Laura Patrick

Chair, Islands Trust Council; Local Trustee, Salt Spring Island; Chair, Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee; Chair, Gambier Island Local Trust Committee

Salt Spring Island, Gabriola Island, Gambier Island · 7.8 years in office · 997,398 words on the record in 296 recorded meetings · 86 named motions in the minutes · present at 527 minuted meetings

Seats and terms

SeatAreaTermHowFromTo
Local TrusteeSalt Spring Island2018–2022general election2018-11-062022-11-18
Local TrusteeSalt Spring Island2022–2026general election2022-11-18present

Roles

RoleBodyFromTo
Vice-Chair, Islands Trust Council (Executive Committee)Islands Trust2018-11-062022-11-18
Chair, Islands Trust CouncilIslands Trust2025-04-01present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeGabriola Island2022-06-16present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeGambier Island2025-03-25present
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeNorth Pender Island2018-11-292022-09-29
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSalt Spring Island2019-06-062022-09-06
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeThetis Island2018-12-112022-08-30
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSaturna Island2019-01-172022-05-19
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeSouth Pender Island2019-02-012022-03-14
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeMayne Island2021-03-262025-09-29
Chair, Local Trust CommitteeLasqueti Island2022-06-062022-08-29

In their own words

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

  1. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 17, 2025 2025-06-17

    • [3:58:37] “All right. So back into the room. Is there any additional speakers who would like to address us today? If you could either raise your hand or that would be great. So I'm going to let you kind of slowly monitor yourselves if you'd like to go first and then you can make your way behind. If you could introduce yourselves. Appreciate that. And we've got the three minute to the teeny tiny timer. You'll hear that little noise that it makes when it goes off. I think that's the best signal. So thank you.”

  2. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 19, 2025 2025-02-19

    • [3:22:54] “And sort of like legal, you can go over budget, but you'd have to consider that at the time you have your application in front of you in the circumstances before you. So, you know, I see Julia Mobbs going to say, no, you can't. But I know EC has done it in the past. But, you know, it's like we can't pre-guess what's going to happen next year. I think we do the best we can. $15,000 at least gets us some applications and we can deal with if we get more.”

  3. Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, May 22, 2025 2025-05-22

    • [0:19:04] “I was going to offer just some, the large farms are ALR, that's just one thing you have to work with, but I know on Salt Spring what we brought in, because we had some large farms that are not on ALR, and we brought in, if they were to exchange their subdivision potential for dwellings and that they were to cluster those dwellings together, then that large parcel stays together as a large parcel, but they can try to co-op it or do other things with more structures in the community.”

  4. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 1, 2023 2023-02-01

    • [5:03:47] “If there was anyone opposed that I missed, this is your chance. No one's opposed. That's carried. All right. Good idea. Is there anything else from that? Or I think, I think from what, you know, Trustee Bollinger was saying for preparation, I think I'm going to speak for Trustee Borthwick and I as vice chair and chair, I think would work with staff to help make sure we have the materials in a format or the links to the information that we need to be prepared for that.”

  5. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 27, 2022 2022-01-27

    • [1:29:28] “Absolutely. So, you know, I would be in favor of the alternative motion. That's what we use here on Salt Spring. It works. And we have to carry on the conversation with the CRD and decide how to best do that as a local trust committee, what our role is and how we communicate or, you know, do we lead, do we bring that group together or do we ask the CRD to lead and bring the group together? Somebody has to come up to the table and lead.”

  6. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, August 19, 2026 2026-08-19

    • [3:21:21] “I think the budget process, I think Director Coburn now bringing his ideas to the budget process. But I think the committee needs to be encouraged that the budget process could always be better. We always end up in March with half the trustees wanting to do something totally different than what the other half do. And it's like, we got to get to a stronger position that by March Trust Council, there should be general consensus built around a budget, not bringing new ideas still in March.”

  7. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 13, 2021 2021-04-13

    • [2:41:54] “And I think that would be helpful. And we did that there at Salt Spring. It was very helpful. And one of them would be, as we said, to acknowledge that we are a federation and that one of the principles is we want to share with, work with, learn from and collaborate with the other, you know, other work at the other local trust committees and the regional planning committee as work is developed because we want to keep this project not unique, but into that.”
    • [2:23:26] “Well, I think this is we're back to the same. What are we trying to achieve? You know, what is it that you're concerned about and what is it you're trying to achieve? And then the tools become more obvious if we can be clear as to what it is we're concerned about. And if we don't have enough information, then it's requesting information and about learning more about our concern to be able to define it better.”

