Islands Trust Conservancy Board regular meeting, July 22, 2025

[0:00:00] Voice 7: This is the Iowa's Trust Conservancy Board meeting for July 22nd, 2025.

[0:00:07] Voice 7: And I'd like to begin by acknowledging the land that we are meeting on today

[0:00:11] Voice 7: as unceded ancestral territory to many Coast Salish nations.

[0:00:15] Voice 7: We recognize the deep and enduring connection Indigenous people have to this land,

[0:00:21] Voice 7: including traditional uses, cultural practices, and governance systems.

[0:00:25] Voice 7: And as a board, we commit in our work today to seeking deeper meaning and deeper understanding.

[0:00:34] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:00:34] Voice 7: My name is Lisa Goberow.

[0:00:36] Voice 7: I am elected on Galliano Island, and I am the Honor Service Chair of the Honest Trust

[0:00:41] Voice 7: Conservancy.

[0:00:42] Voice 7: Before we move too far into introductions, I wanted to acknowledge recent change in our

[0:00:46] Voice 7: board.

[0:00:47] Voice 7: Trustee Charles Kahn has not sought reappointment to the ITC board after two years of dedicated

[0:00:54] Voice 7: service.

[0:00:56] Voice 7: I'd like to take a moment to express sincere appreciation for Charles' contributions.

[0:01:01] Voice 7: He brought thoughtful insight, stead and commitment to our work.

[0:01:07] Voice 7: He's always grounded in care for both the land and for the community.

[0:01:11] Voice 7: His presence around this table will be missed, but his impact continues in many ways here in back home in Salt Spring Valley.

[0:01:20] Voice 7: And Charles, if you're watching on behalf of the board, thank you for your time,

[0:01:23] Voice 7: your wisdom, and your dedication. With Charles' departure, we are pleased to welcome a newly

[0:01:31] Voice 7: appointed Provincial Trustee, Janine Georgeson, to the ITC board. Maybe give an introduction for

[0:01:38] Voice 7: yourself and then we'll move our way around the board and

[0:01:40] Voice 6: for the staff that's here today.

[0:01:42] Voice 7: um

[0:01:43] Voice 6: I'm Janine Georgeson uh I am Coast Salish from a few communities Satu Dene and Métis from

[0:01:51] Voice 6: Treaty 11 Territory and Northwest Territories uh I do multiple things in my community

[0:01:57] Voice 6: I am a school board trustee for Galliano Island uh one of my favorite projects is counting crab

[0:02:04] Voice 6: babies uh yeah I do a number of things within health care education housing land stewardship

[0:02:12] Voice 6: so i'm looking forward to being part of this and yeah there's a lot more about me

[0:02:19] Voice 6: but then you know that's a snapshot get there yeah thank you for having me welcome

[0:02:25] Voice 7: thank you we

[0:02:29] Voice 8: like to go next don't we sure i'm toby elliott elected as trustee on gabriela

[0:02:35] Voice 8: island it's the name of first nation territory um and i'm also serve as vice chair so i'm on

[0:02:41] Voice 8: the executive committee and I chair four other local trust committees, Thetis, South Pender,

[0:02:48] Voice 8: Mesquitee and Main Island. And so I've been a member of the board since the start of our term

[0:02:55] Voice 8: 2022. It was a while

[0:02:57] Voice 8: ago. In my home community, I've been an advocate for a long time for

[0:03:03] Voice 8: alternative ecologically

[0:03:06] Voice 7: responsive housing solutions so tiny homes is a particular interest

[0:03:12] Voice 7: of mine and an advocate for smaller clustered dwellings

[0:03:17] Voice 8: which is making its way through many

[0:03:18] Voice 8: ocps and the policy statement i'm happy to see um and

[0:03:24] Voice 7: my other interests i share i rent on a farm

[0:03:27] Voice 7: and have two horses two rescue horses that we look after together and grow garlic and blueberries and

[0:03:36] Voice 7: just try to look after the land um well it's quite farmy now um but I'm very happy that I live in a

[0:03:44] Voice 7: along a grove of alder trees which is nursing a bunch of um red cedars so it's really good to

[0:03:52] Voice 7: be in an area that I can watch nature reclaiming and coming back so I get to witness that every

[0:03:59] Voice 7: day and grateful

[0:04:00] Voice 8: to be with you all thank you thank you Susan oh thank you uh well and like

[0:04:06] Voice 8: trustee Elliot I am also from the Gabriel and local trust area that covers much and of course

[0:04:13] Voice 8: islands since the name of territory and um i this is the best part of of my job as a trustee is

[0:04:24] Voice 8: actually being on the islands trust conservancy board because pretty much all the last 50 years

[0:04:30] Voice 8: of my life i've been dedicated to social and environmental justice and i know most of the

[0:04:38] Voice 8: islands well pretty i know all the islands action in the islands trust area quite well i have been

[0:04:43] Voice 8: visiting galliano for example since margaret griffiths was my best friend oh wow like 40

[0:04:50] Voice 8: years ago yeah um and she is she's my hero still even now yeah for sure um yeah i also visit other

[0:05:01] Voice 8: islands like cuadra and cortez and i think about what would it be like if they were in the trust

[0:05:07] Voice 8: area i have a meeting on cortez on and in august with their economic development association

[0:05:14] Voice 8: to help them start up an investment cooperative similar to the one that we have on gabriella

[0:05:21] Voice 8: so i think gabriella is known for a number of interesting community initiatives like

[0:05:28] Voice 8: the commons like the bus the gritty bus

[0:05:32] Voice 8: the investment co-op things like that

[0:05:38] Voice 8: where we really work together to make

[0:05:40] Voice 8: stronger community so my other

[0:05:43] Voice 8: strong interest is i've

[0:05:45] Voice 8: been a board member for the watershed sentinel environmental magazine for 32 years well i brought

[0:05:51] Voice 8: a few extra copies there's a beautiful um interview with hachita elder bill jones in this

[0:05:58] Voice 8: one and i just yeah i just love it so those are for people to take thank you thank

[0:06:03] Voice 7: you thank you

[0:06:04] Voice 7: My name is Yusa Smith. I live on Galliano Island. I've been on the ITC board since 2021.

[0:06:13] Voice 7: So this is my fourth year and I have one more year until next year.

[0:06:20] Voice 7: Yeah, I was shocked when I had to account for that.

[0:06:24] Voice 7: And we've done a lot in the time I've been here. I've seen a lot of different changes, so it's pretty exciting.

[0:06:29] Voice 7: um in my uh day job i work for the international union for the conservation of nature

[0:06:36] Voice 7: and i'm the chair of a group called the protected areas climate change

[0:06:42] Voice 7: specialist group and in that context and just finishing a report on climate change

[0:06:47] Voice 7: mitigation and protected areas um which has been a three-year project that has really made me crazy

[0:06:53] Voice 7: but it'll be released at the world conservation congress in october so i'm very excited about

[0:06:59] Voice 7: that. And I'm also on the board of the Galeano Conservancy, a founding board member. And that

[0:07:05] Voice 7: is the reason I will recuse myself from a major part of the agenda. So welcome. It's good to have

[0:07:14] Voice 7: you. I'm living in the North End, so I can barely see anyone in the Southern. Might as well be a

[0:07:17] Voice 7: different island. But it'd be really exciting to work with you. Thank you.

[0:07:23] Voice 7: We have Vice

[0:07:24] Voice 7: Chair Timothy.

[0:07:25] Voice 4: Yeah, good morning and welcome. It's a pleasure to have you here.

[0:07:28] Voice 4: My name is Tanner Timothy, and I'm from Llaman First Nation on the upper sunshine coast of El River, nearby Cortez and Quadra.

[0:07:37] Voice 4: Both of my great-grandmothers come from Quadra Island and came much.

[0:07:42] Voice 4: I'm a council member for Llaman Nation as of my first term from 2024.

[0:07:48] Voice 4: Just about a month after I got my first term on the Islands Trust, I'm a provincially appointed member of the Islands Trust Conservancy Board.

[0:07:55] Voice 4: recently renewed which I'm very grateful for for the next two years I'm excited to be working

[0:08:00] Voice 4: together again and we're

[0:08:02] Voice 4: grateful too yeah thank you so much um in my day job I work for

[0:08:07] Voice 4: Kwantlen First Nation the Lower Mainland I live in North Burnaby um in the Tsleil-Waututh

[0:08:12] Voice 4: uh Kwikwetlem territory and I'm a manager of heritage referrals and GIS there um so I got

[0:08:20] Voice 4: my education in geography from trinidad western university and an advanced diploma in geographic

[0:08:25] Voice 4: information systems from bcit so i have a specialization in mapping which is a very

[0:08:31] Voice 4: useful tool when it comes to conservation and that's one of the things that i like to carry

[0:08:36] Voice 4: in my pocket for sure i'm very honored to be a part of the island trust conservancy it's just

[0:08:41] Voice 4: great wonderful staff um just really important values and i think we can all appreciate the

[0:08:46] Voice 4: importance of protecting the environment and ecosystems um they've been so heavily impacted

[0:08:52] Voice 4: and i think each and every day the more that we can do to support them and enhance them is

[0:08:57] Voice 4: is really good so i'm just grateful to be here and welcome and excited to be working with you

[0:09:02] Voice 4: thank you my

[0:09:05] Voice 7: god thank you over the staff would you like to start start on the end

[0:09:11] Voice 1: sure hi i'm

[0:09:12] Voice 1: rob croker i'm the planning services admin assistant here at islands trust happy to be

[0:09:17] Voice 1: be here with you all and supporting your meeting today and very humbled and grateful to live and

[0:09:22] Voice 1: work on the territory of the Esquimalt and so on this year.

[0:09:27] Voice 10: I'm Catherine Martel. I get to be the

[0:09:29] Voice 10: sole Islands Trust Conservancy staff person being here today. My role is called the ecosystem

[0:09:36] Voice 10: protection specialist and so I manage our regional conservation planning and the mapping and

[0:09:44] Voice 10: and conservation analysis side of the bigger picture,

[0:09:49] Voice 10: but also the work one-on-one with landholders

[0:09:51] Voice 10: who are interested in protecting their property.

[0:09:53] Voice 10: So the negotiations and the sort of shepherding through

[0:09:57] Voice 10: to an agreement when we have a covenant or a nature reserve.

[0:10:04] Voice 10: I've been here five years, I think,

[0:10:06] Voice 10: which is rather shocking, but true.

[0:10:09] Voice 10: It does not feel that long.

[0:10:11] Voice 10: I can't play my, I'm new,

[0:10:13] Voice 10: I don't know what's going on anymore.

[0:10:14] Voice 10: anymore i'm just i just don't know what's going on sometimes which hopefully won't come out too

[0:10:18] Voice 10: often today during the meeting that's me thank you

[0:10:28] Voice 2: i think i i practiced the basic protocol in regards to um you know that i was taught from a

[0:10:37] Voice 2: elder who's no longer with us we recently lost her from uh penelope um and i i

[0:10:42] Voice 2: like to do that

[0:10:43] Voice 2: just an honor in regards to her being voiced and recognized in our and who we are as indigenous

[0:10:47] Voice 2: people and my family name is uh which was originated from which i resided majority of

[0:10:58] Voice 2: my life my wife's traditional territory um and i'm couching and have been living back home for

[0:11:04] Voice 2: the past six years um and i as a i guess as a hobby i i many when i moved back home the elders

[0:11:12] Voice 2: approached me, because my late father was an advocate for our rights

[0:11:16] Voice 2: for the Couch and River, and so a lot of elders still recognize that, so when I

[0:11:20] Voice 2: moved back home, there was an opportunity, they brought us, elders got

[0:11:24] Voice 2: together, and they wanted to save the Couch and River from the harm that's been

[0:11:29] Voice 2: placed on the river, and the challenges that we

[0:11:32] Voice 2: are facing, and then we're looking at the Couch and Tribes as the

[0:11:36] Voice 2: governance process with the provincial government, and looking at

[0:11:40] Voice 2: to restoring the river maintaining the rivers in in a healthy way um so i sit on the i sit on the

[0:11:47] Voice 2: i was selected to sit on the governance body for the community uh as part of that group and

[0:11:52] Voice 2: working towards uh looking after the cook style river um and then as i do that i i realize you

[0:11:59] Voice 2: know my my great great grandfather was a settler that uh moved into couching and married into

[0:12:04] Voice 2: to Cowichan and he was one of the first settlers that was first came to Cowichan and and then then

[0:12:11] Voice 2: but then I look at that how that displaced some of our First Nations families and and my late

[0:12:16] Voice 2: father you know he has several children I have several brothers and sisters that I really don't

[0:12:21] Voice 2: know but it's also a result of the loss of that land base in regards to that keeps the separation

[0:12:27] Voice 2: between our families and it's uh and I think you know we we didn't need to acknowledge that because

[0:12:32] Voice 2: because we're working towards building capacity

[0:12:36] Voice 2: for our First Nations and looking at those capacities,

[0:12:39] Voice 2: but also we need to understand some of the impacts

[0:12:41] Voice 2: that it had in regards to that displacement

[0:12:43] Voice 2: from the lands that our Coast Salish people

[0:12:46] Voice 2: once practiced and lived on.

