Economic Development & Planning Staff

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  Tyler Green

  Director of Economic Development and Planning

  Phone: 360-398-6551

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  Roswell Cline Jr.

  Planning Manager

  Phone: (360) 592-0162 x3207

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  Ed Kelly

  Planner III

  Phone: 360-306-5769

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  Clayton Roberts

  Planning Tech

  Phone: (360) 592-0162 x3208

Planning Program

The Planning Program helps plan, design and develop projects and properties, such as, creating the conceptual designs of buildings or of properties.  Planning provides procurement assistance with the Tribal governmental and its departments by completing the Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the Management Review Committee (MRC) to make sure we are following all our regulations to ensure a project is completed properly.

Land Realty Program

The Land Realty Program acts as a liaison between Tribal members and government agencies when the Tribal membership is applying for aid from these agencies. The program tracks the Tribe’s land status and processes for land acquisitions; aids with Indian Health Services sanitary applications; assists with obtaining Bureau of Indian Affairs information on trust allotments; and helps other departments with design work and information when needed. Under Realty, a Land Use Planning Committee was developed to help guide the vision and opportunities to grow the Tribal land base. Land Realty currently does not receive any funding for land surveys and is looking into resources to hopefully assist Tribal members in the future.

Water Program

The purpose of the Water Program is to maintain our community water systems by collecting water samples and troubleshooting any water system issues as needed. There are a number of tests collected monthly and quarterly to ensure good quality water is going out to the Nooksack community. These reports are shared in the Snee-Nee-Chum monthly. The Water Program’s scope of service is from the water source, “well, tower or pumphouse,” to the meter on a property. Everything beyond the meter is either a home owner’s responsibility in a conveyed unit, or if in a rental unit, a tenant can reach out to the Housing Department for assistance.

Transportation

Transportation continues to work with agencies such as BIA, county and state to accomplish transportation goals. We continue to work on improving safety within our Tribal roads inventory.  The BIA inventory list is only eligible for maintenance and repair. Planning forward is essential for the development of our community. 

Mapping / GIS

GIS is a growing portion of Planning and Mapping. This software will help planning create a more diverse database of all tribal lands in the Nooksack Tribe service area. With each little bit of information that gets added to the existing database, new ideas on what more can be added come out so the database is constantly evolving. GIS work is an ongoing project for the Planning Department and helps provide a visual representation of locations on a map while also providing Data that can be queried for certain criteria such as acreage, or vacant lands.

Historical Maps

These old Nooksack Maps have been a series of documents that links our tribe with our recognition and our history and was a part of the work performed by Allan Richardson & Brent Galloway in which they conducted interviews and had conversations with Nooksack Tribal Elders about Nooksack Places and the Nooksack Language. It is the hopes that we continue to use these documents as a way for our tribe to grow. The Planning department would like to incorporate these areas as a part of the Nooksack Tribe’s Land Acquisition Plan. By identifying areas of interest it provides the Tribe with some guidance as to where acquisitions should begin to take place as properties become available for purchase. This will give the tribe a means of expanding its current land base that is contiguous to existing or previous Nooksack Trust lands and should also to include historical site and be a part of the ongoing process of Fee to Trust conversions for the Nooksack Tribe.

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