Strathcona Regional District Board undecided about legal action

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to the SRD, Cortes island Director Noba Anderson was violating an agreement that one of her land partners would communicate with staff regarding the subdivision of her property on Cortes Island. Anderson’s lawyer, Matthew Voell, disagreed as to the nature of the ‘agreement.’ He produced a long stream of emails demonstrating that staff repeatedly initiated the direct contacts with Anderson. He maintained that
Anderson ‘communicated with Regional District staff in her personal capacity and not in her role as a director,’ used her personal email address, and ‘almost always copied her land partner Ms. Lovena Harvey.” At the close of their January 27, 2020 meeting, the SRD Board referred the matter to their legal council before deciding whether to proceed with the motion to seek legal action to have Anderson disqualified from holding office.