Elected officials ask province for governance study
Letter from Salt Spring Trustees
Letter from Salt Spring CRD Director
Letter from Salt Spring Chamber of Commerce
Let the Minister know what you think too!
Trust Policy Review proposal fails
Pushback by islanders stops expensive make work project
LTC meeting video
Salt Spring Trustees fulfill their election promise
Does
the End Justify the Means? Original - non-watered down version
Viewpoint
Oct. 26th, 2011 - John Macpherson
Allocation
of public money to societies leads Supreme Court petition -
The Islands Independent - October 21, 2011 - covers facts not included
in Driftwood
View the Petition Filed against Trustees Ehring, Torgrimson and CRD Director Hendren
View the related videos
Election Matters Salt Spring - links to the candidates websites - who gets to vote?
Incorporation Question - Results
of the Survey - The
Editorial Endorsing Incorporation
and the 5 Part Series
- 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 in
the Gulf Islands Driftwood
Videos posted of the Sept Trust Council Meeting - watch Valerie de Wint from Galiano
George Grams response to Misty MacDufee letter in the Driftwood. The Driftwood refused to print his response. George Grams original Opinion piece "Bylaw a 'fundamental assault' on local rights and freedoms' which appeared in the June 15th, 2011, Driftwood.
Salt Spring
Island Aug. 3rd Bylaw 448 Public Hearing Videos Posted
Invitation to all islands - please record videos at your significant
meetings and we will post these online.
Video of June 22nd, 2011, Public Hearing at ArtSpring (Salt Spring)
Video of June 21 st, 2011 Public Hearing at Harbour House (Salt Spring)
Trust Wide News
The names and amounts paid to all suppliers of the Islands
Trust, responding to a Freedom Of Information Request
There are a lot of documents to go through, but still, we have to follow the money.
This letter/email exchange started with a complaint against the Salt Spring Island LTC sent from a group of concerned Islanders to the Executive Committee
- May 25th - complaint letter to the Executive Committee
- June 1st - letter published in the Driftwood
- June 6th - update of complaint
- June 14th - reply from Peter Luckham, representing the Trust Executives
- June 22nd - response to Peter Luckham from the original group of Islanders
Letter From Trust Council Chair Sheila Malcolmson to the TAG team regarding their delegation at Trust Council, May 10th, 2011
Reply to Trust Council Chair S. Malcolmson's letter of May 10 (above)
Another Reply to the Malcolmson letter (above) - N. Schlenker
Sheila Malcolmson's reply to TAG- June 27th, 2011
RAR Staff Report - released May 31st for a June 2nd LTC (comments extracted)
April 28th, 2011, RAR Community Information Meeting Videos
The Islands Independent coverage of RAR on Salt Spring Island (supplement)
- page 1 with map and explanation
- page 2 - the Conservancy's position and unnecessary bylaw
- page 3 - more letters
- page 4 - graphics and explanation
Mystery of the vanished Salt Spring consultant
links to better understand The Forum article
in
The Islands Independent
- The January 31, 2011 Draft Minutes Affordable Housing, Suites & Cottages
- The January 31, 2011 Adopted Minutes
- Leah
Hartley's intro to meeting video (This is not the video
the Islands Trust commissioned, paid for and promised public
access to. That video is also missing.
Scroll above the Leah video and you can view Tim Wake, our "vanished" expert consultant.)
Eric Booth - Trust
Matters - Why Wake up Now? - April 22, 2011 Islands
Independent
May 5th, 2010 - Gulf Island Citizens' Council delivers PETITION to the Minister
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