Siletz news letter. (Siletz, Oregon) 1989-1997, February 01, 1992, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Text........ ................ Greenhouse presentation. Mike said the proposed number of greenhouses should be 4 greenhouse ranges with a total of 201,600 sq. feet. MOTION #1 - Dan Rilatos moved to approve the STEDCO Commission meeting minutes dated 11/9/91, as amended. Seconded by Lillie Butler. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. Bud stated the next agenda item is the STEDCO 5 year Budget Plan discussion. Mike stated we felt it was best to discuss the 5 year Plan before the budget, but it might be more opportune to take each enterprise and talk about its Plan and then talk about its 5 year Plan. Mike stated we will go with Timber first. One thing he noticed and was asked at the Retreat was if the outline for each organizational chart for each enterprise reflected the whole 5 year Plan or just the one year budget plan. Actually, it is just the one year Budget Plan, although you see in Jay’s green products manufacturing and dry products manufacturing wouldn’t probably may not necessarily get started until almost the end of the year and possibly into the second year. Mike stated the Kohler log operation was not even budgeted for this year. Mike stated in Jay’s budget he went for the total amount needed, it would reflect everything in the 5 Year Plan also. Mike stated Dan’s organizational chart shows just this next fiscal year. Mike stated we can change Jay’s to as it would appear during the year 1992. Mike asked the Chair if he could interrupt the meeting for a moment. Mike introduced George Nagel, who wanted to know whether the participants of the Alcohol & Drug Program could use the cedar log that we had set aside for possible canoe work for a project and if so could the canoe be made by their program and be a project for the people on the program. Mike said he and Jay have discussed the cedar and they are planning to bring all the cedar off the Reload sale into the Dundas Site. Bud said he feels this would be a good project. John feels there is no reason this couldn’t be worked out when the cedar is available. Joe feels this would be a good idea. Mike stated then it looks like if there is no objections we can work toward this project with George. Bud stated we will go back to the Timber discussion. Bud related to Jay that what the Commission decided was to make sure the funding was in place for the Shopping Center before we went forward with a lot of expenditures other than the ones that are necessary. Jay stated Stan brought to him this morning the conceptual business plan for the green line and dry line manufacturing and related to the Commission he will give them a copy of this today. Mike stated the proposal is to take what they produced at Oregon State and then use the $6,000 left in the ANA grant to finish this plan. Mike stated we have until the end of February to use this money. Mike stated what we are suggesting was Stan would bring us a draft and then we were going to take it to technical people that are qualified in the area and have them go through and develop figures for us that are necessary so that we would have a plan ready for submission for grant applications. Bud said that one of the questions that came from Tribal Council was is the list of the inventory that was given to us are good deals or not and how many of the accounts are currently working and how real are those accounts. Mike related the values on the equipment are accurate and the accounts are based on actual financial records the business has. Bud said his own feeling is that Jay should actually spend 3 or 4 days observing and watching this operation. Dan Rilatos stated he thought at the Retreat it was decided everything was put on hold. Ed stated he thought this, too. Mike stated that is what we are here for today because you didn’t make any decisions at the Retreat and everybody was told you put it on hold and the decision would be made today. Lillie stated she felt the timber monies are put on hold for the shopping center. Bud stated what he is saying is not go out and spend the money, but go out and see if it makes sense, be over there to check things out, which is not costing us any dollars. Dan Rilatos stated his theory is that when Bud made his presentation to the Council he had this document in his hand and said this is on hold until we see whether we are going to get the Plaza or not. Dan Rilatos stated this is how he understood it. Dan Rilatos stated he thought we was going to go through the budget, and the only thing that we was going to fund and get on with is the smoker for the Smokehouse. Mike stated you had a sheet of capital projects and the thing you didn’t want to do was make any investment in any capital projects, so not the whole budget is on hold it’s the capital acquisitions. Bud stated this is right and you can approve a budget and have them come back for capital expenditures. Dan Rilatos stated he did not say this, he is going back