  8. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee regular meeting, July 18, 2025 2025-07-18

    • [3:52:56] “And, you know, is it, does it belong, does some of the work belong elsewhere? Or does it absolutely belong here? I think those are the questions that as elected officials, we need to have that, those answers so that then when the money does come forward, say we got to spend $120,000 to do this, this freshwater initiative, we see it in the plan, we understand it belongs to the Islands Trust, we don't have these questions of, is this some other agency?”

  9. Islands Trust Governance Committee regular meeting, January 29, 2025 2025-01-29

    • [4:38:49] “You know, we never know who it is we need. So do we retain them in-house or, you know, are they on Island's Trust side? Are they on Island's Trust Conservancy side? Are they, you know, consultants or subject matter experts that we rely on? So I think, to me, that's more of the issue of having, building that bench strength, so to speak, at the organization, but sort of sharing it better amongst the two agencies and between internal and external resources.”

  10. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, October 23, 2024 2024-10-23

    • [3:39:56] “So, I'll let the debate carry on here, but I do have a motion that I would like to see the staff report reviewed by the Regional Planning Committee at our next meeting and all of these projects, because we only saw what ones were done by September 4th, so that we can comment on the entire package and, you know, come to an alignment on that projects, as well as the feasibility of the staff to get that work done.”

  11. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, February 15, 2022 2022-02-15

    • [0:37:38] “But I think it may affect the likelihood of applications coming in, just due to the workload. I think, you know, saying that there could be two or something of that nature might just, even though there may only be one that comes in, gives a little higher hope and aspirations to those that are filling out the, or, you know, to apply, would feel more like there's a likelihood that they would get in rather than be competing with the”

  12. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, May 22, 2025 2025-05-22

    • [1:17:26] “because we've been talking to a number of organizations that say, just be patient a little bit longer. I really wish we'd started, you know, this sooner, but we've got a consulting team about to start. Part of what they're going to do is sort of a gap assessment. I imagine they're going to kind of narrow down the field of questions so that we're not talking about, you know, the world, we're talking about, you know, a smaller scope.”

  13. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee special meeting, May 9, 2025 2025-05-09

    • [3:27:49] “Because we could see what was going to come. And I think it's important that, you know, suitable land analysis could have different layers to different islands because of the issues and concerns on those islands. There could even be social layers, not all environmental or, you know, but it needs, I think if the analysis was built from the beginning in a transparent manner, engaging your community along the way, then the results are going to be more acceptable.”
    • [3:38:49] “So that data is so important. And if we have that correct and we're collecting it and sharing it, that helps dispel that fear that everybody's going to do this. And so that's all I'm encouraging is that the data helps us tell those stories and hopefully helps us not have to stay up at night worrying like we all do about keeping the precious families that we need on these islands here.”
    • [4:51:05] “But I don't know what to do because basically we have nothing that will help us on Salt. This just doesn't even begin to help us on Salt Spring, what we've got now. And I'm sure it's similar on other islands. I totaled them up 33 units in the next 20 years over the entire trust area, I guess, minus Bowen. And we're at healthy rental levels. I just know that's not true.”

  14. Islands Trust Programs Committee regular meeting, May 7, 2025 2025-05-07

    • [4:23:04] “If we're going to maintain 21 OCPs and 18 land use bylaws or whatever the numbers are that we have, we should have a program in place to maintain them. Maintain them up to date, maintain them current, maintain them compliant with the trust policy statement. And I think that's the opportunity that, you know, we should mature to that level. That is a change, doing things differently, that we organize and fund this work so that it gets done.”

  15. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, July 8, 2026 2026-07-08

    • [2:23:53] “I'm not opposed to moving forward with a business case, but I would also like to look at recommending that they try to pursue and do a bit of a study that's either similar to the one that was done on Salt Spring and that perhaps external revenue or grant funds could be found to do that quickly so that it could inform or allow them to consider options before this budget request were to be finalized.”

  16. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, September 13, 2023 2023-09-13

    • [1:14:54] “Main Island, they brought in flexible housing, which was to deal with that. They've set a maximum floor area for kind of lot sizes. I think there's three different lot sizes and three different floor areas. And then you can have on the smaller lot size, maximum of two dwellings. You can divide that maximum square footage into what you want. One big one, two small ones. And then the larger properties, you can have three.” (probable)

  17. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, June 22, 2023 2023-06-22

    • [3:31:23] “And I think there should be some attempt, whether it's a neighbor-neighbor agreement, you know, I don't know what, there's probably thresholds there. Are you going to get 100% of your neighbors? Maybe not. But if there's something that just shows that there's really, there's stronger, you know, from my seat, I just hear from two neighbors. I don't hear from the ones that are there to support it. They're not here in front of us.”

