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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Wings Invitational
August 17, 2016
CRITFC grant for
salmon marketing
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
Warm Springs Prevention and
the Recreation Department
hosted the Wings Invitational
youth track meet at the Warm
Springs Academy track. This
was for youth, boys and girls,
from ages 2 through 12,
competing in different
divisions. Events included the
long jump (above), high jump,
softball throw (above left), t-ball
throw and 400 relay.
Drummers were hand as part
of the Wings Invitational.
Tribal fishers along the Co-
lumbia River will have some
marketing help this year thanks
to a $30,000 grant from the
First Nations Development In-
stitute.
The FNDI grant was
awarded to the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission,
and will be instrumental in sup-
porting CRITFC’s salmon mar-
keting program.
It will help the tribes and
tribal fishers to better under-
stand how the recently enacted
Food Safety Modernization Act
impacts the processing and
sales of products.
The partnership between
the FNDI, based in Colorado,
and CRITFC has been ongo-
ing since 1998. FNDI has
provided funding to assist ef-
forts to advance various ini-
tiatives on behalf of the tribes
and fishers.
This recent award is key to
CRITFC’s ability to conduct
food safety classes that educate
tribal fishers about the care and
handling of tribally-caught fish,
update CRITFC’s food safety
handbook, and develop food
code regulations that are con-
sistent with the new Food Safety
Modernization Act.
“The tribes are constantly
striving for ways to take trib-
ally-caught fish to the next level
in the marketplace,” said Paul
Lumley, CRITFC executive di-
rector.
“The First Nation’s Develop-
ment Institute has provided us
with a critical tool in achieving
that goal.”
Salmon has always been a
critical component to support-
ing tribal economies. CRITFC
developed its salmon marketing
program to help increase the
economic value of the com-
mercial treaty fisheries.
This program evaluates and
implements strategies to target
new markets and provide
greater income and teach the
younger generation the impor-
tance of continuing the treaty
fishery tradition.
Meals program still serving
All youth age 18 and under are
welcome to get nutritious meals for
free through the Summer Food
Service Meal Program.
At the Warm Springs K-8 Acad-
emy, there is breakfast from 8:45-
9:15 and lunch served from 11:30-
12:15.
There are also meals served at
Madras schools. At MHS breakfast
is at 8, lunch at 12:30; Buff Inter-
mediate and Madras Primary
schools serve breakfast at 9 and
lunch at 11:30; and at Westside
School lunch is at noon and there
is an afternoon meal at 3. The
meals program ends at the end of
next week.
Head Start preparing to open
Head Start and Early Head
Start are closed through Septem-
ber 5 in preparation for the new
school year.
There is a mandatory parent
open house on September 1 be-
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Classes
will resume on September 6.
All Head Start classes will run
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Air Show of the Cascades is coming up on
the weekend of August 26-27 at the Madras Air-
port. You can learn more at cascadeairshow.com
Resolutions of Tribal Council
WSFPI
liquidation
Whereas on April 11, 2016,
Tribal Council for The Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon (“Tribe”)
approved Tribal Resolution No.
