Law Enforcement Highlights

LANDS LANDS

LANDS DEPARTMENT

The highlights for the Lands department were:

» Wenona completed the TULO First Nations Applied

Lands Management certificate program in August 2021 & Nina is starting the program February 2022 and will complete it in December 2022. » Completed training/programs/proposals/reporting that resulted in $310,000 in additional funding to the Lands department to complete Invasive plant management and plant trees in elder’s yards and receive survey training from Natural Resources Canada » Wenona assisted CAO Aaron Mannella in managing $2 million worth of flooding mitigation projects to improve the IRs after damage from the 2020 flooding,

Nina completed administration/gathering financial information to close out flooding files » Updated all WLFN Lands forms to pdf fillable, WLFN

Lands Dept. should have 3 laws completed by the end of this fiscal year end – Garbage Collection Law,

Waterworks Law & Business License Law

Goals 1. Successful Proposals/Initiatives » 2020/2021 Red Cross proposal – Invasive Plant management $110,000 » 2020/2021 Natural Resources Canada survey training $68,000 and received survey training, a GPS unit & a pinfinder and completed a survey of the new band administrative building » 2021 Natural Resources Canada - $5,000 towards completion of an additional survey » 2021 Trees Canada proposal - $4,800 towards purchasing trees for elder’s yards » 2020/2021 additional $20,000 in smaller proposals/ funding applications

Invasive Plant crew/tree planning in elder’s yards – Summer 2021

Borland Creek overflow channel

1 of the 2020 flooding mitigation projects (12 projects in total)