Joe Bernardo

Local Trustee, Gambier Island

Gambier Island · 3.8 years in office · 215,257 words on the record in 29 recorded meetings · 67 named motions in the minutes · present at 93 minuted meetings

Seats and terms

SeatAreaTermHowFromTo
Local TrusteeGambier Island2022–2026general election2022-11-18present

In their own words

The most substantial lines attributed to Joe Bernardo in the transcripts, grouped by meeting; each timestamp plays the Trust's recording from that second.

  1. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, January 18, 2023 2023-01-18

    • [5:16:15] “We want your input. I mean, isn't that, is that what you're getting at? Because I mean, I think that's what I'm hearing. I stand to be correct with this. That's what I'm hearing is the emerging consensus here. And, you know, we haven't quite decided it yet, but we're kind of groping in that direction and we will make a decision shortly one way or the other. But I think you're going to, I think there is a, the consensus is in the direction you're talking about, which is we're talking about this. What do you think?”
    • [1:39:01] “You know, Trust Council decides it's prepared to take a higher risk that we should necessarily ignore the policy. The Trust Council isn't necessarily, isn't in fact bound by its policies. It can decide what it wants, but it should do that on a principled basis. So I'm not exactly following what you mean by risk, but rather than have you explore that, perhaps, as you say, let's turn this over to Director Mobbs to see what she's got to say about that point. Thank you.”
    • [6:03:39] “And, you know, we're really, you know, we haven't made up our own minds. So the public consultation is a little odd in those circumstances. So are you, Trustee Evans, are you contemplating that we perhaps like post the budget with some commentary and discussion of how, where we're at, how we've gotten to this point on the website and just leave it at that just for the sake of transparency?”

  2. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, March 9, 2023 2023-03-09

    • [1:14:52] “All they are is statements. And what they are right now is statements around which we can have, I think, a fruitful discussion. And then at some point, I think we can move on to the next point of saying, okay, we're actually going to turn something here, maybe into a motion. Now, if proceeding in that fashion, people aren't comfortable with it, that's fine. I guess we'll have to just deal with them one at a time as motions. But let's be clear, we don't have a motion on the floor yet on anything.”

  3. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 29, 2024 2024-04-29

    • [1:55:49] “And we'd have that sort of, I like the analogy of the train, except my view is a little different, is that we're going to figure out where the stations are that we're going to stop on the journey. And so, Planner McCartney, is that a possibility? And then I'd look to the trustees to see if that seems like a reasonable middle ground to provide the opportunity to have a discussion on our May 28th meeting.” (probable)
    • [1:15:41] “But the way it reads right now is, and following up on your remarks, my sense of it is the purpose of this recommendation is to report back on how to implement C2, not on whether to implement it, on the mechanics of what would be involved of how to do it, not whether or not it's worth or correct to do it.” (probable)
    • [2:02:51] “I should be clear here. It comes down to I'm not prepared to agree to send this document to secondary until I'm satisfied that it's as good as I can make it not as good as it can be, but as good as I can realistically bring about given our process and given the history of this thing.” (probable)

  4. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 14, 2023 2023-02-14

    • [0:33:20] “If we can, I'm sorry, Director Mox to interrupt, but to the extent that we encounter issues that are novel or new, it's probably a good idea to simply address them when we get to them, which is why I want to just take a pause for a second and ask for you to elaborate a little bit about this submission for the new $15,000 funding request in this particular budget to upgrade the expense claim system.”
    • [3:05:34] “They can't. And that takes me back to this whole business of the past five-year trend. I mean, if we come around to the idea that we're going to ask taxpayers to pay 4.6%, I have to say, from my own point of view, it's rather jarring to think that we know for a fact that for the past five years, we've overestimated.”
    • [1:25:27] “Not an assumption that we necessarily have to go to zero, but also not an assumption that just because we have a budget that proposes 4.6% increase, and it's all formatted all very nicely, and we have all these business cases attached to it, that that somehow should create a momentum that we necessarily have to buy into it.”

