Makers and uh, I'm not sure what I'm saying.

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

Madam Clerk, may I have the roll call, please?

Council Member.

Here.

Here.

Mayor Clinton Flying?

Here.

Here.

Present.

Here.

Here.

All present.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, do we have any supplemental communications?

No supplemental communication for the closed session.

All right, public comments before we begin public comments.

I'd like to announce that pursuant to new state legislation, Senate Bill Seven O seven.

Public comments will be accepted both in person and remotely via Zoom.

The city clerk will not read profane, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate Zoom display names or identifiers.

Instructions for providing comments on Zoom can be found on the agenda cover page and on the City Clerk webpage.

Yes.

Closed session only.

If you are here to provide in-person comments, cue in the designated area along the stairs.

Agency designated representatives, Travis Hopkins, City Manager.

Also in attendance, Marissa Sir, Assistant City Manager, Mike Vigliata, City Attorney, and Zach Z, Acting Chief Financial Officer, Employee Organizations, the Huntington Bleach Police Officers Association, the Police Management Association, the Hunter Beach Firefighters Association, and Fire Management Association, Municipal Employees Organization, MEO.

Conference with Real Property Negotiators, Government Code Section 54956.

Property at one seven seven three two Golden West Street, Huntington Beach, California, nine two six four seven, APN one one one-zero six nine.

Aurory Bevins not present.

Not present.

Motion to go to close session.

Second.

Good evening, and I'd like to reconvene the regular meeting of the City Council public financing authority.

Madam Clerk, may I have the roll call, please?

Councilman Gruel?

Here.

Councilman Kennedy.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Twine?

Here.

Mayor McKeon.

Here.

Councilman Burns.

Councilwoman Vandermark.

Councilman Williams?

Here.

All present.

All right, tonight's invocation will be given by Chaplain Jericho Rote.

Good evening, Council, members of the community.

I invite us to pray.

God, we lift up tonight's meeting, the topics discussed, the decisions made.

Throughout tonight's meeting, we may we be aware of your presence, speaking to us and guiding us.

Teach us to live with your compassion.

May our words and actions and conversation reflect your love and hope for all people for all creation.

He spent time at Fort Lewis in Washington before being deployed to Vietnam.

During his service, he was involved in the nineteen sixty-eight Tet Offensive and saw combat.

Coming to City Hall on Sunday, as I do every week to catch up on my work.

I came across the weekly anti-government protest on the corner of Maine and Yorktown.

Every week I simply drive by park and go up to my office.

This past Sunday I noticed something different.

Several anti-government propaganda banners and signs were hung on the Yorktown and Main Street.

Sides of a private party fencing surrounding the new Marisol Senior Living Project currently under construction from City Hall.

As usual, 20 to 30 protesters were gathered on the four corners, making up the Maine and Yorktown intersection.

As usual, they were crossing the street, usually and to their credit, in the sidewalks, but not always.

Many cro protesters casually strolled diagonally across the intersection, creating pedestrian and traffic dangers.

As usual for this group, they had many signs and many of the words spelled out.

F blank blank K Trump.

And F blank blank K ice.

Picture.

Thank you.

I planned to tell the protesters that the fence was private, and I didn't think the developer would appreciate anti-government propaganda messages they wanted to portray.

While I was telling them that the signs on the fence were illegal, as was their crossing guard hindering traffic.

Several protesters started yelling at me, and everybody has seen that.

Started yelling at me in the parking lot adjacent to PD.

You can see that on the widely publicized video circulated on social media.

One gentleman said something along the lines that I need to go vape.

Now I thought that was funny.

But another gentleman said, and I'll use that word cautiously, said something to the effect that he wished or wanted me to die, probably referencing my brush with death three months ago.

That of course is when I told him what I told him.

And everybody saw that.

In retrospect, I wish I had used another pejorative.

It seemed so natural, being that I was being accosted by people that were carrying signs with the F word on it.

So to everybody here and everybody that's watching on TV, I apologize for using such a crude word to somebody I didn't even know.

As a veteran that's that served this country, it truly makes me sad to see our duly elected federal government compared with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, not to mention carrying signs with obscene words.

Thank you.

Thanks, Butch.

I just want to remind everybody that the uh oh I just want to remind everybody that the uh surf contest is happening starting this Saturday, all the way for like eight days, and then amongst that will be two of my some of my favorite events is the Hall of Fame and the Walk of Fame.

Walk of Fame's I on the 30th, and uh Hall of Fame is on the 31st.

Those are great events, and uh along what Butch is saying is I I'll say it again.

I know in my I love this city, I love even this state, and I the country, there's no better.

I've been to Russia, I've been to uh China, Cambodia, and a lot of other places.

And I'll tell you, you don't feel walking down the street in St.

Petersburg or Moscow or anywhere in China, the security of just knowing the rights you have that you enjoy and live with in this country.

There is no place else.

And I'll tell you, I even asked one Russian guy one time, I said, why does everybody look so miserable?

He says, What the hell do we have to be happy about?

He says, and I asked him because he was a little outspoken, and he says, I'm over it.

He says, Yeah, now with Putin, and this is years ago, and he says, Putin back, he says, yeah, your neighbors, you they're there one day, gone the next, and you don't ask questions.

You don't see that here.

You know, and there's no place for it here.

We're America.

We live under the greatest flag and what it represents of all our freedoms.

And people are ready to flush that down the toilet, seeing it in the federal level in a lot of different cities and things.

We don't need it.

We shouldn't accept it.

And we ought to fight it every step of the way.

I love this country, and I'll fight for it.

That's it.

Awesome.

Anyone else?

Um I'd like to start by reminding everyone that the opening of the new serve museum will be this Friday.

Actually, I had a time.

What time was it?

Four o'clock?

Five o'clock.

Five o'clock.

So don't forget to come on down.

And you know, I agree with what Pat said.

It really is sad to see so many people.

And you know, the sad part is that these are people that are born in this country.

They're born in the United States of America, the best country on this planet.

The country where millions and millions of people risk their lives to come to.

I see I don't see that happening in any other country.

Maybe I'm aware because both of my parents are immigrants and they both immigrated from countries where their governments failed them and they never had opportunities.

But it truly is sad to see Americans spay on this country and completely disregard our veterans and everything that this country has stood for.

I'm not gonna let anybody tell me that we do not live on the best country on this planet, and it's really really sad to see so many Americans take that for granted.

On a much night letter note, it's my son's birthday today, so I just want to wish my uh my boy Noah, he's 11 today.

Uh happy birthday, and I look forward to being with you later, son.

Happy birthday.

In the last meeting, I it referenced uh a couple of the speakers with Bright Star, really heartfelt uh speakers that I would see if there's anything I could do with with no sway over the uh Ocean View School District or any district for that matter.

I did meet with Judy, the proprietor of Brightstar, an incredible lady, toured her school.

It was filled with kids, happiness, great workers there, great teachers, they're really becoming environment.

She's worked there or it's been her business for 30 plus years.

I also did speak with the the district a couple of times, and although I don't think there's a deal yet in place, uh I'm not gonna completely give up.

I promised Judy that I would there's a few more conversations I'm hoping to have again uh as a city councilman.

I have really no sway over the final result of what but does come from uh the conversations, but just one or two more conversations I want to have.

I I will mention Mr.

Farrow, it was very easy to speak to with the district, and I'm hoping somehow that they can come together, even if it's just for another one-year deal, which would be great for the students, great for Judy, great for the school district, and give everybody time to look for alternative solutions as opposed to a vacant building.

So it's not completely dead, but from my perspective, I'm gonna continue to do what I can, keep the faith, and we'll see what happens.

Uh just want to give a kudos to uh old world.

Uh was actually went and saw two World Cup games there over the past couple weeks, and I was just really impressed with how much work uh and investment they've put into that property, the family Bernie and his sister that that own it.

Um places packs, people having a really good time, food is actually excellent.

Uh they renovated the bathrooms, and just the World Cup in general was just you know, not the biggest soccer fan, but you couldn't help, but just gonna get wrapped up in it and just be so proud of how America showed on the world stage.

And my favorite thing was watching clips online of of people that aren't from America coming here for the first time and just being amazed at how beautiful it is and how clean it is, and how they're unfortunately told internationally that it's not this way.

So for them to to validate what we see in our daily lives was was fun to watch and all this great story.

So uh just thinking of the old world for really uh putting on a great viewing party for uh you know every game for the whole World Cup.

All right, up next is Adoptable Pet of the Month.

So tonight we have uh Denise Woodside from OC Animal with the Adoptable Pets of the Month.

And uh Denise, please come on up and tell us about Frost and Isabel.

Good evening.

Oh, yes, Isabel was the one making some noise earlier.

I am joined by Dawn, and she has frost.

And we wanted to show you some of our friends we have at OC Animal Care available for adoption.

And if you're looking for an active running buddy or maybe somebody to go on a walk with, Isabel is your gal.

And if you're looking for more of a pouch potato, Frost would be our guy.

You can learn more about um OC Animal Care and Frost and Isabel on our website at OC Pat Info.com.

Thank you so much.

You want to talk about um I think it's the boarding opportunities, right?

Where they can uh have the animal come first to their house and make sure there's a good fit before they actually adopt it.

Oh yes.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

She's very busy.

She's so curious.

Okay, yes.

If you're interested in either fostering a dog for us, you can foster.

That program is also uh information's also available online at OCPet Info under get involved.

But we also have our dog stay out program where some dogs can go out for a field trip for the morning, and you get to learn more about the dog.

We get to learn more about the dog, and they get to have a fun adventure in Orange County.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Up next is our uh business highlight section of the meeting.

So tonight we continue to celebrate the businesses that invest in Huntington Beach and strengthen our local economy.

We'll welcome new businesses, recognize our top 25 sales tax producers for Q1 of 2026, and LA2 local businesses through our Minute with the Mayor series.

So up first, we want to welcome uh Bacio de Latte to Bellatera, which opened this past weekend, founded in Milan in 2011.

Baccio del Latte brings authentic Italian gelato made with traditional recipes and high quality ingredients to Huntington Beach.

Up next, we want to welcome Pizza Factory, which is scheduled to open tomorrow at Beach Boulevard and Adams Avenue.

For more than 40 years, Pizza Factory has been serving communities with hand-tossed pizzas, fresh ingredients, and commitment to family-friendly dining.

Now we want to highlight our top 25 sales tax producers in the city.

So the city receives quarterly sales tax performance updates, which provide insight into the businesses that make significant contributions to Huntington Beach's economy.

So tonight we'd like to recognize our top 25 sales tax producers for Q1 of 2026.

As you can see, Arco, CarPros, Kia, Chevron, Classic Camaro, Costco, DeLillo Chevrolet, Home Depot, Huntington Beach Chrysler Dodge, Jeep and Ram, Hunting Beach Ford, Huntington Beach Hyundai, Huntington Beach Mazda, Hinton Beach Toyota, High A Regency, Hyundai Lease Tilting Trust, Tailing Trust, Lowe's, Norm Reus Honda, Pinnacle Petroleum, Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Surf City Nissan, Sullivan Subrew, Huntington Beach, Target, Toyota Lease Trust, Trader Joe's, Walmart, and the Waterfront Beach Resort.

So thank you guys for being top producers.

So this week we're featuring Jersey Mike Subs, a locally owned veteran-owned business that has proudly served Honey Two Beach since 2007.

I'm joined by Councilman Burns and friends as we visit the franchise owner Dan Sissel, whose family owns all of the Jersey Mike's locations in Huntington Beach, including their newest restaurant at Sea Cliff Shopping Center across from Huntington High School.

Jersey Mike's is known for its fresh-made sandwiches and its long-standing commitment to supporting local schools, youth sports, veterans' organizations, and community events.

So thank you to Dan and the entire Jersey Mike's team for your continued investment in our city.

What's up, Huntington Beach?

I'm Mayor Casey McKean, the special guest, Councilman Pat Burns.

Today's episode of Minute with the Mayor takes us down to the New Jersey Mike's at Yorktown and Golden West.

Let's go meet the owner, Dan.

Some buzz enjoy some Jersey Mike sandwiches.

Dan, appreciate it.

Thank you guys for being here.

Yeah.

I'm sure everyone knows Jersey Mike's, but what makes your uh your guys' jersey mics different?

We are a locally owned family-owned veteran-owned business.

All five Jersey Mics in Huntington Beach are owned by my family.

We get back to local community.

We've always felt that we are going to be the neighborhood sub shop, and we can't be the neighborhood subshop if we're not involved in our neighborhood.

You offer other services too, correct?

So in addition to made to order subs when you come in, you know, fresh slice to order, uh, fresh grilled hot suds.

If you want a cheesesteak, we're gonna throw it on the grill right in front of you.

But also we offer our catering.

We have our catering boxes where you can get 12 individually wrapped subs.

Or we can do individual lunch boxes and we can kind of tailor those to size and and we can add drinks, cookies, all kinds of things like that.

It's also about the new location right across Money's Beach High School.

So, new location here.

We've actually been waiting this center out for about 18 years, and we finally got our foot in the door here.

And uh, this has actually been great.

We're right across the street from City Hall, right across from Huntington Beach High School.

Uh, we're a big sponsor of the baseball team.

We got a lot of baseball players over there all the time.

I'm just gonna know, conveniently right across the street from the baseball field at the high school.

And a short walk from the football field and football season.

So we got you covered.

Thank you, Dan.

Yeah, absolutely.

Right, JP?

That's right.

That's another local jab right here at Huntington Beach.

So remember to support local and keep Surf City thriving.

See you at the next stop.

What's up, Mike?

Thanks, Dan.

Up next, we're featuring Vanity Compound Medical Aesthetics, a locally owned wellness and aesthetics practice located at Peter's Landing.

I'm joined by Jennifer Deluzio Foss to learn more about Vanity Compound's personalized approach to aesthetic care, offering advanced treatments, including skin treatments, injectables, body contouring, IV therapy, and medical weight loss.

Beyond wellness, Vanity Compound is committed to supporting our community through partnerships with local organizations, schools, charities, and community events.

So thank you to Jennifer and the Vanity Compound team for welcoming us and showing us the passion behind your business.

This episode of Minute with the Mayor takes us to Vanity Compound Aesthetics at Peter's Landing in Sunset Beach.

Let's go meet the team.

Jennifer, why don't you give us a tour of Vanity Compound?

I'd love to.

Come on.

Um, it is Huntington Beach, and we have a ton of people with tattoos.

And not everybody wants them.

So Peak Away is the best tattoo removal you're gonna find anywhere on the market.

Uh Ivy hydration and peptides.

We'll get back over there in a few minutes.

Laser hair removal, which interesting little side fact 40% of our patients are men.

Nice.

No pressure.

Yeah.

Uh but ivy hydration, uh, tattoo removal, and laser hair removal.

Okay.

How long have you guys been in Huntington Beach?

Uh the business has been here for three years.

Okay.

We've been in Huntington Beach most of our lives.

Okay.

So.

What why'd you guys choose Huntington Beach to open up your business?

Oh, it's it's our home.

Everything we do is right here.

And how big is this big space?

How big is this?

3,000 square feet.

Well, okay.

This is it.

IPL, hydrofacial, glowfacial, custom facials.

We literally do everything.

That's another local gym right here on Huntington Beach.

So remember to support local and keep Surf City thriving.

See you at the next time.

Uh looking fresh.

What's up, like you to all our businesses that continue to Yeah.

Can't you guys tell?

Thank you to all the businesses that continue to invest in Huntington Beach and contribute to our local economy.

Really appreciate your partnership and commitment to our community.

Up next is community events announcements.

Madam Clerk, please call for community event announcements.

The City Council will now receive announcements for community events only.

Community events announcements are accepted in person only.

Please come down and queue in the designated area along the stairs and use either podium.

State your name and address, uh, name for the organization for the record.

Each organization is allotted two minutes for the announcement.

If you're here for our community event announcement, please come down.

We have our lovely Jason Schmidt.

Treasurer.

Jason Schmidt, City Treasurer.

Uh good evening, Council members.

I have one quick announcement tonight regarding the financial literacy and workforce development training.

I mentioned to you during our last council meeting that starts next week on Monday, July 27th at 12 p.m.

at Golden West College.

We have already had well over 30 people sign up for the program, but thanks to the extreme generosity of Golden West, we're going to extend the sign up deadline to this Thursday, July 23rd, so we can offer this program to even more individuals.

As a reminder, the program is absolutely free for anyone who's 18 to 28 years old and lives in Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, or Westminster.

This program will be held every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 12 to 1.30 for the next three weeks at Golden West College from July 27th to August 14th, and lunch will be provided at all sessions.

Students are going to learn about things like opening a bank account, balancing a budget, investing for the future, and succeeding in the workforce.

Everyone who completes the program will be eligible for cash awards, financial scholarships, and free clothes to make that amazing first impression at that next job interview.

The program's a great way to meet employers who are hiring right now for jobs in a variety of fields, including technology, restaurants, hotels, health care, nursing, child care, cosmetology, manufacturing, automotive, nonprofits, and government.

All you have to do to sign up is scan the QR code or type in the website address on the flyer and fill out the form.

It's only gonna take a minute and it could change your future.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to supplemental communications.

Madam Clerk, do we have any supplemental communications?

There are no supplemental communications.

Moving on to public comments.

Before we begin public comments, I would like to announce that pursuant to new state legislation, Senate Bill 707.

Public comments will be accepted both in person and remotely via Zoom.

The city clerk will not read profane, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate Zoom display names or identifiers.

Instructions for providing comments on Zoom can be found on the agenda cover page and on the city clerk webpage.

The city clerk will provide instructions for participating in public comment.

Madam Clerk, how many speakers do we have?

19 in person, five on Zoom.

Thank you.

The city will now receive announcements.

We'll now receive public comments for any topic, including items on the open session agenda.

If you are here to provide in-person comments for open session, your number will be called.

Once your number is called, queue in the designated area along the stairs, either use either podium and state your name if you would like it reflected in the minutes.

If you would like to provide comments via Zoom for open session, please raise your hand.

We will now call numbers 21 through 30.

In person speakers number 21 through 30, cue in the designated area along the stairs.

Thank you.

Hey, dude.

Please proceed.

Council, I'm Dave Chenault.

I'm with the Finance Commission.

I'm here to let the public know tomorrow.

We're going to be uh meeting in this room at 4 o'clock.

The primary topic will be talking about the sports complex.

We'd love to have as much of the public there as possible.

We're going to have uh the people that are behind the current operation to present more details from the last council meeting.

We also have a lot of questions for them.

And it's really a chance for the public to learn more about what they're proposing and look at different options.

We're working very hard.

I want to thank staff.

Jennifer has attended a couple meetings, so thank you very much.

We've had different folks in the different departments help us quite a bit.

And we're working very hard for the public and free council to come back with some recommendations as well as more information.

So just wanted to let the public know tomorrow, 4 o'clock.

It's recorded if you can't make it.

And we generally meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 5.

This month's a little early.

So if you can be here tomorrow for, we do welcome public comment, and we would love to hear from you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Oh, hi.

Sorry, never done this before.

Um, my name is Robin Augustin.

Um, I live uh off Edinger on Belfast.

Uh Friday was our fourth accent in front of my house.

I have had two times where I've had to call ambulances.

I have had a hole in the what's the wall, honey?

The wall.

It took four months to get that fixed from an accident.

Um I honestly have talked to people since my child was in pre-K and he actually went to Bright Star.

Um my son is now entering seventh grade.

I am honestly scared that someone will die in front of my house.

And nobody's doing anything.

We have people going over 60 miles an hour both ways on Edinger.

We have a turn lane going to our street, which is Belfast.

We have people coming off Edinger going into Belfast.

They were going 40-50 miles an hour.

We have people cutting through and going 40-50 miles an hour, going the back way to get to the freeway.

And I have talked to people, Barbara, who was way back when my kid was in pre-K.

I have talked to people after they have cleaned up.

I have talked to I went and I've talked to the police.

And I'm not kidding you.

I am completely serious.

Someone will die in front of my house.

And I want a stop light, not a stop sign.

Because can I bring this over and show this to you?

You can give it to the Baylor Fair.

It's okay.

Thank you.

Um I want to stop light at Belfast.

Okay.

We need a turn light coming in.

I need a turn light going out.

You have a light at Golden West College, and then people floor it.

And then the next light isn't until what Edwards?

Edwards.

And people are going 60 miles an hour.

And we have had, like I said, we have had four accidents, two of which I've had to call fire and ambulance.

And I have a child, and there are several children that live on Belfast.

And these are not people that are coming from the daycare.

These are people in the morning between the hours of six and nine mostly, and it's also during the afternoon.

I've even told the police, give me one of those ray gun thingies, and I will stand at my pertaining wall, and I will zone, you know, get people, not get them, but I will what's the word?

Miss if you can, the sergeant, it will give you a blue card if you can fill that out with your contact information, and then we'll reach out to you and talk about it further.

Good evening.

Um my name is Cassie Carrick, and I'm a 50 plus year resident of Huntington Beach.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

It's easy to judge an emotional reaction from a short video clip, but social media rarely tells the whole story.

Context is frequently left out to fit a political narrative.

When subjected to continuous hostility and aggressive personal attacks, anyone can be pushed to their limit.

While high standards matter for elected officials, basic human empathy and context matter too.

The poet R.H.

Grenville noted, if you want to be respected, you must first respect others.

We cannot control national politics or calculated online outrage, but we can control how we treat each other right here in Huntington Beach.

Passionate debate is healthy, but constant anger and harassment are not.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

My name is Mr.

Amory Hanson.

I'm speaking tonight in support of I am furry one, the mayor and councilman Burns and Kennedy's I am to create a semiconcentennial plaque.

Huntington Beach officially celebrated the semiconcentennial of America on July 4th.

But this celebration has been overarching theme at 2026.

This plaque will be a lasting remembrance of an important moment in America and Huntington Beach's history.

Once again, IRJ, yes, vote on I am 20 31.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Um good evening, Mayor and City Council, Tim Geddes in the House and uh once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.

Well, I appreciate the uh report from the city attorney's office uh on uh the closed session.

Finally, we get something.

Uh there's all cases, court cases on subjects like housing and voting are are vital to an informed community, and we need to know more, and we shouldn't have to dig for it.

Next, I would like to uh reference agenda item 21, 26607, the response letter to the OC grand jury related to the state housing mandates.

I read all 18 findings and 17 recommendations, and I actually agree with many of them.

The letter uh from city manager Travis Hopkins was sounds quite reasonable, except the city council has been uncooperative and combative from the outset, and has been rightfully taken to task by the state for failing to meaningfully address its housing element responsibilities for years now.

Not only has there been no positive leadership on housing issues, but there has been much, shall we say, negative leadership involved.

This has damaged the city and has left us wide open to penalties, restrictions, sanctions, and loss of local control.

Our civic reputation has been damaged as well.

We need to we we need a new direction with a new council majority uh which could follow it uh could to make things right.

This lipstick on a pig letter uh will fool no one and will not satisfy the powers that be.

The well has been poisoned.

It is uh only a complete overhaul uh of the city council will do.

Uh you can cue surf city for for that.

Um moving to agenda item number 31, 263 uh 638, the uh America 250 plaque uh to be installed at Pier Plaza.

Is this from those wonderful folks who gave you the uh mega library plaque?

The public needs to see all design elements and budget figures on this uh council vanity project before it is set in bronze.

And and please, no bronze Trump statues either.

Thank you.

Um we we heard the uh uh comments from uh from our uh mayor pro tem Butch Twining about uh his little experience uh on uh Sunday afternoon at the peaceful protest, I might add, at the intersection of Maine and Yorktown.

I was there, Butch, and so was a media representative with a camera and a microphone.

I believe the expression you use was go F yourselves.

We we weren't uh at one of your rallies at the pier, Butch, and we were we were right by City Hall.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good evening.

Tonight I'd like to thank Mayor Casey McKinnon and City Council for the epic Fourth of July party that we had on the 4th of July.

We had a fantastic parade.

We had a great car show.

Uh thank you to Aaron Kaufman and Tyler Wolf.

Uh and thanks to Beef Palace, who closed their store and paid their employees to come down and manage the barbecue.

And I want to thank Chief Para for all of the police reinforcements, and I understand we also had sheriffs downtown to keep order in our city.

I want to thank Redneck Radio Rodeo and the Ramsey brothers for the entertainment, and we even had a mini fair for the kids.

And let's not forget City Works, who did a fantastic job cleaning up after the fair.

I was down there Sunday, and the place was spotless.

So good job.

Thank you very much.

I love this city.

I'm a fourth generation property owner in Honeyton Beach.

I wouldn't live anywhere else.

This is the best city in the United States, as far as I'm concerned, and I just want to thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Um happy birthday to your son Noah, first of all.

Uh Kenan Durham.

I actually had a whole public comment written.

Uh number of things that I wanted to speak about that were on the agenda, and then heard what was said by y'all at the start of the meeting, and I can't.

Are we for real?

Uh honestly, the amount of times that members of this council have said vile, offensive things to your constituents.

And then we hear people go, oh, well, that's fine.

You know, I don't I don't mind that because I don't agree with those people.

Or, you know, I would have said it too.

And then we come to a city council meeting, and there's some kind of ham-fisted, oh, I'm so sorry.

I felt emotional, and so I said this.

I have been an open trans activist in this city, being involved in activism in this city for several years now.

Do you know how many times I've had people tell me that I should die?

Do you know how many times I've had three times I've gotten the exact comment, oh, that's fuel for the wood chipper.

People who sit in the is that mic off?

Okay.

People who sit in this chamber who have said things to me.

Do you know what I never do?

I never tell them to go fuck themselves because I understand that I have a responsibility as an openly trans person in this city, where a lot of people, I'm the only trans person that they know, and so the way that I communicate represents the other trans people in this community.

The way that you communicate represents the other people in this city.

I also love this city.

I love living here.

I love my neighbors.

I love being able to go to the beach and just watch the waves with my coffee in the morning.

I love going to the library.

I love the folks that I get to know in the Oakview community.

I love so much about this city, and that is why I joined the people on Sunday periodically who protest it at City Hall, right?

Everyone who's there loves this city, and they deserve basic respect.

That should not be controversial, that should not be bipartisan.

Shame on you.

Shame on you.

Next speaker, please.

Hello, my name is Linda Diaz.

I am for real, and I do not believe in shame.

And I came here to thank you, Mayor McKeon, for a wonderful Fourth of July parade, that 250th celebration, parade and celebration.

Outstanding, memorable, momental, monumental, are a few words I'd like to use to describe it.

And I want to thank all of you, City Council.

It was wonderful seeing you up there cheering, and we just clapping for you, loving you, just thanking you.

We thank you for all that you do.

It may not seem like it.

I'm only one of many that aren't even here, but we appreciate all that you do and all that you have to listen to because we love all our people, straight, gay, trans, and there is no district, there is no discrimination under the American flag.

I've gotta say that.

And the grandkids were here, and it's generational.

This parade that you bring, the celebration, the 4th of July, the fireworks, all of that.

It's about community, it's about families coming together, and it's generational, and we love it, we appreciate it, we thank you, we honor you, and it may seem a little sad in some of the things that do words that are shared here, but just know that you're loved, we support you, we honor you, and we treasure all that you do.

Thank you for bringing making Huntington Beach wonderful.

That's all I want to say in gratitude to all that you do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

First, I would like to thank the true organizers of the parade.

I thought they did a great, terrific job.

Real leadership governed from the center.

Every resident, not for cronies, donors, or ideologues.

This council does not govern, it litigates.

Memory lane has shown you have burned through taxpayer money in courtroom after courtroom, losing case after case, and the bill goes to the Huntington Beach citizens.

This swamp of failed leadership is a portrayal of public trust, and Huntington Beach citizens are learning exactly who's responsible for this strategic litigation failure.

Respect for residents is not a talking point.

When a council member curses at a citizen on a hot mic, this body owes a response.

You gave none, and silence is complicity.

We demand a real budget, no tricks, no rated reserves, no more giveaways like the 30-year airshow deal.

Some of you on prior councils eliminated the vote, the volunteer citizens committee who gave their time freely on the city's future, but no room for citizen voices here.

This is not leadership.

That was arrogance on your part.

But with a new council, this committee could come back.

However, library services are now being pushed aside for a surf museum.

Five hundred dollars a month rent for approximately seventeen hundred square feet on Main Street.

That is a real sweetheart deal.

Rent should be in the thousands.

And is that five hundred dollar rent even current?

Or just another delinquent account on this council's books.

Stop wasting time on statues and plaques while our infrastructure crumbles.

Huntington Beach needs new leadership, leadership that serves our people, our infrastructure, our city's reputation, not themselves.

Thank you.

Zoom callers, when you hear your name call, please unmute yourself.

We will now hear from our Zoom speakers.

Bethany Webb, it is your turn to speak.

Please unmute yourself now.

Hi, Bethany Webb, longtime Huntington Beach resident, anti-fascist.

I want to start by recognizing the ridiculousness of the opening comments and praise the patriots that go out every Sunday to fight for the country we love.

The swastika signs are anti-Nazi, anti-fascist.

People are out there sweating because they love this country.

We show up, we talk about this city because we love this city, and we are watching the decline of both our city and our country at the hands of MA fascist circus clowns.

This is really simple.

Donald Trump's approval rating right now is in the 30s.

Nobody is buying this anymore.

Huntington Beach does not want your circus.

That the amount of you're gonna have to have somebody guard it to stop people from destroying it.

When are we gonna get back to doing things for the city?

Balancing the budget.

We lost the Olympics because you're clowns.

The idea that the vapor Mr.

