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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Impact Aid: parents discuss district matters
(Continued from page 1)
The analysis (partially re-
produced below) shows that
close to a third of the direct
expenditures are for Native
students.
This was based on the per-
centage of students at a par-
ticular school, and the
amount of direct expendi-
tures at the school. For in-
stance:
Total direct expenditures
in 2013 for all students at
Madras High was school was
about $7.4 million. The Na-
tive students made up 29 per-
cent of the total, so the allo-
cation to the Native students
would be about $2.18 million.
Or about $8,313 in general
fund expenditure per student.
Tribal
Councilman
Kahseuss Jackson com-
mented that this analysis does
not really give a determina-
tion of actual amounts spent
on the Native students. “It
may be close, and I’m not
saying it’s inequitable, but you
can’t really tell,” he said.
Molitor said that a more
detailed analysis of actual
amounts spent on Native
American students would re-
quire a considerable expendi-
ture of resources, which
would not seem practical.
“Should we hire another ac-
countant, or another
teacher?” he said.
Aurolyn Stwyer brought
up the matter of students
having to walk to the Acad-
emy along roads that have no
sidewalks and that could be
dangerous.
Molitor said the district is
working on the problem. A
solution require designating
the area around the school as
an “unsafe zone.” The state
would then be able to fund
buses for the students living
within a mile, or mile and a
half of the school (depend-
ing on the student’s age).
Some other stated con-
cerns from the meeting:
Deanie Smith said the
schools situation is mostly
same as it was 30 years ago.
“It doesn’t seem like it’s get-
ting any better,” she said.
“Without some change, we’ll
be here 30 years from now
having the same discussion.”
Marge Kalama said the
incidence of student drop-
out leaves young people on
the reservation who are un-
able to get a job. “We have
jobs here, but the kids can’t
meet the qualifications.”
Vivian Smith, an education
assistant at the Academy, said
the ROOTS alternative edu-
cation program in War m
Springs is doing great things
for young people.
Academy teacher Ervanna
Little Eagle said the availabil-
ity of counseling is important,
as some students are dealing
with historical trauma. Social
and emotional issues are rea-
sons why some students drop
out, she said.
The school district also
presented information on the
draft evaluation report on the
district Title VII Indian Edu-
cation Program. The report
shows improvements in some
areas, and areas that need
more attention (see the next
Spilyay.) The Impact Aid and
Title VII information is avail-
able at the district website,
jcsd.k12.us.or
Power and Water: looking at renewables in 2015
(Continued from page 1)
“We have spent most of
our time looking up near Mt.
Jefferson for a geothermal
potential,” Manion said.
The potential looks prom-
ising, but the logistics to ad-
vancing this potential in that
area of the reservation are
challenging, he said.
It is a remote area, and
obtaining access could be
very expensive. The environ-
mental requirements would
be costly just to explore.
“For those reasons we
have shifted our attention to
the Warm Springs River ba-
sin area,” Manion said. “As
the name ‘Warm Springs’
implies, there may be some-
thing in the area that de-
serves more review.”
Power and Water is work-
ing with a very experienced
geothermal developer head-
quartered in Nevada.
“We have sampled the hot
water spring at the Village,
and the elements contained in
that sample are very interest-
ing. They seem to display
characteristics of both low
temperature and high tem-
perature resource potentials.”
The $320,000 grant will
help to further the review.
The area of focus is up
around the fish hatchery on
the Warm Springs River.
Solar
The other potential renew-
able that Power and Water has
been reviewing is solar.
“Everyone has seen the
small 200-kilowatt plant down
around the Credit office,”
Manion said. “That was in-
stalled by an outside devel-
Calving school on Thursday
In preparation for the
springs 2015 calving sea-
son, OSU Extension live-
stock specialists and vet-
erinarians invite the
Warm Springs and Cen-
tral Oregon livestock
community to calving
school this Thursday,
Dec. 11, from 4 to 7 p.m.
at the Central Oregon Ag-
ricultural Research Center
in Madras.
For more information
call OSU Extension in
Warm Springs at 541-
553-3238.
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oper who approached the
tribes last year. He installed
the system using a federal tax
incentive, again not available
to the tribes.”
With that incentive the
developer will get the plant
to pay him back over the next
14 years, a fairly good pay-
back timeline. After that the
plant will be turned over to
the tribes.
In the meantime the tribes
receive a portion of the rev-
enue generated, in the form
of an annual lease payment.
The solar potential is fairly
good, Manion said, but the
cost to install and the current
rate the utility is willing to pay
are not synced. This means it
would cost more to build than
the tribes would receive for
the sale of the energy.
“We hope that Congress
will renew the incentives to
advance renewables, and we
hope that Congress recog-
nizes that these incentives
should be structured to allow
tribes to advance their own
resource without having to
rely on outside developers to
build. We continue to watch
this market and plan on be-
ing ready to present opportu-
nities to the Tribal Council
when the timing is right.”
December 10, 2014
Cougars youth
tourney coming up
The Warm Springs Cou-
gars 13-and-under and 10-
and-under co-ed basketball
tournament is set for De-
cember Friday-Sunday,
Dec. 26-28, at the Warm
Springs Community Cen-
ter.
The tourney is open to
the first six teams in each
division. Contact Austin
Greene for details: 541-
553-1953 or 553-3243.
In other Warm Springs
Recreation Department
news:
Recreation will host
Christmas NDN Night
Out on Monday, Dec. 22
at the Community Center.
Bring your favorite dish for
a 5:30 potluck, with the so-
cial dance and drummers
jam starting at 6:30.
Simnasho planning to ring
in New Year with powwow
The Simnasho New Year’s
Eve Celebration and Powwow
will start with potluck at 6 p.m.
on Wednesday, Dec. 31.
Washat starts at 7 and tra-
ditional powwow, social danc-
ing and games start at 7:30.
Specials are Mother and
Baby in Baby Board Recog-
nition, Men’s Round Bustle,
and Musical Bench Champi-
onship of the World. The
Clown Dance contest is at 11
4202
Holliday St.
p.m. Cash prize for first, sec-
ond and third.
Midnight: time to welcome
the New Year with song and
lay new footprints around the
longhouse.
Everyone is welcome to
this family event, sponsored
by the members Simnasho
community. For more infor-
mation contact Captain, 541-
553-7014.
Call 541-
615-0555
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