  5. Islands Trust Governance Committee regular meeting, January 19, 2023 2023-01-19

    • [1:39:17] “And I think that work product, and this is getting us possibly to the edge of all this scary stuff in the legislation, I don't think it does, but it would be very helpful if one of those, if the working group's work product is circulated to the other trustees, not for discussion, not for resolution, but for their information so that they are fully informed before the committee proper comes together to discuss it.”
    • [1:40:02] “So my suggestion is we form a, you know, at least a couple of working groups to take apart this report and start, you know, doing the business of analysis. And I'm happy to participate in one of those groups, and I'm happy to take on whatever, you know, recommendations, you know, people think, you know, they would like me to have a look at. Thank you.”
    • [1:08:21] “Josh, most working groups, if a committee is supposed to be a working group, you have to ask yourself the question, what value is there to having a working group discussing, going through a whole bunch of a portfolio of ideas, some that are good, some that are just wacky, and struggling through all of that, basically thinking out loud.”

  6. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, January 29, 2024 2024-01-29

    • [0:32:19] “You know, and as you've just mentioned, you know, that's a learning exercise. Do we have a process inside on the staff side where, say, at the conclusion of this experience, this process where you've worked with Squamish Nation, the things that you've learned, you know, the pluses and minuses, the, you know, the things that worked out well in trying to develop a working relationship, the things that worked out not so well.” (probable)

  7. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 17, 2023 2023-04-17

    • [0:17:22] “Mayor Mrakas, And we ought not to have a debate about it every meeting, because you know that's ongoing work, the debate, I think, is probably going to be about as events transpire about changing priorities with respect to the things that are in the other three matrix quadrants and what to do with the referrals and we're going to talk about that later, but I would i'd be surprised if the referrals.”
    • [1:32:28] “want to drag this out. And it seems to me it's pretty efficient to have somebody with legal training. Look, you're quite right. It wasn't blindly and blind. I was very, when I sent you that communication, I was at pains of pointing out that although I'm coming from it with my legal training, it's an amateur effort because I don't have an expertise in this area.”

  8. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 29, 2023 2023-05-29

    • [0:35:36] “Well, I can see there's an advantage of one side advantage of using this process is if we collate and identify all of those requirements that are essentially imposed on us by either by legislation or provincial government edict that, first of all, it helps us as trustees know what we're really dealing with here in terms of what our working context and what kind of flexibility we really do have.”
    • [0:36:00] “But also, when that's roped into something like a strategic plan, a document, that allows our corporate plan to become, in a sense, a tool we can use when we go to the provincial government and say, look, relative to everything else we're doing, your dictates are requiring us to spend X amount of our budget every year on this stuff, and we're not properly funded. Give us more money.”

  9. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, November 8, 2023 2023-11-08

    • [4:34:14] “I finished the thought, CEO. I would have liked to see that discussion within the business case, within a business case for that, to explain that why this money is necessary now, notwithstanding the kind of peculiar place we find ourselves with the project, which is kind of as far as the trustees are aware of. It's just this abstract idea that still isn't complete. So please go ahead.”

  10. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, October 31, 2023 2023-10-31

    • [0:58:38] “Six, under that arrangement, under that dynamic, where you end up with is if you have two dwellings sharing a dock, the dock size increases to 77 square meters, which means that each of those dwellings would have a space allocation on the dock float of 38 square meters per dwelling, which, you know, I'm not going to go through the square route and all that stuff.”
    • [0:49:36] “There is a point I'd like to touch on briefly. It's not going to call for us to have a resolution. There's nothing to be done about it, really. But it's that for the folks who are the leaseholders over on the shoreline residential lots over Keats Landing, they've got issues going into the future.”

  11. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 10, 2023 2023-02-10

    • [3:41:58] “So the driver, the trust council can take it where it wants to go. First Nations, and this is one of the things with the governance report, I mean, this grid is helpful to some extent, but I think it might be more helpful for us to take a few moments to identify what is generally governance that's engaged by the report and what's policy.”
    • [2:29:08] “But I think for most of the things we're doing research and things that we need staff to do and that kind of stuff I mean we're just going to bog ourselves down and we're just repeating, frankly, the practices that have gotten in the way in the past, if we can at all reduce the number of resolutions down to the bare minimum.”

