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Election Office opens July 22
July
• Wednesday, July 17 – Tribal Council meeting, 5 p.m., Governance
Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
• Wednesday, July 31 – Tribal Council meeting, 5 p.m., Governance
Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
• Wednesday, July 31 – Tribal Council Candidates Forum, 6 p.m., Tribal
Community Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
August
• Wednesday, Aug. 7 – Family Night Out, 4:30 p.m., Tribal campus, 9615
Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2034.
• Thursday, Aug. 8 – Vocational Rehabilitation Culture Day, 10 a.m., Em-
ployment & Services Building Rooms 118 A & B, 9615 Grand Ronde
Road. 503-879-4535.
• Wednesday, Aug. 14 – Tribal Council meeting, 5 p.m., Governance
Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
• Friday, Aug. 16-Sunday, Aug. 18 – Grand Ronde Contest Powwow at
Uyxat Powwow Grounds, 9600 S.W. Hebo Road.
• Wednesday, Aug. 28 – Tribal Council meeting, 5 p.m., Governance
Center, 9615 Grand Ronde Road. 503-879-2304.
Elders Marketplace scheduled
The Elders Marketplace will be held at Spirit Mountain Casino, 26820
S.W. Salmon River Highway, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16,
through Sunday, Aug. 18.
For more information, contact Julie Little at 503-689-5005 or Penny
DeLoe at 971-241-0864.
Official Tribal Facebook pages
• Smoke Signals: www.facebook.com/SmokeSignalsCTGR/
• Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde: www.facebook.com/CTGRgov
• Grand Ronde Tribal Council: www.facebook.com/
TheConfederatedTribesOfGrandRondeTribalCouncil
• Grand Ronde Health & Wellness: www.facebook.com/GRHWC
• Spirit Mountain Community Fund: www.facebook.com/
SpiritMountainCommunityFund
• Youth Education: www.facebook.com/
CTGRYouthEducation
• Grand Ronde Station: www.facebook.com/
GrandRondeStation
• Grand Ronde Royalty: www.facebook.com/
CTGRRoyalty
• Community Garden: www.facebook.com/
GrandRondeCommunityGarden
• Food Bank: www.facebook.com/GrandRondeFoodBank
• Youth Council: www.facebook.com/CTGRYouthCouncil
• Social Services Department:
www.facebook.com/CTGRSocialservices/
• Children & Family Services: www.facebook.com/CTGRCFS/
• Grand Ronde Higher Education: www.facebook.com/
Grand-Ronde-Higher-Ed
• Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department: www.facebook.com/
Grand-Ronde-Tribal-Police-Department
• Grand Ronde Cultural Education: www.facebook.com/
Grand-Ronde-Cultural-Education
The Election Board office has a new schedule for 2019. It will be open
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from July 22 through Aug.
30. Office hours are from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with lunch from noon to
12:30 p.m. The Election Office is located in the Tribal Community Cen-
ter, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, and the phone number is 503-879-2271.
For convenience, blank signature verification forms will be placed in
a hanging basket outside the Elections Office door. Completed forms
with a notarized signature or legible copy of ID, including your signa-
ture (driver’s license, member ID card, passport, etc.) attached need
to be mailed to the Election Board for processing. The form will not
be processed unless it has been notarized or includes a legible copy of
ID and your signature attached.
Ballots will be mailed to voters with verified signatures on July 24.
Tribal members may submit a verified signature card at any time up
to and including Election Day on Saturday, Sept. 7. The Grand Ronde
post office is no longer open to accept your ballots on Saturday, Sept. 7.
For our members’ convenience, there will be a ballot box in the
Governance Center during the election season and also on Election
Day we will have a box in the Community Center where completed
ballots can be cast. We will have ballots available, as we have done in
the past, for those members who want to come in and vote in person.
It is the voters’ responsibility to ensure the ballot is received by the
Election Board on Election Day – be sure to allow adequate time for
the ballot to reach the Election Board by Sept. 7.
Need something notarized?
Tribal Court staff is available at no charge for notaries 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday though Friday with the exception of noon to 1 p.m.
Please be sure to bring a photo ID with you. If you have any ques-
tions, contact the court at 503-879-2303.
Public hearing to
be held July 17
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home to flour, saw and woolen
mills, tannery operations, found-
ries, city waterworks and a power
plant.
“Numerous environmental inves-
tigations performed on the property
documented concentrations of poly-
chlorinated biphenyls, petroleum
hydrocarbons and their byproducts,
dioxins and metals present in site
soil above human screening levels,”
states a request for comments re-
leased by the department on Mon-
day, July 1.
If the purchase goes through, the
Tribe will be liable for initial and
continuing obligations.
Initial obligations would include
site stabilization, high priority
cleanup actions, cleanup of soil
through removal or capping, and
preparation of a work plan and
public outreach.
Continuing obligations would in-
clude ongoing cleanup activities as
redevelopment occurs, such as abat-
ing hazardous building materials,
handling contaminated materials
properly and providing DEQ staff
access to monitor cleanup efforts.
“(The Tribe) plans to redevel-
op the 23-acre property through
place-making and redevelopment
into a culturally accountable and
economically viable benefit for the
region,” the request for comments
states, including a Riverwalk that
would provide access for the public
to view Willamette Falls.
The Tribe held a $17 million sup-
plemental budget hearing during
the Wednesday, July 10, Tribal
Council meeting regarding its pos-
sible purchase of two properties in
Clackamas County, including the
Blue Heron Paper Mill site.
According to a Scope of Work also
released by DEQ on July 1, the
Tribe “intends to conduct investi-
gation and remediation utilizing
cleanup standards most applicable
to the type of development, and in
a phased approach over the course
of the property’s future redevelop-
ment and reuse.”
High priority remedial actions
include cleaning up a waste pile
beneath a bleach plant, two catch
basins and a leaking underground
storage tank.
After signing a consent order with
DEQ, the Tribe will have 60 days to
prepare an initial summary report,
a year to create an “overarching”
work plan, 18 months to start work
on the high priority remedial ac-
tions and two years to start working
on other potential remedial actions.
The order of consent lists Tribal
Engineering and Public Works
Manager Jesse White as the project
manager.
After the July 17 public hearing,
DEQ will consider public comments
before making a final decision as
to whether it will enter into a pro-
posed consent order with the Tribe.
For more information regard-
ing the project, visit https://www.
deq.state.or.us/Webdocs/Forms/
Output/FPController.ashx?-
SourceId=4811&SourceIdType=11.
If you do not have access to the
Internet, contact Cheryl Grabham
at 503-504-7906.