[0:12:47] Voice 2: So, thanks, guys, thank you.

[0:12:49] Voice 7: Thank you, Coach Hill.

[0:12:52] Voice 7: And good morning, everyone.

[0:12:53] Voice 7: I'm Claire Freider.

[0:12:54] Voice 7: I've got the role of Director of Trust Area Services.

[0:12:57] Voice 7: I'm here today as Acting Manager of the Conservancy

[0:13:01] Voice 7: as Wendy Tyrell is away

[0:13:03] Voice 7: and unable to be with you

[0:13:04] Voice 7: and she sends her regrets

[0:13:05] Voice 7: and for Janine

[0:13:07] Voice 7: I've been here about 20 years

[0:13:08] Voice 7: just over 20 years

[0:13:09] Voice 7: I've worked in many different capacities

[0:13:12] Voice 7: at the Trust

[0:13:13] Voice 7: love working here

[0:13:14] Voice 7: and I've grown up all around the Salish Sea

[0:13:17] Voice 7: and would love to be in this place

[0:13:19] Voice 7: and feel very humbled to be able to do so

[0:13:20] Voice 7: live in these beautiful territories

[0:13:23] Voice 7: so thank you

[0:13:24] Voice 7: and work with all the wonderful people

[0:13:26] Voice 7: at this organization

[0:13:27] Voice 7: so we're looking

[0:13:28] Voice 7: forward to the meeting today

[0:13:28] Voice 7: and we're going to be providing

[0:13:30] Voice 7: whatever support we can

[0:13:31] Voice 7: I'll also say that Nuala Murphy sends her regrets.

[0:13:34] Voice 7: So we're

[0:13:34] Voice 7: a lean team, but we're here to support you as best we can.

[0:13:38] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:13:38] Voice 7: And

[0:13:38] Voice 2: I forgot to say I'm part of the TAS team.

[0:13:40] Voice 2: I'm the indigenous advisor.

[0:13:42] Voice 2: Oh, great. Thank you.

[0:13:45] Voice 7: Is there any other staff here to introduce?

[0:13:49] Voice 7: Yeah, might be online.

[0:13:50] Voice 10: Should I make a mention?

[0:13:52] Voice 7: If there's anyone online, please.

[0:13:54] Voice 7: Do we have any pop in?

[0:13:56] Voice 7: But I think a lot of folks are watching the live stream rather than participating in the meeting.

[0:13:59] Voice 7: right so we want to see um we wouldn't see those numbers is anybody anybody else trying to answer

[0:14:05] Voice 7: i'm not i'm sorry so i just want to acknowledge the work of all the staff today that may not be

[0:14:09] Voice 7: in the meeting but have certainly contributed towards your agenda package today that's right

[0:14:13] Voice 7: all right let's move on to item number three which is the approval of the agenda

[0:14:21] Voice 7: we want to see the agendas today are there any additions

[0:14:26] Voice 7: One is that I just want to put the World Conservation Congress on the agenda, and World

[0:14:32] Voice 7: Conservation Congress, where I will be in October, to see if the board would like me

[0:14:38] Voice 7: to come with a presentation on ITC.

[0:14:41] Voice 7: Just decide that.

[0:14:42] Voice 7: That's a great idea.

[0:14:43] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:14:44] Voice 7: So I put that on the agenda.

[0:14:45] Voice 7: And the

[0:14:46] Voice 7: other one, maybe you can ask Claire, do I put that as a new item here, or?

[0:14:51] Voice 7: about a change potential change of our regular meeting date um no we can certainly discuss that

[0:14:56] Voice 7: under number 10 okay number 10 number

[0:15:04] Voice 11: two sorry

[0:15:06] Voice 7: next meeting around next

[0:15:10] Voice 7: meeting there's a

[0:15:10] Voice 7: potential consideration of a request to change the date sorry there's consideration of potentially

[0:15:15] Voice 7: potentially changing that date oh okay yeah stripping um and then you wanted to add the world

[0:15:20] Voice 7: um conservation congress now we'll put that in a new business so let's discuss that right so that

[0:15:27] Voice 7: would be item um nine item uh 9.2 great thank you and then all right so approval of the agenda as

[0:15:41] Voice 7: have been made. Did you have anything you wanted to add? No. By general consensus? Sounds good.

[0:15:48] Voice 7: That approved by general consent. Moving on to item number four,

[0:15:53] Voice 7: rise and report. I have a rise and report here, which I'll read out.

[0:16:00] Voice 7: Report from a closed meeting held on May 27, 2025. The Islands Trust Conservancy has approved

[0:16:06] Voice 7: a $12,000 opportunity fund grant to Maine Island Conservancy

[0:16:11] Voice 7: to help cover legal expenses associated

[0:16:14] Voice 7: with conservation covenant on Maine Island.

[0:16:17] Voice 7: And these costs includes title searches, drafting,

[0:16:22] Voice 7: multiple revisions, finalizing, and registering a covenant.

[0:16:27] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:16:30] Voice 7: And move on to item number five, the adoption of minutes.

[0:16:33] Voice 7: Minutes from May 27th.

[0:16:37] Voice 11: Are

[0:16:37] Voice 7: we going to have a chance to look at them? Any amendments?

[0:16:40] Voice 7: Are they looking all right to everybody?

[0:16:43] Voice 7: Fantastic. Then we'll accept those by general consent.

[0:16:48] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:16:50] Voice 7: Moving on to item number six, follow-up action list.

[0:16:55] Voice 7: I think the minutes have to have a motion because they're not approved until we have a motion. Is that not correct?

[0:17:03] Voice 7: Certainly it's acceptable to accept them by consent.

[0:17:09] Voice 7: Is that all right? Or was somebody prepared to? I don't keep it. Just next time we're

[0:17:15] Voice 7: considerate of that. Thank you for considering that though. I think if there was some major

[0:17:23] Voice 7: changes to it that may be hopefully maybe. All right so we're on item number six follow-up

[0:17:30] Voice 7: action list. Is there any questions from the board? Seeing none we can move on to item number seven.

[0:17:43] Voice 7: business item 7.1.1 uh coup snap tap uh covenants amendment it's an rfd and i'll be looking to yes

[0:17:53] Voice 10: uh that would be me um should i move over there so i'm on camera

[0:18:07] Voice 11: So

[0:18:08] Voice 10: I think this is a fairly straightforward item. When we registered the Coontz Covenant

[0:18:15] Voice 10: last year, there was an oversight and the baseline report doesn't align closely enough

[0:18:22] Voice 10: with the covenant in the sense that the covenant provides an owner's right to maintain one of the

[0:18:28] Voice 10: old roads that she calls the driveway that goes to the greenhouse which is an

[0:18:31] Voice 10: excluded area from the

[0:18:32] Voice 10: covenant and the baseline

[0:18:34] Voice 10: report itself just has a collection of old roads that didn't specify the

[0:18:38] Voice 10: driveway so um and i think this was it was my oversight and not making sure they laid closely

[0:18:44] Voice 10: our lawyers also didn't notice it at the time that we registered because we were as we always are

[0:18:50] Voice 10: scrambling to get everything done in time so we've rectified the error and this rfd is to

[0:18:57] Voice 10: uh for the board to agree to the covenant amendment and approve that and then we are also

[0:19:02] Voice 10: requesting that um the conservancy cover the just the notary the notarization notary notarizing

[0:19:11] Voice 10: notarizing

[0:19:12] Voice 3: of

[0:19:13] Voice 10: the signatures for both the land holder and for galt uh which will be about a

[0:19:18] Voice 10: little shy of $150

[0:19:19] Voice 9: for each of them. And since we sort of see it as our oversight, I'm happy

[0:19:26] Voice 9: to answer any questions.

[0:19:28] Voice 7: Yeah. So I'm a little bit confused about the financial implications

[0:19:33] Voice 7: on page 22. Are we also bearing a legal cost of $1,600 for the amendment?

[0:19:41] Voice 10: Well, yes. And

[0:19:41] Voice 10: most of the work has already been done. Oh. So that's the amendment that you see in this

[0:19:46] Voice 10: package. Oh

[0:19:47] Voice 7: so the work

[0:19:47] Voice 10: has been done that's right yes so this

[0:19:49] Voice 10: is already captured by the

[0:19:52] Voice 10: that's true and and I

[0:19:53] Voice 10: maybe I should have filled out the RFD differently I guess

[0:19:56] Voice 10: indicated that it's already been spent yeah a little

[0:19:58] Voice 7: okay that's fine just that's I wanted

[0:20:01] Voice 7: that clarified but

[0:20:02] Voice 7: it's just the additional 300 for delivery cost okay

[0:20:07] Voice 11: did

[0:20:25] Voice 8: you have a question

[0:20:25] Voice 8: nope and we've all walked down that little driveway that's right

[0:20:34] Voice 7: Great. Is there any more clarification, questions for clarification?

[0:20:41] Voice 7: Perhaps

[0:20:42] Voice 8: we can move to a motion. Happy to make that motion. Thank you.

[0:20:45] Voice 8: I move that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board authorize the chair or any available ITC authorized signatory to sign the modification agreement to amend Covenant CB 1650359,

[0:20:58] Voice 8: registered on the land described as

[0:21:01] Voice 8: PID 005788447

[0:21:04] Voice 8: that part of Lot 3, Section 5

[0:21:07] Voice 8: Gabriela Island, Nanaimo District, Plan 6986

[0:21:10] Voice 8: lying to the northwest of a road

[0:21:13] Voice 8: dedicated by Plan 17829

[0:21:15] Voice 8: accept those parts in Plans 21783

[0:21:19] Voice 8: and 26145.

[0:21:23] Voice 8: Looking for a seconder.

[0:21:25] Voice 7: Second.

[0:21:26] Voice 7: All in favor?

[0:21:28] Voice 7: I call the vote.

[0:21:30] Voice 8: Thank you.

[0:21:31] Voice 8: Motion carried.

[0:21:32] Voice 8: I'll make a second motion.

[0:21:34] Voice 8: I move that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board authorize expenditure of up to $300

[0:21:40] Voice 8: to support the landholder and galt in obtaining notarized signatures for registering the modification

[0:21:46] Voice 8: agreement.

[0:21:48] Voice 8: I'm looking for a seconder.

[0:21:50] Voice 7: Trustee Elliott.

[0:21:51] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:21:51] Voice 7: I'll call the vote.

[0:21:52] Voice 7: All in favor?

[0:21:54] Voice 7: Motion carried.

[0:22:14] Voice 11: I guess we're

[0:22:17] Voice 7: moving on to item 7.2 already, right?

[0:22:20] Voice 7: This is the world's shortest. That's our quick one.

[0:22:24] Voice 7: All right, so 7.2, that is for direction. 7.2.1, see you, Dr. Frater.