  12. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, July 31, 2023 2023-07-31

    • [0:53:25] “And that's why there was all this confusion, and that's why it's hard to settle on it, because people are thinking in operational terms of what's important to them, and they want to make sure the vision covers that, when in fact the vision really has to be based on what the legislature has told us our mission is, and that's in Section 3.”
    • [0:52:31] “What I see that highlighted list of items there, those aren't values. Those are groping towards strategic goals. And as Trustee Patrick has pointed out, a vision is the big umbrella that allows quite a bit of variability within the emphasis or variability on the emphasis Trust Council may wish to put on this or that strategic goal.”

  13. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 20, 2023 2023-06-20

    • [1:20:33] “They need time to prepare for that. I'm thinking, rather than the third reading of the bylaws in the fall, that the public hearing is in the fall, and then everything else, say, moves forward by three months into, like, let's say the third reading might be early in 2024 or very late in 2023, and then it then has its knock-on effect.”

  14. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 24, 2025 2025-06-24

    • [3:36:42] “First of all, we have opportunities to participate that they can access, but when they come away from it, they come away with the sense that they've been hurt, and they engage, and not just that, that when the day comes when they see the draft OCP and LUV amendments, they will see that their concerns were not necessarily always accepted,” (probable)

  15. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, March 14, 2023 2023-03-14

    • [0:39:38] “Now, I appreciate it may not be possible to do that feature, but to the extent it's feasible and to the extent that that information is the historical basis on which we relied on, I mean, it's really a matter of trying to answer residents' question, which is what is it that we relied on to come up with this?”
    • [0:30:00] “Whoops. It looks like I could be getting myself confused here. I was looking at item number one, and I realize now this is, apologies everybody, this is evidence about how I can't read the follow-up action report and why amending it may not be necessary for other people, but for my own remedial purposes, it may be necessary.”

  16. Islands Trust Council special meeting, April 6, 2023 2023-04-06

    • [3:21:57] “Well, given the fact that we do actually do have an existing process that we have to work with, I go back to the CEO's comment, which is really that before we can talk or do anything, including coming up with proposals and business cases for implementation, there has to be, we have to hear from the governance committee.”
    • [1:11:31] “You know, Trustee Elliott raised, I made a bad joke, I'm sorry, but Trustee Elliott raised an important question, which Trustee Evans did address in part, which is there could be initiatives that become a greater priority because money has suddenly become available or we can anticipate greater resources becoming available in the future.”
    • [3:11:49] “Are you saying that in effect, as the executive committee picks up the mantle of working on the strategic plan for this year, we want it to adopt this or the SWOT and SMART techniques that they consciously bring that on board within the existing structure, but they're going to bring on that approach?”

  17. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, October 1, 2024 2024-10-01

    • [2:40:39] “I don't get it. If somebody can tell me what the harm actually is, then I've got an argument or some evidence to deal with. All I've heard is this general proposition that we kind of, we just want to see the foreshore left, you know, closer to nature than it is now, you know, and that's” (probable)
    • [4:30:39] “But as you say, and this, you know, provokes my, you know, goes to my zone of anxiety, you start putting it in that official looking language, official looking format, you know, okay, well, you've just added some more energy in the freak out direction, you know, and you don't know how that's going to shake out.” (probable)

  18. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 21, 2023 2023-11-21

    • [3:47:09] “I'm not comfortable with the idea that removing the word native would allow, for example, a person, if somebody wanted to replace their lawn, for example, with actually native species, and they were treating that essentially as kind of like they're maintaining their yard by changing the lawn to native species, removing the word native,”
    • [3:30:27] “your larger concerns about, well, if somebody, you know, first of all, I don't think it's reasonable if somebody's got a lawn and they've decided they're going to rip up part of the lawn and they're going to put in a horseshoe pitch, that they've got to get a development permit for it.”

  19. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, October 17, 2023 2023-10-17

    • [2:11:19] “They're skeptical about the judgment of staff. They're skeptical about the intent behind these bylaws. That's one of the reasons I've been so particular and such a pest about sort of fiddling with the wording and trying to impose some clarity here about exactly what are we saying, just so people know where they stand.”

