NAVAJO COUNCIL STILL DEBATING WHAT AGENDA ITEM TO ADDRESS FIRST. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Our rules calls for Council to take up legislation that requires 2/3 vote. SPEAKER NAIZE Second to Delegate Witherspoon amendment. DELEGATE LORENZO BATES if such an amendment was to be made it should have been done when Council agenda being adopted and […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, Here’s a request from one of the four Navajo Council Delegates, Dwight Witherspoon, who walked out of yesterday, Oct. 16, 2013, Navajo Council special session during the debate over the proposed Energy Policy. I’ve provided a web address to LEGISLATION 0276-13 Proposed Energy Policy. PLEASE READ LEGISLATION AND SUBMIT YOUR SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIFIC […]
Naabi continues debating proposed Energy Policy after tabling motion fails because Speaker Pro Temp Mel Begay ruled that Energy Policy would continue to Council even if Naabi tabled. DELEGATE LORENZO BATES only way, tribe can tell federal government to go away is to own project 100 percent. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE how do change in law […]
Tabling motion at 5:15 pm by Delegate Lorenzo CURLEY. SPEAKER PRO TEMP MEL BEGAY If table, Energy Policy still moves forward to Council. Speaker Naize said ealier that a Special Council Session is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE If there is a tabling by the committee with final authority then that legislation […]
DELEGATE PHELPS We need baseline and have very general language with 1980 document. And we had input several month back. I remember getting comments on it and there was significant interest in it. For sake of clarity, there is draft policy that has pages 1 to 4 which I’m wondering is preamble but confusing. And […]
Resources & Development Committee takes up proposed legislation for Energy Policy: NAVAJO DIVISION OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIRECTOR FRED WHITE Energy hub, energy distribution system to benefit families and neighbors cuz energy primary component of Divisoin of Natrual Resources. Project started spriog 2010. Took over June 2010 and wanted grass root attempt so more community baed […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, Here at Navajo Nation Council Health, Education, and Human Service Committee. I came to HEHS Committee after the Labor Commission adjourned. And as I walked into the Committee meeting, which was meeting in the Navajo Nation Council chamber, here in Window Rock, Ariz., the Navajo Birth Cohort Study project was making a report […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, I received a text from Farmington Daily Times news reporter Noel Smith that as she was looking for proposed Navajo Nation Council legislation on Council Delegate Katherine Benally’s $220 million bond, she came across another proposed Council legislation that we have both been tracking – the Navajo Nation Energy Policy. For those of […]
