Karuk Tribe of
Council Meeting Minutes
Happy Camp,
Ayukii,
The meeting was called to order at
Roll Call
Leaf Hillman, Vice Chairman
Florrine Super, Secretary
Leeon Hillman, Treasurer
Roy Arwood, Member
Robert Goodwin, Member
Robert Grant, Member
Alvis Johnson, Member
Quorum is established.
The preamble to the Constitution was read aloud by Robert
Grant.
Approval of the Agenda for
Robert Goodwin moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve the Agenda for March 23, 2006. 8 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
1) Approval of
the Minutes for
2)
They requested that the
Council ask them some questions so that they can practice answering
questions. They are also requesting
assistance with their trip to
Leaf asked if they would
collaborate to write a Newsletter article on this activity. The deadline for the Newsletter is
Leaf asked if they used any
historical sources for their project.
They state they did interviews including Elders. Phil states he worked with all of these girls
on this project and there are two presentations that are included in different
categories. Susan has also worked with
them on their projects. Susan states
that she did forward them written historical sources for their presentations to
go along with the oral interviews. They
will be forwarding audio tapes to go along with their presentation also.
3) Sherlee
Preston, Elementary School 8th Grade Advisor
Jennifer was present on the
behalf of Sherlee regarding a request made at one of the Orleans Site Council Meetings. This year when they go on their end of the
year trip they have to pay for the Substitute Teacher while they are away. They are requesting approximately $350-360
for the three days of coverage. This is
the first year they have implemented this requirement.
Bob requested that it be
determined who the Tribe has on staff/contract that are qualified to serve in
this capacity and see if they are willing to do so for the Tribe. This request will be tabled to Wednesday for
a decision.
4) Ben Riggan,
KCDC
Ben was present along with
representatives from the Klamath Knot Arts Council and is hoping to obtain
approval of the RAC Proposal in the amount of $177,000 with Resolution
06-R-28. He prepared a Powerpoint
Presentation that outlines this community project.
They hope to construct a
building of small diameter wood with walls made of wood chips to create a new
industry in the area. He states they are
very impressive and he has visited several on-site to see them. The goal of the project is to demonstrate
this technology and also create a community center that can promote
collaboration between community organizations and also create a building that
can be used for several cultural/artistic purposes.
There will be a stewardship
project initiated by the Tribe to harvest the small diameter wood that will be
used to construct the building. DNR
would be actively involved in this portion and the Tribe will be the lead in
cooperation with the Forest Service to ensure that cultural management
practices are adhered to.
He introduced Alan Crockett
and he first thanked everyone for the time to present to them. He states this is a great opportunity to work
together. He states that this seems like
a very interesting project to collaborate together on several different types
of activities together including artistic architecture, forest management, and
industry development. He gave them some
background on the Arts Council and their progress since 2004.
There would need to be
contractual issues worked out between the land owners and the
He states there is an art show
opening this Saturday and they should check it out if at all possible. They hope to integrate some other art
projects such as plays, etc. The
facility would have exhibition space (rentals and commissions), workshops and
studio spaces (fees), dances and performances (admission), lectures, classes,
and conferences (tuition), office space and artist in residence (leases),
farmers market and culinary crafts (sales), cultural activities/art openings
(free). These will all be ways to raise
funding for the facility.
He also introduced Michael
Hentz who is a KSAC Board Member, MCWC Member, KCDC Volunteer, and also works
with the KCDC on the development of this project and he presented his thoughts
on the project and what he hopes to obtain from the project and this
partnership.
They are also working on
gathering additional funding sources and developing the Business Plan for this
project. The next steps are to develop
agreements, hold community meetings, complete their business plans, and also
move toward regional promotion.
They requested approval of
the grant application for submission to the Siskiyou County RAC with Resolution
06-R-28 to move forward on this project.
There is also a letter
included in this requiring a Council Member on the Board of Directors for this
project. Leaf suggests that they put
this on the Wednesday Agenda so they can select who that will be. Michael states that there is a meeting on
Monday at
5) Troy
Hockaday
He states he met someone in
Warm Springs who told him about a $28,000 grant that they receive up there each
year to put on youth tournaments throughout the year. After the tournaments, the youth participate
in educational activities as well. He
hopes to bring this information to the Booster Club to see if it is funding
they can pursue. Leaf states as a
volunteer member of the Booster Club he is more than welcome to gather
information of this type and bring it to them to see if it is something they
can apply for and use.
He also thanked them for
inviting him to the Monitor Training Meeting the other day. He states that after the meeting he saw that
the Forest Service is doing work in Happy Camp that includes digging and
noticed there is no monitor on site, it is just above 5 Mile Elk Creek and he
wanted to bring it to their attention.
