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6984 NC HIGHWAY 711 WEST

PEMBROKE, NORTH CAROLINA 28372

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FEBRUARY 2016 TRIBAL COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING

CHAIRMAN HARVEY GODWIN, JR.

____________________________________________________________

TRIBAL COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES

LAKISHIA SWEAT

TERRY HUNT

JANIE OXENDINE MCFARLAND

LESAUNDRI HUNT

ALTON LOCKLEAR

JONATHAN LOCKLEAR

BOBBY OXENDINE

JARROD LOWERY

LARRY TOWNSEND

DOUGLAS LOCKLEAR

REGINALD OXENDINE

JAN LOWERY

BILL BREWINGTON

ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS

JANET LOCKLEAR

FRANK COOPER

AREATHA PATTERSON

SHELLEY STRICKLAND

WILLIAM MAIDEN

BARBARA LOWERY

____________________________________________________________

TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS

LAKISHIA SWEAT

TERRY HUNT

JANIE OXENDINE MCFARLAND

ALTON LOCKLEAR

JONATHAN LOCKLEAR

JARROD LOWERY

LARRY TOWNSEND

REGINALD OXENDINE

JAN LOWERY

BILL BREWINGTON

ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS

JANET LOCKLEAR

FRANK COOPER

AREATHA PATTERSON

SHELLEY STRICKLAND

WILLIAM MAIDEN

BARBARA LOWERY

ALSO PRESENT

____________________________________________________________

Chairman Harvey Godwin, Jr.

Dock Locklear

Ron Oxendine

Sharon Blue

PROCEEDINGS

(The following proceedings took place on Thursday, February 16,

2016 at 6:30 p.m.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

We'd like to welcome you

here tonight.

I'd like for Dr. Reginald Oxendine -- if

you'll, please, stand and lead us in prayer.

(A prayer was given by Mr. Reginald

Oxendine.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

We ask Mr. Larry Townsend --

please, remain standing, to lead us in the Pledge of

Allegiance.

(The Pledge of Allegiance was rendered.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

We ask Ms. Sweat to lead us

in our tribal preamble.

(The preamble to the tribal constitution was

read.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

seated.

Thank you.

You may be

Madam Secretary, roll call.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

LaKishia Sweat?

MS. LAKISIHA SWEAT:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Terry Hunt?

MR. TERRY HUNT:

Here.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Janie Oxendine McFarland?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

Here.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Lesaundri Hunt?

Here.

Jonathan Locklear?

Larry Townsend?

Here.

Douglas Locklear?

Reginald

Oxendine?

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Here.

Jan Lowery, here.

Bill

Brewington?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Here.

Daniel Jones?

Anita Hammonds

Blanks?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. JANET LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Jarrod Lowery?

Here.

MR. REGINALD OXENDINE:

Here.

Bobby Oxendine?

Alton Locklear?

Here.

Janet Locklear?

Here.

Frank Cooper?

Here.

Areatha Patterson?

Shelley

Strickland?

MR. SHELLEY STRICKLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Present.

William Maiden?

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

We have a quorum.

MR. TERRY HUNT:

Mr. Speaker, Lesaundri Hunt

called me right before we started.

here tonight because he had eye surgery.

relay that to y'all.

Barbara Lowery?

Here.

Do you move that we excuse

MR. TERRY HUNT:

And also Daniel Jones and

Yes.

Areatha.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

from Mr. Bobby Oxendine.

Something came up.

Okay.

Mr. Speaker, also got a call

He's currently out of town.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

He wanted me to

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

He's not going to be

him?

Here.

council.

Motion on the floor -Second.

-- that we excuse absent

All in favor, let it be known by saying aye.

(The council voted.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Any oppose?

Thank you.

We'd like to welcome the audience today.

they're welcome.

in cases like we had tonight -- but I think we got a couple

The council knows

They got an obligation to be here except

previous council members with us tonight, so we're glad to

have you with us, Ms. Pearlene, Ms. Louise.

others?

hopefully he will be with us.

chairman back there in the corner?

not baptist, although he must be baptist.

we're glad to have you with us.

Mr. Kernis?

Okay.

Mr. Kernis.

Do we have any

Our chairman --

He's back there.

Okay.

Is the

I see him.

He's

We'd like to say

We want to welcome our tribal members.

Your

presence here tonight tells us you're concerned,

and I don't think you would be here tonight

because of personal reasons.

tonight concerned about the tribal business of our

Lumbee people, so we're glad to have you with us.

At this time, we'll look at our agenda.

everyone would, take your agenda for tonight, and

go down below committee reports.

I hope you're here

I have one more item to add there.

It's

comments from Mr. Ron Oxendine, the CEO of our

Lumbee Tribe Enterprise.

president of LTE asked me to put that out on the

agenda tonight, and Mr. Chairman, Mr. President,

and Mr. Ron, I would ask that you -- and I did it

tonight because we need to talk about it, but from

now on, see if we can't work through the program

to committee -- we do have an economic development

Mr. Chairman and the

committee and make them aware of your presence

here, so then it's just a matter of going to them

and them coming to me to put it on the agenda, so

I would ask that you -- and I'm not saying you

overstepped because you did request it, but I ask

that you go through the appropriate committee to

make a presentation, and especially if that

presentation later on requires some action, and no

action will be taken tonight, but something will

be said tonight that will have to go to a

committee for action, so we ask that you, please,

take that into consideration.

reports, we will allow Mr. Ron to make some

comments.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

Okay.

After committee

Do I hear a motion?

So moved.

Second.

(Ms. Areatha Patterson arrived to the council

meeting.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

agenda as presented, please, say aye.

Okay.

All in favor of the

(The council voted.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Any oppose?

Okay.

If you

would -- I hope you've had time to review tribal council

minutes -- and on this, I talked with Ms. Belinda, and I'm

asking her to provide this package to you that request it.

I get it on my computer, and I pull up the pages I need,

and I make my notes on mine, and you probably couldn't read

them, but if you request from her that you want a package

tonight at the meeting, she will provide it, but otherwise,

we will allow you to just pull it up on your computer.

the past, every night I come up here, I'd already have my

stuff out, and if this one falls in there, I'd get

confused, so please work with Ms. Belinda on that.

you.

Thank

She will provide it if you request it.

What's the wishes of -- any comment or

changes or corrections on our minutes?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Make a motion we approve.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Second.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

I don't know who made that.

Mr. Townsend made that second, I think.

that, say aye.

All in favor of

(The council voted.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Any oppose?

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Our next item is community comments.

got two comments, and we'd like for those folks when you

come to the mic, remember that you're presenting your

concern to the tribal council, and that you have three

minutes, and also, for you to state your topic of what you

will discuss and what district you represent.

time, we call Mr. Lynn Jacobs.

