Karuk Tribe of
Council Meeting Minutes
June 26, 2008
Happy Camp,
The meeting was called to order at 4:59 PM by Arch
Super, Chairman.
Roll Call
Present
Arch Super, Chairman
Florrine Super, Secretary
Leeon Hillman, Treasurer
Roy Arwood, Member
Alvis Johnson, Member
Absent
Leaf Hillman, Vice Chairman
– excused on travel
Florence Conrad, Member –
excused on travel
Sonny Davis, Member – excused
on travel
Robert Goodwin, Member –
excused on travel
Quorum is established.
The mission statement was read aloud by Florrine
Super, Secretary.
Approval of the Agenda for June 26, 2008
Alvis Johnson moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve the Agenda for June 26, 2008. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
1) Approval of
the Minutes for May 22, 2008
Florrine Super moved and
2) Old Business
None at this time.
3) Kari
Norgaard
Kari brought a written
handout of the information she is present to speak about. She brought several students with her and
updated them on the activities they have been working on with Ron. Arch encouraged her to email information to
them regarding their projects at council@karuk.us
They are working on
freshwater mussel studies, food insecurity, water quality sampling, and overall
river health assessments. The students
are from
Carolina Van Horn, Daniel
White, Spenser Meeks, and Cristine Tenant were present to discuss what they are
working on. James Most and Julia Nelson
have already left.
The audience asked questions
about how to tell if a mussel bed is healthy, how they reproduce, what time of
the year they are safe to eat, how to tell how old they are, how to determine
water quality at different time periods, how to sustain them, etc. The salmon and mussels directly co-exist and
support each other in the River system.
Kari will email the thesis to
anyone that is interested in having more information on this subject and what
the students have been working on and what they found.
Arch states that if they want
to come back to the Health Board Meeting they are more than welcome on July 10,
2008 at 3 PM. Then they can join them
for dinner and bring some mussels with them to see.
4) Dwayne Myers
Dwayne is present to address
the Council. He has a question about the
Constitution Revisions. He states it is
very confusing. There is no information
that says what the constitution was and what the new constitution will be. He asked about the fact that the Constitution
states that all Council Members must reside within the
Arch states that if Dwayne
truly feels there is a problem with the process and the document that they have
put forth, he needs to bring that out.
They have not seen the Constitution that he is referencing. Dwayne asked if he can put a copy of that
Constitution in the newspaper. Arch
states he sees no reason why he cannot but it would be appreciated if he gave a
copy of it to the Council as well so they can see it.
They state there were many
versions of the Constitution that were circulated prior to 1985 when they
adopted the Constitution that was put forth to them by BIA but those were never
approved. They encouraged him to bring a
copy of the document he has. Sara asked
that he bring it in and she will copy it for Wednesday. He states he will.
5) Hester
Dillon and Rick Hill
Hester and Rick are present
to review their report. They each have
an action item.
Hester’s action item is
Resolution 08-R-078 approving a proposal in the amount of $644,321 for the
continuation of funding through HRSA.
They will continue to fund the same activities they have previously
funded with the grant.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Resolution 08-R-078. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Rick presented Resolution
08-R-080 approving a proposal in the amount of $605,000 to HUD for the FY2008
Indian Community Development Block Grant which was written to expand the Happy
Camp Complex with a 3,000 square foot addition.
It will house the programs that serve low income community members. Last year they did not have the required
statistics that HUD requested; they followed their protocol and did income
surveys but still did not meet their threshold for a medical administration
expansion, so they shifted to expanding office space for the low income
programs. Due to costs, they will continue
to expand the facility in phases; this would be for another half-wing, then
they would add the remainder of the wing with an extension and then finally
they would extend the two existing buildings.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Resolution 08-R-080. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Rick and Hester’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
6) Jim Berry
Written report only, no
action items.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Jim’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
7) Hector
Garcia
Carrie was present to report
as Hector was not available. She states
the past three weeks have been spent focusing directly on securing the
Non-Gaming distributions from the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. She states they have been gathering support
letters, contacting local legislators, holding conference calls, and working
together to support Senate Bill 62. They
were able to have a hearing on the bill scheduled as a result of their support
letters that were submitted. She states
she has not had a chance to speak to Hector or Arch to find out how the hearing
went.
