4 OCTOBER 1,2008
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Photo by Michelle Alalmo
Tribal Council member Chris Mercier, right, sets up a miniature Costa
Rican flag given to him by Florentine Diaz Madrigal, left, during a
visit to the Tribal campus on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Madrigal was part
of a delegation from Costa Rica that visited Oregon and the Tribe
for a day. The visit included a talk by Mercier and a tour at Spirit
Mountain Casino.
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home. Arend worked many years in
the Boston metropolitan area.
He started as an internal auditor
for the Comprehensive Employ
ment and Training Act, a federal
employment and training program.
He was assistant controller for the
town of Arlington, Mass.
For nearly a decade, Arend was
director of finance and adminis
tration for the Metropolitan Area
Planning Council in Boston, an or
ganization comparable to Portland's
regional government Metro.
Working with 101 towns and
cities, the Planning Council was
an advisory body without enforce
ment powers. "It was like being
a mediator, developing regional
strategies," he says. The theory
the group promoted is now called
Smart Growth.
"Smart Growth concentrates
housing and transportation near
jobs and preserves open space,"
Arend says.
He moved west to California in
1998 for the opportunity to work
for larger governments. He became
Palo Alto's accounting manager
in the San Francisco Bay area. In
addition to general government,
he managed the accounts of seven
public utilities, including electric
and gas companies.
For the San Mateo County Tran
sit District, a three-county pas
senger rail system, Arend oversaw
the financing of the district's billion
dollar construction authority.
For San Jose, Arend was deputy
director of finance and supervised
the city's outsourced activities.
His education includes two Mas
ter of Science degrees, one in ac
counting and the other in computer
information systems. He studied
at Dartmouth College in New
Name: Stanley Arend
Bom: Boston, Mass.
Tribal job, phone, e-mail: Finance
Officer; 503-879-2200; Stanley.
arendgrandronde.org.
Education: Two master's degrees
in Accounting and Computer In
formation Systems from Bentley
College in Waltham, Mass.
Professional: Certified Public
Finance Officer conferred by the
Government Finance Officers As
sociation. Family: Two grown children; a son
and daughter.
Quote: "My goal is to provide good
monthly budget-to-actual dollar
figures with clear analysis. Not
everybody speaks finance and
accounting, so the reports should
use non-technical terms."
Hampshire as an undergraduate.
Dartmouth was founded in 1789,
he notes, to educate Indians.
"And it still has a big Native Amer
ican department," Arend says.
Raised in a beach town, Arend
long has had an attraction to the
lifestyle. He earned a U.S. Coast
Guard captain's license and ran a
part-time charter fishing business
with a 30-foot sport fishing boat.
Playing the piano over the years,
Arend also has composed "a small
catalogue of songs."
"Easy listening, light jazz," is how
he describes it.
His children are grown. His son,
Jonathan, is a Latin teacher in
Acton, Mass., and his daughter,
Victoria, attends Bennington Col
lege in Vermont.
He grew up in a smalltown and,
though he has worked in many cit
ies over his life, Arend still prefers
amenities to be within reach.
Arend recently moved to McMin
nville, just off historic Third Street,
he says, because, "1 like a walkable
place." n
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Photos by Michelle Alalmo
Above, Tribal member and employee Ben Bishop strips the Tribal
gymnasium floor in preparation for it to be refinished on Monday,
Sept. 1 5. Below, Tribal member and Tribal employee Mark LaBonte
scrubs a tough spot off the Tribal gymnasium floor.
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