Ladysmith public meetings in 2025
30 substantive meetings from 2025, with official agendas or minutes and plain-English summaries.
Council Meeting
The Council will deliberate the 2026 budget, confirming a 5.82% municipal tax levy increase to $9,220,183 and providing early approval for several capital projects totaling over $2.27 million. Other items include awarding a $613,162.50 tender for Forrest Field Phase 2, declaring a nuisance at 670 Farrell Road and ordering remedial actions, adopting several bylaw amendments, and supporting a marina expansion proposal.
- 2026 budget: confirm $9,220,183 levy (5.82% increase) and early approval for Uplands Remediation ($200,000), City Hall options public engagement ($40,000), Brown Drive Park playground ($210,500), Forrest Field artificial turf ($1,190,000), watermain replacement Buller 4th-6th ($400,000), articulating loader ($200,000), storm main French to Kitchener ($27,005)
- Award tender 2025-PRC-02 Forrest Field Phase 2 to In the Dirt Contracting for $613,162.50, defer Bike Park
- Remedial action order for 670 Farrell Road: declare runoff and soil piles a nuisance; require owner to install leave strip, replace erosion control, remove soil piles by January 27, 2026
- Adopt five bylaws: garbage amendment (No. 2225), sanitary sewer rate (No. 2227), waterworks regulations (No. 2228), revenue anticipation borrowing (No. 2229), inter-community business licence (No. 2230)
- Support CVRD referral for Mañana Resort & Marina expansion at 4760 Brenton-Page Road
Council Meeting
The council meeting scheduled for December 2, 2025 in Ladysmith, British Columbia did not list any specific agenda items. The agenda appears to contain only the standard template without detailed proposals or decisions. As a result, no concrete actions or discussions are recorded in the provided document.
Council Meeting
The council meeting agenda for Ladysmith on November 25, 2025 contains no listed items. The agenda appears to consist only of placeholders and procedural headings. No decisions, proposals, or public hearings are identified.
Committee of the Whole
This Committee of the Whole meeting agenda contains only procedural boilerplate from the eSCRIBE system, with no listed items, motions, or public hearings.
Special Council Meeting
The provided agenda contains only procedural boilerplate and software interface text. No specific decisions, discussions, or agenda items are listed.
Council Meeting
The provided agenda for the Ladysmith Council Meeting on November 4, 2025, consists only of technical metadata fields with no actionable items, proposals, or discussions listed. The meeting appears to be purely procedural or the agenda is incomplete. No decisions, rezonings, contracts, or public hearings are included.
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Council Meeting
The council meeting agenda contains no listed items. It only shows generic placeholders and no decisions or discussions are specified. Therefore the meeting appears to be procedural with no substantive agenda.
Council Meeting
Council will consider an 84-unit multi-family development at Lot A Holland Creek, including a development permit and zoning amendment. Other items include receiving the RCMP quarterly report, awarding a $30,000/month corporate credit card to BMO, creating an additional paid-on-call fire captain, and authorizing a $35,000 website audit. Council will also deny a mobile wood-burning sauna business at Transfer Beach and consider a pedestrian crosswalk on North Davis Road.
- 84-unit multi-family development at Lot A Holland Creek (Development Permit 3060-24-21, Zoning Bylaw 2222)
- Award of RFP 2025-FIN-02 to BMO with $30,000 monthly credit limit
- Additional Paid-on-Call Captain position for Ladysmith Fire/Rescue
- Denial of Wildwood Saunas' request to operate a wood-burning sauna at Transfer Beach
- Aggie Field drainage improvements awarded to ADT Contracting Ltd. for $129,000
Council Meeting
The provided agenda contains only procedural boilerplate and software interface elements. There are no specific decisions, proposals, or discussion items listed.
Committee of the Whole
The provided agenda contains only procedural software placeholders and boilerplate text. There are no specific decisions, proposals, or discussion items listed for this meeting.
Council Meeting
Council will vote on a development variance permit and development permit to subdivide Lot A Holland Creek into three parcels, varying subdivision and zoning bylaw requirements. They will also direct staff to submit a 2026 budget for the Frank Jameson Community Centre with a $445,000 roof replacement request. Other business includes adopting an election bylaw amendment, consenting to a regional emergency management bylaw, and ratifying a noise exemption for Colonia Dam decommissioning work.
- Issue Development Variance Permit 3090-25-01 and Development Permit 3060-25-03 to subdivide Lot A Holland Creek into three parcels, varying frontage and service connection requirements
- Direct staff to submit 2026 3.99% budget for Frank Jameson Community Centre including $445,000 supplemental request for roof replacement
- Adopt 'Town of Ladysmith Election and Assent Voting Bylaw 2018, No. 1964, Amendment Bylaw 2025, No. 2217'
- Consent to adoption of 'CVRD Bylaw No. 4650 – Regional Emergency Management Establishment Bylaw, 2025'
- Ratify electronic vote granting Spider Mountain Excavators Ltd. noise exemption for Sunday work on Colonia Dam from August 24 to September 28, 2025
Council Meeting
The provided agenda contains only procedural software boilerplate and no specific discussion items, decisions, or reports.
Special Council Meeting
The provided agenda contains only procedural boilerplate and software interface text. No specific decisions, discussions, or agenda items are listed.
Council Meeting
This agenda for the Ladysmith Council meeting on July 22, 2025, contains only procedural boilerplate and no actual agenda items. There are no decisions, proposals, or discussions listed. The document appears to be a placeholder.
- No substantive items listed
Committee of the Whole
The provided agenda contains only procedural software placeholders and boilerplate text. There are no specific decisions, proposals, or discussion items listed.
