What is Business Confidential?

You are basically “stockholders” of every business the Tribe owns and such you have a right to know the health of each. Our Constitution requires the Treasurer to report, “all funds received by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians or through Tribal enterprises. This report shall also include all appropriations of operating funds and Tribal enterprises by department showing how the funds were spent and to include profit and loss statements where applicable;”

So, what should be confidential? Strategies and methods are confidential, not results. Strategies might include who and how you are going to target in a marketing campaign. Results show up in your profit and loss statements, they already occurred and your competitors can already see what you’ve done, it’s on your billboards and brochures. Results, not how you obtained them, are not secret to anyone, they are not “Business Confidential.”