So at this

MR. LYNN JACOBS:

Honorable council, Chief,

members of the Lumbee Tribe that are present.

for this time.

getting calls for the last month.

It won't take but a minute.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Thank you

I've been

Your topic and district,

please.

MR. LYNN JACOBS:

It is -- my district is District

2, and my topic is the supreme leaders -- supreme court

decision.

going to be taken.

anything.

and they just feel left out.

That was it.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Thank you.

The people are wondering when some action's

That was it.

They haven't heard

The ethics committee hadn't had a meeting yet,

that will be moved to the ethics committee.

Jacobs?

Ms. Peggy

MS. PEGGY JACOBS:

District 13, doing the right thing.

saying, she's still here, and I am, and my goal is still

the same.

people on this council.

U-turn, get off the wrong road, and get on the right road.

We got a good start here with the new chairman.

to take us far if we work with him, and I encourage every

one of you to do your best and work with him.

Good evening.

Like I said,

We need to work together.

Peggy Jacobs,

I know some of you are

There's some good

What you need to do is make a

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Thank you.

He's going

Thank you.

We appreciate

those comments.

presentation, and I turn the floor over to Councilman

Jarrod Lowery.

At this time, we have a special

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

would like to call up to the podium here a young lady that

has a presentation for us.

the podium?

undivided attention.

Would you, please, come up to

I would like for everyone to give us her

Thank you.

MS. JADA BROOKS:

Good evening.

This presentation

is regarding sort of a progress report or update about the

project that we presented to you last year, the Intertribal

Talking Circle for the Prevention of Substance Abuse in

Native Youth.

jog your memory for those of you who may not recall the

project.

National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute

on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

and it began in 2013.

community-based, participatory-based research methodology,

and the sites involved include Oklahoma, North Carolina,

and Minnesota, and the tribes involved include the Choctaw,

Lumbee, and Ojibwe or Chippewa.

I just wanted to give you a brief summary to

The project is funded by NIH, specifically, the

It's a five-year study,

It's a multi-site study using a

The primary investigators are John Lowe,

Cherokee.

He's a distinguished professor at

Florida Atlantic University, and Julie Baldwin.

She's also Cherokee, and she's a professor, and

she's now at Arizona State University.

to be in Florida as well.

co-investigators include myself and two others,

Ms. Michelle Johnson James, who's Choctaw.

in Minnesota, and Gary Lawrence, who's also

Choctaw, and he's in Oklahoma.

project staff at all of the three sites, but we

wouldn't be able to conduct our project without

them.

well, Amy is our -- we have a facilitator, two

facilitators, actually, who conduct the project,

and I'll talk a little more about them in a

minute.

She used

She just moved.

The

She's

We have some

We wanted to -- I have a couple of our --

So I just wanted to give you an update about

the activities that we've completed so far.

The

first year, we developed a community partnership

committee.

time, and they have assisted us with the community

needs assessment and tailoring of the intervention

manual, and the committee members are Bruce

Barton, Tammy Davenport, Linda Emmanuel, Connie

Locklear, Jason Locklear, and (inaudible.), and we

have a couple of those here with us tonight.

really appreciate their involvement in this

I think we discussed this the last

project.

culturally-appropriate study without their input,

so we wanted to recognize them.

We would not be able to have a

We have also partnered with the Public

Schools of Robeson County.

are working with.

intervention, and the other school is the standard

education intervention, and we have one of the

facilitators here tonight with the Fairgrove

School, who is a standard education site, and

that's Amy Hunt.

program, and she's at that school, and she does a

fantastic job.

We have two schools we

One school received the actual

She actually leads the AWARE

We have been successfully recruiting and

implementing this project since this past fall.

We had over 15 students, I think, at each site in

the fall, and we're around 10-12 now for spring

session.

week, and we plan to finish up that some time late

spring,-- and we're really thrilled to be involved

in this project.

are to have our tribal youth involved in this

opportunity.

believe that we're going to be able to impact

their lives in a positive way.

We're just beginning that session this

We hope you're as thrilled as we

It's a great opportunity, and we

We also submitted and were accepted to

present at the Southeastern Indian Studies

Conference in April., so I don't know if many of

you are familiar with that, but it's typically

held here in the county, and we will be having our

principal investigators and some of the other

project survey panel at the conference in April.

Do you have anything to add?

DR. DEESE:

We just appreciate the schools and the

students.

concerned with the tribal history and with looking outward

to be progressive and how to make decisions and problem

solving.

appreciate the families, the communities, and the school

support in this.

They're really

It's a wonderful program at both sites, and we

MS. JADA BROOKS:

I do have a plaque to present,

so let me go get that.

The students are learning a lot.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Chairman, if you would

come forward.

MS. JADA BROOKS:

Okay.

I don't know if everyone

can hear me, but this is a presentation of a plaque.

was given to me by Dr. Jim Benson, who's also known as

Uncle Jim.

study.

the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees in Oklahoma.

He serves as a lead interventionist for the

He's also a tribal member and elder and leader of

presented to me -- he presented this plaque last year, and

I haven't been able to present it to the tribe, but I did

want to do that tonight.

It's a Cherokee Syllabary by Sequoyah, and to

me, this symbolizes the different -- symbolizes

differences.

whether language, tribal affiliation, or culture.

Through this project, we've been able to set aside

our individual differences and unify as native

peoples toward a greater goal: to provide our

children, our future, with the tools to be

successful.

reminder to you as tribal leaders and tribal

chairman of the importance of focusing on unity

rather than individual differences.

Differences exist in many forms,

My hope is that this plaque will be a

(Pause.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

My wife asked me why I wore

this new sports coat she bought me for my birthday, so when

I get home, I'm going to tell her I had my picture taken.

I didn't know that was going to happen, so, Dock, it worked

out.

reports.

Our first report, our only committee report, is

finance.

Ms. Janie?

At this time, we're going to go into committee

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

Yes.

The finance committee

had two budget amendment ordinances that came out of

committee.

The first ordinance is CLLO-2015-0917-01,

Budget Amendment #7.

CLLO-2015-0917-01, Budget Amendment #8, NAHASDA Budget.

you go down to the sixth whereas:

The second amendment is

Whereas, The following NON-PROGRAM BUDGET

AMENDMENT FUND is to be used to address the

following, (see below).

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

The amendment is attached.

Therefore, Be it enacted by the Tribal

Council of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

hereby allocate $88,213.00 from non-program funds,

and,

Therefore, Be it enacted by the Tribal

Council of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina the

following ordinance shall be cited as "NON-PROGRAM

BUDGET AMENDMENT FUNDS."

Therefore, Be it enacted by the Tribal

Council of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina the

following ordinance shall be amended and cited and

"FISCAL YEAR OCTOBER 1, 2015-SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

LUMBEE TRIBAL BUDGET ORDINANCE."

