Carrie Moritz, Gazette
This past Monday night, the Garretson City Council met in regular session. Since the weather was not great, the meeting was kept short and simple, with the council deciding whether tent camping should be limited to 4 nights in Split Rock Park or left at 5 nights, setting up a special meeting for the 4th Street project, and noting that Garretson's maintenance supervisor/utilities superintendent, Ryan Nussbaum, is vacating his position as of Friday, January 12.
A special meeting was scheduled for Monday, January 22 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the 4th Street construction project with engineers. The public is invited and encouraged to come in order to learn about the project, and how it will proceed.
City Maintenance Supervisor and Utilities Superintendent Ryan Nussbaum has been working at the Garretson City Maintenance Department since 2020, and before that, he was the maintenance supervisor in Valley Springs. Last week, Nussbaum tendered his resignation to return to Valley Springs as of January 15. He had taken the reins, along with Jordan Doane, from his father Craig Nussbaum in early 2022 when the elder Nussbaum retired. While the city works to hire another utilities supervisor, Doane has been learning portions of R. Nussbaum's responsibilities to ensure there are as few lapses as possible.
Parks were a large piece of the meeting, as Garretson Park Board member Colleen Collier announced there will be a meeting on January 21 at 8:00 a.m. at the Sports Cabin to set up priorities and budget for 2024. She asked the council if they were allowed to ask Champion Tree Services if they were willing to continue their work in 2024. It was revealed in the meeting that they had been asked to leave by councilor Tom Godbey this past summer due to the removal of trees he deemed unnecessary to remove.
"I don't know if we burned that bridge or not," Collier said, reiterating that the company had successfully been cleaning up the granite cliffs in Devil's Gulch for the past five years without incident, and were one of only two companies the park board had found that were licensed to even be able to do that sort of work. Councilor Godbey noted that he just wanted some communication, and a heads up on what was going to be cut down. He stated he was just a tree hugger, and found it amazing that trees could grow in cliffs.
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