Title
Abandoned and Derelict Vessels
Recommendation
[The original staff recommendation was amended at the meeting as follows:]
That the Environmental Services Committee recommend to the Capital Regional District Board:
That in support of addressing the abandoned boat issue in the CRD:
1. Staff be directed to submit a regional application for Abandoned Boats Program (ABP) Education and Awareness funding and ABP Assessment and Removal funding;
2. The Board increase the scope of the Environmental Resource Management Community Clean-up Program to include the federal ABP initiative, and approve:
(a) a 2017 budget amendment to provide $50,000, from the ERM Sustainability Reserve, to fund the completion of the required ABP funding application, including inventorying of eligible abandoned boats
(b) the submission of federal ABP applications for a total of $1,050,000: $50,000 in Abandoned Boat Education and Awareness funding (with CRD contribution of $16,667) and $1,000,000 in Abandoned Boat Assessment and Removals funding (with CRD contribution of $333,333) in support of a local multi-year ABP initiative starting in 2018; and CRD contributions to be funded by the ERM Sustainability Reserve;
3. Staff approach Southern Vancouver Island Regional Districts, Islands Trust, and First Nations regarding potential South Island synergies in addressing abandoned boats under the federal ABP initiative; and
4. The CRD Board Chair write a letter to the Marc Garneau, Minister of Transportation, raising the issues as itemized in Appendix B.
(WP - All)