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Cherokee Nation Council approves 15 items including Artist Recovery Act reauthorization and budget amendment
Summary
At its February session the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted to approve 15 motions and resolutions, including reappointments to boards, amendments to tribal code, a temporary reauthorization of the Artist Recovery Act, an emergency management amendment and a modification to the FY2025 operating budget.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council approved 15 motions and resolutions during its February meeting, voting to confirm multiple appointments, amend tribal code sections, temporarily reauthorize the Cherokee Artist Recovery Act, amend the Cherokee Nation Emergency Management Act and adopt a modification to the fiscal year 2025 operating budget.
All items on the business agenda passed by voice vote or were otherwise carried; the council recorded one abstention on a resolution authorizing the Bureau of Indian Affairs to revise and update the Cherokee Nation’s inventory of tribal transportation facilities. No roll-call vote tallies were provided in the transcript.
Key items approved included:
- Resolution 24-123, confirming the reappointment of Van Rolfsen as a commissioner of the Cherokee Nation Tax Commission (moved by Coun. Callison).
- Confirmation of Christie Harris as a member of the Cherokee Nation Institutional Review Board (moved by Coun. Sam).
- Reappointment of Eddie Morrison as an advisory committee member of the treasurer’s GRAMA (moved by Coun. Sam).
- Confirmation of Victoria Vasquez as an advisory committee member of Cherokee National Treasures GRAMA (moved by Coun. McGady).
- A resolution authorizing health care services to individuals not otherwise eligible for services from the Indian Health Service through the Cherokee Nation Godogee Employee Health Clinic (moved by Deputy Easley).
- Amendments to Title 15 and Title 21 of the Cherokee Nation Code annotated (moved by Coun. Patzkowski and Coun. Legg, respectively); the Title 21 amendment was also declared an emergency.
- The 2025 technical amendments to the Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act (moved by Coun. Teehee).
- Temporary reauthorization of the Cherokee Artist Recovery Act (item 9; moved by Coun. Poindexter), which the principal chief earlier described as receiving an additional $1 million in funding.
- An act amending the Cherokee Nation Emergency Management Act (moved by Deputy Easley).
- The Cherokee Nation USA Trust Settlement Investment Authorization Act of 2025 (moved by Lisa Hall).
- An act amending Legislative Act 34-24 authorizing the comprehensive operating budget for FY2025, MOD 5 (moved by Coun. Sam).
- Committee resolutions supporting housing and public-health reserves for Keys and Lost City and a resolution authorizing the Bureau of Indian Affairs to update the nation’s inventory of tribal transportation facilities (committee items moved by Coun. Kidwell, Coun. Legg and Coun. Kidwell, respectively). The tribal-transportation resolution recorded one abstention.
Most motions were presented “in the form of a motion” by the identified council member and seconded; the transcript records voice votes (“Aye”) and “Motion carries” for each item. Where the transcript named the mover, that person is recorded above; seconds were not always attributed to a named individual in the record.
Speakers identified in the record for these items included council members who presented or moved motions and the presiding “Mr. Speaker.” The meeting did not provide numeric vote counts in the transcript for each item; the only recorded vote variation was the single abstention noted above.
