NAVAJO COUNCIL CALLING ALL DELEGATES…NEED QUORUM. ELEVEN DELEGATES IN COUNCIL CHAMBER AT 5:44 P.M. 12 DELEGATES ON FLOOR AND SPEAKER PRO TEMP BATES MAKES QUORUM OF 13 AT 5:45 P.M. NAVAJO COUNCIL VOTING ON AMENDMENT 2 TO LEGISLATION 0102-14, WHICH IS FOR THE APPROPRIATION OF $5 MILLION FOR ALL 110 CHAPTERS. AMENDMENT 2 IS FOR […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL NOW ON LEGISLATION 0102-14: APPROVING $5 MILLION FROM RESERVES FOR “ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES” FOR ALL 110 CHAPTERS. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE AMENDMENT 1: ON PAGE 1, LINE 15, ADD LANGUAGE AT THE END OF “Needs” – “And an additional $1 million to be used for financial assistance for veterans.” DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE WE’LL leave up […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION 0100-14: NAVAJO ADULT GUARDIANSHIP ACT vote on Amendment 2 to add amendments approved by Naabik’iyati Committee 13 in favor, 2 opposed. Amendment 1 – PAGE 2, LINE 24: strike language “There is a high regard for individual liberty on Navajo Nation as reflected in the expression, ‘T’aabi boholniih’ roughly translated as […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL TOOK BREAK FROM DISCUSSION OVER LEGISLATION 0100-14: NAVAJO ADULT GUARDIANSHIP ACT TO VOTE ON SUPPER CHOICE. HERE’S THE VOTE ON SUPPER CHOICE: CHICKEN – 6 DELEGATES LOTA BURGER – 3 DELEGATES SPEAKER PRO TEMP LORENZO BATES CHICKENS GET IT. IT’S ON RECORD – 6 CHICKENS. (COUNCIL LAUGHS)
NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION 0100-14: The Navajo Adult Guardianship Act of 2014 and amending Title 9 of Navajo Nation Code sections 801 Et.Seq. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE when give too much liberty, including not seek treatment against wishes of family and this gives too much authority to person needing treatment. 13 IN FAVOR, 0 OPPOSED […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATING KPMG’S AUDIT OF 2013 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT OPERATING BUDGET. DELEGATE WALTER PHELPS There is $5.9 million deficit in tribal employee health benefits program. Know roads funds allocated to penny but here is $30 million just sitting here in Navajo Department of Transportation. Is that true? Can that be spent? CONTROLLER MARK GRANT for […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATE OVER AUDIT OF 2013 NAVAJO NATION OPERATING BUDGET. DELEGATE JONATHAN HALE Is the increase in health insurance a reflection of health of tribal employees? We may say our health is personal but not true when hits tribal government budget. What about conditions of 30-year-old airplanes if spending two times what worth […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL ON AUDIT OF 2013 NAVAJO NATION OPERATING BUDGET. DELEGATE WALTER PHELPS $6.6 m spent from Permanent Trust Fund so how were they spent, invested? DELEGATE JONATHAN NEZ this is a “clean” audit and have to give credit to people for giving President line item veto power. AND remember when some of council delegates […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL NOW ON LEGISLATION 0115-14, 2013 audit of Navajo Nation government operating budget. DELEGATE JONATHAN NEZ, sonsor of audit legislation it says clean report. LARGEST NOTE/LOAN IS FOR CASINOS, $174 MILLION FOR ALL CASINOS. DELEGATE this is not true state of Navajo Nation. only 1/3 of picture. we don’t include enterprises, 110 chapters. HOw […]
DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE If give equal amount to each Navajo, it would be about $2,000 for each. And I appreciate tribal employees for going across reservation to retrieve more than million document. They may not have known at the time that they were digging with documents that would yield $554 million but it did. They […]