[0:22:31] Voice 7: So just happy to introduce this item just by saying this is here at the request of the

[0:22:38] Voice 7: Chair and Chair Patrick suggested that this could be a conversation of the East Executive

[0:22:43] Voice 7: Committee Conservancy joint meeting this afternoon.

[0:22:45] Voice 7: So this was added to the agenda in anticipation that you might like to talk as a board first

[0:22:50] Voice 7: about your hopes for this informal working group such that you then have a position or

[0:22:55] Voice 7: discussion points to bring to the meeting this afternoon.

[0:22:57] Voice 7: Chris, thank you very much. Just as a refresher, the Conservation Funds Working Group was an informal joint venture initiative from the ITC to the Executive Committee, exploring the creation of a regional conservation fund for the Shasta area.

[0:23:15] Voice 7: The goal is to co-develop a funding model alongside with First Nations and local partners to support long-term land protection right through the spring and summer.

[0:23:27] Voice 11: or

[0:23:27] Voice 7: any comments on this i think we're at the last meeting we discussed potential for board

[0:23:36] Voice 7: members that had capacity to attend a working group meeting and i think i was identified as

[0:23:42] Voice 7: one of those people arisa was going to second that as well is there another board member that

[0:23:48] Voice 7: would wish to be part of that

[0:23:50] Voice 6: i would like

[0:23:51] Voice 6: to learn more you'd

[0:23:53] Voice 7: like to learn more yeah i think

[0:23:54] Voice 7: I think having regular updates too of any meeting would be trying to keep it as open and

[0:23:59] Voice 7: as up-to-date as possible with any meetings transpiring.

[0:24:03] Voice 7: Yes, I just want to clarify, you are going to be on that committee, I would just be your backup.

[0:24:08] Voice 7: Yeah, I just want to make everyone aware.

[0:24:14] Voice 7: Since we don't have a lot of business, maybe we can have a brief discussion about what,

[0:24:19] Voice 7: or just recap

[0:24:20] Voice 7: what the concept is uh for janine and it's a bit of a i'm not even sure what what

[0:24:28] Voice 7: we're exploring so so thank you yes i thought of it this morning as sort of we're trying to

[0:24:33] Voice 7: shape something but we're trying not to demand the shape of it until we have uh the partners

[0:24:38] Voice 7: we need at the table to help shape it so we can go off and create our own group um formulated

[0:24:45] Voice 7: around what our vision is but then that's all at 11b and we want to be much much more than that

[0:24:51] Voice 7: so looking towards partnership with nations or if there's interest or capacity or looking at

[0:24:56] Voice 7: other regional districts that have something similar it's sort of the work up to date maybe

[0:25:04] Voice 7: i can just add that yeah so just to remind people this came out of a meeting that was held very well

[0:25:09] Voice 7: well attended by many different groups

[0:25:12] Voice 7: in the trust area and beyond.

[0:25:14] Voice 7: And it was about having some sort of fund for conservation

[0:25:19] Voice 7: that would probably be on the tax roll.

[0:25:22] Voice 7: And it was, there were presentations

[0:25:25] Voice 7: on how this is done in the Kootenays

[0:25:27] Voice 7: and in the Okanagan.

[0:25:28] Voice 7: So it's done.

[0:25:30] Voice 7: All the background work has been done

[0:25:32] Voice 7: in the Capital Regional District area

[0:25:35] Voice 7: where they've already done polls

[0:25:38] Voice 7: to see if people would be interested in having that on the tax roll.

[0:25:41] Voice 7: The vision is that it would be run by the CRD

[0:25:44] Voice 7: or that the holder of the funds would be the CRD.

[0:25:49] Voice 7: So that's kind of progressing.

[0:25:52] Voice 3: And

[0:25:52] Voice 7: I was at that meeting for ITC

[0:25:55] Voice 7: and Laura Patrick was there for bigger trust.

[0:25:59] Voice 7: And so this is kind of the ITC wasn't, we were there,

[0:26:05] Voice 7: but it's not really a particular part of the vision and so this came out of Laura and myself

[0:26:14] Voice 7: realizing that there is a potential maybe not conflict but area to work together with ITC as

[0:26:22] Voice 7: well and and what that would mean so there's a lot of issues that it could mean it could mean

[0:26:29] Voice 7: for example that funding for conservation would be directed and managed by the CRD not the ITC

[0:26:36] Voice 7: and it

[0:26:36] Voice 7: could and I'm not saying it would but it could give us a back seat to conservation funding

[0:26:46] Voice 7: outside of our regular funding so it could be that donors for example go that way instead of to us

[0:26:52] Voice 7: these are all implications that could or couldn't happen but they have certainly happened in the

[0:26:56] Voice 7: Kootenays and in South Okanagan where they already have this mechanism which is very successful

[0:27:01] Voice 7: so the point of this group was to really think through um what our role would be if you know

[0:27:10] Voice 7: how we would play with them or not did we want to have a similar fund which has been

[0:27:16] Voice 7: has been recommended to us previously yeah so um it's really wide open but it does come out of

[0:27:25] Voice 7: of that meeting which um which was a very powerful meeting and very very well attended

[0:27:32] Voice 7: so i mean the opening speaker was adam olson so just and he stayed through the two-day meeting

[0:27:39] Voice 7: and lots of work so just that it could be a very big issue or not we don't know but we really have

[0:27:46] Voice 7: to go there with a lot of ideas about partnership and funding and what our role would be and would

[0:27:54] Voice 7: Would it interfere with us or not, you know, and we probably want to get opinions of staff on that, you know, there's just a lot of issues that come out of that.

[0:28:03] Voice 7: We probably want to follow up with the CRD people to see how that's progressing, etc. So I just thought I'd expand it a bit since I happen to be at that meeting.

[0:28:13] Voice 7: yeah this is fair to say it's under development so what are the next steps i think the seat um

[0:28:20] Voice 7: the meeting this afternoon we can let the executive committee know that we're willing to

[0:28:25] Voice 7: move forward with

[0:28:28] Voice 11: however

[0:28:29] Voice 7: it's going to move forward so and just to the who sponsored the

[0:28:35] Voice 7: workshop it was at the coastal douglas for yes they

[0:28:39] Voice 7: sponsored it but they had many partners

[0:28:42] Voice 7: yeah so

[0:28:43] Voice 7: on their you know um i know on the agenda and stuff there were a lot of funders

[0:28:49] Voice 7: mentioned but they were the sponsors yes yeah yeah there are some quick tricky questions about

[0:28:57] Voice 7: that

[0:28:57] Voice 8: because for

[0:28:58] Voice 7: us but i can i just ask you said it was suggested to the conservancy that we have

[0:29:05] Voice 7: have a fund such as this before carolyn stewart in her leaving us had made many just ideas

[0:29:13] Voice 7: suggestions and she had suggested that to us as

[0:29:16] Voice 7: well and how would that be different than the

[0:29:18] Voice 7: opportunity fund or you know we we taxpayers are taxed for the operations

[0:29:23] Voice 7: of the conservancy so

[0:29:25] Voice 7: i'm just not recalling what carolyn stewart was saying about a specific fund maybe

[0:29:31] Voice 10: look at my

[0:29:32] Voice 7: notes um

[0:29:33] Voice 10: just as i recall uh manager stewart was suggesting a conservation fund as an acquisition

[0:29:39] Voice 10: fund so it would be donations based and we'd be using it for to support securements that were

[0:29:46] Voice 10: acquisitions okay

[0:29:47] Voice 11: right

[0:29:48] Voice 10: so similar to but not coming from the tax base it would come from

[0:29:52] Voice 10: donations um

[0:29:55] Voice 7: i'm

[0:29:56] Voice 10: afraid i missed

[0:29:57] Voice 7: the meeting where she gave that presentation so i can't speak to that

[0:30:00] Voice 7: but what i can share is there are three regional districts that we've that i on quick review a

[0:30:04] Voice 7: number of months ago identified that already taxed for land acquisition for nature uh the capital

[0:30:09] Voice 7: regional district uh the um believes the couch and valley regional district and cassette regional

[0:30:14] Voice 7: district already have um tack positions in place for land acquisition

[0:30:18] Voice 10: for parks purposes

[0:30:20] Voice 11: and

[0:30:21] Voice 10: then so the idea of the conservation fund is not for acquisitions then my understanding of

[0:30:27] Voice 10: of the one that is coming out.

[0:30:29] Voice 10: It's more like the East Kootenai program

[0:30:31] Voice 10: or the Kootenai program and the Okanagan program

[0:30:33] Voice 10: both support other types of projects as well.

[0:30:36] Voice 10: So stewardship projects, they support-

[0:30:37] Voice 7: Restoration projects.

[0:30:39] Voice 7: Exactly.

[0:30:39] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:30:40] Voice 10: And that's why the CRD is considering it

[0:30:42] Voice 10: as something separate from their acquisition

[0:30:44] Voice 10: tax-based fund in that idea.

[0:30:47] Voice 10: So we're talking

[0:30:48] Voice 10: about a bunch of different ideas here

[0:30:50] Voice 7: to

[0:30:50] Voice 10: fill a bunch of different needs.

[0:30:52] Voice 10: Right?

[0:30:52] Voice 7: Yeah, absolutely.

[0:30:53] Voice 7: I think, so Trustee Spitt.

[0:30:55] Voice 7: I think the other funds also support acquisition.

[0:30:58] Voice 7: So they're just broader than just acquisition.

[0:31:01] Voice 7: And yeah, I think we'll say that.

[0:31:04] Voice 7: And also that it came up at the meeting that the CRD actually has had an acquisition fund in the past that wasn't, it was just part of their general funding.

[0:31:16] Voice 7: It wasn't a separate item on the tax roll.

[0:31:19] Voice 7: And that particular fund has been disbanded.

[0:31:23] Voice 7: So the last acquisition on that fund, which does affect us, was the big main island acquisition.

[0:31:31] Voice 7: I forget what it's called.

[0:31:32] Voice 7: They bought that point, and it's a really fantastic property.

[0:31:36] Voice 7: So that was like the last acquisition in the CRD fund

[0:31:41] Voice 7: that was, it was like end of fiscal,

[0:31:44] Voice 7: and they had to use it up because they were disbanding it.

[0:31:47] Voice 7: But it wasn't a separate item on the tax roll.

[0:31:49] Voice 7: Even the point.

[0:31:50] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:31:50] Voice 7: Yeah, so it does relate to us

[0:31:53] Voice 7: because we did get funds from that,

[0:31:55] Voice 7: not us specifically, but conservation in our area.

[0:32:00] Voice 7: But, you know, everything

[0:32:02] Voice 11: has a history.

[0:32:03] Voice 7: I'm remembering something about the lands that would be affected by this fund

[0:32:09] Voice 7: are private lands.

[0:32:11] Voice 7: Oh, yes, private lands.

[0:32:14] Voice 11: That's private lands.

[0:32:17] Voice 7: Conservation on private land.

[0:32:21] Voice 6: I think there's some more models down in San Juan and Lummi Territories.

[0:32:26] Voice 6: We've, I've worked with some of them and been in gatherings with them.

[0:32:31] Voice 11: Those

[0:32:31] Voice 6: models might be interesting to look at to see if they're comparable.

[0:32:36] Voice 7: You do regular collaborations with San Juan Islands as the Islands Trust?

[0:32:43] Voice 6: Yeah, and at a Bellingham too, and a Whatcom.

[0:32:47] Voice 6: That's good to know.

[0:32:48] Voice 6: Yeah, because they do, and the relationships with First Nations is their priority

[0:32:53] Voice 6: in restoring the rights and responsibilities to First Nations, the ones that we've worked with.

[0:33:01] Voice 8: Janine, do you know whether those are also private land?

[0:33:05] Voice 6: Yes.

[0:33:06] Voice 6: Yeah, it was

[0:33:07] Voice 6: purchased from private.

[0:33:11] Voice 6: Pepe Awish, I think, is the one I'm thinking of.

[0:33:15] Voice 6: That was the one that we attended to.

[0:33:19] Voice 7: Yes, follow up on what Janine said.

[0:33:21] Voice 7: I think Janine's raised a really important thing.

