The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board held their regular full board meeting June 8. The Fort Peck Tribal Head Start Director and program administration were approved to initiate, prepare, submit and pursue any and all administrative appeals, responses, objections, requests for reconsideration, hearings, negotiations or related actions necessary to the challenge the Office of Head Starts proposed

Runoff continues to be below average in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa. Below-normal precipitation, dry soil conditions in the western portions of the basin, and an overall lack of mountain snowpack resulted in a May runoff of 1.6 million acrefeet, 46 percent of average. “The dry weather conditions persisted across the upper basin during May,” said John Remus, chief of

past five years. His opinion is that if an individual is given everything including land and equipment that they still couldn’t make a living today. “The answer is commodity prices being such that you can weather a storm even when you have drought conditions,” Toavs said.

including Montana, to attempt to recover the cost of long-term care services paid on behalf of certain Medicaid recipients. This process is called the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program. What can be recovered? Montana may seek repayment for: • Nursing home care • Home and community- based services • Hospital and prescription costs related to long-term care What assets are affected?