January 6, 2004
To: Attendees
From: Gayle
Wellness meeting
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Paul Verhagen |
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Robert Charlie |
Jason Moore |
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Bear Ketzler |
Milt Haken |
Howard Taylor |
Pattie Adkisson |
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Rhonda Coghill |
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Virginia Young |
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Teresa Mayrand |
Gary Edwin |
Rita O’brien |
Nita Marks |
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Russ Sharock |
Lois Law |
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Bear – gave an update on the NNC last meeting (January 5, 2004) Council approved:
§ To start spending money on the youth facility and the location – right behind the school.
§ The Purchase of bingo equipment. Committee to establish the uses on game income.
§ Josh Titus gave a report on his plans on going to college the council agreed to pay for his books
§ Approved to go forward with Denali Commission funds for the Multipurpose Facility
§ TCC will be selecting 12 youth delegates and the Council will be submitting a name. Bear asked for any suggestions - nominations are due by Feb 5th.
Bear – Recreation center – Bear will be sitting down with an architect this week to start the design process. Denali Commission grant a full proposal is due February 20th. A co-op type ownership between the City, School and NNC will most likely own the facility.
Paul talked about the importance of determining ownership up front for several reasons including tax issues.
Bear called the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. in regards to the ‘Oxford House’ grant application, the lady in charge will be out until Jan 20th - the final decision will be made by the end of January.
Bear - Denali Commission - there is a lot of work to do but with the acceptance of the ‘letter of intent’ that was submitted we are in the running.
Shelly – Hockey Rink is in the works and as soon as she gets the measurements she will make another report. We may be able to get it paved this next summer when we will be doing paying in town. She thinks we can get the whole project done with about $15,000. Paul suggested that we maybe be able to get a surplused Zamobni and that there are smaller pull behind resurfacing machines
Shelly – Newsletter right now is mostly an open call to the community in regards to our next meeting. Kept it short this time to get it out prior to the January 14th meeting. Read a quote from Margaret Mead that she is including on the newsletter. She passed around the newsletter and meeting notice for everyone to approve or make additions or corrections.
Milt – Alternative Sentencing (next meeting)
Gave a report on statistics on misdemeanor charges filed in the Nenana court between 1994 and 2003. Reported that there has been a steady trend up with a slight dip for the year that James Brown was gone. Also a chart that shows the total police services and calls.
Comments on Milts report
Paul if there is a correlation between the increase in arrested and the reduction in accidents then it is meaningful for our group. Milt reported that the underage drinking arrests has gone up since James Brown is back indicating that he is needed and stated that this was a very ‘quiet’ holiday season due to adequate police services. Even though there were 2 police and a trooper looking for DUI and there were no arrests.
There were several comments regarding the lack of ‘partying’ this New Years Eve.
Paul – Mission statement – Paul passed out 2 draft documents one with categories the other with a list of all the suggestions he has received regarding what we want to do and what our mission is. He asked that everyone go over the list and narrow it down to what we as a group want to do. The list is too long and we could never do all of the things on the list. Some things we need to promote and somethings we want to do.
Shelly -A mission statement needs to be less specific.
A committee was appointed to work on the mission statement – Kat,
Bear – the recovery community in
Bear – Alternative sentencing – A village in southeast where a young person got in trouble uses an elders ‘judging’ system was set up and maybe we should look at that.
Bear introduced Robert Charlie
Robert Charlie – talked about his organization Cultural Heritage and Education Institute. When you think about alcoholism you need to find alternative activities. Bear and Robert have been talking for the last couple of years and he is asking for a resolution is support of Minto and Nenana working together as was done in the past. The gatherings at Old Minto have been very successful. Robert plays in a band and writes music. A few years back Robert wrote a song about sobriety. The only thing that can make a person get a good new start in life is a person mind. The song is about back in the old days before people started drinking such as Robert remembers in his young days. The project he is working on, “Coming of Age”, is a documentary film on Alaska Natives and their lives in sobriety - healthy sports and healthy living. Robert would like feed back from our group. Blueberry productions and one other production
Funding source – a small amount has been found but need more to get started. Robert would like a letter of support from our group (Paul). Need to help insure that people have a good start after turning to sobriety.
Bear – has sent an email to Ken Burns asking him to come to
Jason Moore – Jason and Josh are writing a letter and will do a presentation to the Leadership Class at school and discuss what they did, the consequences, health issues and legal issues. Jason (and Josh if available) will do the presentation for our group at our next Tuesday meeting.
Bear – Talked to Mike Dacu (SP) he has official bowed out of helping us but suggested that Carol Divian (SP) might be willing to help us formulate our goals in the area of the substance abuse treatment center.
January 14th community strategic planning meeting
Strategic Planning reports- Jason has the material from last years planning session and will highlight the main goals and get a copy to Gayle or Shelly.
Welcome and prayer
Dinner starts at
Planning session at
Facilitator Bear – Jason – Corina Collins
Over view of prior meeting goals and priorities
Grants
Presentation of current goals
Questions and answers
Meeting Notice Gayle and Shelly
Prayer and welcome Bear
Meeting facilitator Bear will contact Corina Collins
Will Mayo – presentation Bear will contact Will Mayo
Set-up and tables Bear - NNC
Material needed for writing ideas Jason – will get supplies to Gayle or Shelly
Sign in sheet Shelly
Salads - Pattie will ask the NSLC
Cake - Teresa will ask the culinary class at school
Fry Breads - RMHA
Drinks - Juice, tea, and coffee - Bear - NNC
Paper products - Shelly and Teresa
Next meeting January 13th
Agenda
We will keep it short at this meeting.
Josh and Jason – Sobriety presentation
Any new pertinent information.
Reports on January 14th meeting
Teresa or Shelly Cakes
Pattie Salads
Bear Spaghetti
Teresa or Shelly paper products
Kat fry bread
Bear drinks
Bear Facilitators and presenter
If you have anything else you would like on the agenda please let me know. Gayle