[0:33:24] Voice 7: Like if we're just having a discussion

[0:33:26] Voice 7: on what we would bring to that meeting,

[0:33:28] Voice 7: if we had such a fund on the tax roll,

[0:33:30] Voice 7: it could be an opportunity for us to have a partnership

[0:33:34] Voice 7: with First Nations in this area to co-purchase properties,

[0:33:38] Voice 7: for example, protected properties, IPCAs,

[0:33:41] Voice 7: whatever we want to call them.

[0:33:43] Voice 7: So, it just, if we think differently, it could be an opportunity for something really different for us, and to sort of gather some funding for something like that.

[0:33:59] Voice 7: Agreed, that opportunity.

[0:34:01] Voice 7: So, we should put that on the table when we go to those meetings, I think.

[0:34:07] Voice 7: Wonderful.

[0:34:08] Voice 7: Any more comments?

[0:34:10] Voice 7: Any questions?

[0:34:12] Voice 7: Any direction we want to take at this time?

[0:34:15] Voice 7: or we just want to have this for information for the conversation later sir any other pieces that

[0:34:22] Voice 7: you think you might need to know i i guess my question is how or is the itc going to be involved

[0:34:31] Voice 7: in the future conversation of the current conservation finance for private landowners

[0:34:37] Voice 7: like we're talking about a working group that we would develop but how are we going to track with

[0:34:44] Voice 7: Or is this

[0:34:46] Voice 7: going to be a separate ITC policy?

[0:34:48] Voice 7: Are you thinking, like, are we going to?

[0:34:53] Voice 7: So my impression was we would start a working,

[0:34:55] Voice 7: purpose of the working group was to develop and frame,

[0:34:59] Voice 7: was there a need and a desire for a separate fund

[0:35:03] Voice 7: to acquire land in the trust area,

[0:35:06] Voice 7: working in partnership with the First Nations?

[0:35:08] Voice 7: But are we, on the other side,

[0:35:10] Voice 7: tracking with what's happening with the conservation finance?

[0:35:14] Voice 7: CRD-led

[0:35:15] Voice 7: initiative?

[0:35:18] Voice 7: Should we have

[0:35:19] Voice 7: somebody who's tracking that

[0:35:21] Voice 7: and bringing that information back to the working

[0:35:23] Voice 7: group if that's...

[0:35:24] Voice 7: We weren't initially part of that conversation

[0:35:27] Voice 7: with CRD, but I think

[0:35:29] Voice 7: the CRD

[0:35:31] Voice 7: is still just in the stages of considering

[0:35:33] Voice 7: that one. Are they not?

[0:35:38] Voice 7: Yes.

[0:35:39] Voice 7: Well, I think we should.

[0:35:41] Voice 7: We've just had a really good discussion, and I think we should

[0:35:43] Voice 7: have items that we do bring to the

[0:35:45] Voice 7: discussion this afternoon one of them would be i think what toby raised uh should the islands trust

[0:35:52] Voice 7: or itc reach out to be sure that we're in those discussions um another one would be that you know

[0:35:59] Voice 7: should we be exploring the um opportunity for some sort of joint acquisition fund with first nations

[0:36:07] Voice 7: i mean these are just things we just discussed um should we reach out into you know into what's

[0:36:14] Voice 7: happening beyond British Columbia and look at our island neighbors to the south so that would be on

[0:36:21] Voice 7: our agenda too I think these are the points I think we should raise to executive and they'll have

[0:36:25] Voice 7: other ideas too and yeah and also like you know I don't know what we can do in the tax roll

[0:36:36] Voice 7: specifically for islands trust but possibly a lot who knows I have no idea but would that be

[0:36:42] Voice 7: something that we would want to and also it's not really the crd running this no it's just that

[0:36:48] Voice 7: they're proposed as the organization to manage it and so it did come up at least with um laura that

[0:36:56] Voice 7: maybe the islands trust should manage it not the crd so that would be another thing to put on the

[0:37:01] Voice 7: just on the table these are just all ideas that have come up in discussions and

[0:37:06] Voice 11: when

[0:37:07] Voice 7: we go to

[0:37:08] Voice 7: executive like I think we should come with our ideas and they will definitely have ideas because

[0:37:13] Voice 7: Laura was at the meeting too and she will have ideas yes I don't know how people feel about that

[0:37:19] Voice 7: coming to the meeting with some ideas yeah yeah this will be

[0:37:23] Voice 7: new to like a video yeah really

[0:37:26] Voice 7: raises great questions yeah so Dr. Fayer um so what I would say is if you want to you know staff

[0:37:32] Voice 7: to undertake work you'll need to do that by resolution and you are hosting the meeting

[0:37:35] Voice 7: this afternoon so you can pass motions in that meeting as a board if you wish

[0:37:39] Voice 7: I would just caution there is substantial amount of work on the Conservancy's work program already

[0:37:45] Voice 7: so certainly there would need to be some prioritization that goes on but I know that

[0:37:48] Voice 7: in the next few months work on budget the next month or so is going to be a major activity of

[0:37:55] Voice 7: the manager and then work on the five-year plan engagement is also going to be a major activity

[0:37:59] Voice 7: so certainly there would need to be a look at prioritization of where it would fit.

[0:38:03] Voice 7: Yeah, I think with the fund, the spirit is to expand on the work of working with First Nation partners, so to expand the work before having those partners in place might be a consideration before we start to get too far deep into what we're trying to do to make sure that we're aligned with the First Nation partners.

[0:38:29] Voice 7: we

[0:38:29] Voice 11: just

[0:38:32] Voice 7: have the discussion the early discussion stage we should have everything on the table

[0:38:36] Voice 11: nothing

[0:38:37] Voice 7: can happen without you know staff support

[0:38:40] Voice 11: and

[0:38:41] Voice 7: prioritization but this is like

[0:38:44] Voice 7: the early brainstorming so we

[0:38:46] Voice 7: should put i think we should put our brainstorming ideas on the table

[0:38:50] Voice 7: executive will as well yeah and nothing might come but you know we've agreed to have the brainstorm

[0:38:58] Voice 7: storm absolutely yeah and if i may i'm just looking through their executive report now which

[0:39:06] Voice 7: i hadn't had a chance to um but it's really interesting to see like the survey question

[0:39:11] Voice 7: of what should be the biodiversity and stewardship priorities in the region and you just look at that

[0:39:16] Voice 7: list and that is all exactly the things that islands trust through the conservancy and land

[0:39:21] Voice 7: use planning we're trying to address and in different ways we're not like if you look at

[0:39:27] Voice 7: climate change uh like sea level rise planning yes uh coastal adaptation i would say no through

[0:39:33] Voice 7: our ocps are we um we're looking at clean water sources so there's there's stuff that may be

[0:39:39] Voice 7: a fund like this if they take the the priority of say climate change mitigation adaptation and

[0:39:47] Voice 7: that is a focus and islands trust conservancy we're not ready to engage on that level or we

[0:39:54] Voice 7: we just can't right then the partnership do you know what i mean like we shouldn't be doubling

[0:40:00] Voice 7: our efforts but we should be involved with whatever that fund is doing in the southern gulf

[0:40:04] Voice 7: or in the crd region and not doubling those efforts so yeah i'm just i just think keeping

[0:40:11] Voice 7: tabs on where this uh fund goes would be really important to understand where

[0:40:18] Voice 7: we can either fill in the gaps or take the leadership in four knots thank

[0:40:24] Voice 3: you

[0:40:26] Voice 7: that's one

[0:40:30] Voice 7: other quick question this is just a procedural thing when it's clear um if you were like if

[0:40:35] Voice 7: all of that everything takes time everything takes people everything takes resources there's

[0:40:40] Voice 7: just no getting around it no one's more aware well everyone's aware of that but i am particularly

[0:40:44] Voice 7: aware of that big project man um but is this like uh and maybe you always do have to have a staff

[0:40:52] Voice 7: member we just don't have staff capacity right now to take on new things even if they're things

[0:40:59] Voice 7: for the future and i don't even know if we have board capacity honestly i don't know what people

[0:41:04] Voice 7: are thinking but um is it possible in something like this which is keeping tabs of you know a

[0:41:11] Voice 7: process that's happening could it be a board member that does that or does it have to be a

[0:41:16] Voice 7: staff member or is it wise that it not be a board member and just a staff member i don't have the

[0:41:22] Voice 7: answer to any of that but i'm just thinking about them

[0:41:24] Voice 11: um

[0:41:26] Voice 7: certainly i think initial inquiries and

[0:41:27] Voice 7: so on board members are certainly open to inquiring and learning about things with their

[0:41:32] Voice 7: own responsibility to be good board members um at a certain point i think you all know like it

[0:41:36] Voice 7: evolves to it being best done staff to staff um in terms of the capacity issue i'm hiring a second

[0:41:42] Voice 7: policy advisor um just concluded interviews last week that person is going to add some extra

[0:41:48] Voice 7: capacity to the team but i am planning on allocating a portion of that that i would have

[0:41:52] Voice 7: been giving towards the five-year plan planning for conservancy so while we're getting extra

[0:41:57] Voice 7: capacity we're still not out of the woods in terms of the work um certainly as that comes on stream i

[0:42:03] Voice 7: will have let's fingers crossed i'll have a bit more time so that might be something where i can

[0:42:07] Voice 7: make some phone calls and be assistive i just can't say until the person has settled in and

[0:42:12] Voice 7: And I've been able to hand over some of the pieces on my plate and Wendy's plate.

[0:42:16] Voice 7: But I think hopefully in the fall, there may be an opportunity for me to move back into my director role more fully and do some of that liaison work.

[0:42:26] Voice 11: No problem.

[0:42:27] Voice 7: Happy in your life.

[0:42:28] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:42:28] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:42:30] Voice 7: All right.

[0:42:31] Voice 7: It's 10.7.

[0:42:34] Voice 7: I think we should move on.

[0:42:38] Voice 7: I look forward to the conversation this afternoon.

[0:42:41] Voice 7: We'll move on to item 7.3, correspondence 7.3.1.

[0:42:45] Voice 7: a letter from a sense field litigation on crystal mountains this is just here for your information

[0:42:52] Voice 7: this is an open project and at this point there's no work being undertaken we're just waiting for

[0:42:57] Voice 7: the applicant to and a local trust committee to move forward but this is just here for your

[0:43:02] Voice 7: information so any questions so it doesn't like we have our action items so it doesn't we just

[0:43:08] Voice 7: what it says on there is that nothing's happening it doesn't change that doesn't change it from the

[0:43:14] Voice 7: board's perspective yeah we're on hold okay yeah uh all right we'll move on then moving on to item

[0:43:22] Voice 7: uh 7.3.2 uh the letter from minister kaylon so i'm happy to speak with this this was a welcome

[0:43:30] Voice 7: letter you might know that the chair wrote to the board or

[0:43:33] Voice 1: to the minister

[0:43:33] Voice 7: some time ago um seeking

[0:43:35] Voice 7: an extension in the timeline for submission of the five-year plan so some very welcome response

[0:43:39] Voice 7: letting us know that we do indeed have until december of 2027 to submit the five-year plan

[0:43:44] Voice 7: which gives us a long for runway here to work collaboratively with First Nations so we're very

[0:43:52] Voice 7: happy to see that and now are undertaking the final work around actually working with the

[0:43:56] Voice 7: nations to work towards development of a new five-year plan for that new deadline. In the

[0:44:04] Voice 7: meantime we will continue to work as we have been doing in recent years in terms of new acquisitions

[0:44:08] Voice 7: and dispositions going to the minister

[0:44:11] Voice 7: in the interim and the absence of a plan.

[0:44:16] Voice 7: And will we be sending a thank you letter back to the minister?

[0:44:19] Voice 7: I don't think we've planned on that.

[0:44:20] Voice 7: I think given there's been a change in minister,

[0:44:22] Voice 7: I think it's fine to accept this.

[0:44:24] Voice 7: And

[0:44:24] Voice 11: then we'll just

[0:44:24] Voice 7: move forward accordingly.

