Karuk Tribe - Council Meeting Minutes
April 23, 2009 -
The meeting was called to order at 5:09 PM by Arch
Super, Chairman.
Present
Arch Super, Chairman
Florrine Super, Secretary
Leeon Hillman, Treasurer
Roy Arwood, Member
Florence Conrad, Member –
late
Alvis Johnson, Member
Wilverna Reece, Member
Absent
Leaf Hillman, Vice Chairman
Verna Reece read the mission statement of the Karuk
Tribe aloud.
Approval of the Agenda for April 23, 2009
Alvis Johnson moved and
Florrine Super seconded to approve the Agenda for April 23, 2009. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
1) Approval of
the Minutes for April 2, 2009
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve the minutes for April 2, 2009. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
2) Suzanna
Hardenburger
Alvis Johnson moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Resolution 09-R-057 authorizing submission of
the grant application. 5 haa, 0 puuhara,
0 pupitihara.
3)
Deborah McConnell was present
on behalf of CIBA to request sponsorship for this year’s gathering which will
be held in Hoopa at Tish-Tang Campground.
Arch asked about the status of the tent rental. Jennifer states they will rent them both for
a fee of $2,000 for Tribal Staff to deliver, setup, and take down the tent. She said they have received donations ranging
from $500 to $2,000 from other local Tribes.
She states that if they would
like their logo included on the advertisements for the gathering, they will
need to know by May 1, 2009 if they will donate for the event. Arch states they will need to discuss that
further before making a decision.
4) April
Attebury, Tribal Court
Not present, no report
submitted.
5) Jim Berry,
KCDC
Written report only, not
present.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Jim’s report.
5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
6) Robert
Attebery, LIAP
Robert is present to review
his written report.
There was discussion
regarding environmental assessment requirements for HUD homes based on the data
that was submitted for economic stimulus funds recently as there were families
which were income eligible for the assistance.
Verna Reece moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Robert’s report. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
7) Jennifer
Goodwin, Education
Jennifer was present to
distribute and review her written report.
Pihneftuuf distributed the written reports to the Council. She apologized for not submitting her written
report prior to the deadline. She
reviewed the contents and states she does not have any action items at this
time. They are in between semesters at
this time.
She states they will be
receiving funding for the coming school year and are hoping to mail those applications
soon as the deadline this year will be July 31, 2009. There will be approximately $1,000 available
per student and the rent voucher amounts will be determined based on the number
of applications received.
She states she has been
spending the majority of her time in the office working on necessary reports
and not attending as many meetings unless necessary.
She expects to have a higher
than average amount of applications as many people are preparing to attend
college in the coming year.
She states they received two
letters for the open seat on the Education Committee which will be reviewed and
returned at the May Council Meeting with a recommendation to the Council on
appointment.
She was invited to Southern
Oregon University in
The
She states the basetweavers
gathering was last weekend and there was a good turnout and they had a good
time.
Verna Reece moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Jennifer’s report. 5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
8) Robert
Goodwin, Self Governance
He was present to review his
written report.
He just returned from
He states he just met with a
representative and DNR regarding the matter that was discussed at the last
Forest Service Summit Meeting regarding a contract which was awarded by the
Forest Service in the Tribe’s Territory to NCIDC. A meeting has been requested with the Forest
Service Leadership regarding this matter and an email to that effect was
distributed from Merv George.
He states that he may be
required to testify regarding AB 544 and Suction Dredge Mining in
Leeon Hillman moved and Florrine
Super seconded to approve Resolution 09-R-058.
5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Arch asked what date Merv
George is requesting for the Forest Service Meeting. Bob states he also has another meeting date
he will need during the first week of May.
Bob states that there needs to be some further meetings to discuss an
entity that is interested in doing further studies regarding dam removal. The meeting was scheduled for 10am on
Tuesday, May 4, 2009 in
Arch asked if a Council
Member needs to attend the testimony for Tuesday-Wednesday next week in
The Forest Service Meeting
will be scheduled at a later time for Happy Camp according to everyone’s
schedules.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Verna Reece seconded to approve Bob’s report.
5 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
9) Erin Hillman,
Administrative Programs/Compliance
She was present to review her
written report.
She will be attending the
interviews for the High School Construction Contractors on Monday as requested.
Pim Allen is honored to
attend the NAGPRA Training on behalf of the Tribe and will be coordinating with
The People’s Center
Coordinator position RFQ has been distributed to as many places as possible
through networking at the basketweavers gathering.
The CSD Action Plan Surveys
were distributed with the last payroll to all Native Americans and also through
the LIAP Program, Behavioral Health, and TANF programs.
She states they are still
awaiting the TANF Funding from the State.
They have submitted for
basketweavers funding to support their future gatherings.
