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KIC Tribal Directive to Re-Instate
"477" Program
By Lisa M. Lang
June 30, 2006
Friday
This letter is to update the KIC Tribal membership with current
information regarding the number one Tribal Council directive
for the new General Manager of KIC. The Tribal Council's number
one directive is to re-instate and move forward on the Tribes
477 plan. The 477 plan is a comprehensive plan to create a program
which is a one-stop client in-take process and client service.
The 477 plan previously was granted to KIC but was lost due
to non-compliance.
After my initial review I found that KIC had lost their ability
to have a 477 plan because they had not complied with the findings
of a monitoring review which was conducted in 2003. I began
implementing the steps to bring us back into order. To explain
the re-instatement process KIC is required to re-organize and
submit a new reorganizational chart with their programs (under
one supervisor), to consolidate their budgets, to clean up their
files and ensure their audits are in compliance. The staff is
busy on creating a proposal which includes the required changes
mentioned above. Staff is working on a new plan which will tentatively
be submitted in August. Ms. Lenora Smith is the 477 Monitoring
person. She reviewed our programs in 2003 and made the findings
which were not corrected. Lenora will be in Alaska in August
and is willing to come to Ketchikan to share information about
the 477 and review the new plan which we are working very hard
to complete in a timely manner. The overall goal in my changes
within the organization are to re-instate the 477 plan and meet
the number one goal of the Tribal Council.
Sincerely,
Lisa M. Lang
Ketchikan
About: Lisa M. Lang is the
General Manager of KIC
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