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

That's Amendment 7?

you're presenting Amendment 7 to the council?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

Yes.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Amendment 7 is being

presented from the finance committee.

since it's coming from committee.

council?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

We need no second

What's the wishes of the

Mr. Speaker?

Yes, Mr. Jarrod?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

make a motion to amend this budget amendment.

motion that we move from the second TBA [sic] where it says

$15,000 to line 7000 and add to the $16,671.12.

motion.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

been presented.

I make a

That's my

The motion on number 7 has

Do I hear a second?

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Second.

Okay.

Now, the amendment is

we take line item, Community Events, and move it up to line

7000, which I hope all of you can see that.

that?

Any comment on that?

Any comment on

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

May I speak on that, Mr.

Speaker?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

Mr. Jarrod?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker?

know we just went over it in the committee, and I have been

told that Mr. Al Locklear has been very instrumental in the

line 7000, and we really do appreciate that.

to hear for the $15,000 to be used later on in the year,

I just want

but we had already talked as a council before about

increasing the tribal -- what the chairman and what each

one of us gets per month, so this year would go up from

$100 to $200 a month, and what we will be able to do when

the other $200,000 comes in later in the month is replace

the $15,000 that we're moving now.

motion, and I'd love to have your support.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

So that's basically my

Any comments?

Anyone else?

A comment for -- Ms. Anita?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Mr. Speaker, so my

understanding the changing that he's requesting here is

basically to increase the amount of money coming to the

tribal council members?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

it?

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

Didn't sound good, did

Just wondering.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

The regular proposal if I'm

not mistaken, Ms. Janie, was $100 a month for travel, and

this would increase it to?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

expenses, meeting expenses.

a call to question?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

$200.

$200 a month for travel and

Any other comments?

Do I hear

Call to question, Mr. Speaker.

Second on the question?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Second.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. LAKISIHA SWEAT:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Terry Hunt?

MR. TERRY HUNT:

Yes.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Janie Oxendine McFarland?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

LaKishia Sweat?

No.

Yes.

Lesaundri Hunt?

Jonathan Locklear?

Yes.

Bobby Oxendine?

Larry Townsend?

Yes.

Douglas Locklear?

Reggie

Oxendine?

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Jan Lowery, yes.

Bill

Brewington?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Jarrod Lowery?

Yes.

MR. REGINALD OXENDINE:

Alton Locklear?

No.

Roll call.

Pass.

Daniel Jones?

Anita Blanks

Hammonds -- Hammonds Blanks?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

No.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Janet Locklear?

MS. JANET LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. AREATHA PATTERSON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. SHELLEY STRICKLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Yes.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Amendment passed.

Yes.

Frank Cooper?

Yes.

Areatha Patterson.

Yes.

Shelley Strickland?

No.

William Maiden?

No.

Barbara Lowery?

back to the original amendment as changed.

comment on Amendment 7, Budget Amendment #7?

Now we go

Any further

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

Call for question.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. LAKISIHA SWEAT:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Terry Hunt?

MR. TERRY HUNT:

Yes.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Janie Oxendine McFarland?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Roll call.

LaKishia Sweat?

No.

Yes.

Lesaundri Hunt?

Alton Locklear?

No.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Jonathan Locklear?

Bobby Oxendine?

Larry Townsend?

Yes.

Douglas Locklear?

Reggie

Oxendine?

MR. REGINALD OXENDINE:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Jan Lowery, yes.

Bill

Brewington?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Jarrod Lowery?

Yes.

Pass.

Daniel Jones?

Anita Hammonds

Blanks?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. JANET LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. AREATHA PATTERSON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. SHELLEY STRICKLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

No.

Janet Locklear?

Yes.

Frank Cooper?

Yes.

Areatha Patterson?

Yes.

Shelley Strickland?

No.

William Maiden?

No.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

approved.

Barbara Lowery?

Yes.

Bill Brewington?

Pass.

Okay.

Carried.

Motion carries.

Amendment #7 has been

Ms. Janie will now present Amendment #8.

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

Amendment #8.

The sixth

whereas:

Whereas, The following NAHASDA Budget

Amendment is to be used to address following, (see

attachment).

Therefore, the NAHASDA budget is amended in

the amount of $281,677.60 to the "FISCAL YEAR

OCTOBER 1, 2015-SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 LUMBEE TRIBAL

BUDGET ORDINANCE", and,

Therefore, Be it enacted by the Tribal

Council of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina the

following ordinance shall be Amended and Cited as

"FISCAL YEAR OCTOBER 1, 2015-SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

LUMBEE TRIBAL BUDGET ORDINANCE."

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Ms. Janie, you're presenting

that from the committee?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

Yes.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

It's been brought from

committee, Amendment #8.

It needs no second.

discussion on that at this time?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Any

Mr. Speaker?

Ms. Anita?

I have a question.

Last year, the -- this tribal council did a budget

amendment, and what was presented to us was grant revenue

carryover, Grant Year 13-14, and I'm reading from the

document we received from the administration, and this says

Grant Year 13-14, budget balance less Grant Year 14-15

carryover.

how then do we have this document with the grant year

carryover for the year 13-14 for $5.4 million?

increase?

That amount was $3.5 million.

My question is

How did it

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Ms. Janie, can you speak to

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

I -- not really because it

that?

was brought to my attention just shortly, and I don't know

if anyone from finance is here.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

forward and speak to that?

MS. SHARON BLUE:

Ms. Sharon, can you step

Okay.

The document that you

have -- the total carryover amount, which we have projects

within there, is $3.7 million.

$281,000 needs to be reallocated to our budget that just

Of that $3.7 million,

ended.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Stay still unless somebody's

got a question.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

else?

Anyone else on this issue?

Mr. Speaker?

Wait a minute.

Then I'll let Ms. Anita go again.

Okay.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Anybody

Anyone else?

Ms. Anita?

My question is, Ms.

Sharon, with last year, the carryover amount minus the

carryover for 14-15 was only $3.5 million.

How then can it

this year have increased to $5.4 million?

That's the part

I don't understand.

MS. SHARON BLUE:

Where is the $5 million coming

from?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

It's on this document

you gave us with -- for this amendment.

MS. SHARON BLUE:

On the first page.

On the first

page, the total revenue is $3,746,202.

and that's the only amount we're saying we carried forward

for this period.

Of that amount, only $281,677.60 needs to

be reallocated.

If you look at your document, the items

that are in yellow are carryover projects, and then the

gray color is the proposed allocation of the $281,000.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Of that amount,--

Ms. Sharon, I think her

question is how it's got $3 million and another's got $5

million.

I think that's the questions she's trying to get

cleared up.

MS. SHARON BLUE:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Will you come up here and

let Ms. Anita show it to you so we can move on?

