Saturna Island Property Owners Association (SIPOA)
P.O. Box 27, Saturna, British Columbia V0N 2Y0
SIPOA@saturnacan.net
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March 22, 2010
Mr. Michel Bourassa
Chair
Saturna Island Parks & Recreation Commission
Dear Michel,
Thank you for your response to the SIPOA letter requesting information about the budget
and financial statements of the Saturna Island Parks & Recreation Commission (SIPRC),
and your detailed letter explaining your group’s goals and activities.

B. Ziegler, President

SIPOA

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Dear Bernie

Thank you for your letter dated March 05, 2010, requesting information on Saturna Island’s Parks & Recreation Commission’s recent budget increases as well as our spending.

These questions apparently follow SIPOA’s recent look at our island’s taxes which showed, among other matters, that the 2006-2009 tax increase for Parks & Recreation was 70%. That is without question an eye-catching statistic.

Email To: Michel Bourassa
Request for Saturna Parks and Recreation Commission Budgets from 2006-07 to 2009-10

Hi Michel,

The Saturna Island Local Trust Committee, being the Trust Committee having jurisdiction in respect of the Saturna Island Trust Committee Area under the Islands Trust Act, enacts as follows:
A. The Saturna Island Land Use Bylaw, No. 78 is amended as follows:
1. By inserting the following immediately after subsection 2.17.10:
“2.18 Water Storage
A building permit shall not be issued for any residential building, visitor