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Council okays bond settlement
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
Tribal Council this week approved
a settlement regarding bonds the tribes
issued in 2003.
The tribes issued the bonds in order
to pay for the purchase of one-third
of the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelec
tric facilities.
The potential for litigation over the
bonds arose in 2008-09, during the re
cession.
The circumstances are complicated,
and details of the setdement agreement
are subject to confidentiality. Members
can speak with their Council represen
tatives for more information.
Through the setdement, the tribes
avoid a potential lengthy litigation,
which would have been expensive.
Tribal Council, management and
attorneys have been working on the
resolving the Pelton bonds dispute for
about two years. In other budget
news:
Tribal department managers met last
week with the secretary-treasurer, chief
operations officer and finance staff
regarding the 2012 budget.
According to a draft of the budget,
substantial reductions— about $3.5 mil
lion—would be needed to balance the
expenditures with revenue.
One of the reasons for the reduced
revenue for 2012 is a result of the U.S.
economic situation.
The tribes in the past have earned
revenue from investments. For the cur
rent year budget, for instance, the esti
mated investment revenue is $1.9 mil
lion, although the amount the tribes
have actually realized is substantially
less.
So for 2012, and the two subse
quent years, the projected revenue
from investments is estimated at $0.
That is the more realistic figure in this
economy, said Mike Collins, chief fi
nance officer.
On a better note, the gaming divi
dend is expected to go up over the
next few years, from $1.16 this year
to $2 million next year and then $4 in
2013.
For the past few months tribal de
partments have been following bud
get restrictions to avoid adding to the
2012 budget shortfall. For instance,
there have been no travel requests
since the restrictions w ere im ple
mented.
Tribal members can comment on the
budget during the district and general
Council meetings in October.
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Summer Jamboree
Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay
Del Ray Johnson prepares to plunge down the 15 foot inflatable
slide at the Family Jamboree Day held at the Community Center.
Tribal leadership considers officer authority law
By Duran Bobb
Spilyay Tymoo
Tribal Council has given the nod to
a recommendation by the tribal legal
team to move forward with the next
step in participation to Senate Bill 412.
The bill was recently passed by Or
egon legislature, providing tribal police
with limited authority off reservations
for two years, including power to con
tinue pursuing suspects who leave tribal
land, and to take action when a crime
is committed in front of them.
“The bill is not simple,” tribal attor
ney Howie Arnett said. “It doesn’t say
tribal officers are police officers. It says
tribal officers will be regarded as offic
ers under state law if certain require
ments are met.”
Some o f the requirem ents m en
tioned in the bill are the result of op
position from the Oregon Sheriff’s
Association.
“Some of the strongest opposition
that we saw came from the president
of the sheriffs association, who is from
Clatsop County, which is strange, be
cause there are no reservations in
Clatsop County,” Arnett said.
Attorney Lauren Lester said in her
update to Tribal Council that many of
the requirements mentioned in SB412
are currently met under branch policy.
“The requirem ents say that the
tribes must comply with the Oregon
Department of Public Safety Standards
and Training,” she said “We already put
all or most of our officers through the
acadetriy.”
Another requirement deals with in
surance. “The tribes would have to
submit a declaration that it is self-in
sured or has insurance from a com
pany that is licensed to sell insurance
in Oregon. We have insurance in ex
cess, as it is,” Lester said.
O ther req u irem en ts deal w ith
records, tort claims laws, deadly physi
cal force plans, preservation of evi
dence, and a pretrial discovery policy.
“Throughout the legal process, the
biggest complaint of the sheriffs asso
ciation was that the bill did not provide
recip ro city,” A rn ett said. “T hey
thought, ‘This bill is going to allow tribal
officers to become just like any other
anywhere in Oregon, against any non-
Indian. If that’s the case, we should
be able to enforce state law on the res
ervation.’”
However, due to inherent sover
eignty, the reservation is free from state
criminal jurisdiction.
“That’s a federal law as well, and we
kept saying that,” Arnett told Tribal
Council.
SB 412 says the county can ask for
reciprocity, but the tribes can explain
why it cannot happen.
“This becomes a non-issue by Oc
tober 18,” Arnett said: If reciprocity is
not requested by that date, the issue
goes away.
The sheriffs for Jefferso n and
Wasco counties work closely with res
ervation law enforcement, and as yet
there is no reason to believe either of
them will request reciprocity during that
time.
“It seems like we’re diluting our ex
empt 280 status,” Tribal Councilman
Ron Suppah said. “It sounds like the
state is dictating what they want. They
want us to do a hell of a lot. But what
are we requiring of the state?”
In the 1950s, Congress passed Pub
lic Law 280, extending Oregon’s crimi
nal laws to most Indian lands in the state.
See SB412 on page 2
Back to
School BBQ
next week
The Back to School Barbecue
and school supply giveaway is at
4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, at
the campus.
The first day o f school is
Wednesday, Sept. 7 for:
W arm Springs E lem en tary
School (first through fifth );
Jefferson County Middle School
(sixth and new students); and
Madras High School (ninth and
new students).
For seventh- and eighth-grad
ers at the m iddle s'chool, and
tenth- through twelfth-graders at
the high school, the first day of
school is Sept. 8.
Dedication, cooperation make Culture Camp happen
u We try hard to provide
cultural teaching, and
activities that are fu n .»
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
I k s year the camp at Peters Pasture
hosted 31 young people who learned
traditional languages, river life, bow and
arrow use, beadwork, traditional foods,
among many other activities.
The youth stay at the camp over
night, in tents. They make their own
rules of conduct, such as no shaking
of tents, no cussing, no kicking dust,
etc.
During the day the adult supervi
sors and volunteers keep the young
people busy and interested with out
door lessons, hiking, the sweat lodge,
fish cleaning and cooking, canning and
many other activities.
It is amazing the amount of work
that goes into the 4-H Culture Camp.
Arlene Boileau has been the orga
nizer o f the camp for over 20 years. It
takes a full year to prepare for the
camp, beginning with the fundraising,
she said. “You have to secure the money
before you can really start planning,”
she said.
T his m ay be the last year that
Boileau, who retired from her job a
couple of years ago, coordinates the
Culture Camp. And for that reason this
may be the last year of the camp, as it
would be hard to find someone who
could replace her.
Arlene Boileau
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Miss Warm Springs Tamera Moody spends an afternoon working with the 4-H campers on beading
Courtney and Utilities staff were very
helpful, as was sanitarian Nancy Collins.
More help came from Liz Johnson
and IHS, D iabetes Prevention, Les
Schwab Tire Center, the Warm Springs
Police Department, Fire Management,
and Warm Springs Fire and Safety, tribal
Natural Resources.
Terry Macy of Warm Springs Mar
ket, and the Vehicle Pool helped with
transportation. Clifton Brunoe, travel
ing from Troutdale, helped with the bow
and arrows, which were provided by
OSU Extension. Extension staff also
helped with camp activities.
Greatly appreciated are the contri
butions from Val Switzler and her staff
at Culture and Heritage, Caroline Cruz
and the Department of Human Ser
vices, and the Community Health Edu
cation Team (CHET).
“And I really thank the parents for
trusting me with the children,-” A rle k
said. “We try hard to provide cultufd
teaching, and activities that are fur
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There are dozens of people who
help with the camp, Boileau said. To
name some of them:
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youth workers helped with the set-up,
as did Workforce Development, and
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