Tribal Council OKs numerous appointments to boards and committees

Tribal Council made a slew of appointments to Tribal committees and special event boards during its Wednesday, March 21, meeting.

Tribal Council appointed or re-appointed:

• Marline Groshong and Shonn Leno to the Ceremonial Hunting Board with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Margaret Provost, Faye Smith, Joanna Brisbois and Logan Kneeland to the Culture Committee with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Andy Jenness to the Editorial Board with a term expiring in March 2021;

• Shelby Maerz and Tammy Cook to the Education Committee with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Andrew Freeman, Bryan Langley, John Lillard, Harold Lyon, Tracey Howerton and Angey Rideout to the Fish & Wildlife Committee with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Bernadine Shriver, Faye Smith, Gladys Hobbs and Darlene Aaron to the Health Committee with terms expiring in March 2020. In addition, Patti Tom-Martin was appointed as an honorary member.

• Angey Rideout and Stephanie Craig to the Powwow Special Event Board with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Stephanie Craig to the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance Commission with a term expiring in March 2020;

• Bob Mercier, Jon George, Khani Schultz, Frank Hostler and Mel Holmes to the Timber Committee with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Albert Miller and Raymond Petite to the Veterans Special Event Board with terms expiring in March 2020.

• Deanna Johnston and Lori Sterling to the Election Board with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Margaret Provost, Barbara Gibbons and Tracie Meyer to the Enrollment Board with terms expiring in March 2020;

• Matt Thomas and Shayla Myrick-Meyer to the Housing Grievance Board with terms expiring in March 2019; Kristy Criss-Lawson and Linda Hale to the Housing Grievance Board with terms expiring in March 2020; and Cristina Lara and Patti LeClaire to the Housing Grievance Board with terms expiring in March 2021.

• And Isabelle Grout, Jason Page and Madalyn Volz to the Youth Council with terms expiring in March 2019 and Kailiyah Krehbiel, Kaleigha Simi, Payton Smith and Aspen Wilson to the Youth Council with terms expiring in March 2020.

In other action, Tribal Council authorized a fiscal year 2018 funding agreement with the Bonneville Power Administration not to exceed $132,711 that funds the Tribe’s participation in Power Administration processes in its ceded lands, as well as the Hydrosystems Compliance specialist position in the Lands Department.

Tribal Council also approved the enrollment of one infant into the Tribe because he or she meets the requirements outlined in the Tribal Constitution and Enrollment Ordinance.

In addition, Tribal Council approved the Housing Department’s 2017 Annual Performance Report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs and approved a Tri-Forest memorandum of understanding with the Willamette, Mount Hood and Siuslaw national forests that will now renew automatically every five years.

By consensus, Tribal Council approved the agenda for the Sunday, April 8, General Council meeting to be held at the Many Nations Longhouse on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. The Natural Resources Department will make the presentation.

Also included in the March 21 Tribal Council packet were 11 approved authorizations to proceed that included OKs to generate an official Tribal member roll that will include all Tribal members living and deceased and will be made public, nominate Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Board, authorizes the Tribe’s executive team to implement a Central Repository for important Tribal documents, authorizes Housing Department staff to develop recommendations regarding inclusion of suspicion-based drug testing into its drug testing policy and transfers $25,000 from contingency to Member Services to cover the cost of supplies needed for re-organization of the department’s enrollment files.

The entire Tribal Council meeting, which was the last 4 p.m. meeting until November, can be viewed by visiting the Tribal website www.grandronde.org and clicking on the News tab and then Video.