[0:44:25] Voice 7: Great.

[0:44:26] Voice 7: I noticed that they had considered reaching out

[0:44:31] Voice 7: to Ministry of Staff or Guidance

[0:44:33] Voice 7: for incorporating untrue principles.

[0:44:35] Voice 7: I found that quite interesting.

[0:44:36] Voice 7: And I thought that's something that we could leverage for sure.

[0:44:40] Voice 8: just a quick question for director fader um i'm assuming that chris nichols is still there

[0:44:45] Voice 8: yes he

[0:44:46] Voice 8: is yes yeah

[0:44:47] Voice 7: we're quite fortunate to have a former islands trust employee now working

[0:44:53] Voice 7: as our liaison in the ministry and it's

[0:44:55] Voice 7: nice that minister caitlin actually recognized that

[0:44:58] Voice 7: in his other letter yeah great and as we all know the there's been a cabinet shuffle

[0:45:03] Voice 7: change minister of municipal affairs and housing is now uh christine oil and who comes from the

[0:45:11] Voice 7: ministry of indigenous relations and reconciliation excellent she's also done work on the 2014

[0:45:20] Voice 7: missing and murdered indigenous women's report she worked

[0:45:23] Voice 8: on that as well

[0:45:26] Voice 8: yeah so i might i might add too that i saw her and adam olson about a year ago at a forum on

[0:45:32] Voice 8: on Salt Spring. And it was specifically on collaboration in governance and civil

[0:45:40] Voice 8: participation. And it was so beautiful to listen and watch the two of them talk about

[0:45:45] Voice 8: working across party lines when it's good for the public. You don't think about tying yourself to

[0:45:53] Voice 8: your party. You think about doing that good work together. And Christine Boyle was known for doing

[0:45:58] Voice 8: that on Vancouver City Council. She had a terrible time dealing with other council members who were

[0:46:04] Voice 8: not known for doing that. So I'm really grateful that she ran for the government, for BC government,

[0:46:12] Voice 8: and that she's our new minister. Minister Taylor has moved on

[0:46:17] Voice 7: to the Ministry of Jobs.

[0:46:20] Voice 7: All right, any other questions or comments on the letter? Then we'll move on. Item 7.4,

[0:46:27] Voice 7: More updates for information, 7.4.1, public acquisitions report.

[0:46:32] Voice 7: Any comments or questions from the committee or board?

[0:46:39] Voice 7: The first item, Crystal Mountain, no new updates.

[0:46:43] Voice 7: Do we have a sense that this is going to move ahead,

[0:46:48] Voice 7: or is the letter signal that things have sort of fallen apart on the board

[0:46:53] Voice 7: sides?

[0:46:55] Voice 7: They're reevaluating it.

[0:47:03] Voice 7: They do say in the letter that they're going to go ahead with an emergency access, but

[0:47:07] Voice 7: that wouldn't be through ITC LHIN.

[0:47:10] Voice 7: I don't think so.

[0:47:11] Voice 7: That's not my understanding.

[0:47:12] Voice 7: Yeah, I don't think it would be.

[0:47:16] Voice 7: I didn't mean to

[0:47:17] Voice 7: say that we'd recommend that that would be approved, so I don't think it

[0:47:20] Voice 7: would be accessed directly.

[0:47:24] Voice 7: You'll note in the motion here on number five that there is an agreement that the portion

[0:47:28] Voice 7: of the proposed emergency access route would only be used in case of emergency so it does indicate

[0:47:33] Voice 7: that a portion of the route was through the itc proposed itc reserve portion but those my

[0:47:40] Voice 10: understanding from the last conversation i had with them which was quite a long time ago uh that

[0:47:47] Voice 10: with the through the conversations with penelaket the boundaries of the protected area might change

[0:47:52] Voice 10: compared to what they were retaining.

[0:47:54] Voice 10: So we don't know in the end about that.

[0:47:58] Voice 9: Yeah.

[0:47:59] Voice 10: We don't know yet.

[0:48:03] Voice 7: All right.

[0:48:04] Voice 7: Anything else on that item?

[0:48:07] Voice 7: We'll move on to item 7.4.2, the comments report.

[0:48:14] Voice 7: Any questions or comments?

[0:48:18] Voice 7: Seeing none, we'll move on to 7.4.3, budget report, verbal.

[0:48:24] Voice 7: So, yes, you'll note on your agenda today

[0:48:26] Voice 7: There is no quarterly budget update and also no budget proposals for our next fiscal, simply because we have been unable to provide that to you.

[0:48:38] Voice 7: So we will be proposing a special meeting at the end of August to handle those.

[0:48:44] Voice 7: So perhaps when we talk at the next meeting item at number 10, we can have a discussion about whether you'd like to consider holding a special meeting at the end of August for consideration of your budget submissions for next year.

[0:48:53] Voice 7: and looking at that time also give you an update around your

[0:48:56] Voice 9: quarterly budget at that point of

[0:48:58] Voice 9: all to be admitted to your budget status fiscal any

[0:49:03] Voice 7: questions look you see none we'll move on

[0:49:06] Voice 7: thank you for your understanding yeah uh item 7.4.4 the ipc quarterly report

[0:49:13] Voice 7: and all i know is that it's an excellent report any comments i yeah so on page 105

[0:49:22] Voice 7: five it's a small note about the Kila CRM um I have been talking with uh manager Tyrell about that

[0:49:31] Voice 7: and there can you explain a little bit of the process and how that might make a difference in

[0:49:37] Voice 7: our database management we've

[0:49:40] Voice 9: been waiting for

[0:49:41] Voice 7: this for a while yeah this is this has been a

[0:49:44] Voice 7: project I've been championing for quite a number of years here so um the board has a software that

[0:49:50] Voice 7: manages contacts and donor relations. We also have separate software that we use for sending

[0:49:56] Voice 7: out subscriber notices and the Heron newsletter and so on. So it's basically contact management

[0:50:01] Voice 7: and donor relations. On the Islands Trust side, we have a need for contact relations. We don't

[0:50:07] Voice 7: currently have a database for staff. And we also have a desire to better manage contacts with First

[0:50:13] Voice 7: Nations so that we can then process referrals and all of the relationships through a centralized

[0:50:17] Voice 7: database so there was an opportunity given that um the other background is that we were told

[0:50:22] Voice 7: originally that software that the trust the conservancy is currently using was going to no

[0:50:27] Voice 7: longer be supported if the company was bought out so there was an urgency to finding a new software

[0:50:32] Voice 7: um the new company that has now announced they will support it for a few more years

[0:50:36] Voice 7: so sense of urgency has diminished but there's still an opportunity to provide one software

[0:50:41] Voice 7: solution for all of the

[0:50:43] Voice 11: needs because

[0:50:45] Voice 7: our subscriber software is definitely

[0:50:47] Voice 7: not challenging to use. So we are currently as the management team here

[0:50:53] Voice 7: looking at how we're gonna resource or the project management of introducing

[0:50:56] Voice 7: this new software and doing the data migration and report development in it.

[0:51:01] Voice 7: So it is on our list of things to address but I think it's just not at the

[0:51:06] Voice 7: top of the list at this time. Certainly it will be beneficial to all when it's

[0:51:10] Voice 7: brought in. And we will continue to keep you updated as we move forward. I do note it says

[0:51:17] Voice 7: QSCRM. We've been through a process of identifying software. I think this is the one that's most

[0:51:22] Voice 7: recently been selected as the right fit for us. It's an Australian company, mid-size, and the cost

[0:51:28] Voice 7: and service is clear to be the best balance for us. Happy to take questions on that. What questions?

[0:51:36] Voice 7: Just one other question, number four, on communications and outreach. I just wanted

[0:51:40] Voice 7: to understand now that we don't have Michaela anymore um like how are we going to deal with

[0:51:47] Voice 7: the anniversary communications or can we even um so Michaela has left us in good shape all of our

[0:51:54] Voice 7: social media is up and you know all programmed out until the end of summer we have Morgana on

[0:51:59] Voice 7: the Adams Trust side who's willing to step in and assess with what's needed I think uh the manager

[0:52:04] Voice 7: and I are talking about perhaps us attending the fall fairs that were scheduled um as needed um so

[0:52:10] Voice 7: So we're trying to manage the gap as best we can.

[0:52:13] Voice 7: And there's currently a job posting up

[0:52:14] Voice 7: and we're hoping to hire for a

[0:52:16] Voice 7: hire in September

[0:52:17] Voice 7: for someone to start in September.

[0:52:19] Voice 7: So I can't speak in more specifics than that,

[0:52:21] Voice 7: but certainly we're looking at covering those off

[0:52:24] Voice 7: and then I will be supporting any, you know,

[0:52:26] Voice 7: urgent communication needs as they arise.

[0:52:28] Voice 7: Thank you.

[0:52:30] Voice 7: I think, could you maybe ask the board

[0:52:36] Voice 7: if if we could represent and have those materials like i think trustee yates you and i would be

[0:52:42] Voice 7: happy to be at the market um i don't want to assume for

[0:52:48] Voice 7: you but yeah but if

[0:52:49] Voice 8: there was some

[0:52:49] Voice 7: materials and and we could

[0:52:51] Voice 7: do that together maybe yeah yeah so that we didn't have to travel

[0:52:56] Voice 7: yeah

[0:52:57] Voice 11: i'd be happy to

[0:52:58] Voice 7: i will discuss with manager tyrell we just haven't got to that level of

[0:53:01] Voice 7: detail planning yet yeah there's willingness from the board i thought the same thing with

[0:53:05] Voice 7: the galliano market i would love to spend an afternoon

[0:53:08] Voice 8: there maybe we could come and join you

[0:53:09] Voice 8: i know i always feel if i if i have the right materials to give out and celebrate i always

[0:53:23] Voice 8: feel pretty confident doing that

[0:53:24] Voice 11: yeah yeah

[0:53:25] Voice 8: well the three of you could do it all summer

[0:53:29] Voice 7: tell me when and where and i'll be there

[0:53:43] Voice 8: okay

[0:53:43] Voice 7: uh excellent anything else in that item on the quarterly report

[0:53:48] Voice 7: then we will move on um item 4 7.4.5 executive committee

[0:53:55] Voice 7: Okay, I thought I would, I'll combine it a little bit with the Trust Council update just because there's really a policy statement project to update on.

[0:54:10] Voice 7: So we just had a special meeting, Executive Committee on July 17th, and just for the purpose of approving the agenda for the July 29th, so there'll be a special meeting of Trust Council to consider first reading of the policy statement.

[0:54:26] Voice 7: So, the Policy Statement Amendment Project has come to this stage at last, where if it

[0:54:36] Voice 7: passes first reading, or if Trust Council does first reading, and I'm chairing that

[0:54:42] Voice 7: meeting, it's going to be a seven-hour

[0:54:44] Voice 7: marathon, but hopefully we get there, and so the next

[0:54:48] Voice 7: stage will be public engagement and agency and Indigenous government bodies with boroughs.

[0:54:53] Voice 7: so the next stage would be through the summer and fall um local trust committees bone island

[0:55:01] Voice 7: municipality you'll be undertaking public engagement or be a trust-wide survey um

[0:55:07] Voice 7: and a virtual it's called community workshop but this is the public webinar that's scheduled

[0:55:14] Voice 7: for september 10th and so that's um i think the format's still being determination being

[0:55:22] Voice 7: being determined, but perhaps a town hall-type question and answer session, or perhaps online

[0:55:30] Voice 7: breakout rooms.

[0:55:31] Voice 7: So really inviting the public to ask all their questions about it.

[0:55:36] Voice 7: So that's the big important piece of work.

