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, V April 1992 himself went to and spoke to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday and we took them little samples of fish, handed out brochures & price lists and the comments we received from people was they thought it was real great. Kent reported he has delivered some product to Salishan and the people there were real excited about it. Dan Van Otten asked if we have it in their gift shop. Kent stated the guy that wanted it wants to put it in the rooms. Joe suggested to Dan that he send one of these packages to Margie Boule’ and Phil Sanford and invite them down. Joe feels this would generate some real good publicity. Mike reported the Smokehouse will be attending the Seafood & Wine Festival. Tim asked Dan about a market for convenience store chains. Dan stated he does not feel this is the type of market we can compete in due to the low quality fish used to do this. Dan Van Otten asked what is going on with the marketing in places like Safeway, U.G., etc. Kent stated this is another one of those high volume low quality. Dan Lundy stated they are carrying Tony’s products. Dan Lundy reported we do have some product in Nordstrom’s now, but it is basically a test. Kent reported he had went to a Wine Festival a few weeks ago and got in contact with several different Winery’s. Jack asked if you have any forecasts on what you have to produce before April. Dan stated he has inventory on stock Manuel asked if you can come close to breaking even. Mike stated that in the budget documents there is a break even point projected around September, but feels you can probably kick this closer to the end of the year because it was based on some projections that didn’t happen this winter. Tim stated it is real important to go back quarterly and change the budget. Dan stated he thought we have a quarterly budget review that we do. Mike stated we are planning on this in possibly March or April. Bud stated he would like to see this done at the next meeting. Dan Van Otten asked how the equipment is holding up. Dan stated it is pretty good, but we just had a display freezer go down. Mike stated this does bring up a point, we do have a leasing plan we can use if you want to go ahead and purchase that new smoker. Dan stated he is still looking at options on this. Dan reported the lease plan is basically a 4 year leasing plan and would cost us about $5,000 over and above a straight cash purchase. Joe suggested to Dan that Ray Somers from Channel 6 would be a good person to invite down. Bud asked Dan when the NBC show going to be on. Dan reported he called them a couple of weeks ago and asked when we are going to be on and they told him they are still editing and will let us know when and will send us a tape. Bud reported he has received a call from a Depoe Bay resident that is part of their salmon enhancement program that has been going on for the last 3 years and there is a committee being put together to discuss developing some sort of a trail from up behind the Depoe Bay bay and wants to know if the tribe wants to be involved in that. Bud stated there may be a way we could have salmon bakes and involve the culture into this. Bud stated he feels there may be some opportunity there. Dan Lundy reported we are getting hooked up with tour busses. Dan reported we are contacting the tour bus people to see what we can get going. Dan reported we have a list of about 300 tour bus people. MOTION # 3 - Jack Retasket moved to enter executive session to discuss properties & personnel. Seconded by Ed Sondenaa. Motion approved 7 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. MOTION # 4 - Dan Van Otten moved to return to regular session. Seconded by Tim Viles. Motion approved 7 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. MOTION #5 - John Miller moved to reappoint Joe Lane, Jack Retasket & Ed Sondenaa to the Commission. Seconded by Dan Van Otten. Motion approved 7 - yes, 0 - no, 1 - abstain (Joe voted yes for Ed & Jack and abstained on his). Bud stated the officer’s terms which are expiring are Bud as Chairman, Dan Van Otten as Secretary and John as Vice-Chairman. MOTION # 6 - Joe Lane moved that the Chairman remains as present with Bud Shoemake. Seconded by Jack Retasket. Discussion: Joe stated he would like to say he feels Bud is doing a good job as Chairman. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 1 - abstain. MOTION # 7 - Dan Van Otten moved to elect Tim Viles as Vice-Chairman. Seconded by Joe Lane. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 1 - abstain. MOTION # 8 - John Miller moved to elect Ed Sondenaa as Secretary. Seconded by Dan Van Otten. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 1 - abstain. MOTION # 9 - Dan Van Otten moved to adjourn. Seconded by Jack Retasket. Motion approved by voice consent. Ed Sondenaa, Secretary MEETING: STEDCO Commission Meeting DATE: February 25, 1992 PLACE: TIME: STEDCO Conference Room 6:00 pjn. STEDCO COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Bud Shoemake, Chairman (by phone) Tim Viles, Vice-Chairman (by phone) Ed Sondenaa, Secretary Jack Retasket John Miller Dan Rilatos STEDCO COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Lillie Butler Dan Van Otten Joe Lane OTHERS PRESENT: Michael Dowsett, Tami Christensen Miner and Jay The meeting was called to order @ 6:00 p.m. by Commission Chairman Bud Shoemake and a quorum was established with 2 Commissioners present by phone, 4 Commissioners present in person and 3 Commissioners absent. Bud stated the 1st item on the agenda is the Reload Timber Sale. Jay stated he would like to request this in Executive Session. Bud asked if there was a motion to enter Executive Session. MOTION #1 - John Miller moved to enter Executive Session to discuss Reload Timber Sale Bids. Seconded by Jack Retasket. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. MOTION # 2 - John Miller moved to return to Regular Session. Seconded by Ed Sondenaa. Motion approved 6 - yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. MOTION #3 - Dan Rilatos moved to accept Wheeler’s Bid on the Reload Timber Sale and retain the cedar, ship the cull logs to Georgia Pacific in Eugene and hardwood to Diamond Wood Products in Eugene. Seconded by Ed Sondenaa. Motion approved 6 -yes, 0 - no, 0 - abstain. Bud asked Mike if there is any other items that need to be discussed. Mike stated there is not. Bud stated he would like to say that what we discuss in Executive Session should be kept in Executive Session and what happened on the article where the Tribe talked was really unfortunate because that article was really taken out of context with what we were doing. Tim stated to Jay that what he would like to see in the future is to have Jay set up a spreadsheet and pull a net average log value based on the split of the species and then the information of the grade. Tim stated this would make it clearer to him on making a decision. Jay stated what he has done was broken it down by grade, by species and it is split by species and grade. Tim stated he would like this summed all into one number. Meeting adjourned @ 6:30 p.m. Ed Sondenaa, Secretary SILETZ NEWS DEADLINE April 15, 1992 mail articles and photos to; Siletz News, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, Oregon 97380