Sandi states she did not realize they were doing any work like that up
there and sometimes there is a communication break down on projects of this
type. She states she will talk to Alan
tomorrow.
Sara asked about getting a
Newsletter article about the Warm Springs Basketball Tournament. He states he will get her the newspaper
article that he did and Tamara will be doing an article on the youth tournament
that was held in Happy Camp.
He thanked
6) Dwayne Myers
Dwayne wanted to know if he
could reserve the Multi-Purpose Room for a Big Money Bingo. Blanche states that they are booked up
through June. Historically there is only
one Bingo each month. Arch suggests that
he may be able to do one in Yreka and maybe they could work with the Booster
Club on that to raise money. He could
also reserve the month of June for Happy Camp.
He was also wondering about
the Tribe’s conflict with the Fire Safe Council as he has been told that the
Tribe cannot go across their property to do some chipping on
Leaf Hillman excused himself at
7) Old Business
Arch asked about the request
from Kristy Goodwin for $100 to support a Big Money Bingo. They need to forward that request to the
Monday Booster Club Meeting.
8) Susan Gehr,
Language
Phil was present on behalf of
Susan to cover the Language Program report.
He was originally going to
request out of state travel for himself and Elaina Supahan to attend the
American Indian Language Development Institute pending approval of their
scholarship applications. The dates are
Susan has declined to attend
and recommends he attend. There is a
grant opportunity for up to $150,000 for up to three years that could come from
this trip. The only expense to the Tribe
is for travel expenses if the scholarship is approved. He will still be available during that time
by email/phone but neither him or Susan would be at the People’s Center and
this has been discussed at length before applying for the scholarship. They will still be able to meet their grant
objectives and the potential for grant funding could also further the program. It is in
He states that they have made
arrangements for the Language Restoration Committee to handle needed items
while he is away such as the Tribal Reunion since Susan will be out at the same
time.
He also included their
concept paper for the Endangered Language Fund that they plan to apply for
funding to put together a Karuk Baby Naming Guidebook that follows traditional
practices with.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve the Language Program’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
9)
Sandi was present to review
the DNR report with the Council.
Her first action item is
Contract 06-C-023 with the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council for the amount of
$4,000 to put together a mini-documentary regarding the blue-green algae
issues.
Roy Arwood moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve Contract 06-C-023. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Her next action item is
Contract 06-C-024 with Regina Chichizola in the amount of $9,800 to serve as
the Klamath Restoration Council Coordinator to be supervised by DNR Staff.
Next, she presented Contract
06-C-025 with Kier Associates in the amount of $6,000 to provide technical
assistance for the
Robert Goodwin moved and
She requested a date for the
next Mid Month Meeting. They selected
Earl distributed preliminary
information regarding a $25,000 grant proposal to the National Forest. If they are awarded the funding, then they
will negotiate a different process and request approval of the Resolution that
is included. If they are then approved,
the Tribe will send them $25,000 and then they will forward the Tribe a grant
for $50,000 and at the conclusion of the project, the Tribe receives their
$25,000 back. It sounds strange so Laura
has been doing research to make sure it is a legitimate agency. Earl has also done research on their previous
projects and what others that have been funded this way thought of their
process. He would like their approval to
submit the proposal, if it is accepted; they will bring it back to the Council
for final approval. The Council feels
comfortable with this as long as the financial details are worked out by the
staff.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Sandi’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
10) Scott
Quinn, Land/Transportation
Scott did not have any action
items and reviewed the remainder of his report with the Council.
Bob asked if maps can be
accessible online so that they can access information when they need it.
He states he recently
completed mapping of all of the allotments.
He cross referenced the information he was given with the County
information. Arch asked if there are
still allotments as there was recently a letter received regarding a family
member of his. Scott states it depends
on if it has been probated and how many allotees are listed on a property. He asked who will be handling this. Hector states that if grant funding is
approved, they will be sent to the
He states he has been working
with Leo on sign placement to have signs installed by the County to draw visitors
into the People’s Center.
Bob also asked that he look
into the trailer frames that are near the Fuileye property to make sure they
are not on the Tribe’s land. Scott
states he will do that to see what is going on.
He states he has been working
with FEMA on the Tribe’s needs and road damage they have. He states that FEMA will only fund non-BIA
roads and most of their roads are BIA roads.
Also, in order to qualify the damage must be more than $1,000. He has identified 6 possible projects that
will be eligible. He has also asked BIA
and was told that their damage must be at least $5,000 before they will repair
it.
