Council record · 2021–2026

Anne Skipsey on Qualicum Beach Council, 2021–2026

Anne Skipsey returned to Qualicum Beach Council in a May 2021 by-election, and topped the poll in 2022. She moves more motions than anyone else on Council. In October 2021 she was one of three votes that defeated a motion saying the Town would not buy Eaglecrest. Since July 2025 she has moved most of Council’s Eaglecrest decisions, from the plan to pay for it to the $1,181,800 course contract and the budget bylaw. We found no censure and no conflict of interest, and she missed 7 of 168 meetings this term. Her first term, 2014 to 2018, has its own page.

How she was elected

May 2021: in the by-election to replace Adam Walker, she won with 1,539 votes, ahead of four other candidates. Sarah Duncan came second with 1,017. The Town says “a total of 3,366 ballots were cast”, a turnout of 40.7%. She took the oath of office on May 27, 2021.
October 2022: she came first of ten candidates for four seats, with 3,022 votes. The next highest, Petronella Vander Valk, had 2,181.

Sources: Regular Council agenda, May 27, 2021 (by-election results, pp. 77–79) (Town of Qualicum Beach); Regular Council minutes, May 27, 2021 (Town of Qualicum Beach); 2022 General Local Election, official results (Town of Qualicum Beach)

Her roles

On Mayor Brian Wiese’s council, from 2021 to 2022, she held the arts and culture portfolio. She was Council’s representative on the environment and sustainability committee, the Heritage Forest Commission, and the Family Day and Beach Day committees.

Since November 2022 she has held the parks and recreation portfolio, which includes the Qualicum Beach Memorial Golf Course and District 69 Recreation. She is the Town’s alternate on the Regional District of Nanaimo board for the whole term. Council also named her acting mayor for four three-month turns. The last runs from August to October 2026, through the election campaign.

She moves more motions than any other member. In the 2024 minutes, by our count, she moved 147 of the 329 motions that weren’t routine steps such as adopting the agenda or adjourning. Councillor Harrison was next, with 72. Moving a motion puts it forward for a vote. Many motions are routine, and some come from staff or committees.

Sources: Regular Council minutes, Jun 16, 2021 (committee appointments, p. 9) (Town of Qualicum Beach); Inaugural Council minutes, Nov 7, 2022 (Town of Qualicum Beach); Council minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach); Committee of the Whole minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach)

How she voted on Eaglecrest

The minutes name who voted which way only when a vote is split. Councillor Harrison’s 2021 motion said Semiahmoo Golf Centre Ltd. had told its members it had not made a profit running the course. Skipsey, Robert Filmer and Teunis Westbroek voted it down. From 2025 she moved most of the motions that took the project forward, and Harrison was usually the only vote against.

Councillor Skipsey’s recorded votes on Eaglecrest, 2021–2026
Date	Decision	Skipsey	Result
Oct 6, 2021	Councillor Harrison’s motion that the Town “will not purchase the Eaglecrest Golf Course, nor any portion thereof”	Against	Defeated 2–3
2025	The decision to buy Eaglecrest, made in closed meetingsOn this site: The purchase agreement	Not recorded	Motions released later don’t say who voted how
Jul 23, 2025	Plan to pay for Eaglecrest: $2,000,000 moved from other projects and $6,500,000 from reserves, surplus and future land salesOn this site: Where the money came from, What was pushed back	Moved; for	Passed 4–1
Sep 17, 2025	Leave six-storey buildings out of the Eaglecrest plan	Moved	Passed unanimously
Sep 17, 2025	Eaglecrest plan and zoning changes, first and second readingsOn this site: What residents told Council	Moved both first readings; seconded one second reading; for all four	Passed 4–1
Sep 17, 2025	Call for proposals to run the course, clubhouse and restaurantOn this site: The restaurant lease	Seconded; for	Passed 4–1
Oct 22, 2025	Two changes moved by Councillor Harrison: 1,000 m² minimum lots, and the upper land on the north side as parkland	Against both	Both defeated
Oct 22, 2025	Her change: a 15-metre height limit in the institutional and residential zone, instead of the 12.75 metres Councillor Vander Valk proposed	Moved; for	Passed 4–1
Oct 22, 2025	Eaglecrest plan and zoning changes, third reading and adoptionOn this site: What residents told Council	Moved all four	Passed 4–1
Oct 22, 2025	Her motion: bylaws to set aside Yambury Park and part of a nearby parcel as permanent parkland	Moved	Passed unanimously
Dec 10, 2025	Councillor Young’s motion: only small-scale housing in Eaglecrest in the Official Community Plan	Against	Defeated 2–3
Dec 17, 2025	Call for proposals to reconfigure the courseOn this site: The course contract	Moved	Passed unanimously
Feb 11, 2026	Five motions on the course work: the $1,181,800 contract, staff authority to approve changes up to $1,650,000, the CAO’s signing authority, the Mayor as liaison, and a report to Council only “at the close”On this site: The course contract, How it grew	Moved four, seconded one; for all five	Each passed 3–2
Apr 22, 2026	Councillor Harrison’s motion: the former 17th and 18th holes zoned for single-family homes, and fewer units per hectare	Against	Defeated 2–3
Jun 24, 2026	Raise the Eaglecrest budget from $20,688,000 to $21,199,800On this site: The full Eaglecrest budget	For	Passed 4–1
Jul 15, 2026	Adopt the budget increaseOn this site: The full Eaglecrest budget	Moved; for	Passed 4–1

Council decided to buy Eaglecrest in closed meetings in 2025. The motions it later released, including the October 27, 2025 decision to remove the last conditions and go ahead with the purchase, don’t say who voted how. We found no public vote on the purchase itself.

