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2 S moke S ignals JANUARY 15, 2019 General Council meeting 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 Smoke Signals Monarch Hotel & Conference Center 12566 S.E. 93rd Ave., Clackamas PUBLICATIONS OFFICE The Natural Resources Department will be distributing fish. Must be present and show Tribal ID. For more information, call 503-879-2192. 1-800-422-0232, FAX: 503-879-2173 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347 Website: www.grandronde.org/news E-mails: news@grandronde.org Editorial.Board@grandronde.org NOTICE — Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings DATE TIME Wednesday, Jan. 23.............................................................................4 p.m. Twitter: CTGRgov www.facebook.com/SmokeSignalsCTGR/ www.youtube.com/channel/UCMDXdTzfGjzJ_j3NPpCrtcw Please note that these times and dates are subject to change if needed. Constitutional amendment election could be affected SHUTDOWN continued from front page Tribal Council Chief of Staff Stacia Hernandez noted that the Grand Ronde Tribe runs its budget on a calendar year, which begins Jan. 1, while the federal govern- ment uses the fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. “We won’t see any immediate impacts,” she said. “We are moni- toring it closely and unless it goes on for more than a few weeks (lon- ger), we won’t need to worry about anything.” “The Tribe is able to fund many of our services,” said Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy during the Sunday, Jan. 6, General Council meeting. Nationwide, the Bureau of Indian Affairs currently has 2,455 fur- loughed employees, approximately one-third of its labor force. Additionally, 54 percent of fund- ing for the Indian Health Service, which offers health care to more than 2 million Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and is nor- mally distributed through Tribal governments, has been halted during the shutdown. Although Grand Ronde has yet to feel the effects, what could become an issue if the shutdown continues is the date of the Tribe’s constitu- tional amendment election. The election is currently scheduled for Feb. 25, when the membership will vote on whether nonTribal siblings who have brothers and sisters en- rolled in the Tribe and have the same parents, and who meet the membership requirements under the Tribal Constitution before Sept. 14, 1999, should be allowed to en- roll to resolve the split-sibling issue affecting some Tribal families. If non-essential federal employ- ees remain on furlough for an extended period of time, then the BIA-run election would have to be moved to a different date. Regional effects Even eastern Oregon Tribes such as the Umatilla, which was never terminated and has more of a tra- ditional trust relationship with the U.S. government, only receive 23 percent of its funding from the federal government. This means despite the fact that regional BIA offices have been shuttered since Dec. 21, Tribal operations are continuing to run smoothly. “We do retroactive budgeting only with monies accounted for in the previous year,” Communications Director Chuck Sams said. “We will be fine for up to 90 days until we need to look at using other funds.” During the last economic down- town, when national unemploy- ment rates peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, Sams said no employees were laid off, in large part due to retroactive budgeting. “We are very fortunate to be able to do that,” he said. Tribal Office Closures Tribal offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 21, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Letters welcome Letters should be exclusive to Smoke Signals. Letters should be 400 words or less and must include the writer’s name, address, phone number and Tribal roll number. You will be contacted to confirm authorship. All letters are subject to editing for space, grammar and, on occasion, factual accuracy. Only two letters per writer are allowed during a three-month period. Letters written in response to other letter writers should address the issue at hand and, rather than mentioning the other writer by name, should refer to the date of the letter published. Discourse should be civil and people should be referred to in a respectful manner. Letters deemed in poor taste will not be printed. Send letters via e-mail to news@grandronde.org, or submit in person at the Tribal Governance Center in Grand Ronde, Ore., or mail to Smoke Signals, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR, 97347. DEAN RHODES CHELSEA BARANKSI DANIELLE FROST PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/PUBLICATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT STAFF WRITER 503-879-1418 danielle.frost@grandronde.org 503-879-1463 503-879-4663 chelsea.clark@grandronde.org dean.rhodes@grandronde.org TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ GEORGE VALDEZ JUSTIN PHILLIPS PAGE DESIGNER PHOTOJOURNALIST GRAPHIC DESIGN SPECIALIST 503-879-1961 503-879-1416 justin.phillips@grandronde.org timothy.gonzalez@grandronde.org george.valdez@grandronde.org JENNIFER CLARK SOCIAL MEDIA/ DIGITAL JOURNALIST 503-879-1461 503-879-2190 DEADLINE DATE ISSUE DATE Friday, Jan. 18 .............................. Feb. 1 Tuesday, Feb. 5 ........................... Feb. 15 jennifer.clark@grandronde.org Wednesday, Feb. 20 ................... March 1 Tuesday, March 5 ..................... March 15 Wednesday, March 20 .................. April 1 Editorial Policy SMOKE SIGNALS, a publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Commu- nity of Oregon, is published twice a month. No portion of this publication may be reprinted without permission. Our editorial policy is intended to encourage input from Tribal members and readers about stories printed in the Tribal newspaper. However, all letters received must be signed by the author, an address must be given and a phone number or e-mail address must be included for verification purposes. Full addresses and phone numbers will not be published unless requested. Letters must be 400 words or less. SMOKE SIGNALS reserves the right to edit letters and to refuse letters that are determined to contain libelous statements or personal attacks on individuals, staff, Tribal administration or Tribal Council. Not all letters are guaranteed publication upon submission. Letters to the editor are the opinions and views of the writer. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SMOKE SIGNALS. Members of: Native American Journalists Association Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association 2019 Tribal Council 1-800-422-0232 — tribalcouncil@grandronde.org Cheryle A. Kennedy Tribal Council Chairwoman — ext. 2352 Jack Giffen Jr. — ext. 2300 jack.giffen@grandronde.org cheryle.kennedy@grandronde.org Chris Mercier Tribal Council Vice Chair — ext. 1444 Denise Harvey — ext. 2353 denise.harvey@grandronde.org chris.mercier@grandronde.org Michael Langley — ext. 1777 Jon A. George Tribal Council Secretary — ext. 2355 michael.langley@grandronde.org jon.george@grandronde.org Lisa Leno — ext. 1770 lisaleno@grandronde.org Kathleen George — ext. 2305 kathleen.george@grandronde.org Steve Bobb Sr. — ext. 4555 steve.bobb@grandronde.org
