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Voters approve
referendum items
T ribal voters overw hel
mingly approved the credit and
housing referendums presented
February 25. A total of 448
votes were counted. 146 of
those were absentee ballots.
The credit referendum drew
387 yes votes and 58 no votes.
The housing referendum had
355 yes votes and 89 no votes.
Two million dollars, have
been appropriated to the tribal
credit departm ent for the
purpose of lending to eligible
tribal members for auto,
business, personal or housing.
loans.
The last referendum to
allocate funds to credit was in
1978. The department is not
broke but funds have been
committed to a variety of
projects, primarily homes and
First signs of spring
business loans.
Crocuses indicate that spring is just around the corner. It won’t be long before the few hours of
Prior to the referendum it
sunshine seen daily w id be extended into days o f warmth with even more flowers popping up.
was explained that credit
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk collects $200,000 monthly in
payment which are relent to
borrowers. Interest income is
used to pay all credit salaries
and expenses. Just under 4% of
the total amount of loans arc
Delays plague water project,
ASC under $500/day penalty
by Sandy Rangila
Although Deschutes water is
now flo w in g fro m th e
treatment plant at Dry Creek,
through the lineand into Tewee
Butte reservoir, there is little
promise of it reaching local
homes until possibly late April.
The Deschutes Domestic
Water System project has been
bedeviled with delays and it is
unclear just exactly where the
probleip lies. It was supposed
to have been completed by
February 4, but revised
schedule revisions continue to
be revised, according to Ed
Manion, Community Services
Manager for the Tribes.
Manion reported this week
th a t, since Feb. 4, the
contractor, A.S.C. Construc
tors, has been under a $500 a
day penalty for not completing
the project on time.
It was impossible to pin
project manager Ron Hall
down as to when he thought the
system would be in operation.
“You just can’t foresee all the
little unknown problems that
might come up on such a big
project as this,” he said in a
phone interview.
One of those problems
occurred last week when thé
March 12,1982
past due.
The housing referendum
appropriated a $2 million
r e v o lv in g h o u s in g a n d
subdivision fund. The purpose
of such a fund will create an on
going program to allow monej
from the sales of tribally buih
homes to be re-used for new
home construction and to
develop subdivision homesites
when federal funds aren’t
available.
The revolving housing fund
is not to be used for mobile
homes, however, started homes
(small two-bedroom homes)
can be built through the
revolving fund. Mobile homes
and individually built homes
will still be financed through
tribal credit.
I 'he proposed location of the
first 2()-home subdivision will
be near Wolf Point east of
Eagle Butte and Kah-Nee-Ta.
Each homesite will be two acres
or larger and will be supplied
by the new domsetic water
system. It is proposed that 10
starter homes will also be built
in 1982.
line to the Tewee Butte more water needs to be
reservoir “blew out.” The line pumped).
separated and water leaked
“That’s baloney,” Manion
out.
said. “If that’s a problem they
Hall claimed it was a design should have told us about it
flaw. He said that those are before. I first heard it today
restrained lines and that they (Mar. 10) and the engineer only
don’t call for thrust blocks (big two weeks ago.” Although the
hunks of concrete poured Tribes won’t accept anything
where the pipes form corners). less than the automatic system
After the blow out, two thrust they ordered and are paying
blocks were added at a four- for, the system can be operated
day loss in time and at manually.
considerable expense.
Further, Manion said he had
Manion agreed that the lines just learned on Wednesday,
don’t require thrust blocks, but
March 10, after talking with
he said A.S.C. welded the lines
Bob Grace of STRAAM
“and it didn’t hold. They didn’t Engineers, Inc. and Ron Hall,
trust their weld so they put in that two of the component
thrust blocks. We’re (the control parts for the automatic
Tribes) not going to pay for control system are not here,
those blocks,” he said.
one of which was just ordered
The whole system is designed the past day or so. He said it
to operate at high pressure, 375 would probably take three to
pounds per square inch, and four weeks to get to the site,
the lines are designed for that then it has to be installed and
type of system , M anion tested.
explained.
Generally, Hall blames the
Hall said that what’s really d e la y s “ on e x te n u a tin g
holding things up is that they’re c i r c u m s t a n c e s ; ’’ f a c to r y Atlyeh visits Central Oregon
waiting on the telephone and shortages, inclement weather
power company to install their and design changes.
lines so that A.S.C. can hook
Manion said he no longer
up their monitoring systems. holds out any hopes of the Governor Victor Atiyeh greets Irene Towe at a luncheon held in
(The monitoring system lets project being completed this Madras during A tiyeh’s visit to Central Oregon. Related story on
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
you know the water level in the month. His best guess, a t this PaSe
tanks. It signals the plant when ’ pdinf, iis late April.