Islands Trust Council regular meeting, October 7, 2025

[0:00:03] Voice 4: I'm just going to close my window and stay there.

[0:00:06] Voice 1: All right, we are ready to go.

[0:00:09] Voice 4: We won't move.

[0:00:10] Voice 4: Boy.

[0:00:12] Voice 4: Okay, and yeah, if you want to share the agenda, that would be great.

[0:00:16] Voice 4: All right.

[0:00:30] Voice 4: Okay, so I'll just call the meeting to order and just ask,

[0:00:33] Voice 4: is there anything anybody wants to add to the agenda?

[0:00:40] Voice 4: Missing is the territorial acknowledgement.

[0:00:44] Voice 4: I was just wondering if somebody would like to make that acknowledgement.

[0:00:56] Voice 2: I would like to start by acknowledging that we are meeting on the shared Tories of many

[0:01:03] Voice 2: Coast Salish nations. Last Tuesday was National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, an important

[0:01:10] Voice 2: day to recognize that deep, ongoing history of the land and to reflect upon our relationship

[0:01:17] Voice 2: to it um land acknowledgments themselves are they're not really about the past alone um they're

[0:01:27] Voice 2: about the ongoing uh colonialism that is uh the reality of um the world that we're living in today

[0:01:34] Voice 2: uh recognizing this it caused calls on us to be mindful about our place in history um

[0:01:41] Voice 2: and to consider how we participate in shaping the present and the future.

[0:01:49] Voice 2: September 30th isn't just a date.

[0:01:54] Voice 2: It's more of a call to action.

[0:01:56] Voice 2: Thank you.

[0:01:57] Voice 2: Let's have a great meeting.

[0:01:59] Voice 4: Excellent.

[0:02:00] Voice 4: Thank you, Lisa.

[0:02:01] Voice 4: Okay, so one thing that we have not yet done

[0:02:04] Voice 4: is elect a chair for the Accessibility Committee and a vice chair.

[0:02:10] Voice 4: so this is per council's policy 231 so we probably should do that I've just been

[0:02:17] Voice 4: kind of leading the meetings just to keep on moving so this is an opportunity to correct that

[0:02:24] Voice 4: so normally what we would do is ask for nominations of a member of the committee to be

[0:02:31] Voice 4: the chair and that person would then have to accept that nomination if there's more than one

[0:02:37] Voice 4: we'll do it as a vote it'd be a a secret vote in other words you would email me your choice

[0:02:44] Voice 4: for a chair and then um i'll take you through that if we need to do that if there's only one

[0:02:51] Voice 4: then it'll be by acclamation so with that and then it realizes only three of you and it takes

[0:02:57] Voice 4: to to nominate so we'll see how this goes

[0:03:01] Voice 1: i'm

[0:03:02] Voice 4: looking for nominations for chair of the

[0:03:07] Voice 4: accessibility committee anybody can do it you don't have to be a trustee if we have no nominations

[0:03:21] Voice 4: i'm going to accept somebody putting the hand up and saying i'm interested in doing it

[0:03:27] Voice 4: okay so is anybody wants to nominate anybody before we go that route

[0:03:30] Voice 4: okay then is anybody interested in being the chair would like to take that on

[0:03:42] Voice 2: anybody i'll take it on

[0:03:46] Voice 4: okay so

[0:03:47] Voice 4: lisa is interested and i'm going to put her name down as um a candidate for chair

[0:03:55] Voice 4: is there anybody else that's interested in being the chair okay i'm going to ask a second time

[0:04:04] Voice 4: is anybody else is interested or anybody else anybody would like to nominate and third and

[0:04:11] Voice 4: And final time, anybody else interested in being the chair of the Accessibility Committee?

[0:04:16] Voice 4: Okay, not hearing anybody, then by acclamation, Lisa Gavreau is the chair.

[0:04:23] Voice 2: Thank you. Thank you. I'm honored.

[0:04:25] Voice 4: And before we go any further, we do need a vice chair.

[0:04:28] Voice 4: So the same process, is anybody who would like to nominate somebody to be the vice chair?

[0:04:33] Voice 4: This is just in case the chair is not available.