[0:55:39] Voice 7: Council members or trustees who have been working through the program, who jumped onto

[0:55:46] Voice 7: Trust Programs Committee for the purpose of just finishing this

[0:55:49] Voice 7: work, honestly, I have

[0:55:51] Voice 7: to say I'm personally so proud, I am confident in the document. We have really wrestled through

[0:55:59] Voice 3: some

[0:55:59] Voice 7: tricky questions, but I'm mostly pleased with how reconciliation focused it is and that

[0:56:09] Voice 7: it has the core principles of really the conservation focus and preserve and protect

[0:56:15] Voice 7: tech mandate um so I really encourage everybody to take a look there is a formatted draft is that

[0:56:24] Voice 7: on the website yet it'll it's in a agenda package yeah we are in it so we will soon be updating the

[0:56:30] Voice 7: entire 2050 page yeah and an executive committee just as a final note did agree I checked with

[0:56:37] Voice 7: Jason I could share that but um so there'll be a public facing um legal advice just that was given

[0:56:45] Voice 7: at committee of the whole in order to clear up a few questions and all of that so executive

[0:56:51] Voice 7: the release of that legal advice it's not on the website yet but um yeah very pleased about

[0:57:01] Voice 7: this work and looking forward to chairing the meeting on july 29th see if we can get through

[0:57:09] Voice 7: and then i guess the conservancy will have a referral yes i didn't see them listed but

[0:57:15] Voice 7: But assuming the conservancy will be referred, see what you all think.

[0:57:21] Voice 7: So that's the update.

[0:57:22] Voice 7: And then we'll speak with the rest of the executive committee today.

[0:57:25] Voice 7: Great.

[0:57:26] Voice 7: Thank you very much.

[0:57:27] Voice 7: And then so that's the executive committee report and trust council report together?

[0:57:33] Voice 7: Pretty much.

[0:57:33] Voice 7: Pretty much.

[0:57:34] Voice 7: Fantastic.

[0:57:34] Voice 7: We'll move

[0:57:35] Voice 8: on to the financial planning committee update from trustee.

[0:57:38] Voice 8: I don't have anything for you because our next meeting is August 20th.

[0:57:42] Voice 8: and be our next financial planning committee meeting and um i'm also looking forward to

[0:57:49] Voice 8: a potential meeting on august 27th for us um to consider you know a budget request so um

[0:57:58] Voice 8: that's my biggest job on fpc is always to be defending what the island's trust conservancy

[0:58:04] Voice 8: needs to do its good work thank you yeah i don't i mean i don't think we've actually even

[0:58:12] Voice 8: not that i not that i know of it's

[0:58:14] Voice 7: been a long time yeah

[0:58:15] Voice 7: yes and likewise for 7.4.8

[0:58:19] Voice 7: governance committee there hasn't been a meeting so my name is oh didn't mean to

[0:58:24] Voice 7: certainly just on just as a supplement to the financial planning committee conversation on

[0:58:29] Voice 7: their next agenda will be a summary of survey results we went uh the committee went out to

[0:58:34] Voice 7: to the community seeking opinions

[0:58:36] Voice 7: on sort of values of things to be funded by the trust.

[0:58:41] Voice 7: And so it might be of interest to Conservancy

[0:58:42] Voice 7: if you want to look at that agenda package

[0:58:44] Voice 7: when it goes public in mid-August

[0:58:45] Voice 7: around what the public is currently expressing

[0:58:48] Voice 7: as what they want the trust to be funding

[0:58:49] Voice 7: and not something

[0:58:50] Voice 11: in

[0:58:51] Voice 7: a generic way,

[0:58:52] Voice 7: not specific to a certain budget increase,

[0:58:54] Voice 7: but what those are.

[0:58:55] Voice 7: So you might be interested in taking a look

[0:58:57] Voice 7: at those results.

[0:58:58] Voice 8: Well, we definitely should be taking a look

[0:59:00] Voice 8: at those results.

[0:59:01] Voice 7: Yeah.

[0:59:01] Voice 7: We

[0:59:02] Voice 8: need that support.

[0:59:02] Voice 7: when did you say that will be uh i would mid-august ish i think and

[0:59:08] Voice 8: it will be in the

[0:59:09] Voice 7: trust it will be posted on the honest trust website in the financial planning committee agenda

[0:59:14] Voice 7: agenda would you like a reminder guys yeah yes that'd

[0:59:18] Voice 11: be great yeah

[0:59:19] Voice 7: thank you for the link it's

[0:59:23] Voice 7: yeah the meeting is august 20th so the agenda should go public about the 15th

[0:59:37] Voice 11: Yeah,

[0:59:42] Voice 7: so we're moving on to the Governance Committee update too. We don't have a meeting

[0:59:45] Voice 7: until next month. So at our next meeting, we'll finally have an

[0:59:50] Voice 7: update for you.

[0:59:54] Voice 7: We'll be on item number eight, public comments and delegations. There are none.

[0:59:58] Voice 7: Do you have anybody watching?

[1:00:00] Voice 7: at home? No. And then moving on to item number nine, new business. 9.1, approval of special

[1:00:07] Voice 7: meeting date? Approval. I'm just sending this off to Rob. So there's a staff would like to propose

[1:00:15] Voice 7: that you schedule a special meeting for August 27th beginning at 10 30 to address matters that

[1:00:22] Voice 7: need addressing ahead of your October meeting which would include budget and potentially any

[1:00:25] Voice 7: other matters that arise in the interim. So I'm just going to be sending off an email to Rob with

[1:00:30] Voice 7: a draft motion um that maybe you could bring on screen rob and they could have a conversation

[1:00:34] Voice 7: i've cc'd the chair um so i don't know if you could check your calendars and see if you might

[1:00:39] Voice 7: be available for that meeting i don't anticipate it would you know be terribly long uh but perhaps

[1:00:44] Voice 7: until lunch um so 10 30 to

[1:00:47] Voice 9: noon ish would

[1:00:47] Voice 7: be our hope um to discuss budget matters and anything

[1:00:50] Voice 7: else that's come up in the meantime and our world is free yes staff proposed 10 30 but a start time

[1:01:02] Voice 7: anytime that day would be fine because the executive

[1:01:05] Voice 7: committee has telecon usually until 10.

[1:01:08] Voice 7: that's right that's why i proposed

[1:01:09] Voice 11: 10 30. it does say 10

[1:01:11] Voice 7: on the oh 10 yeah i'm

[1:01:14] Voice 5: sorry i'm revising

[1:01:14] Voice 7: that to 10 30.

[1:01:15] Voice 5: yeah better i will be unable to attend that okay i'll be i won't be able to attend

[1:01:22] Voice 5: in that. It's last in my training.

[1:01:29] Voice 11: We should have electronic

[1:01:31] Voice 11: options.

[1:01:37] Voice 7: It would be an electronic meeting.

[1:01:43] Voice 7: It definitely is possible for me.

[1:01:45] Voice 7: It's possible

[1:01:47] Voice 4: for me as well.

[1:01:48] Voice 7: Pretty much a five out of six on that.

[1:01:53] Voice 7: So we have a draft motion I've just sent over. Would you like

[1:01:56] Voice 7: me to read it

[1:01:56] Voice 7: out for you is that appropriate thank you okay um so proposing um that the Alice Trust Conservancy

[1:02:04] Voice 7: schedule a special electronic meeting for August 27th 2025 at 10 30 a.m to discuss matters that

[1:02:12] Voice 7: need to be addressed ahead of the board's October meeting I'll second that second that fantastic

[1:02:30] Voice 8: Trustee Yates, what if we told you about automatically seconding?

[1:02:35] Voice 8: I should be automatically firsting.

[1:02:37] Voice 7: I

[1:02:38] Voice 8: would argue that you would second it as usual.

[1:02:41] Voice 7: Wonderful.

[1:02:42] Voice 8: All

[1:02:42] Voice 7: right, so we got

[1:02:43] Voice 7: motion moved by Trustee Yates, seconded by Trustee Smith.

[1:02:48] Voice 7: I will call the vote.

[1:02:49] Voice 7: all in favor 10 has a motion carried

[1:02:54] Voice 8: and i said 10 30 right yes just a quick thank you for thinking

[1:03:00] Voice 8: of that director frader because it's really helpful when you're in a budget meeting to have

[1:03:06] Voice 8: good data in front of you

[1:03:08] Voice 11: thank you there

[1:03:10] Voice 7: will be a small impact to your budget of course because

[1:03:12] Voice 7: this this was an unanticipated meeting in the year so we'll be overspending your budget line

[1:03:17] Voice 7: around honoraria to some degree for your meeting expense budget but not a concern that the budget

[1:03:21] Voice 7: the overall budget can absorb that overspend yeah can you comment trustee no okay moving on to uh

[1:03:30] Voice 7: the business item uh trustee smith world conservation congress congress yes so um i

[1:03:40] Voice 7: i will be at the world conservation congress it happens every four years it's a very big

[1:03:45] Voice 7: international meeting it is the meeting of the international union for the conservation of nature

[1:03:50] Voice 7: as much happens there things that happen in fact the protecting 30 percent that started

[1:03:55] Voice 7: at the world conservation congress so everybody's there we have an indigenous house a government

[1:04:00] Voice 7: house and an ngo house and all the houses have to agree to everything we have

[1:04:06] Voice 7: motions it's a big

[1:04:07] Voice 7: deal and then we have forums beforehand and i because of my big report on enhancing climate

[1:04:14] Voice 7: climate change mitigation and protected areas, I have two forums.

[1:04:17] Voice 7: But there's also lots of, and IGC doesn't really fit into those

[1:04:21] Voice 7: because we're not

[1:04:22] Voice 8: doing anything on climate change,

[1:04:23] Voice 7: but there's many other forums related to conservation

[1:04:26] Voice 7: and private lands conservation, et cetera.

[1:04:29] Voice 7: And if I was enabled to speak for the and promote the Islands Trust Conservancy,

[1:04:36] Voice 7: I would seek out to some of the leaders of those other forums

[1:04:39] Voice 7: to see if I could speak, have a small presentation, et cetera.

[1:04:42] Voice 7: Now would be the time for me to do that.

[1:04:44] Voice 7: um and i would just use um like michaela has had some presentations canned i would just

[1:04:51] Voice 11: take

[1:04:52] Voice 7: one of those and however much time they gave me but maybe even i could take some material like

[1:04:58] Voice 7: if we have some printed material there'll be a big table to put material out so i don't would

[1:05:04] Voice 7: want to do that unless the board enables me to do that so i don't know if you have any questions

[1:05:08] Voice 7: and then I'll propose a motion.

[1:05:10] Voice 11: That's a good question.

[1:05:11] Voice 8: So, Risa, we actually do cover climate change, I think.

[1:05:18] Voice 8: I mean, I feel like our mandate,

[1:05:21] Voice 8: Island Stress Conservancy mandate,

[1:05:23] Voice 8: does directly address climate change.

[1:05:27] Voice 7: Well, I will say that in my report,

[1:05:29] Voice 7: which has 30 case studies from around the world

[1:05:32] Voice 7: where people are really looking at climate change,

[1:05:33] Voice 7: this is climate change mitigation,

[1:05:35] Voice 7: how you

[1:05:35] Voice 7: use your protected areas

[1:05:37] Voice 7: In a way, it's really about leveraging climate change funding for protected areas management.

[1:05:44] Voice 7: So if your protected area sequesters or stores significant amounts of carbon, depending on the type of ecosystem it is, like the Douglas fir forest would definitely fit into that.

[1:05:56] Voice 7: And if you

[1:05:57] Voice 7: accounted for that, which many people are, you can often actually leverage funds, not protected areas funds, not biodiversity funds, but climate change funds, of which there's way more money out there than for biodiversity, obviously.

[1:06:13] Voice 7: I shouldn't

[1:06:14] Voice 7: say obviously, sadly, I'll say it that way.

[1:06:15] Voice 7: So in other words, we aren't doing anything in that aspect.