  20. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 6, 2022 2022-12-06

    • [3:11:55] “But still, if we can provide, I think it's really valuable and crucial that we provide some guidance to people so that they know what their own personal bottom line is going to be in terms of, you know, for example, you're mentioning it's something like, you know, 600 close to $700,000 overall revenue increase.”

  21. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 28, 2025 2025-01-28

    • [0:13:13] “First one really as it relates to this permitting question, I'm struck by your information that it looks like we're going to be waiting until the fall of this year before we get the, sorry, not we, but before the permitting is in place in order to resurface the Keys Landing dock.” (probable)

  22. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, May 31, 2023 2023-05-31

    • [0:43:24] “I think we can, it's reasonable to anticipate that there's going to be a fairly robust examination of value for money, looking at it in terms, looking at these initiatives with an earnest desire to figure out, does it, how do they really contribute to the mission and that sort of thing.”

Motions and votes from the minutes

Every motion the Islands Trust's published minutes record Joe Bernardo moving, seconding, voting against or abstaining on. The wording is the minutes' own; each row links to the minutes document in the archive.

DateBodyNo.MotionTheir partOutcomeMinutes
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-057that the Islands Trust Council agree to enter into service contracts with the Boards of the Regional District of Nanaimo, Comox Valley Regional District, Cowichan Valley Regional District, qathet Regional District, Sunshine Coast Regional District, and Capital Regional District for the purpose of sharing the costs of conducting elections.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-071that Islands Trust Council request staff defer any further work on the Trust Policy Handbook and Implementation Plan until Trust Council has given second reading to a new Trust Policy Statement.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-074to amend the motion by deleting the period after “design” and putting in acomma and then inserting the following text “except for staff’s Islands Trust DRAFT 14 of 25 Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes June 16 to June 18, 2026 [[page 15]] DRAFT related ongoing engagement with Indigenous Governing Bodies and other governments.”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-075that Islands Trust Council requests staff amend Project Plan v 13 to add a bullet at the start of the final adoption section which reads ‘Gain Islands Trust Council endorsement and incorporate any revisions to charter, March 2027”.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-091that Islands Trust council requests staff to replace the word “rescinding” on page 23 of the draft Indigenous Relations Action Plan with the word “updating” in the last action item.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-001that Islands Trust Council request staff to amend draft amended Policy 7.2.1 Trustee Remuneration second Section 5.2, dated March 10, 2026, by replacing the word “may” with the word “will”.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-002that Islands Trust Council request staff to amend draft amended Policy 7.2.1 Trustee Remuneration Section 5.3, dated March 10, 2026, by replacing it in its entirety with “The review will be conducted in accordance with the principles and methodology identified in this Policy.”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-024that Islands Trust Council request staff to amend Bylaw Compliance and Enforcement Best Practices Manual, page 7, by updating the reference and replacing bullet 2 as shown below so it reads: As listed in Trust Council Policy 5.5.1, Section 7, this system gives priority to those bylaw infractions of greatest concern to island communities: 1. When directed by a local trust committee 2. Significant health and safety issues... 3. ... 4. ...SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2026-025that Islands Trust Council request staff to amend Bylaw Compliance and Enforcement Best Practices Manual, page 7, by adding the word "significant: to the first bullet concerning starting an investigation without a compliant so it reads: • Contraventions may cause significant health or safety risks.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-02-18Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2026-009that Committee of the Whole recommend that Trust Council remove referral fees for the Gambier Island Local Trust Committee Official Community Plan project and reduce the related draft 2026/27 budget line by $2,000.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-02-18Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2026-011that Committee of the Whole recommend that Trust Council not fund in-person meetings for Council Committees, and remove the draft 2026/27 budget of $6,500 associated with this work.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2026-02-18Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2026-016that Committee of the Whole recommend that Trust Council adopt staff budget options at 50% reduction as presented in the draft 2026/27 Budget Reduction Options items 15, 16, and 17; and reduce the related draft 2026/27 budget by a total of $50,000.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-121the recommendations of the Standards of Conduct Investigation Report of the May 29, 2025 complaint be dismissed.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-137that Trust Council request that the Financial Planning Committee return a budget with a tax increase of no more than 11% (for the general Trust Area), for consideration of the Committee of the Whole meeting on the budget scheduled for February 18th 2026, and provide options for further reductions, and that the draft changes be forwarded to the Islands Trust Conservancy.SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-07-29Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-072that Trust Council Bylaw No. 183, cited as “Trust Council Policy Statement Bylaw, 2025”, be amended as follows: by amending article 2.1.5 by replacing the words “there may be uncertainty over the threats of serious or irreversible damage from development” with “there is material uncertainty over the potential for serious or irreversible damage from development”. TC-2025-073 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2025-07-29Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-074that Trust Council Bylaw No. 183, cited as “Trust Council Policy Statement Bylaw, 2025”, be amended as follows: by deleting article 2.2.3.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-07-29Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-075that Trust Council Bylaw No. 183, cited as “Trust Council Policy Statement Bylaw, 2025”, be amended as follows: by amending articles 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.5, 3.3.6, 3.3.7 and 3.3.8 by, in each case, by replacing the word “prioritize” with “establish opportunities for advancing”.