NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATING LEGISLATION FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE REFERENDUM TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO REDUCE PERCENTAGE FOR NUMBER OF SIGNAUTURES NEEDED TO HAVE A REFERENDUM. DELEGATE LORENZO BATES This is referendum for people to vote to reduce percentage from 15 percent to 5 percent. you are making decision on behalf of the […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL TAKES UP ANOTHER LEGISLATION DEALING WITH INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM. THIS ONE WOULD REDUCE PERCENTAGE NEEDED FOR SIGNATURES TO FILE INITITIVE/REFERENDUM. DELEGATE TSOSIE Alrady loering chaper quorum and just rewarding bad practices. We shud encourage participation instead of reducing percentage. for those chapters with 1,000, there should 500 people voting on legislation. now election law changes […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL TAKES UP ANOTHER LEGISLATION DEALING WITH INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM. THIS ONE WOULD REDUCE PERCENTAGE NEEDED FOR SIGNATURES TO FILE INITITIVE/REFERENDUM. ELECTION OFFICE DIRECTOR EDISON WAUNEKA LOWERED FROM 30 percent to 15 percent. When did petition for 24, lowering delegates and 2,000 plus signatures short and courts ordered us to have election and five percent easier […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL TAKES UP LEGISLATION 0368-13: DELEGATE JONATHAN NEZ This legislation is to make easier for people to put question on ballot. NAVAJO GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT OFFICE DIRECTOR CALEB ROANHORSE This legislation only refers to referendum initiative which allows the decrease in the amount for chapter initiative. in 2011, Navajo govt development held conference in Farmington […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATES PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO STRENTHEN REFERENDUM VOTE OF PEOPLE and VOTES IT DOWN WITH VOTE OF 9 IN FAVOR, 10 OPPOSED. DELEGATE WITHERSPOON Page 2 simply confirms everything that wud be law. Those provision not deemed invalid wud remain law. Not about giving Supreme Court power to over-rule referendum. It’s about whether referendum […]
NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATING THE STRENGTHENING OF REFERENDUMS. Delegate Katherine Benally just pointed out that there is a section in Delegate Jonathan Nez’s proposed legislation that allows the tribal court to over-rule a referendum. DELEGATE KATHERINE BENALLY Individual votes, if referendum become law then it gives ability for court to render decision on that […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL STILL DEBATING ON REFERENDUM FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE LAW THRU THEIR VOTES. ACTING CHIEF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL KAHN Title 2 amendment requires 2/3 vote of Council. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY in law is that Council needs 2/3 vote to change law and so Council shud have opportunity to change referendum with 2/3 vote. And if […]
WELL THAT WAS A SURPRISE, COUNCIL VOTING DOWN TABLING OF PEOPLE’S REFERENDUM. Maybe Council plans to vote down… DELEGATE DANNY SIMPSON AND SECONDED BY DELEGATE ALTON SHEPHERD AMENDMENT, section 3 timeline, line 19: we have to get more people involved so offer new date, Aug. 12, 2014, Navajo Nation Primary Election. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE I […]
NAVAJO COUNCL CONTINUES DEBATING REFERENDUM FOR PEOPLE. DELEGATE PHELPS We have legisltion regarding Junk Food Sales Tax and some of colleagues tlaked about moving that to referendum. PREZ TALKED ABOUT line item veto but he didn’t talk about line item veto of Conditions of Appropriations? I don’t think so. The COAs have no budgets attached […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATING PEOPLE’S REFERENDUM. DELEGATE NEZ We approved alternative form of government and when ordinance being developed, that was explained line by line, but authority given to nine council members and that was questioned. They asked how put checks and balances into place. So chapter said keep old 25 quorum in place four […]
