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Updated 5-8-08

Community water intake, plant kinks worked out
While the co-op plan to provide a new water intake and plant for the city of Parshall and Fort Berthold Rural Water (FBRW) users, the bugs in the plan were worked out during a meeting this past Friday in Parshall. City Auditor Loren Hoffman told the Parshall City Council during its regular meeting Tuesday the representatives involved in the project met to discuss a ruling laid out by the Corps of Engineers regarding the project’s funding. The original hope was for construction to begin on the intake as soon as possible through funding from the tribe with the city to repay the costs this fall when state funding arrives. “Basically (the Corps of Engineers) had a couple hang-ups with the way we designed our projects. Their program would not pay for any construction done prior to funding. So we had to get around that,” Hoffman said.
 

Enrollment ‘yes,’ increasing council ‘no’
It took a 70-vote margin for tribal voters approve a lineal descendency constitutional amendment in the secretarial election earlier this week. The majority of voters, 517 tribal members, approved changing the current tribal enrollment criteria from a blood quantum minimum to lineal descendency. Four hundred forty-seven tribal voters opposed this amendment.  The amendment language was, “Any person born to any member of the tribes shall be eligible for enrollment.” By a similar margin, 74-votes, tribal voters also turned down a second constitutional amendment to expand the tribal council membership. Voting 515-441, the majority of tribal voters said ‘no’ to increasing the council from seven to nine members. There were a total of five “spoiled” ballots for both amendments.  A committee of Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel and tribal members tallied the results at the 4 Bears Casino meeting room on Tuesday of this week. Howard Bemer, Fort Berthold BIA Superintendent, was the election committee chairman.