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Council approves budget amendments, land lease and transportation inventory update; confirmation and one abstention recorded
Summary
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council on May 12 approved two acts amending FY25 operating and capital budgets, confirmed a school board nominee, authorized a lease of tribal trust land to the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation, and authorized a Bureau of Indian Affairs update of the tribe's transportation inventory (one abstention).
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council on May 12 took a series of formal actions, approving amendments to budgets, a land lease and other measures. Votes were called on motions after committee reports and each item recorded the outcome on the record.
• Confirmation: The council approved a resolution confirming the nomination of Randy Duncan as a governing board member of the Cherokee Emerging School Board. The motion was moved and seconded and the presiding officer called the question; the motion carried.
• Operating budget amendment: The council passed an act amending Legislative Act 34-24 authorizing the comprehensive operating budget for fiscal year 2025 (modification date and emergency declaration noted in the motion). The item was moved and seconded and the presiding officer recorded the motion as carried.
• Capital budget amendment: The council passed an act amending Legislative Act 33-34 authorizing the comprehensive capital budget for fiscal year 2025 (modification 5) and declaring an emergency. The motion was moved and seconded and the presiding officer recorded the motion as carried.
• Land lease: The council approved a resolution authorizing Cherokee Nation to lease a portion of tribal trust land in Osceola, Oklahoma, to the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation. The motion was moved and seconded and the presiding officer recorded the motion as carried.
• Transportation inventory: The council approved a resolution authorizing the Bureau of Indian Affairs to revise and update the Cherokee Nation's inventory of tribal transportation facilities. That motion passed with one recorded abstention.
In each case the motions were placed by council members during the meeting, seconded and the presiding officer solicited voice votes. The transcript records the motions, seconds and the presiding officer calling "All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries" for most items; a single abstention was recorded on the BIA inventory item. The transcript does not provide a roll-call vote tally for each motion on the public record in the excerpted text.
