FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - The last of five elected officials in the Navajo Nation community of Tuba City has resolved allegations that she received part of $80,000 in bonus money in violation of tribal ethics laws.

Charlene Nez entered an agreement Tuesday with the tribe's Ethics and Rules Office to repay the $20,000 she received to the Tuba City Chapter. She'll keep her position as secretary and treasurer of the chapter until the community picks new leaders. She also cannot seek elected office for five years and until the money is paid back in full.

“I made the decision, so I have to face the consequence, and that's the consequence,” Nez said.

Tuba City is one of the Navajo Nation's largest communities, about 75 miles northeast of Flagstaff, and borders the Hopi reservation. It also is among about 30 of the reservation's 110 chapters that have been granted increased authority over local finances.

Tribal ethics and rules investigator Lewnell Harrison said the elected officials, who make up the Council of Naat'aanii, received the bonus money from late 2009 to 2011. The investigation into the chapter's finances is ongoing, he said.

Cases against the other four officials - Helen Herbert, Jimmy Holgate, Robert Yazzie and Max Goldtooth - have been resolved. Yazzie and Goldtooth were found in violation of ethics laws following a hearing, while Herbert signed a deal with the Ethics and Rules Office. The office was granted deferred judgment in Holgate's case because he failed to show up for his hearing, Harrison said.

Each of the elected officials, whose four-year terms would have expired in January, has been ordered to pay restitution to the chapter house and was removed from office.

Under tribal law, the elected officials are paid for attendance at chapter meetings and can be reimbursed for travel, but Harrison said the tribe doesn't allow for Christmas bonuses and other compensation to them for doing their jobs.

“I think it sends a message out to other chapters that these type of activities, they won't be tolerated on the Navajo Nation,” Harrison said.

Nez said she was under the impression for months that it was OK to receive bonus money but at some point realized it was wrong and contacted the Ethics and Rules Office. Ethics charges were filed against the five in August.

Nez said she now will work with the Tribal Council Delegate Joshua Lavar Butler, who represents Tuba City, to find replacements for the elected officials who are honest, accountable and transparent. The community can appoint people to serve in the positions until an election is held.

“I'm hoping the people do vote someone in like that, individuals that have those same values,” she said. “Yes, I had them, and I have to find them again.”

Meanwhile, two members of the chapter's administrative staff were relieved from duties Tuesday, and the chapter house was shut down for the day. The Tuba City District Court recently granted an injunction against those staff members to protect financial and other documents.

Butler said the chapter's accounts also have been frozen and he would seek to have the locks changed at the chapter house but work to ensure services to the community aren't interrupted.

“I'm embarrassed,” he said. “I'm very embarrassed because this is a black eye for local governance on the Navajo Nation.”