to the statement Bud said. Bud stated he said we would hold off on the capital expenditures until we deal with the Shopping Center. Bud stated what he is asking Jay to do is go out and reinforce some of the feeling the Tribal Council had, as well as the Commission had about some of these projects. Joe stated this is very prudent because he feels we can’t put all of eggs in one basket. Dan Van Otten stated he feels we should have a sequence of plans to follow. Jay stated he will proceed with the Plan even though it may not be used until a few years down the road and then we will have a completed plan that is ready to use. John stated his perception on the whole deal is that he does not necessarily agree with putting anything on hold because he can see us dying sitting on one project and there is too many good projects out there we need to continue and we can’t be waiting 5 years to get started. John stated the few we have going right now is not going to support the tribe and is not going to support STEDCO. John stated we have to keep moving ahead if we are going to be a viable business. Bud asked the Commission if there is any one item they do not like in this Plan. John & Ed does not feel the Kohler Tower will be worth it and feels we should not be in the logging business. Jay stated before he went into anything like this he would bring in undisputable evidence of its feasibility. Jay stated he has went to several engineering courses and the main limitation of this piece of equipment is the yarding distance. Dan Van Otten related to Jay the reason he likes the first two clusters of enterprises is because they build on each other and he thinks this is important Dan Van Otten stated he would like February 1992 JL to see us focus on this. Mike stated these are just proposed budgets and the enterprises realized they would be competing for limited dollars. Dan Van Otten stated he feels we are just putting timber revenues on hold and does not mean we cannot look for other revenues. Jay stated he will then proceed with mainly going after the green line & dry line manufacturing. Dan Lundy related to the Commission that NBC is at the Smokehouse right now and he is needed there for an interview. Dan stated he understood there are some questions he needs to respond to about the. smoker. Dan stated he budgeted for a $27,000 smoker. Dan stated if the one he has now were to break down he would not have a back up. Dan stated he would use both machines. Bud asked if he is asking for approval on the $27,000 today. Dan stated he is asking for some kind of decision. Bud asked Dan if he feels the new smoker is necessary. Dan stated yes. Ed asked Dan why he has to make a 30% on the baskets. Ed said his mother sent a basket to the Smokehouse and she told them she would not take less than $70.00 and they put a price tag on it for $100.00 and gave her a check for $70.00. Ed stated he feels they don’t need to make 30% off our elders. Ed stated if this is what it takes to keep the Smokehouse going then we can shut it down. Ed stated he feels 10% is plenty. Ed stated if you want people to put things in there to sell then give your tribal elders a break Dan stated when she brought that basket in nobody mentioned anything about the mark up to him. Dan stated she told Ray she wanted $70.00 for it. Dan stated he never talked to her. Lillie stated if you sell it on commission the 10% might be okay, but if you buy it outright and then you put your own price on it this would be your own business. John stated he heard about this before and feels all it was, was a miscommunication. Bud stated he feels that this is not a Commission issue and should be dealt with on the managerial level. Joe stated he feels we should divorce ourselves completely from the physical operation of the plant. Joe stated we are charging him with the responsibility of being the Manager, he’s assumed that responsibility and it is up to him to set his prices the way he wants to set them, pay for what he wants to and if there is some grievous sin that occurs then we can deal with him. Joe stated we don’t want to tell him how to run the store down there. Lillie stated Dan needs help on the value of the baskets and if this was not brought up at the Commission level we would not be able to help him. Dan Van Otten stated we should acknowledge that this is a sensitive area and there needs to be some dialogue here at staff management level about what kind of policy you want to set in terms of dealing with this kind of issue. Dan Van Otten asked when we will have the Depoe Bay property nailed down in terms of acquisition. Mike stated no later than July. Mike stated he would like to talk about this in executive session. Bud asked if we have the money for the new smoker. Mike stated yes. Joe stated he feels we should buy this on a lease/purchase. MOTION # 2 - Ed Sondenaa moved to approve the purchase of a new smoker on a lease/purchase option. Seconded by Dan Van Otten. Motion approved 7 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain.