Daily Archives: July 6, 2020

Funding Water projects before Navajo Council Health Committee, 7.6.20

The HEHS Committee voted 4 in favor, zero opposed on Legislation 0144-20, which Navajo Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty is sponsoring. Legislation 0144-20 now goes before Budget & Finance Committee, the Resources & Development Committee, Naabik’iyati Committee, and to Navajo Council. REMEMBER, if Council approves 0144-20, it goes before Prez Nez, who has Presidential Line-tem […]

Prez Nez & VP Lizer celebrate July 4 by vetoing $41M for Hazard Pay, PPEs & $55M for 110 chapters

On June 19, the Navajo Nation Council approved $41 million in federal Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Stimulus (CARES) Act funding received by the Navajo Nation last month. “The $41 million in immediate funding that the Navajo Nation Council voted to approve will give our front line responders and essential workers the compensation they badly […]

Is Navajo Nation burial assistance discriminating against non-residents? 6.17.20

PRESS RELEASE – Health, Education, and Human Services Committee receives DSS domestic violence shelter, burial assistance reports WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Health, Education, and Human Services Committee (HEHSC) of the 24th Navajo Nation Council met via teleconference on JunE 17 to receive a report by Navajo Nation Division of Social Services (DSS) Executive Director […]

Sanitize 110 Navajo Nation chapters before reopening; do not reopen Chilchinbeto, 6.4.20

PRESS RELEASE – Naabik’íyáti’ Committee receives Division of Community Development CARES Act report at work session WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council met via teleconference June 4 for the eighth Naabik’íyáti’ Committee work session discussing a possible Navajo Nation CARES Fund Act expenditure plan. Navajo Nation Division of Community Development (DCD) Executive […]

COVID-19 temporarily halts Navajo feral horse program, 6.24.20

PRESS RELEASE – Delegates receive Department of Agriculture updates on Navajo Nation horse programs WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Members of the Resources and Development Committee (RDC) of the 24th Navajo Nation Council received reports June 24 from the Navajo Nation Department of Agriculture on horse programs facilitated through the Navajo Nation.The reports came at the request of […]