The Mysterious Case of the Missing Petitions

Several weeks ago John Hatch turned over a petition with the required number of signatures to the Sault Tribe Board of Directors.

The petition was a demand to lower the salaries of the Board of Directors. Imagine if they lowered their salary to $25,000.00 which is still more than most of them deserve.

That is a $42,000.00 savings for each director which adds up to $504,000.00 annually. Add to that all the extra benefits they receive that would add additional thousands to that figure.

How many jobs, Elder meals and childrens programs could survive on this amount of money? We will never know because the petitions disappeared. The members have the right to petition the board for such requests. I wonder where they were misfiled. Maybe they should check "File 13".

If they are 'lost' then that is nothing less than incompetence to the maximum degree and the person who had them in their possession should be immediately fired. We all know that is not going to happen though now don't we and I think we all know who the person is that would have had them in her possession...Joanne Carr, Board Secretary.

and now that I am on the subject,
Heres one:
If we are in a budget crisis, and we have a director who is on the board as a board secretary, why then do we have another secretary? The Sault Tribe cannot afford luxuries. We should only have one secretary and that should be the one elected by the board, and to top that off, the board secretary also has an assistant!

Three people for one job?