Twine couldn't handle it, he drove towards those people.

He started the conflict.

He could have gone on his way and let people express their First Amendment rights.

So yes, he expressed his.

He told citizens, a young woman to go fuck themselves.

As Mr.

Burns on his hot mic called somebody a fucking owl.

You're disgraceful to this city and to this country.

And by the way, yes, I am beat showed us something.

Huntington Beach rejected Mega.

60% rejected it.

We are going to vote in a new city council of moderates.

Nobody wants full left, full right.

We just want a city that will pay attention to the people, to what the people need.

So here's an idea for anybody listening.

Some really easy names to remember.

The first two rhyme, Aaron and Tarant, the second two, Brenda and Ben, the two beats, Aaron and Terren, Brenda and Ben.

Those are the Surf City four.

Next speaker, please.

Speaker num ending in 8238, it is now your turn to speak.

Please unmute yourself.

I've had a lot of activity and bringing good information and changing things in Hawaiian legislation for law enforcement.

I understand the concern before you there are two documents, one in a public comment, and another one at press release of vote.

What happened to beach there is a contributing factor with social media that causes violence.

And my work has been given to the president, Secretary of Health and the FCC.

I have a website, social emotional, social emotional PA.

However, the problem is that we have a lot of childhoods going on because we don't see that the social media is causing uh fiscal onto our children's brain development.

About it being higher schools who aren't trying, and I would say we have the problem.

And I would encourage that we become uh mindful of what we want education around the world, there is going back to pits on paper.

And I think once you see that and the common delay and it's affecting our ability to uh contain violence in our schools and so forth, uh, we've gone the wrong direction.

There is a uh school beyond screen petition, or education, a thousand more.

They just say in the elevator uh uh Los Angeles.

I think we need to go back to supporting these initiatives and bring a common storm and replace folks and pencil and host about the first folks about their violence right well.

And uh, we need to support our legislators who'd help this things like a round.

You will see in this uh analysis I've given you it takes to go to save a child.

I strongly recommend that you partner with Tai Thai and strip and then move forward to your elected members of Congress because Kids Act was passed by partisan and uh the president I space and Secretary of Health say extra stream time costs is mental health, and the FCC agrees.

If they're trying to circle around this, once you see the documentation I provide you, you'd be very concerned about the issue of technology and grooming kids and schools in ocean side school, um said I have the document that it is uh e-sports is college bound under uh sixth rate.

I don't know if we have problems, and I hope that we can achieve the goals and proper um utilization of technology in a way that doesn't cause uh child abuse.

And I'm in Congress, and I'm in the state, and I hope we do a resolution that will identify uh this goal and objective of education and uh not to uh create a um a very disruptive uh ability to read and write uh and so forth.

I thank you for your opportunity to speak with you.

I hope you uh see any question you may have, but I am in my website.

You'll see um in the documentation, June 14th uh on the blog on Christ and I States Later.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

Chris Clewee, it is your turn to speak.

Please unmute yourself now.

Hey, City Council, it's Chris.

Um long time Huntington Beach resident, uh, running for AD 72.

And uh, yeah, I just want to echo what multiple previous speakers have said on uh Butch Twining's non-apology apology.

I have run security um at that protest at the uh at the intersection of Yorktown and Maine, and the only problems we have ever had are from far-right mega people either threatening us or gunning their engines or literally attempting to run us over with their cars.

So um, while I respect Butch's First Amendment rights to tell someone to go fuck themselves, I think as a sitting city council member, you should not be saying stuff like that.

Um you are someone who represents your community, and as someone who has been a representative of their community in the NFL, you are constantly told that what you do matters, and how you present yourself to the people around you, that matters.

To people who are trying to point out that this government is creating concentration camps, that over 53 individuals have already died in ICE custody.

And that somehow this is okay.

None of us should be okay with that.

The pinnacle of patriotism is to be able to tell your country when it is doing something wrong.

And that's something that I hope you and Pat Burns and the rest of this council understand is that you cannot just say you are American and that you are patriots.

You actually have to do the work.

And so I just want you to understand that as Huntington Beach residents, we want you to act for us.

We want you to create a better Huntington Beach for everyone who lives in the city, regardless of whether or not they voted for you.

So please keep that in mind.

Work for the best outcomes for your community, all of your community, and stop promoting this obvious fascist next speaker, please.

Thank you.

Louis Mattorino, please unmute yourself.

It is your turn to speak.

Yes.

Please go ahead.

I just want uh I'm a United States Marine Corps veteran, hunting to beach resident, born and raised in Southern California.

You know, I want everybody to know, you know, whether it's left or right, you know, our country's being taken over, it's being overran by a foreign government.

Everyone needs to understand what APAC is and see where all our tax sellers are going, whether Huntington Beach or not, we're sending billions and billions and billions of our tax dollars to 90 other countries, you know, and people need to understand what's going on.

This isn't left versus right anymore.

You know, our government's taking over, our government has been taken over by a foreign entity, and I just want everybody to understand what's going on and to do their research on APAC.

That's it.

Next speaker, please.

We will now hear from the next uh in-person speakers, numbers 30 through 40.

Please come down and cue at the designated area.

Thank you.

Go ahead, sir.

Go ahead.

Me?

Okay.

Oh, there, council.

I'm back.

Mr.

Burns, thank you for uh appeasing the masses, I guess, and taking my call.

And uh basically I looked at that and you said there's nothing you can do.

And that's about the only thing we can get.

I go to I uh go to the newspapers, never get a call back.

I went to I filed a claim with the state that the housing authority haven't heard anything back from.

But uh it's the only thing you guys have to look at the date details here and sit down with me, and I'm just gonna give you some highlights here.

But um, basically, when Saunders came into uh Surf City or Beach Cottage, just formerly Pacific Ocean Park, uh the rent I paid was 978.

It had been going up because obviously I need the beach was beginning to grow, so forth.

Anyway, as of September 1st, I will be paying $3,384.

That's an increase of 246%.

Now, if you divide that by 13 years, the effective rate is 12% per year, which is impossible.

I mean, it's it's possible because it's been happening.

He's charging way too much money, he wants to take over the whole park, all the seniors, some of the seniors try to sell their houses, they rehab them and so forth to his contractors' uh satisfaction, but they never sell because they tell them, well, just tell your new buyers that we're gonna increase the rent by another two, three hundred dollars, so the deal closes.

Now there's people like me who've been there 23 years myself, but the family bought the place back in the 60s.

Um I'm not gonna move that place.

I can't sell it because it's old.

And I haven't really rehabbed it.

I'm gonna keep it neat, but it's too old.

It's it's over 60 years old.

So I have to put up.

I have uh two jobs now.

I got another job.

You know, 78 is tough, but I guess it keeps me in shape.

But um, you know, I need your help to talk to Saunders.

Mr.

Burns says he talks, or you see him, he knows him and so forth.

We're gonna sit him down, maybe have him come down here and let's talk about it.

What's going on?

I'm a senior, I'm 78 years old.

I can't go to my bank, you know, I can go rob a bank, I guess, or whatever, but I don't intend to do that.

Something's got to be done by you as a unit to just talk to this guy and say, What's the problem here?

Because there's a lot of seniors on my street.

Two people get 150, I get 221.

Well, you're closer to the beach.

You cross the street, give me a break.

It's crazy.

And like I told you last time, uh, all of my money, my retirement pays for the space rent.

So just like all your commercials, I don't get a chance to do any of that stuff.

I mean, I would go old school eat over me, you know.

I go to perks and Neptunes and all that stuff like that, but it's just tough.

And I need your support.

I need your support.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yep.

Next speaker, please.

Hello, Jignesh Paddyar, a lifelong uh resident here at Huntington Beach.

It's been a while since I came and spoke to good to see everyone here.

Uh hope everyone's 4th of July was great.

It was nice to see you all on the parade and wave at everyone.

And I didn't get a chance to see the fireworks at the beach, but if it was anything like where I was, it was safe and sound.

Um, obviously it was a lot louder than that.

Um agenda item number 31.

I really do appreciate that as well.

There's a lot of real estate on the Pure Plaza plaque right there, so it would be really nice to put a commemorative 250th anniversary.

I think everyone would really appreciate that and recognize the importance that uh that uh anniversary has not just for here but for the entire nation, everyone visiting Huntington Beach.

Um and that being said, a lot has been said about the protest that happens on Sunday over here off of Yorktown and Maine at the Civic Center.

And it's kind of being painted in the light of just regular protesting and people just having green grand old time.

And I've been down there myself, you know, because you would think that if people were with differing opinions want to have their voices heard, that a conversation should take place.

But a lot of the time when you're trying to have open discussion and conversation, you're met with uh you know whistles blowing directly inches from your ear, ringing bells right over front of your face, and if you should react at any point in that, they will go ahead and accuse you of attacking them and assaulting them when in fact they're just antagonizing you and trying to get a ruse.

And at the end of the day, I I think the conversation needs to be had where we can have open discussion.

And if you're trying to have this space where you want people to hear what you have to say and trying to understand what your position is, you would want to have a conversation and a discussion about it.

But that tends to not happen all the time, and it's kind of sad, and I I can't really reflect on Butch's uh words and actions, but at least from my perspective, it's kind of hard not to react when people are screaming in your face saying, get the F out of here, where in their holding signs that say, Everyone's welcome.

Please come by.

You know, it's almost counterintuitive and oxymoronic, and it just kind of sends a bad message.

And um, I just hope that you know, if there is the time that we can have more conversation, so we don't have to have these butting hat ideas.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and members of City Council.

My name is Linda Rodriguez, and I serve as a board of director of government and community affairs for the Orange County Women's Business Chamber.

On behalf of the chamber, I would love the opportunity to connect with members of the city council and formally invite you to join us as one of our upcoming meetings.

We would like to welcome you and provide an opportunity to connect directly with women business owners and professionals from across Orange County, learn about their work and share more about the work happening in Huntington Beach and the community.

I will be leaving a few of my business cards with contact information.

