ATTACHMENT 3 Southeast Alaska Indian Education meeting, Ketchikan, Alaska, Jan. 20-21, 1976 Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1976: 9 a.m.-Opening remarks_ 9:15 a.m.-Introductions__ 9:30 a.m.-Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1). 9:45 a.m.-School financing (2) 10 a.m.-College student assistance (3). 10:15 a.m.-Johnson O'Malley Act (JOM) (4 and 5) --10:30 a.m.-Coffee break. 10:45 a.m.-Adult vocational training (6) and adult education (7)-- 11:15 a.m.-Indian Education Act (IEA) 11:30 a.m.-Education needs survey (ENS) 12 noon-Lunch. 1:30 p.m.-ENS analysis__. 2 p.m.-ENS group discussion__ 3:15 p.m.-Coffee break. 3:30 p.m.-JOM and IEA parent committees. 4:40 p.m.-Where do we go from here? (8 and 9). 5 p.m.-Recess. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1976: 9 a.m.-JCM and IEA proposals. 10:30 a.m.-Coffee break. 10:45 a.m.-Career education (10). 11 a.m.-Policy development--- 12 noon-Lunch. 1:15 p.m.-Open to group. 5 p.m.-Adjourn. Joseph G. Wilson. Eli Reyes. John Hope. Felipe Tagaban. Francis Dunne. Felipe Tagaban. To be selected from participants. Eli Reyes. Southeast staff. Don Barrett. Group. SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIAN EDUCATION MEETING KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, January 20–21, 1976. When the Southeast Agency staff had concluded their presentation, the Parent Committee members agreed to have a Committee meeting to decide issues. Marlene Johnson, from Hoonah, was elected Chairwoman. Marlene J. called the meeting to order. The first issue for discussion was whether or not to form an Executive Indian Education Committee and how many members should be on such a committee. Chairwoman MARLENE, J. Dick (Stokes-Wrangell) you want to form it now? DICK STOKES. Yes, one from each community. BARBARA JOHNSON (Angoon). Right. MARLENE J. There are monies available in JOM and I think this is where the money should come from. WALTER JOHNS (Angoon). I make a motion that we adopt this concept (that the JOM monies be utilized to form an Executive Committee). DICK S. 2nd the motion. Discussion-unanimous-motion passed. WALTER J. Executive Committee is the best route to follow with expertise already available in SE Agency, Executive Committee would have adequate control. If certain villages don't want to join, that is their prerogative. MARLENE J. Phillip (Tagaban) if villages don't want to join, would they contract directly with BIA? PHILLIP T. Yes, sources of funding limited to entitlement. LIZ BOARIO (Yakutat). What is the Executive Committee's role? WALTER J. They could plan for programs for data gathered from villages; monies earmarked for SE with priorities from each village to plan programs; have an overall program for all people in SE. LIZ B. Do you see THCC serving as agency doing checking a village who is disbursing monies? WALTER J. That could be one role. MARLENE J. Look at Fairbanks and Upitka Vista-they have very effectively put all programs under one umbrella package using 1.7 million in IEA and JOM monies. WALTER J. I would like to see expertise in THCC used. I can't see any other way, especially for small villages. BARBARA J. I disagree with Walter. In Anchorage, I attended a meeting with 20 representatives from 20 communities. There should be one from each village. WALTER J. Yes, but how much did it cost? KASAAN. At first it should be one from every area. MARLENE J. If you don't have one from every village it gets tough when not enough money for each village. FRANK DUNNE (SE Agency Ktn). Are we talking about both JOM & IEA? MARLENE J. Yes, maybe we should have one parent committee from both. MARY PADDOCK (Haines). I don't see where the Anchorage meeting pertains to us-it's solely for unorganized boroughs. I think executive committee (5-man board) is better. All 19 is too costly and will take away from our programs. The people can vote on the decisions of the committee. One from each community pick a person for the executive committee. This is the simplest way. MARLENE J. I think there are pro's and con's. Each community needs to know what is going on. CURLY DEMMERT (Craig). Eli, you were interested in forming a committee because it was BIA money. What does it do for combining JOM-IEA under one committee? ELI R. Coordination. IEA Representative from Washington, D.C. You could file under B for technical