Council Meeting
The agenda for the July 8, 2025 Ladysmith Council meeting consists of embedded content and system placeholders with no listed items for decision or discussion. This appears to be a procedural or cancelled meeting.
Council Meeting
The agenda for the June 3, 2025 Ladysmith Council meeting contains only procedural boilerplate from the eSCRIBE system. No specific decisions, proposals, or discussions are listed. The document does not provide any actionable items for residents.
Council Meeting
The agenda for the May 20, 2025, Ladysmith council meeting contains only procedural boilerplate from eSCRIBE software. No specific decisions, discussions, or public hearings are listed in the provided text.
Committee of the Whole
The provided agenda contains only procedural software placeholders and boilerplate text. There are no specific decisions, discussions, or items listed for this meeting.
Council Meeting
The agenda for this meeting contains no listed items for decision or discussion. It appears to be only procedural boilerplate with no rezonings, contracts, ordinances, or public hearings. Residents should expect routine administrative business.
Council Meeting
The provided agenda contains only procedural software placeholders and boilerplate text. There are no specific decisions, discussions, or action items listed.
Council Meeting
The agenda for this meeting contains no substantive items; it consists only of boilerplate and placeholder content from the meeting management software. No decisions, proposals, or discussions are listed.
Council Meeting
The agenda for the March 18, 2025, council meeting is currently procedural and contains no listed items for decision.
Committee of the Whole
This agenda contains only procedural boilerplate and no specific items for discussion or decision. The meeting appears to be a placeholder or cancelled session.
Council Meeting
The agenda for the Ladysmith Council meeting on 2025-03-04 contains no listed items. No decisions, proposals, or discussions are documented in the provided agenda. The meeting appears to be procedural or empty.
Council Meeting
The Town of Ladysmith Council will meet to discuss the introduction of a five-year financial plan and the adoption of several bylaws. The meeting includes a business license cancellation hearing and appointments to regional and local panels.
- First three readings of the 2025-2029 Financial Plan Bylaw (No. 2206)
- Adoption of Animal Control Bylaw 2024 (No. 2167) and related zoning and OCP amendments
- Cancellation hearing for Business Licence #1891 (Natural Massage Spa at 16 High Street)
- Request for Year 2 funding for the Emergency and Disaster Management Act Indigenous Engagement Program
- Appointments to the 2025 Parcel Tax Review Panel and Cowichan Valley Regional District Board
Council Meeting
Council will first enter closed session to discuss labour, law enforcement, litigation, legal advice, and preliminary service negotiations. In open session, they will consider a development variance permit and development permit for a 21-unit residential project at 1301 & 1391 Rocky Creek Road, approve 2025 Grant in Aid allocations, and discuss several capital projects including a museum ramp ($55,000), City Hall air quality improvements ($40,000), and early budget approval for Uplands remediation ($250,000).
- Development Variance Permit 3090-24-05 and Development Permit 3060-23-14 for a 21-unit townhouse/duplex project at 1301 & 1391 Rocky Creek Road
- Council to deny dedicated hotel parking request from Temperance Hotel and remove overnight parking prohibition on 1st Avenue
- Early budget approval of $250,000 for foreshore drilling and testing for Uplands remediation
- Proposed $55,000 ramp replacement at the Ladysmith Museum (721 1st Avenue)
- Proposed $40,000 Heat Recovery Ventilation system for City Hall
Special Council Meeting
The Town of Ladysmith Council will hold a special meeting on Jan 28, 2025. After opening remarks, the council will approve the agenda and then retire into a closed session. In closed session they will consider items involving personal information about an identifiable individual and receipt of legal advice. The meeting will conclude with a rise and report and adjournment.
- Approve agenda for the special meeting
- Retire into closed session to consider personal information about an identifiable individual (section 90(1)(a))
- Retire into closed session to consider receipt of legal advice (section 90(1)(i))
- Rise and Report – items from closed session
- Adjournment
Committee of the Whole
The Committee of the Whole will receive the RCMP 4th Quarter 2024 report and decide on 2025 Grant in Aid amounts for community groups. Other reports include building inspections to December 2024, fire/rescue reports August-December, animal control service reports July-December 2024, and a strategic priorities update.
- RCMP 4th Quarter 2024 Report presented by Tracy Dubnyk
- 2025 Grant in Aid Requests: Committee to determine amounts for community groups and recommend to Council
- Building Inspector's Report to December 31, 2024
- Ladysmith Fire/Rescue Reports for August to December 2024
- Coastal Animal Control Services Reports: one instance of repeated aggressive behavior by a Presa Canario in Oct 2023 and Nov 2024
Council Meeting
The meeting includes four public hearings: zoning amendments for 10910 Westdowne Road and for designated single-family dwelling zones, an Official Community Plan amendment, and a covenant amendment at 1130 Rocky Creek Road. Following the hearings, council will consider third reading of the zoning and OCP bylaws, and conditions for the Rocky Creek Road covenant including a $200,000 roundabout contribution. Other business includes water billing adjustments, sole-sourcing the Colonia Dam decommissioning design for $134,766, and appointing councillors to conferences.
- Public hearing for Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2173 at 10910 Westdowne Road
- Public hearing for Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2169 affecting RU-1, R-1, R-1-A, R-2, R-2-B, R-3 zones
- Public hearing for OCP Amendment Bylaw No. 2190 (town-wide)
- Public hearing to amend Covenant CB215820 at 1130 Rocky Creek Road with conditions including $200,000 roundabout contribution
- Sole-source contract to Ecora Engineering for Colonia Dam decommissioning design at $134,766 plus taxes