Staff
General Manager: William "Bill" Hogan
Loans Officer: Gerald DesRoches
Executive Administrator: Jean Powell
Administrative Assistant: Open
Board of Directors:
Chairperson: Bruce Fidler- Town of Creighton
Vice-Chairperson: Glen Watchel- At Large Director
Secretary/Treasurer: Tianna Brahniuk-Northern Hamlet of Weyakwin
Director: Jesse McKay- Northern Village of Sandy Bay
Director: Julianna Ballantyne - Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation of Deschambault Lake
Director: Abby Besharah- Town of La Ronge
Director: TBD- Northern Representative of Metiis Nation
Director: Mervin McDonald- Northern Hamlet of Stony Rapids
Director: Terry DesRoches - Northern Village of Air Ronge
Director: Vacant
Board of Directors
Visions North Community Futures is designated as an Aboriginal Financial Institution. To meet this criteria more than 50% of the Board's composition must be of Aboriginal ancestry. Currently 62% of our Board meet this criteria. As well, there are three women on our Board and one representative of the Metis Nation.
Our Board of directors represents 11 communities in Northern Saskatchewan, the Metis Nation and a Small Business representative, and are nominated to be on our Board by each community. To be assigned to our Board they must meet a set of criteria which each community is aware of.
Once the Board is set elections are held every two years at our annual General Meeting. Besides reviewing the year in terms of activities and reviewing our year end financial records elections are held for the positions of Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer. A person has to be nominated by another director and this nomination has to be seconded. The person nominated has the option to accept or reject the nomination. Once the nomination has been accepted each director has one vote in a secret ballot conducted by an outside party (The person conducting the election has no affiliation with Visions North).
From the Board there is a Loans Committee that is composed of five members. Three of the members are from the executive, one from the community that the application comes from and an at large member.
2016-2017 FinancialsVISIONS_NORTH_CF_2017_DRAFT_201706120802.pdf
