The process to modify the entrance sign at Central Park to include “In Memoriam of Gracie Muehlberger and Dominic Blackwell” is underway as the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (SCV Water) announced they had formed a committee to discuss the proposed changes to the signage.
The Santa Clarita City Council had approved the addition of the phrase remembering the victims of the Saugus High shooting to Central Park’s sign in August, and Santa Clarita City Councilmember Marsha McLean says the process is progressing but still in its “preliminary portion.”
The change to the sign requires the mutual agreement of SCV Water, who owns the land the park is located on.
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“The water agency owns the land, we lease 105 acres for $100 a year and the one thing that’s in our agreement is all signage, other than our required regulation signage, has to be mutually agreed upon,” said Bill Cooper, a member of the SCV Water board of directors.
SCV Water assembled what Cooper described as an “ad-hoc” committee to discuss the city’s proposed changes.
Cooper highlighted one area of concern from the SCV Water’s perspective, the potential to block signage directing people to the agency.
“That’s our business signage to come to the water agency, to our headquarters, so we need to keep it to where people can still understand that it’s a business that’s inside, it’s up on a hill atop of the park,” Cooper said.
SCV Water is working with city officials to come to a design that is acceptable to all parties.
“What we’re doing is trying to figure out exactly how to add their names to it,” said McLean. “Obviously it would make a difference on the sign and there’s going to be a cost involved, so right now it’s in the hands of the water agency.”
SCV Water and city officials have also discussed a partnership on a memorial within the park, according to Cooper.
“We’ve met with the families and discussed a location for where their idea of what they would like would be placed and our city is coming up with the landscape design for that area,” McLean said.
The Muehlberger and Blackwell families have worked independently with a consultant to come up with a design for the memorial.
Pending planning efforts and final approval by the City Council, the memorial could be completed by as early as April 2021.
“So everyone right now is working on basics and logistics and once all of that comes together it will come back to the City Council for final approval,” McLean said.
SCV Water’s committee formed to discuss the changes to the sign is expected to meet sometime in the next week, according to Cooper.
“This was a horrible tragedy and we want to make sure that we do this right and make it something that’s very meaningful,” Cooper said.
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