LAST Monday night’s Oberon Plateau Tourism Association (OPTA) meeting saw the much-heralded vote taken to merge with the Oberon Business Association.
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The votes counted at the meeting, combined with previously submitted proxy votes, saw 87 per cent of the membership vote in favour of amalgamation, with no votes against the motion registered.
The Oberon Business Association (OBA) has not yet asked its members to vote on the amalgamation proposal.
As with OPTA, 75 per cent of the OBA’s members must vote in favour of amalgamation for the dissolution of both organisations and the emergence of the Oberon Business and Tourism Association to take effect.
Given that it was the OBA which suggested the merger, it is unlikely that the proposal will not be supported by its membership.
The merger will spell the end to this phase of Oberon’s tourism promotion history, which dates back to the early 1950s.
At that time a group of Rotarians, led by John McCusker, formed the Oberon Tourist Group which later changed its name to the Oberon Plateau Tourism Association.
Some of the original members of the tourism group are still living in the Oberon community.
