Residents May Form Midtown Council
The west side has one. The east side has one. Now midtown wants one, too.
After months of neighborhood meetings, midtown Ventura is ready to put together a community council of its own. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, midtown residents will gather in the fellowship hall at Grace Baptist Church at 65 MacMillan Ave., across from Washington School, to discuss forming the Midtown Community Council.
“This is to bring people in from the community,” said Joyce Callaway, a 37-year midtown resident who has been active in the neighborhood. “This is just the beginning.”
Midtown residents have been holding meetings since last August, when talk of Ventura’s Long-Range Facilities Plan, which dealt with school overcrowding, emerged. Residents were worried about what was going to happen to the now-vacant Washington School, the oldest school in Ventura.
“Our initial aim was to save the Washington School,” Callaway said. “It still is.”
But now they are ready to expand their agenda and formalize their proceedings.
“That’s what this meeting is about,” Callaway said. “We want to get the ideas of all the people.”
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