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6 S moke S ignals NOVEMBER 1, 2015 JOB OPPORTUNITIES INTERNAL OPENINGS EXTERNAL OPENINGS n Family Support Services Assistant Job #077-15 Social Services Grade: 7 Closing date: Nov. 16 n Teacher Aide/Bus Driver (Seasonal) Youth Education Grade: 5 Open until filled n Silviculture and Fire Protection Technician Job #078-15 Natural Resources Grade: 8 Closing date: Nov. 16 n AFC Caregiver (on-call) Adult Foster Care Grade: 5 Open until filled Internal applicants are 1. Current Regular Employee, past their six-month Intro- ductory period, receiving at least a “meets expectations” on most recent performance evaluation and not under disciplinary action or perfor- mance improvement within the previous six months, 2. Grand Ronde Tribal mem- bers 3. Spouse of a Grand Ronde Tribal member or 4. Parent or legal guardian of Grand Ronde Tribal member children Internal recruitment For those individuals meeting minimum qualifications an interview will be given in the following ranking order: 1. Grand Ronde Tribal members a) Qualified Grand Ronde Tribal members who show they meet the minimum qualifications of the posi- tion during the course of the interview process will be given first consideration for hire and the recruit- ment process will end 2. Tribal member spouses, parents and/or legal guard- ians of Grand Ronde Tribal member children 3. Current regular employees n Pharmacy Director Pharmacy Grade: 21 Open until filled n Audit Manager Audit Services Job #008-15 Grade: 16 Open until filled n Family Nurse Practitioner Medical Grade: 17 Open until filled n Youth Mental Health/Chemical Dependency Counselor Behavioral Health Grade: 12 Open until filled n Optometrist Optometry Grade: 17 Open until filled n Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Behavioral Health Job #065-15 Grade: 19 Open until filled n Mental Health Counselor Behavioral Health Job #043-15 Grade: 12 Open until filled n Senior ICW Intake Specialist Social Services Job #061-15 Grade: 8 Open until filled For a detailed job description, please contact the Tribe’s job line at 503-879-2257 or 1-877 TRIBEGR. www.gr a ndr ond e. o r g Ad created by George Valdez Tribal Council votes to not advance amendment Tribal Council voted 5-3 during an hour-long special meeting on Thurs- day, Oct. 22, to not advance a possible constitutional amendment to Tribal voters that would have called for removing the parent on the roll require- ments for membership. The proposed amendment would have removed the requirements that new Tribal members have a parent on the roll either at the time of birth or application. Five Tribal Council members – Tribal Council Secretary Cheryle A. Kennedy and members Chris Mercier, Denise Harvey, Jon A. George and Brenda Tuomi – instead lobbied for an amendment that would fix all of the side effects of the 1999 constitutional amendment, including split families. Tribal Council Vice Chair Jack Giffen Jr. and members Tonya Glea- son-Shepek and Ed Pearsall supported proceeding “one step at a time” with constitutional amendments. Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno did not vote since there was not a tie. The meeting, in its entirety, can be viewed on the Tribal website, www. grandronde.org, by clicking on the News tab and then Video. n Tribal Council approves new marriage ordinance By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor After more than a decade, Tribal members soon will be able to marry with a Tribally issued marriage license in Tribal Court. Tribal Council approved a re-en- actment of the Tribal Marriage Ordinance with amendments at its Wednesday, Oct. 28, meeting that will allow couples to marry in Tribal Court with a Tribal marriage license. Currently, Tribal members can only get divorced in Tribal Court as long as it is uncontested and they can marry on the Reservation, but only with a marriage license issued by another governmental entity. During the Oct. 20 Legislative Action Committee meeting, Hon- ors Attorney Holly Partridge said the Tribe received “numerous” comments about the Marriage Or- dinance and that they were “over- whelmingly” in support of adoption. A Legislative Action Committee executive summary said there were 26 comments submitted. During a first reading of the revised Marriage Ordinance in August, some Tribal members objected to the non-discrimination clause that would allow same-sex marriages with a Tribally issued marriage license. The non-discrim- ination clause states that a Tribal marriage license cannot be denied on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, color, gender, gender expression, national origin, disabil- ity and military status. The Tribe has been without a Marriage Ordinance since it was repealed in February 2005. The new ordinance will go into effect on Nov. 18. In other action, Tribal Council: • Approved final adoption of amend- ments to the Fish and Wildlife Ordinance that will implement the Tribal Wildlife Management Plan; • Approved final adoption of amend- ments to the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance; • Appointed Tribal member Mat- thew Kirkland to a vacant seat on the Spirit Mountain Gaming Inc. Board of Directors; • Re-appointed Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno, Tribal Council member Ed Pearsall and Tribal member Ron Reibach to the Spirit Mountain Community Fund Board of Trustees; • Approved adoption of amend- ments to the Personnel Manage- ment Ordinance that provide for random drug testing of employees in safety sensitive positions, plus pre-employment, post-accident and reasonable suspicion testing for all employees; • Approved a Tribal Wildlife Grant application to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service not to exceed $200,000 to improve and assess the habitat at Rattlesnake Butte near Junction City north of Eugene; • And approved the enrollment of two infants into the Tribe because they meet the eligibility require- ments for enrollment defined in the Tribal Constitution and Enrollment Ordinance. Also included in the Oct. 28 Trib- al Council packet was an autho- rization to proceed that moves Tribal Council meetings to 4 p.m. November through February be- cause of the end of daylight saving time and darkness arriving earlier, and another authorization directed staff to bring amendments to the Elders’ Retirement and SSI Ordi- nance forward to Legislative Action Committee for adoption. Another authorization to proceed restores the Tribal Council pub- lication Tilixam Wawa to regular publication 10 times a year. It will not be published in June, July or August except for the annual Can- didate Statements issue that is sent out in July. Also, a staff directive directed that the 32nd Restoration Celebra- tion be held on Saturday, Nov. 21, as recommended by the Restoration Planning Committee. Tribal Council member Jon A. George joined Tribal Artisan Travis Stewart in performing the cultural drumming and singing to open the meeting. The meeting, in its entirety, can be viewed on the Tribal website, www.grandronde.org, by clicking on the News tab and then Video. n
