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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 …

needed to fix the building’s foundation, cedar roof, gutters, windows and doors. The depot building is the only structure in Grand Ronde on the National Register of Historic Places, which occurred in 2012; Approved a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will continue to fund the Grand Ronde Tribe’s involvement in the Portland Harbor Superfund site. The agreement will provide the Tribe a maximum $384,256 that will fund the Tribe’s work as a technical consultant …

and after interviews were conducted, Haworth was selected. The Tribe will pay Haworth $148,000 to design the building and the approved budget to construct it is $2.4 million. Both Procurement and Information Services are growing departments within the Finance Office. “The Tribe determined it to be important and efficient to combine the departments into a new facility that can be constructed to accommodate offices, work spaces, shipping and receiving, and storage,” says a staff report. The site …

of employees. “We want to ease our employees’ fears,” he said. “We have around 450 and now it’s down to 50 to 75 people on site. Our intent is to have another plan on the table if needed.” In response to a question, Kennedy said the closure of Spirit Mountain Casino probably will affect future per capita payments for Tribal members. She said it would be untrue to say it wouldn’t, but that “we’re all in this together” in making sacrifices to stem the spread of the virus. Kennedy closed the Facebook Live …

and a purchase price was not disclosed publicly; Approved a professional services agreement not to exceed $169,360 with GBD Architects Inc. of Portland to begin master planning the 23-acre Blue Heron Paper Mill site in Oregon City, which the Tribe purchased in August 2019 for $15.25 million. GBD will work with Tribal Council and staff to prepare options for the property’s use; And approved the enrollment of two infants and one non-infant into the Tribe because they meet the enrollment requirements …

the election is still more than two months away, the Tribe needs to retain the flexibility on where to house the polling site. In other action, Tribal Council: Approved a $609,927 settlement with Central Petro Inc. of Bend regarding environmental damage caused by a gasoline spill into the North Santiam River in December 2017. The Grand Ronde Tribe is one of the trustees regarding environmental damage to the river along with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife …

information to come.” Tribal Council Chief of Staff Stacia Hernandez said Tribal members will have to fill out another application to receive the funding and that the application will be available in mid- to late September. In other action, Tribal Council: Approved applying to the Environmental Protection Agency for a grant not to exceed $100,000 to fund Tribal staff participation in overseeing two specific cleanup areas of the Portland Harbor Superfund site on the lower Willamette River; Approved …

to bring the history of nearby Fort Yamhill back to life through an interpretive project that would create Fort Yamhill Park. The park would focus on the cultural history of the site through experiences of soldiers, Tribal members and the interaction between the two. It was to include a walking trail, restored officers’ quarters and culturally sensitive signage for visitors. Fort Yamhill was once a military camp that supervised traffic between Willamina and the Oregon coast, and served a buffer …

,” says a staff report seeking approval of the agreement, which will last through 2022. “I was looking at ways to help and to build and maintain our partnership with ODFW while staying active managers at the site,” Dirksen added. In other action, Tribal Council: Appointed former Spirit Mountain Community Fund Director Shelley Hanson Sneed and current Community Fund Program Coordinator Angela Sears to the five-member Editorial Board, which supervises the editor of Smoke Signals . Sneed’s term …