I'd be happy to connect with you and your staff to coordinate an invitation and identify an upcoming meeting that may work with your schedule.

I apologize for not bringing enough cards, so I hope you can share.

And uh I'll pass them along, maybe take a photo of it and my contact information so you can have that, and we can connect later.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to connecting with you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good evening.

Uh, thank you for letting me speak.

I was here several uh council meetings ago, and I was inquiring why the uh entrance gate to the uh overlook park remains closed.

I've c I've reached out to several people in the parks department.

Nobody knows.

Um I do know recently that they had put up a sign that you can park on the side streets, but why can't you use the parking spots that are allocated in the park like every other park?

There is no other park in Huntington Beach that the entrance gates remain closed 24 7.

During the pandemic, I was told that the reason they closed the gates was because they didn't want people congregating.

But uh the pandemic's long pass.

So uh does anybody know why those gates remain closed?

The only park in the city.

I filled out a blue card last time, and I haven't received a response.

Do any of you live over there?

Okay.

All right.

Do I need to fill out another blue card?

And is there a is there a limit or time frame where they're supposed to get back to you?

Oh, you can't answer that.

Someone will get someone will get back to you.

Fill out the blue card and someone will get back to you.

Is there a general time frame?

Because it was I don't know, two council meetings ago.

Okay, thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Uh good evening.

Um, my name is Russell Neal.

I'm in Huntington Beach.

Now, some people are expressing shock and dismay at a word coming out of Councilmember Twining's mouth, which they have never heard before, except when it was coming out of their own mouth.

I think it's something about a proprietary interest in this case.

But concerning item 21, responding to the grand jury report on California housing mandates.

My only objection is their use of the word unintentional.

That these mandates destroy pleasant middle class neighborhoods while doing nothing to improve housing availability or affordability is far from unintentional.

That is, in fact, their intended effect, as is their policy of driving industry and with it good paying jobs out of the state.

It is a sort of engineered poverty.

The destruction of the middle class family structure of American society is very intentional.

Senator Scott Weiner, the architect of many of these laws, has called single family homes and yards immoral.

I suspect he has a similar view of the family itself.

Democrats are collectivists at war, not only with individual homes, but with individual thought, speech, and belief.

Their social model is the plantation, a society with a few rich rulers and big houses, and the impovered masses enslaved quarters.

It is a model they have not changed since and to Bellum Times.

This city has bravely fought against this agenda in court, and in spite of recent setbacks, continues to fight by whatever lawful means are available.

Forwarding the grand jury finding to the judge with your comments is an example of that.

And I encourage you to continue the fight.

Thank you and God bless you.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker, please.

Good evening, Chris Rainey Native.

Saturday night I was waiting at a restaurant, and some guy recognized me and said, Hey, I see you at the council meetings.

Thank you for speaking up.

In contrast, the same afternoon a council member told a constituent, go uh duck yourself.

We expect our council members to send example, not lower themselves to the Hoy Paloi.

Now, if the city really is a business, City Council are the employees and the residents are the bosses.

Any employee who cusses out their boss usually gets terminated in short order, not main mayor next year.

And on the nature of businesses, Huntington Beach must be the best landlord ever because you've let the Surf Museum be laid on rent twice in two months, and they've overstepped their lease agreement already.

Plus, the museum is going to be closed on Saturday, August 1st, which is a real pity that it's going to be busy on the last Saturday of the U.S.

Open.

That's a major lost opportunity.

That is if people are going to wander five blocks inland.

Also, I must take an exception that protesters are spitting on this country.

We're not.

We're reclaiming it from traders.

If we didn't care, we wouldn't be out there on Sunday afternoons.

We're indignant that Connor just hijacked this country through fear, stupidity, and hate.

We believe in liberty and justice for all, not just white people identifying as Christian.

And you show patriotism and faith through behavior, not just wearing red.

Now, Dr.

Lawrence Britt identified 14 characteristics of fascism, including nationalism, disdain for human rights, always calling someone the enemy, obsession with security, corporate powers protected, an obsession with crime and punishment, and cronyism and corruption.

If you don't like comparing the United States with Nazis, stop trying to make us more like Nazi Germany.

Thank you.

Any more speakers?

No more speakers.

All right, Council Committee appointment announcements.

Council members, do you have any council committee appointment announcements?

All right.

Maybe one, two, three, four reporting.

Does anyone have anything to report?

Openess and negotiation disclosures.

Does anyone have anything to disclose?

City manager's report.

City manager, please introduce the report.

Thank you.

Uh Chao Vu, our public works director, will provide our capital improvement project updates.

Thank you, Travis.

Good evening, Mayor, members of council.

We want to present some CIP updates as we do for projects that are valued over half a million.

Okay.

So for our first project, we want to present zone three overlay.

The city is divided, um, the city's pavement program is divided into 12 zones.

You see in the top right corner there.

And streets are selected based on their PCI, which is called the Pavement Condition Index, and that determines whether you get a slurry or an overlay.

So we are going, we just finished zone three, and that's in the pink section that you see up top there.

The project rehabilitated about 75 of the worst residential street segments in zone three, and it is bound by Bolsa Avenue to the north, Golden West to the east, Howell Avenue to the south, and Graham to the west.

Work included limited localized pavement repairs, crack ceiling, cold milling, striping, as well as asphalt overlay.

The project was awarded to Hardy Harper Incorporated.

It was completed ahead of schedule.

The overlay project extends the life of several streets and provides new asphalt surface for the next 12 plus years until the street is reevaluated for repairs.

Oh, did I miss something?

What happened here?

All right.

Financial impact.

The funding sources for this project are infrastructure funds, Measure M, gas tax, water, and sewer.

There were no change orders for this project.

All bid items were covered in the scope of work.

And in fact, the project required less asphalt than originally estimated, which resulted in 2,300 fierotons of asphalt under the bid quantities, resulting in 250,000 in construction cost savings.

We also had reductions in cold milling and petrol mat quantities, which is a fiber.

The total budget was 3.785 800,000.

The but which is the budgeted amount and includes the construction contract, the change order, or not the change order, the contingency.

There's a 10% contingency as well as supplemental costs.

The final cost was 3.2 million.

And so the remaining budget is about half a million dollars, which will be carried over into the next fiscal year and then reallocated as part of the budget process for capital projects.

Why do I keep doing that?

There's another slide.

Conclusion.

Keep going.

Up up.

Yes, that one.

So this project was a success.

There were no safety incidents reported.

And the project was a critical investment in the city's local street infrastructure.

It extended the life of the paved street.

It was delivered with minimal disruption to the schools, trash, delivery schedules, as well as businesses.

We had an excellent working relationship and collaboration with the contractor.

For the next project, we have HBPD women's locker room, but it's more than just a locker room.

So our facilities are old.

It's from the 70s.

We have a video clip for you.

Shannon, can you help play that, please?

My name is Joseph Pennell.

I'm the Capital Projects Administrator for the City of Huntington Beach.

This is our PD women's locker room project that we just completed.

It went from an 800 square foot building or space to 2,000 square feet.

So if you step over here, we'll go check out the new reduced records room.

As you can see, the space is greatly reduced in size, but this machine really has uh allowed the records to maintain their same level of service.

So we're very excited about that and adding to our uh to our new technologies here in the city.

Office number one.

We've provided new space.

Uh in this construction zone, all of the mechanical electrical plumbing walls, everything's brand new.

So it's been a huge upgrade.

Uh this building was originally constructed in 1974, so you can only imagine what that might have looked like.

Uh in here is our new uh lactation room for new mothers.

Uh it's a private space for them, and we at the city, you know, really take care of our employees in that manner.

Again, the main attraction would be the new women's locker room.

It used to be a galley-style locker room, had limited spaces, and for our growing female staff, this will allow us to uh accommodate more staffing as we grow as a uh police department.

So we have a number of large officer sworn lockers, allow them to stow their gear and uh keep everything safe and tidy, and then over here the smaller lockers are uh primarily for our civilian staff, but also too they could be utilized and uh for the police officers as well.

Everything in this uh space has been updated to ADA compliance, so we are ADA accessible, whereas the previous structure was not.

Um we have new three new restroom stalls, uh all new tiling, two vanity or two sinks, and then uh three shower stalls, one of them being uh ADA accessible.

So and then lastly, we'll head out uh within this project.

We were able to incorporate the men's restroom as well.

There is a small janitor's closet for uh janitorial staff, and then the men's restroom has been created to mirror the women's as well, as far as design goes, but everything too has been updated for ADA compliance, and overall we're really excited how this whole project turned out.

So thank you.

Okay.

Okay.

So that was Joe Pennell.

He's one of our newer capital projects administrator who rose his way up through the ranks in public works on to our project budget and schedule.

The project was awarded to full swing construction, despite change orders, no additional working days were required to complete the construction deadline.

We want to thank key personnel.

Um it was all hands on deck with this project.

Captain Riley and police department, public work facilities, our street crews, IT for helping with with the access controls.

I keep missing the financial for some reason.

Okay.

All right.

Um the funding source for this project was infrastructure funds.

The total budget was 1,099,477, plus 20% contingencies.

All in all, it was $5.6 million in total construction costs.

We have a balance of $14,000.

The project did have 10 change orders.

I can explain.

So they fall into basically three categories.

Unforeseen existing conditions discovered during demolition.

As I mentioned before, when it comes to vertical projects, you don't know what you're going to expect unless you open up the walls, knock them out, ceilings.

There are things that you know have happened over time, especially if it was built in the 70s.

We also have code compliance as well and lifecycle improvements that were completed as we had access to the components, whether it's HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, we had to fix it if we discovered it.

We also had city requested operation improvements from the police department department so we can support their needs.

Overall, the changes are consistent with renovating an older facility where concealed conditions don't are not readily available or known.

So what the plans that we had did not exactly show what was there.

So a lot was unknown.

A drain line was added after field conditions were different from the record drawings.

Additional framing was required to address concealed conditions upon demolition.

Existing VAV units, which is a variable air volume system to help regular airflow to different zones, was also replaced.

