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Seawall Update


Working with Ken Ortega’s committee last year we reached an agreement in principle by which we would enter into a binding, contractual agreement with the City of Oxnard calling for them to pay half of the future dredging and maintenance costs to maintain the seawalls. In exchange we would agree to increase our assessment by an amount that would approximate the balance of the projected maintenance and repair costs. More precisely, we would vote to approve a second assessment to do that.

Since August we have been waiting for the Work Plan to be submitted to the City Council. Obviously we are a low priority as we are still waiting. Since December we have been waiting for the City Manager to sit down with Ken Ortega and review the Plan before it can be submitted. According to Marianne in Ken Ortega’s office the two men have been unable to meet given their schedules. She says she has scheduled and cancelled the meeting four times.

We are now scheduled to meet in April with Mayor Holden, the City Manager and Ken Ortega to review the ststus of the Work Plan and funding assuances. Before moving forward with any new assessment there will have to be a clear understanding of the City's commitment to match our contribution. 

We remain of the opinion that the best solution is a sharing of the costs with the City in exchange for gaining some control over what work is being done.

We must also research what other options might be available to us. To that end, we are looking for colunteers to work on a sub-committee to develop alternative scenarios for the Board's consideration. If you would like to become involved, please send an email to editor@channelislandca.com.



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