[0:04:35] Voice 4: um this person would just take on the um uh running of the meeting essentially and just

[0:04:44] Voice 4: making sure that we get through the agenda so is there um a nomination for a vice chair

[0:04:53] Voice 1: would lisa be interested in taking this on i

[0:04:56] Voice 3: could do that okay

[0:04:58] Voice 1: unless you

[0:05:00] Voice 3: want it it's all

[0:05:00] Voice 3: yours too if you want it

[0:05:01] Voice 1: you if you saw my calendar i i would be loathe to take on anything

[0:05:07] Voice 1: more okay

[0:05:08] Voice 3: no problem i got it

[0:05:10] Voice 4: okay so i said yeah so lisa thank you um change

[0:05:16] Voice 3: the name to the the

[0:05:17] Voice 3: committee of lisa's yes yeah

[0:05:19] Voice 4: the two lisas that is awesome really appreciate you stepping up for

[0:05:23] Voice 4: that yes thank you

[0:05:24] Voice 4: just want to ask is there anybody else who wants to be vice chair and i'm

[0:05:29] Voice 4: hearing the only person knowledgeable is david and indicate he's not so with that then by

[0:05:35] Voice 4: Acclamation, Lisa Nissen. How do you pronounce your last name? Is it Nissen-in?

[0:05:39] Voice 3: Nissen-in, yeah.

[0:05:40] Voice 4: Nissen-in. Lisa Nissen-in is the

[0:05:44] Voice 4: Vice Chair, so thank you both. With that, I'll turn it over

[0:05:47] Voice 4: to Lisa Gavril to chair the rest of the meeting. If you're okay

[0:05:51] Voice 4: to do that, Lisa?

[0:05:52] Voice 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you.

[0:05:55] Voice 2: Thank you, everybody. Alright, so we have called

[0:05:59] Voice 2: the meeting to order. Scene number two. We're on to item number three, which is the

[0:06:03] Voice 2: review of the agenda. Has everybody had a chance to check over the agenda tonight? I see some

[0:06:09] Voice 2: nodding heads. Awesome. Then approval of the agenda by general consent? Yes. Excellent. Thank

[0:06:17] Voice 2: you very much. And then item number two is the draft minutes from our previous meetings.

[0:06:23] Voice 2: The first set of minutes are from July 10th. Are there any additions or corrections to the

[0:06:30] Voice 2: the meetings to the minutes they must have been quite informative to you david

[0:06:33] Voice 1: yeah helpful very

[0:06:36] Voice 2: good seeing both of those hey great and then so we'll accept the minutes from july 10th by general

[0:06:42] Voice 2: consent sounds good and then moving on to item 4.1.2 uh september 9th so special meeting minutes

[0:06:51] Voice 2: that was david's first meeting i think wasn't it it

[0:06:54] Voice 1: was uh yes yeah

[0:06:56] Voice 2: great awesome were there

[0:06:58] Voice 2: any additions or corrections to those minutes? They look good to me. And by general consent,

[0:07:06] Voice 2: we'll adopt those minutes. And we're moving on now to 4.2, which is the follow-up action list.

[0:07:14] Voice 2: Yeah,

[0:07:14] Voice 4: it's available right now, Lisa. Okay. Yeah, so the last meeting was a few things that

[0:07:22] Voice 4: the accessibility committee asked us to do. One was that we put in a feedback opportunity on our

[0:07:29] Voice 4: website that we make it available like through an email address or a mail address and a form to fill

[0:07:39] Voice 4: out on the accessibility website so that work has been largely done unfortunately I've been on

[0:07:45] Voice 4: vacation this last couple weeks and due to strike action I haven't been able to talk to the staff

[0:07:52] Voice 4: that did the work so I'm not quite sure the status of whether it actually got finished before they

[0:07:57] Voice 4: went on strike or whether we'll have to wait until after the strike's over so that we can

[0:08:03] Voice 4: do that but anyway just want to let you know that we did follow up on that

[0:08:07] Voice 4: and if it's not up there right now it will be up there fairly soon so that's that one

[0:08:14] Voice 4: and then the other one is on the agenda and that is the accessibility plan business item 5.1

[0:08:22] Voice 4: below there, which was doing a business case and a project charter for getting the accessibility

[0:08:32] Voice 4: plan completed. Those are two main things that we followed up on from the last meeting.

