole island are trying to let them know look i'm warning you i'm warning you

[0:06:58] Voice 2: it's so bad already what's it going to be like here in 10 years um so that's basically my rant

[0:07:06] Voice 2: to you today and warning you and you've got to look at it see what you can do you can limit

[0:07:11] Voice 2: parking spaces on buildings i know municipalities are doing that now you know they're all looking

[0:07:17] Voice 2: at the climate thing and the government's got this active transportation thing which you know i know

[0:07:25] Voice 2: the big data from that how much traffic there is on south spring from the active transportation

[0:07:32] Voice 2: so you we've got to get together and really work on this okay

[0:07:40] Voice 12: anyone else that like to address the local trust committee i've got you in your own section

[0:07:49] Voice 12: so i'm not seeing any more questions or comments then our next section is delegation vaccine

[0:07:58] Voice 9: hello so i'm maxine leicester and i'm giving this delegation on behalf of positively forward

[0:08:06] Voice 9: and uh we just wanted to call your attention to our recently released policy paper entitled

[0:08:13] Voice 9: pathways to affordable housing on salt spring uh it was included in your agenda package it is a

[0:08:20] Voice 9: roadmap to provide more affordable housing here while at the same time protecting our island

[0:08:26] Voice 9: against overdevelopment. Like many in our community we are deeply concerned about the severe lack of

[0:08:33] Voice 9: affordable housing on our island. The shortage affects essential services, harms local businesses

[0:08:38] Voice 9: and forces valued members of our community to leave. The paper does emphasize that provision

[0:08:46] Voice 9: vision of affordable housing for island workers will require creative funding sources and ironclad

[0:08:53] Voice 9: legal protections for affordability. The paper also presents considerations for the OCP review.

[0:09:00] Voice 9: The most critical is retaining the policy B212 that permits increased zoning only for

[0:09:08] Voice 9: for affordable housing, thus allowing for more housing

[0:09:14] Voice 9: for those needing it the most

[0:09:15] Voice 9: and protecting our environment from over development.

[0:09:19] Voice 9: This policy establishes clear limits to future growth

[0:09:23] Voice 9: important at this time when climate change challenges

[0:09:26] Voice 9: make this even more vital.

[0:09:28] Voice 9: The paper is being released in draft form

[0:09:31] Voice 9: so that community members, including elected officials

[0:09:35] Voice 9: can submit comments before we issue a final document,

[0:09:39] Voice 9: and your comments are very welcome.

[0:09:43] Voice 9: We respectfully request that the policy paper

[0:09:46] Voice 9: be included in the list of guiding documents

[0:09:49] Voice 9: for the OCP LUV review.

[0:09:52] Voice 9: Thank you.

[0:09:54] Voice 9: Questions?

[0:09:54] Voice 13: I think the question line, I

[0:09:56] Voice 5: have a couple.

[0:09:57] Voice 9: Oh, okay.

[0:09:58] Voice 13: On your roadmap, you talked about expanding

[0:10:00] Voice 13: the rental matching service.

[0:10:02] Voice 13: service um are you are you promoting basically that we should be catching people with illegal

[0:10:11] Voice 13: rentals is that well

[0:10:13] Voice 9: that service is in place now crd has a service and that's what we had envisioned

[0:10:19] Voice 9: uh it's been asked for by the community many times and it's now been instituted and that's

[0:10:25] Voice 9: what we were recommending a program like the one that exists right now so

[0:10:31] Voice 13: it'd be similar to

[0:10:32] Voice 13: you talk about trying to get strs uh turned over to rentals how do we make those legal rentals i

[0:10:41] Voice 9: think what the matching program is for people who want to rent in their

[0:10:46] Voice 13: homes no but i mean you also

[0:10:47] Voice 13: haven't addressed short-term vacation rentals how do we make those legal housing talk about trying

[0:10:58] Voice 13: trying to put I

[0:10:59] Voice 9: don't think

[0:11:00] Voice 13: that's a

[0:11:01] Voice 13: go that's what okay um

[0:11:04] Voice 9: but but really if you find things

[0:11:07] Voice 9: that you think are unclear please let us know uh that's the whole purpose of doing the draft

[0:11:13] Voice 9: if something isn't clear we could clarify that okay question

[0:11:17] Voice 9: yeah

[0:11:18] Voice 12: trustee Harris um yeah thanks

[0:11:20] Voice 12: Maxine you mentioned something about funding in there yes

[0:11:23] Voice 9: funding yes

[0:11:24] Voice 12: can you just speak a little

[0:11:26] Voice 9: well one of the suggestions we made was that the province give us the ability to do a property

[0:11:34] Voice 9: transfer tax and this is what they did did in the san juan island just south of here every time

[0:11:40] Voice 9: someone sells property they pay a tax an extra tax and then that goes specifically for affordable

[0:11:47] Voice 9: housing to the local community and you can do it so it only is for houses over a certain value

[0:11:54] Voice 9: you know so you wouldn't be affecting people that are buying houses in the lower you know more

[0:12:00] Voice 9: affordable cost so let's say it only applied to houses over two million something that's

[0:12:08] Voice 12: positively forward and we're considered

[0:12:12] Voice 12: salisbury being a municipality so the others trust involves that we could retain three million

[0:12:17] Voice 12: dollars plus annually here in texas well our

[0:12:21] Voice 9: official position has been that we do not favor

[0:12:24] Voice 9: salt stream being its paladin that's our

[0:12:28] Voice 9: historical position i

[0:12:30] Voice 7: realize but i know

[0:12:30] Voice 7: things change in time especially when you know something that can be taken into great consideration

[0:12:37] Voice 7: back to that i can't speak because i finished is that you may be able to take this back

[0:12:41] Voice 7: that i mean this paladin have a mandate similar to the island's trust or maybe even stronger

[0:12:48] as far as protecting the environment goes like that's a completely legitimate scenario

[0:12:54] Voice 12: and again

[0:12:56] Voice 12: we know who all gets involved generally in the local government so we know who will probably

[0:13:01] Voice 12: be on that board or at least be represented um you know to a large degree on municipal

[0:13:09] council and if that again about three million dollars

[0:13:12] Voice 12: i'm sure a lot could be done

[0:13:16] Voice 12: salt spring on the community in really positive ways maybe that's something that can be considered

[0:13:20] Voice 12: because i feel like it's positive before it has a lot of people in the organization and

[0:13:24] Voice 12: you know clearly there's some so

[0:13:26] Voice 9: you're saying that if we were a municipality there'd be more

[0:13:29] Voice 9: funding available well

[0:13:31] Voice 7: a lot more money again there's three million dollars at least salt

[0:13:33] Voice 7: spring island where the islands trust every year we see a small fraction of that and again in a

[0:13:38] municipality municipal structure we could still have a mandate to protect the island and it could

[0:13:43] be actually stronger and implemented with um greater success in the island's trust because

[0:13:50] i don't

[0:13:50] Voice 12: know what's there's some dysfunction there i don't know

[0:13:52] Voice 9: i'll accept that as a comment thank

[0:13:55] Voice 9: you

[0:13:55] Voice 12: thank you

[0:14:01] Voice 9: very much okay

[0:14:04] Voice 12: next up we have the trustee report section trustee artist would like

[0:14:10] Voice 12: go first i'm sure you know a lot of this is kind of a dovetail on what i was saying to

[0:14:16] maxine and as to you

[0:14:18] Voice 12: know myna's comments as well i've spoken to um you know i continue to speak to

[0:14:25] Voice 12: plenty

[0:14:26] Voice 7: of people from the community that really are not happy with how things are going and it's

[0:14:29] Voice 7: clear see just have to look around transportation at the traffic at the housing crisis on and on it

[0:14:38] Voice 7: those and people really are concerned with the amount of tax dollars that are leaving the island

[0:14:45] Voice 7: and um we're not seeing any reaping any benefit from it and yet and then we have you know

[0:14:50] Voice 7: non-governmental organizations are trying to raise money and so a lot of this could be alleviated

[0:14:55] Voice 7: by a fiscal structure and people are really i'm hearing that a lot from folks and is it enough

[0:15:02] um people to actually make a difference in the future i don't know but

[0:15:05] But I'd just like to report that for the period of time, again and again and again.

[0:15:12] Voice 12: So thanks to you.

[0:15:14] Voice 12: Trustee Patrick, question?

[0:15:17] Voice 14: Is there any place that we can actually see the budgetary difference between staying the way we are versus going to...

[0:15:27] Voice 7: That's a good question, and I don't know.

[0:15:30] Voice 7: I'm not sure about that. I'd like to find that out.

[0:15:32] Voice 14: A very apples-to-apples kind of thing?

[0:15:34] Voice 7: well again there's three million that leaves and we see a fraction every year yeah

[0:15:41] Voice 14: and so

[0:15:43] Voice 7: that money would stay right

[0:15:45] Voice 14: but i but to balance that off there's stuff that gets paid for a year

[0:15:51] Voice 14: that doesn't work so i'd like to see it when apple battles comparison um well i'm sure something like

[0:16:00] Voice 14: that will be coming out at some point but because there will be somebody else

[0:16:04] Voice 14: is there anyone

[0:16:05] Voice 14: doing a comparison like that um not today just um by way of information for the crd portion of the

[0:16:18] budget that is available um

[0:16:21] Voice 12: annually online it's really how much of the money is small

[0:16:27] services whether that's supporting regional government in victoria

[0:16:32] paying for our elections supporting the emergency management system regional parks and other

[0:16:38] regional services and then there's a separate larger section of the line that's raised here

[0:16:43] that's spent here salt spring specific services that's not the entirety of our taxation budget

[0:16:50] Voice 12: just to follow up so i'm not sure if there if that budget is on the salt spring or the island

[0:17:02] trust website um as to where that money is spent but i know i don't know of any comparison that

[0:17:18] Voice 10: Okay, all right,

[0:17:23] Voice 13: as usual, lots of meetings. I met with the chair of the Salt Spring Fire and Rescue about opportunities for respective organizations to work better together, also attended their annual meeting, also met with the North Salt Spring Water District Chair, who's eager for our OCP project to get on to addressing prioritizing connections to the

[0:17:52] Voice 13: salt spring water that's been made available agreed um i attended the bc ferries had a

[0:18:02] Voice 13: meeting on the crofton vesuvius ferry crossing um and i think i know they've got some engagement

[0:18:10] Voice 13: going out there you may have seen there's some rezoning application that's paper that we're seeing

[0:18:14] Voice 13: but they're proceeding with doing work that's not to do with the work that we see in the rezoning

[0:18:20] Voice 13: application so hopefully they're making it clear I encourage them to make it clear they're going

[0:18:25] Voice 13: to be expanding some work over on the Crofton side when the two ferry route comes both ferries

[0:18:30] Voice 13: are going to be docked at night on the Crofton side that's going to be a new difference that's

[0:18:35] Voice 13: coming up um they also PC Ferries also had an engagement at 6 30 on a Friday night good times

[0:18:43] Voice 13: um on announcing their new engagement program that's replacing ferry advisory committees

[0:18:49] Voice 13: very different process that's more it's going to be more targeted on what type of engagement that

[0:18:55] Voice 13: they need to do they'll be creating specific engagement for their questions as well as

[0:19:00] Voice 13: improving their ongoing engagement directly with local governments some of the differences but

[0:19:06] Voice 13: lots of information on their website that with commissioner dale baker

[0:19:13] Voice 13: And I attended the Transition Salt Spring Engagement Day, attended Rob Botterell's ASK

[0:19:21] Voice 13: session, and also met with him later that day, had a ConnectCoNext follow-up meeting.

