Navajo Council still debating LEGISLATION 0337-13, which is for Council to amend 2014 Navajo Nation operating budget by adding conditions of appropriations. DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE There needs to be a specific position that is held responsible for enforcing COAs. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE It is the oversight committee that wud make sure that COAs enforced. If […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here at joint meeting of Budget and Finance Committee and Resources and Development Committee and the debate continues on a Decentralization Report by Navajo Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. It’s now 4:40 pm and the Council chamber is finally temperate warm It was freezing when I arrived about 1 p.m. DELEGATE WITHERSPOON I […]
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 […]
Here at joint meting of Budget & Finance Committee and Resources & Development Committee which continues to debate Decentralization Report from Navajo Nation Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee. DELEGATE MEL BEGAY, B&F COMMITTEE MEMBER We spend about $40 million on Local Governance Service Centers and yet the number of certified chapters remains at […]
Still here at joint meeting of Navajo Council’s Budget & Finance Committee and Resources & Development Committee where the debate continues over a report from Navajo Nation Division of Community Development Director Leonard Chee on Decentralization. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE, RDC COMMITTEE MEMBER First time heard about $2 million for Decentralization Project was with Navajo Department […]
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 […]
The Navajo Nation Division of Community Development is hosting public meetings, not hearings, on proposed Decentralization plans at the Navajo Reservation’s five agencies all this week. The DCD is part of the Navajo Nation Executive Branch is headed by President Ben Shelly’s political appointee, Leonard Chee, who is also a former Navajo Council delegate and […]
