HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County Board of Commissioners unanimously elected District 11 Commissioner Matt Fenske as chairperson and District 4 Commissioner Al Dannenberg as vice-chairperson at the commission’s annual organizational meeting on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
Tallmadge Township resident Matt Fenske, in his third term as a commissioner, served as vice-chairperson since 2020, as well as on many county boards. He been chairman of the mental-health and agricultural preservation boards, respectively. Prior to becoming District 11 commissioner, Fenske spent 33 years with Kent County’s 17th Circuit Court. Fenske is on Tallmadge Township’s planning commission and has is a former township trustee and zoning board of appeals board member.
Dannenberg won the 2013 election to his commission seat, after a decade as a Zeeland City councilman. He is on the following county boards: health and human services; planning and policy; community mental health; WEMET; solid waste planning; and food services appeals; as well as on Zeeland’s recreation board. Dannenberg works as a realtor and retired after a 35-year career at Mead Johnson in the nutrition division.
