Daily Archives: February 18, 2014

Navajo Natural Resources Director Fred White: I try not to get too political

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL’S RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE ON REPORT FROM DIVISION OF NATURAL RESOURCES FRED WHITE REGARDING: Division of Natural Resources on Condition of Appropriations # 27, and Legislative Concern # 3, Legislative Concern # 4, and Legislative Concern # 5. Return Water Code Administration to If Division Director not appointed in […]

Navajo needs to use Cobell Buy Back Program

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL’S RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE OWNER ROY CHAP MARTINEZ PUT HIS INDIVIDUAL INDIAN ALLOTTMENT FOR SALE. NAVAJO LAND DEPARTMENT OFFERED $800 AN ACRE. RDC DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE As part of Cobell Settlement, there was funding from federal government to buy individual Indian allottments. What is happening with that? And Land […]

Navajo Nation buying individual Navajo allottment

NAVAJO COUNCIL’S RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE NOW ON: LEGISLATION 0035-14: An action relating to Resources and Development; recommending to the Navajo Nation Council the purchase of an Individual Indian Trust Allotment No. SF-037967 offered for sale to the Navajo Nation by the owner, Roy Chap Martinez, 160 acres, located within the Ramah Navajo Chapter, Cibola […]

No stipends for Navajo Reservation chapter employees

HERE AT RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE WHERE NAVAJO NATION DIVISION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE OFFICE REPORTING ON A CONDITION OF APPROPRIATION ON THEIR BUDGET. The COA is: Chapter administrators shall not be compensated for attendance at chapter meetings and chapter planning meetings. NAVAJO NATION LOCAL GOVERNANCE OFFICE: Back in September 2013, Council approved Land […]

Resources & Development Committee and NHA joint meeting planned

HERE AT RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE WHERE NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY MAKING REPORT… NHA CEO ANEVA YAZZIE How not forfeit $90 million to Navajo Nation is what happened after meeting with RDC concerning proposals from RDC Delegates Tsosie and Katherine Benally. To Delegate Witherspoon: We have funded demographic surveys and true of all 110 chapters. And […]

Resources & Development Committee: NHA can’t keep eyes on past

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL’S RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING WHERE NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ANEVA YAZZIE IS MAKING A REPORT. THE BUDGET & FINANCE COMMITTEE Acknowledge frustration but no comment since US Dept of Labor, US Dept of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Services Health & Human Resources cuz 90 […]

No Navajo Nation matching funds create Audit problems for tribal jails

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’m here at the Navajo Council’s Budget & Finance Committee, which officially started about 11:48 when a quorum was reached. But the B&F members who were present before 11:49 am and got started by listening to a report on an audit, which was a “Special Review of US Dept of Justice grant to […]