She recently attended a
meeting at
Verna Reece moved and Roy
Arwood seconded to approve
She states there were about
100 participants at the basketweavers gathering last weekend. The boats worked out wonderfully and she thanked
them for use of those boats and the drivers.
There were some comments from the gathering that will be discussed in
the future with the Council in closed session.
She thanked everyone for all of their help on the gathering. Jennifer states that having the septic issues
addressed at the gym was amazing. Paula
states they earned slightly more than $900 on the raffle and they sold nearly
all of their t-shirts for almost $600.
That is the most they have ever made on shirt sales, they were beautiful
this year.
Paula stated they had over 30
prizes for the raffle; she will start gathering donations in November and
December for the next Spring gathering as they will not have a Fall gathering
this year.
10) Dion Wood, TERO
Dion distributed an updated
written report. He states there are not
many changes.
He states they have received
their final allocation for the child care program and it looks like they may
have a carryover at the end of the year.
They have received their award letter for the stimulus funding which he
has proposed to use for implementing a toy library. He opened it up to the community for any
input they might have on what the funds could be used for. The items could be large items purchased with
the funds for things such as telescopes, microscopes, etc.
He states that he has been
working with Patty Brown to do the home visits for the program and it has been
very helpful to have her working with him on that.
He has been working to get
the State of
Their regional specialist
will come at a later date. He is
drafting the upcoming two year plan and is using this meeting as a forum for
the required public hearing; he brought copies of the plan with him.
He states they are receiving
many requests for AVT assistance as individuals are being laid off and hoping
to find alternate employment. The $1,000
grant they offer is such a small amount to contribute toward their
schooling. He states it is very discouraging
for the Tribal Members. He is hopeful
that he can work with NCIDC and the computer center to locate alternate
funding.
He has requested the
Directors contact him for summer youth which will be hired through NCIDC for
16-24 year old youth this summer. He has
eleven obligated so far.
He is working with the Yreka
Amkuuf Smoke Shop to help make their grand opening on May 1 a great success. TERO will sponsor a live radio broadcast and
other contributions to make it nice.
He requested approval of
Resolution 09-R-056 authorizing the Karuk Tribe to withdraw from the California
Indian Manpower Consortium (CIMC) as discussed at the planning meeting. They would then be eligible to apply for the
WIA funds themselves rather than CIMC receiving funding on their behalf.
Roy Arwood moved and Verna
Reece seconded to approve Resolution 09-R-056.
6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Dion’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
11) Sami
Difuntorum
Sami reviewed her written
report and provided updates on the information contained in the report.
The funds have been released
for the Peters home. The Brown home is
moving forward. The work on the Graham,
Salstrom, and Orleans Bar property continues to move forward as well. The Evans property has closed escrow; there
is no Tribal funding available for the project so they will move forward with
the Housing portions of the project.
They have begun the Yreka
Apartment Heating project to remove the monitors and install an HVAC system
with a solar component. They are almost
ready to begin painting the exteriors of the
She has forwarded a draft
press release related to what they are using the funding from the ARRA for
which was requested from the White House several times.
They plan to apply for
NAHASDA competitive funding to reroof the homes in Happy Camp, install tankless
water heaters, and potentially replace the roof mounted HVAC units in
There will be changes to the
requirements for the Energy Grant recently applied for; they have secured
support from their congressional representatives waiving the 50% non-federal
match and also removing the requirement that the project be at least 1 MW.
Housing has met with the
other Tribes regarding the formula; she has not heard anything regarding the
BIA Labor Force Report and if those numbers were addressed. Arch is unsure if that has been addressed.
AMERIND would like to do an
article on their construction processes for the home Jeanerette recently moved
in to.
Verna Reece moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Sami’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
12) Rick Hill
Rick was present to review
their written report. He has one action
item for their approval tonight.
He presented Resolution
09-R-039 authorizing submission of a grant in support of the “Renewable Energy
and Energy Efficiency Deployment Within the Karuk Ancestral Territory Project”
to the Department of Energy in the amount of $3,337,000. The funds will be to install solar power on
housing units and a renewable energy project at the Forks of Salmon.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Verna Reece seconded to approve Resolution 09-R-039. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
In addition to this energy
grant which Hester primarily focused on he worked on a RAC grant for equipment
at the computer center which will be ready next week. He worked with Toni for IHS funding in the
amount of $17,000. He worked to develop
a list of current projects for the Council’s review which was discussed on
April 16th.
He states that they have been
reviewing the funding opportunities that could assist the behavioral health
program and working with them to determine what types of assistance could best
help them.
They assisted April with her
grant to the Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women and helped
Rosie with the Learn and Serve grant.
They have been working to
identify what is the best way to utilize the data from the community surveys to
assist them in obtaining ICDBG grant funding for this fiscal year to expand the
Administration Complex.
