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Received on: 05-02-96
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A Special Budget Hearing for
oral testimony will be held at
10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May
5, 1996 (before the General
Council Meeting). Attendance
at this meeting is limited to
tribal members, spouses and
legal guardians of tribal mem
bers. The agenda for the Supple
mental 1996 Budget Proposal
is: Tribal Trust Funds; Health
Security Program; Education
Services; Pension Program;
Benefits Distribution Plan; Ad
ministrative Costs; Economic
Development; and Reserve
Pool, which was explained in
a recent letter mailed out to
all tribal members.
This is the proposed 1996
Supplemental Budget. After
oral and written testimony is
considered, Tribal Council will
finalize it.
General Council Meeting
Sunday, May 5 -- 1 1:30 a.m. -- Community Center
Nominees must be present at this General Council meeting to accept or decline nomination.
Any enrolled tribal member who will be 18 years of age or older by the date of the election is
qualified to run.
Any eligible voter may nominate from the floor at the meeting.
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE will be published in the June 1 issue of Smoke Signals.
The CANDIDATE FORUM will be held on June 15.
ABSENTEE BALLOTS will be sent out on July 1.
This year's ELECTION will be held on September 7, 1996.
New clinic focus of April 14 General Council Meeing
Minutes: General Council Meeting held Sunday, April 14, 1996
All tribal council members were present. Previous minutes were
approved.
New Clinic Presentation: Health Facility Architect, Frank
Whalen gave a update on the progress of the new clinic. The con
struction documents and legal review should be complete by June
15. The design was started in August of 1995. Ground-breaking
should begin this August, with construction taking about one year.
"We are still within the budget of around $3.5 million. It is running
$122 a square foot," Whalen said.
The 29,000 square foot, 2-story building will be about four times
the space the departments are in right now. The second floor will
be office space. Occupying the building will be
the present Human Services components of Medi
cal and Dental, Wellness, Support Services, and
Counseling. Human Services administrative of
fices will also be located in the clinic. The Tribe
presently employs a Human Services staff of about
fifty, but when the clinic opens there will be some
hiring of new staff.
Additional services included in the plan are Am
bulance, Pharmacy, Radiology, Laboratory, and
Maintenance. The pharmacy will be open for cli
ents to have prescriptions filled, and will also carry
some Over-The-Counter medicines and drugs.
According to Cheryle Kennedy, Human Ser
vices Division Manager, the Tribes' agreement
with Indian Health Services allows any Native
American person to receive treatment at the Grand
Ronde clinic, even if the client is a member of
another Tribe. Additionally, services will also be
available to community members.
Future expansion of the building will be easy
due to the design. All four wings can be easily
expanded, depending on the growth of each de
partment. If one department grows more than another, that wing
can be added onto without affecting any other departments or the
structure of the entire building. Shown below is the architect's model
of the clinic.
Also, in the center of the building is a courtyard which is de
signed to resemble a medicine wheel, a cross inside a circle with
each wing extending the cross. The Human Services Division is
currently coordinating some fund-raising activities in order to sup
port artwork for the interior of the clinic. They plan to ask the
tribal members for suggestions on the name of the clinic, as well.
The clinic site is to the south of the main tribal offices on Grand
Ronde Road. continued on page 3
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