George Ehring

Former Local Trustee, Salt Spring Island (2008–2011)

Salt Spring Island · 3 years in office · 8 named motions in the minutes · present at 6 minuted meetings

Seats and terms

SeatAreaTermHowFromTo
Local TrusteeSalt Spring Island2008–2011general election2008-12-012011-12-07

Motions and votes from the minutes

Every motion the Islands Trust's published minutes record George Ehring 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
2011-09-13Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council request staff to develop a model Local Trust Committee Fees Bylaw that incorporates the recommendations in Appendix A “Fee Task Force Proposed Approach to Model Local Trust Committees Fees Bylaw” dated August 18, 2011, except that the deposit for cost recovery for rezoning applications and temporary use permit applications be based on the staff estimate for external costs to process the application plus 50% contingency.MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-09-13Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council request staff to develop draft amendments to Trust Council Policy 5.6.i – Application Processing Services that would make the policy consistent with the proposed approach to application fees. Once policy amendments and a model fees bylaw have been approved by Trust Council, each Local Trust Committee will be asked to consider a custom tailored version of a new fees bylaw for adoption. This approach is intended to improve cost recovery and support application fees that more closely cover the costs of application processing .MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-09-13Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council request staff to: 1. Circulate the “Application Guide for Affordable and Special Needs Housing” to all local trust committees, post it on the Community Housing page of the Islands Trust website and provide copies to all Islands Trust offices, Bowen Island Municipality and on-island offices of relevant agencies and issue a news release; 2. Circulate the “Memorandum on Housing Agreements on Salt Spring Island” and the “Memorandum on Health Authority Requirements for Secondary Suites and Cottages” to all local trust committees and Bowen Island Municipality and post MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-09-13Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council request the Executive Committee to undertake a comprehensive review of Trust Council’s policies regarding Council Committees and their Terms of Reference; consider the information in Appendix A “Local Planning Committee Terms of Reference – Potential Amendments”, during the review; and make recommendations to the Islands Trust Council regarding potential amendments to the policies that govern the Council Committee system.MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-09-13Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council delegate Trustees Tony Law, Joyce Clegg, Deborah Ferens and Alison Morse to make recommendations on the September 7, 2011 Powell River Regional District document “Improving the BC Coastal Ferry Service: A Position Paper from Twelve Coastal Regional District Chairs” and to advise the Executive Committee on a submission to the BC Ferry Commissioner and the Province on ferry fares and changes to the Coastal Ferry Act.MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-03-08Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council establish a joint Task Force of the Financial Planning Committee and Local Planning Committee to conduct a review of development application fees and report to Trust Council about an appropriate rate of fees at the September 2011 Trust Council meeting; and delegate the development of the terms of reference for the Task Force to the Executive Committee. Should the Task Force recommend changes to application fees, each Local Trust Committee would need to consider whether it wished to amend its Fees Bylaw before fees would actually change.MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source
2011-03-08Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council endorse the program of using a rent charge to recover costs of monitoring conservation covenants for use by local trust committees; provide local trust committees with the covenant monitoring program briefing and advise them of the implications of committing to any monitoring requirements; and develop options for the monitoring of development permits as a separate analysis. This will provide for a procedure to monitor costs when new voluntary conservation covenants are negotiated by landowners in association with development applications. The procedure would not Moved—minutes · source
2011-03-08Islands Trust Councilthat the Islands Trust Council approve the revisions to Islands Trust Policy 4.1.xiii, Guidelines for Local Trust Committee Sponsored or Initiated Development Applications and Trust Policy 4.1.viii - Local Trust Committee Local Expense Account as submitted. The proposed amendments are intended to address concerns about the perception of local trustee objectivity when a sponsored development application is considered by a local trust committee.MovedCARRIED UNANIMOUSLYminutes · source

Attendance per the minutes

YearPresentAbsent or regrets
201150
202010
Every minuted meeting (6)

Transcripts are machine-made from the Islands Trust's own recordings; each speaker attribution carries a confidence mark (certain = identified by ear or hand, probable = matched to a saved voice), and every line links to the second of the recording so it can be checked. Motions, votes and attendance are taken from the Trust's published minutes and quote them verbatim.