  18. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 25, 2021 2021-05-25

    • [1:46:15] “And I don't want to see that happen here. I want to see our task forces feeling engaged, part of the process. And that, you know, so that's just highest concern to me. So I just want to make sure that, you know, we're considering that. And I would encourage staff if there's, you know, if we need, I know we've created the guardrails of all the projects that we've created, but we created those guardrails.”

  19. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee regular meeting, February 7, 2025 2025-02-07

    • [1:23:27] “And I drug all the MLA candidates that were running in the last election out on the same little tour to see, you know, see the housing situation that we have on Salt Spring. And I know that the census reports, you know, it's a very small number of who identified as living in inefficient, I forget the word in the census, but there's a question regarding your quality or lack thereof of your dwelling.”

  20. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, October 10, 2024 2024-10-10

    • [2:27:55] “We want to be available. We want this information to get out there. I think I think it's going to be good information. But so I think we need to make sure there's some context pieces out there. I think there needs to be great if someone could write an article. I can't write an article because I don't I haven't been in on the process of what's been happening and what it looks like.”

  21. Islands Trust Executive Committee regular meeting, October 5, 2022 2022-10-05

    • [1:04:56] “And so this was a way of addressing that by, because we, it does two things to try to keep those farms whole, but a lot of them have subdivision potential. So this offered them an opportunity to exchange by through covenant, sort of give up that subdivision potential and exchange that for dwellings in the hopes that it remains the farm whole and gives additional dwellings to allow that generational or farm worker housing.”

  22. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, August 30, 2023 2023-08-30

    • [2:41:41] “I wanted to respond to Trustee Graham. I said the intent that I was, what I was trying to reach at is not that there is one OCP project for Denman and Hornby. It's that the projects are coordinated in a way so that the staff are working together and using the shared elements that benefit and time it such that we're doing this on Denman and this is the time to do it.”

  23. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, July 12, 2024 2024-07-12

    • [0:12:17] “Because I think, you know, the words that we heard from Adam when he spoke to us was pretty clear that, you know, the province asked for our input. What do we think about this motion? So I don't think we should, you know, put ourselves in a position where we're demonstrating that we can't figure things out. So let's just find the points that we all readily agree on and move on.”

  24. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee special meeting, April 25, 2024 2024-04-25

    • [1:20:48] “I think we need to find a different way, and we started that conversation last time of how can we have the minor projects, which is run on a fund, that the major projects should be run sort of on a fund, too, that we're funding over the long term this work in a way that we can count on rather than have to battle for it every year in a different way.”

  25. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 26, 2023 2023-09-26

    • [1:46:16] “I wanted to talk on the motion. But since I have the red mic, I'm happy to talk about the amendment. A protocol agreement, which are also out of date and another conversation we should have, is the protocol agreement with Modi, which had from, I don't know, 1992 or maybe it was the amended amendment in 1994, that had an inter-jurisdictional task force to be working on these issues under the protocol.”

  26. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 18, 2023 2023-05-18

    • [4:45:04] “need to leave it more open, but it's the other way it's the housing action plan is the early phases of the OCP project is what I'm saying you're you're you are killing two birds with one stone is the old saying that that's what I'm encouraging is that we design the pursuit of the accelerator fund so that we're ticking the boxes down the path of the beginning of the OCP project.”

  27. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 13, 2023 2023-04-13

    • [3:15:15] “But I expect the staff would report is that there's a trend, you know, there's a 10% is like the full use. So it's that the uptake of available lots resulting from adoption by law 530 would be less than 10% and direct staff to monitor and report back to the LTC two years following the adoption of bylaw 530, and that this direction would be added to the follow up action list.”

  28. Islands Trust Financial Planning Committee regular meeting, March 5, 2025 2025-03-05

    • [0:40:41] “So I would just acknowledge it and own it right up front. And again, I think this is a chance to do some education and to explain the process. So I'm not going to argue over this, but I think there is value to replace it with more of either a narrative or drawings or something different that talks more about the process that we go through to get to the numbers.”

  29. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, December 5, 2024 2024-12-05

    • [1:15:56] “And we're going to be back having this conversation over and over unless we do something about it. And I think we could deal with items four and five very interestingly with this issue. I think we need a stronger, stronger than a letter, some form of joint statement and in partnership with the many First Nations indigenous governance bodies in this area, because I think many of them share similar concerns.”

