Tribal members are experts at pointing out the ” do nothing” staffers and directors at the Tribal Council. Now, to be fair, most of the employees do their work. We know them too. But the queen of “complicating the simplest task” is Ellen Frye Sharp aka TERO officer. Here’s the setup. During Public Comment, the recurring problem of meeting house maintenance popped up, again. Back up a little further and we learned that last week the Chief blasted our boy Magpie, “master slacker” again, for failing to do maintenance. So Council members start asking about progress and pressure washing the meeting house to paint it. Magpie gets into the broken pump that delayed the work.
Ellen seems to have forgotten the agreement she signed never to work for the Tribe again or run for office.
They called on Ellen to explain the hold up with letting contracts, and it was so painful. So, so painful. Vice Chair Carlton Hendricks, Jr. talked about the continued delay and the wasted time. The Chief said TERO “should not be the hold up.” Councilman Mingo Teixeira said pressure washing businesses use 500-gallon water wagons, not needing the pump. Councilman Nelson Andrews was so frustrated he volunteered to the job himself. So most of public comment was spent telling Ellen how to do a job she’s incapable of doing.
The complaints about her delaying projects with her obsession for the irrelevant compliance issues is well known. She spends most of her time trying to get more of her family members hired instead of negotiating contracts. And that’s not going well at all. And to think she’s over the $9 million broadband project. No budget, no hope of a budget. Hiding God knows what.
