COUNCIL NOW HEARING REPORT FROM NAVAJO NATION WASHINGTON, D.C., OFFICE ON U.S. HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT’S NOTIFICATION TO NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY TO TAKE BACK $96 MILLION IN FEDERAL HOUSING FUNDS. Tribal Housing Entities are allowed to carryover funds for three or more years. And other tribes also carryover funds. The only difference is that the […]
Naabi moving along. They are now on LEGISLATION 0135-14, which is to create a Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee to interview and recommend individuals for 8 vacant Navajo Housing Authority Board positions. SPONSOR, DELEGATE ALTON SHEPHERD i’m looking to correct expired teams of Navajo Housing Authority Board. Maybe having a member from each of the Navajo Council’s […]
Still here at Naabik’iyati Committe, which finally started at 11:20 am, when they were scheduled to start at 10 am. Naabi is still on hearing REPORTS and the latest report on Navajo Housing Authority and the federal government’s directive to NHA that it would lose about $96 million in federal housing funds because NHA had […]
The Navajo Nation Council convened Day 2 of its Summer Session. The Council is now on LEGISLATION 0095-14, approving amendments to Title 2 of the Navajo Code section 500 and sections 701. The proposed amendments would have stripped the Resources and Development Committee’s authority to select a Tribally Designated Housing Entity and given it to […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE now on adopting agenda which is being read into the record by Legislative staff. But prior to committee going to adopting its agenda, there was a pretty lively debate between Delegates Lorenzo Curley and Leonard Tsosie regarding Tsosie’s continued criticism about western educated Navajos giving advice that is not in the […]
Navajo Council Resources and Development Committee listened to a followup report from Navajo Housing Authority, which is a tribal enterprise that the Council selected as the federal Tribally Designated Housing Entity to receive annual federal housing dollars from US Housing and Urban Development. RDC CHAIRPERSON KATHERINE BENALLY i still want an answer from NHA regarding […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE DRAGGING NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY OVER THE COALS. NHA CEO ANEVA YAZZIE MADE A REPORT TO RDC, WHICH INCLUDED LETTER FROM US HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT ORDERING NHA TO RETURN $96 MILLION IN UNSPENT FEDERAL HOUSING FUNDS. RDC MEMBER DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE We asked for a report on the number […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, WHERE RDC FINISHED HEARING REPORT FROM NHA AND NOW RDC ASKING QUESTIONS OF NHA AND ALSO MAKING COMMENTS ON NHA REPORT. NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY CEO ANEVA YAZZIE The NHA and other tribal housing entities sued the U.S. Housing and Urban Development and won its case in federal […]
Here at RDC meeting at the Navajo Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz., where RDC Vice Chairperson Roscoe Smith convened the meeting at 11:50 a.m. The RDC is debating its AGENDAAGENDA before voting to adopt it. The RDC adopted its agenda 3 in favor, 0 opposed. But before discussion started on RDC agenda, Delegate David […]
Among legislation proposed to most appropriately go before the Navajo Nation Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee on Friday the 13th is the Navajo Nation’s support for the U.S. Native American Energy Act and Congressional extension permanently of the the Indian Coal Production Tax Credit, and the Navajo Nation’s opposition to the federal government’s proposed Carbon Tax, the […]
