Enrollment - Proposed Amendment

Hello Everyone,

I just left a meeting held this afternoon where, initially, 8 Council members were present: Cheryle Kennedy, Steve Bobb, Toby McCclary, Chris Mercier, Kathy Tom, Reyn Leno, Wink Soderberg and Jack Giffen. This meeting was not recorded; staff had the recorder ready, but Cheryle indicated it did not need to be recorded.

After nearly two hours, the result was with 5 Council members remaining (Cheryle Kennedy, Jack Giffen, Wink Soderberg, Chris Mercier and Kathy Tom); it was decided that there will be a Special Tribal Council meeting tomorrow at 4pm to approve a Resolution to move the Proposed Amendment forward as is; in other words in one piece (Reyn, Steve and Toby had other committments and had to leave early).

Toby and Reyn were the only Council members with dissenting comments; which really surprised me. It seemed like most Council just wanted to get something in front of the membership and let them decide. Chris Mercier was willing to negotiate, but with only two dissenting comments, that didn't go far.

The only concrete statement made was what "Official rolls or records" were, and it was decided that this would be a "Census roll which included blood quantums".

From what Rob Greene said, the BIA Election for this new Amendment could take place in mid-July.

It looks like only the membership will be able to decide now whether they want to accept or reject this amendment.

I have to wonder how many Tribal Members will vote "yes" to take care of the "parent on the roll" issue and later realize the other issues are just as important, or whether because they cannot support one or more of the other issues they will vote "no".

I know that most of the Council are aware that many people want this proposed amendment broken down, but once again, they are not listening.

More to come later.
Dakota