Arch states there were 15
Tribes present at the hearing yesterday in
The other Tribes would like
the Karuk Tribe to continue pushing these issues forward and have the Karuk
Tribe head the group to form a consortium to focus on the non-gaming issues
that impact smaller Tribes because their issues are unique and different from
the Tribes who have extensive financial resources. If they can get all 71 non-gaming Tribes on
board, they can work together to make sure their voice is heard. The gaming Tribes are concerned but they are
working with them openly and being very honest with them, several gaming Tribes
have stated they will support their efforts.
They have been encouraged to continue on this path because the
legislature listens to the Tribes when they come forward in large numbers and
not individually.
All of the Tribes submitted
the same letter that was drafted by Anna Kimber. One supported SB 62 and the second was
committing to work together on this issue and addressing their individual issues.
Leeon asked if there is
anyone working on contacting the gaming Tribes reminding them why gaming
started and how they are supposed to help each other. Carrie states they have been working on
thanking them for their contributions to the fund, letting them know how it is
being spent, and asking them to support them, reminding them that the Tribes
supported them getting compacts and starting gaming operations and asking them
to help the small Tribes who need help now.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve Carrie’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
8) April
Attebury
April was present to address
the Council and distribute her written report.
She states she was on travel last week so her report was not submitted;
her laptop is being repaired right now.
She states that she has
received correspondence on the DOJ grant, there have been some budget revisions
requested; they requested specific details for items and she has completed
that. She states they also requested a
copy of the Resolution approving the proposal so she is hopeful it will be
funded. Arch asked if there is an
estimated time when they will hear back from them. She states she hopes it will be soon. She included the revised budget for them, the
amounts did not change, there was just more detail.
April states that she was not
able to attend the National CASA Conference in DC but their information was
presented by other Tribes that attended and advocated for the three major
Tribes in the area combining together as a group CASA program. The National response was that National CASA
would be supportive of that. April is
working with the Tribes to put together information on that.
They are seeking approval to
have National Assistance with a group Tribal Program pooling their resources
and volunteers together with each Tribe having a satellite location for their
individual programs. They would be a
collaborative group and National CASA would also help them with identifying
foundation funding as well and California CASA would have a grant writer to
help them also; they would then form a non-profit together.
She met with the CASA
Advisory Committee to go through their indicators of compliance; it is an
extensive self-assessment of the program.
There are two sections remaining that she needs to go through with Sara
and Laura.
She would like to meet with
them on July 10, 2008 at the Health Board Meeting to distribute this
information to them, and then come to Council on July 16, 2008 for approval at
the Wednesday meeting.
She states that the
Governor’s Child Welfare Council that she was appointed to has been meeting and
she has been attending. She has
volunteered to sit on the Data Sharing Committee regarding accessing State data
and criminal background check information.
She has not printed the meeting minutes yet but can get them to them.
She has a Contract requiring
approval with an evaluator for the Youth Program that still requires review by
Laura and then it can be presented at the Wednesday Meeting. She states that there will be no work until
August so there is no rush.
Alma Navarro has been working
with April on the Tribal Youth Program.
One of the goals is to engage the youth to form an advisory group that
will let them know what is needed in the community for the kids between the
ages of 10 and 17. She has developed a
flyer and survey and would like permission for that to be distributed to Tribal
youth between the ages of 17 and 18 in Siskiyou and
The Karuk Title of the youth
group is axiichas vaa if; Youth that Grow; the English Title is Youth for
Change. Susan states there are two words
for grow, one being a person growing and one for a thing such as a tree to
grow. She gave some alternative language
options to them. The title can be
finalized once they have a group of kids to start working together so they have
ownership in the program.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve the mailing from her grant budget. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
April distributed information
regarding the request she had for the Summer Youth Workers in Yreka. She has worked with Jim and Laura on this and
does not know what else they need from her.
