Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 15, 2005
Summit:
discussion
ofVentures
(Continued from page 1)
Discussion turned to the
space issue at the mill site, tucked
between Highway 26 and the
Deschutes River. Though
W'SI 'PI and Composite Products
currently coexist there, Potts
said, "I think for some of the
things that Composite has the
opportunity to go after, and
looking at the things WSl'l'I is
working on today, wc have a
real land and building space is
sue that we need to start address-
Jim Manion, general manager
of Warm Springs Power Enter
prises, said the power business
is profitable now, but an impor
tant task, he said, is to leverage
it into stability for the Warm
Springs tribal government.
"There are good days in the
power business, and there are
bad days," Manion said. "We've
got good days right now, but
anybody who's in the market of
selling this product knows bad
days arc always out there. I low
do wc mitigate, and try to avoid
bad days or terrible days?"
Manion said Power Enter
prises is working with Portland
General Electric, its partner at
the Pelton-Roiind Butte com
plex, considering ways to expand
the value that the dams bring to
the tribes.
Ace: rare
feat at tourney
(Continued from page 6)
She also won a net-skin for
the hole, for making the hole in
no strokes, based on her handi
cap.
"As long as I win enough, to
eei me ra tne next tournament
and cover my entry tees, 1 m
happy," she said.
Dawn Smith of Warm
Springs, who just started a new
school year as principal at Warm
Springs Elementary School, won
the tournament.
"She shot her best round,"
Chase said. "I was happy for her
because she's actually a new
golfer.",,.. ; ,
Smith shot a 91 on Sunday.
Chase said her handicap has
been increasing this summer as
she has been shooting rounds in
the 100s, and she's missed more
tournaments than she's played.
"In prior years, I'd pretty
much placed every time I'd
played," she said.
Chase has played competi
tively for seven years, starting
only one year after she started
playing at all.
"I got bored," she said. "I had
a friend who played in tourna
ments, and I went along and
watched, and then that got bor
ing." Her friend was left-handed,
and while he and his group
' would putt out of a hole, she'd
practice chipping with his clubs.
"And finally, I just' started
playing, and I thought, 'Y'know,
when I go to these tournaments,
I just need to get in them," she
said.
Golf was also a good way to
take her mind off health prob
lems she was experiencing at the
time. She was going dirough che
motherapy and radiation.
She said she averages about
eight tournaments a season and
has been to as many as 14 tour
naments in a season that can
extend into December, includ
ing tournaments in the Phoenix
area and Palm Springs, Calif. In
fact, she helps put on a tourna
ment in Palm Springs.
Chase plans to play in the
Northwest Indian Invitational
Tournament at Kah-Nee-Ta
Oct. 8-9.
"Each year we gain a little. I
think v e've been averaging 60
He said Power Enterprises
has considered pump storage
units at Lake Billy Chinook.
These units, he said, have a
"large potential" but could pos
sibly have a heavy environmen
tal impact. The idea could war
rant a look, he said, depending
on the market and the need.
The Confederated Tribes, he
said, also has the oldest water
right in the Deschutes-Metolius
basin. The tribes could lease out
as much as 200 cubic feet per
second, about equivalent to the
flow of the Warm Springs River
during summer months.
"The tribes got this water
right through a long negotiation
process and would never sell the
water right. The water could
only be leased under long-term
use," Manion said. "What does
that mean? Right now, we have
municipalities in the Deschutes
Basin that are probably going to
be interested in talking to us."
Manion also addressed the
issues of solar, wind, geother
mal and biomass energy. For
biomass, he said, the means of
generating power through burn
ing waste wood, a steady fuel
source, should be available by
the end of this year.
Solar is the most expensive
means. of generation, although
the other methods also have
costs, he said. Additionally, each
method power generation has
an aesthetic effect that would
have to be acceptable to the
tribal membership, whether it's
to 70 players," she said. The
field may be diminished some
what this fall, as several players
usually drive from Canada but
may be discouraged by the re
cent high fuel prices.
Chase is the purchasing con
tracting manager for the Warm
Springs tribal government. Her
biggest current, project is the re-
placement' of the' rpof. of the
Warm Springs Lunic. Her job
includes overseeing the bidding
process.
Oh, and that yelling from the
course at Circling Raven? Chase
said it wasn't her that fellow
tournament players heard cel
ebrating from the course, but a
player who found his own kind
of success that day.
"It was an eight-handicapper
named Tom Rodriguez, who fi
nally hit his first par on his eighth
hole," she said.
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of the reservation or plumes of
steam over Mount Jefferson
during cold-weather months.
The tourism group consid
ered ways of keeping Kah-Nee-Ta
occupied, even as the Indian
I lead Casino leaves after devel
opment of the Columbia Gorge
casino.
Ways to accomplish this could
include employing a number of
tribal members to provide a
variety of tourist activities, both
cultural and recreational, for
visitors. This venture may in
clude more vigorous marketing
of Kah-Nec-Ta, perhaps the
sole standout resort between
Portland and Bend along I ligh
way 26, and the selling of
timeshares at Kah-Nec-Ta.
Another idea, one that would
provide more job skills for tribal
members, would be to offer
training at Kah-Nec-Ta, through
Central Oregon Community
College, in the hospitality industry.
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During the Wednesday ses
sion of the economic summit,
Clyde llamstreet, serving as
chief restructuring officer dur
ing the recent restructuring of
Warm Springs Ventures, cx
plained the restructure of an
entity that lost $.V3 million since
its establishment in 2001.
"The need for an organiza
tion like Ventures to meet the
tribes' objectives is even greater
now than when it was formed,
yet Ventures has failed to meet
the five objectives," he said.
I lamstreet, a certified turn
around professional, attached
letter grades to five objectives
based on Ventures' investments
and speculations. Its best grade
was a C; its worst was an E
The most important criterion
might have been its duty to be
the tribes' trusted financial ad
visor. Ventures' assessed grade
was a D-, according to the re
port. As part of the restructure,
most of Ventures' board mem
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bers, and its chief executive and
financial officers, were' replaced
by an interim board, including
Chairman Ken Smith of Ken
Smith and Associates, the tribes'
chief financial officer Ray Pot
ter, Secretary-Treasurer Jody
Calica, and, the sole holdover
from the former board, James
Eitzhcnry, a Portland attorney.
Kibak Tile, a specialty tile
company based in Redmond,
would be retained, but Cort
Software, which creates payroll
accounting software and is based
in Bend, should be sold within
the next year or two, I lamstreet
said.
llamstreet said the restruc
ture would place a mandate on
fiscal accountability and a sense
of priority.
Warm Springs Tribal Coun
cil Chairman Ron Suppah spoke
of a "sense of apathy" among
the tribal membership concern
ing a shrinking tribal budget and
a community-wide discourage
ment over what he described as
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the reservation.
"For the last three or four
years, wc have been fighting a
very severe problem of trying
to maintain an unbalanced trilij
budget for tribal government,"
he said.
Next year could see addi
tional reductions of another
$2.5 million. "And if you talk to
any branch of our government,
you knew we're pretty border
line already, to the point of be
ing down to the bone."
Suppah said, "We can't hon
estly recommend any further
cuts, because with that comes
consequences, and the conse
quences really affect our tribal
members."
The recommendations from
the summit were gathered up to
be used as points of discussion
for the groups at a future date.
The results of those discussions
will then be submitted to Calica.
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