North Battleford’s community safety efforts continue to focus on building relationships, according to the June monitoring report of Community Safety Co-ordinator Herb Sutton, submitted to city council last week.
SAGE coalition building efforts continued June 13 when Mayor Ryan Bater held a meet and mingle breakfast with regional Indigenous leaders. The goal was to build government-to-government relations and Sutton’s report stated that it was an “important first step in developing understanding and creating support to the continue the work of developing a government-to-government model.”
On regional First Nations engagement, Sutton’s report congratulated the City for the decision to permanently raise the Treaty 6 flag and to take direction and guidance from Battle River Treaty 6 elders to design the ceremony.
“Our challenge now is to plan our actions to build the kind of relationships that the flag represents,” Sutton’s report stated.
Citizens On Patrol is now at 30 members and held an orientation for five new members June 12 at the Chamber of Commerce.
The community barbecue initiative in June has wrapped up. Four events were held with more than 600 people served, and attendance was better this year than the last. Promotion of block parties continues.
