TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
Portland Group
Visits Air
Museum
Apply for Over
Income Grants
for Your Home
Portland area families and youth
join in a field trip to the Evergreen Air
Museum in McMinnville, Ore., in April.
The highlight of the trip was. natu
rally, the spectacular Spruce Goose,
though kids and adults alike thoroughly
enjoyed meeting actual pilots, seeing
the planes they piloted years ago. and
also working with computers that
simulate landings and takeoffs.
Participants included Katie and
Gerard Billmyer; John Killibrew and
his mom. Sande Steele; the McClintock
family; Haley Kirk and her mom,
Calina Kirk; Gary Butler Jr.; Nicole
Mortenson; and Tina Baldimero and
her granddaughter, Antoinette.
The Over-Income Rehabilitation
Construction program funds over-income
families with a $5.000 grant for con
struction rehabilitation on the primary
residence they own or families who
have possessor rights to their home.
Rehabilitation refers to repairs or
renovations to the home, but does not
include appliances, saunas, hot tubs,
swimming pools, etc.
Over-Income refers to tribal members
whose income exceeds the income lim
its set by the Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination Act
(NAHASDA). These are listed as follows:
Nicole Mortenson tries out the simulator at the Evergreen Air Museum.
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32,500
37,100
4 1,800
46,400
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50.100
53,800
57,550
61.250
Don’t Forget
Student Incentive
Program
If you are a Siletz Tribal member
and have not received an over-income
grant, call the Housing office to request
an application. Applications, including
The Siletz Tribal Council estab
lished a Student Incentive Program to
reward student achievements as they
graduate from the following levels:
proof of income, enrollment, and
mortgage, must be submitted to the
Housing office by July 31, 2006, at
4:30 p.m.
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Head Start/Pre-School
Kindergarten
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Adult Vocational Training
Higher Education
Students can submit a copy of their
graduation certificate, name, and mail
ing address to the education specialist
for their area. The education specialist
will submit the certificate for the stu
dent incentive and mail the incentive
Gary Butler Jr. practices how he will fly helicopters in the future at the
Evergreen Air Museum.
2006 Standing Committee Openings
Any tribal member interested in serving on a committee for a two-year
term must fill out the following form and return it to the address below to
be considered for the following committees.
Please mail or fax your application to Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians, Attn: Executive Secretary to Tribal Council. P.O. Box 549, Siletz,
OR 97380-0549; Fax: 541-444-8325.
Name:
Roll No:
Address: ___________________________________________ ______________
For More Information
City:
ZIP:
State:
Portland Area Office; Katy Kaady,
503-238-1512, 3715 SE 39lh, Port
land. OR 97202; e-mail katyk@
ctsi.nsn.us
Salem Area Office: Sonya Moody-
Jurado, 503-390-9494, 3160 Blos
som Dr NE Suite 105, Salem, OR
97305; e-mail sonyamj@ctsi.nsn.us
Eugene Area Office: Nick Sixkiller,
541-484-4234, 2468 W I l'h Ave.,
Eugene, OR 97402; e-mail
nicks@ctsi.nsn.us
Siletz Area Office and students out
side of 11-county service area:
Alissa Lane, 541-444-8373 or
1-800-922-1399. ext. 1373; 201 SE
Swan Ave.. Siletz. OR 97380;
e-mail alissal@ctsi.nsn.us
Applications received after that
date and time will not be accepted by
the Siletz Tribal Housing Department.
The selection process will be a lottery
drawing of applications received by the
deadline.
If you have any questions, please
call 1-800-922-1399, ext. 1322, or
541-444-8322.
Telephone: Day (
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Evening (
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Choose the first, second, and third choice of committees you are re
questing by numbering your preference 1, 2, 3 in the space provided. If
you only want to request one committee, please indicate this by inserting
the number I. Committee appointments are for a two-year term.
____ Pow-Wow Committee (open)
Culture Committee (I)
Deadline for consideration for these committees is .lune 30, 2006.
Tribal Council will review applications and approve appointments at the
Regular Tribal Council meeting in July 2006. If you have any questions,
please call Tami Miner at 1-800-922-1399 or 541-444-2532.
Siletz NARCH
Research Project
Starts First
Phase
by Claire Wood
NARCH Data Coordinator
The Siletz NARCH research project
survey has started. We mailed our con
sent forms to 1.000 randomly selected
adult tribal members on April 17 and
have received a good number back
requesting surveys.
If you have not received your sur
vey yet and you did request one. please
contact me. If you have received your
survey, please fill it out and return it to
me by June 16, 2006. If your survey
is received by June 16, you will receive
a T-shirt designed specifically for the
NARCH project.
Please help the Siletz Tribe by par
ticipating and returning your completed
survey as soon as possible.
If you have any questions regard
ing the NARCH research project or
survey, call me at 1-800-922-1399,
ext. 1276, or 541-444-8276; or send
an e-mail to me at clairew@ctsi.nsn.us.
June 2006
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