WHAT HAPPENED: The City Council approved plans...

WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council approved plans for a skate park at the Oak View

Center and authorized the director of Public Works to move forward

with design and construction.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The Oak View Skate Park will be the third in Huntington Beach.

Plans call for a 7,000-square-foot facility, designed for beginner

and intermediate skaters to be constructed at Oak View Park. The

project was triggered by a group of Surf City youth who approached

the city asking for money for a new park.

The project, which will cost an estimated $90,000, will be funded

by the Community Development Block Grant and Park Acquisition and

Development funds. City staff has also applied for a grant to

supplement costs.

Council members Houchen and Hardy were absent.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council formed a committee to review all city boards,

commissions, committees and task forces.

WHAT IT MEANS:

A committee, made up of council members Jill Hardy, Pam Julien

Houchen and Gil Coerper will study each of the many boards,

commissions and task forces the city has.

Committee members will discuss the role of council liaisons to

committees and address the possibility of combining some of these

groups and commissions.

The idea was raised at a Feb. 21 council workshop during a

discussion about the relationship council members have with these

groups.

Hardy and Houchen expressed an interest in being on the committee

on Feb. 21, and Coerper asked to join at Monday night’s council

meeting. The proposal was amended to appoint Coerper as third member.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The Huntington Beach Public Library applied to the Orange County

Social Services Agency for a grant to continue a homework club and

volunteer services at the library’s Oak View branch.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The Oak View branch of the Huntington Beach Public Library

provides an outlet for silent study and literacy resources for

students in the neighborhood, assisting 448 children. The library has

a daily attendance of 50 to 60 children.

If approved, Oak View Collaborative, a nonprofit group that the

library belongs to, will receive a grant of $38,178 on Oct. 1 to the

library. Of that, $34,360 will come from the Children’s Bureau of

Southern California, and the city will match 10% of the funds.

The money will go toward the salaries of the homework club

coordinator and the volunteer services coordinator at the Oak View

branch library.