It is now 2:53 pm, 3.3.22, and this is HILARIOUS…Health, Education & Human Services committee vice chairman carl SLATER is now proposing an ALTERNATE PLAN to the $1.2 BILLION Navajo ARPA budget proposed by nez&lizer and council….BUT I have a REAL problem with any Plans from SLATER because it was SLATER that sponsored Council legislation for the Council to hand over the entire Navajo Nation $2.1 BILLION ARAP funds to nez&lixer and for nez&lizxer to create a Navajo Nation Office of the President & Vice President Navajo Nation ARPA Office.
It is now 2:47 pm, 3.3.22, and Navajo Council resources & development committee chairman RICKIE nez says the Solution is to Go back to TWIN ARROWS Resort & Casino & Redo nez&lizer and Council $1.2 BILLION project listing to spend $1.2B in Navajo ARAPA funds.
It is now 2:16 pm, 3.3.22, and it is Soooo Frustrating to Listen to Navajo Division of Communty Development division director pearl yellowman. She has been TALKING for about 20 minutes or more about ZERO ACCOMPLISHMENTS by her, her staff, her division, nez&lizer, chapters. Pearl Yellowman ONLY reported PLANS. And get this…Yellowman is paid to Work With & Help Chapters. So why is she Informing the Council that She PLANS to Work with Chapters on Helping Chapters get Funding from the States surrounding the Rez cuz each of the States have Different Protocols…DUH
Like I have said Numerous Times – This is What Happens when nez&lizer & cabinet/division directors Hand out Donations instead of doing what they are suppose to Do!!!! BUT obviously nez&lizer & division directors, NTUA, NECA, NDOT, controller’s office, etc believe that they have been doing a Fantastic Job of PLANNING for ABOUT FOUR YEARS.
Now there is some Guy informing the Council that Yay, They Finished Setting up Budgets for NTUA to spend CARES money…Yes folks, the Guy said CARES money.
WHERE IS THE NEZ&LIZER and COUNCIL and JUDICIAL BRANCH WRITTEN REPORT on HOW OUR $714 MILLION in CARES RELIEF AID were SPENT????!!!! OMG, nez&lizer ARPA office finally has FIVE EMPLOYEES!!!! He alsy says navajo govt Salaries are so Low that No One wants to Work for nez&lizer & council. LOL LOL That’s Hilarious.
The Guy shud at least mention that another reason No One want to work for nez&lizer and council MIGHT BE because they have no respect for themselves and our Dine’ working for them, and they showed it by Firing Navajo Controller Pearline Kirk for DISPLEASING them. WTH. SMH.
It is now 11:34 am, 3.3.22, and if you NEEED to Talk with your Council Delegate, you can go to the Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz., where they have Gathered to TALK about nez&lizer request for $1.2 BILLION ARPA funds.
The wifi went out as speaker damon was TALKING/PROMOTING the nez&lizer and council $1.2 BILLION ARPA SPENDING FRENZY PLAN…Speaker Damon sad that it’s the first time that all the council delegates are in the council chambers and maybe that’s what knocked out the wifi…Guess Damon doesn’t know that there is No such thing as Coincidence. There is Always a Reason.
Ya’at’eeh Abini Relatives/Frens/Humans, It is now 10:58 am, 3.3.22, and the Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee Work Session is Finally hearing from the first presenter on Legislation 0257-21. And it’s nez&lizer cheif of staff paulsen chaco, former navajo dept of transportation director, who is Talking about why nez&lizer want $1.2 BILLION of the Navajo Nation ARPA funds.
I asked prez nez at the ZappCare demonstration on Jan. 22, 2022, at the Navajo Nation Veterans Memorial Park if & when he & lizer would be Releasing their Written Report on how they & the council spent $714 million in CARES relief aid. I also added that I was sure that he & lizer used their spending report on the $714M as the justification for how they would spend $1.2 BILLION in ARPA RELIEF AID.
I’M STILL WAITING for the nez&lizer $714 MILLION CARES EXPENDITURE REPORT with DETAILS, MAPS, RECEIPTS, CIBs. etc.
I really think that we, the Dine’, have every Right to Ask nez&lizer & council to SHOW PROOF that they have CIBs and that they have CISs for all the NVAJO GOVT ENTERPRISES & groups & Navajo Ec Dev Division & Navajo Govt Attorneys that RECEIVED even a PENNY in CARES & ARPA COVID RELIEF AID.
I mean nez&lizer/councl/navajo govt are DEMANDING CIBs before we, the Dine’, qualify for ARPA FUNDS.
May Peace Prevail on Mother Earth!
It is now 10 am, 3.3.22, and the Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee is having a LEADERSHIP meeting on nez&lizer request TO SPEND $1.2 BILLION in ARPA funds for Water and Wastewater Projects, Broadband Projects, Home Electricity Connection Projects, Housing and Housing Renovation Projects, Bathroom Addition Projects, and Hardship Assistance.
