Greeting Relatives/Frens/Humans, Navajo Council has started. Innovation was done by Delegate Roscoe Smith. Delegates are now making announcements and introductions. The introductions included Golf professional Notah Begay, Chinle Middle School, Navajo Prep School, Leupp Middle School, Dine’ Community Advocacy, which successfully sponsored legislation for healthy food. The Legislation involves Junk Food Tax bill or Healthy […]
HERE AT NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE WHERE COMMITTEE TAKING UP LEGISLATION 0068-140068-14, APPROVING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING OF $288,000 FROM RESERVES FOR LEGAL EXPENSES FOR NAVAJO EXCHANGE LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE AND NAVAJO INDIAN IRRIGATION PROJECT. DELEGATE GEORGE APACHITO we are asking for return of about 1,000 acres to eastern navajo portion of reservation and for Navajo Indian Irrigation Project. LARRY […]
The Navajo Council’s Health, Education and Human Services Committee is scheduled to meet today, April 16, 2014, at 10 a.m. at the Navajo Council chambers north conference room in Window Rock, Ariz. The Council’s top committee, the Naabik’iyati Committee, is scheduled to meet on Thursday, April 17, 2014, at 10 a.m. at the Council chambers. […]
Navajo Nation Council special session started and debate heating up over list of capital improvement projects for the Navajo Reservation’s 110 chapters. It’s now 1:16 pm and the Council chamber is filling up with chapter officials to show their support for their CIPs so the Council will finally approve a Five Year CIP Plan, which […]
Navajo Nation Council special session started and debate heating up over list of capital improvement projects for the Navajo Reservation’s 110 chapters. It’s now 1 pm and the Council chamber is filling up with chapter officials to show their support for their CIPs so the Council will finally approve a Five Year CIP Plan, which […]
Navajo Nation Council special session started and debate heating up over list of capital improvement projects for the Navajo Reservation’s 110 chapters. It’s now 12:46 pm and the Council chamber is filling up with chapter officials to show their support for their CIPs so the Council will finally approve a Five Year CIP Plan, which […]
The sponsor of LEGISLATION 0118-13 is DELEGATE JONATHAN HALE These are projects that are Project Ready/Shovel Ready. SPEAKER NAIZE points out that Hale removed himself as Sponsor and that Delegate Katherine Benally is the Sponsor now. And with that Delegate K.Benally goes to the front of the Council chamber and sits in the Sponsor position. […]
Speaker Johnny Naize informed Council Delegates in a Feb. 11 memo that he’s approved a Special Session on Feb. 21 to address LEGISLATION 0118-13: Recommending and Approving the Chapter’s Infrastructure Improvement Priority Projects for fiscal years 2013 to 2018, which the Council requested during their Winter Session last month. “The directive was to allow the […]
SPEAKER JOHNNY NAIZE asks Delegates Dwight Witherspoon, LoRenzo Bates, Katherine Benally if they can meet at 8:30 am on Monday, 9-30-13. The Naa’biki’yati’ Committee is still on recess because they lost a quorum of 13 delegates during Delegate Katherine Benally’s presentation of her legislation for a $220 million bond. I posted a link to the […]
Navajo Council’s Naabi Committee is working on proposed Legislation 0213-13: $220 million bond. (I have posted link to $220 m. Bond legislation at end of this blog.) But Naabi has lost quorum of 13 delegates. There are 12. And so Speaker Naize asked for report on Capital Improvement Projects by Navajo Nation Community Development director […]