[0:08:40] Voice 4: We will get a written pop-up action list for this committee

[0:08:44] Voice 4: as soon as we're able to get the work done to set that up for you.

[0:08:49] Voice 2: Thank you. Great.

[0:08:52] Voice 2: Any questions from the committee? Seeing none, then we'll move on to

[0:08:58] Voice 2: business. Get right down to it. 5.1, the accessibility plan. Turn it over to you.

[0:09:05] Voice 4: Yeah, I'll take this one. So this is a business case for an accessibility plan development in

[0:09:12] Voice 4: next fiscal which starts on april 1st of 2026. um so last year we thought yeah we'll try and

[0:09:22] Voice 4: do this in-house the reality is that we just haven't had the time or really the expertise

[0:09:29] Voice 4: in-house to work on accessibility plan that would be true to what the alums trust needs to do

[0:09:36] Voice 4: and needs to consider so we're kind of unique in the sense that we have a different need than most

[0:09:42] Voice 4: local governments different types of accessibility considerations so this business case is to request

[0:09:50] Voice 4: council allocate 19 000 and about 15 000 of that roughly would be used to hire a consultant that

[0:09:59] Voice 4: has expertise in this area uh so that could be um you know there's a lot of um people out there that

[0:10:09] Voice 4: do this kind of work and have done it before so we get them to come in and help the accessibility

[0:10:15] Voice 4: committee develop a draft um accessibility plan and the process to do that and then about four

[0:10:23] Voice 4: thousand dollars would be for advertising um mainly uh in relation to the public feedback

[0:10:30] Voice 4: uh components of developing that plan uh so the uh there's a draft project chat and i wonder alex

[0:10:38] Voice 4: so we can just scroll down to that just after the rfd yeah and after the business case

[0:10:50] Voice 4: so i don't know if you had a chance to read through the business case but um just let me

[0:10:55] Voice 4: know if there's something in there that's missing so i think what i'd like to do is just focus here

[0:10:59] Voice 4: on what i make what i've written as deliverables i want to make sure that the accessibility

[0:11:05] Voice 4: committee agrees with this so the first one is an assessment of accessibility and gaps at the

[0:11:12] Voice 4: ounce trust so looking at legislation that's a requirement of the plan is to identify what are

[0:11:18] Voice 4: the gaps like where is it that we're not meeting the accessibility requirements like what is that

[0:11:24] Voice 4: public feedback mechanism so i haven't defined exactly what that is i think this committee and

[0:11:32] Voice 4: consultant can determine what kind of public feedback would be appropriate and the methods

[0:11:37] Voice 4: to do that and then development of a draft accessibility plan which is consistent with the

[0:11:44] Voice 4: act a consultation with the accessibility committee that'd be ongoing we can build that in

[0:11:50] Voice 4: and a final draft plan that takes your input and any public input that has been received

[0:11:59] Voice 4: and considered and then that would be the end of the consultant's work and then from there

[0:12:06] Voice 4: we'd take that draft plan to trust council i'm just going to go back up again there okay

[0:12:13] Voice 4: and then the other piece here is what's in and what's out of scope so again you may not agree

[0:12:19] Voice 4: with me so i'd be really interested in if i got this right so in scope trying to keep this to

[0:12:26] Voice 4: to something that we can do for a reasonable amount of money

[0:12:29] Voice 4: is review of the current conditions

[0:12:30] Voice 4: that we have at the Allen's Trust.

[0:12:32] Voice 4: So this is our offices and our meeting locations.

[0:12:36] Voice 4: So this is to do with what we do to run our business.

[0:12:42] Voice 4: I did get somebody complaining about,

[0:12:47] Voice 4: can't remember what it was,

[0:12:48] Voice 4: it was something to do with building code

[0:12:49] Voice 4: and development payment areas.

