Joe McCulloch

This Community Tourism Plan for the District of Lillooet aims to sustainably grow the local tourism economy by focusing on access and infrastructure, product/experience development, and marketing and sales strategies. The plan envisions Lillooet and area, in partnership with the St'at'imc Nation, as a global destination by 2025, renowned for authentic cultural, arts, heritage, outdoor adventure, and culinary/agri-tourism experiences. It seeks to attract BC residents, Canadian, Pacific Northwest US, and international touring travelers for multi-night stays, ensuring environmental stewardship and social vitality.

This document outlines municipal objectives for 2023-2024, focusing on several key strategic areas. These include supporting the development of attainable housing, investing in sustainable infrastructure through various projects, creating a vibrant downtown, continuing to build positive relationships with St'át'imc Communities, and reviewing bylaws to streamline development processes. The initiatives aim to improve community services, foster economic growth, and enhance regional partnerships.

This document outlines municipal objectives for the 2025-2026 period. The strategic plan focuses on investing in sustainable infrastructure, fostering a vibrant downtown, and continuing to build positive relationships with St'át'imc Communities. Additional key areas include reviewing bylaws to streamline development, strengthening local healthcare, promoting the development of housing on vacant and underutilized properties, developing shovel-ready projects for grant readiness, and updating key planning documents such as the Official Community Plan and Zoning Bylaw.

This document outlines municipal objectives for 2026 across several strategic areas: Housing & Land Use, Infrastructure Planning, Water & Utilities, Community & Economy, and Partnerships & Community Wellbeing. Key initiatives include promoting development on vacant properties, updating official community plans and bylaws, identifying strategic infrastructure projects, exploring curbside recycling, negotiating water service agreements, vitalizing the downtown, developing a parks and recreation master plan, strengthening healthcare recruitment, fostering indigenous partnerships, and enhancing emergency management agreements.

The council meeting addressed several operational and policy items. Key topics included the appointment of the chief election officer and deputy chief election officer for the upcoming local government election, the review and approval of the 2025 annual municipal report, and the discussion of proclamation requests for national dental care day. Additionally, the council debated and denied a request for gym space donation from a non-community group and discussed municipal tax relief policies, specifically regarding property tax exemptions and the limits on the number of applications organizations can submit.