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-07-29Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-078that Trust Council request staff to seek legal advice, prior to 2nd Reading, on the interpretive implications of using the word "prioritize" in Sections 3.3.2- 3.3.8 in the draft Policy Statement. Trustees Bernardo, Harris, and Mabberley left the meeting at 5:45 p.m. during discussion on the motion and prior to the vote being called.SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-06-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-055that Trust Council adopt Bylaw No. 197, 2024 as presented.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-06-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-056that Trust Council adopt draft Policy 4.1.16 Model Public Notice Bylaw and forward it to the local trust committees for their consideration in the adoption of a public notice bylaw.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-06-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-060that Trust Council request staff to amend section 5.8(g) by replacing the word “may” with the word “must”.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-010that the motion be amended to add Project 1.3.3 Act on the Province’s response to the request for a Provincial review.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-012that Trust Council amend the draft Islands Trust Strategic Plan 2025- 28 by replacing the text in item 1.2.3 with “Improve bylaw enforcement policies and procedures to be administratively fair, reasonable and transparent with the aim of restoring public confidence."SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-013that Trust Council table the item 7.2.2 to Thursday morning March 13 th .SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust Councilthat Trust Council requests that Staff reduce the expenditures proposed by the draft 2025/26 budget as follows: (a) Defer implementation of the Cityview bylaw portal and software upgrade to the next fiscal year ($98,400). (b) Defer filling the Temporary Policy Advisor vacancy for six months ($64,025). Islands Trust ADOPTED Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes March 11 to March 13, 2025 Page 17 of 28 (c) Remove the amounts allocated for the funding of potential legal contingencies that may arise in connection with Denman, Gabriola, Mayne and North Pender Local Trust Committee projects ($10,0Moved—minutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-021that Trust Council requests that Staff reduce the expenditures proposed by the draft 2025/26 budget by deferring implementation of the Cityview bylaw portal and software upgrade to the next fiscal year.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-022that Trust Council requests that Staff reduce the expenditures proposed by the draft 2025/26 budget as follows: a) Defer filling the Temporary Policy Advisor vacancy for six months ($64,025). b) Remove the amounts allocated for the funding of potential legal contingencies that may arise in connection with Denman, Gabriola, Mayne and Islands Trust ADOPTED Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes March 11 to March 13, 2025 Page 18 of 28 North Pender Local Trust Committee projects ($10,000). c) Reduce the funding allocated to initiate the review of the Lasqueti Trust Area Official Community Plan (MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-025that Trust Council approve the proposed 2025/26 budget as amended and request staff to return with an updated financial plan bylaw for Trust Councils consideration.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-027that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 201, cited as the “Islands Trust Council Financial Plan Bylaw 2025- 2026”, be Read a First Time.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-028that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 201, cited as the “Islands Trust Council Financial Plan Bylaw 2025- 2026”, be Read a Second Time.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-029that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 201, cited as the “Islands Trust Council Financial Plan Bylaw 2025- 2026”, be Read a Third Time.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-03-11Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-030that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 201, cited as the “Islands Trust Council Financial Plan Bylaw 2025- 2026”, be forwarded to the Minister of Municipal Affairs for approval consideration.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-01-28Gambier IslandGM-2025-002that Gambier Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 153, cited as 'Keats Island Official Community Plan, 2002, Amendment No. 1, 2021', be read a third time as amended.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-01-28Gambier IslandGM-2025-002that Gambier Island Local Trust Committee Bylaw No. 153, cited as 'Keats Island Official Community Plan, 2002, Amendment No. 1, 2021', be read a third time as amended.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-095that Trust Council request time is scheduled at a future Trust Council or Committee of the Whole meeting for all staff and trustees to participate in the clean up of Trust Council Follow Up Action List and that appropriate information is provided in an easy to use format in advance.SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-109that Trust Council request addition of the words “by no later than June 2025.” to the end of the motion.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-135that Trust Council request staff to schedule a Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss the draft Code of Conduct at one of the upcoming bi- weekly meetings. Islands Trust ADOPTED Page 23 of 24 Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes December 3 to December 5, 2024SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-11-06Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-024that Committee of the Whole recommends that Executive Committee direct staff to add a new directive policy “Ensure that the negative impacts of development on Indigenous cultural heritage, harvesting and hunting areas is minimal.SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2024-10-03Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-018that Committee of the Whole recommend to Trust Council that the first sentence in directive policy 3.4.1 of the draft Policy Statement replace the word “compact” with the word “clustered” and that the second bullet be struck out and third bullet be moved to 3.4.3.SecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2024-10-03Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-024that Committee of the Whole recommends that Executive Committee direct staff to add a new directive policy “Ensure that the negative impacts of development on Indigenous cultural heritage, harvesting and hunting areas is minimal.” Trustee Dodds left the meeting at 5:00 p.m. Trustee Evans left the meeting at 5:04 p.m. Trust Council Committee of the Whole ADOPTED 5 of 5 Meeting Minutes October 3, 2024 It was noted that Committee of the Whole no longer had quorum. Acting Chair Peterson noted discussion on the above motion will continue at a future meeting. 