He updated them on other
projects he has been working on and meetings he has been attending as he has been
very busy.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Scott’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
11) Barbara
Houle, CASA
Written report only, not
present.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve Barbara’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
12)
April was present to address
the Council. She does not have a written
report but will prepare a detailed report for them by Wednesday. She states the Title IVE Funding meeting was
held last week and it was very well attended by staff and Council and both
Counties were present. She thanked
everyone for taking the time to be there and they are moving forward. She gave them an overview of the information
discussed at the meeting.
She also states they won
their appeal on the ICWA Case!
Florrine requested
information on the
She states they will be
hosting a meeting on
Robert Goodwin moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve April’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
13) Jim Berry,
KCDC
Jim was present to review the
written reports for KCDC for himself and the other programs including
HeadStart, Naa Vura Yee Shiip, Economic Development Coordinator, and
He states the audit came back
good and he thanked everyone for digging them out the hole they were in and he
looks forward to working with Laura to take KCDC off the DOI’s High Risk list
once the audit is received.
He states last Monday there
was a presentation by Cufic Technologies and they have received the letter of
intent that has been forwarded to Erin, Laura, and Hector. He is the Tribal Descendent interested in
forming an 8A partnership with the Tribe to create a Tribal technology company. The way he currently does it is by subbing
out a lot of the deliverables under the contracts he signs onto. There is a percentage of the work that has to
be done by the Tribe in-house. Laura
states the need to pursue very cautiously because often the Tribe has entered
partnerships where they gained nothing and the other party gained
substantially. Bob states that is why
they are making sure everyone is aware before they move into anything.
He updated them that Sue will
be emailing the final draft emailed on Monday and will then be present at the
Wednesday meeting for final approval and to gather any feedback the Council
has.
Arch commented that he really
liked his report as it included information from all of the KCDC Departments.
Ben pointed out that his
report includes information regarding requesting their next cycle of funding
that is in the pre-application stage with some revised goals. He would like them to review those goals to
make sure they are comfortable with them.
He states that the CEDS needs to be updated but the Council must have
input into the changes they want to make.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Jim’s report.
7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
14)
Hector was present to review
his written report with the Council.
He pointed out that he
watched the Judges when Stephanie and Paula presented their cases to the three
judges in
Bob asked if they have
petitioned the Court for legal fees.
April states that Stephanie will be doing this. Hector states that they should thank
Stephanie for all of her work on this case.
Hector states it will take a lot of work to get all of the agreements in
place and functional but the Karuk Tribe is the first to take a stand on this
issue and win and everyone will want to make sure that it is done properly.
He states he is very proud to
be working for this Tribe because someday the Karuk children will remember this
Council and how hard they worked on this case for the Tribe, someday those
children will be the leaders of this Tribe.
Consensus: To purchase flowers and a thank you card for
15)
Lisa was present to review
her written report. She has no action
items at this time. She states that she,
Carrie, and Colleen have been working very hard to put together the Flagger’s
Training as Dion is unavailable due to travel obligations. She thanked them for allowing Colleen to work
with her and stated that she is doing wonderfully.
She states that two
individuals have declined the Home Replacement Funding through BIA. She was hoping they would authorize them to
move down the list but BIA has not approved that, the funding goes to the next
California Indian with the highest points.
She states she may have to go door to door next year to get enough
applications to get someone approved.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve Lisa’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
16)
Written report only, on
travel.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Dion’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
17) Rick Hill,
Grant Writer
Rick was present to address
the Council. He distributed his written
report.
He states his immediate
concern is the transfer of the
He included information
regarding FEMA mitigation and the Hazard Plan that needs to be developed in
order to receive funding from them. That
can be tabled to
He states he attended the
Grant Writing Workshop with Sue last week and it was a wonderful opportunity.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Rick’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
18)
Laura distributed her written
report for their review.
She states she has been
working with the Billing Department on a draft policy regarding collections for
bills that are unpaid and also writing off bad debts.
She attended the Title IVE
Meeting in
The Fiscal Year 2005 Audit is
complete, there is still one finding regarding incomplete I-9’s they still
found five I-9’s that were incomplete.
She is working on a process to ensure that this does not happen next
year. The I-9’s are there and the ID’s
are there but small pieces of information were missing and it was scrutinized
closely as it was a finding last year.
She states her staff will be
rotating the Newsletter articles so that her staff will be writing the articles
instead of her. Jamie will be attending
two trainings in May in
Robert Goodwin moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve Laura’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
19) Erin
Hillman, Administrative Programs & Compliance
She asked about the State
ICWA Conference Planning and who the lead is on the project. Florrine states she will let her know when
their next meeting is, there is an ICWA Meeting on 3/28 at
Roy Arwood moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve
20) Leo
Carpenter, People’s Center
Written report only, not
present.
Florrine asked about the Men
and Women’s Culture Class and what is going on with that. Jennifer states it is posted around town.
21) Chris
Kleeman, IT
Chris was present to request
approval of one action item which is the purchase of necessary equipment to
upgrade the Happy Camp Health Services Clinic phone system from ABP Tech in the
amount of $5,710.32. This will also help
the
He states the new T1 lines
and routers in place which was hard to coordinate. There was an Internet outage yesterday so he
switched everyone over to IHS until the problem was repaired. He is starting to catch up on requests he has
been receiving and getting employees to put their order requests in writing
rather than verbal.
He states he can possibly use
a portion of the Blue Shield Funding to implement a small wireless tower that
can eliminate the phone line between the Administration Office and Happy Camp
Health Services Clinic which will save some monthly line charges.
Purchased a small generator
that is enough to power the RPMS server in a power outage to prevent the
outlying offices from being without RPMS service as well as power the Finance
server in a power outage.
He was asked by the
There is a follow-up DocStar
demonstration being held at the Yurok Tribal Office and actually see the system
in use at their office. He states Leo
has not gotten back to him regarding scheduling a website for the People’s
Center as of this time.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Chris’ report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
22) Jennifer
Goodwin, Education
Jennifer was present to
review her written report. She has one
action item which is approval from the Council to designate $3,000 toward the
High School Graduate Scholarship Fund that was set up last year to fund 6
scholarships at $500 each if they would like to do that again. The requirements were included with her
report.
Florrine asked if there was any
way to find out if there are adults graduating that could be eligible. Jennifer states they were focusing on youth
going straight from high school to college to encourage that rather than taking
a break. Florrine suggests accepting
the applications and approving them for adults if they did not pay all of the
scholarships out to youth going straight to college, there is no age designated
in the guidelines. Jennifer states she
can take an application such as that to the Committee to see what their thoughts
are. The youth who receive this are
still eligible for the Higher Education Grants as well so they could
potentially receive $1,500. The age
requirement is not really necessary as you could be any age and graduating high
school.
Florrine Super moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to designate $3,000 of discretionary funding for
scholarships. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0
pupitihara.
She is working with Gerry on
developing an Education website further.
She needs to have him set up a separate page within the website so that
she can point interested individuals to that site for more information and
links to scholarship sources that are out there.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Jennifer’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
She states there will be
another Title 7 meeting on
23) Fred
Burcell, Maintenance/Construction
Written report only, not
present. His report included one action
item which was approval of $5,445.36 to repair the Ford Backhoe from Central
Equipment Co. Inc. The costs can come
from Indirect.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Fred’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
24) Don Voyles,
Maintenance/Automotive
Written report only, not
present.
25) Sami
Difuntorum, KTHA
Written report only, not
present. Florrine states there was
supposed to be updates in her report regarding the items they discussed at the
Canyonville Meeting and she did not see those in there. Bob suggests tabling it if they want more
information.
Consensus: To table the report to Wednesday and ask her
to come to the meeting.
26) Daniel
Pratt, Social Services
Written report only, not
present.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Daniel’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, pupitihara.
27) Requests
None at this time.
28) Phone Votes
a) Out of state
travel for Ron Reed to
b) Approval of Contract with
c) Approval of Resolution 06-R-24 authorizing
the addition of non-BIA reservation roads to the official BIA roads
inventory. Passed.
d) Approval of Resolution 06-R-18 for ICW. Passed.
e) Approval for Barbara Norman to attend travel
to probate consortium in Sacraemtno,
f) Approval to purchase a boat trailer in the
amount of $3,600. Passed.
g) Approval to submit a proposal to the
Stewardship Council Youth Investment Program for $45,013. Passed.
h) Approval of $600 to assist Tribal Member
#3852. Passed.
29) Informational
A thank you letter from
Equest was included, they feel it is an honor that the Tribe approves of their
project and wants to work with them!
30) Committee
Reports
Arch states that the Booster
Club Meeting went well and they are working on getting things organized.
Closed Session from
Directive: To request that Barbara Norman be present at
the meeting on Wednesday to go over all of this information in person.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Florrine Super seconded to appoint Charles Henry as the
Roy Arwood moved and
Directive: Copies of all KTHA Letters of Intent received
are to be forwarded to the Human Resources Manager as received.
Consensus: Loan request for $4,998 tabled to Wednesday.
Next Meeting Date:
Yootva,
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Recording Secretary, Sara Spence