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such a l i s t of q u a lified people we « il l be able to
h ire a q u a lified candidate who can overcone th ese
problems. Dee said th e worst th in g i s having a
boss and bringing in another boss and the s t a f f not
knowing who i s the b oss. Monte said th e people are
train ed to cone in and pick up the p ieces without
having a su p ervisor. L i l l i e asked i f th e S ta ff was
q u a lifie d to help the Executive D irector to pick up
th ese p ie c e s. Frank said they were n ot, but
tra in in g i s changing th is now. L i l l i e said in
h irin g an Executive D irector h e/sh e should be
q u a lifie d to step in and pick up the p ie c e s.
J e ss ie said from working on th e In v e stig a tiv e
Committee a lo t of th in gs were going on in STEDCO
that was not documented. Normally a new person
would have an audit tr a il to follow* in STEDCO th is
i s not the ca se . Dee suggested maybe a three month
b a sis as a compromise. D olly said why s ta te a
sp e c ifie d tim e. Dee said th ere w ill be a lo t of
areas where th ere i s not a clear answer and
eventual Iy th in g s would come to a s ta n d s till and
someone has to say th is i s the end and go on to
d iffe r e n t b u sin ess. Bud said maybe Phil should be
a lia is o n . Dee said she was concern because i f she
was applying for a p o sitio n ! she would not want to
come in and try to run a b u sin ess knowing someone
e ls e i s out th ere looking over her shoulder.
Manuel said sin ce th e audit was made th ere i s s t i l l
another se t o f problems and to run smoothly we need
to iron out the problems. Dee said Phil could
a s s is t and work with whoever we h ir e . Dee asked
Phil for h is opin ion . Phil said h is comfort zone
i s what the Council wants him to do. During the
C andidate's Fair he was beat up because of what he
was doing and tasked to do. Phil asked i f the
R esolution was requesting to h ire an Executive
D irector A ssista n t. Phil said he g ets upset for
taking the heat for doing jobs he i s tasked to do
for th e C ouncil. He has no in ten tio n of working-as
STEDCO D irector! d oesn 't want the job and i s happy
with h is present job as General Manager. Dee said
she could not defend leaving Phil in th e STEDCO
job . Monte said that STEDCO should be separate and
th at i f we h ire someone we should go to the
Commission i f th ere are problems. Dee said she
does not want to see STEDCO hung up again and Phil
can help out but i t must be done in form ally. Dee
asked Frank how c lo s e they are to making a
s e le c tio n . Frank said they want to h ire an
E xecutive D irector and keep Phil on to phase th in gs
in . Monte wanted to know i f they would need help
from our General Manager i f they hired an Executive
D irector and an A ssista n t. Frank said they would
s t i l l need Phil to oversee the D irector u n til
th in g s are phased in . Monte said STEDCO must have
some real problems. Dee said th in g s are not going
to g et ironed out u n til we get someone in to run
th in g s. Bud said we should pick th e top personi
have Phil g iv e h is in p u t, le t that person run
th in g s and pick h is/h er own a s s is ta n t. L ill i e said
that we should go ahead and h ire the Executive
D irector! use Phil for an advisory r o le , and later
le t th e D irector h ire an a s s is ta n t. Phil said i f
th in g s are ran r ig h t, th ere i s not enough work for
a D irector and an A ssista n t. Dee said with Ted
gone th ere was a gap of knowledge. L i l l i e said
with proper tra in in g th is problem would not happen.
Frank said they are heading for each en terp rise
having a department head that reports to the
D irector. The m ajority of th e Council wants to
h ire a D irector with Phil working with the D irector
to provide a ssista n c e as n ecessary. Phil said he
spends a day maybe a day and a h a lf in STEDCO
during the week. Manuel said that STEDCO could use
whatever help people wanted to volu n teer. Jane
wanted to, know wHen the new Cqpmippiop ,members, are
co»ing onboard. Frank said they ju st found the
paper regarding phasing in the Commission members.
Phil said when they appointed the new Commissioner
they appointed him for 3 years in stead o f f illin g
the term. Everyone
appointed and who g ets
appointed should f i l l the sea t so that 3 r o ll over
ever year. Frank said John Roe would be th e f ir s t
one to leave.
Dee said D olly and Manuel
volunteered and John i s resig n in g . 3 people w ill
leave and 2 people w ill f i l l th e vacan cies.
BIA FORESTRY - Ken Lathrop, supervisor of timber
s a le s for BIA Portland branch, i s here to g iv e some
independent audit r e s u lts . Ken passed out a copy
of b u sin ess fig u res and market surveys. Ken said
th is was a C onfidential b u sin ess audit and market
fig u res are not to be recorded. Mike Farnsworth
works with timber s a le s with the Bureau P ortland 's
branch. He has reviewed th e timber s a le s of H ill
Creek and North Fork. The report passed out i s
more of a review and not an a u d it. The work
regarding STEDCO ca p ital i s an o u tlin e because i t
i s not com pletely done. The review was completed
because o f contract com pliance. He went to the
Contractors to ensure compliance was being followed
by C a ffell and STEDCO. The primary evalu ation
in d ica tes the p a r tie s complied with the co n tra ct.
During th e operation of the North Fork con tract how
much was to be paid to STEDCO was changedi in most
ca ses th ese changes b en efited STEDCO. The report
presented to th e
Tribe
and
STEDCO
were
su b stan tiated by th eir review . The report shows
the timber logged» value o f s a le and p r o fit to
STEDCO. The graph provided i s a summary and
individual graphs which provide a more d e ta il of
the marketed tim ber. Mike sa id they s t i l l have a
few th in g s to clea r up and expect a fin a l report in
the next week or s o . The chart shows th e gross
revenue! p r o fit t o STEDCO and return to the Tribe.
