September 2024
Revising the CBACA constitution and bylaws.

This year the Board is embarking on the process of updating the Constitution and Bylaws. We are seeking input from you, the Cordova Bay community we represent, on what our purposes should be, as represented by the Constitution, and how we fulfill them, as represented by the Bylaws. These will be voted on by the members at the April 2025 AGM.

We need your input! If you are not already, please sign up for a membership to participate in this process.

The timeline for input for this update is as follows:
– Phase 1 Membership Input – December 10, 2024 – Deadline for membership submissions.

– Phase 1 review – February 10, 2025 – 1st draft of the Constitution revision, based on feedback, posted on CBACA website; 1st draft of revised Bylaws also posted on website; members notified by email. Feedback is welcomed on both.

– Phase 2 Membership Input – March 10, 2025 – Deadline for 2nd round of membership feedback on the 1st draft of both Constitution and Bylaws.

– Phase 2 review – April 10, 2025 – Final draft Constitution and Bylaws posted on website; members notified by email.

– Approvals Phase for the Revised Constitution and Bylaws – Proposed Constitution and Bylaws presented to the membership for approval at the Annual General Meeting on April 30, 2025

Thank you for participating in this process!
Barb Lucas
CBACA President

Click here if you would like to see the original Constitution created in July, 1976

See below for September 2024 Suggested Changes to the current Constitution

See below for the December 2017 Current Constitution and Bylaws

Please send all your feedback to president@cbaca.ca

CONSTITUTION (September, 2024 Suggested Changes)

Name

1. The name of the Society is “Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs”.

Purposes

2. To promote engagement, participation, and a sense of belonging and pride in our community;
3. To strive for standards of any development in the community that enhances the physical, social, ecological, and economic attributes of the neighbourhood;
4. To foster meaningful community involvement in all development and land use planning for the community;
5. To present recommendations from, and express the views of, the Association and to advocate for the community, with the District of Saanich and other relevant governmental bodies.

BYLAWS

Watch for the updated bylaw changes coming here February 10, 2025

CONSTITUTION December, 2017 (Current)

Name

1. The name of the Society is “Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs”.

Purposes

2.  To work for physical and social improvement in the Cordova Bay community; without limiting the foregoing, the purposes of the association shall also include:

3.  The fostering of meaningful community involvement in all development and land use planning for the area;

4.  The limitation of community population density;

5.  The development and co-operative use of community service facilities for all ages;

6. As far as possible, preservation and improvement of the single family dwelling nature of the area;

7.  The study of any and all matters pertaining to the well-being of residents in this community;

8.  The fostering of cooperative and coordinated community services to meet community needs; and

9.  Ensuring that community residents have a determining voice, by democratic process, on all public projects within the neighbourhood.

BYLAWS

Please click here for the latest association bylaws.

The new Societies Act of BC came into effect November 28, 2016.  All societies in BC had two years to transition to the new Act.  The CBA is in compliance. In December 2017, The CBA Constitution & Bylaws were uploaded, with no changes other than structural, to BC Registry Services.