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the Tribe in “exercising its sovereignty by identifying, acquiring, protecting, restoring and managing Tribal lands and resources throughout the Tribe’s ceded lands and other areas of interest.” The four-person Lands Department staff has myriad responsibilities, Reibach said, from monitoring the Portland Harbor Superfund site cleanup to land acquisition to self-governance to participation in the Northwest Power & Conservation Council. The latter entity is charged with implementing the Bonneville Power …

recognizes this and invests a lot into this program so I can afford to pay the teachers (fairly). We have teachers who have been here for years.” The review was conducted by the Administration for Children & Families Office of Head Start. Four reviewers were on site for a week while they evaluated six different areas of the Tribe’s program -- program management and quality improvement, quality education and child development services, quality health services, quality family and community engagement …

in Portland, where the crowd was sprayed with a mister that contained the virus. The exercise focused on setting up and operating a mobile public point of distribution site to dispense the proper medications to a large group of people. Exercises occurred over a three-day period in Newberg, McMinnville and Grand Ronde. Participants included Yamhill County Emergency Management, Yamill County Public Health, Yamhill Public Works, Willamette Valley Medical Center, Oregon Office of Emergency Management …

in the second week of September. The memorandum requires that the work be completed no later than Sept. 30. Grand Ronde Road was last significantly reconstructed in 2009 and completed in 2010 for $4.8 million using a mix of Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service and Polk County funds. The two main culprits of continuing potholes are a combination of moisture issues with Grand Ronde-area soil and heavy trucks using the road as a shortcut to Highway 18. Tribal Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier also …

Administrative Committee, which now consists of the Tribe’s general manager, finance officer and Human Resources director and Spirit Mountain Casino’s general manager and finance director; Approved a resolution of support for the Riverwalk project in Oregon City. The Willamette Falls Legacy Project endeavor will eventually connect the historic downtown area with Willamette Falls and requires Tribal support because it purchased the former Blue Heron Paper Mill site along the Willamette River …

rules, requiring employee representation for back-to-school planning and a requirement that districts offer on-site COVID-19 testing if they are located in counties with high case counts. Schools in Yamhill, Marion and Polk counties are currently included in that category. The Willamina hybrid model features a half-day, morning or afternoon session for three hours, four days per week, Tuesday through Friday. Students are given two meals when they finish the day to take home with them rather than …

is constructed; Appointed Tribal Council member Michael Cherry to succeed Tribal Council member Kathleen George on the Spirit Mountain Community Fund Board of Trustees. Both Cherry and George are former directors of the Community Fund; Approved a service line agreement with Portland General Electric to provide electricity to the new men’s transitional housing site on the west side of Grand Ronde Road; Approved an opioid settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson and three drug distribution companies …

the potholes and replacing the “alligator” cracking – interconnected cracking of the asphalt – to help keep the road in shape for a few more years. Road repair work, which will now include substantial work and repaving, is scheduled to be completed during the 2023 construction season, Mercier said. Grand Ronde Road was last significantly reconstructed in 2009 and completed in 2010 for $4.8 million using a combination of Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service and Polk County funds. The two main …

approved a service agreement between ODOT and the Tribe for the improvements; Approved amendments to the Tribal Debt Collection Ordinance to include that General Welfare Assistance and Supplemental General Welfare Assistance Program payments are Tribal payments subject to Tribal debt collection provisions; Approved terms and conditions with Umpqua Bank, including a waiver of sovereign immunity only for disputes brought by the bank against the Tribe; Approved a grant renewal application …

in the 27100 block of Salmon River Highway. Two vehicle noninjury crash in the area of Salmon Way and Grand Ronde Road. Suspicious activity reported in the 26000 block of Yamhill River Road. Animal complaint received in the 9300 block of Grand Ronde Road. Suspicious activity reported in the 9600 block of Southwest Hebo Road. Assist outside agency with a traffic stop in the area of milepost 29 on Salmon River Highway in Sheridan. Assist outside agency with a traffic stop in the area of milepost 26 …