Would a reduced Council free up millions of dollars in financial resources that are now being used for the expenses and operation of the Council?
• No, a reduced Council would not free up millions of dollars in financial resources that are now being used for the expenses and operation of the Council. Who is to say a 24 member Council would not spend the same amount of money as an 88 member Council with most of the money going to the Nation’s 110 Chapters? Instead, the Navajo people should be informed of the millions, upon millions of dollars written off by the Executive Branch through failed business deals. These millions could have been utilized for the benefit of the Navajo people. The Navajo President fails to recognize wasteful spending and written off dollars within his own operation of the Executive Branch. To explain a scenario, hypothetically speaking, a 5% financial waste of the Legislative Branch would be a little more than $1 million. Now, a 5% financial waste on the Executive Branch would be 25 times more at $25 million on average. With this scenario, the Navajo people should be questioning wasteful spending by the E