[0:19:28] Voice 13: It was a program that Chris Hutton and I had participated in.

[0:19:31] Voice 13: It was a pilot on

[0:19:32] Voice 14: climate

[0:19:34] Voice 13: action, really working across partnerships.

[0:19:37] Voice 13: It was a fun, really fun here and working with the staff in many regional districts

[0:19:44] Voice 13: doing some incredible work.

[0:19:47] Voice 13: And I also attended the Freshwater Footprint webinar on monitoring mapping.

[0:19:52] Voice 13: It's a project that's occurring on Gabriel Island.

[0:19:57] Voice 13: I attended a joint meeting of the Bowen Island Municipality and the Executive Committee in

[0:20:02] Voice 13: the last week over at Bowen.

[0:20:03] Voice 13: one um the ceo hiring

[0:20:06] Voice 13: committee continues with the performance evaluation of our ceo and um

[0:20:12] Voice 13: uh which is going well and um uh also i chaired the executive committee we also had a joint

[0:20:20] Voice 13: meeting with the executive committee and the trust conservancy and i attended the abicc which

[0:20:25] Voice 13: is the association of vancouver island and coastal communities mayors chairs and chiefs meeting uh

[0:20:32] Voice 13: It's fascinating and hope to reproduce something similar for our audience.

[0:20:39] Voice 13: I was working with Brittany Anderson.

[0:20:41] Voice 13: She's the new minister of state.

[0:20:43] Voice 13: And I think it's a real opportunity to have an opportunity with all

[0:20:47] Voice 13: the chairs of the improvement districts within the Southern Gulf Islands,

[0:20:50] Voice 13: as well as the elected officials with Minister Anderson.

[0:20:57] Voice 13: We're not the one-stop shopping.

[0:21:00] Voice 13: So, you know, having that opportunity to meet with her and her staff would be useful.

[0:21:06] Voice 13: And the Tiny Homes on

[0:21:08] Voice 13: Wheels project that the Islands Trust was working on, our paper, was complete.

[0:21:12] Voice 13: And it was presented at the ICC conference with a lot of interest.

[0:21:18] Voice 13: It's regional district of the Nile has a path forward.

[0:21:22] Voice 13: It will be sort of the first regional district finding a path forward for giving occupancy permits

[0:21:28] Voice 13: for Tiny Homes on Wheels that are built

[0:21:30] Voice 13: to the manufacturing standards.

[0:21:32] Voice 13: So that's a big step in at least a direction

[0:21:35] Voice 13: to have a path for Tiny Homes on Wheels to have .

[0:21:39] Voice 13: And then the Trust Programs Committee

[0:21:42] Voice 13: has been having many meetings

[0:21:44] Voice 13: on the Trust Policy Statement,

[0:21:46] Voice 13: which is making its way through committees

[0:21:48] Voice 13: and eventually get to the Islands Trust.

[0:21:53] Voice 13: I did want to talk a little bit

[0:21:54] Voice 13: about the Housing Needs Assessment Report for Salt Spring

[0:21:57] Voice 13: because it's now publicly available on the Adams Trust's website and it's going to be discussed

[0:22:01] Voice 13: tomorrow at the Regional Planning Committee. For several months now I've been kind of warning people

[0:22:08] Voice 13: alter your expectations on the results of the housing needs assessment. Last fall I ran there's

[0:22:14] Voice 13: a free model UPC has a model on the heart model and I ran it and the results unfortunately between

[0:22:23] Voice 13: between what we now have in our housing needs assessment

[0:22:25] Voice 13: and pre-model are

[0:22:26] Voice 13: pretty much the same.

[0:22:29] Voice 13: And so the data wasn't customized enough

[0:22:32] Voice 13: to make it really sufficient.

[0:22:34] Voice 13: So the model, while our report says,

[0:22:38] Voice 13: we're gonna be kind of shocked with this one,

[0:22:42] Voice 13: the next 20 years, how many units do you think we need

[0:22:46] Voice 13: to, rental units, bring our vacancy rates to healthy levels?

[0:22:51] Voice 13: 20 years.

[0:22:52] Voice 13: years. Well, the report says two, which I think they accidentally copied from another

[0:23:00] Voice 13: island. 16. Might as well be two. And then to beat anticipated growth, that's just growth

[0:23:10] Voice 13: of people who can afford single-family homes on this island over the next 20 years, 1,947.

[0:23:21] Voice 13: The model said 1,903, so pretty darn close to what the model ran.

[0:23:29] Voice 13: So I don't know what words to use, so don't count on that report.

[0:23:44] Voice 13: We all know that whether we provide two or 16 rental units over the next 20 years, that's

[0:23:52] not going to meet our housing need and we don't want to build

[0:23:55] Voice 13: baby build to meet the 1947

[0:24:00] Voice 13: housing units so i think we need to as we move into the ocp really think

[0:24:07] Voice 13: carefully about the effects of our underlying zoning finally 1971 that created the sprawl that

[0:24:16] Voice 13: we see across our islands and um and i'm really disappointed with the report we really need

[0:24:22] Voice 13: customized data we know we've got a thousand people living in rvs right now today so um

[0:24:32] Voice 13: i really encourage everyone to participate in our ocp project let's get some real data let's have

[0:24:37] Voice 13: some real questions and let's look for some real solutions

[0:24:44] Voice 10: meeting

[0:24:45] Voice 13: yeah tomorrow oh that's the

[0:24:47] Voice 13: regional planning committee it's online if you go to the allen's trust website there will be a link

[0:24:51] Voice 13: to the the agenda package has the housing needs reports okay

[0:24:57] Voice 12: thank you next up is the chair's

[0:25:01] Voice 12: report i'll just start off where trustee patrick finished yes the housing needs assessments um

[0:25:08] Voice 4: won't go into the details on salt spring because that's been done but um looking at some of the

[0:25:13] Voice 4: other islands the models uh are models and they're clearly

[0:25:18] Voice 12: not customized and um some of the results

[0:25:22] Voice 12: uh in that model on some of the islands i think are really out to lunch um so

[0:25:31] add to the large grain of salt that anyone takes this this report with it's i looked at

[0:25:38] Lascetes it's totally

[0:25:40] Voice 12: ridiculous they're the ones i've checked out that i have some familiarity

[0:25:45] Voice 12: with her the

[0:25:46] Voice 4: accuracy is not there so uh but it was the province that mandated that these

[0:25:52] Voice 4: happened at this time and uh and uh and their models and i think one of the things that i

[0:25:58] Voice 4: reflect on is that the the population growth projections

[0:26:03] Voice 12: for the regions that are that

[0:26:05] Voice 12: it plugged into this model for these for our individual islands is i mean it's wildly speculative

[0:26:11] and

[0:26:12] Voice 12: and um so there there goes the accuracy of these these reports for what they're worth

[0:26:19] Voice 12: um i also right after

[0:26:21] Voice 4: our last meeting i went to attend the um the abicc convention in nanaimo

[0:26:29] Voice 4: lots of great workshops there

[0:26:32] Voice 4: I went to a

[0:26:34] Voice 4: workshop on community health

[0:26:36] Voice 4: care solutions which focused

[0:26:38] Voice 4: on

[0:26:40] Voice 4: addiction issues

[0:26:41] Voice 4: and

[0:26:42] the

[0:26:44] problematic

[0:26:47] social narratives

[0:26:49] and how

[0:26:52] that relates to

[0:26:53] Voice 4: regulatory

[0:26:54] Voice 12: frameworks and outcomes for

[0:26:56] Voice 12: individuals

[0:26:57] Voice 12: individuals um bc nurses union uh presented about challenges of recruitment and retention

[0:27:03] um overwork and burnout and uh and

[0:27:10] Voice 4: they are currently advocating for a faster protest

[0:27:13] Voice 4: process of education for foreign trained nurses um chair of the fair care alliance and the

[0:27:21] Voice 4: president of the nanaimo medical staff association uh presented some alarming data on the

[0:27:29] Voice 4: almost equal populations of Vancouver Island if split at the Malahat and the vast inequity of

[0:27:36] Voice 4: facilities and capability between the regions. In other words, the population south and north

[0:27:40] Voice 4: of Malahat are about the same. The

[0:27:43] Voice 12: amount of facilities north are

[0:27:45] Voice 4: extremely tiny compared

[0:27:47] Voice 12: compared to those south of Malahat.

[0:27:53] Voice 12: Let's see,

[0:27:54] Voice 4: there was a lot there.

[0:27:58] Voice 4: The local governments and the Truth and Reconciliation

[0:28:04] calls to action legal overview from associates

[0:28:10] from young Anderson

[0:28:11] Voice 12: lawyers around the legal developments

[0:28:14] Voice 12: in the last 10 years that affect local governments

[0:28:18] Voice 12: and their responsibilities.

[0:28:21] Voice 12: Let's

[0:28:24] Voice 4: see, parliamentarian Elimina gave a good session and also gave a session to some

[0:28:34] Voice 12: members of the executive and our CAO.

[0:28:40] Voice 12: He's a parliamentarian and I had the opportunity to

[0:28:44] Voice 4: speak with ministers Brittany Anderson,

[0:28:50] Voice 4: Anderson, Minister of Health Josie Osborne, Minister

[0:28:55] Voice 12: Sheila Malkinson, and Emily Bonnerill

[0:28:59] Voice 12: as well. So those were

[0:29:01] Voice 4: all good opportunities. I also attended the BC Ferries meeting around

[0:29:07] Voice 4: Crofton and Vesuvius on April 15th. Trustee Patrick mentioned the Executive Committee

[0:29:14] Voice 4: committee meeting and the joint meeting with Bowen Mayor and Council. May 3rd was the Ahlete

[0:29:25] Voice 4: Liskey Archaeology Project mural unveiling welcome ceremony and the launch of the traveling

[0:29:31] Voice 4: exhibit.

[0:29:31] Voice 12: If anyone's interested in that, that exhibit is going to be traveling around the

[0:29:38] Voice 12: province and can come to communities like

[0:29:40] Voice 4: Salt Spring. Get in touch if you're interested.