She has been trying to work with Joyce also because they have been
informed that NCIDC has obligated two slots for the Court but she has not
spoken to Joyce to know what to do next.
NCIDC cannot hire anyone under 16 so she would need discretionary
funding to do that. They encourage her
to pursue the NCIDC slots. April
reminded them that without discretionary funding there will be no youth
included from
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve April’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
9) Jennifer
Goodwin
Written report only, not
present, on travel, no action items.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Jennifer’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
10) Lisa Aubrey
Lisa is present to review her
report. She requested permission to be
added to the Wednesday agenda so that she can have procurement approved for
flashlights to be purchased through the REACH grant. She has no action items for tonight.
Roy Arwood moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve Lisa’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
11) Erin
Hillman
She states they have been
receiving the air quality updates from
She distributed a request to
submit payment to the Karuk Tribe Housing Authority for the Karuk Tribe’s share
of costs for the electric distribution line and service extension for the
Leeon Hillman moved and Alvis
Johnson seconded to approve payment to KTHA for $3,680.10 for the Tribe’s share
of cost. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
She states that the on site
training for Incident Command Training was canceled; now the staff will need to
complete the training online. Some staff
has completed the training; anyone named in the Emergency Response Plan must
complete the training by September 15, 2008.
She has a list of who is required to take which trainings and will
distribute that on Wednesday so they can see who needs to complete which levels
of training. She is willing to do an
in-service with the Council to walk them through the training in the office if
they are interested; Council Members are going to be required to complete the training.
The first action item she has
for Earl is the rental agreement for the watershed equipment. The Agreement number is 08-A-014 in the
amount of $7,700 per month for the KCDC Weaver Excavator Pile Project from
Peterson Rents. They will table this to
Wednesday so they can verify if the liability insurance coverage is accurate;
Sara was able to verify that the Tribe’s coverage is for the amounts requested.
Leeon Hillman moved and Alvis
Johnson seconded to approve Agreement 08-A-014 in the amount of $7,700 with
Peterson Rents. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0
pupitihara.
The next item is Contract
08-C-049 with Klamath Salmon Media Collaborative in the amount of $3,400 to
prepare a video describing the impacts of suction dredge mining to fisheries to
be widely distributed to the public. The
Contract document references $4,000;
Alvis Johnson moved and Roy
Arwood seconded to approve Contract 08-C-049.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
The third action item for DNR is
a request to approve a MOU between KTOC and Caltrans for the government to
government agreement they have with them and have had for several years. The MOU number is 08-M-009 and is to define
the roles and responsibilities of each party for consultations to discuss
projects and resolve disputes. The Tribe
requested changes that have been incorporated.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve MOU Number 08-M-009 with Caltrans. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Arch states they can either
approve Earl’s written report now or when it gets to his agenda item if they
have not had a chance to look at it.
They will wait.
Alvis Johnson moved and Roy Arwood
seconded to approve
12) Dion Wood
Written report only, not
present, no action items. His report
includes information that the State has again denied their revised TANF data;
they now have the option of submitting the data and an appeal to the Feds which
could take another 2 or 3 weeks. Laura
states that the process for the Feds to review their data should be faster than
the first time they went through this.
At this point, 2 or 3 more weeks does not really make a difference.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Dion’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
13) Dave
Wrobleski
Dave distributed his written
report as it was not included in the packets.
He apologized for not getting it in.
He states he has no action items tonight and updated them on his
continued activities.
He states the film that the
youth have been working on will be shown at the
He asked Laura about the
amount she mentioned at last month’s meeting and the need to sell $700 in
product per day to break even on that project.