6. CLOSED MEETING - None 7. RISE AND REPSeconded—minutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust Councilto defer the motion to the in-camera session.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-076that Trust Council approve the proposed revisions to the draft Islands Trust Policy Statement in Appendix 1.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-079that Trust Council will resolve itself as a Committee of the Whole.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-080that Trust Council request staff to hire a qualified legal consultant to develop an enforcement policy and design a management structure for the Islands Trust’s bylaw enforcement capability. TC-2024-081 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2024-07-08Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-006that Islands Trust Council Committee of the Whole Chair be based on a rotating chairmanship of all interested trustees. When asked by the Chair if there is any discussion on the motion, a Trustee requested an amendment by changing the term “of all interested parties” to “of the following trustees: Trustee Bernardo, Trustee Elliott, Trustee Maude, and Trustee Peterson. There were no objections to the amended motion. The Chair then read the motion as: TC-COW-2024-006 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2024-07-08Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-006that Islands Trust Council Committee of the Whole Chair be based on a rotating chairmanship of the following trustees: Trustee Bernardo, Trustee Elliott, Trustee Maude, and Trustee Peterson.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-07-08Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-008that the meeting be adjourned.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-06-20Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-052that the motion be tabled until the report is edited.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-06-20Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-056that the meeting be closed to the public in accordance with the Community Charter, part 4, division 3, s. 90(1): (c) labour relations or other employee relations; (i) the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose; and that CAO Russ Hotsenpiller and Staff be invited to attend the closed session.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-05-30Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-002that the Committee of the Whole recommends to Trust Council that it have legal counsel available for a future Committee of the Whole meeting.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-12-05Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-099that the word “consultant” be replaced by “qualified independent consultancy firm”.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-064that Islands Trust adopt as its vision statement the following text: “A vibrant tapestry of caring, diverse, and rural island communities within the Salish Sea that flourish in harmony with nature.”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-066that Trust Council approve the 2022/23 Statement of Financial Information. Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes September 26-28, 2023 ADOPTED Page 11 of 17MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-06-27Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-054that Trust Council request staff to research the possibility of self-insurance.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-001that the Islands Trust Council request staff to write a letter of support under the Chair’s signature stating that the Islands Trust Council supports the Sunshine Coast Regional District applying for, receiving, and managing the 2022 Community Emergency Preparedness – Disaster Risk Reduction-Climate Adaption Grant.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-009that the Director of Planning Services request the Office of the Ombudsperson to undertake a comprehensive review of the enforcement related policies and practices of the Islands Trust, and recommend such improvements and changes to them as may be required to bring the policies and practices into conformity with best practices for local government by law enforcement.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-012that Trust Council reduce the proposed Policy Statement Amendment Project budget from $50k to $30k in recognition of the fact that Executive Committee has proposed a project charter that has shifted public engagement to the 2024/25 fiscal year.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-022that the Islands Trust Council close this meeting to the public subject to Section 90(1)(g) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality and that staff attend the meeting.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-023that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 191, cited as the “Financial Plan Bylaw 2023-2024”, be Read a First Time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-024that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 191, cited as the “Financial Plan Bylaw 2023-2024”, be Read a Second Time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-025that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 191, cited as the “Financial Plan Bylaw 2023-2024”, be Read a Third Time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-026that Islands Trust Council Bylaw 191, cited as the “Financial Plan Bylaw 2023-2024”, be forwarded to the Minister of Municipal Affairs for approval consideration.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-032that Trust Council request staff to review language on the website and other publications regarding the Coastal Douglas-fir zone and associated ecosystems and amend as appropriate, with advice from qualified provincial forest ecologists as needed. TC-2023-033 It wasSeconded—minutes · source
2023-01-19Islands Trust CouncilGC-2023-001that Trustee Gedye be nominated for the position of Chair of the Governance Committee. Trustee Gedye accepted the nomination. DTAS Frater called (three) 3 times for further nominations for the position of Chair of the Governance Committee, there were no further nominations. By acclamation, Director of Trust Area Services Frater, congratulated Trustee Gedye as Chair of the Governance Committee. Nominations for the position of vice-chair were called. GC-2023-002 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-160that motion TC-2022-159 be amended to remove the words “work with” and replace with the word “engage.”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-132that motion TC-2022-131 be amended to add after the words “new policy,” “failing which the existing Financial Planning Committee will remain in office.”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-136that Trustee Stamford be appointed scrutineer for this ballot.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source

