If I have to share it was me that all along did you wrong thinking that I'll meet you.

I'd like to call a special meeting of the City Council Public Finance Authority to order.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Kalmick.

Here.

Councilmember Mosher.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Vandermark.

Here.

Mayor Strickland.

Here.

Councilmember McKeon.

Here.

Councilmember Bolton.

Here.

Councilmember Burns.

Here.

All present.

Thank you.

Clerk, do we have any supplemental communications?

We've received approximately 17 emails at the time of the cutoff at 9 a.m.

today.

There are several more received, I'm sure, but they'll all be uploaded into the record.

Okay, great.

City clerk, do we have anyone signed up to speak?

We have seven signed up to speak, so I'm gonna call all seven down now.

Approach the podium.

Carrie Swan, Charlie Jackson, Jocelyn Rabbit Sire, Steve Shepherd, Danny Gray, Jose Trinidad Castaneda, Linda Kramer.

Okay, uh, before the speakers go forward, I have to announce this.

At this time, the city council will receive comments from members of the public regarding the items on the special meeting agenda.

Individuals wishing to provide a comment may do so in person by filling out a request to speak form delivered to the city clerk.

All speakers are encouraged but not required to identify themselves by name.

Each speaker may have up to three minutes unless the volume of speakers warrants reducing the time allowance.

Please note that the Brown Act does not allow discussion or action on topics that are not on the agenda.

Members of the public who would like to speak directly with a council member on an item not on the agenda may consider scheduling an appointment by contacting the city council's administrative assistant at 714-536-5553 or emailing the entire city council at city.council at SurfCity.org.

So uh with that, uh speakers, uh, thank you so much for waiting and being here, and uh please um continue.

You're welcome.

I'm back, Carrie Swan here.

So I'd like to thank our new council majority for keeping another of their promises to tackle this horrible, horrible boondoggle known as Orange County Power Authority.

I came to this podium back in 2017, it was May or June, I think, the first time to speak out against community choice.

It was that called community choice aggregation then.

Now it's community choice energy.

They keep re bank rebranding these bad ideas.

At the time it was a study session, but the writing was on the wall.

In 2019, Carr joined by Posey and Del Glaze, were dripping with excitement to uh push a feasibility study.

What a joke.

That passed.

And then within days of swearing in, carried jumped with a special meeting to shove this steaming pile of manure down the citizens' throat.

Still, hundreds of us fought back.

Not that anybody listened, remember two years in a recall attempt because nobody at that dais listened except for Eric Peterson.

And everything we predicted about this failed concept has played out right before our eyes.

Thank you.

Uh next speaker, please.

Uh please move forward.

Thank you for being here.

Hi, I'm Charlie Jackson.

I want to speak in support of OCPA.

Huntington Beach residents deserve a wide range of energy sources.

OCPA and SCE can deliver 68% green energy to one house and 100% green energy to another on the same power lines.

There's been a lot of misinformation about this, and uh it's really an important thing to keep in mind that we buy power, not we buy energy, not power.