Opportunities to get Involved! Committee Openings!

Happy New Year to you all!  I hope that you were all able to reflect back on the year 2015 and put it to rest, thus opening up great potential for 2016! I believe it will be a great year for us in Grand Marais!

Speaking of potential, the City had 5 openings in Committees for residents to serve on. These Committees do a great deal of work for the City creating and modifying policy and generally being the sounding board for the department supervisors.

Thank you to our incumbent committee members for stepping up and filling in 4 of those spots for another term, so we only have 1 to fill!

The time required by each of these committees varies by committee, but is usually limited to a few meetings a month. The City Committees have 3 year terms unless otherwise designated (due to someone stepping down in the middle of their term, etc).

Here is the opportunity that exists right now!

We have 1 Park Board position available. The Park Board acts as the policy and direction board for the our City Parks and works directly with the Parks Director to create strategic plans, policies, and plans for our City Park system! They draw heavily on the Park Master Plan and are in the midst of fulfilling some projects that have been identified in past years. If you would like to help the Park Board take Grand Marais' City Parks to the next level, please read the Park Master Plan and contact either myself or Dave Tersteeg at the Rec. Park Office to have a conversation about it!

Thank you very much and we look forward to working with you!