  30. Islands Trust Governance Committee regular meeting, June 20, 2024 2024-06-20

    • [0:19:33] “How do we, how and who we want to work on that letter. And I think there is an opportunity of, you know, I don't know what that is, but it's how, you know, I think the governance committee could use a couple of different mechanisms, draft the letter and then share it out for everyone to see, or do we want to have a smaller working group work on the letter?”

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

    • [1:49:40] “So just a request that we get an update on that. The second one being, I absolutely concur that in-person makes a huge difference. And I'm wondering if there's any contemplation of a strategic planning retreat versus a meeting, and that if that is such a thing that could be considered, that there could be some cost savings of having a quarterly meeting be virtual while we have a retreat in person.”

  32. Islands Trust Council community information meeting, February 10, 2021 2021-02-10

    • [4:21:01] “Just a brief follow up. I hear you and you're saying exactly the right things. I'm just saying that when I read this fourth bullet on page 46 under phase three, it doesn't say that. And I think just making sure that we leave that open so that we don't, you know, that we are trying to share, you know, I understand it's a learning experience and things evolve as we learn.”

  33. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, December 2, 2025 2025-12-02

    • [2:25:50] “All right. Thank you very much, CIO Brony. We know we asked you to bring this report. So, trustees, I had given you fair warning, because I know you read my Sunday emails that I send out. We're going to pull out the alphabet list. We're going to go around. Everyone's going to have an opportunity. This is where you can have your comments or you can have a specific question.”

  34. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, April 9, 2025 2025-04-09

    • [0:42:41] “There could be redirection of who needs to be given the bulk of the work from Trust Council. So we need to be prepared for that. These are very high level. So I would expect next step coming back, any of these that are approved or put forward by Trust Council, that the next step would be a staff report coming back to them at some point saying, here's your options.”

  35. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 21, 2022 2022-09-21

    • [2:17:48] “I mean, I understand and get the working with Ministry of Agriculture and the ALC, but I also, you know, after spending time last week up at UBCM talking with the people on the Agricultural Land Commission and then other communities that there's that, the ALC is sort of one size fits all approach where we know our islands and the agriculture that is very different from other areas of BC.”

  36. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, March 24, 2022 2022-03-24

    • [0:14:43] “report. We do recognize that trustees are eager to work on the governance report. And so we'll see if hopefully Trust Council will support getting a special meeting call to talk about just the next steps of getting getting that going. So I just wanted you to know that you to know that we are taking this very seriously. And that's my report. Okay, so this is your time to talk.”

  37. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 22, 2022 2022-02-22

    • [1:27:27] “We're going in there an inquisitive point and then have a conversation afterwards of trying to move toward if there would be a better definition of what the project is starting to look like by the summer so that we know, is it a significant budget item or at least above the $5,000 mark that would require a budget request so that at least moving the project forward in that way.”

