Construction company offers settlement to Navajo Nation

Thursday, May 26, 2011  

A construction firm that's been embroiled in a dispute with the Navajo Nation is offering a settlement to the tribe.

RJN Construction wants to release its contract to the Shiprock Home for Women and Children in Shiprock, New Mexico, and three other projects on the reservation. CEO Robert Nelson will settle for $212,000, or about 5 percent of the $4 million he believes he is owed.

"You win," Nelson told The Farmington Daily Times of his offer to the tribe ."I will give you all four projects and I will be gone. Here's my offer: pay me what I have coming, and I'll leave."

The $6 million Shiprock Home for Women and Children is 80 percent complete. The tribe went to court to claim ownership of the site and plans to issue a new contract to finish work.

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