[1:06:19] Voice 7: we we propose to we have a motion but in terms of actual actions we haven't really had a chance

[1:06:26] Voice 7: to do that i mean at the capacity yeah we we have the intent but not the capacity and um anyways so

[1:06:32] Voice 7: i would just like to be enabled to seek opportunities to advertise this a little

[1:06:37] Voice 7: bit there

[1:06:38] Voice 7: um which is good because there's always tons of funders there so um but you're like uh

[1:06:44] Voice 7: mention about the 35th anniversary i would do that yeah

[1:06:48] Voice 3: i think there's

[1:06:49] Voice 7: lots this is such a

[1:06:50] Voice 7: great story to tell there i think it's a great there will be forums on private conservation

[1:06:55] Voice 7: for example um and so that would be the kind of place i would seek to promote us but um

[1:07:02] Voice 7: again

[1:07:03] Voice 7: and maybe there's no opportunities but i'm not going to seek them if you don't want me to

[1:07:07] Voice 7: obviously so i

[1:07:10] Voice 4: think i think it'd be wonderful if you did yeah i would

[1:07:13] Voice 4: just feel bad if

[1:07:14] Voice 4: if all the materials were heavy for you to travel across.

[1:07:18] Voice 4: Oh, God, right?

[1:07:19] Voice 7: But

[1:07:19] Voice 4: I think it would be wonderful if you had

[1:07:21] Voice 4: the opportunity to speak to

[1:07:24] Voice 4: and share to a broader audience of the Island Trust Conservancy.

[1:07:28] Voice 4: I think it's a wonderful idea.

[1:07:30] Voice 4: I agree.

[1:07:31] Voice 7: I

[1:07:31] Voice 4: have one question as well.

[1:07:32] Voice 4: Is that going to be live streamed?

[1:07:34] Voice 7: So the way they're doing it is parts of it will be live streamed.

[1:07:38] Voice 7: Okay.

[1:07:38] Voice 7: And you can register to be registered just for the live streaming.

[1:07:43] Voice 7: Okay.

[1:07:45] Voice 7: But a lot of the forums will not be live-streamed.

[1:07:48] Voice 7: I actually totally object to it.

[1:07:50] Voice 7: It should all be live-streamed.

[1:07:51] Voice 7: But nonetheless, I...

[1:07:52] Voice 7: Is

[1:07:53] Voice 4: there a cost considered for the other public live-stream?

[1:07:56] Voice 4: I

[1:07:56] Voice 7: can't remember.

[1:07:57] Voice 7: But you know what?

[1:07:58] Voice 7: I'll look it up and send everybody the link.

[1:08:00] Voice 7: Sure.

[1:08:00] Voice 4: And you can decide yourself.

[1:08:01] Voice 7: That'd be wonderful.

[1:08:02] Voice 7: And

[1:08:02] Voice 4: I don't know yet.

[1:08:03] Voice 7: I know that

[1:08:04] Voice 7: my forums will not be live-streamed.

[1:08:07] Voice 7: There's a big

[1:08:07] Voice 7: cost to live-streaming.

[1:08:09] Voice 7: And that is why.

[1:08:10] Voice 4: Yeah.

[1:08:10] Voice 4: I can appreciate that.

[1:08:11] Voice 4: Especially with different...

[1:08:12] Voice 7: yeah and things have to be translated into the file official languages

[1:08:16] Voice 7: and so i have a proposed motion if people could i just uh depending on how long it is could you

[1:08:25] Voice 7: email it over to robert i could

[1:08:27] Voice 7: um just a minute i could come on email

[1:08:33] Voice 7: or if you want to email to

[1:08:35] Voice 7: me i can forward it um you know what i it's really hard for me to get on the trust email

[1:08:42] Voice 7: it doesn't yeah if you could just read

[1:08:44] Voice 1: it can i read it it's

[1:08:45] Voice 7: very short okay itc board moves

[1:08:49] Voice 7: to enable trustee risa smith to seek opportunities at the upcoming world conservation congress

[1:09:00] Voice 7: to speak to and promote the island's trust concerns whoa like how fast that was like

[1:09:21] Voice 8: can you get rid of the word moves i think oh it was

[1:09:25] Voice 7: moved in second yeah let the eye this trust

[1:09:29] Voice 4: conservancy

[1:09:30] Voice 7: enable yeah sorry

[1:09:32] Voice 4: there might be one other is it the conference or congress

[1:09:35] Voice 4: it's

[1:09:35] Voice 7: congress congress yeah congress okay rural conservation congress how it endorses

[1:09:56] Voice 7: um and associated programs because i was thinking of the not program which is that's what i'd like

[1:10:01] Voice 7: to i'd like to i'd really like to talk to that yeah sure okay as long as you talk about all the

[1:10:07] Voice 7: good things is the concept great right now

[1:10:12] Voice 7: we have a mover for a

[1:10:13] Voice 8: second is there an associated

[1:10:15] Voice 7: program do you want to add that

[1:10:16] Voice 8: little phrase at the end and associated it's

[1:10:19] Voice 7: obvious to me

[1:10:20] Voice 7: yeah

[1:10:21] Voice 8: who moved

[1:10:22] Voice 7: it uh we still moved it and it hasn't been seconded

[1:10:25] Voice 8: maybe

[1:10:26] Voice 7: someone else should move it because my name's in yeah oh

[1:10:29] Voice 7: Oh, I

[1:10:29] Voice 8: will move it.

[1:10:31] Voice 8: Thank you.

[1:10:32] Voice 8: I move that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board endorse Trustee Lisa Smith to seek opportunities at the upcoming World Conservation Congress to speak to and promote the Islands Trust Conservancy.

[1:10:44] Voice 8: Thank you.

[1:10:44] Voice 9: Second by Trustee Glimpy.

[1:10:48] Voice 7: And then I will call the vote.

[1:10:49] Voice 7: All in favor?

[1:10:52] Voice 7: I'm carrying.

[1:10:53] Voice 7: Thank

[1:10:53] Voice 5: you very much.

[1:10:54] Voice 7: Maybe.

[1:10:56] Voice 7: Do you have any support?

[1:10:58] Voice 7: Hesitate to ask.

[1:10:59] Voice 4: Yeah, most definitely.

[1:11:00] Voice 7: moral support either thank you very much for that thank you all right let's move on uh item number

[1:11:08] Voice 8: 10 next meeting so i have a question about that because on my calendar i have um tuesday october

[1:11:16] Voice 8: 7th yes oh

[1:11:18] Voice 7: so that was that's an error it is it is scheduled for the 7th

[1:11:22] Voice 8: oh that was an error on

[1:11:23] Voice 7: your agenda cover that's a typo on the thing yeah however i'll right so i because i'm going to the

[1:11:30] Voice 7: world conservation congress i cannot make that you can't make that meeting okay so i had proposed

[1:11:35] Voice 7: i don't know if people would agree and if i can't make it fine um i could make i think can i say that

[1:11:42] Voice 7: here i don't know okay um apparently there's an open date on october 3rd that i could make but

[1:11:48] Voice 7: it might be other people can't schedule this october meeting to the third so yes earlier

[1:11:54] Voice 7: If possible, and if people can make it, because obviously it's a new calendar, it's all busy.

[1:12:02] Voice 7: Yeah, I'm absolutely fine with that.

[1:12:04] Voice 7: But I wish the staff, of course, because that's...

[1:12:07] Voice 7: The day works for staff as needed.

[1:12:08] Voice 7: We can make it work.

[1:12:10] Voice 7: You can make it work.

[1:12:11] Voice 7: I can make it work.

[1:12:14] Voice 7: Right?

[1:12:15] Voice 7: I think

[1:12:16] Voice 4: I could make it work.

[1:12:20] Voice 4: There's a council meeting for SLAM in that day, but I think I could come and attend.

[1:12:27] Voice 4: I can make that work.

[1:12:29] Voice 4: I don't think it's necessary for me to be at that one as well.

[1:12:33] Voice 4: I

[1:12:34] Voice 11: think that's what

[1:12:34] Voice 4: you want to do, right?

[1:12:35] Voice 11: Yeah.

[1:12:35] Voice 11: Okay.

[1:12:36] Voice 11: Sorry, my date again?

[1:12:37] Voice 6: That's October

[1:12:38] Voice 6: 3rd.

[1:12:40] Voice 6: I have a chapter conference, school board chapter conference.

[1:12:44] Voice 6: conference so I may I if as long as there's at least four others going I can go from a school

[1:12:52] Voice 6: board October 3rd October

[1:12:56] Voice 4: 3rd October 3rd is a Friday right yeah

[1:12:58] Voice 6: yeah actually that was 12 for

[1:12:59] Voice 4: me sorry I was looking at the wrong that

[1:13:01] Voice 6: was 12 yeah I

[1:13:03] Voice 6: might be able to just attend the morning

[1:13:05] Voice 6: and I got a temple right there yeah okay yeah yeah

[1:13:10] Voice 7: well I'd appreciate

[1:13:12] Voice 7: it if people don't mind

[1:13:13] Voice 7: but

[1:13:13] Voice 11: if

[1:13:14] Voice 7: it doesn't work yeah i think it's in our best interest and a benefit to us as a board

[1:13:20] Voice 7: as well so we're just assuming we're just assuming right yes okay um we need a motion

[1:13:28] Voice 7: so i can advise i've consulted with the director of legislative services about this because you'd

[1:13:33] Voice 7: be moving a regular meeting which i haven't been experienced before and he's reviewed your bylaws

[1:13:38] Voice 7: you're unable to move a regular meeting so what you'll have to do is cancel the regular meeting

[1:13:42] Voice 7: and then pass a second motion to schedule a special meeting okay so i've provided some

[1:13:46] Voice 7: sample motions over to rob again to prepare you thank you thank you very much

[1:13:53] Voice 8: just a procedural matter

[1:13:55] Voice 8: i just have a question director fader is that peculiar to local

[1:13:59] Voice 8: government or just well

[1:14:00] Voice 7: i i can't answer that i just know it's peculiar to your bylaw

[1:14:04] Voice 7: your meeting procedure bylaw um in this circumstance and i haven't seen it

[1:14:08] Voice 7: happen in other meetings so i didn't have any experience so what is typical

[1:14:12] Voice 7: Yeah, I've never experienced us moving a date before.

[1:14:18] Voice 7: All right.

[1:14:19] Voice 7: Some draft motions coming up here.

[1:14:25] Voice 11: We

[1:14:36] Voice 7: need to cancel.

[1:14:37] Voice 7: Oh, here we go.

[1:14:39] Voice 7: Up top there.

[1:14:40] Voice 7: Fantastic.

[1:14:41] Voice 7: All right.

[1:14:42] Voice 7: So we have two motions up there for us.

[1:14:43] Voice 7: The Alamstress Conservancy cancelled a regular meeting scheduled October 7th, 2025.

[1:14:50] Voice 7: Does anybody like to make that motion?

[1:14:52] Voice 7: Still moved.

[1:14:52] Voice 7: Still moved.

[1:14:53] Voice 7: Fantastic.

[1:14:54] Voice 7: Looking for a seconder.

[1:14:55] Voice 7: Trustee Yates, I will

[1:14:57] Voice 7: call the vote.

[1:14:59] Voice 7: All in favour?

[1:15:01] Voice 7: Carried.

[1:15:03] Voice 7: And then on to our second motion,

[1:15:05] Voice 7: to reschedule the meeting for October 3rd.

[1:15:07] Voice 7: I just noticed the word schedule's in there

[1:15:09] Voice 7: twice. You might want to consider removing

[1:15:11] Voice 7: the second

[1:15:13] Voice 7: schedule there.

[1:15:16] Voice 7: October 3rd.

[1:15:20] Voice 7: Aren't we

[1:15:21] Voice 7: actually just

[1:15:22] Voice 7: rescheduling the regular meeting?

[1:15:24] Voice 7: That's

[1:15:24] Voice 5: what I'm special meaning.

[1:15:25] Voice 7: but

[1:15:25] Voice 5: we can't i was trying to

[1:15:26] Voice 7: explain you can't

[1:15:28] Voice 5: do that okay okay i did it's just

[1:15:30] Voice 7: a procedural piece

[1:15:30] Voice 7: yeah uh

[1:15:34] Voice 8: is there anyone to make the motion i'll make the motion i know that the islands

[1:15:38] Voice 8: trust conservancy schedule a special meeting for october 3rd 2025 at 10 a.m in place of the

[1:15:45] Voice 8: regularly scheduled october 7th meeting

[1:15:47] Voice 7: fantastic i'll go for a second there second by trustee

[1:15:51] Voice 7: Timothy, I will call the vote. All in favor? Carried.