(Pause)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Sharon.

for all of us.

I don't see the five.

Go back to your mic, Ms.

If you would, go back to your mic and clear it up

MS. SHARON BLUE:

Does anyone have a copy of the

14-15 budget?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

That's why it's good to have

your finance officer to deal with this kind of thing.

Ms.

Sharon, if you'd feel more comfortable, I'll ask Ms. Janie

to move that we table this and go back to committee and let

you meet with the committee and clear this up and bring it

back to the full council.

something tonight that you're not clear on, that we're not

clear on.

I hate for us to vote on

MS. SHARON BLUE:

Yeah.

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

I'd like to offer an

alternate motion.

Rather than approve this document that

we -- for some time now, we haven't had veterans services,

and that money is in the budget.

bare with me a moment -- page 4 under veterans.

If you turn to page -It's been

some time that we've finally gotten HUD's approval to

reinvest back into our veterans services, and I do know

that the veterans department is of need of this $60,000 --

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

So your motion --

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

My motion is to --

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

-- is to approve the

veterans portion?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

-- to approve the veterans

portion, which is $60,799.88, and the rest of it will be

tabled.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Second the motion.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Townsend seconds that.

Any discussion?

We were tabling this from this amendment

except for the veterans portion.

for question?

Any discussion?

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Question.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

please.

No call

Roll call vote,

This is on the veterans portion.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

LaKishia Sweat?

MS. LAKISIHA SWEAT:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Terry Hunt?

MR. TERRY HUNT:

Yes.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Janie Oxendine McFarland?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Lesaundri Hunt?

Alton Locklear?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JONATHAN LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Jonathan Locklear?

Bobby Oxendine?

Larry Townsend?

Yes.

Douglas Locklear?

Reginald

Oxendine?

MR. REGINALD OXENDINE:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Jan Lowery, yes.

Bill

Brewington?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Jarrod Lowery?

Yes.

Pass.

Daniel Jones?

Anita Hammonds

Blanks?

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. JANET LOCKLEAR:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. AREATHA PATTERSON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. SHELLEY STRICKLAND:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yes.

Janet Locklear?

Yes.

Frank Cooper?

Yes.

Areatha Patterson?

Yes.

Shelley Strickland?

Yes.

William Maiden?

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

Yes.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Yes.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Motion carries for that

Barbara Lowery?

portion of our amendment, so, Ms. Jan [sic], I instruct you

to go back to the committee, and Ms. Sharon will help you

figure that out hopefully.

Mr. Ron forward who is the CO of our LTE, Lumbee Tribal

Enterprise for his comments.

Okay.

At this time, we call

(Pause)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Ron, I ask before you

start that you give our guests a little background on what

LTE is and we council -- so you don't stand up there for a

few minutes talking and we don't know what you're talking

about.

what you do, what LTE is.

MR. RON OXENDINE:

In layman's terms, tell us exactly why you're here,

Lumbee Tribe Enterprise, LLC is

the for-profit part, as I describe it, for the Lumbee Tribe

of North Carolina, and what that means is you have a

company that is formed for our people that authorized --

who's function is to go out and obtain federal contracts,

state and local for the government to create for-profit

money or in your terms, unrestricted money, for use by the

tribe.

Tribe Enterprise is.

That is the simple layman's term for what Lumbee

I will clarify one thing.

I'm not the CEO.

I do call myself the COO, the chief operating

officer, but Mr. Terry Hunt is the president.

He's the guy in charge, and he gets to explain

everything I get to stand up here and say today.

I presented out a brief for you that I want to

walk you through, and it's got part of the history

of us in there as well, and Mr. Speaker, there is

an action needed for this presentation, but not

for tonight.

It's just for later -- but anyway.

First thing I want to tell you about is who

the board of directors is that's part of Lumbee

Tribe Enterprise.

provides the leadership and guidance to LTE, and

if you go to page 2, former Chairman Paul Brooks,

in this capacity is determined by the Lumbee Tribe

of North Carolina.

board.

rotating position, so whoever the current

presiding chairman is, that position is designated

for him/her.

that's been submitted to SBA for approval.

process takes about 90 days or earlier.

replace Paul Brooks until that package is approved

by SBA.

The board of directors actually

He is currently still on our

As you can see, I noted that this is a

Chairman Godwin -- he has a package

That

He can't

The chairman's package was submitted on

the 15th of December of 2015.

Also on the board is Gary Strickland.

Gary

Strickland in September of 2011 was selected by

then chairman and appointed as the chairman

representative to the board.

position.

next slide.

a permanent position.

and also our former economic development committee

chair.

It's a permanent

I'll define permanent for you in the

Tammy Maynor is also a member and is

Terry Hunt is our president

He's also in a rotating position.

Mr. Alton Locklear's package is pending to be

submitted, so that's what I'm really here to talk

about tonight.

council appointee.

representative to the board of directors for LTE.

Mr. Kernice Locklear is also a member or permanent

director, and I am a permanent director.

Brian Locklear is also a tribal

In other words, he's your

I'll tell you permanent means it's a 15-year

position, effective 1 September 2011.

Now, why am

I here tonight?

next slide where we talk about an SBA meeting.

the 4th of February of this month, Terry Hunt and

Tammy Maynor met with the Lumbee Tribe's Business

Opportunity Specialist up in Charlotte at the SBA,

Ms. Mia Fagley -- Fagley.

The reason I'm here is on the

Let me say that

correctly.

The purpose of that meeting was just to go do

a face-to-face, let her know who Lumbee Tribe

Enterprise is, listen to the people.

get to know her because she just flew in from

Denver, Colorado.

experience working with tribal companies as well

as Alaska natives, so it was our or Tammy and

Terry's opportunity to go meet with her

face-to-face and sit down and go and talk about

LTE in a get-to-know-you fashion.

things that Ms. Fagley brought up that is an issue

with LTE is the structure.

which means the board of directors, which I gave

you the list on the previous page, there are two

rotating positions that are on the board of

directors: the chairman and also the economic

development chair.

We needed to

She also had a lot of

One of the

Now our structure,

Now, in the past, there's always been an

economic development chairman selected by the

tribal council in January.

Change of Management Package we have to submit to

SBA for approval so that we can do our normal

operations for LTE.

things that that Change of Management Package

That results in a

I put down in red one of the

does.

situation where you're not fully able to benefit

in the 8(a) Program.

the next slide.

It kind of puts you in a limited operating

Okay.

What does that mean?

I'll explain that on

When you do a Change of

Management Package, the first things that you're

not allowed to do: you're not able to create any

joint ventures ergo any new companies where you

see an opportunity to do work, nor are you able to

submit a Mentor Protege package, and I'll tell you

what these two packages are.

when you team with a company to form a company for

the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina that will have

8(a) certification, and it will be an opportunity

for that company to pursue specific or any

specific contract.

also allowed to be awarded up to three contracts

before the joint venture comes to an end.

