We are making every effort to keep members informed of our activities and efforts during the CCAA process. All members should receive TLC’s newsletter, the LANDmark, within the next week. Below is a copy of an opinion editorial that TLC’s new Director of Operations, John Shields, wrote recently for the Vancouver Sun. When the Land [...]
NEWS RELEASE THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BC RECEIVES EXTENSION OF PROTECTION UNDER COMPANIES’ CREDITORS ARRANGEMENT ACT (CCAA) Process of restructuring gets underway; TLC requests Court appointment to present offer on Binning House FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 2013 Victoria, BC – The Land Conservancy of BC has been given more time to develop a plan [...]
NEWS RELEASE THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BC GRANTED PROTECTION UNDER COMPANIES’ CREDITORS ARRANGEMENT ACT (CCAA) CCAA creates best opportunity for a financial solution and positive outcome for properties and creditors FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 8, 2013 Victoria, BC -- For the past year, The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) has been exploring options to [...]
Saturday, February 9th, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the En'owkin Centre located at 189 Green Mountain Road, Penticton, B.C. The Board of Directors welcomes this opportunity to update TLC Members and the community at large about the current state of TLC affairs. Highlights since the November 3, 2012, Annual General Meeting in Victoria include: • [...]
1. How are you dealing with the $1.2 million TLC owes in short term arrears? We have reduced operating costs to a third of past costs to ensure we aren’t adding to short term debt, and we are in discussions with employees, lenders and some suppliers to develop a plan to satisfactorily resolve their arrears. [...]
UPDATE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS October 10, 2012 Dear TLC Members and donors, Your Board of Directors is providing this update for members leading up to our Annual General Meeting being held November 3rd in Victoria because of the urgency of TLC’s situation. It is important we keep you apprised of our on-going efforts [...]
TLC Here to Stay To read the Victoria Times Colonist’s recent article on The Land Conservancy’s year end financial statements, readers would be forgiven for thinking we are on our last legs as an organization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Contrary to the TC article headline, our revenues were not “flat” in fiscal [...]
We four new TLC Board members allowed our names to stand for election because we believe in the vitally important work that the TLC does to support conservation throughout the province. We are honoured that the membership vested their trust in us through the democratic process that governs selection of the Board. All of us [...]
Re: Land Conservancy of British Columbia – Why I ran: Why I completed my term: Why I was willing to stand for re-election: Elections are over, so this is not electioneering. I did successfully stand for re-election to the Board of TLC this year. There are a number of reasons for staying with the Land [...]
Last year, The Land Conservancy went through a very difficult period. TLC’s senior management and Board of Directors differed in fundamental ways on TLC’s future. This resulted in litigation, a mediation, and the democratic election of an entirely new Board of Directors by the membership. As a new Board, we recognized from the outset that [...]