Can commissioners choose cooperation over conflict?
The Lake County Commissioners appear bent on reopening old controversies and unsettling settled law, judging by recent missives they’ve sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (March 1) and President Joe Biden (June 6).
Don’t they have enough on their collective plates without trying to apply language from treaties signed well before they were born to contemporary issues that would surely benefit from cooperation instead of conflict?
On the same day, June 6, that commissioners met with the Tribal Council to discuss the future of Public Law 280, the endangered law enforcement agreement that gives the state and county jurisdiction over felonies committed by tribal members, they also wrote to President Biden, asking him to compensate citizens and businesses for last summer’s historically low lake level and the problems it posed for businesses and property owners.
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