SAVE HARBOR PARK!

A few years ago, the administration of the Harbor Park was removed from the County Beaches, Harbors and Parks department and placed under the newly created Harbor Department. Now it appears that the Dana Point Harbor Department is proposing to privatize the buildings in the park for commercial use. Currently the OC Dana Point Harbor Department has a draft RFP (a request for proposals) for management, maintenance and operation of the OCSEC, which it apparently plans to issue very soon. This RFP endangers the use of the base by the non-profit groups that currently use the facility.

If this is allowed to happen, the park would be destroyed and the people of Orange County would lose an important and valuable public asset.

Our goal is to keep the Dana Point Sea Base public and available to Mariners 936 Sea Scouts and all of the non-profit agencies that use the Orange County Sailing and Events Center (OCSEC).

If you have used this area or facility as a Sea Scout, learned to sail with Westwind or spent summers at camp here, or if you are a sailor, paddle boarder, kayaker, outrigger, picnicker, or Baby beach goer this will affect you! Let’s stand together to keep this community resource low cost and accessible to all!

Indications are that this process is moving very quickly and therefore we need to act now.

Please write today to the Orange County Board of Supervisors and tell them to keep the Harbor Park area available for Sea Scouts, Saddleback College, the Outrigger Club, Westwind Sailing, JSerra Sailing, Dana Hills High School and other community groups.

Here are the names and addresses of our Orange County Supervisors:

Office of Supervisor Andrew Do

Orange County Board of Supervisors, First District

333 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92701

Phone: 714-834-3110

Email: First.District@ocgov.com

Office of Supervisor Michelle Steel

Orange County Board of Supervisors, Second District

10 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701

Phone: 714-834-3220

Email: Michelle.Steel@ocgov.com

Office of Chairman Todd Spitzer

Orange County Board of Supervisors, Third District

333 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92701

Phone: 714-834-3330

Email: Todd.Spitzer@ocgov.com

Office of Supervisor Shawn Nelson

Orange County Board of Supervisors, Fourth District

333 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92701

Phone: 714-834-3440

Email: Audra.Fishel@ocgov.com

Office of Vice Chair Lisa Bartlett

Orange County Board of Supervisiors, Fifth District

333 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92701

Phone: 714-834-3550

Email: Lisa.Bartlett@ocgov.com

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