Islands Trust Budget Comments & Policy Statement Review

Islands Trust Budget comments

Friday noon is the deadline to submit your comments on the proposed Islands Trust 2012-13 budget in time for the Financial Planning Committee to consider them.

You have until noon on Thursday, March 1 to send your comments for consideration by Trust Council at their March 6-8 meeting on Gabriola. You can send your comments to me, and/or Susan, until March 5.

Your comments have a better chance of being adopted if they are submitted as early as possible.

See http://islandstrust.bc.ca/tc/pdf/We%27d%20Like%20to%20Hear%20from%20You%202012.pdf for full details on submitting your comments.

The proposed budget information summary is at http://islandstrust.bc.ca/tc/pdf/2012-2013%20Budget%20Summary%20-%20FINAL%20-%20Jan%2025%202012.pdf

Send comments about the budget by email to: budget2012 [at] islandstrust [dot] bc [dot] ca

by mail or fax to:

Budget 2012 Islands Trust Council

Attention: Treasurer

200 – 1627 Fort Street

Victoria V8R 1H8                                       fax 250-405-5155

Policy Statement Review

Another item that Trust Council will be considering, and I'd like your feedback on, is to undertake a major project to review and update the Trust Policy Statement, which is the fundamental document setting out what the Islands Trust is supposed to do. All Local Trust Committee Official Community Plans and Land Use Bylaws must conform with the Policy Statement.

Last year, Trust Council established a task force to see if the Policy Statement needed revision and amendment. They recommended a full review. Their report, including lots of appendices, is at http://islandstrust.bc.ca/tc/pdf/pstffinalreport.pdf The Island Trust has won a grant that will cover most of the cost of the review and amendment, which is to include full public participation, over the next two years or so.

The current Policy Statement and information about it is at: http://islandstrust.bc.ca/tc/polstatement.cfm

Send comments (or questions) about the Trust Policy Review to me: pjohnston [at] islandstrust [dot] bc [dot] ca

You could also send them to Susan: smorrison [at] islandstrust [dot] bc [dot] ca

If you have quick questions or want more information, call me 8785 next week.

For more information, please see...: 

Islands Trust

The Islands Trust is a federation of independent local governments, which plans land use and regulates development in the trust area.  The Lasqueti Local Trust Committee is responsible for Lasqueti and the surrounding small islands.
www.islandstrust.bc.ca/ltc/la

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