[0:12:51] Voice 4: And that is not something this Act covers,

[0:12:54] Voice 4: that's to do with the building code and the land use planning portion and we can't address that

[0:13:01] Voice 4: here so this is entirely to do with our offices our website our public locations and how people

[0:13:08] Voice 4: interact not only the public but also staff that's something you know we should also be considering

[0:13:14] Voice 4: is accessibility for staff as well as the public public comment and feedback is in scope

[0:13:23] Voice 4: scope. Our operations, as I said, our meeting locations, our online presence and communications

[0:13:29] Voice 4: approach I think are in. If you think I've missed something, let me know and we can add it to in

[0:13:34] Voice 4: scope here. But what I put as out of scope is requirements, policies and regulations in local

[0:13:40] Voice 4: trust committee official community plans and land use bylaws. In other words, we're not trying to

[0:13:45] Voice 4: deal with that. That's a completely different animal. And then the engagement level here,

[0:13:51] Voice 4: those four are from the IAP2 engagement system which goes from inform where you just tell people

[0:13:58] Voice 4: what you're doing up to collaborate where you work with and provide some empowerment for other

[0:14:05] Voice 4: people to have a decision making and really for this kind of work that we're doing I think consult

[0:14:12] Voice 4: would be appropriate it allows for feedback so you're not just informing but you're asking people

[0:14:17] Voice 4: people to then tell you did you get it right not have you missed something that kind of thing a

[0:14:23] Voice 4: little bit short of involved um but definitely something that we could probably handle okay so

[0:14:30] Voice 4: maybe back to the chair is there anything that you feel should be in scope that we haven't identified

[0:14:37] Voice 4: and anything that should be out of scope that we haven't identified and finally do you think

[0:14:43] Voice 4: that the deliverables are appropriate all

[0:14:47] Voice 2: right we open it up to the committee what are our thoughts

[0:14:51] Voice 3: here guys um my thoughts on the deliverables is what an accessibility plan of course is what we're

[0:14:57] Voice 3: doing here but to also maybe put in the deliverables for the consultant um some form of a

[0:15:02] Voice 3: plain language um accessibility plan version that's been

[0:15:07] Voice 3: a piece that a lot of government

[0:15:08] Voice 3: agencies have done that are a little bit more advanced in the areas of accessibility um like

[0:15:14] Voice 3: Like I know some of the ones that I looked at for, you know, municipalities weren't quite as advanced on that level.

[0:15:20] Voice 3: But I think the Island Trust should be, you know, more of a leader in that sense that we have an accessible accessibility plan as well.

[0:15:28] Voice 3: So a lot of the time it'll be written into language that's not accessible to people.

[0:15:34] Voice 3: so um at times there's ones that may have like some more pictures shorter sentences and a shorter

[0:15:41] Voice 3: shorter version that might be a more readable plan i

[0:15:46] Voice 4: like that lisa thank you and alex did

[0:15:48] Voice 4: you capture that so i can yes i did

[0:15:52] Voice 4: yeah so so i guess through the chair what i'm hearing is

[0:15:56] Voice 4: update the deliverables to add in a accessible or a plain language is that the way you used

[0:16:03] Voice 4: a plain

[0:16:03] Voice 3: language or accessible version accessible version

[0:16:07] Voice 3: i don't know what the right terminology

[0:16:09] Voice 3: would necessarily be but yeah a plain language or accessible version yeah

[0:16:14] Voice 4: great thank you yeah

[0:16:15] Voice 4: that's good okay

[0:16:18] Voice 3: but yeah i think

[0:16:19] Voice 3: the in scope is good um a large piece that online presence that

[0:16:23] Voice 3: we have to make it accessible for people definitely is important to include and the different

[0:16:29] Voice 3: communication approaches so yeah

[0:16:31] Voice 4: and i think i took that from comments you made at the last

[0:16:35] Voice 4: meeting so appreciate that cool okay and just through the chair is there anything else anybody

[0:16:42] Voice 4: would like us to change in the deliverables in scope out of scope well

[0:16:47] Voice 2: um trust um chair patrick

[0:16:50] Voice 2: from island trust exhibition with patrick i had a comment about the implementation

