Posted Date: October 23, 2025

Tags: Meetings  

 

Join us online on zoom for the 2025 FVISS AGM!

Come attend our AGM to see what we've been up to this year, get a recap of our year, a financial update, and the Board of Directors election.

Date: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Virtual via Zoom  

Registration is required. Please fill out the Zoom registration form to receive the call-in details. All member voting will also be done through Zoom.

 

Agenda 

(draft Oct 23rd)

 

Start time – 10:00 am

10:00 am	Welcome, Introductions, Adopt Agenda, Accept 2024 Minutes
10:05 am	Report from the Chair (Victoria Brookes, FVISS Chair)
10:10 am	Presentation of Financial Statement (Nichole Marples, FVISS Treasurer)
10:25 am	2025 Season and Operational Program Updates (Kathy Ma Green, FVISS Executive Director)
10:35 am	2025 Field Programs Updates   (Jocelyn Rahnborn, FVISS Field Programs Coordinator)
10:45 am	2025 Outreach Program Updates (Erica Mulder, FVISS Outreach Coordinator)
10:55 am	5-Minute Break
11:00 am	Invasive Plants and Chilliwack Creek Restoration along the Skowkale Walking Path (Sq'ewqeyl I:mex Xalh) (Steve Clegg, Land Stewardship Manager, S.A.Y. Lands Office)
11:30 am	Election of Board of Directors
11:45 am	New Business/Announcements from Members
11:55 am	Thank you and Closing

Adjournment – 12:00 pm

 

Presentation & Speaker

Invasive Plants and Chilliwack Creek Restoration along the Skowkale Walking Path (Sq'ewqeyl I:mex Xalh) 

Since the Ts'lhimexósem (Going for a Walk Together) Trail project launched two years ago by Skowkale, Atchelitz and Yakweakwioose (SAY) First Nations, Chilliwack River Road has seen major changes. The new accessible 2 km Skowkale Walking Path (Sq'ewqeyl I:mex Xalh) and Chilliwack Creek restoration work required installing new structures and culverts, planting over 14,000 trees and shrubs, and like many restoration projects, lots and lots of invasive plant removal. 

Join us to learn from Steve Clegg how the trail was developed, the planning put into creating the new walking path, as well as the effort involved to restore Chilliwack Creek - which saw salmon return to the upper sections for the first time in 75 years!

Presenter: Steve Clegg, S.A.Y. Lands Office 

Steve Clegg is the Land Stewardship Manager with the S.A.Y. Lands Office, the land management office for the Sq’ewqéyl (Skowkale), Áthelets (Aitchelitz), and Yeqwyeqwí:ws (Yakweakwioose) First Nations in Chilliwack.

(Photos are from Chilliwack Progress News Article)

 

Documents

2024 AGM Draft Minutes

2024 AGM Draft Agenda

 

>>> MISSED THE MEETING?

2025 AGM Recording (to be uploaded after the AGM)

2025 AGM Draft Minutes (to be uploaded after the AGM)

 

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