Show Ute Ufe Tribe enterprises to be administered under new management structure The Ute Tribe has signed an agreement with a Roosevelt firm to design a management plan for Cor all tribal enterprises The Tribal Business Committee Committee Committee Com Com- on Dec 19 passed a resolution authorizing McNeil Duncan CPA to operate and manage all tribal enterprises J through rou t Feb 28 1978 The enterprises include Ute Leathers Bottle Hollow Livestock Enterprises Ute Lanes Service Station Ute Research Lab and the Domestic Water System IN AN EARLIER action the Business Committee signed a year three-year lease with Sheldon Jackson to operate Ute Fab The Dec resolution established a new enterprise management structure where enterprise decision making will will be delegated to a Financial Review Board an Enterprise Board of Directors and a general manager The Financial Review Board will consist of John Ar- Ar the Phoenix Area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs BIA BlA Pat Ragsdale the BIAs BIA's Uintah and Ouray Agency superintendent and Ruby Black the Tribal Business Committee chair chair- person said During the day 60 period the BIAs BIA's Phoenix Area and U and andO O 0 Agency staff will be working with the tribe and Mr Duncan to design a new management system for approval and adoption by the Business Committee It is our hope that the new system will be ready to put in place by the end of that day 60 period Under the tentative management plan the Financial Review Board will be accountable to the Business Committee The Enterprise Board when appointed will answer to that Review Board and a general manager will be accountable to the Enterprise Board A controller and specialists in production marketing and labor will come from enterprise management and be under the direction of the general manager |