We had the ceiling open, and so we needed to replace that as an opportunity to um a system that was already outdated, and it helps improve circulation and makes the HVAC system more energy efficient.

Electrical power was added for the powered lockers.

The men's restroom upgraded for were upgraded for ADA compliance, as well as finishes that were added after the demolition.

We had epoxy coating that was added to expose concrete curb.

We had code compliant lactation room that was added at the direction of of the client, which is Huntington Beach Police Department.

Office refinishing had to be expanded to provide consistent finished product throughout the adjacent work areas.

Minor finish improvements had also be had also been added, including hardware, more painting, and mirror that had to be relocated.

So as I mentioned, despite unforeseen conditions, undocumented utility conflicts, the impacts of deferred maintenance discovered during construction.

This was a successful project.

The project was delivering a modernized, functional, code compliant facility that improves daily operations, user comfort, safety, long-term maintainability for the department personnel, and through the continued coordination of our staff facilities, designers, contractors, and project men personnel, solutions were implemented.

The completed renovation provides upgraded plumbing, ventilation, finishes, accessibility features, locker room amenities that better support the needs of the department staff and extend the useful life of this facility.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you, Chad.

Do you mind going back to the paving schedule map?

Pavement.

Yes.

Thank you.

So I I know some uh individuals come here and speak, and I've seen comments online that we don't focus on the normal functions of a municipality government, fixing roles and potholes, and I always say, well, yes, of course we do.

Um so it's important.

I really appreciate you showing those photos of the amazing work you guys are doing.

Oftentimes I'm at events and residents have specific questions about specific streets and when they will be repaved.

Is there any way you can guide them to go perhaps online where they can see the paving schedule to understand when said street will be uh repaved or restriped, or we slurried?

Yes, we can provide more detail on our website about our zone maintenance program and give them updates on where we're at, what zone we're in, okay, and what time frame we're at.

So, yes, we can update our website to make it more um definitive.

Please, uh good example.

This happened a couple times this last weekend on how between uh Golden West and and Gothard, and I let them know that one of our biggest projects is that list station there.

And once that list station is complete, uh we will then repave that street.

It doesn't make sense to do it now while those big trucks are going and out and being up those streets.

So yeah, if we could just on the public works uh tab on the website, give more updates about certain zones.

I think that would address a lot of a lot of questions.

We'll do.

Thank you.

Hey Chal.

Thank you for the um demonstration.

Couple quick questions.

Thank you for the reports, by the way.

So there was two projects.

Uh on this last one, can you restate what the budget was and what the final cost was?

I thought I heard you uh I was I saw the numbers, but I thought I heard the reference to five million, so I I know I didn't see that up there, but can we see that slide?

The you know the the budget, the change order concession and and what the total spend was?

Yes.

So the slide here does not show the total budget, but I would have to describe it to you.

So the one million that you see up top plus the 219, 895 is a 20 percent contingency equals 1.3 million plus the supplemental.

I'm sorry, the 2.4 247,549 is another budget supplemental.

So it's it leaves us a balance of 14,000.

So was the council budget for this project or the line item one what the one five five two, or was that is that the sum total against what was budgeted?

You know, the spirit of this uh exercise, and and thank you for doing this when we started asking for it was you know the the simple things is was it delivered on time, over time, were you happy with the vendor and on budget, over budget, under budget?

Those are kind of the three data points, and then the rest of it is just all the uh uh you know the fill-in.

So was it on time and under budget or at budget?

It was on time under budget.

Okay.

We have a balance of 14,000 dollars.

Yeah, so that when I heard the five million, I got a little confused there.

No problem.

And then one other two quick questions.

So I I heard your reference that there was, you know, the as bill drawings weren't uh what you saw when you got into the construction.

Is that I would imagine in the in the modernized world the as built drawings would always model exactly what's getting built, but because this is from the 70s, is this something that we're gonna find with other projects that are older that that the drawings of record aren't necessarily what was constructed?

Yes.

That's just the way it was.

It will be a common um obstacle that we would encounter for older projects, yes.

They must not have been a good as a department as you guys are now, you wouldn't allow that.

We scan everything now.

Okay, and um the one other question.

Now I heard during the project that the city was making some requests actually during the the project.

Is that the norm or is it uh yes?

Okay, like so there's a scope of work that's agreed upon.

You go to work and then as you're doing that, um change orders happen when something's not the same as what you anticipated.

But uh requests I wouldn't necessarily consider that a change order.

So as you guys, you know, uh roll these projects out, do you know uh customer in this case the city requests come into play quite often?

If we have contingencies and there's built and it's built into the project budget, yes.

It could be at the request of the owner.

In this case, our client was the police department, and there were contingencies available, and there was a need, and there was a request from our police department, and we were able to accommodate them and stay within budget.

Fantastic.

Thank you for that.

So um with both vendors, would you say if that was the one other thing we were kind of looking for?

Um if you were grading them, they all got it.

Sounds like they came in under budget on time, so I would imagine they graded pretty well.

Uh you happy with both vendors?

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you, Joe.

All right.

Thank you.

City attorney report.

City attorney.

Thank you, Mayor.

What's up, Vic?

So Shannon, are you gonna run through the are you gonna do the clicker for me?

Okay.

So the slide deck is kind of extensive.

I'm going to not go through all of the slides, and I'm going to condense some of them, but we are here to answer questions, and I invite everyone to review the slide deck because it's got some really good information.

Excuse me.

So back in 2016, previous city attorney Michael Gates and I discussed the possibility of creating a community prosecutor program.

And at first I was kind of skeptical about the program, but to Michael's credit, he had a really good idea to add some additional tools to the city's toolbox to assist the police department in protecting the citizens against quality of life issues that often arise from lower lower level crimes.

We met a number of times with the district attorney's office, and in July of 2016, the DAA provided authority to the city to prosecute some some state law crimes.

Shortly after, and more importantly, the city council provided authorization for the program.

Shannon, if you could go on to the last slide on the history of the community prosecutor program.

Yeah, there we go.

So we're probably caught up.

So we implemented the community prosecutor program to support the law enforcement efforts of the police department and to prosecute crimes that impact residents.

Importantly their quality of life, particularly in the city-downtown area.

The community prosecutor currently prosecutes Huntington Beach Municipal Code violations and certain California Penal Code violations.

And just so you know, the charter actually provides authority for my office to prosecute municipal code violations, just not some of the state law penal code uh violations.

So if you go on to program goals, thank you.

So some of the goals of the program are to work cooperatively with the DA, prosecute crimes impacting residents' quality of life, work cooperatively with the DA to prosecute crimes impacting the downtown, provide prosecutorial support for the police department, see convictions, probations, stay away orders, restitution, etc.

for from folks who have committed crimes, and also to seek alternative corrective measures through diversionary programs.

So I think Chief Paras sums up the success of the program, and if I could just quickly read through a quote he provided to our office, the city attorney's office prosecutor program empowers our officers to address quality of life issues that directly impact our community.

With dedicated local prosecutors assigned to each case, carefully examining the merits of each unique situation, they can determine the best course of action to reduce repeat offenses while holding individuals accountable for their actions.

Support of this program is crucial in maintaining the high quality of life we expect in our community.

And I wish the chief was here, but uh I know he's very supportive of the program.

In addition, I'm not going to read it, but Jessica Keeley, the manager of the homeless and behavioral services for the city provided uh quote as well.

And uh that that quote lodged the program for its success in helping reduce the homeless uh issues in our city.

So if we go on, I we'll go on to the next slide, and happy for you all to meet our community prosecutor, Stephen Pomeroy.

Stephen is sitting at the table over there and here to answer questions after we're done, if you'd like.

Uh Stephen started in the city in September 2021 as a BA from Berkeley.

We won't hold it against him.

JD from Loyola, and he was importantly a former deputy district attorney in Humboldt County and a resident of Huntington Beach, so he understands the city.

So some of the common state law crimes that Stephen prosecutes are petty theft, resisting arrests, obstructing officers, trespassing, public intoxication, vandalism, to name a few.

So the rest of the slide deck kind of goes on to describe all of the different crimes and some of the scenarios where those crimes take place, but I'm just gonna read a few.

Um June two third June 2025, uh defendant stole 180 dollars worth of merchandise from a local target.

He was arrested, and in October, he pled guilty, sentenced to one year in Fort Will probation, 60 days jail, which was commuted until the time the pro the probation was successfully completed.

Um importantly, he agreed to remain subject to search and seizure, ordered to stay away from the store, and all the merchandise was recovered.

I'm gonna go on to another important one.

So if we go to the the trespassing one, Shannon.

So January 2026, defendant returned repeatedly to the Newland Center after he was asked to leave.

He was arrested and pled guilty, sentenced to one year probation, three or thirty-six days in Orange County jail, and ordered to stay a hundred yards away from the shopping mall.

So now I'm gonna go on to some of the municipal code violations that we run it run up against uh quite a bit.

So Huntington Beach Municipal Code violations for unlawful camping, drinking in public places, loitering in city-owned parks, urinating in public, curfew violations, and smoking in the at the beach in the pier.

So as to the unlawful camping, one example on December 220 uh 2025, defendant was reported sleeping under a blanket on top of a makeshift mattress at the rear of a business in Beach Boulevard.

Uh defendant was offered and refused housing resources.

Uh the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in Orange County jail and had to pay fines and fees.

There's some additional slides about diversion for homeless individuals, Prop 36, and uh prosecutors' duty to victims.

I would invite all of you to maybe take a look at the slide deck and and if you're interested, uh have a look and please get a hold of me if you have any questions.

But I think I'll move on to the last slide, which is our case statistics, which kind of paints the picture for the great work that Stephen's doing.

So from July 1st, 2025 till June 30, 2026, the total number of criminal cases that were filed were 1,132.

1,132 cases in a year.

Uh we received 294 convictions, 147 diversion resolutions.

Uh 260 of the cases were dismissed for various reasons, including mental health issues and prior sentencing problems.

And we currently have 423 pending cases uh that are either open and or with a out for the arrest.

So that's our program in a nutshell.

