Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is spending almost $80 million to build a local school, new lodge and hospice. SNEC has tasked its staff to “go out and seek” more than $40 million to construct a new Iroquois Lodge Long Term Care Home. SNEC passed a motion in a closed Political Liaison meeting directing CEO Nathan Wright to find the $43 million to have a new Iroquois Lodge built. Wright announced the direction to find the funds during an update at the General Council meeting on August 13. In total he was directed to spend $72.6 million on construction projects that include the lodge, funding the Kawenni:io/Gaweni:yo Elementary and Secondary School with a $23 million loan and $6.6 million to build a hospice. Funding the lodge, he said “is a…