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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