Motions and votes from the minutes

Every motion the Islands Trust's published minutes record Laura Patrick 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
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-130that Trust Council request staff to prepare a bylaw to rescind Bylaw 154 should staff be unable to resource the coordination of the Salt Spring Watershed Protection Plan in the 2026/27 budget.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-12-02Islands Trust CouncilTC-2025-131that Trust Council request staff to retain all unspent special tax requisition funds in the special reserve until a project is brought forward to coordinate Actions 16–19 of the Salt Spring Island Watershed Protection Plan (2023-2032).MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-02-06Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2025-011that Committee of the Whole recommends that Trust Council revise proposed Directive Policy 3.4.6 to read: Hazardous Areas Identify areas at elevated risk of natural and climate change-related hazards and restrict development within them including, but not limited to, areas subject to flooding, sea-level rise, erosion, slope instability and wild fire.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-02-06Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2025-014that Committee of the Whole amend the motion by adding “and negative impacts on agricultural land” to the end of the sentence.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2025-01-08Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2025-006that Committee of the Whole amend the motion by removing the word known.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-104that Trust Council amend the motion by removing the words “public correspondence and”.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-117that Trust Council request staff to amend the proposed Policy Statement Amendment Project Charter by adding an additional $30,000 for communications.MovedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-127that Trust Council request staff to report to the Executive Committee on options to support renewed advocacy with San Juan County and Indigenous Governing Bodies that is directed to our respective federal and state/provincial bodies on oil spill prevention in the Salish Sea.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-130that Trust Council convene a steering committee to guide the technical work to explore the barriers to legal occupancy of tiny homes on wheels and the associated siting and use regulations and appoint Trustees Boland, Campbell, Patrick and Elliott and invite membership of up to four Electoral Area Directors. Islands Trust ADOPTED Page 20 of 24 Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes December 3 to December 5, 2024MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-131that Trust Council approve staff proceeding with a grant application up to $500,000, over two years, from the Watershed Security Fund, to implement key initiatives under the Islands Trust Freshwater Sustainability Strategy, including staffing, consulting, and technical resources to undertake the following projects and initiatives: I. Islands Trust Area Freshwater Footprint, II. Islands Trust Area Watershed Resiliency Mapping, III. Freshwater Sustainability Regulatory and Policy Audit, IV. Freshwater Helpdesk, V. Islands Trust Freshwater Atlas, VI. Freshwater Sustainability Technical Advisory CMovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-25Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-011that the Committee of the Whole recommend that the first sentence in each objective description box be removed (for example “This objective advances principle 2.1.2”) because it is not necessary to link each objective to only one “Guiding Principles and Priorities”MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-066that Trust Council request the Lieutenant Governor in Council for the Province of British Columbia to conduct a review of the Islands Trust's mandate, governance and structure.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-081that the motion be postponed until a permanent Chief Administrative Officer has advised Trust Council on the bylaw enforcement review project.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-09-24Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-084that the Islands Trust Council close this meeting to the public subject to Part 4, Division 3, Section 90(1) (a),(c),(g), and (i) of the Community Charter: (a) in order to consider matters related to personal information about an identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or another position appointed by the municipality; (c) labour relations or other employee relations; (g) litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality; and (i) the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-06-20Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-052that the motion be tabled until the report is edited.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-05-30Islands Trust CouncilCOW-2024-001that the Committee of the Whole recommend that Trust Council request staff to provide a staff briefing that presents examples from other jurisdictions’ (e.g., regional growth strategies) goals, objectives, policies and indicators related to relations with Indigenous Governing Bodies.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-05-16Salt Spring IslandSS-2024-053that the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee has reviewed the Islands Trust Policy Statement Directives Only Checklist and determined that Bylaw No. 536, cited as “Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw No. 355, 1999, Amendment No. 1, 2023” (SS-RZ-2022.1, Section 50 Musgrave Road) is not contrary to or at variance with the Islands Trust Policy Statement.Voted againstCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-03-12Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-023that Trust Council, despite Policy 6.3.2, authorize the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee to use unspent special property tax requisition funds from previous fiscal years to undertake water sustainability projects under the delegated authority of Bylaw 154, and under the land use planning powers of s.29 of the Islands Trust Act.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-03-12Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-034that Trust Council approve Bylaw Compliance and Enforcement Review Project Charter V1.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-03-12Islands Trust CouncilTC-2024-036that Trust Council request that the “Policy Statement Amendment Project - Project Charter V8” be amended to have the Draft Policy Statement be initially provided to Trust Council at a special meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2024-01-15Islands Trust CouncilGC-2024-003that the item Secretariat/hiring in-house legal counsel – needs research be added to the URGENT and HIGH PRIORITY quadrant of the matrix.AbstainedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-12-05Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-086that Trust Council request the Regional Planning Committee to evaluate the Short Term Rental Accommodation Act to identify opportunities and challenges for implementation of the act on the management of short term rentals in the Trust Area.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-12-05Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-095that Trust Council request staff to seek written confirmation that the province will fund the initiatives to prepare new housing needs reports or to amend housing needs reports to meet the new legislative requirements for Interim Report on Housing Needs.