2024 Annual Report Draft

Property Tax Exemptions Every year, the City of Courtenay receives applications from non-profit organizations that qualify for tax exemptions under the requirements of provincial legislation. For 2024, the following exemptions were approved by Council:

Council adopted a 10-year Permissive Tax Bylaw to exempt the following properties. The 2024 value of properties exempt is as follows: Island Corridor Foundation

$59,438 48,084 23,501

Exempt amount of City property taxes

Project Watershed Society - Kus-kus-sum

Registered owners

M’Akola Housing Society

Nature Trust of B.C. - Arden Rd Nature Trust of B.C. - Sandpiper Park Total 10-year Bylaw exemptions

4,423

10,221

Alano Club of Courtenay

$4,548

$145,667

AVI Health & Community Services

1,264

Boys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver Island

965

Council adopted a five-year Permissive Tax Bylaw to exempt the following City-owned properties, managed or occupied by non-profit societies. The 2024 value of properties exempt is as follows:

Canadian Red Cross Society

2,400 3,520

City of Courtenay - Leased Office Space

Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club

629

Comox Valley Child Development Association

18,169 11,097

Comox Valley Centre of the Arts Courtenay & District Museum

$29,279 16,370 46,379 14,841

Comox Valley Curling Club

Comox Valley Family Services Association Comox Valley Food Bank Society Comox Valley Kiwanis Village Society Comox Valley Project Watershed Comox Valley Recovery Centre Society

8,779 2,422

Courtenay Airpark Society Courtenay Marina Society

McPhee Meadows Sid Williams Theatre

2,203

19,128 2,519 2,794 $640 6,255 1,553 3,243 3,123 2,500 1,599 4,034 8,275 6,614 2,328 2,380 9,752 35,540 478 11,498

26,393

Total City-owned Properties (five-year)

$135,465

Comox Valley Rowing Club Comox Valley Transition Society

Provincial Legislation (the Community Charter) statutorily exempts the building and the land on which the builiding stands, for places of worship, specific seniors’ housing, hospitals and private schools. Council may, by bylaw, permissively exempt the land surrounding the building. In 2024, Council adopted a bylaw to exempt the following surrounding lands:

Community Justice Centre of the Comox Valley Courtenay & District Historical Soc. In Trust

Courtenay Elks Lodge

Courtenay Marina Society

Anglican Synod Diocese of B.C. Bishop of Victoria-Catholic Church Central Evangelical Free Church Courtenay Fellowship Baptist Church

$3,030

Dawn to Dawn Action on Homelessness Society

1,593 3,772 1,619 2,142 4,619

Eureka Support Society Glacier View Lodge Society

Habitat for Humanity V.I. North Society John Howard Society of North Island

Elim Gospel Hall

Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada

L'Arche Comox Valley

Grace Baptist Church

331 953

Lush Valley Food Action Society

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses

Nesting Place Society

LDS Church

3,394 1,211 1,709 1,433

Lutheran Church

Old Church Theatre Society

River Heights Church Society Salvation Army Canada West Seventh Day Adventist Church

Royal Cdn. Legion, Courtenay Br. (Pacific) No. 17

Salvation Army

2,945

971

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Soc.

609 889

St. George's Church

1,102

Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry

New Life Apostolic Church

887

6,544 1,178

Wachiay Friendship Centre

Total permissive surrounding statutory land tax exemptions Total permissive tax exemptions - overall

$28,766

YANA Fund Society

Youth for Christ Comox Valley

845

$500,954

Total non-profit annual tax exemptions

$191,056

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