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Decentralization: Experienced Navajo attorneys ready to return home

Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and Development Committee where Committees continue debating Decentralization Project Report by Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL DANA BOBROFF Whether getting attorneys out to local government is done under Decentralization or Regionalization, Navajo Department of Justice has been working towards […]

Decentralization: Chapter government structure outlived

Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and Development Committee where Committees continue debating Decentralization Project Report by Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY, B&F COMMITTEE MEMBER I’m reading in report that this is an extension of Local Governance Services Centers which means central government will still […]

Decentralization is step back

Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and Development Committee where debate continues on Decentralization Project report from Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE, RDC COMMITTEE MEMBER Started in 1990 with government reform but I see us all at nursing homes and newspapers headlines, “Navajo Council still […]

Decentralization not done deal

Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and Development Committee which continues to debate report on Decentralization from Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. DELEGATE ELMER BEGAY, RDC COMMITTEE MEMBER I read this Decentralization Report and it still has DCD holding some local government powers. And I don’t agree with […]

Decentralization Report

Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and DEvelopment Committee where Joint Committee Chairperson LoRenzo Bates called for Report on Decentralization. Bates recalls that the Council appropriated $2 million for the Decentralization Project. NAVAJO NATION DIVISION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR LEONARD CHEE Directive to DCD in July 2013 and formed Decentralization […]