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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
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