Technical Services Department
The Technical Services department of the Gitksan Government Commission is located at 4125 River Road, in the First Nations High School. Staff consists of Tom Danyk, Capital Projects Manager and Ken Morrison, Housing Inspector with support from Diane McRae and Elizabeth Harris, Financial Resources.
Tom Danyk has just come on board this spring – his bio will be posted shortly!
Ken Morrison, has filled the Housing Inspector position since June 10, 2002. Ken has worked as a carpenter, carpenter supervisor and construction supervisor and has 30 years of construction experience. Ken completed his formal housing inspector training through CMHC First Nations Inspectors Initiative, and in 1999 attended Malaspina University -College Cowichan Campus and completed the Building Inspector Training Program and is able to provide renovation and new home construction inspections and estimates. Ken is also a RRAP Inspector and has also taken, carpentry training, entrepreneurial training, local assistant to fire commissioner training, fire investigation cause determination training, and critical incident stress management and debriefing.
Our office keeps a copy of all records for each project including as-constructed drawings and all technical reports. A library of Operation and Maintenance manuals for each Band is also maintained, along with technical publications, manuals, and magazines. Library information, reports and drawing are available to Band Offices and membership for information and planning purposes.
The technical services also has survey equipment, flow measuring device, portable multi-gas monitors for confined space entry, water testing equipment, print machine (blueprints), M-scope leak detector, pipe laser, magnetic locator (pin finder), Arctic Blaster – water line thawing device, that are available to the member bands.