4/8/2002 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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Selectman Reveille: And I think we need to go forward with that. As far a , what our knowledge is at point, I think that our knowledge is pretty much,pretty much intact. So I move we go f rward on deciding what we need,to do but part of what we need to do is educate the public at the same time because it is a critical issue to them. As far as your not-having sat down to talk with Hale and Torr or talking directly with thein. Selectman Cahalane .,-just to make fair questions that should be answered. Selectman Reveille: As far as you're not talking to Hale and Dori,. Selectman Cahalane: I'm not saying i needed to now, what I am saying is now is the time we need to sit down and ask questions like, what land can they get? Give us the worst ease scenario, at least so we can make changed my mind once already on how I'd vote tonight. Selectman Marsters: we don't know what we'd life to get because we don't know what they are asking for. They're going to get what they are asking for. Selectman Reveille: That's true. Selectman Green: It won't be the tribe that would be doing the asking after the fact. It would be the federal government either acknowledging that there is a discrepancy and lands are owed or it will be the federal government saying that okay, here's what we are going to do. That's what it's go Ing to be. It's not going to ... People are talking about a suit from the tribe. The tribe will not be filing a suit. If they become lords of the federal government, it will be the United States government that will be filing a suit on behalf of the tribe. They will set the criteria and they will set the agenda. That's what that will be. Selectman Reveille: But,the land they acquire would be based on what the tribal council and their legal representation identify and request. That cane from the Tribal Council itself So... Selectman Green: I don't understand it i