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 to President Shelly if loves veterans or not.

CALL FOR VOTE ON AMENDMENT 1 at 5:03 p.m.
12 in favor, 0 opposed

DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE
Additional $3 million for hiring of college students for summer employment. I heard a nice justification from mother who said that her son couldn’t come home during summer because there were no summer jobs.

DELEGATE DANNY SIMPSON
if we add Delegate Tsosie’s amendment for equal distribution of $3 million to 110 chapters, that will require 2/3 vote of Council and we only have 13 delegates.

NOTE: NAVAJO NATION APPROPRIATIONS ACT MANDATES THAT APPROPRIATIONS TO 110 CHAPTERS BE BASED ON 50-50 DISTRIBUTION FORMULA, WHICH IS 50 PERCENT OF ALLOCATION DIVIDED BY 110 AND 50 PERCENT DIVIDED BY REGISTERED VOTERS OF EACH CHAPTER.

AS COUNCIL DISCUSSING LEGISLATION 0102-14, SPEAKER PRO TEMP BATES ANNOUNCES THAT THERE IS NO QUORUM ON COUNCIL FLOOR. IT IS NOW 5:14 P.M.

AS ROLL CALL BEING MADE, DELEGATE TSOSIE SAYS “FOR THE RECORD, QUORUM BROKE CUZ PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LEFT.” TSOSIE WAS REFERRING TO DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE.
AT 5:16 P.M., THERE ARE 11 DELEGATES ON FLOOR. A QUORUM OF 13 IS NEEDED.

SPEAKER PRO TEMP BATES ANNOUNCES 15 MINUTES RECESS AT 5:19 P.M. AND ASKS DELEGATES TO GO FIND THEIR COLLEAGUES SO COUNCIL CAN HAVE A QUORUM.