Karuk Tribe of
Council Meeting Minutes
Ayukii,
The meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM by
Roll Call
Present
Leaf Hillman, Vice Chairman
Florrine Super, Secretary
Leeon Hillman, Treasurer
Roy Arwood, Member – late 5:
Robert Goodwin, Member
Alvis Johnson, Member
Absent
Robert Grant, Member
Quorum is established.
Florrine Super read the preamble to the Constitution
aloud.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve the Agenda for August 24, 2006. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
1) Approval of
the Minutes for
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve the Minutes for July 27, 2006. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 2 pupitihara (
2) Pikship Fighters, Phil Albers
Not present at this time.
3)
Robert Goodwin asked how they
keep track of what she is doing. She
states that she speaks with Sandi and Craig quite often and keeps in touch with
the Water Quality staff as well.
klamath@riseup.net is her email address
and she has a phone number they can reach her at. Sandi states that she worked with
Leaf states that the Tribe
requests to be included as a part of the steering committee. Regina states that she is very open to that
and she is open to anything they want to do and is not set in her ways and is
still developing the program and wants to work with the Tribe and local
individuals to ensure that she is moving in the direction they want. She states that anytime they want her to come
to a meeting they can just ask her and she will come in.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to nominate
4) Phil Albers
Phil was present on behalf of
the Pikship Fighters and would like to schedule a
meeting between themselves, the Tribal Council, and the Brass Knuckles Promoter
at the Yreka site to discuss how they plan to move forward and what they would
like to change. They would like to have
the last event of this year in September and would like to meet prior to
that. He expects it would be a rather
short meeting of only about 30 minutes to discuss specifics. Bob states that they should have Scott go
take several photos of the site and then meet in Happy Camp. Florrine would like to meet in Yreka.
He states the two largest
complaints he received were that there was no alcohol and that Phil did not
fight for the title as expected. Bob
would like to discuss alcohol sales, tighter security, and also discussion
about future events. Scott states that
the Chief of Police was impressed with the security staff used for the last
events and their credentials. Phil
states they were not really pleased with the security team. They also need to address logistics to make
the site more user friendly.
They plan to meet on
For his next topic he was
joined by Codie Donahue to discuss the fighters that
have been training in
5) Old Business
None at this time.
6) Barbara
Houle
Not present, written report
only. Florrine asked Bob about his
concerns with the food booth and if she needs to speak to Barbara. He states he just wants to check with the
promoter to see if they are meeting the concession needs and he also wants to
speak to them about the intermission and possibly having two intermissions
instead of only one.
7)
Hector was present and has
nothing to add at this time. Florrine
asked about the Title IV-E Negotiations and the
Leaf asked which Wilderness
Bill he references in his report. Hector
states he was at a meeting in
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve Hector’s
report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
A community member states
that the Wilderness Bill has already passed Congress and is awaiting Senate
approval and was sponsored by Mike Thompson in
8) Jim Berry
Jim was present to review his
written report.
He is requesting rescission
of the Resolution previously approved for Corina’s
OES Grant and approval of a replacement Resolution with revised wording OES
would like included. Their request is to
rescind Resolution 06-R-66 and approve Resolution 06-R-103 for the OES Program.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to rescind Resolution 06-R-66. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve Resolution 06-R-103. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Robert Goodwin moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Jim’s report. 7 haa, 0 pupitihara.
9)
Not present, written report
only.
Florrine Super moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve April’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 1 pupitihara (
Bob would like April’s input
on whether or not the Social Services Planning she has been participating in is
moving in the right direction for the Tribe.
They would like a Directive issued to this effect asking her whether or
not the Council needs to be more involved in the process.
10) Social
Services
Not present, written reports
only from Mike Edwards and Daniel Pratt.
Florrine Super moved and
11) Rick
Hill/Hester Miller
Hester was present to review
the written report. She states she has
only one thing to add which is that the FEMA Plan has been approved and she has
received some additional information from Sandi that she will be following up
on and the funding should come soon!
Leaf states this is great news and they appreciate her and Rick’s
efforts as well as the other staff that worked on the plan and got it done, he
states they did a good job and they appreciate it.
Leaf asked about the funding
for the Senior Center Kitchen. Laura
states that there is funding coming in from the Forest Service, possible
funding from Housing, match funding, and other possible sources that may be
able to meet the full needs of the kitchen in Happy Camp.
Leaf Hillman moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Hester’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
12)
Dion was present to review
his written report. He has two action
items.
He states the funding for
next year’s Childcare Program will be about $102,000 which is slightly higher
than last year.
He requests approval of
Contract 06-C-049 with Jon Grant, not to exceed $29,000 plus $1,000 for travel
expenses. This will fund all
deliverables necessary to get a Tribal TANF Program established. The funding would be charged against TANF
first if possible, discretionary last.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Contract 06-C-049. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
His second item is out of
state travel to send five individuals to the National Indian Education
Association 37th Annual Call to Convention,
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve travel for five to
Dion states there is
currently an issue with childcare for the employees. He would like to know if he can try to work
with the Center to negotiate some sort of discounted rate for the staff. Arch states as the Childcare Program
Coordinator he should do that.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Dion’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
13) Jennifer
Goodwin
Jennifer was present to
review her written report.
Florrine Super moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Jennifer’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
14) Erin
Hillman
Robert Goodwin moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to approve the purchase agreement from
Freedom Homes for $79,161. 7 haa, 0
puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
She states three contractors
attended the pre-bid in Yreka for the new Housing/Community Building. She states that she continues to work on the
People’s Center Grants to bring them current and close them out. She states they visited the site and asked
questions about the plans; the bid opening will not be until next month.
Laura pointed out that by
following up on the outstanding People’s Center grants
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve
15) Sami
Difuntorum
Not present, written report
only, on travel. Josh was available if
they had any questions.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Robert asked about the
request for assistance from the Maintenance Department to help with demolition
of the
16)
Laura was present to review
her written report.
She requested 15 minutes next
Wednesday for them to be training on Direct Deposit and how they authorize
that. The staff has already been
trained.
She distributed copies of the
FY2007 Indirect Cost Proposal and will be requesting approval on Wednesday.
She states she has started
budget meetings with the staff and in one of the discussions there was a
recommendation to replace the Orleans Wheelchair van with a Honda Civic so that
it is not being driven unnecessarily.
There is also the possibility that they may want to purchase one more
pool vehicle for each site as well and they can look at prices on Wednesday and
make a decision.
She states she will meet with
Social Services next week and still needs to meet with DNR to go over budgets. She would like to meet with the Council the
third or fourth week of September to go over all of the budgets, preferably the
third week.
She states that Laura Olivas
is working on the CAIR billing and is reviewing the entries. There does appear to be some discrepancies
and she will be researching all of the information next week to determine what
needs to be billed. It may be too late
for some but they will work on it to bring it up to date.
She states they recently
leased the parking lot at HCHS for $75/day for at total of $1,800 but the
property is HCHS’ and they would like to receive the funding. She has stated no, as they lease the building
but the lease agreement indicates they should have requested approval before
sub-leasing the property so they can discuss that Wednesday as well.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve Laura’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
17)
Lisa’s written report was
distributed as she is on travel. Her
report includes one action item which is approval of Resolution 06-R-100 to
apply for the FY2007 Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding but
it will have to wait as the full proposal has not been submitted to Erin and
Laura for review.
Robert asked if they are
expecting to meet their goal to expend the LIHEAP Funding by the end of the
Fiscal Year. He suggests funding fuel
ahead of time for the coming winter to expend the funds.
Robert Goodwin moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Lisa’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
18) Chris
Kleeman
No report, not present.
19) Davey Davis
Not present, written report
only.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve Davey’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
20) Scott Quinn
Scott was present to review
his written report. He states he has no
action items but is available if they have questions. Leaf asked about the process to purchase the
recent piece of property they approved.
Scott states they have entered escrow and he expects it to close within
a month. It appears from the title
report it does not have Highway 96 access.
Bob states at Inaam there were some rafters who floated by and he would
like for Scott to talk to Hector about what the Forest Service is doing to keep
people from using the River. Sandi
states she works with them every year but essentially they cannot stop people
from using the River. The permits the
rafters obtain have the dates included, individuals would not know other than
reading it on signs. Joe and Beca know who the people are and they can get them their
contact information so they can speak to them.
Bob asked for an updated
listing of all of the properties and their Trust status.
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve Scott’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
21)
Sandi was present to review
her written report. She apologized that
some of her coordinators were out of the office at the time the report was put
together and so she has some handouts.
She also distributed some of the media hits from Craig over the last
month as well.
She states there are several
studies and projects currently underway as well as several coming up for the
Fall. She gave them some information on
what they are and what they will be doing in several locations.
She went over the results of
the recent rally in
She distributed a letter
received from BIA regarding a request made to transfer their current
reimbursement agreement for the Fire Crew into compacted funds. They do not want to roll it into the main
Tribal Compact but instead create a new Compact only for the Fire Crew. This will not result in the funding being
recurring, it will still be a reimbursement program but it will result in
recovering the Indirect Costs paid on fire crew wages.
She requested approval of
Contract 06-C-050 with the Siskiyou Resource Conservation District in the
amount of $25,896 as identified in the BOR AFA to fund the thermal refugia studies on the
She states Craig is currently
at the Yreka Chamber of Commerce Meeting speaking with them to convince the
business owners in Yreka that they will benefit from all of the work the Tribe
has been doing on the River.
She requested a date for the
next DNR Mid Month Meeting. They
selected
Robert Goodwin moved and
Leaf Hillman seconded to approve Sandi’s report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
22) Susan
Gehr/Phil Albers
Susan Gehr and Phil Albers
were both present to review the written report.
Phil updated them on the
online survey they have been working on and a small glitch that they ran into. He is trying to get more individuals to do
the survey. The survey is for other
Language Programs using distance education for their programs.
Phil states he has been
working with the Oregon Education Association on a program in which Tribes can
certify their Teachers and those credentials are then accepted by the State
System. Sandi states that
Phil has been looking into
fluency level testing to determine how fluent individuals are in a language and
would like to bring some of that information into the Tribe’s Language Program
but isn’t getting a very fast response.
Bob asked if anyone has an
online interactive language class that can be taken at an individual’s own
pace. Phil states that yes for other
languages but not for native languages.
He states you can buy DVDs and watch online videos but it is not
interactive or certified.
Phil states they have grant
funding that could be used to develop something of that nature through the
Language Restoration Committee and the Language Program they need to decide
what media outlet they would like to use to distribute Language
information. Susan states that if they
are keeping with their timeline, they said they would have it done by the end
of September and their plans are to have a Language Restoration Committee
Meeting on
He states they are completely
compliant with ANA on their reporting and working out timeline/deadline
issues. Florrine asked about putting
more language on the website and there was discussion about that.
Robert Goodwin moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to approve the Language report. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
23) Fred
Burcell
Not present, written report
only.
Florrine Super moved and
24) Requests
None at this time.
25) Phone Votes
a) Approval to cover expenses at the rate of
$130 per day for expected length of stay to be two weeks. Passed.
b) Authorization to purchase merchandise in the
amount of $500 for People’s Center gift shop.
Passed.
c) Approval for out of state travel to
d) Approval to purchase flowers for the
helicopter pilot’s funeral. Passed.
e) Approval for employee to skip $200 monthly
payment on loan. Passed.
f) Approval for stipends for three TERO
Commissioners while on travel. Passed.
g) Approval to transfer Senior Nutrition Program
to the Grange if the fire fighters need to use the facility. Passed.
26)
Informational
None at this time.
27) Committee
Reports
Florrine Super, Youth Leadership: Florrine
states that she wanted to update them on her on her ideas for this year’s youth
leadership conference. She hopes to have
it at the Convention Center in Yreka.
Her goal is to not only teach people about the effects of drugs and
alcohol but to teach them tools to overcome addiction and get out of situations
that promote that and be strong against peer pressure. She would also like to have a session that
includes a Language Immersion session where they make a craft but it is done
completely in the Karuk Language. She
would like to schedule it for the middle of October or beginning of November. She hopes the Miner’s
28) Closed
Session from 8:
Alvis Johnson moved and
Robert Goodwin moved and
Robert Goodwin moved and Leeon Hillman seconded to uphold Housing’s decision for
Tribal Member #1275. 4 haa, 1 puuhara
(Florrine Super), 2 pupitihara (Leaf Hillman and
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve a $1,500 loan for Tribal Member #2724 to be
repaid at the rate of $100 per paycheck.
5 haa, 1 puuhara (Florrine Super), 1 pupitihara (Robert Goodwin).
Consensus: To table the loan request from Tribal Member
#1852 to the Wednesday Meeting and request that they contact Mike Edwards to
work with him on guarantees the loan will be repaid.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve the overage for burial assistance for Tribal
Member #1055 and evaluate the assistance level going forward from the LIAP
Program. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Leaf Hillman moved and
Robert Goodwin seconded to approve a loan in the amount of $525.96 for Tribal
Member #466 to be repaid at the rate of $50 per pay check. 7 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Consensus: To forward Tribal Member #1981 to
Consensus: To approve the request from Tribal Member #2603
to reduce their monthly loan payments from $50 per month to $25 per month.
Robert Goodwin, Leaf Hillman, and Leeon
Hillman excused themselves.
Consensus: To discuss the request of the Election
Committee further at their Wednesday Meeting.
Robert Goodwin, Leaf Hillman, and Leeon
Hillman returned.
Booster Club Vote: Florrine Super moved and
Next Meeting Date:
Meeting adjourned at 10:50 PM.
Yootva,
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Recording Secretary,