West End committee creates a consensus agreement for Birch Grove

After months of meeting, it is hoped that the Birch Grove Task Force Conciliation Committee has developed an agreement that the entire West End community can live with. 

The committee drafted a three-page document summarizing its work and recommendations for the future of Birch Grove. This "consensus agreement" will now be shared with the stakeholders in the future of the West End facility--the town boards of Schroeder, Lutsen and Tofte; the Birch Grove Community School board of directors, and the W.E. Connect board of directors.

WTIP's Rhonda Silence spoke with the facilitator of the consensus meetings, Bill Hansen, a former Tofte resident now living in Grand Marais, about the efforts to get to this point.