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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 2013)
i r P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1230 SW PARK AVE. PORTLAND, OR 97205 February 2 0 , 2013 Coyote News, est. 1976 Tribal m anagem ent last week presented Tribal Council members an initial planning framework re garding future finances o f the Con federated Tribes. The ‘Waterfall Plan” is a prelimi nary conceptual framework to a fi nancial solution, developed after consulting the Tribal Council in a workshop setting on priorities and potential financial pathways forward for a m inim um o f the next five years. The waterfall image represents the different streams o f expendi tures flowing from the tribal gen eral fund. Following this imagery, the plan makes the observation: ‘W ith o u t new revenue a n d /o r decreased expenditures, the water fall will dry up.” Five tiers The plan categorizes the expen ditures from the general fund into five tiers. Each tier has various de partments, services or expenditure items. The five tiers are as follows: T ier one: C onstitutionally re quired expenditures. Tier two: E s sential services. Three: O ther ser vices ‘A’. Four: O ther services ‘B’. A nd five: Entitlements, Examples o f Constitutionally re quired expenditures are the Tribal Council and executive staff. Essential services include police, emergency medicine, water, sewer, etc. “O th er services A and B” in clude various items and departments from building inspection to work experience programs. A point o f emphasis is that the plan is preliminary and conceptual: There is n o t yet a specific list o f w here each departm ent and service falls in term s o f priority. This will be determined with input in com ing weeks from the membership. Tier five, Entitlements, includes expenditures such as general per capita, special distribution, m inor’s trust, among other items. The Waterfall Plan starts with an annual budget o f about $23.7 mil lion. D irect and indirect revenue would provide about $9.27 million o f th e total; and th e rem aining $14.5 million would come from rev enue reserve. However, using that level o f rev enue reserve would soon deplete the tribal reserve. So new revenue, or significant budget reductions are necessary With no major source o f revenue in the near future, the challenge will be deciding how to generate sustain able financial resources, and where to cut. S e e F IN A N C E S ino . S. Postage ¿RSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 4 50 cents February - A’A ’mi-Ushátch - Winter - Anm Plan outlines financial options By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo Voi. 38, o n . 'p a g e 3. Lincoln’s Powwow Mill improvements, as workers return Dave McMechan/Spilyay WSFPI workers measure logs at the mill; they returned to work last week. I k e W arm S p rin g s F o re s t Products mill workers are back at their jobs. M ost o f the 118 employees had been on tem porary lay-off since November. They returned to w ork last week. T h e re are o th e r m a jo r changes happening at the mill, arid more changes planned for the future. A current project is a $4.65 million im provem ent to the mill bio-mass power plant. S Funding comes from a U.S. For est Service grant, part o f the Ameri can Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) o f 2009. W SFPI received the grant funding last summer. There are various aspects to the project, from construction o f a fuel- storage building, to replacement o f fuel cells in the boiler. The five major equipment upgrade categories are: T he boiler, the power transform Services in the morning. T here will be a meal, and tours o f the newly- remodeled building. The Prevention Program, Alco hol and Drug, and Mental Health workers moved back to the build ing earlier this m onth, following the remodel. Cost o f the project was Council nominations soon D is tric t m eetin g s fo r T rib al C ouncil nom inations are set for Monday, March 4. The meetings will be at 7 p.m. with dinner at 6; These are the other im portant dates for the upcoming election o f the Twenty-Sixth Tribal Council o f the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs: March 5-8: Verify candidate eli gibility and prepare ballots. March 11: A pproval resolution setting election date. Mail absentee ballots. Tuesday, April 16: Election date. April 17¡ Certify election results. April 19: Deadline for challenges and appeal?. Monday, May 6: Installation o f the Twenty-Sixth Tribal Council. Gearing up for Youth Health Fair Dancer at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Lincoln’s Birthday Powwow, Feb. 7-10, hosted by the Powwow Committee and community of Simnasho. More on page 8. ers, cooling towers, fuel handling system, and turbine controls. Work on the power plant al lowed some o f the mill employ ees to stay on the job through the lay-off period. Sawmill su pervisor Jason Rabbie, for in stance, was able to continue working as apprentice electrician, returning this week to his regu lar job. See W S F P I o n p a g e 3 Counseling Center dedication March 6 Health and H um an Services will h o s t a d ed ica tio n cereh io n y in M arch for th e new C om m unity Counseling Center building. The dedication will be through out the day on Wednesday, March 6. T h e day will start will W ashat Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay ECRWSS ostai Patron W arm Springs Recreation and Indian Health Services will host the Spring Break Youth Health Fair on March 26. The Youth Health Fair will be at the C om m unity Wellness Ceriter. T he event is free to com m unity youth. T he Spring Break Youth Health Fair is sponsored with a CHIPRA grant. (See page 6 fo r more on (he Youth Health Fair.) $4.95 Breakfast Specials • Daily Dinner Specials Open daily 8am to 8pm See page 12 for details. about $600,000 funded through a grant. T he old girls dorm is now a u p dated with air conditioning, new car peting, paint, remodeled reception area, restroom s, offices, etc. The process took over a year. Cobell deadline R em inder: T h e C obell S alazar d e a d lin e d a te is March 1, 2013. If-you need paper w ork from Tribal Probate C ourt to help fill o u t your packets, please subm it a request for records before this Friday, Feb. 22. The Probate Court cannot take any requests after Feb 22 at 5 p.m. I f ,you have any questions or concerns, please call ,Tribal Probate C ourt at 541-553-3264. For a claim fo rm or to update your contact informa tion, call toll-free 1-800-961- 6109; or on the web at: Indiantrust.com
