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.