Bates, Council overcome a turbulent year
LoRenzo Bates
LoRenzo Bates
WINDOW ROCK
It’s been a challenging year for LoRenzo Bates, the speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, as he and other members of the council have had to deal with the turbulent events of the past year.
On Monday, Bates sat down in his conference room and discussed some of the issues that the council has had to deal with during the past year as well as some of the hopes for 2016.
And one of the issues that he has had to deal with, he said, was getting a process set up with the tribe’s new president and vice-president when they came on board this past April.
Bates said it took time for Russell Begaye and Jonathan Nez to “get their feet on the ground;” but once they did the two branches began communicating, but not as much as Bates had wanted.
During the Ben Shelly administration, he said, the branch heads would meet on a regular basis to discuss issues that pertained to all of them. And these monthly meetings resolved a lot of differences.
Bates said he sent a letter to officials in the executive branch hoping to get these meetings to continue on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis.
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