He asked if that is profit or only sales. She states that is only sales, not profit. He feels confident that they will meet that
in the Yreka community. She states that
she did not say they would not be able to meet that goal; she just wanted to
make sure they were aware of the needed sales per day. He states that he and Sharon would be willing
to go out and help when it opens if needed also.
Florrine asked if he has met
with the Advisory Board; he states he has not met with them in quite some
time. They asked who is on the Board;
Robert N. Goodwin, Robert A. Goodwin, Susan Gehr, Andre Cramblit, Holly
Hensher, Cassandra Hensher, Verna Reece, and Paula McCarthy.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve Dave’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
14) Laura
Mayton
Laura is present to review
her written report.
Her first action item is to
raise the POV mileage rate July 1, 2008 to match the IRS rate of 58.5 cents per
mile; currently it is 55.5 per mile.
Florrine Super moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve the increase to the mileage rate. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Her next action item is
regarding the tobacco sales at the People’s Center. She states that often times when they place
orders they are above $2,000 which would ordinarily require Council approval
each time. She would like permission to
be able to make those purchases without additional approval each time and have
that reflected in the minutes. Paula states
that when she is there she has seen that the inventory goes very quickly and
the brands that go change so there is no way to predict how much the order will
be each time.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve cigarette purchases being made to replenish
inventory without individual approval when over $2,000. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
She states the meeting in
She states she put the final
audit report in their boxes.
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Laura’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
15) Sami
Difuntorum
Sami was present to review
her report with them. It was sent
electronically but did not make it in the packets for some reason; she did a
verbal overview for those who did not have their laptops to view the electronic
report.
She requested approval of an
amendment to the FY 2005 Indian Housing Plan reducing the Orleans
Infrastructure and Acquisition of the Yreka Head Start to cover the amount of
the purchase of the Snider Property in Happy Camp. Arch asked how this affects those projects;
she states that they do not have the
Leeon states that Donna is
the Acting Director at Head Start right now.
They had a meeting on Monday and she was not there; there still has been
no communication regarding how this is all going to work because Head Start has
needs and they need help from everyone on this project.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve the amendment to the 2005 IHP. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
She continued to update them
on the projects they are working on including construction projects, home
projects, legislative news, and their earmark funding requested.
Sami states that a great loss
is Bob Kroll being re-assigned out of their region from their HUD Area
Office. If they are interested a letter
can be sent opposing that transfer because that will be a great loss to the
Tribe because he has been so helpful to them.
He has always been an advocate for their programs and worked very well
with them. She is not sure what the
politics are for the transfer.
She distributed copies of the
Indian Housing Plan in their boxes for approval and states that the Housing
Committee has approved the document with the removal of the gas station/mini
mart project from the Plan. Florrine
states that Bob was the biggest advocate for this project being included but he
is not present tonight, she suggests they speak to him and then do a phone
vote. The plan needs to be approved by
Monday at 5PM so it could be reviewed with him tomorrow. Arch states they will
talk to the other Council Members and then do a phone vote.
Consensus: To submit a letter opposing the transfer of
Bob Kroll at HUD.
She states she will be
meeting with Hector and Carrie to again work on the BIA Reports to address the
counting issues that have been plaguing them for years.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Sami’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
16) Susan Gehr
Robert states that the
He states they have developed
a Karuk Language Game they will be playing at the
Susan presented her video
that she made for her multi-media class that was attempted last month and did
not work at the Yreka Meeting. She
states her son watches
She states she received a
call from the commissioner at ANA inquiring if they were having any troubles in
the area due to the fires. She referred
him to contact Natural Resources about that subject. She states she has been told that air quality
has been the biggest issue impacting them and wondered if there was anything
else causing problems.
Robert states that in 1987
there were tents set up where they could access oxygen and cleaned air from air
purifiers and possibly if it gets worst they should consider that. That is the kind of information that they
hope Earl will be able to get from Six Rivers at the meeting tonight.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Susan’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
17) Earl Crosby
Written report only, not
present,
Leeon Hillman moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Earl’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
18) Scott Quinn
A written report was included
from Sandi, Scott was not present and there are no action items.