Her campaign website says the $21.2 million figure depends on future decisions. Our fact check of her website looks at that claim and lists these votes.

Other votes on record

The East Village loan, 2022: she was the only vote against a bylaw letting the Town borrow up to $1,325,000 for improvements in part of the East Village, repaid by a parcel tax there. It passed 4–1 in January and 3–1 in September. That month she was also the only vote against rezoning 126 to 148 Second Avenue East for a 72-unit building.
Council size: in 2022 she backed raising Council from five members to seven. She seconded the motion to draft the bylaw and moved its third reading, which passed 3–1. In April she moved to adopt it, but no one seconded her motion. Council put a non-binding question on the 2022 ballot instead, and voters said no, 2,551 to 1,653. In October 2025 she moved that Council stay at “four Councillors and one Mayor”. That passed unanimously.
Code of conduct: in September 2021 she voted with the 3–2 majority to have staff draft a code of conduct for Council. In February 2022 she moved to approve it, as the Standards of Conduct Policy. That passed unanimously.
The Westbroek censure, 2021: she was at the closed meeting on December 8, 2021 where Council censured then-Councillor Teunis Westbroek. The Town says Council was unanimous. Our page on the censure has the details.
The tree bylaw review: her July 2025 Eaglecrest funding motion put off the Tree Protection Bylaw update from 2025 to 2026. In December 2025 she was the only vote against putting it off again, to 2027. Our fact check has more.

Attendance

From November 2022 to July 2026 she missed 7 of 168 Council and Committee of the Whole meetings with published minutes: the special Council and committee meetings of March 19, 2025; the committee meeting of October 15, 2025; March 4, 2026; the special meetings of April 15 and April 20, 2026; and July 31, 2026. From May 2021 to October 2022 she missed 1 of 58, the special meeting of September 6, 2022.

Sources: Council minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach); Committee of the Whole minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach); Regular Council minutes, Mar 4, 2026 (Town of Qualicum Beach); Special Council minutes, Jul 31, 2026 (Town of Qualicum Beach); Special Council minutes, Sep 6, 2022 (Town of Qualicum Beach)

Her pay

Council pay is set by a 2019 bylaw, passed while she was off Council, and rises each year with BC inflation. In January 2026 Council, with her, voted unanimously to keep the bylaw’s rates.

What the Town paid Councillor Skipsey, 2021 to 2025
Year	Pay	Expenses
2021 (from May 27)	$21,304	$501
2022	$36,500	$5,092
2023	$39,019	$7,687
2024	$40,541	$5,263
2025	$41,595	$8,487

Every councillor was paid the same for a full year. Her expenses for 2023 to 2025 came to $21,437, the highest on Council, but only $246 more than Councillor Harrison’s. The Town reports one total per member, so it doesn’t show what the money was spent on.

Sources: Regular Council minutes, Feb 4, 2019 (Pride crosswalk; Council pay bylaw) (Town of Qualicum Beach); Regular Council minutes, Jan 21, 2026 (Town of Qualicum Beach); 2021 Statement of Financial Information (Council pay and expenses, p. 3) (Town of Qualicum Beach); 2022 Statement of Financial Information (Council pay and expenses, p. 3) (Town of Qualicum Beach); 2023 Statement of Financial Information (Council expenses, p. 2) (Town of Qualicum Beach); 2024 Statement of Financial Information (Council expenses, p. 2) (Town of Qualicum Beach); Regular Council agenda, Jun 24, 2026 (closed meeting motions released; 2025 Statement of Financial Information) (Town of Qualicum Beach)

What we looked for and didn’t find

We searched the minutes of every Council and Committee of the Whole meeting from May 2021 to July 2026 that has published minutes. We looked for censures, sanctions, findings under Council’s code of conduct, conflict of interest declarations, confidentiality breaches and bullying or harassment complaints. We found none involving Skipsey. She has declared no conflict of interest since 2021, on Eaglecrest or anything else. In her first term she declared 15; that page lists them.

She is not on Elections BC’s list of 2022 candidates who filed their campaign finance reports late, or on its list of penalties. We found no lawsuit naming her in news reports, and a web search of published court decisions found none. We didn’t search the BC court registry itself.

Sources: Council minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach); Committee of the Whole minutes, all meetings (Town of Qualicum Beach); Council Standards of Conduct, Policy 3004-7 (2022) (Town of Qualicum Beach); Reports filed during late filing penalty period, 2022 General Local Elections (Elections BC); Administrative monetary penalties (Elections BC)

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Anne Skipsey on Qualicum Beach Council, 2014–2018

Elected with the most votes in 2014, she served one term and lost the 2018 race for Mayor to Brian Wiese. She declared conflicts of interest and left the room 15 times, as the law asks: over her father’s status as a Freeman of the Town, a road closure near her family home, a rezoning for an applicant she was close to, and a contractor.
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Skipsey gets the record right on the Island Highway apartments, FireSmart work, the skate park, the hospital donation, the committees and the Eaglecrest arithmetic. When she defends Council’s record, she leaves out facts that change the picture. The tree bylaw’s promised public review hasn’t happened. And the 84% she cites measured satisfaction with Town news, not with how letters are handled.
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Skipsey’s “setting the record straight” page is itself misleading about Eaglecrest. It presents the $21.2 million budget as depending on future decisions, but $15.3 million of it is already approved, and she moved the bylaw that set it. Her $12.4 million “actual current cost” is what’s left after taking out the $2.125 million donation. She says critics ignore the expected return, but the Town has never published one, and when Councillor Harrison asked for one, she voted to go ahead without an answer. Her election record and voting information are right.

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