After months in limbo, the Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos will live to see another day. The historic stables in Los Gatos have for years offered horse boarding, riding lessons and camps. Though th…
Audience members listen to a speaker talk about the Bear Creek Stables during a special meeting at the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space office in Los Altos, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. After months in limbo, the Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos will live to see another day.
The committee consists of Midpen directors Craig Gleason, Curt Riffle and Karen Holman as well as a “self-selected” group of more than 30 volunteer community members. The group has been meeting regularly since May to research and come up with a presentation of their alternate solution to the board, one that emphasized reviving free public programming that would draw underserved communities to the stables and would be bolstered by funds from the stables’ ongoing horse boarding operation.
“We know more details need to be worked out,” Parfitt said. “I hope the board can give its full support – with staff and the community working together, we will succeed.” “Something about the relationship of animals and people that can bring people who have no faith in themselves to a new life,” community member Robert Cornelius said in public comment. “I think Bear Creek Stables can offer that to the community, and that is important to me.”
Though the ad hoc committee’s solution was approved by a majority, some directors emphasized a desire to include “offramps” in the next steps for the stables – opportunities for the board and for Midpen to back out of the plan if need be.
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