OB Town Council Meeting to Be Held at Park Point Loma Clubhouse — Wed., Feb.28

Shelly Parks, the vice president of the OB Town Council, has sent out a meeting announcement for their Wednesday, February 28th public meeting.

It will be held at 7pm and will be both in person and online. Unfortunately, as parking is severely limited, the in-person meeting will be a short walk from Famosa into the Park Point Loma community.

Info on In-Person Meeting

If you are joining the OBTC in person on 2/28 at 7:00 pm, it will be at Park Point Loma Clubhouse at — 2390 Caminito Agrado.

Shelly Parks warns that “parking is limited, consider carpooling.” She advises that “Attendees will need to park along the street (Famosa) and walk into the housing community’s clubhouse.”

(Why this site was ultimately chosen is unknown. Late last week, the Rag was informed that the meeting would either be at OB Elementary or the Water’s Edge church. Both those sites are very accessible by the OB public. But this is a very unfortunate site for what is supposed to be a very important meeting.

Zoom Meeting

Here is the link for the zoom if you would like to attend virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81728536431

Meeting ID: 817 2853 6431
The password to the Zoom is OBTC if you are asked for it.

Parks says, “We’ll also be livestreaming the meeting to our Facebook Page.”

Also, Parks says they “plan to return to the Point Loma Library next month; the space is unavailable currently due to the upcoming elections.”

Actually, the location of the meeting is not the biggest concern of the community, although it is an important one. If the meeting site is not accessible, it will cut down on attendance. And the Point Loma Library is NOT that accessible. We’re really hoping the OBTC can return to OB for its meetings.

The expectation coming out of last month’s meeting was that this February public meeting would entail a full disclosure of the state of the OBTC’s finances and whether any monies are missing or had been spent otherwise on inappropriate expenditures.

There is an item on the agenda called “Voice Your Priorities for OB” — and it’s this writer’s humble opinion that the main priority is getting the Town Council back on its feet and re-establishing the trust between the Board of Directors and the rest of the community of Ocean Beach. That’s the only priority and activity that the OBTC should be focused on.  The “Neighborhood Roundtable” will hopefully satisfy observers and critics alike.

The Board is nearly half-strength and filled with in-experienced but good-meaning people and without a president — although Shelly Parks is the vice-president and acting president in our view. A new leadership executive committee could be determined at this meeting, although it’s doubtful. The whole issue of upcoming elections is somewhere on the back-burner for the group.

Opening up the private monthly meetings ought to be on the agenda — no more secret meetings. The public and the OBTC members have a right to view the minutes of such meetings at the very least.

Here is the official agenda: