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Make the meeting attendance of Navajo Council delegates public

Naabik’iyati Committee now on LEGISLATION 0120-14: Relating to Law and Order Committee, Health, Education and Human Services Committee, Naabik’iyati’ Committee and Navajo Nation Council; Amending 2 N.N.C. § 183 (E) and Rule 5 of the Rules of Order for Standing Committees of the Navajo Nation Council to Reduce the Quorum Requirement to Three (3) Committee […]

Don’t threaten Navajo Council with Quorum law

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPRING SESSION AT COUNCIL CHAMBER IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NAVAJO AREA BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IS NOW GIVING THEIR REPORT. PRESENTERS ARE NAVAJO AREA BIA DIRECTOR SHARON PINTO AND EASTERN NAVAJO BIA AGENCY DIRECTOR LESTER TSOSIE. AFTER THE BIA VERBAL REPORT, THE COUNCIL DELEGATES ARE […]

Naabi: Terminate or Keep Alive

Here at Navajo Council Naabiki’yati Committee and after prayer by Delegate Jonathn Nez, Speaker Naize called for announcements and Delegate Jonathan Hale opened a can of worms by commenting about the quorum problems of Naabi and that perhaps Naabi should be terminated, especially since this is last full year of current Council. Delegate Jonathan Hale […]

Loss of Quorum ends Naabi meeting

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 […]