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P.0. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 May 1, 2013 Coyote News, est. 1976 I OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY I Ä T & Voi. 38, [ tiô» May - Xawit’an - Spring - Wawaxam Motorsports referendum in May The membership will be asked on May 21 w hether the tribes should continue to pursue the idea of developing a motorsports park on the reservation. A motorsports team, including members of Tribal Council and Warm Springs Ventures, has been studying the potential of this project for about two years. The two main benefits o f a motorsports park would be jobs and income to the tribes, The project would be under construction for about five years, creating about 425 construction-related jobs. Two-hun dred jobs would be related to op eration of the park, which would also generate 225 indirect jobs. Ventures has published an infor mation brochure on the motorsports proposal. The brochure was mailed recently to the membership. “The motorsports project would provide an ongoing source of cash flow to the tribe,” the brochure states, “The project is projected to generate almost $150 million in an nual gross revenue.” The projected income is a rough estimate, but the potential is enough to warrant pursuing the project, the motorsports advocates say. Money to develop the project would at first come from the exist ing Capacity Fund. Then the tribes would look to its development part ner, Lionshead Development LLC, to move ahead with construction. project an advantage over other racing facilities; First, it is close to many major metropolitan ar eas within a 400-mile radius, Portland, Seattle, Boise and Northern California, with a very amenable climate for racing. Second, there are few, if any, options in the Pacific Northwest for hosting large-scale racingand ,vety few, if any, potential loca tions to develop facing facilities in the Northwest. Because the tribe is in control of zoning, it can develop a facility that is world class and tailored to the desires of the specific market that it would serve. May 21 election M as te r piar 'Courtesy of Warm Springs Ventures Schematic drawing of the proposed motorsports park at Miller Flat. “The ultimate financing package would emerge after discussions among the tribal development team, financial advisors, bond'counsel and potential investors arid developers... “The financial risk to the tribes is limited because the tribes already own the 1,000-acre proposed devel opment site, the brochure says,” , S The site is on Miller Flat, on an area that has passed a preliminary Natural Resources review. Current uSe of the land is for grazing, hunt ing and root gathering in some ar eas. Before construction, the project would go through the tribal Inte grated Resource Management Plan analysis. - The following information is pro vided by Warm Springs Ventures: Several factors give the proposed Warm Springs Motorsports Park O n Tuesday, May 21, tribal m em bers will v o te on the motorsports referendum. This tribal election is being conducted by a firm hired by the tribes for the specific purpose* of manag ing tribal elections. Tribal Council decided to try the firm, , following the recent Tribal Council election. Tribal members .who are reg istered to vote in Jefferso n County will also receive a ballot for the May 21 county vote. This includes the Madras Aquatic Center operating levy, along with school, hospital and other board positions. — D ave M cM echan Focus on language with visit from U of O T h e Culture and Heritage De partment last week hosted a visit from the University of Oregon Ichishkiin class. The U of O group spent a day and half in Warm Springs, focusing mainly on the Culture and Heritage Language P ro gram. They observed the language immersion program at Culture and Heritage. The immersion class.is called Autni Ichishkiin Sapsikwat (Our Sacred Lan guage School) and meets from 8 a.m. till noon on weekdays. One of the classés is for 3- year-olds, another is for 4-year-’ olds. There are 11 students in Autni Ichishkiin Sapsikwat. The language students and teachers recently attended the Native Language Bowl, held at Umatilla (more on this in the next Spilyay). The University o f Oregon Ichishkiin teacher is Virginia Beavert, who recendy earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics. - , With Virginia were the uni versity Ichishkiin students Cassie George, Shayleen Macy and Jade Martinez. Cassie is of the Suquariiish tribe, where the Na tive language is Lushootseed. Shayleen and Jade are of Warm Dave McMechari/Spilyay Teacher Merle Kirk with 3-year-old students. Springs heritage, and both have family on the reservation. Jade stayed with her grandmother Ur bana Ross during their recent visit. The three U o f O Ichiskiin stu dents have different majors:; Cassie is studying Linguistics, Shayleen is an Art major, and Jade is an Envi- ronmental Smdies major. By gradu ation time they each will have taken six terms of Ichiskiin at the univer sity. The class is taught through the University o f Oregon Northwest Iridian Language Institute, Besides teaching, Virginia is on ECRWSS Postal Patron the advisory board of the insti tute. And she is working on a grammar book o f Ichishkiin. For this project she is working with JoAna Jansen, project co ordinator, who also was on the visit to Warm Springs, . U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD .»ami oprings, OR 97761 50 cents CPS planning move Children’s Protective Services is planning to move to a new building that will be located by the clinic. CPS has been putting money aside for several years with the goal o f developing a new facility. “We’ve come to the point where we need to look at moving to a new building,” said Ron Hager, CPS di rector. T he d ep artm en t, u n d er the H ealth and H um an Services Branch, now has about $500,000 available for the building project. The plan is to hire a firm to do both the design and construction of a new facility, to be located on about four acres by the clinic- The acre age, allocated by IHS, would allow for building expansion some day in the future. The new building would be be tween 4,000 and 6,000 square feet, Hager said.The current CPS build ing, located on the campus by the Education building, is about 6,500 square feet. . The size of the building is not an issue; nor is the age of the cur rent CPS building, dating back to the 1970s. There are, however, other issues, that would be addressed by relocating, For instance, the clinic site would be close the Early Childhood Edu cation center, which would be help ful. The new building would also have access to a new infrastructure system. The current building is served by the campus infrastructure, which is old and in need o f replacement. The sewer line by the CPS building, in particular, is a serious concern. Among its services, CPS provides emergency shelter for up to 30 days for children from the’ age of birth up to 18, The tribal court refers the children to CPS. There is room for up to 15 children at the group home. The average number of children at the home is six. There are about 130 children under CPS supervision. Some are in foster care; others are with the parents who are subject to court- ordered supervision. The department employs about 18 people, including the case work ers, data coordinator, and care pro viders, “This is a 24-hour operation with at least one employee on duty at night, and at least two during the day,” said Hagen. He said the plans for the new building could be presented to Tribal Council for approval this summer. Construction time would Cake be tween six and eight months. The idea of developing a new CPS building has been around for a while. Years ago there was talk of spending up to $5 million on a new facility. See LANGUAGE on 8 See CPS on 8 It’s in Kay/ Win a 2013 Can-Am Spyder® ST-S or $15,000 Cash! Courtesy of Pro Caliber of Bend! See page 12 for details. j
