Tentative Plans Call for Skate Park to Relocate to Bluffs Park

• Contingent of Skateboarders Praise Council Members at Monday Night’s Session

BY BILL KOENEKER

Councilmembers Pamela Conley Ulich and Jefferson Wagner announced this week at a Malibu City Council meeting they have reached a tentative agreement to locate the skate park at Bluffs Park.

A contingent of skate park enthusiasts came to council chambers to laud members for the probable relocation of the city-operated Papa Jack’s skate park which closed.

Wagner and Conley Ulich told other members, who have not been privy to the negotiations, that the tentative agreement is an outgrowth of the last skate park meeting just before Christmas.

Councilmember Lou La Monte, who acknowledged he was just now hearing the news said, “You know a lot more than we have. I heard about Bluffs Park. We deserve a world-class park,” he said.

Conley Ulich said the next move is to issue a Request for a Proposal or RFP by the next council meeting on Jan. 23. Wagner said, “We elected to do this as a ad hoc committee.”

“Now it is up to the city council,” said Conley Ulich.

City Manager Jim Thorsen said the old equipment is expected to be relocated to the new site and that the agreement is being routed through attorneys and the municipal staff is currently looking at the cost for the moving over to the Bluffs Park.