December 21, 1965

My. Norman Smith

Recreation and Resources, Planning Section
Miehigan Department of Conservation

Mason Bull

Lansing, Michigan

Dear Mr, Smiths

This letter is to confirm some of the items we discussed
ever the telephone.

Mr. Ken Palmer, Supervisor, Coloma Villege and Chairman
of the Gounty Zoning Committee, has invited you and anyone
you care to bring to address the January 2th (Mon: )
meoting of the county supervisors at 11:00 A.M., at the
courthouse in 8t. Josephe (I offered to contact you since
I was going to write you anyhow).

Mr. Pelmer suggests you outline the operation of the ‘
Federal Lend and Water Conservation Fund and the steps
Michigan ia taking to qualify. Also, please outline to
them the provisions of the Act recently passed authorizing
establishment of county park boards.

I ask that, to the extent you can, you endorse the Grand
Mere erea as a park area and outline a possible type of
park as you did te me. Also, to the extent you can, I ask
that you endorse the aims of the Grand Mere Association
(as outlined in the atteched newsletter) as being the type
of grass roots effort that is to be encouraged, otc.

Please plan to leave fifteen to twenty minutes of the hour
for a request by the Grand Mere Assoolation for the formation
of « County Park Board.

~2o Smith

After lueoh, which I hope you will have with me, I hope

to arrange a joint meeting of the recently appointed
Berrien County Plann Gomaission (business men appointed
by the Board of Supervisors) and the County Plat Board.

At this meeting I would like to have you go over the same
material as in the morning presentation to the Supervisor,
The Grand Mere Association could then put on their slide
program and ask these public bodies to endorse the idea of
@ park for the Grand Mere area. Any comments you can make
as to the value of such a park to a community would be
pertinent. :

By the end of this second meeting, we'll all be worn out!

I have several copies of the publication "County Action
Por Outdoor Recreation. Some of the Supervisors have
already been given coples -- slong with the May 1965 Fact
Sheet by the Department of Interior on the Land and Water
Conservation Pund.

Best wishes for a fine holiday season and I am looking
forward to this January meeting.

Sincerely yours,

Prank Lehr
Vice-President

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