Lorenzo Bates stated in last week's Farmington Daily Times
newspaper that he informed the community members in all six
Chapters about the mine purchase. However, as I stated in this
same article, only English was spoken by Mr. Bates, so how does
he know if he got his message across. He only speaks English, so
he can't really explain an important issue such as "the purchase
of BHP mine" to the non-English speaking community members. Most
of these community members are our elders. Some elders from Tiis
Tsoh Sikaad Chapter complained they did not understand a word
their Council Delegate said and they said "We don't know what he
talked about and it would have been better if he had an
interpreter."   As for Speaker Johnny Naize, he stated in The
Farmington Daily Times, "When the council took office, they took
steps to be more transparent." He also said, "The one way they
are transparent is by implementing a five-day comment period,
which allows the public's written comments to be passed along to
delegates and ensu