February 17, 2005
Tribal administration has a new look
Spilyay Tytnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
J? tare McMcchan
Spilyay Tymoo
The old carpet at the Tribal
Administration building lasted a
long time. It had been there for
25 years. The carpet - all 2,368
square yards of it - was as old
as the building itself.
The tribes have just finished
replacing all of the old carpet
at administration, a project that
took about six weeks. While the
re-carpeting work was going on,
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
realty department was relocated
to the area next to other BIA
offices. BIA workers also got
new dividers and desks.
The re-carpeting project cre
ated some hectic times for the
employees at the various depart
ments that are housed in the
administration building. The
workers had to move their
desks, computers, filing cabinets
and other furniture out of their
offices. Then they had to con
tinue working while the old car
pet was torn up, the phone lines
replaced, and the new carpet was
installed.
This took a couple of days
or more per department. To
keep working, the employees
used a conference room or
shared an office area.
The re-carpeting work was
coordinated so as to create the
least amount of inconvenience,
said Lynn Davis, tribal records
director, who helped plan the
project. "We had to coordinate
who would be where during
what times," Davis said.
The first offices that were
worked on, starting in late De-
The way
it was
25 years ago - News from
the Feb. 26, 1980 edition
of the Spilyay
It was recently learned
that Owen Panner of Bend,
who has represented the
Confederated Tribes for the
past 20 years was appointed
to a judgeship the U.S. Dis
trict Court. Panner is a se
nior member of the firm
Panner Johnson Marceau
Karnopp Kennedy & Nash.
Elsewhere:
The Warm Springs Youth
Incentive program is spon
soring a raffle. Proceeds of
the raffle will go toward the
purchase of Marathon. And
in other news:
Simnasho grade school 4
H "discovery" club, spon
sors of the Second Annual
Mini-Marathon, accepted an
invitation by AM Northwest
to appear on live television.
On February 18 the students
put on their mini-marathon
T-shirts and took their
places among the other
guests of the morning,
KATU television show.
The fourth annual em
ployee banquet is scheduled
for March 7 at Kah-Nee-Ta
Lodge.
She has lived in Warm
Springs most of her life,
and for the past five years
she has worked with the al
cohol program as a counse
lor. She felt it was time to
change careers and because
of her interest in Warm
Springs heritage, Nina
Rowe applied and was hired
to fill the vacant Culture
and Heritage coordinator
positioa
Icy roads early in the
morning caused two acci
dents involving three cars,
but no one was injured.
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cember, were those of manage
ment and Vital Statistics. Com
pensation and Benefits was next,
and then the BIA realty depart
ment was relocated, said Davis.
The work progressed into the
planning department, accounts
payable, payroll, finance and
purchasing, and Eagle Tech of
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and chambers were also re-carpeted.
Through January and into
February, boxes of documents
were piled up around the offices,
and in some cases the phone
lines to some departments were
down for a day or two. The
project offered a chance for
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"It was a chance to look at
old materials, and to clean
house," Davis, said.
The work was done rather in
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team, the nine-person Commu
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did a lot of the work.
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community service work.
Davis said the project would
not have been possible without
the help of these crews.
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Next step in the
improvements at the
administration
building will be
painting.
building, and he said he appre
ciates their cooperation.
Graybael said that the next
step in the improvements at the
administration building is paint
ing. This will be done after work
hours or on the weekend to
avoid disrupting the depart
ments, Graybael said.
The idea of re-carpeting and
painting the administration
building was suggested about
three years ago, but there was
no money available at the time
and the project was put on hold.
Then in March of last year,
tribal officials decided it was
time something needed to be
done. Part of the issue, said
Graybael, is the agreement the
tribes have with the BIA.
The BIA rents part of the
building from the tribes; and the
tribes maintain the building up
to standard.
The carpet was getting so
worn in some areas that it was
becoming a real problem,
Graybael said. "It was getting to
be a maintenance problem,"
Graybael said.
The old carpet, he said, was
very durable, having lasted 25
years.
"I hope the new carpet lasts
that long," he said.
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