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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation May 3, 2001 Vol. 26, No. 9
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Adoptee list
deadlines
announced
Names of potential adoptees can be
found in this edition of Spilyay Tymoo
on page 9. The information was obtained
from Vital Statistics and all potential
adoptees have been treated equally.
Additional information, including
statements from families and photographs
of potential adoptees, will appear in a fu
ture edition of the newspaper. The spe
cial section dealing with the adoptees will
be published prior to the election.
Those who have not yet provided the
Spilyay with statements or photographs
should do so as soon as possible. State
ments regarding individuals may be sub
mitted to the newspaper office as letters
to the editor. Letters should not exceed 250
words in length.
The election for adoptees into the tribes
is currently scheduled for May 22. Tribal
Council is expected to meet on May 7 to
consider a proposal that would move the
election to June 12.
The 22nd Tribal Council will also take
the oath of office on May 7. Officers will
be selected shortly thereafter.
Housing
available
The Housing Department and
Credit Department have initiated
the 2000 DemoBuy Down
Project that will assist 10 qualified
tribal member families in pur-
'. chasing a home.
The project will provide a
$10,000 grant that will be used as
a down payment and the Credit
Department will provide financ
ing for the balance of the purchase
. price.
Applications for the project are
available through the Credit De
partment. Questions can be an
swered by calling 553-3250 or 553
3201. Applicants must meet a num
ber of requirements to be eligible
project funding.
Among the requirements are
an ability to make loan payments
and pay premiums for fire insur
ance. The $100,000 being used to.
fund 10 down payments was se
cured when the Housing Depart
ment submitted an Indian Hous
ing Plan that was approved the
HUD.
Day set aside
to fete seniors
with 'Opree'
11 Annual WS Honor Seniors Day to
be held Friday May 11, at the Agency
Longhouse. This year's theme "Grand Ole
Opree."
Registration begins at 8 a.m. and
children's Pow-Wow to begin at 10 a.m.
Free sack lunches served at 11:30 a.m.
The Awards and Games will proceed
at 1 p.m. The Honor Banquet, free, starts
at 5 p.m. Snacks and beverages served
though out the day.
Every one welcome to come see friends
and to laugh, laugh and laugh!!!
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School referendum
Tribes would
build school, with
509-J paying lease
A Tribal Referendum is to be held May
16 on whether or not to build a new el
ementary school on the reservation for
kindergartners through fifth-graders.
The school is to be located south of the
Early Childhood Education Center on a
hill that overlooks the center.
The question to be submitted to voters
reads:
"Shall there be appropriated from avail
able funds including the Revenue Reserve ,
Fund of the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
(Tribe) and shall the Tribe be authorized
to borrow all or any poition of such funds
by issuing tribal bonds or by any other
means, up to $8 million for the purposes
of designing and constructing a kindergar
ten through fifth grad public elementary
school, with Jefferson County School
District 509-J reimbursing the Tribe over
a 20 year period, for one half of the total
cost of Financing and constructing the
school?"
A General Council meeting has tenta
tively been planned for May 9 for ques
tions about the proposal to be answered
by tribal officials.
The new elementary school, which has
been in planning stages' for several years,
would be designed to accommodate up to
600 students.
The current school was built in stages
and holds only kindergarten through
fourth grades. Fifth-graders from Warm
Springs now attend Jefferson County
Middle School in Madras. Beginning in fall
2001, Warm Springs students will be the
only fifth-graders in the district not at their
own elementary school.
The size of the proposed school would
allow for several years of growth, and '
would create a building that could be used
for community events.
Last month the Tribal Council and the
509-J School Board met at Kah-Nee-Ta and
signed a memorandum of understanding
to make construction and funding of the
school possible.
The agreement calls for the school to
be built on lands designated by the Tribe
and to be owned by the Tribe. The school
district then would make lease payments
on the school for 20 years, after which
time the agreement could be reviewed. The
school district also would pay all costs of
upkeep and maintenance.
The old school eventually may be reno
vated for other uses.
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