Um the most important piece of this is that the community should understand it's the city council's unwavering support of my office and the police department uh that keeps our city safe, and we thank you for the continued support of our office in this program.

Thank you, City Attorney Vigliata.

Stephen, thank you as well.

Thank you to previous city attorney Michael Gates for starting this program.

Um we talk about it often.

Prosecutor program as uh Mr.

Vigliata just outlined is so critical to uh all our efforts.

Um especially since I've been here in 22 and my colleagues for the last four years, we've achieved the greatest homeless reduction numbers on our city's history.

Um the Orange County point time count, we're the number one city in Orange County for homelessness reduction.

Crime over these four years is down over 27 percent.

It's a credit to you as our special prosecutor.

It's a great local tool we've had to not only prosecute crime but um portray a posture that criminal activity will not be tolerated in Huntington Beach.

So it's a testament to you, I really appreciate it.

And just a question I have to keep the the success of these of these data and metrics I just outlined.

Is there anything else you need from us to give you more tools on the municipal side or you know um from the council as a municipality that we can help you with?

I think thank you, Mayor.

Um you know, I uh Mike's been a great boss, Mr.

Vigliata, and uh and I would defer to him in terms of of what we need.

Uh there openly we we are talking about um in the future at some point uh you know retaining another uh criminal prosecutor, but that's a a budgetary factor that that honestly I'm just not familiar with the ability to uh to go to in that direction.

But uh no, the city's been great.

Uh Mike has been great in terms of the support that I need and uh you know a terrific place to work.

Mr.

Vigilata, so would another prosecutor allow you to process more crimes, process them more quickly, combination of both, or what do you think?

Uh you know, you know, I think that's a good it's a great question.

And as this program evolves, we'll certainly think about new ways to to you know move the move it forward and and that may be coming back to the city council to add another position for another prosecutor.

Right now, I think Stephen's doing an excellent job handling the caseload, but if we were to expand the program again, that would mean some other discussions with the district attorney's office, and and so we you know that that is still a little bit in its infancy, but we'll we'll we'll come back and talk more.

But if we were to expand the program, again, that would mean some other discussions with the district attorney's office, and and so we you know that that is still a little bit in its infancy, but we'll we'll we'll come back and talk more.

I mean, could it compress the timeline of when the crime occurs to when it's adjudicated?

Uh or is it more just caseload?

It's more more caseload.

Yeah, I mean I like I mentioned before I work in the commercial real estate, you know, retail industry, and I do talk to a lot of big retailers and they said they have noticed like petty theft crime has gone down.

That's a big thing for them because they call it shrink, which is actually theft.

But um that's a big deterrent as well, because that's just robbing sales tax dollars from our from our city.

So I know it's a big focus as well.

So again, if there's anything you need from us from the council for policy or legislation, just let us know because it's been so successful.

We'll do.

And that's what I wanted to highlight that that uh stolen merchandise case.

And you know, it's the broken window theory.

Yep.

If you let little crimes take place, they just evolve and and it turns into bigger crimes, bigger crimes, bigger crimes, and then you've end up having uh, you know, a really problematic city.

Awesome.

Thank you.

First off, when I see that slide right there, one word comes to mind that's deterrent.

So I really like that.

Um regarding another uh prosecutor, it would almost be uh you hire them, you reduce the crime because they know it's a deterrent, and then you gotta say goodbye to them.

That'd be the perfect scenario.

Anyway, no crime is the goal, yeah.

No program is the goal.

Just a quick question for the residents that are watching in regards to the flow of information communication.

So I know a lot of the community prosecutors, obviously it's proactive, so it's looking out and it's making sure that we're getting ahead of certain crimes.

Um I know that we've posted good numbers, but I mean, as eagle evil lurks in society, the work is actually never done.

And I've I've communicated with a lot of residents where they start to see where certain areas have been cleaned out and then quickly, whether it's behind fences or over by overpasses where there's criminal groups that actually start to, and this isn't I'm not talking about homeless shelters, I'm talking about actual groups that are more gypsy-like.

Would it be beneficial for cu residents to reach out to your office um in any capacity or the community prosecutor, or do we continue to just go through the traditional avenue of calling police when they're not necessarily committing a crime, however, you know ultimately there is going to be a crime committed and they develop kind of this nucleus of criminal activity.

Yeah, they need to contact the police department.

We work on the back end once there's been evidence of a crime and it's been it's been uh forwarded to our office.

Gotcha.

Thank you.

I'll say something.

Um I just want to thank you for putting this together.

I was about to take some like 25 slides.

Um, one thing that I'm very proud of is that people who are not from Huntington Beach know not to come to Huntington Beach to commit crimes.

We have a strong police department, we have a wonderful fire department.

Our marine safety, which we don't talk about enough, is working all the time considering all those miles of beautiful beach we have to keep everybody safe.

And everybody just kind of works together so well.

And if we didn't have if every department wasn't as strong as it was, we wouldn't be as safe as we are.

So I'm really, really proud of the work that's been done the last several years.

So thanks, our police, fire, marine safety, our attorney's office, everybody's been really great.

Great team effort.

Also public works.

Public works, they they do so much.

They're actually the ones that keep our city going.

And um we don't talk about them enough, yeah.

I do.

Well, yes, KC does.

Thank you.

Yeah, go ahead.

How many other cities in Orange County actually have a similar program to this?

That's a great question.

Stephen, do you know?

Well, it it's um uh as far as I know, to my knowledge, it's just Anaheim and us.

City, the city prosecutor program.

There are other city attorneys or or prosecutors in city attorneys' offices that handle many cities and they just handle uh municipal code violation types of things.

But as far as uh as uh prosecuting penal code violations, it's just Annaheim and and us.

I'm glad we're one of the two.

I'm curious how much of the caseload involves uh e-bikes.

Um, um I don't handle minors.

The the district attorney's office will handle the minors, so I don't see e-bike violations.

If we had another uh like an assistant uh prosecutor, would we be able to handle the minors, or is that like a policy where it all goes to the district attorney's office?

Yeah, typically funnel here in the accounting office.

So we would see the normal So if we decided to increase enforcement though, policy-wise, would we be able to handle those cases, or is or do we have to give them to the DA?

Yeah, I I would defer to the Huntington Beach Police Department.

They they file the initial charges, so enforcement starts with them, and then they would funnel it to the DA's office.

And honestly, I just don't know how they're they're um handling it.

I guess in terms of being kind of a way maker in Huntington Beach, I'm wondering if we could start kind of maybe spearheading you know a program like that for some of the greater offenders.

It's a great idea.

And to uh it's kind of the point I was making with with the mayor is that to expand that program we would have to have further discussion with the DA's office on how we allocate those cases.

Right now we don't have the authority over them.

All right, thank you.

All right, thank you guys.

All right.

Consent calendar.

Yes, Mayor.

Um I would like to pull one item.

Okay.

Um item number 27, the abandonment abandonment of old pilot lane drive water well project.

We have uh couple of administrative things we need to do before we can um bring that back to the city council.

All right, that's 27, you said?

Yes.

All right.

Okay.

I'd like to table item 19 for the time being.

Anyone else?

Motion to move the rest.

All right, second.

Did you get that, Madam Clerk?

Yes.

Number item 19 tabled, item 27, uh pulled.

Burns is the first McKeon is the second councilman Gruhl.

Yes, Councilman Kennedy.

Yes, Mayor Pro Tem Twine.

Yes.

Mayor McKeon.

Yes.

Councilman Burns.

Aye.

Councilwoman Vandermark?

Yes.

Councilman Williams?

Yes.

Items pass 7-0.

All right.

Let's see.

Item 30.

Administrative item staff, uh, please introduce the report.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um tonight I'm honored to bring forward a contract um with um Zach Zee um to be our chief financial officer here in Huntington Beach.

He served this the Huntington Beach community for the past five years under um several roles.

Most recently the assistant chief financial officer.

Um, and in the past um seven months he served as the acting um CFO for the City of Huntington Beach.

Um he brings um experience from private sector firms before coming to Huntington Beach.

And I would like to turn it over to Marissa Sir to provide um a quick staff report.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the city council.

I have a very quick report for you that outlines the terms of the proposed employment agreement with Zach.

Um the compensation would be at placement at step E of the non-associated executive management salary schedule.

It's roughly 104 dollars per hour.

Other French fringe benefits are tied to the non-associated resolution 2025 41, which includes city medical contributions, executive leave, cell phone stipend, and auto allowance.

Uh the agreement also includes severance language that's consistent with other department head employment agreements.

And that concludes my presentation.

Zach, just for the record, can you pronounce your last name, please?

C Tisakanakun.

Thank you.

Can you spell it so everyone knows at home unless we could put it on the screen?

I tried.

I'll I'll spell it.

Z-I-T-H-I-S-A-K-T-H-A-N-A-K-U-L.

He had the biggest jersey growing up and on all the sports teams.

Probably the last in uh in the lines.

That's right.

That's right.

Thanks, Zach.

Any questions, anybody?

Motion to movement as recommended.

Looking forward to Zach, I mean you've been great so far, so continue the good work.

You're very accessible and answer all our questions, so we really appreciate it and welcome aboard full time.

So Pat moved it.

I'll second.

Are we gonna vote?

Yeah.

Councilman Kennedy.

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Twiny.

Yes.

Mayor McKeon.

Yes.

Councilman Burns.

Aye.

Councilwoman Vandermark.

Yes.

Item passes.

Five, zero, two.

Thank you.

Do you want to button?

Item 31.

Uh final item, Councilmember Adams, uh, Councilmember Kennedy, please introduce the report.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh so the issue statement is it's regarding uh the monument down there at the uh at the pier, a beautiful monument with some gorgeous probably onyx.

I don't know the type of stone, but what I noticed recently was there's probably three or four the last and the last time anything's been placed there was 2014.

So most of that monument is blank.

So because we are a patriotic city, we celebrated uh America 250.

You know, I reached uh to the mayor and has said we should probably think about you know adding something, uh commemorating America 250, referencing those who served, freedom is not free, and the fact that Huntington Beach is a very patriotic city.

