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BOARD OF CHIEFS’ MEETING WESTWOOD INN, EDMONTON – SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 MEETING MINUTES In attendance: Chief Rose C. Laboucan, Driftpile First Nation Chief Leon Chalifoux, Swan River First Nation A/Chief Sydney L. Halcrow, Kapawe’no First Nation Chief Jaret Cardinal, Sucker Creek First Nation Councillor George Prince, Sucker Creek First Nation Councillor Paulette Campiou, Sucker Creek First Nation Councillor Ronald Willier, Sucker Creek First Nation Councillor Russell Willier, Sucker Creek First Nation Councillor David Prince, Sucker Creek First Nation Starbird Consulting – Lucia

; Richard

Don Leduc

Meeting called to order at 7:19 p.m. Ron Willier said the Opening Prayer. In respect to co-management agreement that presently exists with Sucker Creek First Nation and Regional Council, we have passed out information as follows: Draft Remedial Management Plan – Executive Summary; Events leading to comanager resignation; September 17/09 letter re: notice of resignation and the letter to the SCFN members. We may have lost the money from diversification for repairs to rec hall. Allen referred to Prince Group and Paulette asked that they be referred to by their names and Allen apologized for this being written in the documents. Membership will have to be notified. Information package will be expanded upon and mailed to all members on/off reserve, next step will be community meeting, will present same info and include financials; also the draft policies will be presented, have not received feedback, will send to legal counsel for review to ensure legality; have drafted a BCR for appointing Alvin Cardinal to the LSLMS.. September 25/09 is meeting with LSLMS. If nothing happens, we will put the nation under third party and it will also be binding on the next Chief & Council. Court will appoint their own third party manager, we will have no say. March 31 will be the end of our multiyear agreement; INAC is reviewing if a band on third party can enter into the multiyear agreement. Need decision on the electoral officer, have only one person interested, decision to be made by October 19th.

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What is the time frame for third party? Allen not sure, but think there has to be a one week window before the 17th. Chiefs do not want to get involved in the internal politics of the First Nation. Paulette said she didn’t have clarity and hasn’t ever received clarification on the BCR’s. Richard clarified that they were going to get the funding from LSL capital funding. Information was in both submissions on how they would get the funding. Purpose of meeting tonight was not to get into specifics; it was to identify what is the next step. Allen said that they offered Paulette to come into the office for further explanation and all the supporting information would be at the office. Paulette said this is not cooperation and is not working with us. Richard said there were three occasions to provide comments and a special meeting was called to sign BCR’s, had number of opportunities to raise the questions, and it was not done. There is another BCR for $157,000 to go to INAC, what happens if this BCR is not signed. Opportunities were given starting in July. Lucia said that they are in the black now, BMO has been paid. are managing their money.

The managers

Richard said they have developed work-plans, goals, etc for next year. Had program managers meeting in July, what was submitted to C&C came from what the program managers identified. Have developed the policies in concert with the program managers and then asked for feedback from the C&C, but no response. $1.7M deficit, still have Regional Council advance to payoff. End of March BMO will be $1M, hoped to have Regional Council paid off. Managers have laid off staff, have had to bring some people in temporarily. Only lawyers fees outstanding as there is lack of agreement. Each manager has worked out a work-plan and they have reviewed the information with them along with their budgets. They have started meeting with the managers to ensure they are on track. They will be asking Allen to do a mid year review with them. Leadership and Principles was to be attached to the co-management agreement but now Allen will address that. Sucker Creek going third party will affect the multiyear agreement next year. Suspension of honoraria will have to be sorted out by the Chief and Council.

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BOARD OF CHIFES’ MTG, WESTWOOD INN, EDM. – SEPT. 21/09 – PAGE 3 What happens with the Code of Ethics, the policies, had some in place previously; Chief and Council are the ones who break them. Allen is going to give Chief and Council a copy of the intervention policy from INAC. Giving it back to the people and going through referendum is the best route to go. Allen will fast track the management principles. What do we need to move forward, what needs to be executed. Where are we going with this? A/Chief Sydney would like to be invited by letter from all the Council to be at the October 3rd meeting but would not feel comfortable without that. What do the managers need from the table to carry on, so we are not here at this table again, what do we need? Allen responded that we need to get the community programs done. Cannot fulfill election promises with no funding. Want to improve the community, want a clear understanding, and want six people at the table. Morale is good; staff is now going to Don. Timelines to be placed on the documents, when they want them back. Draft leadership and management principles will be done by Thursday. Chiefs will not withdraw decision until something is in place; need the response from Chief and Council on what they plan to do. Leadership and Management Principles, include a dispute resolution, and send it to Chief and Council for their review. Meeting adjourned at 10:08 p.m. Councillor Ron Willier said the Closing Prayer. ___________________________ GRAND CHIEF

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