AVCP Convention

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my co-owning, my co-owning, In 2001, when I was born, I was praying. My brother took me to my evacuate.

So I didn't have to answer that. So I decided to go. We've seen the Several sensible officers. They don't want to be denied a harvest. I am not a leversim. When the test begins, I don't want to be advised to do that.

Mr. Chairman, I think it is easy to do, it is really an important position that we're

voting on. And they are, thank you. Got me back there on the motion now, so, mostly to suspend the rules, to wait for units to read delegates, to get started to go to the next novel code. And this motion has been passed by two-thirds. What about the two-thirds? If you say yes, that means we will wait for the other delegates to come and know is to proceed with the election.

And Dravsky, Anyak, Akmoto, Betho, Jovapalak, Jovapalak, Sephornik, Chivak, Crooked Creek, Heek, Yimana, Georgetown, Georgetown, Good News, Good News, Hooper Bay, Calastak, this upper Calastak, Lower Calastak, Lower Calastak, Kasigilok, Pitnok, Gunnernok, Kotlik, Guigilnok, Line Billids, Line Billids, Chuck Delna, Front, Nick David, Benedict Tucker, Robert Beams, Kim Bolz,

Morgan, Aaron Kiring protections, Brethon, Sydney, The first thing that happened was our committee members and staff could not get out of

Anchorage today because the last airlines jet was canceled. They will be arriving here tomorrow morning. They will be holding the formal reapportionment committee meeting in the city council chambers right adjacent to the meeting hall here from 10 to 12 10 a.m. tomorrow till 12. I want to talk about reapportionment. reapportionment is important to the people of the Yukon-Kasquim Delta. We work under a constitutional mandate that requires the election districts in the state of Alaska and throughout the nation to be a reapportioned then the

boundary lines re-established based on the federal census population. There's some villages in this region that historically up until 1980 were in House District 25 the Bethel region. Your services, transportation, economy and everything comes out of the Bethel region and in after 1980 you were put in a known region and these are the villages of Chivak, Hooper Bay, and Scammer. This hearing gives you the residents of those three villages if you want to be back in the Bethel region to testify and provide the reason or the rationale of why you should be in the Bethel region or House District 25. As Senator Binkley mentioned this morning I've been told there's a real need for the

Yupik people of the Yukon-Kasquim Delta to unify. It doesn't make sense to have our Senate District, Senate District in on the Cusco quim from Macorriak up to the Canadian border. And with the population estimates that are coming in for this re-apportionment in 1990 and the fact that for the first time probably an excess of 75% of the military population in the state of Alaska are residents. In the past these individuals, military people and there's approximately 50,000 military independence in Alaska were surveyed and exempted from the population counts because there were non-residents. Now because of the permanent funding and program they are residents and they have to be included and upon inclusion of that population it's going to be beneficial to Anchorage and Fairbanks where probably 90% of the military population reside. This is going to be at the expense of rural Alaska and we

need your input. If we're going to hold on to the house seats that we have in this state we need your input. We need you to test sign up and testify. Why we should have our house representation? Why should we should be united? And I want to repeat this. It's at 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the city council chambers just adjacent to here. And the first thing we'll be taking us you'll have to sign up to testify. It'll be formal testimony will become part of the hearing record. Then just philosophically I'd like to mention the re-apportionment committee what does the work is five members in the state of Alaska appointed by the governor. Last February Governor Cooper appointed a representative from Anchorage, a representative from Fairbanks, a representative, excuse me from the Kenai Peninsula, a representative from southeast Alaska and myself. I represent

basically from Kodiak, the Lucian Islands all the way to Barrow. And this committee will take the pertinent information in your testimony and come up with a draft reapportionment plan. And this plan will be implemented and be in place until the year 2000. Some of us may have heard that this is a political process. The reapportionment boundary lines have been already established and I can tell you as a representative of that committee we have not begun to even discuss the relocation or the establishment of reapportionment boundary lines. But what we need your input and I can't emphasize and stress how important is to have your input. We need our House and Senate districts to represent like and similar people with like and similar needs and this region will not be heard unless we have your input on the formal record. We'll be holding this hearing

tomorrow and next Tuesday on the 16th they'll be a hearing held in Bethel at the City Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m. in the evening and in 1970 and 1980 our region did not have one formal hearing. So we're giving this region the opportunity to provide some input into the process and I pray that we have good representation, good solid testimony justifying our needs tomorrow. Thank you. sats, on a social basis,

and theycry like their inside. But they die as they deport their status in Thailand. They flourish withgoo. One boat for one ballad. This is going to be a certain time now, what's going to happen? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, Board of Directors, I thank you for this. Twice since my retirement from ABCP,

I've got a little choked up and emotional. One was one of the employees of ABCP had a luncheon for me. And this is the second time. My association with ABCP as an employee and as president, has been probably the most heartwarming, fulfilling mission, if I may call it that, that I've ever experienced in my life. I worked with a great group of employees that were dedicated and committed to a mission. And that mission was serving we, the native village people of the Delta. I worked for a great group of people, the U.P. of the Delta.

And for that, I will be profoundly thankful for it. And like I said, it is one of the most heartwarming, most fulfilling things that I've ever experienced in my life. And Willie and delegates, I thank you. Thank you. Well done. Well, there is still, are you still counting the ballots? Cleaned out at 7.30. There would also be figures, figures down at the teen center. And I believe that starts at 7.30 also. And for those that like to watch, first of all, the doors are going to open at 8.30 at the high school, and they will start at 9.00 o'clock. It's against the mountain bridge, mountain bridge parks,

and the ABCP staff, 40 and over. And I believe there's a... And I believe there's a small fee for going in for the past part. If you want to go watch past part, it came to light at 9 o'clock at the high school. Thank you.