A Joint Venture is

In addition to that, you're

The board has a pending joint venture that's

in place, but we're not able to submit that

package right now because Chairman Godwin's

package is going through the Change of Management

process.

through Mentor Protege with a company in Tampa,

Florida.

Mentor Protege -- we've agreed to go

That Mentor Protege -- that means that

company will be our mentor, and they will help us

acquire contracts and work with us and train us on

business development and all the activities

associated with trying to grow and the operations

of a company.

That's been agreed to occur, but again, we can't

submit the package pending the Change of

Management Package for Chairman Godwin.

That is a formal SBA process.

What can you do?

Continue to market and

pursue contracts.

continue to bid on 8(a), Small Business, and Full

and Open opportunities, and you can also obtain

Sole Source Contract Awards from the government,

and when we say Full Source Opportunities, that's

when you heard me talk about the opportunity to

get $22.5 million-dollar contracts; sole source.

Okay.

What that means is you can

Today,-- on the next slide, the board,

as a result of our meeting with SBA, had a board

meeting.

was to discuss the Change of Management Packet or

issues of constantly doing Change of Management

Packages.

today was obviously to retain Chairman of the

Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as a rotating

position.

The primary reason of that board meeting

The board recommendations that came out

That only occurs every three years

and/or six, so you don't have to do a change but

once every three years.

The change of the economic development chair

position -- we are recommending that it become a

permanent position.

September 2011, but in addition to submitting that

package, it will also require an update to our

operating agreement for LTE.

would have to tell SBA how it changes, the way

LTE's board will function, and that's also part of

the package that we'll deal with.

going to recommend or what will happen is that

instead of the economic development committee

chairperson being automatically assigned the

board, which is also a Change of Management

Package, what we're going to recommend to you is

that we take or leave that position a second

tribal council appointed position.

words, you have another opportunity to go out and

tell us who the person is you want to fill in that

position.

Again, 15 years beginning 1

In other words, we

Now, what we're

In other

Who do you want?

Specifically, if you look at the next

bullets, you'll see some options, and these are

just recommendations.

current economic development committee chairman.

Mr. Alton Locklear is the

He is in line to take that position, and the

tribal council can let him continue down that path

and appoint him as the permanent representative to

the LTE board.

have the option to go out and identify someone

completely different, but that's why we want to

give you basically 30 days to discuss, address,

ask questions, or whatever to meet that deadline.

If you don't like that option, you

You see my last bullet down there.

It's

critical to me that you make this decision next

month or by the next monthly meeting because it's

anticipated that Chairman Godwin's package should

be approved about that time, which means the

Mentor Protege package that we've been waiting to

submit -- it is critical because the proposal has

been submitted -- can immediately be submitted and

subsequently approved.

process could also take 60-90 days.

your appointee and make that Change of Management

Package for that permanent tribal council

appointed position, and then you'll only have to

do it one more time, so what we're trying to do is

take every advantage that the SBA gives to LTE so

we can fully participate in 8(a) -- where we can

do joint ventures anytime we want.

Then, after that, the

Then we take

We can

establish -- you can do multiple Mentor Proteges

although that's I don't think in our future -- at

least use all the opportunities from SBA.

So that's what we're recommending to the

tribal council, and again, I think 30 days should

be enough time, Mr. Speaker.

for your action.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. RON OXENDINE:

Thank you.

Any questions or discussion for

me?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Any questions?

Mr. Speaker?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Sure.

It says on your

handout here -- you're calling these permanent positions --

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

says 15, so why are you calling it permanent?

I have a

question.

We'll leave that up

MR. RON OXENDINE:

Defined that's 15 years.

-- because your bylaws

Well, that's my term.

Initially, when we talk about selecting the board of

directors, that's back when we picked up that term.

was back in September 2011.

members, rotating board members, and that's just kind of

the dialogue I've continued with, but that permanent was

That

We had permanent board

defined as 15 years from the start.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

else?

So am I -- anybody

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

before Ms. Anita again?

Anybody else?

Last call.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Anybody else

Ms. Anita?

So am I to understand

the big issue here is the fact that economic development

person gets chosen every year, and that's the three-month

transition from person to person to person?

issue?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

Yes.

That's the big

And that's a process that

takes roughly 90 days or more.

The SBA advertises 90 days,

but when you get your approval back, you get your approval

back.

I forgot to mention, whoever you select to go in this

position has to go through the approval process like all

the other directors have, and what that means is you got to

provide three years of your income tax, you got to go

through background checks, which you can't have any

incidents, and I will say incidents because it doesn't

necessarily have to be a felony.

I think some of you have heard about my definition of an

incident previously from issues before.

Also, the key thing to note, and also to Al because

It could be any incident.

Then you got to fill out all the SBA forms

and the packages we have to do, so keep that in

mind as you talk as one of the things we got to

do.

We've got to run a background check after your

nominee is provided so that we have our

understanding.

something in the person's background before we do,

and keep in mind, if you don't pass their

criteria, then that person's got to approve

another Change of Management Package, so it would

behoove the council to talk about it, select the

right person -- but it would be your appointee as

our recommendation.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

We got to run one from LTE's perspective.

We don't want SBA to find

Can -I have another

question.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Go ahead.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

It's my understanding

is that the reason that Terry Hunt is the president was

because Brian didn't clear that, but he's still a member of

the board of directors?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

That's correct.

How does he remain if

he didn't clear?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

SBA says he can be a board of

directors because he's not in control.

He's (Indicating)

the present boss of the company.

voting member of the board of six, in this case, but you

can't lead the charge because again, it's called your

management structure.

You know, you can be a

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

So is -- am I correct

in understanding that Mr. Hunt is the president of the

corporation?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

That's correct.

The LTE corporation?

Yes.

Does he have a

contract?

MR. RON OXENDINE:

No.

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. RON OXENDINE:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Just asking.

He doesn't need one.

Thank you, Mr. Ron.

Thank you.

Council, if you would, take

your calendar out at this time.

I know we're going to get

through it, and I'm asking Mr. Al to set up an economic

development meeting before this date so you all can attend

that meeting, and then we can come back on our next council

meeting -- I reckon the 17th of March.

on the 10th, so let's go back to the 3rd.

that down as a special call meeting to deal with this issue

Many will be away

Go ahead and put

only at this point.

I'll let you know that will be March

the 3rd because, Mr. Al, you can have your meeting before

that time.

little later.

administrator to give us an update.

MR. DOCK LOCKLEAR:

We will get into other committee meetings a

Okay.

At this time, we'll ask our tribal

Mr. Speaker, fellow board

members, a couple items I'd like to go over with you.

