Tribal Council has approved a new $1,000 educational assistance stipend. See the attached letter for details and look for it in your mailbox in the coming days. It will be discussed in a virtual Membership meeting THIS SATURDAY. Text PUYALLUPTRIBE to 22828 or visit https://bit.ly/34gTDks to get started.
From Puyallup Tribal
Council
November 2, 2020
To all of you, our honorable people and relatives,
We have some great news to share. Tribal Council has approved a
new $1,000 educational assistance stipend. It is available to every eligible
Tribal member student from kindergarten through 12th grade and for
all students enrolled in higher education programs.
This is IN ADDITION to any other educational stipends you or
children in your care may be getting. We recognize that school closures and
remote learning have caused hardship on our Tribal students. Our students are
vital to our Tribe’s long-term success, so we are providing this new assistance
to offset some of the pandemic’s financial burden.
We are funding these assistance payments from the Tribe’s federal
COVID-19 Coronavirus Relief Fund.
Receipts and/or records of expenses should be maintained for audit
purposes.
K-12 Students
Your 2020-21 School Clothes Stipend Application will be used as
the basis for distributing the educational assistance stipend. If you did not
apply for the School Clothes Stipend, we do not have updated information for
you, so we ask that you reach out to [email protected] for an application.
Higher Education Students
Students currently enrolled in higher education through the
Tribe’s Higher Education Department, as of the date of this letter, will
automatically receive the stipend.
Council and staff have worked hard through this pandemic to keep
vital services open and to send as much COVID assistance to our Membership as
we can. We will continue to do so.
tix̌ix̌dubut čələp. Take care of yourselves. haʔɫ kʷ(i) adsəslabcəbut.
Watch over yourselves well.
Sincerely,
The
Puyallup Tribal Council: Chairman Bill Sterud, Vice Chairman Sylvia Miller,
Councilmembers David Z. Bean, Annette Bryan, James Rideout, Anna Bean and
Monica Miller