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• 14 Board of Selectmen Minutes October 30, 2000 OLD BUSINESS: Discussion of Use of Legal Resources: (continued) Selectman Taylor: Well, I don't know, in light of my thinking, and I'll just throw a motion out, I'd like to have our legal people that we have at Kopelman, go out there, and get some information for us and report back to us, what's going on. Just basically, what the heck is going on up there, so I will know, and using in that resource. But, I would also like to let the Tribal Council and members of the press know that I am open to discussing the conditions...so, with that,that is a motion. Selectman Green: I would also like to re-discuss at our last meeting, bringing down....the BIA, to explain what the petition is about. First of all, what a petition is. Clarifying those things alone will give a lot of insight and be helpful to us in determining where we want to go with it, or how we want to attack it,.. in what ways we can participate within the process and what doors are not open to us. Besides what we are going to do here, I feel that this is very important...If we get that done. Selectman Taylor: Absolutely. I believe in that 100%. Selectman Leveille: Ken, you have been working with Jan Strickland. Robert Whritenour: Yes, we have initiated the process, and we are trying to get an Affirmative Action ruling this week and we will make some contacts.... Selectman Leveille: .:.I feel that every week I'm coming back to this table, and chipping away at this thing, chipping away. What I think we ought to do, is go to Hale and Dorr and stop. This is how we have gotten ourselves into trouble four or five times, we go to Hale and Dorf, and we tell them what to do. In order for them to respond,and they don't respond on something else, we sit here and criticize them...you didn't tell us about this, we didn't ask about that. We just gave them specific things to do. I'd rather go to Hale and Dorf and say you are our legal resource on this aspect and we need help, we need advice, we need you to do research, we need you to do, you tell us, what we need to do on this. And then we can monitor that and try to control the expense and pull it in the best we can. That's kind of how we've gotten ourselves into trouble in the past because we've been going through telling them what to do, and that is not what they do. You know?