[0:16:54] Voice 2: implementation yeah

[0:16:55] Voice 1: plan

[0:16:56] Voice 2: which is actually kind of important i think if this business case is

[0:16:59] Voice 2: going to be traveling to trust council for approval it would probably be a question that

[0:17:04] Voice 2: might come up from other trustees so great you got this plan how will it be implemented

[0:17:11] Voice 4: yeah would that

[0:17:12] Voice 2: be something that we could add to it or yeah

[0:17:17] Voice 4: let me just have a quick look here

[0:17:18] Voice 4: just give me a second i'm just looking at what the act requires us to have in the plan

[0:17:27] Voice 4: but i think what we could because what i'm thinking is it's going to be what the act

[0:17:31] Voice 4: requires at the minimum and i'm not sure if implementation is included in the requirement

[0:17:39] Voice 4: or whether it just goes so far as to say identify the um the gaps and met i think the wording is

[0:17:47] Voice 4: a means to mitigate those gaps or something like that but i think it'd be fair to uh add

[0:17:54] Voice 4: it into deliverables or even in scope the implementation a section on implementation

[0:18:02] Voice 4: of the accessibility plan and then i can just update the the work plan to include that and

[0:18:10] Voice 4: at the business case i don't think it'll change the budget i just think it's another section so

[0:18:15] Voice 4: the consultant would consider you know how we would implement the accessibility plan

[0:18:23] Voice 4: The Act does state that the plan has to be reviewed every three years and updated, and that's part of implementation.

[0:18:32] Voice 4: So that would be a given. This would be more about something like Trust Council consider the accessibility plan when it's doing its annual budget and identify where it can advance the implementation of the accessibility plan.

[0:18:50] Voice 4: I know it's something like that we can figure the wording out later okay so yeah I think that'd be

[0:18:55] Voice 4: fair enough yeah

[0:18:57] Voice 2: I was reading through my notes um back from our first meeting which was almost

[0:19:01] Voice 2: a year ago yeah um but our role as advisory will advise on the accessibility plan and the

[0:19:08] Voice 2: implementation plan I had that written

[0:19:10] Voice 2: in there too I was trying to track down where in the actor

[0:19:12] Voice 2: or we needed to fulfill that.

[0:19:16] Voice 2: I did put

[0:19:17] Voice 2: some language around something

[0:19:19] Voice 2: that the consultant would provide

[0:19:23] Voice 2: an implementation framework,

[0:19:26] Voice 2: not really so

[0:19:26] Voice 2: much of a, you know,

[0:19:28] Voice 2: and I think that that would be the part

[0:19:30] Voice 2: of the ongoing conversation between the committee

[0:19:33] Voice 2: and with the consultant as well.

[0:19:35] Voice 1: Yeah.

[0:19:35] Voice 1: It's

[0:19:35] Voice 2: kind of a given.

[0:19:36] Voice 2: Yeah, I like Chair Patrick's comment.

[0:19:40] Voice 2: it maybe review it in a very meaningful way yeah yeah great

[0:19:45] Voice 4: yeah so i think with that um

[0:19:49] Voice 4: i can add in the implementation into the delivery so i'll do that so that's an edit i will make

[0:19:57] Voice 4: to this probably should get a resolution just to ask the staff to amend the project charter to

[0:20:04] Voice 4: to add in a, and Alex, I'm not sure if you can pull up your resolution for us.

[0:20:11] Voice 2: Fantastic.

[0:20:12] Voice 4: Yeah, amend the project charter to include a plain language version

[0:20:17] Voice 4: of the accessibility plan and to include a section on implementation.

[0:20:41] Voice 4: Could you just reword it to say that the Accessibility Committee

[0:20:44] Voice 4: requests staff?

[0:20:46] Voice 4: Yeah, then it stands alone.

