PARK TWP., MI (WHTC) – There will be some transition for the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners in 2017.
The panel will see one new face with one empty seat when it holds its next scheduled meeting on January 10th. The empty seat won’t be filled until January 30, when the board appoints a successor to Dennis Van Dam, who had passed away earlier this month after winning reelection representing portions of Georgetown Township. The other will be Frank Garcia, the one-time Holland School Superintendent who is succeeding Stu Visser in representing Park and Port Shelton Townships.
Visser is retiring after a total of nearly three decades of public service as a County Commissioner and Park Township Supervisor. In an appearance today on “WHTC Talk of the Town,” he told host Ed Ver Schure, “You can’t solve everybody’s problem everytime, but if you do your best and try to help people, as much as you can, even if you don’t totally solve the issue or the problem for them, they’ll be satisfied and happy with you.”
Visser is one of four long-time elected officials retiring from Ottawa County government in 2016, being joined by Sheriff Gary Rosema, Circuit Court Judge Ed Post and Hudsonville District Court Judge Ken Post.
