Speaking of surveillance cameras, Rick Wright, MainStreet CEO, showed video taken of one of the new Big Belly Trash Receptacles being vandalized. Penny Mayercheck expressed concern about conditions near the sports arena being built in the city’s El Corazon area (outside of downtown) but was told by Linda Piña in the audience that a police station will be built in that area. Jane Marshall, president of Oceanside Coastal Neighborhood Association, praised the cleanup that has been done at the transit center, wondered about the possibility of surveillance cameras and asked if the patrols could swing through nearby residential areas as well. Tom DeMooy, a MainStreet board member, said it’s not possible to walk safely in the area behind the church (Seagaze Drive and Tremont Street) near the transit center. Most questions centered on problems around the transit center and the 7-Eleven store on North Coast Highway. It provides seven-day, 24-hour unarmed patrol in the downtown core.)
(Hemet-based Gatekeeper was hired last year with a $1-million grant from the city. Still, he said, particularly the pathway from the transit center to Coast Highway is looking “a lot better.” There’s ”a marked difference,” he said. It is not, he said, the responsibility of Oceanside police but of the county sheriff. There was a lot of interest in problems around the Oceanside Transit Center, but Norman said that’s one of the ”gray areas of jurisdiction”. Sometimes, he said, the patrol runs up against jurisdictional issues. There is less trash and less homeless entrenchment in most areas, Norman said. Grant Norman from Gatekeeper Security Services Grant Norman from Gatekeeper Security Services Grant Norman from Gatekeeper Security ServicesGrant Norman from Gatekeeper Security Services said the cleanup has involved both litter and loitering. Downtown Oceanside is looking a lot better, security-patrol officials told the MainStreet Oceanside Monthly Morning Meeting Tuesday.
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