Members of a La Jolla group called Save Our Village stood outside the planning group’s election headquarters at La Jolla Recreation Center last Thursday, handing flyers to voters; their tactics worked.
Bob Collins and Keith Kelman skirted the edges of the grass March 6 at La Jolla Community Planning Association’s (LJCPA) annual election, holding out canary slates of recommendation to incoming La Jollans participating in the election. Their nine suggestions for this year’s collection included contenders from the village’s anti-paid-parking coalition.
Residents and merchants felt so strongly about the parking issue, the entire lot of recommended candidates won.
The LJCPA makes a final recommendation about paid on-street parking, an ongoing controversy in the village of La Jolla. And the board appoints one of its members to the La Jolla Community Parking Advisory Board, a position Marty McGee “” a planning member who termed out this year “” previously held.
“The outgoing group of trustees were some of the most active volunteers La Jolla had ever seen,” LJCPA President Tim Golba said. “And we’re really going to need this new group to step up and cover the large void left by the departure by the trustees, and it’s going to take more than just coming to the meetings once a month.”
Golba was re-elected for a two-year term. Also re-elected for a two-year term were Tim Lucas and John Berol. Six others were elected for three-year terms, including Joe LaCava, president of the Bird Rock Community Council; Jim Fitzgerald; Glen Rasmussen; Orrin Gabsch; Dave Little and Tony Crisafi.
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LJCPA meets the first Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St.
For more information about the planning association, visit www.lajollacpa.org.