12,155 authorizing the Chairman
of Tribal Council and the Secre-
tary-Treasurer/CEO, in consulta-
tion with the Tribe’s legal counsel,
to take all necessary and appropri-
ate action to proceed with the or-
derly wind down of Warm Springs
Forest Products Industries
(“WSFPI”) in a manner that pro-
tects the Tribe and its resources and
that minimizes, to the extent rea-
sonably possible, the impact on in-
dividual tribal members; and,
Whereas pursuant to Tribal
Resolution No. 12,155, the Tribe
initiated an action in Tribal Court,
Case No. CV20-16, for the appoint-
ment of a receiver (“Receivership
Action”) and an order appointing
Ed Hostmann, Inc. as general re-
ceiver for WSFPI (“Receiver”) was
entered by the Tribal Court on May
2, 2016, which ordered the Re-
ceiver to take possession and con-
trol of the assets of WSFPI sub-
ject to the oversight of the Tribal
Court, and to take any and all ac-
tions necessary or appropriate to
sell, dispose of, or surrender the
assets of WSFPI for the benefit of
all creditors, including the Tribe;
and,
Whereas among the WSFPI as-
sets that the Receiver has taken pos-
session and control over are the
equipment and fixtures located at
the WSFPI mill site (“Mill Assets”);
and,
Whereas the Receiver is incur-
ring approximately $100,000.00 in
monthly expenses to maintain and
secure the Mill Assets, the Receiver
believes that the Mill Assets have
significant liquidation value, the pro-
ceeds of which may be distributed
among WSFPI’s creditors through
the Receivership Action, and the Re-
ceiver believes that it is in the best
interests of WSFPI’s creditors to liq-
uidate the Mill Assets; and,
Whereas the Receiver is pre-
pared to liquidate the Mill Assets as
soon as possible to maximize the
proceeds received for the Mill As-
sets and to minimize ongoing costs
in the Receivership Action and is
authorized to do so pursuant to the
Tribal Court order entered in the
Receivership Action; and,
Whereas pursuant to Tribal
Resolution No. 12,155, the Tribe
has engaged Clyde A. Hamstreet &
Associates, LLC (“Hamstreet”) to
provide business and advisory ser-
vices relating to the orderly wind
down of WSFPI’s operations and
to make recommendations with re-
spect to options available to the
Tribe to maximize the value of its
trust timber resources in the future
and alternatives to retain the oppor-
tunity to add value through logging,
transportation, sorting, and possibly
milling timber; and,
Whereas Hamstreet has re-
viewed the Tribe’s options for maxi-
mizing the value of its trust timber
resources in the future and has de-
termined that in no event will the
Tribe, the newly created Warm
Springs Timber Company, LLC, or
any other entity be able to utilize
the Mill Assets in any future opera-
tion and has determined that the
immediate liquidation of the Mill
Assets by the Receiver is in the best
interest of the Tribe; and,
Whereas Hamstreet recom-
mends that the Tribe not object to
the Receiver’s liquidation of the Mill
Assets in accordance with the Tribal
Court’s May 2, 2016 order in the
Receivership Action; now, there-
fore,
Be it resolved by the Twenty-
Seventh Tribal Council of the Con-
federated Tribes of the War m
Springs Reservation of Oregon,
pursuant to Article V, Sections (f),
(l), (o), and (u) of the Tribal Consti-
tution and By-Laws of the Confed-
erated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon, that the
Tribal Council accepts the recom-
mendation of its consultant Clyde
A. Hamstreet & Associates, LLC,
and hereby declares that it does not
object to the lawful liquidation of
the Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries’ equipment and fixtures,
located at the WSFPI mill site, by
WSFPI’s receiver, Ed Hostmann,
Inc., in accordance with the order
of the Tribal Court dated May 2,
2016 and entered in Tribal Court
Case No. CV20-16. Resolution no.
12,204.
Economic
development
Whereas the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reser-
vation of Oregon is a sovereign
tribal organization established pur-
suant to the 1855 Treaty of the
Tribes of Middle Oregon and op-
erates under an approved Consti-
tution and By-laws; and,
Whereas the Tribal Council is
the governing body for the Con-
federated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon
with delegated enumerated powers
for exercising governance for and
on behalf of the Reservation and
its members; and,
Whereas the Reservation has
been experiencing very challenging
economic and fiscal circumstances
and established Economic Devel-
opment as one of its priorities as
stated within the Proclamation of
the Twenty-seventh Tribal Council;
and,
Whereas the Tribal Council un-
derstands the need or specialized
knowledge and expertise to include,
but not limited to, capital recruit-
ment, financing, banking, market-
ing, laws and business networks are
among the elements that are essen-
tial to promote economic recovery
and success; and,
Whereas the Confederated
Tribes have had an ongoing and very
long standing and relationship with
Douglas Goe and his law firm of
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe
LLP to address bond financing and
other specialized legal services that
have provided substantial benefits
to the Tribes and its enterprises;
now, therefore
Be it resolved, the Tribal Coun-
cil, pursuant to the authority in the
Constitution and By-laws Article V
Section 1 (a) (b) and (l) do hereby
enlist the services of Douglas Goe
and his law fir m of Orrick,
Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP as
Special Counsel for Economic De-
velopment effective immediately
and continuing for a two year pe-
riod with the potential of extension
as may be necessary and prudent
for business purposes; and,
Be it further resolved, the
Chairman, or designee and the Sec-
retary-Treasurer are delegated and
authorized to take the necessary and
appropriate administrative actions
to advance the intent and purposes
of this resolution. Resolution no.
12,207.
More Resolutions of Tribal
Council on page 7.