Dee asked how we could a ccess th ese fig u r e s. Ken
said we need
to
n eg o tia te more with the
com m issioners. The f ir s t fig u re se t i s th e
stumpage fig u re. He need to push that the stumpage
ra te be se t at the market le v e l. The second thing
would be to ensure that th e market p rices being
quoted i s a fa ir valu e. The other thing i s the
Commission stru ctu re. Set the stumpage at market
rate» Commission $8 + 15L BIA Forestry would be
glad to provide a ssista n c e .
Ken said when
n eg otia tin g we need a good n eg o tia to r. Set the
stumpage high to show that we only take good
markets. Frank said i f th e stumpage was higher
than our ta xes would be h igher. Ken said i f
s e ttin g the stumpage higher i s a problem with the
county on taxes» then we need to n eg otia te with the
Commission with p o ssib ly $8 * 102 but not over 157..
C affell i s honest but we need to work harder to get
lower Commission. Andy Vi Ies wanted to know the
co st d ifferen ce between 15 and 25 percent. Ken
said probably 40 -50»000 but he would need to
refig u re the fig u res. Monte wanted to know about
wharfage? Ken said we paid the to ta l co st of
wharfage reg ard less of the len gth . The F oresters
keep track to ensure
they
don't take an
in ord in a tely long tim e. Steve Krieg said they had
some d iffe r e n t fig u res from what BIA had. Ken said
that Mike would get with Steve and work on th is .
Ken said that when completed the Tribes Forester
and the BIA Forester fig u res would have to match.
Ken pointed out that the report they provided was a
d raft but the overall p ictu re does not change.
Andy V iles wanted to know i f the fin al report was
going to be C onfidential a ls o . Ken said yes
because of the market p rices in volved. Ken said
STEDCO and C a ffell Bros would be g ettin g th e fin a l
report-and i t .was up to them to. keep the
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inform ation c o n fid e n tia l. Steve wanted to know i f
there was a way to relea se p ortion s of the rep ort.
Ken said that when the report was received by
STEDCO» contact then and obtain portions of
in te r e s t. Ken said that market p rices change d a ily
and to contact him as soon as we are ready to
n eg o tia te timber s a le s .
Ken said they would
provide u p -to-d ate fig u res and a ls o be w illin g to
se t down at the bargaining ta b le with u s. Frank
wanted to know i f i t would be b etter to market our
own timber (dom estic) o u rselv es.
Ken said no
because th e market i s very tough and a lo t of
people could lose th eir s h ir t. If we market
dom estic we take away th e a b ilit y of our marketer
to flo a t with the market. He would be working on a
small window» with lim ited tim ber. Frank asked i f
we were looking in to buying timber and marketing i t
how would we b e n e fit. Ken said th e trick was to
get the maximum s tu ff in to export where the higher
p rices are. He need to be aware of the marketing
tim es to avoid marketing when p rices are down.
This spring we are looking at the highest marketing
p rices for Japan sort then we have ever known. Ken
said we are looking at 3 months ahead of now» which
i s what we have to do. Monte said i f we have
a ccess to trib a l and non -trib al land would i t be
b en e fic ia l to market o u rselv es. Ken said i t would
be b etter to go through our marketer. Dee asked
about our a ccelerated cut for an add ition al year.
Ken d id not have an answer,. Ken said th at being
our own marketer we would need more volume. Dee
asked i f our land acq u isition » 12»000 acres» would
be enough. Ken said yes» but we would want to do
the logging ourselves» and i t would depend on our
overseas co n ta cts. A good example was P ublishers
which bought a lo t o f timber market and w ithin two
years lo s t approxim ately 2 m illion d o lla r s. Frank
asked about purchasing timber from th e 6rand Ronde
and marketing i t . Ken said we would have to bid
for i t . Ken said he was not tryin g to discourage
us from being our own broker» but we have a good
marketer and should r e fin e our contractor biding
p ro cess. This would be b etter than tryin g to
market timber o u rselv es. Ken said i f people have
th eir own m ills» they are now taking a look at the
timber and i t value overseas and looking at
exporting that timber or portion s of i t . Sometimes
i t i s b e n e fic ia l to export our timber and buy other
timber and market i t dom estic. Ken said th e jobs
occur in the logging or the manufacturing of the
tim ber. Monte wanted to know i f you as a trib a l
member could purchase trib a l land and then market
i t . Ken said th is would be up to the Tribal
Council who s e ts the requirem ents and as a
con dition o f granting preference they could set
add ition al g u id elin es. There i s no BIA Indian
Preference applied to the timber» but the Tribes
can sp e c ify them.
Dee
said
they
take
recommendations from the Timber Committee» the
tr ib a l Forestry and BIA Forestry in regards to the
s e llin g o f tim ber.
SILETZ SCHOOL - John M iller and Sharon Rosier
talked about th e LCSD fiv e year proposal to clo se
the S ile tz Middle School and add b u ild in gs to th e
Toledo School. They are asking the Council support
to say th at we have lo st our high school and we are
not going to lo se anymore of our sch oo l. John said
to make an area econom ically v ia b le we need a good
sch oo l. John said when th e Tribe was able to get
th e tr ib e back our economic development was a part
o f th a t. I f we lo se our kids th is i s going to be a
n eg ativ e impact. The community w ill be having a
meeting th is Tuesday night to d iscu ss the impact.
John said what r e a lly hurts was th at we are losin g
our id en tity ,. , Jphn, H itf.hK V aqljed.jtp.siofl, th £ ,(lp g