For an HOUR and 30 MINUTES now, Council Delegates are Stroking their Egos by giving their usual LIP SERVICE to our Student Athletes by Recognizing Them before they Begin TALKING, TALKING, TALKING, TALKING, TALKING about Funding the usual Bathroom Additions, Water Hookups, Electrical HookUps, Housing Renovatinos.
nez, lizer, council are SHAMELESS in Recognizing our Youth. Funds Ran Out in the Navajo Nation Student Clothing Program. That’s Not the FIRST TIME!! Instead of sending out PAPER CONGRATULATIONS, why not FUND HEARDSTART, ELEMENTARY, MID-SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ATHLETES & EMERSION SCHOOLS by BUILDING Community Convention/Sports/Library Centers across the Rez that OFFER FREE USE of Community Facility By Volunteering in COMMUNITIES, instead of demanding Payment to use OLD, OUTDATED, CRAPPY equipment at the Navajo govt’s Health facility in the CRAPPY Navajo Nation Fairgrounds.
WHY are our ELECTED OFFICIAL TALKING????!!!! Can’t They SEE, HEAR our NEEDS. OUr NEEDS are not NEW!!!! Our Babies, Children, Youth, Young Adults are ALWAYS OVERLOOKED. I know I have sat in the Council chambers & LISTENED to council delegates, presidents, vice presidents, division directors, judges, lawyers, navajo govt CEOs TALK, TALK about Bathrm Additions, Water Hookups, Electrical Hookups, Roads. for THIRTY FIVE YEARS. I want to SEE a MAP of ALL the BATHROOM ADDITIONS, WATER HOOKUPS, ELECTRICAL HOOKUPS, HOUSE RENOVATIONS on the Rez. And a Separate Map of nez&lizer & council proposed Bathroom Additions, Water Hookups, Electrical Hookups, House Renovations BEFORE ANY MORE OF THE DINE’ PEOPLE’S MONEY is THROWN to NTUA, NECA, NAVAJO GAMING, NTEC & the rest of the Navajo Govt Business or ENTERPRISES. WE, the Dine’ own all the Navajo Govt Enterprises. NTUA needs to STOP making money off of we, the Dine, during a Pandemic & Drought. SHAME, SHAME NTUA for charging our Livestock Owners for Working to Keep our Four-Legged Relatives from Dying of Thirst & for Keeping One of our Traditional Way of Sustainability Alive.
We, the Dine People, need to PROPOSE Navajo Law that PROHIBITS any ELECTED OFFICIAL from being on a NAVAJO GOVT ENTERPRISE.
We, the Dine’ People, MUST DEMAND TO SEE the FINANCIAL REPORT on How nez&lizer & Council & division directors, including Police, controller’s office, SPENT our $714 MILION in CARES RELIEF AID before nez&lizer & Council spend our $2.1 BILLION in ARPA RELIEF AID.
Attached are documents provided by OPVP regarding today’s work session on Legislation 0257-21. Attached are:
Project specific list for water ($222,016,076)
Project specific list for broadband ($90,564,322)
Project specific list for home connections to electric ($97,026,668)
Outline of presentation for NABI Work Session today
Slides for NABI Work Session
Table – Base Infrastructure with Equal Distribution
NAABIK’ÍYÁTI’ COMMITTEE WORK SESSION AGENDA (3/3/2022) NAABIK’ÍYÁTI’ COMMITTEE OF THE 24th NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL WORK SESSION, Window Rock, Ariz.
(IN PERSON & VIA TELECOMMUNICATION): Call-in Number: (669) 900-6833, Meeting ID: 928 871 7160, Passcode: 86515
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 9 AM
PRESIDING CHAIR: Honorable Seth Damon, Speaker, 24th Navajo Nation Council
- CALL WORK SESSION TO ORDER; ROLL CALL; INVOCATION
- RECOGNIZE GUESTS AND VISITING OFFICIALS
- WORK SESSION TOPIC(S):
A. Introduction and Purpose of Work Session presented by Speaker, Seth Damon, 24th Navajo Nation Council. Discussion on Legislation 0257-21: An Action Relating to the Naabik’íyáti’ Committee and Navajo Nation Council; Allocating $1,166,003,000 of Navajo Nation Fiscal Recovery Funds; Approving the Navajo Nation Fiscal Recovery Fund Expenditure Plans for Water and Wastewater Projects, Broadband Projects, Home Electricity Connection Projects, Housing and Housing Renovation Projects, Bathroom Addition Projects, and Hardship Assistance.
20 JANUARY 2022 – REFERRAL MOTION
Motion to refer legislation 0257-21 to a Naabik’íyáti’ Committee Work Session for no more than 60 days to discuss an amendment that equally distributes initially allocated Navajo Nation Federal Recovery Funds; M: Hon. Jamie Henio, S: Hon. Eugenia Charles-Newton, V: 17 in Favor, 04 Opposed (Chairman Damon not voting).
I. PRESENTATION/RESPONSE ON LEGISLATION 0257-21 REFERRAL:
Presenter(s): Seth Damon, Speaker, 24th Navajo Nation Council
Paulson Chaco, Chief of Staff, OPVP
Other Navajo Nation Divisions/Departments/Entities
Questions / Recommendations
II. FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS/COMMENTS - ANNOUNCEMENTS; CLOSE OF WORK SESSION
