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PLAN FOR OAKWOOD PARK BENCHES TO BE CROWDED BY FITNESS STATIONS WAS DENIED BY REC & PARKS AT OAKWOOD PAB MEETING ON 11-1-11 ~ YET A PLAN WAS ALREADY DRAWN UP (SEE LAST PHOTO BELOW)
For those of you who were not in attendance, questions about the transfer of Oakwood Park to the Valley Division of Recreation & Parks came up during our Saturday meeting. I promised to try to find some answers this week. At the time of this writing, it looks like Mark Israel who attended the November 1st meeting of the Oakwood Park PAB has the title of Recreation Supervisor Valley/Shoreline District – so perhaps the Valley & Shoreline districts were merged???
Mark Israel (white shirt) at Oakwood PAB Mtg - 11-1-11 Photo by Myla Reson
In this photo Israel is in white shirt-sleeves on the right. Charles Singer, Acting Superintendent of the West Region of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks is in light blue shirt-sleeves (& dark blue vest) standing next to Mark Israel.
Interesting that they observed the meeting, were not introduced – nor did they introduce themselves.
Also in the back of the room were four uniformed police officers:
Cops at Oakwood PAB Mtg. 11-1-11 Photo by Myla Reson
Laddie reported that when she asked why there were four uniformed LAPD at the PAB meeting, she was told that Lizka had requested protection because she was afraid that attendees might become violent.
I wonder what the cost was for Lizka’s “protection”, and how that “protection” is bugeted?
Laddie also believes that it was Valley/Shoreline District Recreation Supervisor Mark Israel who came up with the plans to place the exercise equipment in the picnic area.
Plan to put exercise equipment between benches at Oakwood Park
I suppose it could be argued that if they were to go with plan 1 it could be truthfully said that they were not planning to “move the benches”, but it’s really inexcusable that they did not share their proposal to crowd the benches, as you can see in this photo, at the 11/1/11 PAB meeting.
