At its March 25 SRD Board meeting, Campbell River and its allies passed a resolution to draft a bylaw making the average Quadra Island homeowner pay an additional $588 in property taxes to help fund Campbell River’s Recreate Strathcona Gardens project. (This fight is not over yet.) Whether the proposed bylaw will pass remains to be seen, but a large number of noncontroversial Cortes, Quadra and Read Island items were passed at the same board meeting. They pertained to:
- A Quadra Island Right of Way
- Vacancies in Advisory Planning Commissions for Areas C & D
- Squirrel Cove Aquaculture
- Who Pays Administrative Costs for the Electoral Areas Services Committee
- Cortes Island’s Active Transportation Plan
- Funding Opportunities for Active Transportation in Areas B & C
- Legacy Gifts in Regional District Parks
- Residency Requirement for Short Term Rentals
- Proposed Electoral Areas Grant in Aid Service
- Waste Pick-up Contract on Cortes Island
- Renewal of Post Office contract for Read Island
- Grants-in-Aid for Quadra Island
As these are all short items, Cortes Currents decided to use them as examples of how the SRD conducts board meetings.
Continue reading Cortes, Quadra and Read Island items at the March 25th SRD Board Meeting
