Anthony Notaro
Sergeant of Arms
McIntosh District - Seat B
Business and Governmental Committee - Vice-Chair
Internal Affairs - Alternate
Fact Finding and Investigations Committee

Representative Notaro is serving his second term as National Council Representative and believes that his good business experience is an asset that will help all of the people and the nation to move forward. Representative Notaro was Chief Operations Officer (COO) of a telecommunications company back east and has several years of top corporate management experience.

“The Tribe needs to grow and expand more into other revenue making business other than gaming, such as retail, government and corporate businesses. The Mississippi Choctaws do this and are very successful at making money. This creates more jobs, benefits and more job security for our people.” “ I believe that our business enterprises are not providing revenue for our people the way they should be. They are created to create business revenue for us and I feel this not happening.” “We need experienced leadership and knowledgeable people on our boards for our entities to be successful”

“I’ve experienced being on the council that decisions aren’t made instantly, something I am not used to, working in the corporate world decisions are made in one day and implemented. Here it is like building a rocket ship and going to the moon, it’s a long and arduous journey and we cannot solve all the problems. When our people need help, they need it now, but because of the long process and the red tape we have to go through to make business happen it does become a little frustrating.”

Representative Notaro stated, “if he could change this government he would streamline the council committee meetings to every two weeks to just address legislation and decrease the 10 day rule for the Principal Chief to sign or not to sign legislation. Right now it’s a 40 (forty) day process, we have a month for all committees to meet on their respective legislation, we meet at the end of the month and the Principal Chief has 10 days to sign and implement.”

Representative Notaro spends many days at the Tribal Complex researching and investigating legislation.” I spend many hours late at night reading legislation, I feel it is my duty as a representative to be knowledgeable of the bills we are passing that will benefit or not benefit our people”

I am very proud of the people of McIntosh County of whom I serve. They are hard working people and have successfully created economic development in some of the bigger communities. We still need to develop more opportunities for our smaller communities, this is my goal and vision I have made for myself. With the help of God and the people we will accomplish this.