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-062that Trust Council request the Governance Committee to recommend and draft a request to the Province to review Islands Trust.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-069that Trust Council request the Secretary to issue a NAPTEP Certificate for the covenanted portion of the property described as PID 000-138- 452, Lot 1, Section 87, South Salt Spring Island, Cowichan District, Plan VIP 27894, subject to registration of a conservation covenant and completion of a baseline inventory report consistent with the standards developed for NAPTEP.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-09-26Islands Trust Councilthat Trust Council request that Trustees Patrick, Gauvreau, and Elliot work on an advocacy letter to the Minister of Municipal Affairs regarding inclusion in the “Homes for People” actions on behalf of local trust committee areas struggling with housing issues in the Trust Area.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-06-27Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-044that Trust Council continue with the existing policy of appointment to the Financial Planning Committee until the corporate planning process is concluded.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-06-27Islands Trust Councilthat the above motion be amended to add to the end of the sentence “with the following changes: 1. Corporate Planning is adopted as a priority for Trust Council 2. Prioritizing elements of the strategic projects that support land use decision making 3. Update the strategic initiatives related to housing to focus on projects that will develop healthy, resilient island communities by employing two lenses: mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change, and managing growth by cultivating equitable, inclusive and resilient communities and the natural environmentMovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2023-06-27Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-048that Trustee Gauvreau be nominated for the position on the Islands Trust Conservancy board. Trustee Gauvreau accepted the nomination. Island Trust Council Quarterly Meeting Minutes June 27-29, 2023 ADOPTED Page 10 of 13 TC-2023-049 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2023-03-07Islands Trust CouncilTC-2023-037that correspondence item 12.1 “Harlene Holm response to Freshwater Sustainability Report letter received February 14, 2023” be referred to the Regional Planning Committee.MovedCARRIEDminutes · 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 wasSeconded—minutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-139that motion TC-2022-138 be amended to include “by the March 2023 Trust Council meeting” after the word report.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-151that Trust Council adopt the following meeting dates for its 2023 schedule: March 7-9, June 27-29, September 26-28, and December 5-7.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-154that motion TC-2022-153 be amended replacing the words “a future” with the words “the March 2023”.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-156that the Islands Trust Council extend the timeline for issuing the Natural Area Exemption Certificate for Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program application SS-NAP-2020.3 (Salt Spring Island) until December 2024.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-12-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-158that Trust Council approve, in concept, the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee’s request for a 2023/24 special tax requisition to fund work associated with delegated powers under Bylaw No. 154, in the amount of $75,500, and that the project be put forward for public consultation.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-133that Trust Council request staff to return the request for decision Provincial Review of Islands Trust for consideration to the December Trust Council meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust Councilthat Trustee Tobi Elliott be nominated for the position of Vice-Chair. Trustee Elliott agreed to stand. It wasMoved—minutes · source
2022-11-18Islands Trust Councilthat Trustee Grant Scott be nominated for the position of Islands Trust Conservancy member. Trustee Scott agreed to stand. It wasSeconded—minutes · source
2022-09-20Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-114that motion TC-2022-113 be amended to remove the word “minor”. Trustee Busheikin called a point of order on the motion as originally presented in the request for decision regarding “active” and “minor” projects. Chair Luckham continued with the motion.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-09-20Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-116that Trust Council request staff to establish criteria to guide selection of the local trust committee (LTC) projects to be undertaken, including an evaluation process that determines priorities on the basis of need and regional equity.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-07-29Islands Trust CouncilGC-2022-001To nominate Trustee Middleton for chair. Trustee Middleton agreed to stand. DLS Marlor called 3 more times for nominations for chair. Hearing no further nominations; By acclamation, Trustee Middleton was declared Chair of the Governance Committee. DLS Marlor called for nominations for vice-chair of the Governance Committee. Governance Committee Meeting Minutes Page 2 of 5 July 29, 2022 ADOPTED GC-2022-002 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2022-06-21Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-050that motion TC-2022-046 be severed after the word established.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-06-21Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-054that Trust Council request the staff report 4.2.5 “Review and Implementation of recommendations from the Governance Review, 2022 – Briefing” be referred to the Governance Committee for consideration.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-06-21Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-056that motion TC-2022-055 be amended to add “to simplify the structure and shorten the length to improve readability and understanding, for example” following “Trust Policy Statement” so that it reads: “....reformat the draft Trust Policy Statement to simplify the structure and shorten the length to improve readability and understanding, for example, separate the mandatory directive policies...” Vice-Chair Rogers call Point of Order that the amendment significantly changes the original motion. Chair Luckham did not agree with the Point of Order. Discussion ensued, the question then called.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-06-21Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-078To nominate Trustee Stamford for the Governance Committee. Trustee Stamford agreed to stand. TC-2022-079 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2022-06-21Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-087that an election would proceed after the nomination and election of a scrutineer. TC-2022-088 It wasMoved—minutes · source
