Osterhaven takes seat on Oak Park’s MAC

Jan Osterhaven

Newly elected Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks has appointed Jan Osterhaven as new representative to the Oak Park Municipal Advisory Council (MAC).

Osterhaven, who was also Parks’ appointee to the Thousand Oaks Planning Commission, will attend her first MAC meeting this month.

"We don’t have any doubt that we’ll have a good relationship and we look forward to it," said Todd Haines, a MAC boardmember.

Osterhaven will serve as a liaison between the MAC and the supervisor’s office. When former supervisor Frank Schillo left office in December, his representative, Ron Stark, also became a MAC member.

Parks named Osterhaven to replace Stark.

"I have found many friends and acquaintances in Oak Park and I’m out there a lot and very interested in the issues," said Osterhaven, a resident of Thousand Oaks.

Completion of the long-delayed Oak Park library will be one of the MAC’s major goals this year, Osterhaven said.

The MAC’s first meeting of 2003 will be Jan. 28. The MAC meets at 7:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month at Oak Park High School. It isn’t empowered to make decisions and is only advisory in nature.

Stark ran unopposed last November for the seat left vacant when longtime boardmember Glen Wilcox retired.

David Chatfield and Kent Behringer were reelected to new four-year terms on the panel. For the second year in a row, Chatfield will serve as MAC chairman.

—John Loesing