Government Open to Membership Scrutiny,

Sunshine/Sunset Clauses

Open Meetings, if elected I will propose legislation to enact the following:

1.             Election of Tribal Councilor Officers should be and open recorded vote.

2.             Voting in closed session should be prohibited.

3.             The reason for closed sessions during Tribal Council meetings should have an explicit reason for closing in the minutes. The reason should be identified with a sunset condition or date for release should be included in the motion. An example, motion to enter closed session for land discussion of parcel #2025-05, audio to be release upon purchase or removal from consideration.

4.             Define personnel discussions.

5.             All discussions about Councilors, Chair or Vice-Chair should be open.

6.             Define confidential business.

7.             Only one topic should be allowed per session.

8.              All portions of Tribal Council Meetings should be recorded including closed sessions.

9.              Any discussion outside the topic of the closed session should be reason to motion return to open session and immediately release the relevant section of the recording.

10.      A reasonable method of ensuring release to Membership should be implemented.

11.      Phone conference calls should be considered open unless the purpose of the call meets open meeting exceptions. All phone conferences should be recorded.

Open documents, if elected I will propose legislation to enact the following:

1.             All documents should be open to public scrutiny unless classified.

2.             When classified, the reason should be identified with a sunset condition or date for release.

3.             All communications on Tribally owned devices should be open for public scrutiny unless specifically classified. This would include texts and emails.

4.             Over classification violates Membership right to review. Having a classified clause on every email clearly interferes with Membership right to review and should be prohibited.

Open books, if elected I will propose legislation to enact the following:  Profit and loss statements, and balance sheets for all Tribally owned businesses should be open to scrutiny, even in cases of minority ownership.