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Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) members ALL need to explain to the community why they are keeping secrets from them. Secrets that stem from increasing closed meetings. Only one item was on the agenda for the last finance meeting in contrast to the large closed session agendas that some councillors tell us have several items that didn\u2019t belong on it. Yet these same councillors sitting around the table allowed the meeting to go on treating community business as if it was thier own. SNEC is about to release its first newsletter to the community and it should be interesting. Interesting because we are all wondering what the council members have been up to. Councillors, let us remember, some of whom have been on SNEC for decades, also shoulder the burden… <\/p>\n

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Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) members ALL need to explain to the community why they are keeping secrets from them. Secrets that stem from increasing closed meetings. Only one item was on the agenda for the last finance meeting in contrast to the large closed session agendas that some councillors tell us have several items that didn\u2019t belong on it. Yet these same councillors sitting around the table allowed the meeting to go on treating community business as if it was thier own. SNEC is about to release its first newsletter to the community and it should be interesting. Interesting because we are all wondering what the council members have been up to. Councillors, let us remember, some of whom have been on SNEC for decades, also shoulder the burden... <\/p>\n

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