First thing I'd like to say is we're in the process of

doing some painting inside the building.

understand, there's not been any painting since the

building was built, and we see some need to do that.

You'll notice we also had some spots in our carpet that was

torn and whatever, and we had someone come in and repair

those places for us, and we also cleaned that carpet.

From what I

One thing that we found out -- we were having

some problems with the microphones, and we had

someone come in and take a look at that, and we

found that when the system was set up, each of

these mics is supposed to have a cord running from

the mic straight to the system room back here.

What they did when they put the mics in, they

spliced them together, so when you have one mic

goes out, all of them shuts down, and then you

have to reboot the system to get them back up, and

that's not always a good option, so we'll try to

find somebody or get somebody to give us an

estimate on what it would take to resolve that

problem and get it to where they work.

I'd like to thank Council member Jan Lowery

and Dr. Cherry Beasley for coming in and doing our

HIPPA training on the 17th and all the staff was

involved in that process, and we just appreciate

them doing that for us.

report to the council is that we had to welcome

the State Board of Elections and our tribal cards

-- they are going to allow us to use them as

identification in the next vote, though the senior

card, because they don't have an expiration date

on them, they won't let us use those, so what

we'll probably have to do is do an ordinance to

put an expiration date on that card, and then

they'll allow us to use them.

One thing I'd like to

On the 9th of February, the Chamber of

Commerce hosted a rise and shine breakfast in the

tribal facility.

There was approximately 112 business and community

leaders that attended that function this year.

Mr. Speaker, Chairman Godwin, and Chancellor

Cummings was the speaker for that day, and they

challenged us and gave us some good, inspiring

This is the first of its kind.

comments, and we feel like that was a great

success.

On the 16th of February, I met with the

Pembroke Innovations Council.

They asked me to

come over as a representative of the Tribe.

Town of Pembroke is looking for some method of

attracting more businesses and individuals to the

town, and they're looking at some renovations to

do some of the streets and possibly some work up

there at the park, and they just wanted our input

since we are located here in this area.

The

One other item I'd like to bring before the

council is last week we met with the Red Cross.

They would like to distribute smoke detectors to

all the senior citizens of the county.

detectors that they have will be presenting --

this is a five-year program.

lithium battery.

since we have 14 districts that each of the

council from those districts set up a meeting, and

let us know when those meetings will be, and we'll

get the representative, which is Pat Smart, to be

in attendance, and also, if you could get the fire

department from your district to be there to help

them install those smoke detectors at the senior

The smoke

They have a ten-year

They made a suggestion that

citizen's residence.

If you'd like to do that -- I'm not standing

up here telling you you have to do it.

just a suggestion, so if you decide you want to

participate in this, just let me know, and we'll

coordinate a time with them and also getting the

fire department set up.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Dock?

That's

Any burning questions for

I'll start with Ms. Barbara and go around.

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

I'd just like to say that

I'll represent my district.

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

Same.

Any questions?

Mr. Jarrod?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr.

Administrator, I have one quick question.

amendment that was brought before us was proposed by the

chairman or was brought by the administration, and

Councilwoman Anita had a very good question, and my

question is, why wasn't anybody from the administration

able to answer the question about the budget amendment that

was brought before us from the administration?

(Pause.)

MS. SHARON BLUE:

The budget

I've got a response now.

brought up my email.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

I think his question, Ms.

Sharon, is why did we have to wait to go back and research

it and didn't have an answer when Ms. Anita brought it up.

MS. SHARON BLUE:

I think that, that question

should have been brought before me or to me before the

meeting so I could've researched it.

guard.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

I was caught off

But you will meet

with the finance committee?

MS. SHARON BLUE:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Dock.

February --

Yes.

Anyone else?

Thank you, Mr.

Councilmen, if you would take your calendar out for

MS. ANITA HAMMONDS BLANKS:

Mr. Speaker, I have a

question concerning the constitution and ordinance

committee.

was discussed in the committee, and it was about

redistricting.

redistricting, so I just wanted to ask a question.

anything been done as far as starting the redistricting

process?

Just want to throw it out there.

I know they have the funds for

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

point in time ready to comment on that?

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Absolutely.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

I know this

Has

Mr. Townsend, are you at a

The answer is

yes.

Thank you.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Mr. Speaker?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Townsend?

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

I would like to schedule a

constitution meeting for --

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Hold on just a minute.

you would go to February, Ms. Barbara has asked that no one

schedule anything on February 25th and give her your entire

evening, so she's got that date, and she said she's going

to need approximately 2-3 hours, and we don't want to be

out all night.

February 25th, and I told her that would be the only one,

and she talked like it would be a lengthy one.

Townsend.

So put Ms. Barbara down for housing on

Now, Mr.

I just wanted to cover her.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

the constitution committee.

March 1st at 6:30, meeting of

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

February 1st at 7:30.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

March 1st?

MS. JANIE MCFARLAND:

I'm sorry.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Finance.

constitution and finance.

Barbara?

March 1st.

You've got

That's a lot in one night.

Ms.

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

I'd like 6-6:30.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

6-6:30 unless anyone says

otherwise, we do all our meetings at 6:30.

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

That's fine.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Constitution and finance at

6:30 and 7:30.

We prorate an hour, but if it takes more,

it takes more.

Mr. Al?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

We have a special call

meeting on the 3rd; is that correct?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Right.

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

That doesn't give us many

days to schedule a committee meeting.

choose the 25th.

me 30 minutes of your time from 6:30-7:00 for economic

development to discuss this issue for what we're having

this special call meeting for?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

What about the 23rd, Mr. Al?

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

I think I can do 30 minutes

I was going to

Ms. Barbara, do you think you could give

because we're going to be having quite a few of these

meetings for housing.

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Also, I'd like to request if

Ms. Barbara's going to keep us here for three hours that

she provide food.

MR. LARRY TOWNSEND:

Is that a motion?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Yes.

MS. LAKISIHA SWEAT:

Second.

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

I can handle that.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Point taken, Ms. Barbara.

February 25th, economic development is going to meet from

6:30-7:00, and housing from 7:00 to 10:30-11:00.

According

to that book she sent me, you better get ready.

Any -- Mr.

Jarrod?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

Mr. Speaker, federal

recognition committee would like to have a meeting on

Thursday, March 10th at 6:30.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

people away at that time.

MR. FRANK COOPER:

There will be quite a few

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to have

education meeting committee right after his meeting.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

So we got recognition and

education on the 10th?

That's no conflict with any of your

members?

Conflict on that?

through it.

at 6:30, housing at 7:00.

constitution at 6:30, finance at 7:30.

3rd, we have a special meeting to deal with the LTE issue,

6:30.

6:30 and education at 7:30.

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

Mr. Speaker?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Mr. Maiden?