2022-03-08Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-005that Trust Council include a special property tax requisition for the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area in the amount of $60,000 in its 2022/23 annual budget, to fund additional operations of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee (LTC) in preserving and protecting the quality and quantity of water resources within the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2022-03-08Islands Trust CouncilTC-2022-020that $32,000 be restored to the Coastal Douglas-fir Salt Spring Island Project and $32,000 be removed from the Ganges Village Project.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-11-30Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-105that Islands Trust Council Bylaw No. 184, cited as “Islands Trust Council Meeting Procedures Bylaw, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 6, 2021” be read a first time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-11-30Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-127that the Islands Trust Council declare that a Housing Equity and Workforce Shortage Crisis exists in many of the islands within the Islands Trust Area.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-11-30Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-128that Islands Trust Council: Make the following recommendations to British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor in Council, in accordance with S. 8(2)(e) of the Islands Trust Act; 1) That the Province of British Columbia develop the necessary mechanisms to create, fund, govern, and administer an Islands Housing Authority-type entity that will develop housing solutions across the Islands Trust area that: a. Support equitable access to housing as a fundamental human right and an act of Reconciliation with First Nations and Indigenous Peoples; b. recognize that there is critical need for a diversity of Seconded—minutes · source
2021-07-08Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-071that motion TC-2021-070 be tabled until a motion about the overall consultation is voted on.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-06-08Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-049that Trust Council adopt amended Policy 7.4.1 Incoming Local Trust Committee Correspondence (Attachment 1), and as amended by TC-2021-048.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-03-09Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-009that Trust Council affirm its understanding that the object (and thus the mandate) of the Trust contained in s. 3 of the Islands Trust Act includes the concept of and protection of healthy and inclusive communities including (but not limited to) housing and transportation. Trustee Critchley moved to amend the motion by adding the phrase “subject to the paramount object of preservation and protection of the natural environment”. Chair Luckham ruled the proposed amendment rejects the original motion and was not in order.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-03-09Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-020that Islands Trust Council include a special property tax requisition for the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area in the amount of $75,500 in its 2021/22 annual budget, to fund additional operations of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee (LTC) in preserving and protecting the quality and quantity of water resources within the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-03-09Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-041that Trust Council direct staff to prepare a letter from the chair addressed to Provincial Minister of Environment urging that the Province of British Columbia introduce a province wide ban on the use of anticoagulant rodenticides, which are known to move through the food chain endangering wildlife.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2021-03-09Islands Trust CouncilTC-2021-042that Trust Council direct staff to prepare a letter from the Chair to endorse Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Institute for Sustainable Food Systems’ development and implementation of an organic agriculture and food system extension service in British Columbia with content in the letter that outlines that this extension service has the potential to contribute to the Islands Trust Council’s strategic priorities for ecosystem preservation and protection, reconciliation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation including food security.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-12-01Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-097that Trust Council adopt the recommendations presented in items 4.1.1. thru to 4.1.4. 4.1.1 Executive Committee Work Program Report Approve the report as presented. 4.1.2 Trust Council Follow Up Action List Receive for information. 4.1.3 Strategic Plan Update Receive for information. 4.1.4 Continuous Learning Plan Receive for information.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-12-01Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-103that the Islands Trust Council meeting be closed to the public subject to Section 90(1)(i) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to:(i) receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege; and that staff be invited to attend the closed session.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-12-01Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-104that Trust Council adopt the recommendations presented in items 7.1.2. and 7.1.3: 7.1.2 Trust Programs Committee Work Program Report Approve the report as presented. 7.1.3 Islands Trust Conservancy Report Receive for information.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-09-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-072that Trust Council direct staff to work with the Local Planning Committee to review policies and fees related to the Agricultural Land Commission Exclusion Regulation which comes into effect October 1, 2020.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-09-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-086that Trust Council authorize the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee to use unspent special property tax requisition funds from previous fiscal years to undertake water sustainability projects that do not require coordination through the local trust committee’s (LTC’s) delegated authority under Trust Council Bylaw No. 154.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-09-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-087that Trust Council request staff to recommend amendments to Trust Council Policy 6.3.2 to address the use of unspent special property tax requisition funds on new programs or initiatives when the original program or initiative remains ongoing.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-09-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-095that Trust Council direct staff to address the public engagement concerns raised by the Salt Spring Solutions & Non-Profit Community Groups re: Collective Concern for the Islands 2050 Consultative Process within the development and implementation of ongoing public engagement related to the Policy Statement Update Project.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-044that Islands Trust Council Bylaw No. 180, cited as “Islands Trust Council Meeting Procedures Bylaw, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 2020” be read a first time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-045that Islands Trust Council Bylaw No. 180, cited as “Islands Trust Council Meeting Procedures Bylaw, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 2020” be read a second time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-046that Islands Trust Council Bylaw No. 180, cited as “Islands Trust Council Meeting Procedures Bylaw, 2004, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 2020” be read a third time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-06-16Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-053that the meeting be closed to the public subject to Sections 90(1)(c)(g) and (i) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to employee relations, litigation affecting the Islands Trust and receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor- client privilege and that staff attend the meeting.