[0:20:49] Voice 4: thank you so through the chair does that look like i've captured the two um changes that you

[0:20:58] Voice 4: would like looks

[0:21:00] Voice 2: good that looks good uh trustee maude did you have any comments on the business

[0:21:05] Voice 2: case no

[0:21:06] Voice 1: i'm i'm literally nodding my head in agreement every time somebody opens their mouth

[0:21:10] Voice 1: so you know it's valuable and it's good and i do not have any contrary or additional opinion thank

[0:21:17] Voice 1: you thank

[0:21:18] Voice 2: you thank you that looks good to me then that's

[0:21:22] Voice 4: enough direction for me then for those two

[0:21:24] Voice 4: items before we do uh pass the resolution is there anything else that you would like us to

[0:21:29] Voice 4: change in the project charter just so we can include it all in one resolution

[0:21:37] Voice 2: i think that's good right looks good thumbs up lisa looks looks good okay

[0:21:44] Voice 4: all right so it's up

[0:21:46] Voice 4: up there for somebody to move in second and then you can vote on it yep

[0:21:50] Voice 2: go ahead and read out the

[0:21:56] Voice 2: motion oh

[0:21:57] Voice 3: i'll move that the accessible uh that the accessibility committee request staff to amend

[0:22:02] Voice 3: the project charter to include a plain language version of the accessibility plan and to include

[0:22:06] Voice 3: a section on implementation fantastic

[0:22:10] Voice 2: looking for a seconder

[0:22:14] Voice 2: fantastic then i'll call the vote all in favor in favor unanimous

[0:22:19] Voice 4: good thank you very much

[0:22:21] Voice 4: motion

[0:22:21] Voice 2: carried hey

[0:22:23] Voice 4: great just go back now to the rfd if you don't mind alex

[0:22:31] Voice 4: um page one or whatever page number that was on there we go okay so uh the the business case is

[0:22:39] Voice 4: that i don't have the chance to read it i will go through the business case and just clean it up to

[0:22:45] Voice 4: include those two items and just make sure it's it's solid i um i did have to rush it so i want

[0:22:55] Voice 4: to go back through and make sure it's clean but unless there's something in there that really you

[0:23:00] Voice 4: feel strongly about or you would like us to edit uh otherwise there's two resolutions here um

[0:23:07] Voice 4: So the first one, you can just read it as written.

[0:23:11] Voice 4: The second one, just say adopt the draft project charter as amended instead of as presented in the October 7, 2025 agenda.

[0:23:24] Voice 4: So just say that the Accessibility Committee adopt the draft project charter as amended in the October 7, 2025 agenda.

[0:23:34] Voice 2: Understood.

[0:23:35] Voice 2: Sid? No,

[0:23:37] Voice 4: over to you, Chair.

[0:23:39] Voice 2: Looking for a mover.

[0:23:43] Voice 1: I move that the Accessibility Committee

[0:23:46] Voice 1: recommend to Trust Council that $19,000 be allocated to develop an accessibility plan

[0:23:52] Voice 1: for Islands Trust.

[0:23:54] Voice 2: Fantastic, Ling, for a seconder? I'll second. Seconded by Lisa.

[0:23:58] Voice 2: And any discussion? Seeing none, I'll call the vote. All in favour?

[0:24:05] Voice 4: Right. Thank you.

[0:24:06] Voice 4: Thank

[0:24:07] Voice 2: you. Motion carried.

[0:24:08] Voice 4: Feels like a local trust committee with just the three of you.

[0:24:12] Voice 2: It does, doesn't it? We have a second motion here, too.

[0:24:17] Voice 1: Okay. I'll move that the Accessibility Committee adopt the Draft Part Project

[0:24:22] Voice 1: Charter as amended in the October 7, 2025 agenda.

[0:24:26] Voice 2: Thank you. Looking for a second.

[0:24:28] Voice 2: I'll second.

[0:24:28] Voice 2: Second from Lisa. Then I'll call the vote. All in favor? Motion carried.

[0:24:35] Voice 4: Excellent. Thank you.

[0:24:37] Voice 4: Thank you.

[0:24:37] Voice 4: So this, yeah, this will be updated, amended as you directed,

[0:24:43] Voice 4: and then it'll travel through the FPC and then obviously to Trust Council.

[0:24:48] Voice 4: And I'll just keep you up to date on how it progresses. Well, thanks for that.

[0:24:54] Voice 4: Thank

[0:24:54] Voice 2: you. Thank you. Zooming through here. Next up is item 5.2,

[0:25:00] Voice 2: local community accessibility grant application and a briefing.

