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S moke S ignals
JUNE 1, 2017
Tribal Council appoints five to Editorial Board
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Council appointed five peo-
ple to the newly created Editorial
Board and set the stipend board
members will be paid during the
Wednesday, May 17, meeting held
at 11 a.m. to accommodate council
members’ travel needs.
The Editorial Board was created
by the Independent Tribal Press
Ordinance, which took effect in
mid-January. Board members are
required to serve their terms of
office “free from any undue influ-
ence or political interest” and they
are charged with establishing and
enforcing an editorial policy for
Smoke Signals that “will be fair and
responsible in reporting of general
news, current events and issues of
Tribal concern.”
Appointees include former Tribal
Council member Andy Jenness,
who is interim director of communi-
cations at the University of Oregon
School of Journalism; Mia Prickett,
a Tribal member who lives in the
Portland area and is a director at
Skyhigh Networks; Monty Herron,
a Tribal member who recently
moved to the Grand Ronde area
Per capita date approved
Tribal Council held a special
meeting on Monday, May 22,
and approved Friday, June 9,
at the next per capita payment
date.
Finance Officer Chris Leno
said that the amount of the
per capita payment will not be
known until Friday, June 2.
after receiving his master’s degree
from Portland State University;
David Harrelson, a Tribal member
who is the Tribe’s Cultural Re-
sources Department manager; and
Siobhan Taylor, who worked for the
Tribe as Public Affairs director for
more than nine years and is the
current executive director of the
Willamette Falls Heritage Area
Coalition.
Jenness was appointed to a one-
year term, Prickett and Herron to
two-year terms, and Harrelson and
Taylor to three-year terms.
Board members’ stipends are
in line with those paid to other
boards and committees with $325
per month for any month in which
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the board holds a regular meeting
plus reimbursable expenses. Board
members will be paid an additional
$50 for another meeting in a partic-
ular month for a maximum stipend
of $425 per month.
At the Tuesday, May 16, Legis-
lative Action Committee meeting,
Tribal Council Secretary Jon A.
George said the Editorial Board
will be responsible for overseeing
Smoke Signals, but not take over
the day-to-day operations of the
Tribal newspaper.
“This board will not, basically,
take over Dean’s job,” George said,
referring to Publications Coordina-
tor Dean Rhodes, who has edited
the Tribal publication for almost
10 years. “They are not going to be
like the editor of the newspaper.
… We still have Dean and his tal-
ented staff that really are going to
produce the newspaper.”
Tribal Council member Chris
Mercier, who used to work for
Smoke Signals and championed
the Independent Tribal Press Or-
dinance, said that Tribal Council
recently received a complaint from
a Tribal member about a news
items and the Tribal member was
told to contact the editor of Smoke
Signals.
“We don’t have any editorial
power over Smoke Signals,” Mer-
cier said.
In other action, Tribal Council:
• Authorized a Tribal credit card
for Early Childhood Education
Manager Angie Blackwell that
will be used to pay for criminal
background checks with the state
and fingerprinting;
• Appointed Justine Colton to serve
on Tribal Court’s Tribal Member
Review Board;
• Approved a funding agreement
with the Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration for a maximum of
$132,711 annually to fund the
Tribe’s participation in the ad-
ministration’s processes in the
Tribe’s ceded lands through the
Northwest Power and Conserva-
tion Council;
• Appointed Christopher Mansay-
on and Peter Grout to the Educa-
tion Committee through March
31, 2019;
• And approved the enrollment of
three infants into the Tribe be-
cause they meet the requirements
outlined in the Enrollment Ordi-
nance and Tribal Constitution.
Also included in the May 17 Trib-
al Council packet were approved
authorizations to proceed that di-
rected Tribal staff to demolish the
structure on the old casino Human
Resources property, named Educa-
tion Department Manager Leslie
Riggs as the Tribe’s representative
to the Salem-Keizer Public School
Title VI PAC and nominated Tribal
Council member Denise Harvey to
the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services’ Secretary’s Tribal
Advisory Committee with Tribal
Council member Brenda Tuomi
selected as the alternate.
In addition, an approved staff
directive selected Hilltop Public
Solutions as the firm to perform
public affairs and public relations
consulting on Portland-area issues
of Tribal concern.
Cultural Resources Department
staff members Bobby Mercier and
Brian Krehbiel performed the
cultural drumming and singing to
open the meeting.
The entire meeting is available
for viewing on the Tribal website
at www.grandronde.org by clicking
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