The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority will be advertising and requesting proposals from TERO-Approved Contractors starting this month and throughout the year for renovation work on houses that have been identified to receive weatherization work. (more…)
Archive for April, 2010
Attention contractors
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Helping others find success
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Used with permission of Billings Gazette
Rod Trahan
showed an entrepreneurial flair early on. When he was 13, he used the $700.00 in his savings account to open a fireworks stand on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. He drove himself to the reservation in his father‘s pickup truck pulling a trailer stocked with fireworks.
“I more than doubled my money,” he recalled. “In fact, I had plenty left over to fill my own fireworks habit.”
These days, Trahan spends his time coaching other entrepreneurs how to keep their own businesses thriving.
Trahan runs the Billings-based Action-coach-Streamline Enterprise franchise that covers Montana, Wyoming, northern Idaho and the Dakotas. (more…)
HOMEBUYER EDUCATION CLASS
Monday, April 12th, 2010SATURDAY APRIL 17, 2010
9:00 AM—5:00 PM
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED
NCTHA BOARD ROOM
CONFERENCE ROOM-LAME DEER, MT
“Homebuyer Education Class” is an 8-hour course to help prospective homeowners learn the process of how to purchase a home. Class topics will include: Getting ready for homeownership, finance, budgeting and the application process. If you plan on utilizing resources from the NCTHA, USDA Rural Development, or HUD 184 Loan Program, you are required to attend an 8 hour course. Participants who attend the full 8 hours will receive a certificate of completion. For more information contact Rachael Two Two, Homebuyer Coordinator, 477-6419, Ext. #122
NCTHA Delegation Attends MT/WYO Coalition Meeting at State USDA Office Coalition
Monday, April 12th, 2010On March 17, 2010, Board Chairman Claude Leedom, Executive Director Lafe Haugen and a delegation from the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority, attended a Montana/ Wyoming Housing Coalition Meeting at the State USDA office in Bozeman, Montana with the newly appointed State Director, Mathew Jones. The basis for the trip was to establish Tribal relationships with the newly appointed State Director and to open up a dialogue for many funding opportunities for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the other 9-Tribes in Montana and Wyoming. Mr. Jones was accompanied at this meeting by his staff of Deborah Chorlton, Housing Program Director and staff from the Billings office including Gloria Hawkins. Matt worked with Richard Litsey in Max Baucus‘s office prior to him moving back to Montana.
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NAHASDA Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Holds First Meeting
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Comitee Meeting
Scottsdale, Ariz – The Native American Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Reauthorization of 2008 Negotiated Rulemaking Committee held their first meeting on March 9-10, 2010 in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Committee consists of 25 tribal representatives from small, medium and large tribes from geographically diverse regions of the country, and two Housing and Urban Development (HUD) representatives: Sandra Henriquez, Assistant Secre-tary for Public and Indian Housing and Rodger J. Boyd, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs.
On the first day of the meeting, committee members made introductions and expressed their expectations from the Rule-making process. They then began the process of developing a committee Charter, outlining the goals and principles of the Committee.