Much like the City assigns the local land use advisory role to community planning groups (in La Jolla's case the Community Planning Association), the City's Park & Recreation Department assigns the local park and recreation advisory role to a recreation council. While most communities have one, La Jolla has three recreation councils.

La Jolla's Recreation Councils
The current division of responsiblity is as follows:

In 2009 the City of San Diego asked La Jolla to re-evaluate how the community had divided up local oversight of its parks and beaches.This request was driven by new regulations to increase the transparency and accountability of community recreation councils. As part of this re-evaluation the La Jolla Town Council opted to relinquish their historic role of overview of La Jolla's shoreline parks and beaches. Concurrently, the members of the town council's Park and Beaches Subcommittee voted to form a new entity to be called La Jolla Parks and Beaches, Inc., to take on that role. The La Jolla Shores Association opted to keep their historic role overseeing the parks in La Jolla Shores. La Jolla Park & Recreation Inc. decided to consolidate their oversight to just the La Jolla Recreation Center.

The purpose of recreation councils shall be to promote the recreation programs in the community through planning, administering, publicizing, coordination, and interpretation. The actions of recreation councils in achieving their purpose shall be in accordance with the policies of the San Diego Park and Recreation Department and the Park and Recreation Board. The City designates a locally recognized non-profit to officially serve the role as recreation council. See more at Council Policy on Recreation Councils (2005)

The responsibilites will transition as the City processes Special Use Permits (SUPs) to formally recognize the new assignments and roles. Hopefully this reconfiguration will be complete in 2011.

At this time neither La Jolla Park & Recreation nor the La Jolla Town Council Parks & Beaches Committee post their agendas on-line. We post them here as a courtesy to those organizations and the benefit of the community. All meetings listed below are open to the public.

La Jolla Park and Recreation, Inc. (4th Wed, 5pm, La Jolla Rec Center)

Agenda - 2012
Feb 22, 2012 | Jan 25, 2012

Agenda - 2011
No Dec Mtg | Nov 30, 2011 | Oct 26, 2011 | Sep 28, 2011 | No Aug Mtg | Jul 27, 2011 | Jun 22, 2011 | May 25, 2011 | Apr 27, 2011 | Mar 23, 2011 | Feb 23, 2011 | Jan 26, 2011

Agenda - 2010
No Dec Mtg | Nov 15, 2010 | Oct 27, 2010 | Sep 22, 2010 | No Aug Mtg | No Jul Mtg | Jun 23, 2010 | May 26, 2010 | Apr 28, 2010 | Mar 24, 2010 | Feb 24, 2010 | Jan 27, 2010

Agenda - 2009
No Dec Mtg | Nov 18, 2009 | Oct 28, 2009 | Sep 23, 2009 | No Jul Mtg | Jun 24, 2009 | May 27, 2009 | Apr 22, 2009 | Mar 25, 2009