Community Infrastructure & Safety Services (CISS)


The mission of this department is to provide a safe and livable community through the management, maintenance and protection of key infrastructure and facilities, and through the delivery of key services. Our Department’s responsibility for cultural revitalization is: To support cultural and community events, and ensure that cultural facilities, spaces, and infrastructure are maintained, in operation and safe. The Housing Department is now located at 3016 Reserve Road.

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CISS

​Terry Cavaliere

Director

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CISS Dept.

  • Michele Fisher
    CISS Director
  • ​Terry Cavaliere
    CISS Director

Housing Dept.

  • VACANT
    Housing Manager
  • Lesley Armstrong
    Housing Projects Coordinator
  • Shelly Thomas
    Housing Assistant
  • ​Josh Gwartney
    Housing Maintenance Worker
  • VACANT
    Tenant Relations Liaison

Capital Works Dept.

  • Heather Gairdner
    Public and Capital Works Manager
  • VACANT
    Public Works Coordinator
  • Drew Burke
    Front Office Assistant
  • VACANT
    Roads and Equipment

Public Works Dept.

  • John Michel
    Roads and Equipment Utilities Worker
  • Wesley Badine
    Nightly Security/Utility Worker
  • Dale Reid
    Nightly Security/Utility Worker
  • ​Justin Bagshaw
    Nightly Security/Utility Worker
  • Kurtis Whitehead
    Water/Waste Water & Utilities Worker
  • Douglas Whitehorne
    Maintenance Worker/Buildings and Roads Utilities
  • Jonathan Burke
    Public Works Super

Housing

Housing is the foundation for strong and healthy communities. The Housing Department, utilizing orderly, ethical and transparent management practices, diligently works toward providing a functional housing delivery system to ensure units are maintained in an acceptable manner to extend their life expectancy while providing safe, affordable, adequate housing for Nation members.

The FNFN Housing Department:​

 
  • Manages new, rental, elder, and individually owned member housing
  • Assists with preparation of various forms of assistance that are available to support the development of on- reserve housing
  • Acquires funding and financing for projects
  • Budgets for project sustainability
  • Fulfills monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting requirements
  • Develops, implements, and enforces policy
  • Acquires and maintains the FNFN insurance portfolio on all Nation owned assets ​
  • Procures outside service suppliers to provide for the housing needs of the community​

Housing management is often about managing expectations. If either party has unrealistic expectations of the other there will be unnecessary tension. Therefore, lines of communication between the occupants and the FNFN Housing Department must be kept open.

Capital Works

Objective: Providing facility maintenance for all FNFN buildings IE.
  • Chalo School
  • Finance
  • Health and Wellness, including arbor
  • Trades Building (Chalo school)
  • Justice
  • Lands
  • Administration
  • Recreation
  • Dehzona Daycare
  • Public works shop
  • Undertaking emergency management and planning
  • Providing wildfire protection
  • Providing public safety and community security
  • Conducting physical development/capital planning
  • Undertaking long range planning
  • Providing general operations and maintenance of the community
  • Supporting community events and activities

Public Works

  • Community Security
  • Maintaining distribution systems
  • Testing water quality
  • Maintaining roads
  • Inspecting and maintaining fleet
  • Animal control
  • Supporting and setting up community events
  • Waste management
  • Operating and maintaining the Cemetery
  • Maintaining the lagoon and sanitary collection system
  • Undertaking long range planning for lands and infrastructure
As a Nation, we are moving toward a future in which our children are fluent in our languages, they know the ways of our ancestors, and live in safety and security. With improvements in infrastructure, including safe and healthy homes, we will move toward that goal.” ~ RFOV, p. 150

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3016 Reserve Road
RR 1 Mile 295, Alaska Highway
Fort Nelson, BC
VOC 1R0

T: 250.774.7257
F: 250.774.7260

Emergency After-Hours
250-262-1089

Alert

FNFN is kindly asking community members if you see or believe there is illegal dumping on-reserve, please take the vehicle description, plate number and please call the RCMP at 250.774.2777 or Conservation officer at 1.877.952.7277 (this is a toll free number) to report the unlawful activity.

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