[0:29:42] Voice 4: said there's there's uh um different ways to make it happen in your community it's fascinating

[0:29:47] Voice 4: information um or covered

[0:29:52] Voice 4: the cao evaluation we had a committee of the whole yesterday

[0:30:00] uh talking about the uh trust council a statement on the scope and meaning of the section three of

[0:30:08] the honest trust object and that

[0:30:13] Voice 12: is it for me for now so let's next go to the local community

[0:30:19] Voice 12: commission chair or ruck we could ask

[0:30:22] Voice 12: you a question sure could

[0:30:24] Voice 10: you elaborate a little more

[0:30:26] Voice 10: on that crofted ferry meeting what

[0:30:29] Voice 4: oh well uh i didn't mainly because laura did a bit more

[0:30:34] Voice 4: um but they were they were talking about the the plans for the terminal upgrades and how it's going

[0:30:42] Voice 4: to be phased

[0:30:42] Voice 12: i think laura mentioned how they're one of the big changes is they're going to be

[0:30:46] Voice 12: home boarding in crofton um and there were questions about how that might affect

[0:30:52] Voice 12: um employees but sort of didn't really get any answers on that um

[0:30:59] Voice 4: there's essentially what

[0:31:01] Voice 4: they're telling us is that they've they've got plans but they're not all finished yet

[0:31:06] Voice 4: so

[0:31:07] Voice 12: and we do have a rezoning um application before this committee so i'm sure we'll be

[0:31:12] Voice 12: hearing more at this committee as well go ahead thank you chair um remember last year before

[0:31:22] Voice 12: on April 10th. We were looking forward to that evening where we would normally have had our

[0:31:29] Voice 12: evening meeting for the month. We had set aside the time for a roundtable on harbor management

[0:31:36] Voice 12: and Trustee Patrick was there and a couple members of staff from the LPC along with a large number of

[0:31:44] community members and we spent two hours discussing what we thought was important about the harbor and

[0:31:50] there was actually quite a bit of consensus in

[0:31:53] Voice 12: the importance of protecting the environment

[0:31:56] Voice 12: and keeping our waters clean we have some elders from penelope who are there who are also

[0:32:03] Voice 12: contributing to the conversation i think very effectively and so tonight being again our

[0:32:09] Voice 12: monthly evening meeting of the lcc we will be receiving report from staff summarizing

[0:32:16] Voice 12: the comments of the community on matters of harbor management and what our next steps going over might

[0:32:23] be um as you all know it's a complicated issue and we are not at this point planning to take

[0:32:29] over managing the harbor they recognize something has to be done and people need an opportunity to

[0:32:35] talk to one another to try and work out some of the issues we've got there at the same time i

[0:32:39] think the lc school will be looking at the services we provide on shore that have an impact on the

[0:32:45] hardware how we

[0:32:45] Voice 12: can improve that um our next meeting daytime meeting um on the 15th we will

[0:32:53] Voice 12: be kicking off our work on the upgraded housing strategy for salt spring we do have a consultant

[0:32:59] Voice 12: on board we will be hearing from them thursday morning next week on what the plan is going

[0:33:08] forward um they're planning on spending rough island consultants fair amount of time on island

[0:33:13] and want to make sure that they

[0:33:16] Voice 12: get a chance to talk to all the key stakeholders who also

[0:33:22] Voice 12: do housing needs assessment and what we can and can't all learn from that as the process goes

[0:33:31] Voice 12: forward other items we're working on we're soliciting for the phoenix school site which

[0:33:41] Voice 12: we require a job from the school district before i'm looking at short-term uses by the community

[0:33:47] need to try and maximize to use some value of that property we're also we also met at our last meeting

[0:33:53] with um administrative transportation managers talking about both

[0:33:58] Voice 12: longer-term projects but of

[0:33:59] Voice 12: course they can't detail project um a lot of interest in that right now for very obvious

[0:34:05] Voice 12: reasons um as best i understand that the project was originally intended to be finished june

[0:34:14] When it started, they had to add some work to the contract.

[0:34:18] Voice 12: Some stormwater work was missed in the original contract,

[0:34:22] Voice 12: and so they expect that to extend.

[0:34:25] Voice 12: We don't know how far or how long that's going to be extending

[0:34:28] Voice 12: if they're working with the contractors to try and increase the amount of work

[0:34:33] Voice 12: per week so that they can not push it later into the summer.

[0:34:37] Voice 12: Whilst they might have a response,

[0:34:46] and they're confident they have to come continuously planning in place

[0:34:52] and stabbing women in place

[0:34:54] Voice 12: where they think they can handle

[0:34:55] Voice 12: pretty much anything that we might encounter in the payment of the contract.

[0:35:05] Voice 12: And so our next meeting of the LCC is tonight at 5 o'clock.

[0:35:09] Voice 12: We're at Sims.

[0:35:11] Voice 12: And we'll report to our next joint local press committee on Thursday,

[0:35:17] Voice 12: 22nd.

[0:35:18] Voice 12: It will be an online meeting.

[0:35:19] Voice 12: So look for the meeting notices and you can all log in.

[0:35:25] Voice 12: Thank you.

[0:35:28] Voice 14: um when is the lcc meeting with representatives from the school board or does that already happen

[0:35:33] Voice 12: um we are meeting with representatives of the school board next thursday

[0:35:37] Voice 12: in the daytime yeah so that agenda package should be going out probably tomorrow

[0:35:46] Voice 12: piece of the meeting next thursday along with um doing requests for grants and aid thank you chair

[0:35:57] rock appreciate you coming and reporting in relationship

[0:36:03] Voice 12: so next uh we move on to uh draft

[0:36:08] Voice 12: minutes of april 10th meeting and i'll see if there's any amendments in the minutes okay uh

[0:36:20] skip to the rest of section eight because we have nothing on those items uh we have one piece of

[0:36:28] correspondence at 9.1 received for information unless there's desire to do anything else with it

[0:36:36] That brings us to the follow-up action list report on page

[0:36:44] Voice 12: 23.

[0:36:45] Voice 12: I'll hand it over to Mr. Belcher to tell us anything we need to know.

[0:36:52] Voice 12: I'm talking about here.

[0:36:54] Voice 12: I'm talking, sorry.

[0:36:55] Voice 12: No worries.

[0:36:55] Voice 12: And I expect you to go online.

[0:36:58] Voice 12: Okay.

[0:36:59] Voice 1: Yep.

[0:37:00] Voice 12: I'll be right eventually.

[0:37:03] Voice 1: No problem, Mr. Chair.

[0:37:05] Voice 1: Chris is a good shorthand for it today, Mr. Chair.

[0:37:08] Voice 1: um the um the only thing i wanted to mention on the follow-up action list and apologies that i

[0:37:14] Voice 1: i can't be there today mr chair i'm uh i've been feeling under the weather and bad timing but um

[0:37:20] Voice 1: i'm i'm glad to be able to come and just provide a little update to you um i just wanted to note

[0:37:27] Voice 1: two items uh one relating to uh a webinar regarding the city view portal uh that was

[0:37:33] Voice 1: plan i don't think there was an update in the fuel so uh recently the pta has prepared a draft

[0:37:38] Voice 1: work plan um for that for that webinar so sort of an outline we're just going through that we'll be

[0:37:44] Voice 1: working with other admins in the organization to um to just work work out some some scripting more

[0:37:51] Voice 1: or less to develop that webinar and then from there we'll be um organizing the logistics of it

[0:37:56] Voice 1: um and i also wanted to let you know that the short-term uh rental communications

[0:38:01] Voice 1: communications um work that's that's on there since we opted in um so the the opt-in has been

[0:38:08] Voice 1: received by the ministry um they're still processing that um you may recall that there

[0:38:14] Voice 1: was a bit of a a deadline to submit and a timeline that that'll be rolled out coming this fall um

[0:38:20] Voice 1: with that and um a number of other um planning and communications items um we're we're still

[0:38:27] Voice 1: working to get this out in the near term um but it it has not been the number one thing however we do

[0:38:33] Voice 1: continue to work with uh the communications specialist to develop some some appropriate

[0:38:38] Voice 1: speaking notes for you and to get um to get some something up on the website just to give people

[0:38:45] Voice 1: direction on how to register uh their short-term rental okay

[0:38:52] Voice 12: thank you for that any questions on

[0:38:55] Voice 12: on the follow-up action list trustee Patrick yes

[0:38:58] Voice 13: it's not direct but it's related to the

[0:39:02] Voice 13: short-term rental um I assume at least through the Victoria office that we've got access now

[0:39:11] Voice 10: to the

[0:39:11] Voice 13: data will we be getting reports on like number of units that registered

[0:39:16] Voice 13: we

[0:39:18] Voice 1: will eventually uh thanks for that question um there I we're still trying to sort that one

[0:39:24] Voice 1: out but and it is essentially uh an information systems provisions issue that we're having uh

[0:39:31] Voice 1: over at the province there so we're working through that that technical issue but right now

[0:39:36] Voice 1: we're unfortunately not seeing any registered uh short-term rentals on salt spring despite the fact

[0:39:42] Voice 1: that um we have been able to see observe them on other islands so um we're still working through

[0:39:49] Voice 1: Through that issue, we assume that at least one person has registered their short-term rental on Salt Spring Island.

[0:39:55] Voice 1: It's highly unlikely where other islands have had some degree of compliance that we wouldn't.

[0:40:00] Voice 1: So we're just working through that.

[0:40:03] Voice 1: But we do expect to be able to provide you with regular updates, likely through the enforcement officers, regular updates, quarterly updates in the near future.

[0:40:16] Voice 12: Okay, for that, any further on this item?

[0:40:21] Voice 12: Okay, next we have the, yes, the work program report, which is in the addendum item 11.1,

[0:40:33] Voice 12: and I believe that's back to Mr. Hockman.

[0:40:37] Voice 1: Hello, Mr. Chair.

[0:40:38] Voice 1: Yep, so I'm just noting the first resolution here has a wrong date on it, so I wanted to

[0:40:45] Voice 1: just, you'll recall that these quarterly reports I've been trying to bring to you on

[0:40:51] Voice 1: on a regular basis just to sort of update you

[0:40:54] Voice 1: with where Salt Spring office is and its work plan

[0:40:59] Voice 1: and what our situation is right now.

[0:41:02] Voice 1: We do have some dynamic staffing matters going on

[0:41:06] Voice 1: and we want to make sure that we're staying on top

[0:41:08] Voice 1: of the priorities of this LTC.

[0:41:14] Voice 1: We've drafted it.

[0:41:15] Voice 1: This one is fairly straightforward this time around, Mr. Chair.

[0:41:20] Voice 1: we've provided a bit of an update on how the applications are going.

[0:41:24] Voice 1: So you'll note that there's a bit of a decline in applications.

[0:41:28] Voice 1: We have been cleaning up some background applications

[0:41:32] Voice 1: as well as seeing fewer coming in, but continuing on.

[0:41:42] Voice 1: Also in this one, I did want to talk to you a little bit about standing resolutions.

[0:41:47] Voice 1: So as part of our overall work plan, we have a set of standing resolutions

[0:41:51] Voice 1: We did note a few items that haven't had a high rate of compliance, and they seem to be ones that would actually be quite important to some of our biggest challenges, one of them being the annual sending of First Nations letters.

[0:42:08] Voice 1: I was actually kind of heartened to see that the recent change by Trust Council changing the way that we schedule, we set our annual schedules by setting them to the fiscal rather than the calendar year.

[0:42:19] Voice 1: It really helps us to achieve this purpose here a lot better in that I think we'd like to move forward with developing, implementing this regular annual reintroduction letter to First Nations and just letting them know, A, our regular schedule and B, our upcoming projects.

[0:42:46] Voice 1: projects um with the uh with the start of the new fiscal we we now have a clear idea of what's

[0:42:51] Voice 1: funded um and um the way that we're setting our schedule on the on the fiscal year we have an

[0:42:57] Voice 1: idea of what the next 12 months of calendar um of scheduled meetings is so um it's a good

[0:43:03] Voice 1: opportunity for us to develop a better communication and hopefully by way of that better relationships

[0:43:10] Voice 1: So, otherwise, it's fairly straightforward. As I mentioned back in February in the last quarterly report, any ideas for next year's fiscal around any possible business cases that LTC would be looking for, now would be the time to possibly start drafting them with the hope that we can have them well considered at the table before the fall.

[0:43:39] Voice 1: so avoid any rushing to get to the budget process.

[0:43:45] Voice 1: We still remain curious on if there's anything that you want to achieve

[0:43:50] Voice 1: on the heels of the OCP LUB in the following fiscal.

[0:43:58] Voice 1: And the rest of it's fairly straightforward, Mr. Chair.

[0:44:01] Voice 1: There's really no fixed resolution here.

[0:44:05] Voice 1: You can simply receive it.

[0:44:08] Voice 1: The first recommendation there does not need to be undertaken.

