1982-01-01 Char-Koosta News

              PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592
NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND cTOREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES 0/ THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION . WESTERN MONTANA VOLUME 10 NUMBER 16 NEW MOON Of THE WANDERING
JAM UAH Y I, 1982
The year's final Council meeting was a busy one
A forty percent lameduck Council met December 18 in Pablo for a short six-hour session. Besides. approving half-a-dozen sets of committee minutes, the Council discussed money, trees, water and personnel matters.
Before getting into the heavy business, though, a resolution was drafted expressing the Council's regret at the death of Tribal Judge Henry Burland (see page 2). Copies of the unanimously approved document will be sent to Judge Burland's family and will
be included in the Tribal archives.
Joe McDonald, outgoing Ronan councilman, also proposed that the law and order building in Pablo be known as the Henry Burland Building. This motion, too, was unanimously accepted, as was Joe's motion that all the Tribal buildings be given proper names. The new administration committee will oversee this last item.
In other business, the Council agreed to drop "Community" from SKCC's name. The Tribally controlled college
is now officially to be known as Salish Kootenai College. (We'll have the particulars on this in the next issue, once the college staff gets back from its holiday vacation.)
The Council learned that two Federally funded Tribal departments have been granted temporary reprieves from their December 1981 phase out plans. The EDA Planning people can stay around until January 31, 1982,
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Some Indians exempt from vehicle licenses
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELENA - Indians living on their own reservation will not be required to pay the new vehicle license fee which goes into effect in Montana on January 1, Attorney General Mike Greety has ruled.
On the first day of 1982, Montana's current motor vehicle property tax based upon vehicle value will be replaced by a license fee based upon vehicle age and weight.
The 1981 Legislature designated the new assessment as a fee "in lieu of a property tax." It also specified that the new fee will be in addition to the current registration fee, which remains unaffected by the new law.
Money generated by the new fee will be distributed by
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Quarterly is January 1
Since the Tribal Constitution requires quarterly meetings be held on the first Friday of January, April, July and October, 1982's first such gathering has been scheduled for January 1, 1982. The place is the Council Chambers in Pablo. Nine a.m. is the optimistic target hour for convening.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Ken Smith on water rights............................................Page 4
"Charlo's People"..........................................................Page 5
SKC winter quarter news............................................Page 6
and Pages 13-16
"Letters to the Editor"....................................................Page 8
Health Corner.................................................................Page 10
January calendar...........................................................Page 17
Council minutes.......................>.....................................Page 23