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2020-03-10Islands Trust CouncilTC-2020-019that the Islands Trust Council include a special property tax requisition for the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area in the amount of $75,500 in its 2020/21 annual budget, to fund additional operations of the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee (LTC) in preserving and protecting the quality and quantity of water resources within the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-117that Trust Council adopt the recommendations contained in the following items presented in the December 3-5, 2019 Trust Council Consent Agenda: 12.1.1 Director of Local Planning Services Report Receive for information. 12.1.2 Local Planning Committee Work Program Report That the Islands Trust Council approve the top priorities of the Local Planning Committee Work Program Report.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-118that Trust Council Bylaw No. 175, cited as “Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Development Approvals Information Bylaw No. 175, 2018” be read a First Time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-120that Trust Council Bylaw No. 175, cited as “Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Development Approvals Information Bylaw No. 175, 2018” be read a Third Time.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-121that Trust Council Bylaw No. 175, cited as “Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee Development Approvals Information Bylaw No. 175, 2018” be brought back to Trust Council for reconsideration and final adoption at the earliest available date.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-12-03Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-123that Trust Council adopt the recommendations contained in the following items presented in the December 3-5, 2019 Trust Council Consent Agenda: 14.1.2 Trust Programs Committee Work Program Report That the Islands Trust Council approve the top priorities of the Trust Programs Committee Work Program Report. 14.1.3 Islands Trust Conservancy Report Receive for information. 14.1.4 Legislative Monitoring Report - Briefing Receive for information.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-073that Trust Council approve the following dates: March 10-12, 2020; June 16-18, 2020; September 15-17, 2020 and December 1- 3, 2020 as the preferred dates for its 2020 meeting schedule and that staff be asked to bring back a report to the December Trust Council meeting for consideration of a three in-person meeting schedule.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-076that item # 9 be replaced with: Develop a model land use regulation regarding freshwater sustainability including groundwater, rainwater catchment and greywater recycling.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-080that the following objective be added: Decrease the harmful environmental impacts of human activity on the islands of the Salish Sea. Develop zoning options that incentivize green building forms and low-impact siting that minimizes ecosystem disruption. Advocate and provide local planning support for transportation and food systems that decrease carbon emissions in rural island communities; and That the following strategies be added:  Increase safe and secure housing options that are affordable in perpetuity.  Maintain housing assessments program to LTCs and Bowen Island.  Develop recommendSecondedDEFEATEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-084that the Islands Trust Council meeting be closed to the public subject to Section 90(1) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to: (c) labour relations or other employee relations, (g) litigation affecting the Islands Trust; and (i) receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege; and that staff be invited to attend the closed session.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-089that the following be added to the Strategic Plan: “implement the high priority actions outlined in the Affordable Housing in the Trust Area: Strategic Actions for Islands Trust previously referred by Trust Council”.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-09-17Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-092that the 2018-2022 Strategic Plan be adopted as amended.Seconded—minutes · source
2019-06-18Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-059that the Islands Trust Council approves the 2018/19 Draft Annual Report, as amended, for submission to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-03-12Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-016that the Islands Trust Council approves the top priorities of the Executive Committee Work Program Report.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-01-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-002that Trust Council approve funding to add a full-time island planner in the Salt Spring office to the draft budget.SecondedCARRIEDminutes · source
2019-01-15Islands Trust CouncilTC-2019-014that the Islands Trust Council meeting be closed to the public subject to Section 90(1) of the Community Charter in order to consider matters related to: (c) labour relations or other employee relations, (g) litigation affecting the Islands Trust; and (i) receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege; and that staff be invited to attend the closed session.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source
2018-11-06Islands Trust CouncilTC-2018-113Trustee Allen, To nominate Trustee Fenton for the position of board member of the Islands Trust Conservancy.MovedCARRIEDminutes · source

Attendance per the minutes

YearPresentAbsent or regrets
2018100
2019561
2020870
2021891
2022711
2023410
2024510
2025790
2026430
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Meetings they speak most in

  1. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, September 6, 2023 — 2023-09-06, 12,933 words
  2. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, May 18, 2023 — 2023-05-18, 12,191 words
  3. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, May 14, 2026 — 2026-05-14, 12,156 words
  4. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, April 13, 2023 — 2023-04-13, 11,899 words
  5. Islands Trust Regional Planning Committee regular meeting, November 15, 2023 — 2023-11-15, 11,256 words
  6. Islands Trust Council regular meeting, February 16, 2024 — 2024-02-16, 10,512 words
  7. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee special meeting, February 15, 2022 — 2022-02-15, 10,129 words
  8. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, November 9, 2021 — 2021-11-09, 10,111 words
  9. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee public hearing, August 27, 2026 — 2026-08-27, 9,875 words
  10. Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, February 1, 2023 — 2023-02-01, 9,405 words

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YearRecorded meetingsLinesWords
20218021,259251,100
20225713,766164,694
20233811,648151,832
2024335,91576,540
20255920,204225,859
20262911,927127,373

Every transcript they speak in (296)

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