[0:44:13] Voice 1: taken there's no significant change proposed to the any of the project lists or the follow-up

[0:44:18] Voice 1: action list um will will forward you can certainly resolve to forward those those uh the top three

[0:44:26] Voice 1: priorities to the trust council one of the reasons why we have these quarterly is in order to

[0:44:32] Voice 1: get them on to the trust council agenda those priority actions um which remain to be our pretty

[0:44:38] Voice 1: much our active projects list as it is um one positive that i did want to raise here is that

[0:44:44] Voice 1: um we are we're tenuously moving into the water sustainability project i had noted previously

[0:44:52] Voice 1: that it is a real challenge for us to get to that given our staffing levels right now

[0:44:56] Voice 1: um with the drop in applications and a little bit more availability in the um i'm i'm we're

[0:45:04] Voice 1: working to at least address some of the minor aspects of that in terms of the the data loggers

[0:45:10] Voice 1: gathering that data and following up there as well as bringing back that proof of water bylaw

[0:45:19] Voice 1: for your consideration and beyond that I know that conversations with staff over the

[0:45:26] Voice 1: capital regional district there is a desire to advance some discussion around around SOPA

[0:45:34] Voice 1: and the freshwater disk conversations.

[0:45:37] Voice 1: Look forward to that.

[0:45:42] Voice 12: Okay, thank you, trustees.

[0:45:45] Voice 12: Questions or comments, Trustee Patrick?

[0:45:48] Voice 13: No, thank you, RPM Hump and Hutton.

[0:45:52] Voice 13: I do have a couple of questions on your report.

[0:45:55] Voice 13: In page four of the agenda package,

[0:45:59] Voice 13: page three of your report,

[0:46:02] Voice 13: you have a list of things that you referred to.

[0:46:05] Voice 13: um you know staff do their their tasks but you said but lie outside the intended regular work of

[0:46:14] Voice 13: the of the islands trust and the list includes you know coordinating and cooperating with the

[0:46:21] Voice 13: lcc and other planning members and north salt spring and um i don't consider those outside

[0:46:31] Voice 13: outside our work.

[0:46:35] Voice 13: So I was just curious as to why you would identify that as outside our

[0:46:39] Voice 13: regular work.

[0:46:40] Voice 1: Certainly appreciate that question. And it's,

[0:46:43] Voice 1: it's one that I've tried to word delicately, I suppose, but

[0:46:49] Voice 1: I think that it is true that it is authentically work that has come to the

[0:46:53] Voice 1: Salt Spring office and it relies on,

[0:46:55] Voice 1: on the Salt Spring office to respond and address those issues. However,

[0:47:00] Voice 1: However, you know, the formation of the LCC is a very positive one in terms of streamlining, servicing, and decision-making around that.

[0:47:11] Voice 1: But it does present a larger body for us to work with.

[0:47:14] Voice 1: So it adds a certain level of, it fits within the Island Trust Act, right, in terms of coordinating and relationship building.

[0:47:24] Voice 1: It's work that we need to do.

[0:47:26] Voice 1: but it's it's not necessarily been historically considered part of the the work program of the

[0:47:34] Voice 1: salt spring office until recently so it's been a bit of an addition and the the increasing

[0:47:40] Voice 1: requirements um you know the ongoing work that is is needed for uh developing relationships with

[0:47:47] Voice 1: first nations um is entirely valid and definitely part of our work plan um but it's it's outsized

[0:47:54] Voice 1: in that we work with, we seek to partner with 13 First Nations.

[0:47:59] Voice 1: It's a substantial range of input that we take on.

[0:48:07] Voice 1: So it's just those types of things that we also have a number of large projects.

[0:48:11] Voice 1: The relocation is certainly not something that an office does every day.

[0:48:17] Voice 1: And the action of the North South Spring Waterworks District,

[0:48:21] Voice 1: it's um it's not so much that it's not intended but it's it's it's really outsized i suppose um

[0:48:29] Voice 1: you know these are these are tasks and and shifts that we're adapting to uh and there's just a lot

[0:48:35] Voice 1: of them a lot of large things at once that we're we're working through with a with a a low complement

[0:48:44] Voice 1: of staff essentially so um that's that's sort of the it's not intended to say that this isn't our

[0:48:50] Voice 1: our job um but it's not our day-to-day um and it it does elevate the the challenge our challenges

[0:48:57] Voice 1: in terms of understanding um the work that we do here

[0:49:01] Voice 13: um i just want to let you know that at every

[0:49:05] Voice 13: opportunity i get to speaking with our cao i

[0:49:09] Voice 13: tell him how um good your instincts are i think you're

[0:49:14] Voice 13: doing a good job of building good staff staff relationships with north salt spring and crd

[0:49:20] Voice 13: staff and that that is the right thing to do for a community of this size um so I think I guess I'm

[0:49:29] Voice 13: trying to get at is don't be afraid to use us to help get the resources you need to do the job that

[0:49:35] you

[0:49:35] Voice 13: know you need to do so if we can

[0:49:39] Voice 13: support you more and I think you know if we're looking at

[0:49:42] Voice 13: this is not a normal budget case maybe it is I don't know we need to be bolder and making sure

[0:49:49] Voice 13: that you have the resources you need to do the job we

[0:49:53] Voice 1: should i certainly appreciate that sentiment

[0:49:56] Voice 1: and that's why i mean these these quarterly reports i think are intended really to to keep

[0:50:01] Voice 1: your keep the information fresh with you all and um you know if there's conversations that we can

[0:50:07] Voice 1: have to address uh any issues and i think it's it's still with us but i guess i would say in

[0:50:13] Voice 1: the context of declining applications and um us being able to activate the work plan um these

[0:50:19] Voice 1: things remain um and um if there's a need for additional resources i think that's something that

[0:50:26] Voice 1: um you know we have the the full range of um what's what's before the salt spring team here um

[0:50:36] Voice 1: but um you know beyond this like this is this is manageable to the extent that you're you're seeing

[0:50:43] Voice 1: the outcome that we're getting right in terms of um you know the the pace of these these things and

[0:50:48] Voice 1: And some of that's externally dependent.

[0:50:52] Voice 1: But in terms of what we do next and what LTC wants to do next in the following fiscal and how we can do that in a structured way that leads to successes is kind of open-ended here for LTC.

[0:51:07] Voice 1: see um so i i provide this really for information and and invite your your comment if there's

[0:51:13] Voice 1: actions that that you'd like to see that are not in here or that that you see beyond this work

[0:51:19] Voice 1: um then i i'd certainly be interested in hearing that and what kinds of policy solutions or um

[0:51:26] Voice 1: or business cases or what have you do we need um are there are there burning questions that we can

[0:51:32] Voice 1: and start fleshing out and addressing.

[0:51:40] Voice 13: A few more questions.

[0:51:41] Voice 13: Thank you.

[0:51:42] Voice 13: And so related to project charters,

[0:51:45] Voice 13: I think what's most important to me

[0:51:46] Voice 13: is the OCP land use bylaw project

[0:51:48] Voice 13: and make sure that we are sufficiently prepared

[0:51:51] Voice 13: and keep that on our mind.

[0:51:53] Voice 13: I think that is the most important project

[0:51:56] that we wanna make sure we need more funding next year,

[0:51:59] more engagement funding

[0:52:00] Voice 13: for stations.

[0:52:02] Voice 13: I think we should really create that.

[0:52:05] Voice 13: i think regardless i think we need to move away from a transactional relationship with first

[0:52:11] Voice 13: nation so we should be bold and put a project charter forward for a more robust relationship

[0:52:19] Voice 13: building um budget and it could be scary numbers um but that's all right the conversation gets

[0:52:26] Voice 13: get started um by doing that so i i'm fine with being bold um and push the system like we ask for

[0:52:36] Voice 13: what we think we can get we'll get half of that so let's ask for what we need see what happens

[0:52:43] Voice 6: okay

[0:52:43] Voice 13: because if we are i mean this is a really important time and we're not going to get

[0:52:49] Voice 13: improved relationships unless we truly invest in them yeah

[0:52:53] Voice 1: if i could just expand on that on that

[0:52:56] Voice 1: i'll i'll say that um the the letters went out to um the first nations last month um we put back

[0:53:05] Voice 1: from about three and we're we're sort of initiated in the process of following up with um those those

[0:53:11] Voice 1: nations to whom we sent letters to to ensure that they have them that they don't have questions

[0:53:16] Voice 1: um we've had one meeting uh with one first nation about about that specifically and we also have

[0:53:23] Voice 1: ongoing work going with them um with with say up first nation so um we look forward to more

[0:53:30] Voice 1: conversation about that and turning our mind toward engagement and what that would look like

[0:53:34] Voice 1: um like an engagement strategy it was discussed before uh with first nation so that's work that

[0:53:40] Voice 1: i'll be looking to do next um and moving forward with um with a way based on the on the input we

[0:53:48] Voice 1: received um and i i hope that that would be a way of informing future budget request um if there's

[0:53:55] Voice 1: um if we're seeing it clearly from from nations um what do they need um or what you know what's

[0:54:03] Voice 1: going to generate the outcome we're looking for um we can we can come back and talk about that

[0:54:08] Voice 1: in the future.

[0:54:12] Voice 13: Yes.

[0:54:14] Voice 13: Just on the standing resolutions, the families as a stakeholder issue, again, historic context

[0:54:24] Voice 13: always gets lost from these standing resolutions when they're separated for so much time.

[0:54:28] Voice 13: We had families basically complaining to us that our engagement processes were not family

[0:54:34] Voice 13: friendly, that we don't have childcare, we don't have the ability to make it so that

[0:54:40] Voice 13: that a mother with children could attend our events.

[0:54:44] Voice 13: And that's what that was about.

[0:54:46] Voice 13: I think staff came up with a,

[0:54:48] Voice 13: we'll create a play corner so that we're making it clear

[0:54:51] Voice 13: that children are welcome in the space.

[0:54:54] Voice 13: We're not trying to separate children

[0:54:55] Voice 13: from a public engagement.

[0:54:58] Voice 13: So that's what that,

[0:54:59] Voice 13: I know when you look at it back in time,

[0:55:02] Voice 13: you go, what the heck are they talking about?

[0:55:04] Voice 13: That's what it was about,

[0:55:06] Voice 13: out was that we were not making someone with a single mom

[0:55:10] Voice 13: with their children, she cannot come to a public event

[0:55:13] Voice 13: because she has to bring the kids along.

[0:55:16] Voice 13: So that was what we were getting at.

[0:55:19] Voice 13: And the reconciliation one, that was driven

[0:55:23] Voice 13: by the trust council's action plan.

[0:55:26] Voice 13: So that's something probably Tim and I should raise.

[0:55:28] Voice 13: These are out of date now, this was every local trust

[0:55:33] Voice 13: committee had exactly the same standing resolution so we'll need to visit that from a federation

[0:55:39] Voice 13: okay do

[0:55:42] Voice 1: you do you feel that you don't want to um i know that we just sent out um you know most of

[0:55:49] Voice 1: what we are right now at at salt spring in terms of our relationship with first nations revolved

[0:55:53] Voice 1: around the ocplub and referrals um and the referrals process there's a nascent project

[0:55:59] Voice 1: project um i believe through um i'm sure if it's rpt i'm trying to remember that that project lies

[0:56:07] Voice 1: but i know that it is it is under development so that overall referral process is being handled

[0:56:13] Voice 1: and the ocplub project is underway so um we can um i'm certainly happy if ltc wants to hold off on

[0:56:22] Voice 1: another um letter at this time uh and proceed to simply uh engage at the at the ectc level

[0:56:34] Voice 13: i mean yes i think i think the attention is on the ocp land use bylaw project and i think that

[0:56:40] Voice 13: is appropriate i think anytime we're meeting the first nations i hope we're talking to them and

[0:56:44] Voice 13: asking how do they want to be engaged how often do they want to hear about what we're doing and

[0:56:49] Voice 13: and if we're going to really build meaningful relationships it's not a standard letter goes

[0:56:55] Voice 13: goes off once a year, it's going to become challenging.

