The Gitanmaax Band will be holding a nomination meeting on Monday.
Candidates can be nominated for the positions of chief and councillors on the Band Council for the next term. There are 12 councillor positions available and one position for chief.
Gitanmaax Band finance officer, Pauline Rubinato said anyone is eligible to be chief.
“You don’t have to be a band member, you don’t have to be native, anybody can run,” she said. “That isn’t true for all bands but it is for us.”
She said for councillor positions, those nominated need to be a band member but they don’t have to live on the reserve, which is something relatively new.
The nomination meeting will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Gitanmaax Hall on April 28. Rubinato said a high number of nominations usually come in.
Any voter may nominate candidates by using a mail-in nomination form. People can deliver or mail in a written nomination and a completed, signed and witnessed voter declaration form to the electoral officer before the time of the nomination meeting. Nominations can also be given orally at the meeting.
The band has elections every two years. Each department has a committee made up of councillors and staff.
The election will be held at the Gitanmaax Hall on June 9.