Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, If everything goes as scheduled according to the Naabik’iyati proposed agenda, the two meetings today should be very revealing.

The first meeting is with the Navajo Nation’s three branch chiefs: President Jonathan Nez, Speaker Seth Damon and Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne. The meeting is focused on proposed Navajo Council legislation 0116-20, which Council Delegate Edmund Yazzie is sponsoring. Legislation 0116-20 is the Nez-Lizer plan to spend the $600 million in CARES Act funding and according to some Council Delegates the Nez-Lizer expenditure plan does not include funding for the Nation’s 110 local governments or chapters, and the Judicial Branch.

The second meeting, which is scheduled for 2 p.m, is to hear an oral report from Navajo Transitional Energy Company, a Navajo Nation government business that recently laid off hundreds of coal miners at one of its three coal mines in Montana and Wyoming. Other news reports from Montana & Wyoming newspapers show that NTEC is in a serious financial crisis. NTEC decided to buy three coal mines during as time when the fossil fuels markets was in a tail spin and then COVID-19 hit…

NTEC was scheduled to go before the Naabik’iyati Friday, 6.12.20, but Navajo Council Delegates Pernall Halona & Edison Wauneka made a motion to move the Reports on Naabi’s proposed agenda to the end of the agenda and debate legislation first, which usually means there is a Huge changer that Naabi would not hear the Reports, which also included hearing from veterans. Halona & Wauneka also attempted to make NTEC’s oral report a Written Report which Naabi rejected.

PROPOSED AGENDA OF NAABIK’ÍYÁTI’ COMMITTEE OF THE 24th NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL WORK SESSION (VIA TELECOMMUNICATION)
Window Rock, Navajo Nation
Monday, June 15, 2020 – 10:00 AM
PROPOSED AGENDA
PRESIDING CHAIR: Honorable Seth Damon, Speaker, Navajo Nation Council

1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER; INVOCATION; ANNOUNCEMENTS
2. RECOGNIZE GUESTS AND VISITING OFFICIALS (2 Minute Limit per Delegate)
3. DISCUSSION ITEMS:
   Resolution CMY-44-20: An Action Relating to Law and Order, Budget and Finance, and
   Naabik’íyáti’ Committees, and the Navajo Nation Council; Waiving 12 N.N.C. §§ 301 et seq.;
   Enacting the “Navajo Nation CARES Fund Act” by Amending Title 12 of the Navajo Nation Code
   and Establishing “The Navajo Nation CARES Fund” to be comprised of the Nation’s Share of the
   Coronavirus Relief Fund Received from the United States Pursuant to Title V of the Coronavirus
   Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES ACT”)
   Legislation 0116-20: An Action Relating to Budget and Finance and Naabik’íyáti’ Committees,
   and the Navajo Nation Council; Establishing the Navajo Nation CARES Fund to be Comprised of
   the Share of the Coronavirus Relief Fund Received from the United States Pursuant to the Federal
   CARES Act; Authorizing the President of the Navajo Nation to Establish an Expenditure Plan(s) in
   Accordance with the Federal CARES Act and other Laws; Authorizing the Formation of the Dikos
   Ntsaaígíí-19 Relief Fund Work Group; Providing for Audit of the Fund and Reporting to the Federal
   Government
    Honorable Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation President
    JoAnn Jayne, Navajo Nation Chief Justice
    Honorable Seth Damon, Navajo Nation Speaker
    Doreen McPaul, Navajo Nation Attorney General
    Dana Bobroff, Navajo Nation Chief Legislative Counsel
4. CLOSE OF MEETING; ANNOUNCEMENTS; ADJOURNMENT

PROPOSED AGENDA: NAABIK’ÍYÁTI’ COMMITTEE OF THE 24th NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL
WORK SESSION (VIA TELECOMMUNICATION) Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Tuesday, June 16, 2020 – 2:00 PM
PROPOSED AGENDA
PRESIDING CHAIR: Honorable Seth Damon, Speaker, Navajo Nation Council

1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER; INVOCATION; ANNOUNCEMENTS
2. RECOGNIZE GUESTS AND VISITING OFFICIALS (2 Minute Limit per Delegate)
3. DISCUSSION ITEMS:
   A. Report on Navajo Transitional Energy Company by Timothy H. McLaughlin, Board Chairman
4. CLOSE OF MEETING; ANNOUNCEMENTS; ADJOURNMENT