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8 <br /> Selectman Leveille: (enclosure) <br /> Applause: <br /> Selectman Marsters: Well, I have been involved in this process, and I am not as <br /> prepared as that. That is for sure. Informally for about a year. It <br /> seems that there is a lot of miscommunication going on around <br /> here, and Glenn, maybe that is one of the reasons for which we <br /> have not corresponded to some of your requests. The last request <br /> that was attached to the survey I will read the last paragraph, it <br /> said,therefore the Tribal Council formally requests the Board of <br /> Selectmen to immediately pass a resolution in support of a federal <br /> recognition of the Tribe in which formally the Town would <br /> participate now in facilitated negotiation process that we have been <br /> discussing. And I looked at the word resolution, and what does the <br /> word resolution really mean. When I looked it up in the <br /> dictionary, I thought I knew what it meant, but when I looked it up <br /> the dictionary, it sort of hit home. It means to make a firm <br /> decision. It means to solve a problem, to deal with successfully to <br /> settle, and I did not think that was the reason why we were going <br /> to talk. I thought that we were going to talk to discuss what federal <br /> recognition is. We've been repetitively asking for goals. What <br /> recognition is? What exactly we are talking about?i.e.) Is there <br /> any form of gambling? Is there going to be any monetary <br /> payments. Is there going to be? The whole question was <br /> requested maybe ten months ago, but we are not answered for four <br /> to five months. That being said, I want to tell you how I feel about <br /> it personally. I have to agree with Dave that this is very time <br /> consuming to me individually as a part-time Selectman. It has <br /> encompassed a lot of my time,just talking about it with different <br /> people. It's something that is almost too big for us to partake in, <br /> and I feel that it is something, that we should, and if Glenn is going <br /> down the right path and taking the right coursd of action, and they <br /> are headed with the right direction with the BIA, maybe that is the <br /> right action that we should continue. <br />