[0:56:59] Voice 13: It's going to be customized based on the needs

[0:57:02] Voice 13: of the individual nations and what they want.

[0:57:04] Voice 13: So we've got to show that flexibility.

[0:57:06] Voice 13: And so I hope every opportunity staff,

[0:57:10] Voice 13: or as we as elected have opportunities to meet,

[0:57:13] Voice 13: we just have that as a standing question.

[0:57:15] Voice 13: How do you want us to engage with you?

[0:57:17] Voice 13: What frequency?

[0:57:18] Voice 13: Because we don't want to just send letters

[0:57:20] Voice 13: that mean nothing.

[0:57:26] Voice 4: and i just uh i just reflect on that last item a little bit uh yeah nor do we want to deluge with

[0:57:33] Voice 4: with

[0:57:34] Voice 12: uh letter after letter especially if we're not uh we're not actually being constructive in

[0:57:41] Voice 12: terms of relationship building so i think on that item i think we're going to hold off i think we

[0:57:46] Voice 12: might what we might want to what occurs to me is we might want to consider whether uh come fall

[0:57:53] Voice 12: whether we want to sort of reach out again once a year seems paltry so I

[0:58:05] think I think I'd like us to reconsider whether we want to put some more letters

[0:58:09] Voice 12: out and say September or something like that so that we're not not waiting a

[0:58:14] Voice 12: year in between but we're also not following one lap letter after another

[0:58:19] Voice 12: other than that, in a way that's also not constructive.

[0:58:24] Voice 12: So that would be my thoughts.

[0:58:25] Voice 12: Let's not upset Letters today, but let's look at doing so again in September, I think that

[0:58:31] Voice 12: would be, and maybe we've got some progress to report by September, things might be a

[0:58:39] Voice 12: little bit different.

[0:58:41] Voice 12: Mr.

[0:58:41] Voice 1: Chair, can I, I just had one comment on that.

[0:58:43] Voice 1: Yeah.

[0:58:44] Voice 1: I wanted to clarify the one approach that we do have, and I think we heard from the

[0:58:50] Voice 1: the one nation that we did meet with, is that the communication, you know, we've talked about

[0:58:56] Voice 1: this a long time, some nations will engage deeply with us, some are less inclined to do so just for

[0:59:02] Voice 1: various reasons. But they really appreciated that we sent that letter as early as we did,

[0:59:08] Voice 1: and that we were proactive about it. And I've sort of resolved through the OCP process that

[0:59:15] Voice 1: that I think at each phase there's probably a need to reach out to First Nations

[0:59:21] Voice 1: and let them know what's going on.

[0:59:23] Voice 1: So when we close this phase of the OCPLUB, we'll say we're done this phase

[0:59:27] Voice 1: and we're moving into this next phase in order to keep First Nations coming along

[0:59:33] Voice 1: and giving them a signpost to raise their hand and say,

[0:59:36] Voice 1: okay, now we do have questions.

[0:59:39] Voice 1: We want to keep that open.

[0:59:40] Voice 1: So we're going to continue that process through the OCPLUB.

[0:59:43] Voice 1: And I think it's it's kind of a question of like if if we are by and large an OCP LUB right now organization, that's great.

[0:59:52] Voice 1: And we can we can continue to make that, you know, that is patently the crux of what are.

[1:00:00] Voice 1: team is doing right now in addition to our day-to-day OCP our additional you know current

[1:00:04] Voice 1: development work right so yeah I mean it's just to say that there is going to be a regularity of

[1:00:11] Voice 1: communication in that project so it's a question of do we do you need another generic letter or do

[1:00:17] Voice 1: you want to try to hybridize that or what yeah

[1:00:20] Voice 12: yeah no I appreciate that and that's good to know

[1:00:25] Voice 12: and of course yeah important to give to reach out when there's as you said there's as there's

[1:00:31] Voice 12: something to report at the end of the phase or or what have you um and i guess also also just to

[1:00:36] Voice 12: always sort of generally invite conversation on things outside of the project that are of interest

[1:00:43] Voice 12: or importance to the nations so trustees did you have anything else so we've got advice that the

[1:00:54] Voice 12: first recommendation is not um necessary um but we do have three other recommendations here that

[1:01:04] Voice 12: oh i thought the top priorities here yeah

[1:01:11] Voice 13: i mean number two yes i only have one and it's number two

[1:01:15] Voice 12: okay so the i'm sorry did we cover the the revised business case there is no business

[1:01:22] Voice 12: Well, I didn't think so. I was going to ask about that. It was about the revised OCP-LUB project.

[1:01:28] Voice 1: If you don't mind, Mr. Chair, while we're still in the discussion here, I did want to point out to one other element of the report. I did provide a brief note about the OCP LUB project reporting expectations.

[1:01:42] Voice 1: And I just wanted to have this conversation here about, you know, our sense is at staff that it would be good to provide a, at a minimum, a quarterly report on this project.

[1:01:57] Voice 1: We expect that that will be much more frequent and that any time that there is, you know, a meaningful outcome or action happening, we'll certainly be looking to come back to LTC.

[1:02:09] Voice 1: see um but beyond that i i think it's it's fair to say that you'll you'll have the the regular

[1:02:16] Voice 1: meeting um the active projects list will provide updates uh and the and the quarterly report will

[1:02:24] Voice 1: sort of get back to a bit more uh we're looking at reporting for timeline uh like what's the

[1:02:29] Voice 1: schedule what's the budget judging looking like so just to give us a bit of a health check um

[1:02:35] Voice 1: But beyond that, does that meet LTC's expectations for reporting on this project as a base?

[1:02:45] Voice 13: Mr. Proctor?

[1:02:46] Voice 13: Well, I actually did have comments, but I thought I was making too many comments, but you're inviting it, so I'll comment.

[1:02:55] Voice 13: I hope that, you know, it's just sort of like what we just spoke about with First Nations.

[1:02:59] Voice 13: We need to be informed as there's information to inform us with, you know, so I don't want to make a standard, have you give us a standard report that there's nothing to report.

[1:03:06] Voice 13: You know, I really want to look to staff to report to us and the public.

[1:03:14] Voice 13: I mean, we've got communications as this project goes on.

[1:03:17] Voice 13: It's going to be important that we're communicating to us so that we know what's going on so we can answer questions.

[1:03:25] Voice 13: But all the information is transparent.

[1:03:28] Voice 13: The public's being told.

[1:03:29] Voice 13: First Nations are being told.

[1:03:30] Voice 13: No one is getting something that no other party is getting.

[1:03:34] Voice 13: So I think we've got to be just in tune to that.

[1:03:37] Voice 13: and make sure you get the right level.

[1:03:40] Voice 13: And I don't want you just to report for reporting's sake, if that makes sense.

[1:03:47] Voice 13: The schedule is going to start to create, yes, it'll change, as top schedules always do,

[1:03:53] Voice 13: but I think keeping us well-informed on things as they occur and at the right time and early,

[1:04:02] Voice 13: before they occur would be better.

[1:04:06] Voice 13: So I don't want to make work.

[1:04:07] Voice 13: we just want to make sure the communications are flowing

[1:04:10] Voice 13: well through us

[1:04:12] Voice 13: community conversations

[1:04:15] Voice 1: okay I think

[1:04:17] Voice 1: that note is taken and we're happy to continue

[1:04:18] Voice 1: with that and I

[1:04:20] Voice 1: have every confidence that as we

[1:04:22] Voice 1: as we get into

[1:04:23] Voice 1: the real action of this project

[1:04:26] Voice 1: in the coming months we'll certainly

[1:04:28] Voice 1: see more

[1:04:30] Voice 1: frequent reporting than quarterly

[1:04:32] Voice 1: okay

[1:04:36] Voice 12: anything else on this

[1:04:37] Voice 12: today okay

[1:04:39] Voice 12: please go ahead i

[1:04:40] Voice 13: move uh please i'm just gonna do the motion there i know that salt spring island

[1:04:44] Voice 13: local trust committee forward the top three priorities the salt spring island local trust

[1:04:49] Voice 13: committee active project list presented in the may 8th regular meeting agenda to trust council

[1:04:56] Voice 12: move second that um discussion discussion not seeing any i'll call the question all those in

[1:05:06] Voice 12: favor any opposed opposed motion carries switch back over the rest of this here um okay now we

[1:05:30] Voice 12: sort of i guess we didn't totally get into it but anything on the active or future projects

[1:05:37] Voice 12: list from anyone today no okay applications then so starting on page uh 31 this is

[1:05:51] Voice 12: This is the temporary use permit coming from Planet Craft here.

[1:05:57] Voice 12: Thank you.

[1:05:58] Voice 8: Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[1:05:59] Voice 8: The application is to allow temporary operation of a food truck and three retail offices based

[1:06:04] Voice 8: within a 0.08-hectare property based on R6 and R6 variant B in Ganges Village area.

[1:06:13] Voice 8: The applicant previously obtained a development permit and a development variance permit.

[1:06:18] Voice 8: Also, a temporary use permit was also issued to allow a food truck and two retail space offices for a three-year term.

[1:06:28] Voice 8: However, due to the changes in the positioning and the use, the addition of a new business trailer and new temporary use permit was required.

[1:06:37] Voice 8: The applicant has decided to incorporate a rainwater harvesting system, which is a sustainable

[1:06:44] Voice 8: solution for water management and would reduce the strain on existing water supplies and

[1:06:49] Voice 8: mitigate environmental impacts.

[1:06:51] Voice 8: According to

[1:06:52] Voice 8: Section 497 of the Local Development Act, a temporary use permit may authorize

[1:06:59] Voice 8: specified uses on a property for a period of up to three years and a three-year renewal.

[1:07:06] Voice 8: Under our official community plan, however, the duration for TUP is limited to a maximum

[1:07:12] Voice 8: of two years, with two years during all upon expiration.

[1:07:17] Voice 8: The LTC may request the security of undertaking to guarantee the restoration of property to

[1:07:22] Voice 8: its previous estate if the property is not re-zoned at the expiry of TUP.

[1:07:28] Voice 8: Public notification in form of newspaper advertisement and statutory notice of the proposed variance

[1:07:35] Voice 8: was mailed to all owners and tenants of properties within 100 meters of the subject property's

[1:07:41] Voice 8: boundaries. No correspondence has been received until now. Staff consider the proposal in

[1:07:48] Voice 8: line with TUP objectives while clearly meeting applicable TUP guidelines outlined in Section

[1:07:54] Voice 8: G.1.3 of OCP and recommend to approve issuance of Temporary Use Permit PLT-UP-2025-0097 for

[1:08:02] Voice 8: revenue for a period of 60 days. As alternatives, LTC may wish to refer the application to the

[1:08:10] Voice 8: Advisory Planning Committee for feedback regarding policy, approve issuance of temporary

[1:08:17] Voice 8: use permit for a two-year period. LTC may also consider to deny application as the other

[1:08:23] Voice 8: all the time thank you thank you questions

[1:08:27] Voice 12: oh the applicants here would you like to add anything

[1:08:32] Voice 11: i just want to make sure that i'm going to get three years

[1:08:37] Voice 11: i've already got three years every year now so and the president's been saying

[1:08:44] Voice 11: everybody else has got three years recently so uh christine's yeah

[1:08:54] Voice 13: i just want to understand

[1:08:55] Voice 13: the difference between the one that's issued and this one? I'm not, I didn't, can

[1:09:01] Voice 8: you explain the

[1:09:02] Voice 8: difference between the two? Another retail space like a retail office space was added to the

[1:09:09] property and the positioning of the users is changed

[1:09:13] Voice 8: in regard to the previous temporary

[1:09:16] Voice 8: use permit issued last year. So the previous temporary use permit was issued for three years

[1:09:23] Voice 8: But according to Section G136, the staff recommend that the permit would be issued for two months.

