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At the General Council Meeting on Saturday I asked about the status of our Flex Building In Salem. As I reported here last year, we built the Flex Building in 2006 for a reported cost of $4,000,000.

Chairman Dee Pigsley admitted on Saturday that the Salem Flex Building remains vacant of paying tenants after more than two and a half years.

Our mortgage payment on this property is at least $42,000 per month based on a 15 year loan and a 5 year loan.

I visited the Salem Flex Building building again on Sunday and there are still no signs up indicating that there is space available for rent. The lack of signs was pointed out to the Tribal Council last May and they said they would take care of it. I've checked the property four times in the past year and I have never seen any such signs at the building.

We still have a nice plaque on the Salem Flex Building though, honoring our Tribal Council for this $4,000,000 money pit:

Today the Salem Flex building looks the same as it did 15 months ago:

At least they're still mowing the lawn...