I'd like to call special meeting of the city council public finance authority to order.

Please note Councilman Burns has submitted a notice of absence for tonight's pursuant to resolution number 2001-54.

Council member Moser will be arriving late for tonight's meeting as she is attending her daughters back to school night.

Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Kalmick.

Councilmember Mosier's not yet arrived.

Mayor Pro Tim Vandermark.

Here.

Mayor Strickland?

Here.

Councilmember McKeon.

Here.

Councilmember Bolton.

Here.

Councilmember Burns is absent.

Okay.

Please rise today.

We're going to be uh led by the Pledge of Allegiance by uh Councilmember McKinnon.

Please stand if you're able and put your hand over your left heart.

Pledge of allegiance to the flag.

On my agenda, it doesn't have uh the prayer, but we'll just everybody bow their heads.

Lord, uh please look after uh all the citizens who are coming in here to voice their opinion.

Uh please look over uh all the employees of the city of Huntington Beach, all the council members.

Uh please make sure everybody's safe and thank thank you, Lord, for leaving it in democracy who allows people to uh voice their opinions uh and in uh in God's uh will we all said amen.

Okay, city clerk, do we have supplemental communications?

Yes, Mayor.

Um, as of 9 a.m.

we had 31 email communications on our topic tonight, but we've received many more since then.

And everything will be uploaded to the website as they come in.

We'll do our best.

But those 31 emails are already provided in the meeting details of tonight's meeting.

That's it.

Okay.

So we go through.

Uh I think it's important for um administrative I uh staff uh to uh maybe introduce kind of the process of these next um four four weeks, or uh Al, would you like me to do it or would you like to do it?

Uh Travis, who are you were you or or Catherine gonna present?

Well, I mean it goes through we just did supplemental and then we're gonna go through the speakers uh after I just think it's important for the audience to know the kind of process before we go through the to the 90 second speakers.

If okay, Mayor, I think Catherine uh will you want to go over the the basic process?

Just the basic process, not a little presentation.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Case so um just to provide a real quick rundown.

During these next uh four meetings, community is invited to attend and provide prep public comments prior to and immediately after council discussion.

Public comments will be limited per speaker, 90 seconds each, both before and after if they choose to um make comment twice.

Um they can be in response to the amendments in the three ballot measures that were considered two weeks ago, or they can be new considerations that they'd like to propose to council.

And uh this charter review process is really intended to encourage public participation for tonight's meeting.

It really is kind of like a listening session.

We're really inviting the public to share all of their ideas.

Council is here to listen to every single one of them, and during their discussion after public comments, they will be you know bouncing off the ideas that have been presented by the public and you know, providing their thoughts on them as well.

And then when we come back next week on September 21st, staff will return with a list of all the proposed charter amendments and raise that were raised in the first meeting, which is tonight, along with the three ballot measures from September 5th, and staff recommendations, and then others that might arise in the second meeting.

We'll make sure to bring any other additional information like fiscal impacts and whatnot that you may want to consider as you make your decisions.

And then these amendments will be accompanied by those costs, and then council will take all that into consideration and start fine-tuning the list and direct staff to prepare proposed language.

And then when we get to the third meeting on September 28th, council will consider all those amendments and use straw votes to really identify the ones that should be placed on the March ballot, and council will start to do the hard work of bundling the amendments into measures and then directing staff to come back with language.

And then lastly, the fourth meeting on October 5th.

Um council will re review the ballot measure materials for the March 5th, 2024 elections, conduct formal votes to place them on the ballot, and then council will identify any city representatives to prepare the impartial analysis, uh the rebuttals, the arguments.

So that's a good rundown of the four meetings tonight or over the next month.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.