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

Can I ask Ms. Belinda -- does

Any members?

Okay.

Let's go

On February 25th, we got economic development

On March 1st, we got

Then on March the

On March the 10th, we got federal recognition at

the unity conference start that Thursday on the 10th?

MS. BELINDA BREWER:

Yeah.

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

What time does it all start

that day?

MS. BELINDA BREWER:

Registration starts at 10:00,

and I'm not sure what time everything else starts.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

any conflict for the two committees.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

That's why I asked was there

The North Carolina Commission of

Indian Affairs has their meeting that morning, and then

usually the grand entry's at like 1:30 that afternoon.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

He recommended the 8th.

that okay with you?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

(Nonverbal response.)

Move federal recognition and

education back to the 8th because some are planning the

attend the Indian Unity Conference, and that starts at 3:30

in the afternoon.

Ms. Jan?

MS. JAN LOWERY:

I need the council to look or

think of or help me with a date when so we can come, Dr.

Beasley and I, can come and do the training on the HIPPA

training for the council members, and that will take about

an hour and fifteen minutes, and we can feed you that

night, so if you would look.

be filled up.

night?

Apparently February seems to

Can we look at March?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

March 14th for HIPPA training.

Is March 14th a good

March 14th?

All right.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Right.

And dinner.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

That's fine.

anyone since we got dinner?

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

6:30?

At six.

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Could we really do that at

So 6:30?

We could, like, eat and

train?

MS. JAN LOWERY:

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Yes.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Okay.

a second.

announcement.

my calendar.

Right.

Any others?

Ms.

Barbara?

Does six bother

It's kind of tough to get here by 6:00.

What time you want to start?

At six?

And dinner?

The 23rd.

We'll get to that in

We'll get to the announcements.

I got you.

We'll get to it.

MR. REGINALD OXENDINE:

That's an

I got that on

Mr. Speaker, on the 8th,

is federal recognition at 6:30 and education at 7:30?

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

6:30, education at 7:30.

Yes.

Federal recognition at

It may not take 30 minutes, so

that one may not take long.

He may not need an hour, so

you might need to come early on that one.

meetings?

committee meetings.

remember all those days.

website and load them on there, right?

Any other

By the way, the public is invited to our

They are open to the public if you can

They can probably go on the

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Yeah.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Anything else on the

calendar?

Seems like we're busy people.

At this time, we

call our chairman forward for comments.

Anything I forget?

No.

We're going to get to announcements.

CHAIRMAN GODWIN:

Good evening.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker and distinguished Lumbee Tribal Council Members for

this opportunity tonight.

five things to your attention.

working on it.

volunteers, and some tribal employees are putting it

together.

to the Indian Cultural Center because that's where it's

going to be. I thank Mr. Speaker for his efforts and

bringing some people together who have a lot of knowledge

about the culture center and the logistics of it.

biggest thing will be transportation, parking.

plan for that.

praying for good weather.

I just wanted to bring four or

One, the pow wow.

Very excited about it.

We're

We have 40 plus

It's going to be a big challenge brining it back

We have utilities.

The

We got a

We'll be hoping and

We think we've got a backup plan

for that as well.

I don't know what you may be hearing out in

the community, but a lot of people are very,very

happy we're moving it back to the culture center.

A lot of people -- you know, I have to wear a lot

of different hats.

the culture aspect of this, the culture center

itself -- our connection to the land as a people

is very important and critical at this point in

time, especially for our young people.

Culture is one of them, but

If you'll look up on the monitors there,

you'll see a mock up right now of what the

T-shirts may look like.

this.

School are putting this together, but it's really

just a hawk and the silhouette of the moon and a

tree, which is kind of getting back to the

environment of the culture center with the trees

there and the full moon and the red tail hawk,

which is indigenous to our area and to our tribe.

They've got that piece worked out, and hopefully

they'll have that finished -- we've got

committees.

doing a fantastic job with the committees, and

they're all working together in the cold and the

We're still working on

Some students from Purnell Swett High

Mr. John Oxendine has got -- he's

rain to get everything put together.

kind of what the T-shirt will look like in black

and yellow or on a red or yellow T-shirt at this

point in time.

silhouette of it.

So this is

That may change, but that's the

I'd also like to mention a couple other

things.

trying to make sure that we do due diligence on

that.

Bosco, Ms. Tammy, finance director, Ms. Brewer,

who is here, so I think we have all the

administrative support here to answer any

questions you may have.

(Indicating) comment a little earlier was that, if

there's some disconnect, just give us a call.

We're meeting before this meeting, we're meeting

upon meetings to share information.

trying to make is if we don't have the answer for

you that very minute, we have a staff here for you

at your meetings that can get the information for

you before the meeting's up, and if they can't,

then that will be another discussion.

Support, administrative support.

I'm

We have the tribal administrator here, Mr.

I would expand on her

The point I'm

We also have if you notice tech support.

Both of our tech people, Ms. Tonya Lowry and my

brother back here,--

MS. JAN LOWERY:

Joe.

CHAIRMAN GODWIN:

Joe.

What can I say.

his name.

job, and they're getting the mics fixed, but you'll have

tech support here for your meetings.

meeting you have, you'll have tech support so we can be

heard, and people can make sure they get the correct

information.

expand.

have tech support at every meeting and also security.

She's sitting right back there from R&R, and she's done a

great job for us, so we'll have tech and security support

for you.

I talk to him everyday.

I know

They're doing a great

For every committee

Working on things like this, that's going to

You'll be able to do more things up here, so we'll

Tomorrow at 9:00, we're having a prayer --

pray in, whatever you want to call it.

be our second one right here in these chambers.

think it's important, and I'd like for you all to

come if you'd like.

minutes.

important we get back to our core values, and

that's one of them.

everything that we're doing right now.

This will

It will last for about 30

People give comments -- but I think it's

I think we need prayer on

Lumbee Tribal Holdings.

I want to expand

just a little bit on what Mr. Ron Oxendine was

talking about.

He's talking about Lumbee Tribe

Enterprises.

What we're doing right now is very,

very, very important.

the Lumbee Tribe to become prosperous with this

mechanism in the future for the next nine years.

What that does is just bring contracts

We have the opportunity for

together.

business and professionals.

high-level security clearance for these contracts

we're talking about.

them.

clearances to do it, and some of it's kind of

secret, so he can't tell us everything, and

because of the contracts and the nature of them,

it is what it is; not just getting the contracts.

He goes out and he shops for the

You have to have

Nobody in this room can get

You've got to have those kinds of federal

There's another level that's called Lumbee

Tribal Holdings.

Once the contracts are secured,

when the profits from those contracts start going

to Lumbee Tribal Holdings, that's the critical

part.

and we decide as a committee and as a team what to

do with that money; what programs do you want to

build, what scholarships do you want to start,

stipends for travel, and a lot of other things we

haven't even thought about yet because we haven't

got that far, but let me tell you that it's coming

That's the part when you take that profit

very quickly.

