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| Volume XXV, Number 8 | June 11, 2004 |
By Emma Brown
BRIGHTON — On Friday May 14, the Brighton Reservation hosted their second Tribal Council meeting at the Brighton Gymnasium at 10 a.m. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Mitchell Cypress and the invocation was asked by Alice Snow.
Once roll call was completed, Executive Administrator Ken Fields introduced Marsha Green as a new developer of programs and projects for the chairman’s office. Green comes to the Seminole Tribe with many years of service as an attorney with other tribes.
Fields then presented routing items of administrative nature that had been previously discussed by the Tribal Council. The items included home site leases, lease extensions, home permits, easement of right of ways for Glades Electric and Sprint, and service agreements with various companies. There were 32 of these routine items which were all approved.
Among new items were two resolutions presented by Louise Gopher, Director of Education. The first resolution was an amendment to the Seminole Tribe of Florida Criteria Agreement for Private school scholarship program, which stated that those students attending private schools would only be allowed 12 absences, instead of the previously allowed 18.
The second was an amendment to the Seminole Tribe of Florida School registration policy which stated the tribe would no longer fund on-line school, home schooling, correspondence school, or anything of this nature. Both amendments were approved.
Among other resolutions was an approval of lease schedules 11 and 12 to the Master Lease Agreement entered into with PDS Gaming Corporation where the Hard Rock Hotel will offer guests with on-site opportunity to charter a fishing boat for the day without needing to leave the premises. This boat will also be used as an alternative means of marketing for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Tribal Treasurer Mike Tiger presented a resolution with Ford Motor Credit Company lease-purchase agreement which will allow the tribe to purchase leased vehicles for tribal department use. The next meeting of Tribal Council will be held in June.
On a special note, at the end of the council meeting, Max Osceola asked Education Director Louise Gopher and Ken Fields to get together and present a resolution to rename the Seminole Tribe Higher Education Scholarship to Billy Cypress Higher Education Scholarship Program in his honor.
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