March 2022 Open Meeting Summary

Tribal Open Meeting Summary 3/04/2022 held via Zoom

1. CM’s Marion, Marie, Robert, Glenn, Susan, and CoC Dalton present. VC Cheryl, 2C Alan, 2C John present. Filekeeper Starla present. Elder Larry J present. Members Nancy J, Clay J, Jeanie M, Debbie B, Ray A present.

2. Financial Report (as of 3/4/2022 at 4:45 am)

3. General Fund: $15,520.33

4. Building Fund: $3781.29

5. Cemetery Fund: $1848.96

6. Old Business

7. Online Votes

8. 2/22 Approve February Meeting Summary

9. Glenn-yes, Robert-yes, Susan-yes, Marion-yes, Marie-abstain, Dalton-yes

10. New Business

11. Committee Reports

12. Buildings & Grounds: Glenn

13. Talked with Chris H; will start things in April

14. Arts & Crafts: Susan

15. Showed Marie how to wrap feathers

16. Pauwau: Dalton

17. Voting Member needed

18. Larry J: would like to

19. CoC Dalton: you have to get on Zoom or go to the office and join with somewhere there

20. Larry J: will have to learn

21. Gate

22. Glenn: spoke with Elder Dan and he said the Elders would run the gate

23. Susan: Chief Hatcher also spoke to Dan and he will talk to Becky

24. Port-a-johns

25. Gary’s Pumping was bought out; will have to check on price

26. Cashless

27. Can we set up an online store and ability to pay at the pauwau via credit card?

28. CoC Dalton: don’t see a reason not to do it

29. Glenn: same

30. Glenn motioned to accept payment via various cashapps; Robert seconded

31. Glenn-yes, Robert-yes, Susan-yes, Marie-yes, Marion-yes, Dalton-yes

32. Drum: Glenn

33. Nothing new this month

34. Campground: 2C John T

35. Nothing new yet

36. Files

37. CoC Dalton motioned to remove the Filekeeper position and let the committee operate the same as other committees; Glenn seconded

38. VC Cheryl: thinking of nominating 2C John T since files are internal

39. Glenn-yes, Robert-yes, Susan-yes, Marie-yes, Marion-yes, Dalton-yes

40. Susan: work meetings are the same as Work Days on the grounds

41. Go at the hours you can

42. Question on Spousal members after member’s fees are up-to-date (auto reinstatement or fill out own application again)

43. Susan: we don’t ask members to fill out new applications

44. CoC Dalton: does a former spousal member get auto-reinstated?

45. Michelle: just sent the email to Tribal Council & VC Cheryl

46. Susan: she shouldn’t lose her membership

47. CoC Dalton: table it for now; this is in Chief’s hands

48. VC Cheryl: went through numbers

49. Think expired by 2016 should be voted on for removal

50. One member was given a 7-year extension in 2012

51. CoC Dalton: let’s talk about it tomorrow

52. 2C John: pass out the inactive list for Tribal Council to review

53. Second Chance Resolution is working; several people are catching up/ have inquired about their own fees

54. Newsletter: Debbie

55. Final edits are being done

56. Latest edition sent to Tribal Council

57. Thank you to VC Cheryl, Michelle, and others who helped with it

58. CoC Dalton: Council, please review the newsletter and approve it

59. VC Cheryl: reminder: there are still a few edits to be done

60. 2nd Chiefs

61. VC Cheryl

62. Working with social media and wanting younger people to join

63. 2C Alan

64. Museum meeting went well

65. Optometrist willing to do eye exams once per month for us, Pee Dee, and Chicora

66. Invited him to equinox on 3/19

67. 2C John

68. Met with CCU library

69. They are constructing a new building; will take 15-18 months

70. They are willing to use the old building to archive things for us

71. Thought we could interview all members

72. Family Day

73. Want to video our events and presentations

74. CoC Dalton: Lindsay and Jason, Courtney did pictures at the pauwau

75. 2C John: we need videos

76. 2C John: we need to video a fire ceremony for historical posterity

77. CoC Dalton: think it could anger a lot of people

78. VC Cheryl: think it would be pan-Indian and against our culture

79. Marion: taught that it was just a fire

80. The only way to get a fire ceremony video is to get the fire in the video

81. Elder Larry: smudging and fire are sacred and shouldn’t be videoed

82. VC Cheryl: Marion covered the fire in the newsletter

83. CoC Dalton: you have to accept their beliefs or not

84. Susan: could be seen the same as having a female drum in this area

85. CoC

86. Council responsiveness in email

87. Need Council to respond quickly

88. When you reply, hit reply all so everyone in the email can see your response

89. Call if you don’t want to email & tell me your thoughts on the subject

90. Time limit to respond to email

91. Please vote within a couple of days

92. T-shirts/ Merchandise tracking

93. There is a concern that merchandise at the office is going missing

94. We need to know who you gave money to for the merchandise

95. We need to know how many of an item are given away as freebies

96. Let Michelle, Susan, VC Cheryl know if you sell something or give it away

97. Opening the Rollbook

98. If we aren’t growing, we’re stagnating

99. Think as soon as possible that we should reopen the rollbook

100. Partly because of participation

101. Need to keep doing files as we grow

102. Chief

103. Jeanie, Chris, and Marion announced their intent to run for office

104. I plan to run again

105. Happy with work of 2Cs and CoC

106. Tom Webb (former Elder) passed away

107. Hardeeville Pauwau 3/12, put on by Mike Benton

108. VC Cheryl is working with Dr. Rich to include all tribes in our textbooks

109. Don’t want it to fade away; want her to continue

110. 2C John is getting an archive done

111. VC Cheryl

112. Impact of the exposure over the last few years through our events and projects

113. Met a native Hawaiian couple who lives here now and want to be involved

114. Tribes across the country know about us

115. Chief

116. Ms. Jean passed away; she was a strong woman who came to all our Puwaus

117. She tried to come to all events

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