There was a lot of monies going out, so they are just trying to find out if we have the monies to move forward on some of these projects.' 'They put on hold a lot of our projects going on right now so they can figure out where the money is coming from, how the budgets are and everything like that. 'We've got some new people,' Acting Chief Executive Officer Ron Valiant said. won his representative race with Steven Clark by only four votes. June elections on the White Earth Reservation saw Alan Roy defeat incumbent Tara Mason 1,134 to 1,082 for the position of secretary-treasurer. The White Earth Nation has temporarily stepped back from the issue of pursuing a casino complex on Star Lake in Minnesota's Otter Tail County.