Blue Lake Rancheria Ordinances
Received: 2003
ORDINANCE No. 11-2000
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT OF 1990
[Digitizer's Note: The tribe includes a copy of the Act as it
appears at the U.S.
Department of Justice website.
RESOLUTION
OF THE BLUE LAKE RANCHERIA
No. 00-24
| SUBJECT: | Adoption of the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 as Tribal Ordinance 00 -11. |
| WHEREAS: | the Blue Lake Rancheria is a federally recognized Indian tribe eligible for all rights and privileges afforded to recognized Tribes; and |
| WHEREAS: | the Rancheria Constitution has been approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Indian Affairs on March 22, 1989, and an amendment to the Constitution was approved on February 11, 1994 authorizing full governmental powers to the duly elected Business Council; and |
| WHEREAS: | the Blue Lake Rancheria's Business Council represents the Blue Lake Indian Tribe located in the State of California and has the authority to administer programs designed to meet the needs of American Indians residing on the Blue Lake Rancheria; and |
| WHEREAS: | the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Business Council feels that the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 provides excellent guidelines with regards to the treatment and accommodation of individuals with disabilities; and |
| WHEREAS: | the Tribal Business Council understands that statistics show that the number of individuals with is increasing as the population as a whole is growing older; and |
| WHEREAS: | historically, society has tended to isolate and segregate individuals with disabilities, and, despite some improvements, such forms of discrimination against individuals with disabilities continue to be a serious and pervasive social problem; and |
| WHEREAS: | as Native American people, the Tribal Business Council has been on the receiving end of similar discrimination towards Native American people as has been directed at individuals with disabilities, and thus wishes to adopt the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (as attached) to ensure that discrimination of such a type is not tolerated within the jurisdiction of the Blue Lake Rancheria of California. |
| NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: | that the Blue Lake Rancheria Business Council hereby adopts the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 as Tribal Ordinance 00-11 of the Blue Lake Rancheria. |
CERTIFICATION
As the Chairperson of the Business Council for the Blue Lake Rancheria,
I hereby certify that the Business Council amended this resolution by
a vote of 5, for, with 0 against, with abstaining, with
0 absent on this 9th day of July 2000.
| _______________/s/________________ Claudia Brundin, Chairperson |
__July
9, 2000____ Date of Approval |
| _______________/s/________________ Melanie Shelanskey, Tribal Secretary |
__July
9, 2000____ Date of Approval |