Barricade on Lac du Flambeau reservation (Photo: Dave Miess)
LAC du FLAMBEAU, WI (WSAU-WXPR) – The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa passed a referendum approving a new Tribal Code for its Road Access Permitting Ordinance.
This stems from the issue of expired easements on four roads that give access to private homes within the reservation owned by non-tribal members.
The latest agreement between the Lac du Flambeau Tribe and the Town of Lac du Flambeau has the town paying thousands of dollars to the tribe to keep four roads open. Under the current agreement, the town will pay $6,000 per road, and that fee increases by 500 dollars per road each month. This month the town paid $26,000 to the tribe.
All four roads within the reservation will be open to public use.
The Lac du Flambeau Town Board met Monday night to discuss a response to it.
The six-page ordinance lays out the Tribe’s policy and conditions for issuing permits to the Town.
The draft the town received has dashes where dollar amounts would be for both the application and permit fees. The Town Board voted to have supervisor Bob Hanson reach out to the Tribal Government to try and get the cost of the permits.
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