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10 S moke S ignals JULY 15, 2016 Widlife visits Name changes in Tribal Court Tribal Court provides both minor and adult name changes to enrolled members for a filing fee of only $30. If you have any questions or would like to request a packet, contact Devin Larsen at 503-879-2303 or devin. larsen@grandronde.org. Last successful proposal occurred eight years ago ELECTION continued from front page Contributed photo On Friday, June 10, and Thursday June 30, the Natural Resources Department’s Parks and Recreation Program hosted four of the preschool classes at the nature trail behind the Natural Resources offices. The children toured the Natural Resources Department and were shown the various buildings and their uses. After the tour, the youths went on a nature walk and saw many flowers, trees, bugs and even a snake. They also had a picnic lunch on the picnic tables in the area behind the offices and after that they got to have fun with the fire truck and spray some water. The Silviculture/Fire Prevention team had some stickers, pencils and other goodies to hand out to the children. Thursday, August 18 th , 2016 9:00am – 5:30pm Friday, August 19 th , 2016 9:00am – 5:30pm Thursday, August August 20 18 th th , , 2016 2016 9:00am 9:00am – – 1:00pm 5:30pm Saturday, August 19 to th , expediently 2016 9:00am – 5:30pm Elders will have a special Friday, line established fill their requests. To ensure this, only Elder 2016 9:00am – 1:00pm Saturday, 20 , for orders will be filled using this line. August Thank you understanding and consideration of others. Elders will have a special line established to expediently fill their requests. To ensure this, only Elder OFFICE DISTRIBUTION orders will be filled using this PORTLAND line. Thank SATELLITE you for understanding and consideration of others. th Fish will PORTLAND not be available to those who DISTRIBUTION do not preregister. SATELLITE OFFICE Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 at 10am – 4pm. Preregistration required BEFORE to Wednesday, August 17 th 2016 at 4pm. Fish will is not be available those who do not preregister. Please contact Lisa Archuleta to preregister up. (503) 879-1881 Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 for at pick 10am – 4pm. Preregistration is required BEFORE Wednesday, August 17 th 2016 at 4pm. If picking up for others, a signed release AND copy of Tribal ID or CIB is required! required ! Please contact Lisa Archuleta to preregister for pick up. (503) 879-1881 No early or late pickup Fish will NOT AND be mailed If picking up for others, a signed release copy of Tribal ID or CIB is required! required ! If you have any questions please call Natural No the early or late Resources pickup Department (503)879-2424. Fish will NOT be mailed If you have any questions please call the Natural Resources Department (503)879-2424. I , Roll Number give I , , Roll permission Number to pick up my salmon. , Signature give of Tribal Member: Date: up my salmon. permission to pick copy Member: of Tribal ID or CIB MUST accompany this Release. Release . No Exceptions! Signature of A Tribal Date: A copy of Tribal ID or CIB MUST accompany this Release. Release . No Exceptions! The proposed amendment would have eliminated the requirements that an applicant be born to a par- ent who was a member of the Grand Ronde Tribe at the time of their birth, as well as the requirement that their parent be a Tribal mem- ber at the time of their application. It also would have changed the definition of Grand Ronde blood to allow applicants to use all Indian blood derived from a direct ancestor who not only validly appears on the Restoration Roll, but also the Tribal membership roll prepared by the Tribe between Nov. 30, 1984, and Sept. 14, 1999. The second proposed amendment would have reduced the General Council participation require- ments for exercising the power of initiative or referendum and the calling of special General Council meetings. The amendment would have reduced the number of General Council signatures required for an initiative or referendum petition from 33 percent of the voting-age membership to 15 percent. Using current Tribal enrollment num- bers, the amendment would have reduced the number of signatures needed from 1,323 to 601. In addition, the amendment would have reduced the number of qualified voters who must vote in an initiative or referendum election from at least 30 percent – or 1,202 Tribal members using current en- rollment numbers – to 20 percent, or 802 Tribal members. The amendment would not have affected the required margin of ap- proval, which would have remained at 66.7 percent of those actually voting to make the election results binding on Tribal Council. The amendment also would have reduced the number of General Council member signatures re- quired to call a special General Council meeting from 33 percent to 15 percent. The election results continue a Tribal trend of not garnering enough support to change the Trib- al Constitution. The last proposed amendment to receive more than two-thirds approval from the voting membership was in February 2008 when 76 percent of Tribal voters OK’d increasing the relinquish- ment period from one year to five years. Since then, other Tribal Con- stitution amendment proposals re- garding such issues as enrollment, term limits and a Tribal primary election have failed.