[1:09:34] Voice 8: But if LTC agrees that the G136 does not apply to this application, you can also approve it for two years.

[1:09:46] Voice 12: Okay. Do you want to just expand a little bit on G136?

[1:09:56] Voice 8: Just show, so sort of plain language so we can hear more.

[1:09:59] Voice 8: G136 says that permits should not be issued for users in excess of 60 days unless it is a new venture that does not directly compete with an existing business in a legal zone and there is a demonstrated need or market for the proposed use.

[1:10:17] Voice 8: Consideration could also be given to the temporary relocation of an existing business in emergency

[1:10:23] Voice 8: or hardship situations. So that's G136. There are businesses that are somehow related to the

[1:10:31] Voice 8: proposed users but yeah this was the staff understanding. You know three years doesn't

[1:10:42] seem unreasonable to me at all i'd be happy to make a motion okay

[1:10:50] Voice 12: we'll come back for that uh

[1:10:51] Voice 12: well

[1:10:52] Voice 13: there seems to be an awful lot of food trucks in town that none of them have temporary

[1:10:59] Voice 13: use permits so the fact that we have one before us that's asking for a temporary use permit wow um

[1:11:05] Voice 13: where's the hardship we should have a rule that applies to everyone in town i would assume

[1:11:11] Voice 13: But I'm still so the other temporary use permit remains in place and active, and this is just an additional. So it's okay. I just, I was trying to really understand the difference between them. So

[1:11:23] Voice 11: what happened was, initially a food truck was coming and then the last minute he bailed.

[1:11:30] Voice 11: So then I had to rethink what I'm going to do on that truck.

[1:11:34] Voice 11: So where the food truck was going to be, I put another, a building, but it's built on IVs,

[1:11:41] Voice 11: it could be lifted a little bit if you had to.

[1:11:43] Voice 11: And then a mobile car came in that does tattoos.

[1:11:47] Voice 11: And then I built another building next tier up, and that's a professional office.

[1:11:56] Voice 11: So I have three businesses. One of the businesses that's come renting my place wants to bring a sea can, a small, well, they want to bring the coffee can there.

[1:12:08] Voice 11: And they own the coffee can, plus they're also leasing the main building from me too.

[1:12:14] Voice 11: And so this necessitated going through the process again, because I'm adding now another space.

[1:12:21] Voice 11: As far as parking goes and all the rest, I have access to parking, and so that's, this is why we're here today.

[1:12:31] Voice 13: You're customizing to the customers that you have been able to attract to the property in this case.

[1:12:39] Voice 11: There's been a

[1:12:40] Voice 11: huge interest in a small, like 180 square foot building, and the main building

[1:12:46] Voice 11: I built, I've had six people come and they think it's a tiny house.

[1:12:51] Voice 11: but so you're

[1:12:55] Voice 13: in the wrong business um okay um i'm i'm in support and i you know it only makes

[1:13:03] Voice 13: sense if we issue the other one is three years but three years do you want to make a motion

[1:13:13] sure i move that the salt spring island

[1:13:17] Voice 12: local trust committee approve

[1:13:18] Voice 12: approve issuance of temporary use permit, PLT-UP-2025-0097,

[1:13:24] Voice 12: Jackson Avenue, for a period of three years.

[1:13:28] I'll move to second it.

[1:13:29] Voice 12: Any further discussion?

[1:13:32] Voice 12: Not seeing any, I'll call the question.

[1:13:34] Voice 12: All those in favor?

[1:13:35] Voice 12: That carries.

[1:13:38] Thank you.

[1:13:40] Voice 12: Okay, so next, starting on page 68.

[1:13:47] Voice 12: This is B-Zoning and Banner Garibaldi.

[1:14:05] Voice 3: Thank you, Mr. Chair. This staff report presents a re-zoning application, PL RZ20240145, for subject property located at 200 Collins Road.

[1:14:16] Voice 3: The applicant is seeking to amend the Salt Spring Islander Land Dispute to vary the zoning of the subject property to allow one single-family dwelling and one full-time rental property.

[1:14:25] Voice 3: This report follows the November 14, 2024 meeting of the Salisbury Local Trust Committee

[1:14:31] Voice 3: where resolutions were passed to request staff to proceed with processing applications, including

[1:14:37] Voice 3: drafting bylaws and referring the draft bylaws to applicable agencies.

[1:14:41] Voice 3: In accordance with statutory regulations, a public hearing is required for this application.

[1:14:47] Voice 3: The draft bylaw has been referred and responses received indicated no consent from the applicable

[1:14:52] Voice 3: agencies to which the draft bylaw was referred.

[1:14:55] Voice 3: Also statutory notice of the proposed rezoning was mailed to Labour and Properties and at this time no response was received.

[1:15:05] Voice 3: Staff also conducted an assessment of the proposed application relative to the Islands Trust Policy Statement and determined that it is consistent with the Policy Statement.

[1:15:15] Voice 3: Staff therefore recommends that the South Spring Islands Local Trust Committee read the proposed By-law No. 541 for a first, second and third time.

[1:15:24] Voice 3: staff also recommends that the proposed pilot number 541 before that the secretary of the

[1:15:29] Voice 3: island's trust for approval by the executive committee and finally that the salt spring

[1:15:34] Voice 3: local trust committee has reviewed the island's trust policy statement directives only checklist

[1:15:39] Voice 3: and determined that by the number 541 is not contrary to or adherence to the island's trust

[1:15:45] Voice 3: call this a statement thank you okay thank

[1:15:49] Voice 12: you is the applicant with us today

[1:15:51] Voice 3: jordan yes

[1:15:56] Voice 10: so

[1:16:04] Voice 12: over trustees then questions comments i

[1:16:09] Voice 13: know a member of the public had identified that there's

[1:16:12] Voice 13: thought that there could be a short-term rental or something operating in this area but the if

[1:16:18] Voice 13: it's rezoned to a rental cottage then short-term rentals are not allowed in a rental cottage

[1:16:27] Voice 13: through regulations so um with the new registration process we have a way of finding

[1:16:34] Voice 10: out

[1:16:34] Voice 13: so um that's gonna that will be on bylaw enforcement checking against the two so i'm

[1:16:43] Voice 13: i feel pretty comfortable that we have a way now of managing that affordably and reliably

[1:16:52] Voice 13: so i'm

[1:16:53] Voice 13: not concerned about if they attempt to do that i

[1:16:59] Voice 10: hope not that's what they didn't say they would

[1:17:07] Voice 12: okay anything from you don't trust me here um no if it's too bad the apps comes in here

[1:17:13] Voice 12: but i'm happy to approve okay

[1:17:22] Voice 11: jordan was here when they presented it before yeah

[1:17:26] Voice 12: i know this

[1:17:26] Voice 12: this isn't the first time we've seen this um all right well we have a number of recommendations

[1:17:33] Voice 12: who'd like to get us started sure

[1:17:37] Voice 13: no first i'm with the salt spring island local trust committee

[1:17:40] Voice 13: has reviewed the island's trust policy statement directives and link checklist and determined that

[1:17:44] Voice 13: bylaw number 541 cited as salt spring island land use bylaw number 355199 amendment number 2

[1:17:53] Voice 13: 2024 is not contrary to or at variance with the island's trust policy statement

[1:18:00] Voice 12: uh seconded by trustee harris any further discussion call the question all those in favor

[1:18:10] Voice 12: uh

[1:18:14] Voice 13: i move that the south spring island local trust committee bylaw number 541 cited as

[1:18:19] Voice 13: south spring island land use bylaw number 355

[1:18:21] Voice 14: 1999 amendment number 2 2024 for the first time

[1:18:25] Voice 14: moved

[1:18:27] Voice 12: seconded by trustee harris any discussion call the question all in favor

[1:18:36] Voice 12: carries as well uh

[1:18:39] Voice 13: i move that the salt spain local trust committee bylaw number five four

[1:18:43] Voice 13: one cited the salzburg island uh land use bylaw number three five five nineteen ninety nine

[1:18:48] Voice 13: amendment number two twenty twenty four we read a second time

[1:18:51] Voice 12: seconded by trustee harris any

[1:18:54] Voice 12: discussion call the question all those in favor motion carries with

[1:19:01] Voice 13: the salt spain trust committee

[1:19:03] Voice 13: bylaw number five four one cited the sultry island land use bylaw number three five five

[1:19:07] Voice 13: nineteen ninety nine amendment number two twenty twenty

[1:19:10] Voice 14: four be rid of third time

[1:19:12] Voice 12: seconded by

[1:19:13] Voice 12: trustee harris any discussion i'll call the question all those in favor motion carries

[1:19:21] Voice 13: and i move that the salesman island local trust committee bylaw number five four one

[1:19:25] Voice 13: cited the salesman island land use file number three five five nineteen ninety nine amendment

[1:19:30] Voice 13: number two 2024 reported to the secretary of the islands of the trust for approval by the

[1:19:35] Voice 13: executive executive

[1:19:37] Voice 12: by trustee harris giving discussion call the question all those in favor

[1:19:42] Voice 12: and that motion carries as well okay so next up starting on page 93 are you the applicant

[1:19:56] Voice 12: i'm not actually the applicant but i'm here on his behalf he's moved to court so okay i

[1:20:01] Voice 12: I'm representing the local organization.

[1:20:03] Voice 12: Okay, great, thank you for that.

[1:20:04] Voice 12: So I'm going to record the proceedings at this point,

[1:20:07] Voice 12: just this part.

[1:20:08] Voice 12: Sure, I'm going to-

[1:20:09] Voice 13: It's also recorded.

[1:20:10] Voice 12: It's also recorded on the web,

[1:20:11] Voice 12: but thank you for asking

[1:20:13] Voice 12: and you're welcome to make a recording of this.

[1:20:16] Voice 12: So over to Planner Garuba.

[1:20:18] Voice 3: Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[1:20:20] Voice 3: This staff report presents preliminary information

[1:20:23] Voice 3: for a rezoning application PLRZ2040021

[1:20:28] Voice 3: one a subject property located at 355 blackboard the applicant seeks to resume the subject property

[1:20:34] Voice 3: from agriculture to zone to agriculture to grant season to permit the uses permitted by the expired

[1:20:41] Voice 3: land use contract on the subject property staff reviewed the application against relevant policies

[1:20:47] Voice 3: including the island the island's trust policy statement land is by law an official community

[1:20:52] Voice 3: plan and it appears to be consistent and therefore recommends that the south spring

[1:20:56] Voice 3: Global Trust Committee request staff to proceed with processing application PLRZ20240021.

[1:21:03] Voice 3: If staff recommendation is supported, staff will proceed with processing the application

[1:21:07] Voice 3: and an extensive analysis of the consistency of the application with the relevant policies

[1:21:12] Voice 3: will also be provided. Alternative resolution is that they also submit how ever to request

[1:21:17] Voice 3: additional information for the application or deny the application. Thank you.