[0:25:03] Voice 2: yeah

[0:25:04] Voice 4: so um yeah so this was revised but i just got more information today so i'll update you on

[0:25:14] Voice 4: on that so before i went on vacation i got an email back from the um the grantor saying that

[0:25:22] Voice 4: yep they will approve the 13 000 that we've applied for for the um the salt spring office

[0:25:30] Voice 4: but also we encourage local governments to use the full 25 000 so is there anything else

[0:25:36] Voice 4: that you would like to use it for. So reading the document, I was under the impression that

[0:25:42] Voice 4: it could be used to finish off the accessibility plan. So I put that in, sent it in, then went on

[0:25:48] Voice 4: vacation. And while I was away, they emailed me back and said, actually, you can't use it

[0:25:54] Voice 4: for writing accessibility plans. But what you can use it for is removing barriers that have

[0:26:01] Voice 4: been identified either by the general public by the accessibility committee or in your accessibility

[0:26:09] Voice 4: plan so there's eleven thousand dollars available that could be used um for that purpose so

[0:26:17] Voice 4: i said to today actually i said i'll get back to you this week um so the choice is do we just apply

[0:26:24] Voice 4: for the thirteen thousand which they've essentially said they'll just give it to us or is there

[0:26:29] Voice 4: something else that we can identify as a barrier and we can use $11,000 to help to remove that

[0:26:38] Voice 4: barrier. The one thing that came to my mind that we could probably use it for is we did an audit

[0:26:46] Voice 4: of the Islands Trust website from an accessibility point of view. I think it was about a year ago,

[0:26:54] Voice 4: maybe just under a year ago and we have that audit and we could use that and use the extra 11 000

[0:27:02] Voice 4: to hire a website consultant to come in and make the changes identified in the audit to make our

[0:27:11] Voice 4: website more accessible so the grantor said that we can just update the grant application and we

[0:27:18] Voice 4: We don't need to get any further letters of support

[0:27:22] Voice 4: from the Accessibility Committee or the CAO.

[0:27:26] Voice 4: So I'm just letting you know and asking you what you think,

[0:27:30] Voice 4: if that would be something that this committee could support

[0:27:33] Voice 4: so that I just know that you support it,

[0:27:37] Voice 4: or is it something else that you think we should be trying to do

[0:27:42] Voice 4: with that money?

[0:27:42] Voice 4: So back to the chair.

[0:27:44] Voice 2: Thank you very much.

[0:27:46] Voice 2: I had in my notes. Yeah, website and document accessibility improvements. That's great.

[0:27:52] Voice 2: I'm very

[0:27:53] Voice 2: much in favor of that. Any comments from the committee?

[0:27:56] Voice 3: I'm in favor with it, too. That was my first thought, too, is if we can't use it for a plan,

[0:28:01] Voice 3: that we use it to create accessible information. So a website or whether it's any other literature

[0:28:07] Voice 3: that needs to be made accessible. Amazing.

[0:28:10] Voice 4: Yeah, that was my thinking, too. I appreciate that.

[0:28:14] Voice 4: No,

[0:28:16] Voice 1: it makes perfect sense.

[0:28:18] Voice 4: Yeah, I don't need any direction.

[0:28:20] Voice 4: I just wanted to brief you and bring you up to speed on it

[0:28:22] Voice 4: so you know where we're at with that.

[0:28:25] Voice 4: Okay, so yeah, that's it for this one.

[0:28:28] Voice 2: Great, thank you.

[0:28:30] Voice 2: That's exciting.

[0:28:31] Voice 2: All right, moving on to item number six, next meeting.

[0:28:34] Voice 2: We're at towards the end of the meeting here, guys.

[0:28:37] Voice 2: Our next meeting isn't until next year.

[0:28:40] Voice 2: It's January 15th.

