Former Gov. Daugaard puts vocal and monetary support to the development project!
Garrick A. Moritz, Garretson Gazette editor
The South Dakota Game Fish and Parks (SDGFP) has now hosted several meetings in Garretson about the upcoming and proposed improvements to Palisades State Park.
First, they gave a basic presentation to the Garretson Commercial Club on March 13, and had originally planned a larger meeting for Garretson Area stakeholders (local business owners, landowners and neighbors of the park) at 3 p.m. on April 10 with an open public meeting to follow that evening at 6:30 p.m. Because of the late season winter weather however, they postponed until this past week on April 24, keeping the same schedule.
Both the stakeholders meeting and the public meeting were almost identical in form. The crowd at the stakeholders meeting included such persons as Garretson Mayor Greg Beaner, City Finance Officer Anna Uhl, City Maintenance Officer Craig Nussbaum and City Councilman Bill Hoskins, with others such as Kris Frerk (Garretson resident and Eastern SD Department of Tourism Board Member), Shannon Nordstrom of Nordstrom’s Automotive Inc., park next door neighbor Oran Sorenson, and President of the Garretson Sportsman’s Club, Steve Davis. Some, such as Kris Frerk and Sorenson, attended both meetings.
The South East Regional Park Supervisor Jeff Van Meteren opened the meeting.
“We’re very excited about the new land acquisition and for the potential improvements for Palisades State Park,” he said. “This plan we’ re going to present to you today is not the final plan, by no means set in stone, it is just a plan. A first draft.
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