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Performing-arts center staff and users urge Oxnard council to keep Sterling Venues ahead of Feb. 18 vote
Summary
Multiple employees, performers and community members told the council on Feb. 4 that Sterling Venues has improved safety and programming at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center and urged the council to renew the operator contract when it votes Feb. 18.
Dozens of performers, employees and nonprofit leaders told the Oxnard City Council on Feb. 4 that the Oxnard Performing Arts Center (OPAC) should remain under the management of Sterling Venues when the council considers the facility’s future at its Feb. 18 meeting.
“OPAC feels like home,” said Jason McComb (employee/performer), and multiple employees said Sterling had cleaned and stabilized the facility, improved neighborhood safety and expanded programming. “We want to continue this relationship,” Amber Norton, an OPAC employee, told the council. “We want to continue to make the OPAC what everybody wanted it to be from the beginning in 1968.”
Speakers described the venue…
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