SNEC navigating through audit and potential $4.1 million defict

By Lynda Powless Editor Some members of Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) are questioning where it’s dollars are coming from and how they are going to pay any potential deficit and what the administrative” modernization” cost after learning they will be running a $4.1 million deficit. SNEC told its finance director it wants to see a list of finance agreements and wants to know how departments will make up for short falls and new employee salaries. Six Nations administration has grown to 980 employees. Of that 980, 681 employees are Six Nations band members, 68 are from other First Nation communities and 231 are non-Indigenous staff. The increase came under then CEO Darrin Jamieson who overhauled the band administration with a massive “modernization” taking a leave of absence just as the…

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