Six Nations Elected Council is facing yet another audit year. For us here at Turtle Island News it will be the 33rd budget since we launched the newspaper. A local band budget that went from $1 million to today’s $30 million plus. At least, it would be $30 million if the band didn’t dump the community’s own source revenues on it to bring it down to what it thinks the community will accept . So instead of seeing a $30 million deficit the community would only see a $8 or $9 million deficit depending on how much own source revenues are used to keep a lid on the overspending. Those own source revenues, by the way, are the community’s own dollars including gaming dollars that come in annually from two…
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