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Warm Springs, OR 97761
OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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PORTLAND, OR 97205
February 2 0 , 2013
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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.
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Plan outlines
financial options
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
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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:
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