Courtenay Annual Report 2025 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 2025, the following exemptions were approved by Council:

Exempt amount of City property taxes

Registered owners Alano Club of Courtenay

Wachiay Friendship Centre

20,983

$4,733

AVI Health & Community Services

1,316 2,498 7,953

Y.A.N.A Fund Society

1,225

Canadian Red Cross Society

Youth for Christ Comox Valley

992

City of Courtenay - Leased Office Space

Total non-profit annual tax exemptions

$369,644

Comox Valley Canoe Racing Club Comox Valley Centre of the Arts

654

29,606 18,937

Council adopted a 10-year permissive tax bylaw to exempt the following properties. The 2025 value of properties exempt is as follows: Island Corridor Foundation

Comox Valley Child Development Association Comox Valley Children's Day Care Society

508

Comox Valley Curling Club

11,481

$89,749 23,709

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

9,137 2,520 2,614 3,573

M’Akola Housing Society

Nature Trust of B.C. – Arden Rd Nature Trust of B.C. - Sandpiper Park Project Watershed Society - Kus-kus-sum Total 10-year bylaw exemptions

5,806

13,397 50,041

Comox Valley Rowing Club Comox Valley Transition Society

666

$182,702

6,491 1,456

Community Justice Centre of the Comox Valley

Provincial Legislation (the Community Charter) statutorily exempts the building and the land on which the building stands, for places of worship, specific seniors’ housing, hospitals and private schools. Council may, by bylaw, permissively exempt the land surrounding the building. In 2025, Council adopted a bylaw to exempt the following surrounding lands:

Courtenay Airpark Society

48,232

Courtenay & District Historical Soc. In Trust

3,565

Courtenay & District Museum

16,458

Courtenay Elks Lodge

3,328

Courtenay Kiwanis Village Society

19,668 18,179

Anglican Synod Diocese of BC Bishop of Victoria-Catholic Church Central Evangelical Free Church Courtenay Fellowship Baptist Church

$3,802

Courtenay Marina Society

2,063 6,187 2,125 2,641 7,685 1,215 4,564 1,713 2,246 4,318 1,255 1,359 1,255 408

Dawn to Dawn Action on Homelessness Society

1,692 4,199

Eureka Support Society Glacier View Lodge Society

41,714

Elim Gospel Hall

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

497

Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada

8,956 7,008 7,647 1,965 2,477

Grace Baptist Church

L'Arche Comox Valley

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses

Lush Valley Food Action Society

LDS Church

Nature Trust of BC - McPhee Meadows

Lutheran Church

Nesting Place Society

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

Old Church Theatre Society

11,754

Puddleduck Early Learning Society

1,146

St. George's Church

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

12,704 2,994 26,568

New Life Apostolic Church

Salvation Army

Total permissive surrounding statutory land tax exemptions

Sid Williams Theatre

$40,574-

Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Soc.

647 903

Total permissive tax exemptions - overall

$592,920

Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry

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