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IPG
PROPOSAL TO CONSTRUCT A WIND ENERGY AND OIL REFINERY
APPROVED BY MAJORITY OF THE TBC COUNCIL
Tribal
Business Council approved the proposal as presented
by a Richard Thompson, International Projects
Group (IPG) Vice President of Operations and Engineering.
This included the description of services to
construct a Wind Power and a Oil and a Gas Refinery,
which was to reportedly cost roughly $200,000,000
dollars from a Humanitarian Grant. The only
catch was that IPG needed to have the Tribe place
in a Bank Escrow Account the amount of $10,000,000
and provide proof of this escrow account to IPG.
However why this $10,000,000 was needed was never
clear nor was there any reason for it. If the
funds for the Grant were a true grant there would
be no need be to have any dollars tied up for
this proposal at all.
Nonetheless, this proposal was discussed at length
by the Tribal Council at a previous meeting and
directed Mr. Thompson to seek Segment Meetings
and provide information on this proposal. This
was done and the meetings that I attended at the
New Town Civic Center, included the Four Bears,
North Segment, Mandaree and Parshall Community
Board representation. The general consensus was
that this proposal had to many un-answered questions.
Which was exactly the same type of result of the
first proposal to the Tribal Council, unanswered
questions. Therefore the Tribal Business Council
was requested to do some more research before
a final decision on this proposal is made.
However, upon the presentation of this proposal
to the Tribal Council for a decision the issue
came to two (2) votes. The first was defeated
by the vote of 3 for and 4 opposed. The second
vote was subject to a clear background check on
Mr. Richard Thompson. The vote was called for
and approved by the vote of 4 for and 3,
opposed. The councilman who opposed were Marcus
Wells, Jr. Four Bears Segment Representative,
Malcolm Wolf, North Segment Representative and
Mark Fox, Parshall Segment Representative.
This was a very controversial vote, however, the
majority rules and the vote was cast by the majority.
During the deliberation of this issue I, Mr. Fox
and Mr. Wolf, commented that this proposal should
not be undertaken and stated our reason why. However,
it was not enough as the vote went through.
This decision is why I am a strong supporter of
the increase to the nine (9) member Tribal Council
that will be going to a vote of the people and
conducted by the BIA.
Update
on this proposal decision; On October 5, 2001
the background check came back and Mr. Thompson
did not have a clear background check, therefore,
the approval was null and voided!
TRIBAL
CHILDREN'S SERVICE COMMITTEE, ACTING DIRECTOR
APPOINTED
The Tribal Business Council formally appointed
Ms. Jennifer Mann, to the position of Acting Director
of the TCSC Director, effective immediately. This
position was vacant for some time and Ms. Mann
is currently the administrative assistant to the
program. She will hold the position until advertised
and filled.
TRIBAL
CHILDREN'S SERVICE COMMITTEE MOA APPROVED
BY #01-251-MWJR.
The Tribal
Business Council formally approved a Memorandum
of Agreement for the top two hiring recommendations
to come from the TCSC Committee to the TBC for
employment.
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