Attendance per the minutes

YearPresentAbsent or regrets
202230
2023191
2024414
2025214
202692
Every minuted meeting (104)

Most-used words on the record

that's (1461) · we're (897) · don't (827) · there's (530) · process (377) · we've (352) · discussion (341) · you're (327) · planning (317) · public (294) · let's (285) · business (271) · issue (264) · terms (251) · language (242) · whether (239) · first (239) · they're (229) · budget (222) · director (220) · governance (218) · respect (215) · resolution (205) · information (203)

Meetings they speak most in

  1. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 21, 2023 — 2023-11-21, 17,937 words
  2. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, October 1, 2024 — 2024-10-01, 13,949 words
  3. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, January 18, 2023 — 2023-01-18, 13,409 words
  4. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, November 8, 2023 — 2023-11-08, 11,296 words
  5. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, August 30, 2023 — 2023-08-30, 11,243 words
  6. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 14, 2023 — 2023-02-14, 11,182 words
  7. Islands Trust Council special meeting, April 6, 2023 — 2023-04-06, 10,872 words
  8. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 29, 2024 — 2024-04-29, 10,338 words
  9. Gambier Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, October 31, 2023 — 2023-10-31, 10,089 words
  10. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 10, 2023 — 2023-02-10, 8,578 words

Words on the record by year

YearRecorded meetingsLinesWords
202221772,728
20232213,628173,240
202432,09728,691
2025282310,598

Every transcript they speak in (29)

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