Now there was a resolution that was made a

couple years ago where there's five people on that

committee.

administrator, the head of housing, and two tribal

council members on it.

passed, and I won't get into details of that, but

the two tribal council members were removed, so

you only had the chair, the administrator, and the

head of housing on Lumbee Tribal Holdings, which

will decide where this money's going to go, so I

challenge you -- I know you've got all these

meeting's scheduled, but I challenge you to have a

board -- a tribal council board meeting to let's

discuss this in detail, and you need to select two

people that need to go on Lumbee Tribal Holdings.

That's even more critical than the LTE.

to have us representing that.

There's the chair, there's the

When the resolution was

You got

We got to plan together, we got to have your

constituents involved.

We're going to have to

have focus groups out at your community centers --

what's important to the people because when this

money starts flowing and we have a profit, we

don't have to spend it right then, but we need a

plan, and this Lumbee Tribal Holdings is the

apparatus for the plan and for these

disbursements, so I don't think we need to decide

tonight on a date to think about it, and see if we

can have a meeting in the next two weeks on the

board of the Lumbee Tribal Holdings.

Accountability, transparency, open

government.

I had a meeting Tuesday with Senator

Richard Burr.

He came to my business office in

Lumberton for an hour.

Robeson County for five years, and he came in to

see us.

It's a political year, he's running, I

get it.

Federal recognition, I feel really,

really good about him being a champion for us.

He's one of the top five US Senators in the US

Senate right now, and if he wins, he'll be even

more powerful, and the man's the head of the

Intelligence Committee; he knows IT.

talking to me about some stuff I didn't even know

what he was talking about.

He hadn't stepped foot in

He was

I feel good about our confederates there, and

with Congressman Hudson, I would ask Councilman

Jarrod, if I can work together with you on this

because we have to have a single message now, and

they're expecting leadership from the chair

position to champion with them, and we all got to

be saying the same thing, so if you allow me, I'd

like to work with you on that.

message right -- so they're not going to do much

in this election, so it would be early 2017.

can get a good push going with that plan, and we

push for it, and I think federal recognition needs

to be at the top of the list, not at the bottom of

the list.

that money could secure full federal recognition.

I'm telling you -- the next several generations --

some of the things we're talking about struggling

with with money and trying to find pennies here

and there won't be an issue anymore.

enough money to take care of our generations to

come.

Let's get the

Lumbee Tribal Enterprises, Holdings --

We'll have

The last thing I would say to you is this.

The last month or so, me and my wife -- she's at

home alone now.

her than I want to, but I questioned myself

lately: Why did I decided to do this?

Burr asked me that same question.

first question he asked me: Why'd you decide to

run for tribal chair?

understood what I was talking about.

box from the little children of Red Hill

I'm spending more time away from

Senator

That's the

I told him why, and he

Here I got a

Apartments in Maxton.

The Honorable Harvey Godwin, Jr., and inside,

are all these letters from kids, children, and you

know what they want?

playground at Red Hill Apartments.

they're saying so we can stay out of the streets,

so bad people that walk up and down the highway

there can't snatch them, where they feel safe.

They just want a playground.

don't know with this LTE and Lumbee Tribal

Holdings.

something like this again.

about.

let's not lose our focus on that.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

All they asked for is a

Ms. Sweat,

That's what you

You won't ever have to worry about

This is what it's

This is what it's really about.

Please,

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

this time, we will open the floor for announcements from

our council.

because I know you had a burning announcement, so you have

the open floor.

Ms. Barbara, I'm going to let you go first

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Yes.

On February 25th down

at the First Nations Boys and Girls Club, we're going to

have a community meeting.

We're inviting the tribal

council to come on out.

We'll have musicians out there,

and we start at 6:00, and our meeting will be at 7:00.

23rd, next Tuesday.

It starts at 6:00.

The

The people out

there's preparing soup and drinks.

They provided water.

If they want to provide, I don't tell them no.

that would like to come is welcome to come.

Everybody

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

At 6:00?

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Well, the music starts, and

then the food we're going to have ready.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

MS. BARBARA LOWERY:

Club.

First Nations Boys and Girls

It's on Singletary Church Road.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

reminder on that.

announcements?

She had that 25th

meeting on her mind.

The 23rd.

Ms. Belinda can send us a

All right.

We'll go around.

Announcements?

MR. JARROD LOWERY:

Any

Mr. Jarrod?

Really isn't an announcement,

but I just want to let everybody know that today the North

Carolina State Legislature and the United States Court of

Appeals redrew our congressional districts, all 13

districts in the state, so you need to check and see.

all pretty much live in different congressional districts,

and we all have different congressmen, so Robeson County's

in the 9th, Hoke County's in the 8th, and Cumberland

County's split between the 7th and the 4th -- no -- excuse

me. Cumberland County's split between the 8th and the 9th,

so the maps are out.

give a full update about all that at our federal

Get online and check it out, and I'll

recognition meeting.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

see Mr. Jarrod.

office.

Thank you.

If you got questions, just

He's got inside with the governor's

MR. WILLIAM MAIDEN:

Mr. Speaker, if I might, as a

reminder to the education committee with the unity

conference coming up the weekend of the 10th, 11th, and

12th, there was a request for a scholarship funding, and

that was sent to education, and I don't know if you had a

chance to talk about it yet or not, and I know that you

have a meeting that week before that, so I'd like, if you

would, remember that.

on the board up there, and they made that request; if you

remember those letters I passed out to you.

We have a representative here that's

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

questions, just get with Mr. Maiden.

announcement.

your committees.

noticed there was three councilmen that was not on a

committee, and it's required that all council serve on at

least one committee, so I worked with some chairpersons,

and I'm glad to say tonight, Ms. Sweat, all three were on

at least one committee, so I thank you, chairmen, for

working with me to fill those positions.

If you got anymore

I have one general

In your package, you received a new copy of

When I looked this one over, Ms. Belinda

The only other announcement I have is after

the benediction, I need to meet with all those

that requested to attend the National Housing

Conference in May back in the break room.

won't take me but a minute to tell you what's

going on, but all of those that requested to

attend the national conference.

I'm going to call a dear friend of mine up to the

podium.

Mr. Bruce Barton, would you close us in

prayer?

He's -- I worked for him for many years,

so I know he's capable.

If nothing else,

Mr. Barton?

(A prayer was given by Mr. Bruce Barton.)

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

I do need a motion to

adjourn.

MR. FRANK COOPER:

MR. ALTON LOCKLEAR:

Second.

MR. BILL BREWINGTON:

Meeting's adjourned.

Motion.

(End of proceedings.)

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