He has identified a Rural
Business Opportunity Grant that should also be completed by next week to assist
KCDC with funding. He will require a
phone vote because it must be received in
Verna Reece moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve Rick’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
13) Ruth
Rouvier
Ruth is present to review her
written report. This year’s word is
chantirih (wood tick).
She provided some
updates. The main issue is the teacher
credentialing legislation that Bob spoke of earlier this evening. That bill will be heard next week and she has
been working with Bob to put together the Resolution language and prepare for
testimony next week. She had a
conference call with the sponsors of the bill and their attorneys today. The bill will support credentialing for
teaching the classes and allowing them to earn college credit, however; it does
not provide language that will allow the language class to be considered a core
language class that would apply toward degree credits. They plan to approach the Board of Education
to pursue making the class count as a core credit class equivalent to other
foreign languages taught currently. She
has additional information for anyone that would like more information. The credential would come through the bill
language allowing the Tribes to certify the teachers. For the classes to count will need to come
from a ruling at the State Level through the Board of Education. They seem receptive to making that change. She continues to work with
She states that unfortunately
there were not many speakers at the basketweavers gathering over the weekend
but several participants in the language Master Apprentice were there and many,
many of the weavers were interested in attending and listening in on the
speakers circle and enjoyed participating and listening to the
conversations. She states they will
continue with the speakers circle on a monthly basis. She is open to any suggestions anyone may
have to get more people involved.
Florrine asked about the
training that she has not set a date for as of yet and who that is up to. Ruth states that she just needs to coordinate
with everyone to determine what their schedules allow for; she wants to do more
equipment training with the teams.
Verna Reece moved and Roy
Arwood seconded to approve Ruth’s report.
6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
14) Laura
Mayton
Written report only, not
present; she is on vacation this week.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Laura’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
15) Earl Crosby
Earl was present to review
the written report.
He has one action items which
is approval for travel for Arch Super, Craig Tucker, Bryan Colegrove, Molli
White, and Kathy McCovey to travel to
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to approve the
He states that he and Bob met
with Terry Coltra to discuss adding Karuk Tribal Members to the NCIDC crew
which will be doing brushing work in their area to help address their concerns
with the work to be done. That would
result in 8-9 of their members being hired on a 12 person crew to do the work. They will pursue the Forest Service for lack
of consultation but have remedied the issue with NCIDC regarding the matter.
Leeon Hillman moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Earl’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
16) Scott Quinn
Written report only, not
present, on travel.
Roy Arwood moved and Verna
Reece seconded to approve Scott’s report.
6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
He requested approval of a
letter of support for the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District’s
application for EPA Region 9 ARRA funds to assist in the implementation of the
District’s regional Clean Diesel Campaign.
Arch has already signed the letter and submitted it.
17) Fred
Burcell
Written report only, not
present, no action items.
18) Sara Spence
Her written report was
included in the packets and she reviewed the information.
She states she continues to
work on the insurance transition that was approved last week. The agents were disappointed but understand
the reason for the decision being made.
Employee meetings have been scheduled for next week to discuss the
transfers, the medical plan changes discussed will be finalized in late summer
for introduction in the fall with a revised open enrollment period to coincide
with the fiscal year.
Florrine Super moved and
Alvis Johnson seconded to approve Sara’s report. 6 haa, 0 puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
19) Requests
None at this time.
20) Phone Votes
21)
Informational
The NCIDC Meeting Minutes
were included in the packets for their review.
Closed Session from 8:06 pm to 10:20 pm.
Consensus: To review the information presented by Tribal
Member #1421 at the Planning Meeting.
LIAP Committee Vote:
Consensus: To approve $500 from the LIAP line item for
Tribal Member #1773.
Leeon Hillman excused himself at 8:49 pm.
Consensus: To review the request from Tribal Member #1302
further at the Planning Meeting.
Leeon Hillman returned to the meeting at 9:12 pm.
Consensus: To discuss the language issues with the
Contract regarding copyrights further at the Planning Meeting.
Consensus: To have programs and family again research
alternative funding sources for care of Tribal Member #1666.
Florrine Super moved and
Leeon Hillman seconded to pay both David Goodwin and Bryan Colegrove to teach culture
classes from the Museum Grant. 6 haa, 0
puuhara, 0 pupitihara.
Consensus: To allow Tribal Employee to transport Tribal
Member #736 for funeral services.
Directive: To advise Contractor that actions are
unacceptable and outline restrictions on access to staff and offices for
remainder of the Contract term.
Consensus: To again deny the request from Tribal Member
#2645 to place a trailer on the Somes Bar property, it would be too great of a
liability to take on in accordance with the
Next Meeting Date:
May 28, 2009 at 5pm in Yreka.
Meeting adjourned at 10:24 pm.
Submitted by,
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Arch Super, Chairman
Recording Secretary, Sara Spence