assistance. MYRNA GARZA (Ktn). But we would still have to write our own proposals. ELI R. We will provide you with assistance to develop programs with Native education committee. MYRNA G. Could THCC apply for funds to bring 19 people together. ELI R. We are trying to cut administrative costs. MYRNA G. Why don't we have 5 minutes recess to discuss within our communities. ISABELLE B. (Mt. Edge). If we regionalize, funds will come thru to SE. MARLENE J. Two reasons for 19-man committee: (1) You are in there pushing for community. (2) I don't see problems if we go per capita. I can see the need for the committee. Our legal tribal council (THCC) can seek funds for our communities. We should try this and work together. We have to work for the best needs of our children without political fighting. We will have some input where we don't have input now. KASAANA. We have 25 children in school, we have inadequate facilities. We have talked to Marshall Bind, so far nothing appropriated for Kasaan. THCC was given $19,000 for a generator 2 months ago, it's still not there. Kasaan is forgotten because it is a small community. I feel if we are not represented in person we will be forgotten again. ISABELLE B. Kasaan could be represented--I don't see a problem. MARLENE J. I would like to explain what happened on JOMRC. We were effective-Wrangell and Petersburg were only communities not funded two years ago. Last year the Area Director changed our role--we became JOMRC to him. Sole purpose to review program. I could not review SE. There was politics used. Area Director does not listen to JOMRC. PHILLIP. T. Wasn't the problem that there was not enough monies for all programs? MARLENE J. Yes, but some programs funded were not even legal. Let's take a 5-minute break to discuss among our communities whether or not to regionalize with THCC providing technical assistance under direction of an Executive Committee. Also, how should the committee be--i.e. one representative from each community or a 5-man board. Let's go around table. YAKUTAT. No consensus-hold off and discuss with Parent Committee. PETERSBURG. I'm all for regionalizing one member from each community. SITKA. Steering or interim committee to represent at first. Regionalize, provided we know authority, guidelines. Community rep.-but should it be Parent Committee member or member of community. KASAAN and ANGOON. We would like to see regional concept implemented. 1st year-representative from each community until we get organized-then executive 5-man committee. Also, field counselors to come to each village. HOONAH. Representative from each community and regionalize. CRAIG. Yes, we are in favor of regionalizing to get most benefit for children. PELICAN. Regional and executive board (5-man). HAINES. Regional-one from each community to get started. WRANGELL. One from each with executive committee chosen from 19. KLAWOCK. Regional, one from each. METLAKATLA. Go along with it, do we request extra travel funds through our grant? Agree with Sitka on establishing authority and guidelines. KETCHIKAN. We don't feel we should make a decision without parent committee. JUNEAU. I can't speak for parent committee-will report to them. MARLENE J. Majority consensus-one member from each community. Where do we go from here? ELI R. Juneau, Ketchikan and Yakutat will report to us later. Funding-if we can get resolutions from each community we can prepare proposal for training of parent committees regionalization. CRAIG. HOW is representation going to be done so we won't have the same situation where Ketchikan, Juneau and Yakutat cannot make decision until they meet with parent committee? ELI R. I volunteer SE Agency staff available on request for assistance if you so desire-parent committee training, proposal writing, etc. CRAIG. What were our accomplishments? I would like to have 1⁄2 hour brainstorming sessions. KETCHIKAN. Why were we not informed of this meeting before Monday? F. W. DUNNE. I expected Ed Thomas to inform IEA. (Invitations were mailed to Parent Committee Chairman using school district P.O. Box-most likely still at school.) MARLENE J. Consensus to definitely go regional and one member from each community. I will inform JOMRC next week of the results of this meeting. Discussion followed on where to apply to JOM or IEA for regionalizing. IEA would take too long for fiscal year 1976. |