HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPRING SESSION, WHERE NAVAJO PRESIDENT BEN SHELLY GAVE HIS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL DELEGATES ARE MAKING COMMENTS AND ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ADDRESS. DELEGATE MEL BEGAY I ask that you address Rangeland Improvement Act. The dust from the land is creating health problems for our elders. PRESIDENT BEN […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPRING SESSION, WHERE NAVAJO PRESIDENT BEN SHELLY GAVE HIS STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL DELEGATES ARE MAKING COMMENTS AND ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ADDRESS. DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE You talked about RANGELAND IMPROVEMENT ACT and one individual described it as “big head with skinny legs” which means that all the […]
Navajo Council convened. Navajo President Ben Shelly is making the State of the Nation address. The Council chamber is full but not packed. And outside, the Navajo Nation Birth Cohort Study program has several exhibit tents set up in front of the Council chamber. And at the road entrance to the Council chamber, there were […]
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 […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, The Navajo Nation Council’s Resources and Development Committee is meeting today, March 25, 2014, at 10 a.m. the Navajo Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz. RDC AGENDA One RDC AGENDA item of great interest to the Navajo homeland is a report on the draft Navajo Range Land Management Act by Navajo Nation Department […]
COUNCIL IS NOW ON LEGISLATION 0340-13. WHICH IS OVERRIDING PRESIDENTIAL VETO OF COUNCIL’S LEGISLATION TO CREATE A HOUSING ENTITY TO REPLACE NAVAJO HOUSING AUTHORITY. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Compromise was that Naabik’iyati Committee assume role and to also clear up issues regarding Navajo Housing Authority oath when NHA board members take office. This legislation that was […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, DAY ONE. VICE PRESIDENT REX LEE JIM PRESENTED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS. COUNCIL HAD NUMEROUS QUESTIONS AND THEY WERE QUITE CRITICAL OF SOME OF THE SHELLY-JIM ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INCLUDING A HOME FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT CUDEII. BUT IN THE END, THE COUNCIL VOTED 16 IN FAVOR, 1 OPPOSED TO […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, ONE DAY. VICE PREZ JIM FINISHED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS REPORT. JIM ANSWERED SOME QUESTIONS BUT AFTER COUNCIL SAID HE WAS ANSWERING THEIR QUESIONS, JIM ASKED CHIEF OF STAFF MITCHELL AND DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DAMON TO HELP HIM ANSWER QUESTIONS. […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, FIRST DAY. VICE PREZ JIM PRESENTED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL BEGAN ASKING QUESTIONS. VICE PREZ HAS BEEN ANSWERING BUT THEN HE ASKED CHIEF OF STAFF ARBIN MITCHELL AND DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DAMON TO HELP HIM ANSWER QUESTIONS. DELEGATE BATES COUNCIL approved renovation of two buildings […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, FIRST DAY. VICE PREZ JIM FINISHED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS, WHICH OPENS FOR QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE We need to make Local Governance Centers accountable. I have five chapters that are asking for Decentralization Project to be located in Dilkon which has Department of Transportation Office. But […]
