PHS.1.3.010 Public Safety Commission

The Tribal Governing Board hereby establishes and empowers the Lac Courte Oreilles Public Safety Commission to carry out the intent of this ordinance as further defined herein:

(a) The Tribal Governing Board shall employ an Executive Director who will be responsible for effectuating this Public Safety Commission Code and the duties as defined in the Director's job description. The Executive Director shall be supervised by the Tribal Governing Board.

(1) In the absence of an appointed Executive Director, the Board of Public Safety Commissioners shall effectuate this Public Safety Commission Code and the duties detailed herein.

(b) Pursuant to Tribal Governing Board Resolution No. 15-17, in the implementation of Section TCT.1.3.030, the Tribal Governing Board thereby gave its consent to a limited waiver of immunity from suit which it does not otherwise have pursuant Section TCT.1.3.020; thereby waiving the Tribe's sovereign immunity only to the limited extent necessary, as required by Wis. Stat. §165.92(3m)(a)1 and §66.0313(4)(a)1, to allow the enforcement in state courts of its liability in actions against the Tribe and its Tribal Officers while acting within the scope of their employment pursuant to this ordinance.

(c) The Public Safety Commission, acting through its Executive Director, shall have the following powers which it may exercise consistent with the purposes for which it has been established:

(1) To adopt and use a corporate seal.

(2) To enter into agreements, contracts and understandings with any governmental agency, Federal, state or local or with any person, partnership, corporation or Indian tribe; and to agree to any conditions attached to the administration of the activities of the public safety agencies of the Tribe.

(3) To oversee the activities of the public safety agencies of the Tribe and the public safety needs of members and such other persons or entities the Public Safety Commission may serve;

(4) To provide oversight of ongoing public safety activities;

(5) To receive and address citizen grievances under the relevant public safety agency policies and procedures;

(6) To provide oversight in the creation and review of policies governing the activities of the public safety agencies of the Tribe, and other such policies as requested by the Executive Director or the Tribal Governing Board;

(7) To provide oversight on the development of a Strategic Plan on public safety;

(8) To provide oversight in the long range planning of the Public Safety operations;

(9) To provide oversight on the development of the annual budgets of the public safety agencies of the Tribe; and

(10) To provide oversight as directed by the Tribal Governing Board on matters relevant to the Public Safety Commission and the purposes defined in Section PHS.1.1.040 of this ordinance.

(d) It is the purpose and intent of this ordinance to authorize the Public Safety Commission to secure the financial aid or cooperation of the Federal, state or local governments in the administration of the activities of the public safety agencies of the Tribe.

(e) No ordinance or other enactment of the Tribe with respect to the administration of the activities of the public safety agencies of the Tribe shall be applicable to the Public Safety Commission in its operations pursuant to this ordinance.

(f) The Tribal Governing Board does not by the adoption of this ordinance consent to any authorization not accountable to the Tribal Governing Board.

(g) The Executive Director shall submit the following reports to the Tribal Governing Board with copies to the Board of Public Safety Commissioners;

(1) Monthly Report showing:

(A) Summary of the prior month's activities;

(B) Financial condition of the Public Safety Commission and its public safety agencies;

(C) Any significant problems and accomplishments;

(D) Plans for the future;

(E) Such other information as the Executive Director, the Board of Public Safety Commissioners, or the Tribal Governing Board deems pertinent.

(2) Annual Report showing;

(A) Summary of the above concerns addressed in the monthly report;

(B) Long-term plans and goals for the Public Safety Commission.

(h) The annual budgets of the public safety agencies of the Tribe must be approved by the Tribal Governing Board as well as any other operating budgets of the Public Safety Commission.