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Council honors outgoing police chief and recognizes historic stewards at meeting
Summary
The council marked Chief Jenkins’s final meeting with personal remarks and presented historic‑preservation awards to the Ojai Playhouse team and stewards of the Gables of Ojai, recognizing multi‑year restoration and stewardship work.
Council members and the public used the meeting to recognize community service and preservation work. Chief Jenkins delivered farewell remarks, praising the community and the incoming Chief Tyler Abbott; he presented each council member a challenge coin and closed with a leadership quote from Maya Angelou.
The Historic Preservation Commission presented an annual award to the Ojai Playhouse, noting owner David Berger’s roughly $13 million, four‑year restoration that returned the theater to a mission‑revival façade and modern interior, and announced a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Parsons family and David Brown for stewardship of the Gables of Ojai. The HPC said plaque presentations will be scheduled at a future commission meeting so the community can participate.
Quotes
"People forget what you said... but they will never forget how you made them feel," Chief Jenkins said in his farewell remarks.