[1:15:56] Voice 11: Thank you. All

[1:16:04] Voice 7: right. Moving on to item

[1:16:07] Voice 7: number 11. We're moving into the closed meeting portion. Looking for someone to make the motion.

[1:16:15] Voice 7: Is it written somewhere? Yeah. Let the Islands Trust Conservancy meeting be closed to the public

[1:16:23] Voice 7: in accordance with the Community Charter, Part 4, Division 3, Section 91E, the acquisition,

[1:16:29] Voice 7: disposition of expropriation of land or improvements as the board considers that

[1:16:35] Voice 7: disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the Islands Trust Conservancy

[1:16:40] Voice 7: Board and that staff remain in the meeting. Thank you. We'll give

[1:16:44] Voice 7: her a second now.

[1:16:45] Voice 7: Trustee Kennedy. And I'll call the vote. All in favor? Motion carried. We can stop the recording.

[1:16:59] Voice 7: Chair, did you want to take a five-minute break? We'll wait. Yeah. We're a little bit ahead of

[1:17:02] Voice 7: schedule. So we have about nine minutes before everybody gets started.

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Islands Trust Conservancy Board 
     Minutes of a Regular Meeting 
 
Date:  
Location:  
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 
Islands Trust Victoria Boardroom   
#200 - 1627 Fort Street 
Victoria, BC V8R 1H8 
 
Members Present: Lisa Gauvreau, Chair 
 Tanner Timothy, Vice Chair 
 Jeannine Georgeson, Trustee 
 Risa Smith, Trustee 
 Susan Yates, Trustee 
 Tobi Elliott, Trustee 
  
Staff Present: Clare Frater, Director, Trust Area Services 
 Kathryn Martell, Ecosystem Protection Specialist 
 Joe Elliott, Senior Indigenous Relations Advisor, Trust Area Services 
 Rob Kroeker, Planning Services Admin Assistant/Recorder 
  
Staff Regrets: Jemma Green, Covenant Management and Outreach Specialist  
Nuala Murphy, Property Management Specialist 
 Wendy Tyrrell, Acting Manager 
  
Members of the Public Present: No members of the public were in attendance. 
  
1. CALL TO ORDER 
The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. Chair Gauvreau initiated introductions and 
expressed thanks on behalf of the Islands Trust Conservancy Board for the service of Board 
member Charles Kahn, and welcomed the newly Provincially-appointed Trustee Jeannine 
Georgeson to the Board. 
2. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
Chair Gauvreau acknowledged that the meeting was being held in traditional territory of the 
Coast Salish First Nations.  
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 
3.1 Review of Agenda and Introduction of New Items 
The following items were added to the agenda: 
• World Conservation Congress discussion – add to new business as item 9.2  
• Consideration of changing a regular meeting date – under item 10 

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3.2 Approval of Agenda 
By general consent the agenda was approved as amended. 
4. RISE AND REPORT DECISIONS FROM PREVIOUSLY CLOSED MEETING 
Chair Gauvreau reported on the following item from the Islands Trust Conservancy closed 
meeting of May 27, 2025: 
• ITC has approved a $12,000 Opportunity Fund grant to Mayne Island 
Conservancy to support costs associated with a new conservation covenant on 
Mayne Island, including title searches, drafting, legal costs, and registering the 
covenant.  
5. ADOPTION OF MINUTES 
5.1 Draft ITC Board Meeting Minutes of May 27, 2025 
The following amendment to the minutes was presented for consideration: 
By general consent the minutes of the May 27, 2025 meeting were adopted as 
presented. 
6. FOLLOW UP ACTION LIST 
Received for information. 
7. BUSINESS 
7.1 Items for Approval 
7.1.1 Amendment to Koontz NAPTEP Covenant, Gabriola Island – Request for Decision 
Ecosystem Protection Specialist Martell presented the Request for Decision, 
noting that the description of the “Driveway” was not specified in the registered 
covenant Baseline Report and this request is to approve the covenant 
amendment and updated Baseline Report, sign the Modification Agreement and 
authorize staff to pay for associated costs of notarizing signatures. Committee 
discussion included: 
• the legal costs of the amendment  
ITC-2025-025 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board authorize the Chair or any 
available ITC Authorized Signatory to sign the Modification Agreement 
to amend covenant CB1650359 registered on the land described as PID 
005-788-447, That Part of Lot 3, Section 5, Gabriola Island, Nanaimo 
District, Plan 6986, Lying To The North West Of A Road Dedicated By 
Plan 17829, Except Those Parts In Plans 21783 And 26145.   
CARRIED 

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ITC-2025-026 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board authorize expenditure of up to 
$300 to support the landholder and GaLTT in obtaining notarized 
signatures for registering the Modification Agreement. 
CARRIED 
7.2 Items for Discussion/Direction 
7.2.1 Discussion on Appointment of an ITC Board member to the Conservation Fund 
Working Group (verbal) 
Chair Gauvreau introduced the discussion, indicating that the conservation fund 
working group is an informal joint venture between the Islands Trust 
Conservancy Board members and Executive Committee members to explore a 
regional conservation fund in the Trust Area to partner with First Nations and 
support conservation and restoration. Committee discussion included:  
• a workshop with other stakeholders sponsored by the Coastal Douglas-
fir Conservation Partnership was held to explore supporting funds for 
conservation from the tax roll, such as is done in other jurisdictions 
• the vision for the above model is that the Capital Regional District (CRD) 
would be the holder of funds 
• this new fund could result in funding for conservation or donors going 
directly to the CRD initiative instead of Islands Trust Conservancy 
• a key task of a conservation fund working group would be to understand 
how to interact with this emerging CRD conservation fund 
• a conservation fund would be donations-based  
• conservation on private lands is the target of this initiative 
• there are similar models on the San Juan Islands and Lummi Nation 
territory regarding co-working relationships with First Nations 
• if such a fund were on the tax roll it could be an opportunity to co-
purchase properties with First Nations 
• the spirit of the fund is to expand work with Indigenous partners, and 
having those partnerships in place first may be a consideration 
• Islands Trust Conservancy should keep informed of this emerging CRD-
conservation fund  
• Limited staff capacity to track related initiatives could be addressed by a 
board member making inquiries, though tasks may evolve to be best 
suited to staff work 
• these points will inform discussion with Executive Committee in the 
upcoming liaison meeting  
7.3 Correspondence 
7.3.1 2025-04-14 Letter from Senkpiel Litigation regarding Crystal Mountain Society 
Board Decision 
Received for information.  

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7.3.2 2025-07-02 Letter from Minister Kahlon regarding ITC Five-Year Plan 
Director Frater introduced the letter as a response confirming a date of 
December 2027 to submit the Islands Trust Conservancy Five-Year Plan to the 
Minister, giving time to work collaboratively with First Nations. Discussion 
included: 
• reaching out to Ministry staff for guidance on incorporating UNDRIP 
Principles 
• the cabinet shuffle, the new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, 
and the Minister’s previous work as Minister of Indigenous Relations 
and Reconciliation 
7.4 Updates for Information 
7.4.1 Public Acquisitions Report 
Received for information. Discussion ensued regarding: 
• Crystal Mountain on Galiano Island 
• an emergency access route proximate to ITC land 
7.4.2 Public Covenants Report 
Received for information. 
7.4.3 Budget Report (verbal)  
Director Frater indicated that budget submissions are still being developed and a 
special meeting in August is scheduled for consideration of budget submissions 
for next year and a budget status update. 
7.4.4 ITC Quarterly Report to Trust Council  
Discussion ensued regarding database management software, which manages 
contacts and donor relations.  
• there is a need to better manage referrals and contacts with First 
Nations with a centralized database 
• Islands Trust Conservancy’s current software is supported for a few 
more years, but a centralized solution is desired 
• Staff are seeking a software that is  the right fit between cost, services 
and not an American company 
Discussion continued regarding communications and outreach, anniversary 
communications for Islands Trust Conservancy, and Islands Trust Conservancy 
Board members attending fall events such as the Galiano market with 
promotional materials. 
 
 

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7.4.5 Executive Committee Update (verbal) 
Trustee Elliott provided an update on the following topics: 
• Executive Committee had a special meeting July 17, 2025 to approve an 
agenda for July 29, 2025 Trust Council special meeting for first reading of 
Policy Statement 
• the next stage after first reading is public engagement and referral to 
Indigenous Governing Bodies and referral agencies/organizations, 
including Islands Trust Conservancy Board 
• surveys, a webinar, and a virtual town hall-style session are being 
planned to invite the public to express their thoughts on the Policy 
Statement 
7.4.6 Financial Planning Committee Update (verbal) 
Trustee Yates advised that there is no new reporting as there has not been a 
recent Financial Planning Committee meeting. Director Frater indicated that a 
summary of pre-budget survey results will be included in the August Financial 
Planning Committee agenda. Chair Gauvreau indicated that she would share 
links with the ITC Board.  
7.4.7 Trust Council Update (verbal) 
This report was combined with item 7.4.5. 
7.4.8 Governance Committee Update (verbal) 
Chair Gauvreau reported that there is nothing new to report because there has 
not been a recent Governance Committee meeting.  
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS AND DELEGATIONS 
No members of the public were in attendance. 
9. NEW BUSINESS 
9.1 Approval of an ITC Board Special Meeting Date (verbal)   
Director Frater indicated that staff propose a special meeting be scheduled for August 27, 2025 
to address matters including budget considerations and other matters arising in the interim. 
 
ITC-2025-027 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
That Islands Trust Conservancy schedule an electronic special meeting for August 27, 
2025 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss matters that need to be addressed ahead of the Board’s 
October meeting. 
CARRIED 

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9.2 World Conservation Congress (discussion)   
Trustee Smith provided background on the 2025 World Conservation Congress. She noted that 
her attendance presents an opportunity to connect with leaders of forums at the Congress and 
present on behalf of Islands Trust Conservancy. Discussion included: 
• climate change management and carbon sequestration 
• leveraging climate change funding for protected areas management: there is more 
funding devoted to climate change than biodiversity 
• funders are present and it is a good opportunity to advertise Islands Trust Conservancy 
• Islands Trust Conservancy’s 35
th
 anniversary is a great story to tell there 
• parts of the proceedings will be livestreamed, but Trustee Smith’s forums will not  
 
ITC-2025-028 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
that the Islands Trust Conservancy Board endorses Trustee Risa Smith to seek 
opportunities at the upcoming World Conservation Congress to speak to and promote 
the Islands Trust Conservancy.  
CARRIED 
10. NEXT MEETING 
Discussion ensued regarding the next meeting date, due to Trustee Smith’s attendance at the 
World Conservation Congress. Director Frater noted that a regular business meeting cannot be 
rescheduled, but must be cancelled with a special meeting convened on the desired date. Friday, 
October 3, 2025 was put forward as a potential special meeting date.  
 
ITC-2025-029 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
That Islands Trust Conservancy cancel the regular meeting scheduled for October 7, 
2025.  
CARRIED 
ITC-2025-030 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 
That Islands Trust Conservancy schedule a special meeting for October 3, 2025 at 10:00 
a.m. in place of the regularly scheduled October 7 meeting.  
CARRIED 
The next meeting will be held electronically on August 27, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.  
11. CLOSED MEETING 
11.1 Motion to Close the Meeting 
ITC-2025-031 
It was MOVED and SECONDED, 

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that the Islands Trust Conservancy meeting be closed to the public in accordance with 
the Community Charter, Part 4 Division 3, section: 90 (1) (e) the acquisition, disposition 
or expropriation of land or improvements, as the board considers that disclosure could 
reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the Islands Trust Conservancy Board; 
and that staff remain in the meeting. 
 CARRIED 
12. ADJOURNMENT 
By general consent, the meeting adjourned at 12:27 p.m. 
 
 
_________________________ 
Lisa Gauvreau, Chair 
 
Certified Correct: 
 
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Rob Kroeker, Administrative Assistant/Recorder