Smoke Signals
August 1,1995 Page 3
Gaming Commission up
and running; staff hired
The Gaming Commission is pleased to announce the opening of its of
fices at 28840 Salmon River Highway in Grand Ronde. Their phone num
ber is 879-2362. The Gaming Commission and its employees have been
established in order to regulate the gaming operation on the reservation,
govern gaming operations, and perform various other monitoring functions
to ensure compliance with tribal and federal laws.
The Commission is made up of a body of 5 members and a staff. The
fifth member of the Gaming Commission has'been appointed. William
Miles, of Salem is a retired employee of Oregon State Internal Audit De
partment. Three employees of the Commission have been hired. Lisa A. Albrecht
is the Investigative Auditor. She has approximately ten years of banking
experience and has worked in the Internal Audit Department of the Oregon
State Lottery.
The Administrative Assistant position has been filled by Cathy Steere, a
well-known tribal employee. She is transferring from Tribal Policy and
Planning. Cathy has considerable experience working as a legal secretary
and has worked for the Oregon State Police.
Additionally, Edward K. Crane has been hired as an Enforcement Agent.
He comes to the Commission from the City of McMinnville, where he worked
as a Senior Police Officer. Ed has 25 years experience in law enforcement.
Spirit Mountain Casino: Update
New Hires. Kit Devine has added
four new members to her Human Re
sources staff to help handle the pro
cess of hiring personnel and set up the
human resources delivery systems for
the Casino. They are Darci Muell
haupt and tribal members Mary
Brooks, Tom Misfeldt, and Matt
Kirkland.
Construction boosts economy.
The Spirit Mountain Casino has had
a substantial impact on tribal and lo
cal community employment even be
fore it opens to the public. Construc
tion contractor DrakeKraus has em
ployed approximately 90 workers
throughout the project, ten of whom
are tribal members. DrakeKraus also
has hired two tribe-related subcontrac
tors, Spirit Communications and Ken
Schmidt.
Casino skills classes. The Tribal
Education Division is working with
Chemeketa Community College to
offer classes in job skills needed in
EDITOR: Tracy Dugan
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nals, tribal employees, or Tribal Council.
the Casino's operations. These in
clude Food Handling, Customer Ser
vice, and Cash Handling. Some
classes have been conducted in all
three areas with more to come.
Tuition for the classes is $12 for
Food Handling and $45 each for Cus
tomer Service and Cash Handling.
The Education Division will pay tu
ition for tribal members.
To get more information, call the
Tribal Education Division at 1-800-422-0232.
Cars back on the highway.
Completion of the underpass under
Highway 18 has resulted in the return
of traffic to the permanent roadway
after a three-month hiatus. The $2
million project enables westbound
motorists to enter and leave the Ca
sino grounds without making a left
hand turn across the highway. All of
the funding for the project came from
the Grand Ronde Tribe, and no pub
lic funds were used.
ASSISTANT COORDINATOR:
Job Fair
The Spirit Mountain Casino hir
ing process reached full speed on
Friday and Saturday, July 1 4 and 1 5
as over 1 ,000 applicants attended
the Casino Job Fair. Applicant's had
a chance to talk to Casino staff for
general information and details
about specific jobs. Prospective
employees then filled out job appli
cations and had a short interview.
The Casino Human Resources
Department has started the process
of reviewing all applications. In
total, the casino will hire 850
people, both full time and part time
in 59 different job categories.
HR Director Kit Devine was de
lighted at the Job Fair turnout and
the quality of applicants. "We saw
a lot of very good people," she said.
"I'm confident that we'll be able to
create the professional, people-oriented
team that it takes to make the
Casino a real success."
Potential employees of the
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Spirit Mountain Board Chairman
Mike Larsen said, "We're very
happy about the great number of
jobs that the casino will provide and
about the multi-million dollar im
pact it will have on local communi
ties." The job-seekers hailed primarily
from the West Valley communities
near the casino, including Grand
Ronde, Willamina, Sheridan, Dal
las, and McMinnville, with good
representation from the Salem area.
Both tribal members and non mem
bers were well represented.
Applicants appeared attracted by
above-industry wages and tip op
portunities, comprehensive benefit
packages (including health, dental,
and life insurance) and exciting at
mosphere. In most cases, casino hires will
go through alraining program prior
to starting.
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Job Fair volunteers reminded ap
plicants that filling all 850 positions
will take a great deal of time and
that it might be as late as October
before they are contacted. Devine
stressed the "everyone who applied
will be contacted." Applicants are
asked not to call the Spirit Moun
tain offices to check on the status
of their applications, except to re
port name, address or telephone
number changes.
Applications are still being ac
cepted for specific jobs. Those in
terested should pick up descriptions
of the jobs that appeal to them, com
plete an application indicating the
job preferences and return it to Spirit
Mountain Gaming. Job descrip
tions and applications are available
at the Spirit Mountain Gaming Hu
man Resources Department, located
at 28840 S.W. Salmon River High
way. Phone:879-2350.
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