Resident urges commissioners to reconsider camper restrictions, cites petition with 1,000+ signatures

During public comment at the July 2025 meeting, resident Wendy Ellis urged the Hamlin County Commission to reconsider recent decisions about campers, saying the issue affects landowners who use campers on their property and that a petition opposing the commissioners’ votes has attracted more than 1,000 signatures. Ellis said she originally thought the issue was about people living in campers but then came to see it as broader, involving property owners and what she described as overreach by county officials. She said she was organizing to support candidates who would reverse the commission’s decisions and that she expected high voter turnout in May (she did not specify a year). The commission’s chair thanked Ellis for her comments; no formal response or policy action was recorded that evening. Ellis’s remarks occurred during the public-comment portion of the agenda and were not tied to a specific agenda item in the transcript.