“EMPLOYEES ARE MAD”, FALL CREEK FALLS A STEP CLOSER TO BEING PRIVATIZED
Fall Creek Falls State Park employees learned Monday that the state is taking a significant formal step today in the plan to demolish, rebuild and privatize the park’s inn, restaurant and conference center,reports the Times-Free Press.
A request for proposals on the project is scheduled to be posted on the state’s website this morning, officials from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation confirmed Tuesday.
TDEC officials met with the park’s full-time employees at the conference center Monday to discuss how the building project and subsequent privatization will affect the 48 full-time hospitality workers at the park.
“People are mad,” Van Buren County Mayor Greg Wilson said. “The employees are mad.”
TDEC Deputy Commissioner Brock Hill said Tuesday the state plans to identify its top proposal in late March or early April and that demolition of the 44-year-old building could begin by next December.
There is actually an online petition people can ‘sign’ called
Save Tennessee’s Fall Creek Falls State Park and Conference Center
