Daily Archives: April 1, 2014

Tribal Red Tape ties up emergency funding

i’M STILL HERE AT THE NAVAJO COUNCIL BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE WHERE0 THE COMMITTEE HAS NOT GONE TO ITEM F ON THEIR AGENDA, WHICH IS LEGISLATION 0085-14, WHICH IS APPROVING THE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS SUPERVISION PROGRAM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND FOR 2014 WITH A REVISION TO $100,000. SPONSOR IS DELEGATE DWIGHT WITHERSPOON No debate. Committee votes […]

Navajo Roads Fund Management Plan – Subject to politics?

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE WHERE THE COMMITTEE VOTED ON SEVERAL PIECES OF LEGISLATION WITHOUT DEBATE. THE COMMITTEE is now on LEGISLATION 0009-14: which is revisions to the Navajo Road Fund Management Plan. The B&F Committee Legislative Advisor Peggy Nakai is reading the amendments to the Roads Fund Management Plan and there […]

Budget and Finance Committee moving through agenda

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Committee is recalling LEGISLATION 0032-14 WHICH IS THE SANCTIONING OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: 2 in favor, 2 opposed and so B&F Chairperson LoRenzo Bates votes in favor of sanctions. Final VOTE IS 3 IN FAVOR, 2 OPPOSED The Committee moves on to LEGISLATION 0049-14: AGREEMENT BETWEEN […]

Revisions to the Navajo Nation Budget Instruction and Policy Manual

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Committee is hearing a report from Navajo Nation Office of Management and Budget Director Dominic Beyal regarding revisions to the Navajo Nation Budget Instruction and Policy Manual. The BIPM is Navajo law regarding how the Navajo Nation government, which includes the Legislative Branch and Executive Branch, […]

New technology for Green Energy

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING. The committee just finished hearing a report from the Navajo Nation Veterans Affairs Office on the status of a project to construct 15 homes for veterans per agency. There are five agencies on the Navajo Reservation. The Committee’s vote was 3 in favor, 0 opposed on accepting […]

Home for veterans on the Navajo Reservation

  Here at Navajo Council Budget and Finance Committee meeting, where the first order of business – after invocation by B&F member Delegate Nelson BeGaye, recognition of guests and announcements – was for the Committee to delete the two reports from President Ben Shelly regarding the Decentralization of the Navajo government and Feral Horses Roundups. […]

Health, Education and Human Services Committee: “Imminent threats from uranium mining”

Groups and individuals that are concerned about the “imminent threats from uranium mining” are schedule to go before the Navajo Council’s Health, Education and Human Services Committee tomorrow, April 2, 2014, at 10 a.m. in the north conference room of the Navajo Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz. According to the HEHS Committee’s proposed AGENDA, […]

Navajo Nation President Shelly: Decentralization and Feral Horses

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Last week, the Navajo Nation Council’s Budget and Finance Committee was scheduled to hear from President Ben Shelly on the Decentralization Initiative and the Feral Horse Roundup. But according to today’s B&F proposed agenda, Shelly will be making his two reports today, April Fool’s Day. The B&F, which is chaired by Navajo Council […]