Volunteer Committee identifies a lack of coordination between agencies providing services to Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Islanders will be going to the polls on September 9th to decide if they should stay unincorporated, or become a municipality.
A 9-member volunteer committee examined the question for 2 years, and recommended the vote in its final report to the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, Peter Fassbender.
Fassbender says he respects the work done over 2 years by the 9-member volunteer group, and ordered the vote to take place on September 9th.
Salt Spring Island is currently a rural area that's part of the Capital Regional District, as well as the Islands Trust, and it's the largest unincorporated community in BC with a population of 10,640.
The Committee has identified a lack of co-ordination between agencies that provide services to Salt Spring Island, and a large number of local services administered from the Victoria area.