[1:21:24] Voice 12: okay and as the rep uh represented do you have anything to add or you just wanted to record

[1:21:30] Voice 12: i was just here in case there are any questions i think mr javik has provided

[1:21:35] Voice 12: most information okay so i'll turn it over to trustees questions for

[1:21:42] Voice 12: applicants agent or staff um i i know i've met with daryl on site a number of times over

[1:21:50] over the years.

[1:21:51] Voice 13: This is an expiring land contract

[1:21:54] Voice 13: that they don't do anymore.

[1:21:56] Voice 13: That's the center school yoga center.

[1:21:58] Voice 13: So it has to be rezone

[1:22:00] Voice 13: because the province removed these land contracts.

[1:22:03] Voice 13: So we have, this is the right thing to do.

[1:22:07] Voice 13: And I think moving it forward,

[1:22:11] Voice 13: just need to do this.

[1:22:13] Voice 13: Can't leave it unzoned.

[1:22:15] Voice 13: I mean, just ours .

[1:22:18] i'm going to bring it to that's all right then would you like to make the first recommendation

[1:22:25] Voice 12: i move that the salt spring animal trust committee request staff to proceed with processing

[1:22:30] Voice 12: application p l r z two zero two four zero zero two one seconded by trustee patrick any discussion

[1:22:42] i'll call the

[1:22:42] Voice 12: question all those in favor that carries and second recommendation i move that

[1:22:47] the salt spring island trust committee requests down to prepare a draft

[1:22:51] Voice 12: to amend

[1:22:52] Voice 12: salt spring land expo 355 1990 regional northeast quarter of section 85 south salt spring island

[1:23:03] cowichan district

[1:23:04] Voice 12: except that part of the plan 35855 from agriculture 2 a2 to agriculture 2

[1:23:11] Voice 12: to variant CA2, seconded by Trustee Patrick.

[1:23:18] Voice 12: Any further discussion?

[1:23:20] Voice 12: All those in favor?

[1:23:22] Voice 12: And that carries as well.

[1:23:25] Voice 12: Okay, so next up we have a referral

[1:23:31] Voice 12: from the Galliano Island Local Trust Area

[1:23:35] Voice 12: on bylaw number 2191.

[1:23:38] Voice 12: Could be the chair of that local trust committee.

[1:23:45] Voice 12: These are, let me get this straight.

[1:23:49] Voice 12: one is the amending course classification um i guess i'll just turn it over to trustees if you

[1:24:08] Voice 12: have any questions maybe i can help and uh otherwise if these are straightforward referrals

[1:24:13] Voice 12: it's

[1:24:17] Voice 13: not affected on this

[1:24:20] Voice 14: free zoning okay so a

[1:24:22] Voice 12: motion to that effect that the response be

[1:24:27] Voice 13: they never put standard motions i

[1:24:29] Voice 12: don't think this would be a

[1:24:30] Voice 13: helpful note to staff just to

[1:24:33] Voice 13: stick those yeah so i know that the salt spring island local trust committee find uh

[1:24:40] Voice 13: interests are unaffected by uh galliano island local trust committee bylaw 291

[1:24:49] Voice 12: moved seconded by trustee harris any further discussion call the question all those in favor

[1:24:57] carries and then on page 114 there's bylaws

[1:25:01] Voice 12: 296 and 97. this is the oh yes this is a side array

[1:25:13] Voice 12: and their work yard uh rezoning i

[1:25:22] Voice 13: move that salt spring island local trust committee

[1:25:25] of interests

[1:25:26] Voice 13: are unaffected by galliano island local trust committee bylaws number 296 and 297.

[1:25:36] Voice 12: blue seconded by trustee harris any further discussion question all those in favor and that

[1:25:43] Voice 12: okay um i'd like to call a short recess let's come back at uh let's come back at five after

[1:25:55] Voice 12: Thank you.

[1:34:54] Voice 4: a short recess and we are on section uh well

[1:35:03] Voice 12: we have nothing in the diner section 15 under section

[1:35:07] Voice 12: 16 we have the salt spring annual report uh which we did i believe at our last meeting starting on

[1:35:14] Voice 12: page 122 any staff member prepared to speak to this at this point sorry the annual report on

[1:35:29] Voice 12: on page 122.

[1:35:39] Voice 6: yeah uh we

[1:35:50] Voice 12: amended a couple of things to me that seems to all be reflected here to me so

[1:35:56] Voice 12: that's all we're looking for okay i i know that the salt spring island

[1:35:59] Voice 13: local trust committee

[1:36:00] Voice 13: approves the attached text for inclusion in the 425 and the report for approval by trust council

[1:36:07] Voice 13: and sufficient minister of housing municipal affairs moved

[1:36:10] Voice 12: i'll second that any discussion

[1:36:14] Voice 12: Not seeing any, I'll call the question. All those in favour? Any opposed? And the motion carries.

[1:36:25] Voice 12: The policy standing resolutions list. I didn't see an open applications report on this agenda.

[1:36:39] It does not appear to have been included.

[1:36:44] I noticed that just now. We missed it in the work we

[1:36:48] Voice 7: did to prepare this report.

[1:36:50] Voice 7: i apologize for that i don't the fact to the agenda package if you would like

[1:37:01] Voice 12: i'd look to trustees but i think the main thing is if we get one in

[1:37:06] Voice 12: the june meeting that would be great definitely we won't have that oversight again

[1:37:10] Voice 12: well promise for the june meeting

[1:37:16] Voice 7: june 2026 all bets are

[1:37:20] Voice 12: off yeah okay fair um and nothing on the

[1:37:25] Voice 12: expense report or conservancy board report

[1:37:27] Voice 14: but we do have the conservancy board is here

[1:37:31] Voice 12: what we do have is the notice of the national area tax exemption program application closure

[1:37:39] that's just to be received yeah for our questions it's best to speak to the

[1:37:47] Voice 12: conservancy yeah okay

[1:37:50] Voice 12: so we'll take that for information then okay no closed meeting uh our next regular meeting

[1:38:03] Voice 12: meeting is scheduled for 9 30 here on June 5th at the hall and we have a resolution for the

[1:38:12] Voice 12: LCC joint meeting at 19.1.

[1:38:26] Voice 14: I'm sorry I've

[1:38:27] Voice 13: only got four weeks at the same time here so it'll be fun

[1:38:30] Voice 14: yeah

[1:38:31] Voice 12: I'll also be traveling okay all

[1:38:33] Voice 13: right I'm in the Salt Spring Island local trust committee

[1:38:35] Voice 13: request staff to schedule an electronic special meeting with the capital regional district Salt

[1:38:39] Voice 13: spring local community commission at 3 30 on thursday may 22nd 2025 with a viewing location

[1:38:47] for the public at the crd creekside meeting room number

[1:38:50] Voice 13: uh 108 121 mcphillips avenue salt spring

[1:38:54] Voice 13: island so

[1:38:56] Voice 12: i'll second that any discussion i'm sure i'm just throwing two cents i really don't

[1:39:01] Voice 12: i don't see the benefit of meeting with this the lcc i think i think it's

[1:39:08] Voice 7: taken up a lot of staff

[1:39:08] Voice 7: have time we're not getting anywhere once you talk it goes nowhere that

[1:39:21] Voice 12: i respectfully disagree

[1:39:22] Voice 12: i think it's actually a really good idea that the ltc is meeting with the lcc and establishing

[1:39:31] Voice 12: lines of communication right from the get-go and i hope that we're setting precedent for the future

[1:39:35] so that

[1:39:36] Voice 12: local government organizations do meet on a regular basis and i will be voting in favor

[1:39:44] Yes, sir. The problem that I

[1:39:48] Voice 7: see is that it's similar to a municipal council and the makeup

[1:39:53] Voice 7: of the body of the LCC and Adam's Trust, and yet we don't have any of the power under the

[1:39:59] Voice 7: Local Government Act to do what a municipality can. So what ends up happening in my view

[1:40:04] Voice 7: is a whole bunch of time, money, thought, energies put into this, and also community

[1:40:11] we have to remember, valuable, very valuable, community time, in my view, is wasted.

[1:40:18] And, you know, a municipal situation, yes, but the way it is now, it's basically a pretend

[1:40:24] municipal situation, which is basically

[1:40:26] Voice 12: dysfunctional, in my view.

[1:40:29] Voice 12: So I'll leave it at that, against the motion.

[1:40:32] Voice 12: Thank you.

[1:40:33] Voice 12: Okay, anything further?

[1:40:36] Voice 12: If not seeing any, I'll call the question.

[1:40:37] Voice 12: All those in favor?

[1:40:39] Voice 12: And any opposed?

[1:40:41] Voice 12: And the motion carries.

[1:40:42] Voice 12: areas. Could I have my opposition voted on this one? Certainly. Lisa Millard, can you

[1:40:52] Voice 12: note Trustee Harris' opposition to this resolution?

[1:40:57] Voice 2: Yes, Chair Peterson, I've done that. Thank

[1:40:59] Voice 2: you.

[1:41:00] Voice 12: Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. And that

[1:41:02] Voice 4: brings us to adjournment. Thank you,

[1:41:06] Voice 12: Chair Peterson. All right. Thanks, everybody. Never quite sure, but it was very nice.

ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 1 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
     Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 
Minutes of Regular Meeting 
 
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 
Location: Meaden Hall 
120 Blain Road, Salt Spring Island  
  
Members Present: 
 
 
Timothy Peterson, Chair 
Jamie Harris, Local Trustee 
Laura Patrick, Local Trustee   
 
Staff Present: 
 
 
 
 
Others Present: 
 
Chris Hutton, Regional Planning Manager (electronic) 
Chris Buchan, A/Island Planner 
Milad Panahifar, Planner 1  
Oluwashogo Garuba, A/Planner 2 
Rob Pingle, Legislative Clerk 
Lisa Millard, Meeting Administrator/Recorder (electronic)  
 
There were approximately 4 members of the public present 
 
 
1. CALL TO ORDER 
Chair Peterson called the meeting to order at 12:30 p.m. He introduced himself, the 
Trustees, and staff and acknowledged that the Local Trust Committee is meeting in the 
territory of the Coast Salish First Nations. He spoke to Red Dress Day, a National Day of 
Awareness and remembrance for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls 
(MMIWG) that was recognized on May 6. 
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
The following addendum was added to the agenda: 
17.4  Notice of Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program Application Closure 
(SS-NAP-2020.3) 
   By general consent the agenda was adopted as amended. 
3. TOWN HALL AND QUESTIONS 
A member of the public stated transportation, traffic congestion and parking are 
escalating issues and requested the Local Trust Committee address the problem. 
4. DELEGATIONS 
  

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 2 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
4.1 Maxine Leichter - Positively Forward 
The speaker presented Positively Forward’s Position Paper titled Pathways to 
Affordable Housing on Salt Spring and highlighted the following: 
 The Position Paper (the Paper) is a roadmap to providing affordable housing 
while protecting against overdevelopment; 
 Lack of affordable housing affects essential services, harms local businesses, 
and causes community members to move elsewhere; 
 Provision of housing for workers will require creative funding sources and 
protection of affordability; 
 The Paper presents considerations for the Official Community Plan review 
and emphasizes the retention of the existing policy that permits increased 
zoning for affordable housing only; 
 The Paper will be presented in draft form in order to receive comments from 
the public before it is released; and 
 They request the Paper be included in the list of guiding documents for the 
Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw Review Project. 
5. TRUSTEE REPORTS 
Trustee Harris reported speaking with community members who are not happy with 
issues such as housing, traffic, transportation, and local tax revenues leaving the island 
by means of allocation to the Regional District. 
 