Florrine Super moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Sandi’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
19) Davey Davis
Written report only, not present,
no action items.
Roy Arwood moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve Davey’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
20) Fred
Burcell
Written report only, not
present, no action items.
Florrine Super moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve Fred’s report.
4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
21) Sara Spence
Sara was present to review
her report. She has four action items
for their approval.
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Contract 08-C-050 in the amount of $2,500
with Kathleen Davis to provide cooking services for the
Roy Arwood moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve Agreement 08-A-013 with Big Air Productions Jump
House Rentals in the amount of $500 for the Tribal
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve the revised Director of Community Outreach
Director/Public Health Nurse. 4 haa, 0
puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve advertising in the Siskiyou Daily News’
Golden Fair Guide for 2008 in the amount of $564. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Consensus: To decline to advertise in the Pioneer Press’
Golden Fair Guide 2008.
She states that the
background check information contained in her report can be discussed at a
later meeting date since Leaf and Robert asked the questions and are not
present tonight.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve Sara’s report. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
22) Requests
None at this time.
23) Phone Votes
24)
Informational
The last NCIDC Meeting
Minutes were included for their information.
25) Committee
Reports
None at this time.
26) Closed
Session from 8:25 PM to 10:50 PM.
Roy Arwood moved and Alvis
Johnson seconded to approve Resolution 08-R-076 relinquishing one member. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Roy Arwood seconded to approve Resolution 08-R-077 enrolling ten members. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Consensus: To discuss attorney contracts and
discretionary spending at the Wednesday meeting next week.
Consensus: To review the request from Tribal Member #466
at the Wednesday meeting.
Consensus: To review the request from Tribal Member #4111
at the Wednesday meeting.
Roy Arwood moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve a loan providing utility assistance to
Tribal Member #2230 in the amount of $210.53 to be repaid at the rate of $20
per month. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0
pupitihara.
Roy Arwood seconded and
Leeon Hillman seconded to refund Employee #5541 $39 for a VISA over the limit
fee that was deducted. 4 haa, 0 puuhara,
0 pupitihara.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve transportation for Tribal Member #1974 up to
$610 from Third Party; staff needs to address this issue and ensure Tribal
transportation is utilized as much as possible and to prevent it from happening
in the future. 4 haa, 0 puuhara, 0
pupitihara.
Alvis Johnson moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to cover lodging expenses for Tribal Member #897 on July
19, 2008 for the Tribal
Leeon Hillman moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve up to $1,000 from the Reunion Budget for
Elder Travel Assistance at the
Roy Arwood moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to remove alcohol from Karuk Tribal pre-employment screenings;
alcohol will remain in the policy for reasonable suspicion testing. 3 haa, 0 puuhara, 1 pupitihara (Florrine
Super).
Alvis Johnson moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve travel for Arch Super to New York, August 11-12,
2008 for the BIA TBAC Meeting, costs to be reimbursed by BIA. 3 haa, 0 puuhara, 1 pupitihara (Florrine
Super).
Roy Arwood moved and Leeon
Hillman seconded to approve travel for Florrine Super and Florence Conrad to
Sacramento, July 17-18, 2008 for the Quarterly CRIHB Meeting. 3 haa, 0 puuhara, 1 pupitihara (Florrine
Super).
Directive: For Donna Goodwin-Sanchez, Michael Thom, Erin
Hillman, Sami Difuntorum, and Rick Hill to schedule a walk through of the Yreka
Building to determine what needs to be done in order to convert the building to
a Head Start/Day Care facility.
Next Meeting Date:
July 24, 2008 at 5 PM in
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to adjourn at 10:50 PM.
Submitted by,
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Arch Super, Chairman
Recording Secretary, Sara Spence