[0:28:42] Voice 2: then will we be updated by email yeah i'll

[0:28:46] Voice 4: update the committee by email if you've got anything that

[0:28:49] Voice 4: comes up in the meantime just email me and you can always call a special meeting of the committee

[0:28:55] Voice 4: if needed for any purpose so that's something you can certainly do um i think once we get a

[0:29:02] Voice 4: consultant and we get a draft plan it could get a bit more meaty for this committee to

[0:29:07] Voice 4: to get the teeth into and really, really start to, you know,

[0:29:12] Voice 4: spread its wings, so to speak, and take up.

[0:29:17] Voice 4: I think it's, you know, we're still finding our feet

[0:29:18] Voice 4: and the best way to use the committee.

[0:29:21] Voice 4: So I appreciate the patience in that.

[0:29:26] Voice 4: And we're a small committee.

[0:29:28] Voice 4: I think there is four voting members at the moment

[0:29:32] Voice 4: and one ex-officio.

[0:29:34] Voice 4: I think you're probably made that way.

[0:29:35] Voice 4: Oh, that's the other thing.

[0:29:36] Voice 4: We did say we would try and do some advertising to get another, at least one or two more committee members.

[0:29:45] Voice 4: If we did that, it would be to the end of term.

[0:29:47] Voice 4: So it'd be from now until the election.

[0:29:51] Voice 4: And then we would be going out and actually advertising for a new set of members for the committee anyway.

[0:30:00] Voice 4: uh we don't actually have a budget either so um we can still do it i think we can find the funds

[0:30:06] Voice 4: to do the advertising and um so we will do it but i just need the staff back in the seat so

[0:30:14] Voice 4: they can actually do the work for us so

[0:30:16] Voice 2: it's fine to let

[0:30:17] Voice 4: you know we haven't done it yet

[0:30:18] Voice 4: working well

[0:30:19] Voice 2: i've been mentioning it on my ltc meetings too yeah

[0:30:23] Voice 4: if you know mention that as

[0:30:25] Voice 2: i'll get the word out i've had a few people actually inquire yeah

[0:30:29] Voice 4: just tell them to send

[0:30:30] Voice 4: an email in um either to you or to accessibility or to info doesn't matter where it goes if they're

[0:30:38] Voice 4: interested or yeah that's a cheaper way of doing it yeah if anybody knows anybody one or two more

[0:30:47] Voice 4: members might just help um just to spread the load because obviously not everybody can be at

[0:30:53] Voice 4: every meeting and with a small number it uh it comes can be a problem

[0:30:57] Voice 2: yeah yeah for sure yeah

[0:30:59] Voice 2: for sure excellent great and i guess we're through the close of the meeting here

[0:31:04] Voice 2: yeah and i will see you some of you sooner than later

[0:31:09] Voice 1: yes very

[0:31:11] Voice 2: thank you very much lisa for your

[0:31:12] Voice 2: time no problem and

[0:31:14] Voice 4: just so you know lisa and i think uh lisa gavro and david know this these

[0:31:19] Voice 4: meetings are set for two hours it's just a standard time um for most of our meetings um

[0:31:25] Voice 4: it's not intended that we use all that time but it's just in case we need it

[0:31:29] Voice 4: so 30 minutes tonight doesn't surprise me given what we have on the agenda

[0:31:34] Voice 4: yeah it'll

[0:31:35] Voice 2: get there yep there

[0:31:37] Voice 4: may be times when it won't be enough in two hours and we'll have to

[0:31:40] Voice 4: think about how to handle that but for now just wanted to let you know that's that's the intent

[0:31:45] Voice 4: tent great

[0:31:46] Voice 2: okay sounds good right i'm gonna

[0:31:49] Voice 2: declare this meeting over adjourned thank you

[0:31:53] Voice 4: very much thank

[0:31:54] Voice 2: you alex thank

[0:31:55] Voice 4: you for stepping in i really appreciate you helping out

[0:31:57] Voice 2: you're

[0:31:58] Voice 2: very welcome thank you

[0:32:00] Voice 2: everybody

[0:32:01] Voice 4: uh take care of yourselves and uh we'll see you soon thank you

[0:32:06] Voice 3: thank you all

[0:32:08] Voice 4: right lisa if you want to email me anytime please feel free to do so listen this and

[0:32:12] Voice 4: And then, yeah, the other two trustees, I, you know, talk to them all the time, but just email us.