2024 Annual General Meeting
The Kaslo & District Community Forest Society welcomes all residents to its annual general meeting 7:00 pm Thursday, April 25, 2024 at JV Humphries School. If you are interested in Community Forestry please attend.
Draft Agenda:
Adoption of 2023 AGM Minutes
You can preview these here
Directors’ Report & Questions
Financial Report & Questions
Manager’s Report & Questions
Resolutions:
Resolution #1:
Whereas the Community Advisory Committee was created to give direction to the KDCFS forester(s), and modern governance procedures advise against micro-managing staff, and the Community Advisory Committee has not met in several years (if ever), then be it
MOVED that the Community Advisory Committee Policy be deleted, thus eliminating that
committee.
Resolution #2:
Whereas the $2/m3 levy on all wood sold, to be put towards the Community Dividend account, has proved to be unrealistic in times of low log prices, and has therefore not been followed for several years, then be it
MOVED that the following section of text in the KDCFS Policy manual, Community Dividend
Disbursement Policy, be replaced with the new section below.
TO BE REMOVED:
Note: This policy not currently in effect. Allocation not included in budgeted expenditures 2015- 2019. Subject to review with other community benefit policies.
Purpose: to provide a set of guidelines to be used by a committee whose purpose is to recommend to the board how the annual $2/m3 Community Dividend should be disbursed.
AND REPLACED WITH:
The Community Dividend is money in excess of the Society’s needs going forward, and so is dependent on the KDCFS having had a profitable year. As well as having shown a profit, the various reserve funds (for operating for two years with no income, for road building, for silviculture, etc.) must be full before money will be released for a Community Dividend. This is to ensure that the Society can weather economic downturns in the future.
Purpose: to provide a set of guidelines to be used by a committee whose purpose is to recommend to the board how the Community Dividend (if any) should be disbursed.
2024 Directors:
There were three nominations for the four director positions to be filled, so there won’t be an election. The nominations were submitted by the incumbent directors whose terms were ending, so the composition of the board will remain unchanged. You can view the list of directors here.
Our Mission Statement:
The Kaslo and District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) will manage the diversity of values of the Community Forest in an ecologically responsible and fiscally accountable manner on behalf of the people of Kaslo and Area D.
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