IN CASE YOU MISSED THE BIG AWARD for Hicks/Blythe and Tribal Council In this weeks Smoky Mountain News the Editorial Staff handed out its Annual Awards to the different people and entities for creating the biggest news stories... WELL GUESS WHAT!!! Congratulations goes to our very own Tribal Council and Hicks/Blythe regime for receiving the OPEN CHECKBOOK AWARD! Here is the award in its original form... The Open [Check] Book award Cherokee Tribal Council meetings got explosive this fall after word got out that [Council] members had voted themselves a $10,000 pay raise — as well as backpay checks for as much as $22,000 for the years when the raise supposedly should have already been in effect. Principal Chief Michell Hicks claimed that the raises were “adjustments” to bring salaries into compliance with a 2004 ordinance, a view accepted by the majority of the council. But many tribal members decried them as illegal, saying they violated a section of the tribe’s Charter and Governing Document that stipulates that any raises council receives can take effect only after the next elected council is seated. As pushback swelled, councilmembers started qualifying their support of the salary increases during council discussions. At the same time, tribal government became sensitive to media coverage of the issue. In its December meeting, tribal council asked police to escort a Smoky Mountain News reporter from the councilhouse in addition to denying members of other media outlets admission to the council chamber. Isnt it so typical that Hicks and Council try to bully everyone, including outside press! HaHa. They look so silly, greedy and crooked! It is a pathetic excuse for a Government. This coming week is another opportunity to express yourself on the theft they pulled on all of us. They violated their oaths of office. Remember... CHARTER AND GOVERNING DOCUMENT OF THE EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS states at: Section 7. The members of the Tribal Council shall receive such compensation as shall be appropriated by the Tribal Council, with no pay raise to take effect until the next council is seated. They each breached their OATH! I bet they all had a good Christmas...HUH Keep em Quacking! Sgi
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:49:32 +0000
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