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| Volume XXV, Number 7 | May 21, 2004 |
By Shelley Marmor
HOLLYWOOD — On Tuesday April 27, the Tribal Council held a special meeting. All council members and liaisons were present.
The first five items on the Tribal Council’s agenda were from the consent agenda, and therefore, they are of a routine nature. Executive Administrator Ken Fields discussed these items and recommended that the council pass them without further discussion. They passed all resolutions unanimously.
These items included purchasing new software from Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP, a consulting firm. Fields said this will “help institute the new software system we’re putting in for better financial management.”
Three of the items on the consent agenda had to do with the Ford Motor Credit Company’s Indian Tribal Lease-Purchase Agreement. In one resolution, the Tribal Council approved the addition of more garbage pick-up trucks to the Big Cypress, Brighton and Hollywood reservations.
The second item dealing with the Ford Motor Credit Company allowed for the purchase of two long-reach excavators. These excavators will be “used by the Water Resources Department to maintain the waterways on the Brighton and Big Cypress reservation,” according to Fields.
The third item the council approved allowed for the purchase of a backhoe loader for the Utilities Department. Fields said this machine will help maintain the utilities on tribal reservations. The final item on this agenda dealt with an amendment to the Seminole Tribe’s workers compensation policy.
Two other items on the council’s agenda were from the regular agenda. Both were passed unanimously by the Tribal Council.
Of the two items on the regular agenda, the first one dealt with Section 184 Loans. In 1994, Congress established the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program. This program offers property rehabilitation, home ownership, and new construction opportunities for eligible tribes, as well as Native American individuals and families wanting to own a home on their native lands.
The second item on the regular agenda dealt with the establishment of a funds transfer policy. At the time of the meeting, the tribe did not have a funds transfer system. However, after this resolution passed, one will soon be implemented.
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