 Trustee Patrick reported the following: 
 Met with Salt Spring Fire and Rescue Chair to discuss how their respective 
organizations can work better together; 
 Met with North Salt Spring Water District Chair who looks forward to addressing 
prioritizing water connections through the Official Community Plan project; 
 Attended BC Ferries meeting and noted expansion work on the Crofton terminal will 
facilitate both ferries being docked in Crofton overnight; 
 Attended BC Ferries session in which their new engagement process was 
announced, Transition Salt Spring engagement event, MLA Rob Bottrell’s ASK Salt 
Spring discussion session; CoNEXT meeting to follow up to their forum on climate 
action, and Freshwater Footprint webinar about water mapping on Gabriola Island; 
 Participated in Bowen Island Municipality protocol meeting, Chief Administrative 
Officer Hiring Committee meeting, Executive Committee meeting, and joint Executive 
Committee / Islands Trust Conservancy meeting; 
 Attended Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities conference and 
highlighted Mayors, Chairs, and Chiefs meeting and tiny homes on wheels 
enablement presentation; 
 Ongoing attendance at Trust Program Committee meetings to continue work on the 
Islands Trust Policy Statement amendment project; and 
 Noted the Housing Needs Assessment Report for Salt Spring is available on the 
website and the data collected was not customized enough to produce accurate 
results for the region. 
  

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 3 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
6. CHAIR'S REPORT 
Chair Peterson reported the following: 
 The provincial government mandated the Housing Needs Assessment and the 
models used are not sufficiently customized to produce realistic results;  
 Attended Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities conference and 
highlighted session on community healthcare solutions, the BC Nurses Union 
presentation on recruitment, retention and work burnout, and the Truth and 
Reconciliation Call to Action review; 
 Attended BC Ferries meeting regarding the Crofton and Vesuvius terminal upgrades;  
 Attendance at Executive Committee, Chief Administrative Officer Performance 
Evaluation and joint Islands Trust / Bowen Island Municipality protocol meetings; 
 Attended Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss the scope and meaning of the 
Islands Trust Object; and 
 Attended the Xwe’etay/Lasqueti Archaeology project mural unveiling and launch of a 
travelling exhibit. 
7. CRD DIRECTOR'S REPORT 
Local Community Commission Chair Earl Rook reported the following: 
 Held roundtable discussion on harbour management and related issues and 
upcoming Local Community Commission meeting will review a report summarizing 
comments received and next steps; 
 Upcoming meeting will begin looking at the Integrated Housing Strategy for Salt 
Spring; 
 Soliciting feedback on uses for the Phoenix School site; and 
 Met with Ministry of Transportation and Transit managers to discuss longer term, and 
current, roadwork projects. 
8. PREVIOUS MEETINGS 
8.1 Draft Minutes of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 
8.1.1 Draft Minutes of the April 10, 2025 Salt Spring Island Local Trust 
Committee Regular Meeting  
By general consent, the Salt Spring Island Local Trust 
Committee Minutes of April 10, 2025 were adopted. 
8.2 Resolutions Without Meeting Report - None 
8.3 Draft Minutes of the Advisory Planning Commissions - None 
8.4 Local Trust Committee Public Hearing Record - None 
9. CORRESPONDENCE 
Correspondence received concerning current applications or projects is posted on the 
LTC webpage 
  

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 4 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
9.1 A. Haltrecht - Dated 1 April 2025 - Regarding trustee meeting participation 
Received for information. 
10. BUSINESS ARISING FROM MINUTES 
10.1 Follow-Up Action List 
The Regional Planning Manager provided an update to the Follow-up Action List. 
11. WORK PROGRAM 
11.1 Salt Spring Local Trust Committee Work Program – Quarterly Report 
11.1.1 Salt Spring Local Trust Committee Work Program - Quarterly Report 
Regional Planning Manager Hutton summarized the Quarterly Report. 
Discussion ensued and the following comments were noted: 
 Working with the Local Community Commission and the increasing 
requirements of ongoing work with developing relationship with First 
Nations are vital but historically not considered part of the work of the 
Salt Spring office staff which complicates capacity issues; 
 Work is being done on the project charter for the Official Community 
Plan and Land Use Bylaw review project which has been identified as 
the highest priority; 
 The annual letter sent to First Nations, as specified in a standing 
resolution, needs to be constructive; 
 It is advisable to send an update letter to First Nations at each phase 
of the Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw review project to 
allow the Nation to consider if they wish to engage throughout or at 
varying stages;  
 There is expectation that staff will report and communicate relevant 
updates in addition to the quarterly report; and 
 The Active Projects List will be updated throughout the process. 
 
SS-2025-053 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee forward the top 
three priorities on the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee 
Active Projects List, presented in the May 8 Regular Meeting 
Agenda, to Trust Council. 
CARRIED 
11.2 Active Projects List 
  Received for information. 
11.3 Future Projects List 
  Received for information. 
12. COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING - None 

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 5 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
13. PUBLIC HEARING - None 
14. APPLICATIONS AND REFERRALS 
14.1 PLTUP20250097 - M. Ogilvie - 116 Jackson Ave, Salt Spring Island 
The Planner summarized the staff report and highlighted the following: 
 The application seeks a Temporary Use Permit for the operation of one food 
truck and three retail/office spaces in the Ganges Village Area; 
 A Temporary Use Permit was issued in 2024 to allow the operation of one 
food truck and two retail/office spaces; 
 Following further design and evaluation the applicant relocated the food truck 
and adjusted the positioning of the retail/offices spaces and added an 
additional business trailer and these changes required an amendment to the 
previously issues permit; 
 No correspondence has been received in response to the application; and 
 The application meets the Temporary Use Permit guidelines. 
 
The applicant was in attendance and noted they currently have a three-year 
temporary use permit and requested the duration of a new permit be three years. 
 
Discussion ensued and the following comments were noted: 
 Section G.1.3.6 of the Temporary Use Permit guidelines states that permits 
should not be issued in excess of 60 days unless it is a new venture that 
does not directly compete with an existing business in a legal zone and there 
is a demonstrated need or market for the proposed use; 
 The previous Temporary Use Permit remains in place and active; and 
 An additional Temporary Use Permit is required due to the additional 
business use. 
SS-2025-054 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee approve issuance of 
Temporary Use Permit PLTUP20250097 (Jackson Avenue) for a period 
of three years. 
CARRIED 
14.2 PLRZ20240145 - J. Litke - 200 Collins Road, Salt Spring Island 
The Planner summarized the staff report and highlighted the following: 
 The Local Trust Committee previously requested staff prepare a draft bylaw 
to amend the Land Use Bylaw to rezone the parcel to permit one single family 
dwelling and one a full-time rental cottage; 
 The draft bylaw has been referred to First Nations and other agencies and of 
the responses received no concerns were noted; and 
 Statutory notice of the proposed rezoning was mailed to neighbouring 
properties and no responses have been received to date. 
 
Trustees had no comments or questions for the Planner. 
  

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 6 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
SS-2025-055 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee has reviewed the 
Islands Trust Policy Statement Directives Only Checklist and determined 
that Bylaw No. 541 cited as “Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 
1999, Amendment No. 2, 2024” (200 Collins Road) is not contrary to or at 
variance with the Islands Trust Policy Statement. 
CARRIED 
SS-2025-56 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 541 cited as 
“Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, Amendment No. 2, 
2024”, be read a first time (PLRZ20240145, 200 Collins Road). 
CARRIED 
 
SS-2025-57 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 541 cited as 
“Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, Amendment No. 2, 
2024”, be read a second time (PLRZ20240145, 200 Collins Road). 
CARRIED 
 
SS-2025-058 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 541 cited as 
“Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, Amendment No. 2, 
2024”, be read a third time (PLRZ20240145, 200 Collins Road). 
CARRIED 
 
SS-2025-059 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 541, cited as 
“Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, Amendment No. 2, 
2024”, be forwarded to the Secretary of the Islands Trust for approval by 
the Executive Committee. 
CARRIED 
14.3 PLRZ20240021 - D.Janyk - 355 Blackburn Road, Salt Spring Island 
The Planner summarized the staff report and highlighted the following: 
 The application seeks to amend the Land Use Bylaw to permit the current 
uses on the subject property and bring it into compliance with the Land Use 
Bylaw at the expiration of the existing Land Use Contract Bylaw No. 195; and 
 Following the expiration of the Land Use Contract, and in order to bring the 
current uses into compliance, an amendment to change the current zone to a 
new zone is required. 
 
The Trustees had no comments or questions for the Planner or applicant. 
 
  

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 7 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
SS-2025-060 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee request staff to proceed 
with processing application PLRZ20240021. 
CARRIED 
 SS-2025-061 
   It was MOVED and SECONDED 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee request staff to prepare 
a draft bylaw to amend Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, 
to rezone THE NORTH EAST ¼ OF SECTION 85, SOUTH SALT 
SPRING ISLAND, COWICHAN DISTRICT EXCEPT THAT PART IN 
PLAN 35855, from Agriculture 2 (A2) to Agriculture 2 variant c (A2 (c)).  
CARRIED 
14.4 Galiano Island Local Trust Committee Draft Bylaw No 291 Referral 
SS-2025-062 
It was MOVED and SECONDED 
that Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee interests are unaffected by 
Galiano Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 291. 
CARRIED 
14.5 Galiano Island Local Trust Committee Draft Bylaw Nos 296 & 297 Referral 
SS-2025-063 
It was MOVED and SECONDED 
That Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee interests are unaffected by 
Galiano Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw Nos. 296 and 297. 
CARRIED 
The meeting was recessed for a break at 1:55 p.m. and reconvened at 2:05 p.m. 
15. LOCAL TRUST COMMITTEE PROJECTS - None 
16. NEW BUSINESS 
16.1 Salt Spring Island Annual Report 
Discussion ensued and it was noted that previously requested amendments to 
the text had been completed. 
SS-2025-064 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee approves the attached 
text for inclusion in the 2024/25 Annual Report for approval by Trust 
Council and submission to the Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. 
CARRIED 
17. REPORTS 
17.1 Policy and Standing Resolutions List 
Received for information. 

 
 
ADOPTED 
 
Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee ADOPTED 8 of 8 
Meeting Minutes  
May 8, 2025 
17.2 Open Applications Report - None 
17.3 Expense Report - None 
17.4 Islands Trust Conservancy Board Report 
17.4.1 Notice of Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program Application 
Closure (SS-NAP-2020.3) 
Received for information. 
18. CLOSED MEETING - None 
19. UPCOMING MEETINGS 
The next regular meeting of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee is scheduled 
for 9:30 a.m. on June 5, 2025 at the Legion Meaden Hall, 120 Blain Road, Salt Spring 
Island. 
19.1 Special Meeting Resolution 
A Trustee indicated they did not see value in meetings with the Local Community 
Commission due to the staff resources used and associated expenses. 
SS-2025-065 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee request staff to 
schedule an electronic Special Meeting with the Capital Regional District 
Salt Spring Local Community Commission at 3:30pm on Thursday May 
22, 2025 with a viewing location for the public at the Capital Regional 
District Creekside Meeting Room, #108-121 McPhillips Ave, Salt Spring 
Island, BC. 
CARRIED 
Trustee Harris opposed. 
20. ADJOURNMENT 
By general consent the meeting adjourned at 2:11 p.m. 
 
_________________________ 
Timothy Peterson, Chair 
 
Certified Correct: 
_________________________ 
Lisa Millard, Meeting Administrator/Recorder