Serving Bristol Bay tribal communities; partnering to deliver public safety services; promoting stable, fair, and efficient delivery of tribal justice services; and promoting self-determination for the Bristol Bay Tribes.
The Community Services Department works closely with the Bristol Bay Tribes. Click here for the Tribal contact information.
Tribal Government Services
Community Services maintains tribe-based administrator and clerk positions for the 20 tribes participating in the BBNA Compact of Self-Governance with the Department of Interior, Office of Self-Governance “Compact” to administer Compact Tribal Pass-through funding, 3 Accounting & Office Management Specialist (A&OMS) positions, and a Director to provide oversight and technical assistance to tribe-based employees and tribal supervisors/officials. Tribal Government
Services provides outreach to tribes to ensure all are informed of important tribal opportunities. The support provided assists tribes to strengthen administrative capacity and promotes self-determination.
The Compact tribal pass-through funding includes Consolidated Tribal Government Services and Johnson O’Malley funding for the operation of tribally designed programs, and several pots of one-time restricted funding for Tribal Courts, and COVID CARES Act and ARPA funding.
The Community Services Department includes the following programs: