Planning
Responsibilities:
The Planning Department supports Tribal Governance to realize program missions by proactively applying systems and tools that uniformly assess, coordinate, and evaluate projects and processes.
Programs and Departments
Siletz Tribal Energy Program (STEP)
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians was awarded a grant in the fall of 2009 from the Administration for Native Americans to create an energy management program. Tribal staff are working with federal, state, and local partners, tribal member partners and others to learn about and implement the conservation of our natural resources.Events:
Small Measure Weatherization Workshops:
December 6 in Salem, December 14 in Eugene
December 15 in Newport
Brochures:
Appliance replacement brochure
Appliance replacement application
Contest results for 4th of July Office Decorating Contest- Business Area office overview
- Dental Reception area overview
- Accounting area overview
- Natural Resources area overview
- Central Reception area barbeque
- Clinic Reception area flag
Project Coordinator, Siletz Tribal Energy Program: Claire Wood
Phone: (541) 444-8276 or (800) 922-1399 x1276
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Program/Energy Technician: Fawn Metcalf
Phone: (541) 444-8300 or (800) 922-1399 x1300
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Weatherization Coordinator: Marleen Wynn
Phone: (541) 444-8271 or (800) 922-1399 x1271
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: mailto:step@ctsi.nsn.us
Check out EPA’s new Green Homes website which will help people make their homes greener with tips on reducing energy consumption, carbon footprints, waste generation, and water use, as well as improving indoor air quality: http://www.epa.gov/greenhomes.
Here is a list of local Oregon utility company sites that offer tips to improve energy efficiency in your home or business.
Electric company pages:
Gas company page:
Tribal Planner
The Tribal Planner facilitates Council's development of Tribal goals and objectives, and supports departments in successfully executing work plans and objectives. In addition to administering the department, the Tribal Planner, under the Council and General Manager's direction, acts as a liaison with other governmental planning entities, providing coordination and addressing regulatory requirements.
Tribal Planner: Pamela Barlow Lind
Phone: (541) 444-8361 or (800) 922-1399 x1361
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: pamelal@ctsi.nsn.us
Transportation Program
The Transportation Program contributes to the creation of the Siletz Reservation Transportation Plan and the Siletz Reservation Transportation Improvement Program (TIP); two documents that guide Tribal transportation planning. The program also includes maintaining the Indian Reservation Road Inventory (IRR), a list of roads on or accessing Tribal trust lands eligible for federal funding for improvements of new construction. As in the past, Planning manages the Tribe's responsibilities when it enters into a 638 contract (self-governance) with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Branch of Roads for specific improvement and/or construction projects.
Transportation Planner: Pamela Barlow Lind
Phone: (541) 444-8361 or (800) 922-1399 x1361
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: pamelal@ctsi.nsn.us
Realty Program
The Environmental Planner administers the Realty Program. The Realty Program covers various aspects of Tribal fee and trust land real estate transactions, including acquisition of fee land and transfer of land from fee status to trust status. Real estate transactions entail title review, property line surveys, and environmental site assessments of fee and trust lands as well as land appraisals, leases and easements on trust lands. The Environmental Planner prepares environmental review documents and other environmental compliance documents, including state and federal permits for a variety of Tribal projects.
Environmental Planner: Larry Lunde
Phone: (541) 444-8287 or (800) 922-1399 x 1287
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: larryl@ctsi.nsn.us
Grant Writing
Grant Writing helps obtain funding through the grant application process. This includes grant opportunity monitoring, compiling databases of available funding, writing grant applications and designing work plans. The Grant Writer secures holds on current grants and keeps all grant funded staff informed of reporting requirements, re-application opportunities and deadlines. The Grant Writer works in conjunction with each of the Program Managers to discuss their program's funding needs, and to coordinate efforts at compiling grant recommendations to present to Council for priority projects.
Grant Writer: Dave Davis
Phone: (541) 444-8235 or (800) 922-1399 x1235
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: mailto:daved@ctsi.nsn.us
Community Development
The Community Development Program contributes to the creation and execution of the Tribal Comprehensive Master Plan. The Master Plan is the document that identifies all the facilities and infrastructure projects and programs desired for the next 10 years. The goals and objectives contained in the Master Plan are created by Tribal Council, the Tribal Planner and the Planning Staff. Community Development's mission is to create nice, safe places for Tribal members to live, work and play. Our Community Development Program directs all the energy necessary to forecast facility requirements, develop concepts, identify funding sources, produce designs, and manage the construction of the facilities and infrastructure required to improve the quality of life in our community.
Construction Management Engineer: Tracy Bailey
Phone: (541) 444-8278 or (800) 922-1399 x1278
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: tracyb@ctsi.nsn.us
Geographical Information System
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides a powerful and cost-effective management tool for planning and decision making. Our GIS program assists with collecting, managing, and using location-based information to analyze trends, develop projections, and design spatial models for land use, planning, environmental management, transportation, water resources, timber management, and develop applications for departmental needs. The staff participates in all phases of GIS project design and implementation, including user needs assessment, database development, hardware/software configuration, software development, remote sensing, map creation, and the production of ready-to-use information.
Phone: (541) 444-8237 or (800) 922-1399 x1237
Tribal Centralized Information System (TCIS)
TCIS is a project that is funded by the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) for Social and Economic Development Strategy (SEDS). After completion, the various departments at Siletz will be able to share pertinent information that was once in multiple areas, which made it difficult to keep updated. The impact of the project will allow for a way of collecting and storing information necessary for efficient and effective decision making on matters of Tribal governance, which include services in the areas of health, housing, employment, family services, culture, history, education and Tribal records.
Project Coordinator/Systems Analyst: Robert Arce-Torres
Phone: (541) 444-8305 or (800) 922-1399 x 1305
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: robertat@ctsi.nsn.us
Technology Coordinator: Clint Muschamp
Phone: (541) 444-8292 or (800) 922-1399 x 1292
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: clintm@ctsi.nsn.us
Clinical Applications Coordinator: Edward Biancone
Phone: (541) 444-8302 or (800) 922-1399 x 1302
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email: edwardb@ctsi.nsn.us
Support Staff
Phone: (541) 444-8257 or (800) 922-1399 x1257
Fax: (541) 444-8362
Email:
2005-2015 CTSI Comprehensive Plan
The 2005 Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Comprehensive Plan is the official Document for guiding both the Siletz Membership and Tribal Government through decisions they will make throughout the next ten years. It outlines the goals and objectives developed by the Membership, and specifies a planning period up to the year of 2015.
The Plan is very general, comprehensive, and long range in nature. It is general in that it outlines broad based goals for the next ten years; comprehensive because it includes all the Tribal Members and Programs created for their benefit; and long range in that it explores the past and present situation of the Siletz Tribe for the purpose of future considerations.
The Plan is designed for use as one of the many necessary tools to assist the Tribe in directing its future. Although it is just one of the tools, it should be involved in the primary decision making process to ensure accuracy in goal achievement. It becomes the document necessary for maintaining a focus on the future, while, at the same time, being adaptable to unknown circumstances that are certain to arise in that future.
Download 2005-2015 CTSI Comprehensive Plan:
Part III: Portrait of a People