So I I can read the issue statement.

Basically says the city of Huntington Beach is celebrating America's uh 250th birthday through many events throughout the year to properly memorialize the Huntington Beach America semi-quincentennial celebration.

We propose engraving one of the black rectangles at the Pier Plaza Monument.

This is not going to be the final language, but inscriptions to include things like Huntington Beach, America 250, the logo near the top, the Huntington Beach, the fact that we celebrate his historic moment of America's 250 birthday.

Patriotic City proudly honoring and thanking all those who've served our great nation who remind us of freedom is not free.

And um the recommended action is to set aside resolution 2017-25 and direct city direct staff to create the engraving template for review uh initially by myself, Mayor Burns or Mayor McKean and and Councilmember Burns.

Of course, the final draft will be brought back before the council uh for a full approval or vote if if you will, uh, for the monument in Pair Pier Plaza to commemorate the Huntington Beach America 250 celebrations.

Awesome.

I'll second that discussion, right?

Sure.

Okay.

Um I love the idea.

Very good idea.

Um, but I'm curious why the set aside on resolution 27 1725.

Just so it can come just directly back to council, does not require to go down to the community library services commission.

Uh just comes up to us.

We'll bring the draft before you guys and just for final vote in basically 30 days.

I guess my only concern there is that the other council members as well as the public will be pretty much in the dark until as it says a final draft will come before the council, and then at that point we really don't have a lot of opportunity to make adjustments and the the public won't have the same opportunity they would get to put together some input.

And so those safeguards are put in place by a past council with uh Peterson et al.

It was a 7-0 vote, and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't just simply follow the policy that was already in place, and it actually specifically contemplates uh historical significant event such as this one.

Uh Shanna, if we could pull up the resolution.

I mean, what jumped out to me was just you know setting it aside.

And so in that highlighted section uh number six right there, it says if a park park feature or other community facility is to be named based on a finding of historical significance, i.e.

the America 250.

In addition to review by the community services commission, the city hunting uh the city of Huntington Beach Historic Resource Board will be consulted prior to a recommendation for the community services commission to city council.

And so that historical resource board, I mean, they eat, sleep, and breathe, you know, the history of Huntington Beach, and I would love to get you know some of their input in terms of what they think belongs on a celebration of 250 years, and then at the same time, you know, provide the opportunity for the Library and Services Commission to take a pass at it, and it gives the uh the public an opportunity to look at it.

And uh I just I hope we're not in such a hurry that we're gonna cut the corner there on that policy.

Yeah, no, I'd say we can of course take their input.

I don't think it needs to be a final draft by August 18th.

I think I think we and this between now and 30 days we can get all input and bring a draft forward.

Great and then have discussions and then bring it back again for final vote.

You okay with that, Don?

I mean I'll so he's proposing one thing.

What are you proposing?

Just change the war.

We don't need a final draft brought forward by August 18th, just a draft brought forward, and in the meantime, let's reach out to the historic resources board and any commissioners if they have comments, and let's just keep the ball moving, and then we'll bring up the question.

I'll set aside the set of second that I second your motion.

Okay.

Now, unlike you guys who left when we're gonna appoint our new CFO, I'll second that motion.

Okay, so what's what's the motion?

What was that last part?

I said unlike you two guys, the left right where we're about to appoint our new CFO, you didn't vote on him.

I don't know what the point was, and you didn't even abstain.

I will second your motion and what what do I do?

No, what do we make?

We went to use the register.

You knew it was coming up.

You both use it at the same time.

It's only room for one.

It doesn't matter to me.

We voted on Zach.

Welcome aboard, Zach.

This is kind of hit me off guard a little bit here.

Like what's the implication that we're gonna do?

Just so I understand the motion.

So is it we're it's gonna we're gonna do three things at once, correct?

It's gonna we're gonna work on the template, we're gonna consult with the historic resources board.

Fair enough.

And then consult with the park and library commissioners and then bring back a a draft on August 18th, and then we'll kick it around with the public and see if we want to make changes and then we'll bring back a final forum at the next meeting and the next meeting thereafter.

You guys okay with that?

Yeah, I'll say it there.

I I got the the substitute motion for you.

Uh I move to substitute the recommended action with the following that the proposed America 250 plaque and monument at Pier Plaza be processed in accordance with resolution number 2017 25.

And that the matter be referred to the Historic Resource Board and Community and Library Services Commission for review and recommendation back to the city council.

So I'll do a substitute substitute motion, which I just what just said is that uh we will work with staff council on it on a template draft.

We will consult with the historic resources board, we will consult with our parks commissioners, bring back a draft before council on August 18th, and then kick it around.

And if we need another draft, we'll bring it back again.

I'm unclear, are you still setting aside resolution 2017-25?

I am yes.

Because nothing's being named, so this is a a plaque.

And I think we're overthinking it.

I think we can all do work together at the same time and still have a nice draft that comes here and then we can make changes and bring it back.

So that's my substitute substitute motion.

So it's not specifically related to like naming after a formal council member or mayor.

I mean, you're naming it.

It's it's gonna be a 250 plaque.

And so you so your belief right now, city attorney, does 2017 25 not apply because it's not specifically dealing with a a name on the plaque.

I mean it it apply you you either set it aside or you don't.

You're either gonna follow the rules, the rules in the resolution and set it aside or not follow the rules and I suggest we follow the rules.

That's all.

Again, this was our H item.

Like this is supposed to be something fun.

It doesn't need to be controversial.

We don't need to overthink it.

I think we can do everything at once.

I think we can satisfy your concerns.

I think we can still work on this.

We're towards the later half of the year.

Like this is a a big moment.

Let's have fun with it.

And it it doesn't need to get so technical.

I think we can all work together on this.

I mean, I talked to the historic resources board.

I just talked to Kathy Shea over email about it about something else.

We could talk to my commissioner on the parks commission.

I mean, that's my substitute substitute motion.

So there's a second we can vote on it.

With all due respect, Mayor, I I I spoke with the Historical Resource Board and they said that they would love uh to receive this.

And and so I would just say let's follow the rules.

Let's just follow the policy.

I don't see any harm in doing that.

Well, they can still participate.

I mean, we can we can talk with them often.

It's not this the uh again, I don't think it needs to get this technical and this you know made such a big deal about it.

I mean it's supposed to be a a fun moment.

It was a great historic event.

Let's just work with them and and us at the same time, and everything is gonna come back for a draft, and if we don't like it, we can make changes and kick it down to them then or whatever, but let's just let's just work on it.

I mean it's it being named for anything.

Is it being named?

That's what I'm trying to you city attorney just said it's not about that.

He says you either follow the rule or you don't.

Well, that that's where I'm well, it's not that.

He says it applied.

He did say it applies the resolution applies to regardless.

Oh, or or we wouldn't have been setting it aside.

So I think following what a 7-0 council majority, you know, Eric Peterson and all, they they passed this, they put these safeguards in place.

It's reasonable.

It gives the community an opportunity to provide some input, and we get the input from the historical resource board.

I think it's reasonable, and I think not doing it that way, it's not not technical.

I think we should be technical sometimes, right?

We should dot our I's and cross our T's.

Uh because when we move quickly, you know, we make mistakes.

It's half-hazard.

And so let's just follow the process.

I guess what I'm saying is the committee will have input because a draft will come back before council and they'll have comments, it'll be posted on the agenda.

Let's say, hey, we want to make changes, let's have input through the historic resources board we're gonna be talking to.

Let's have input through our parks commissioners.

And I think it's totally appropriate.

I mean, this is uh the HIV that we thought would be fun and be great.

I mean, I think we should follow the rules.

I think it's disrespectful to the rules if you want to cut past it.

Substitute substitute motion that I made.

If we don't get a second, then we'll vote on your motion.

So this it is getting reviewed by the historic resources board and library and parks commission.

And yeah, to provide input simultaneously while we're all like working on this together.

Okay.

Yeah.

In an agendized way or in an informal way.

I would imagine through an informal way, just with talking with them.

I mean, what's it's just gonna be a phone call text message, okay?

Meetings.

I mean, what's what's wrong with that?

Because the rules say that it's supposed to go back to them and it would be agendized.

There would be many agendized.

There would be public input.

It'll and that'll happen at a council meeting.

Instead of three council members deciding for everyone else while we're all in the door.

It won't though, because we'll we'll call we'll contact the historic resources board.

It's coming back for council.

But can can those boards give input outside of a meeting?

Otherwise it would violate the Brown Act.

No, you can't get well, you can't get a majority of I can talk to a couple individuals and just follow the rules.

We could have everyone involved.

I was on the community services and library commission.

I was on uh ad hoc committee for a naming of a park.

And technically we're supposed to go and uh have the ad hoc committee and then we go rec recommendation to the uh community and library services, if we were gonna name it, but this is just dialogue on what's gonna go on at the plaque.

This is the same exact process in your world, you think that the MAGA plaque went through.

Everything's gotta be your way though.

You don't see it.

See either way, it's the city council's way.

I just want to make sure that if they're communicating that we're not violating the Brown Act.

So if it goes through them, then it has to be in some sort of a formal setting from what I'm understanding.

Correct.

If the if they're going to take action on the item, Shannon, can we slide to the bottom of that resolution?

We're all on board for it, so let's just put it through the commissions.

I mean, that's just slide down a little bit.

I'm sorry, yeah, a little bit more.

Um I'm sorry, up.

Yeah.

I'm I'm going for uh this isn't my way, you know, with all due respect, Councilman Burns.

This is uh something that passed through previous council in in 2017.

It was a 7-0 vote.

They also bought the Elon.

This is Eric Peterson that was on that council 7-0.

There you go.

There's all the ayes.

So did a motion.

Should that go have gone through it?

The Charlie Kirk that we've got.

That one that one fell through because the funding.

Yeah, no, no, but did it go did it go?

Was it going to go through all the boards and everything?

I don't recall you said it was gonna go to any of those.

You were gonna side it and we were gonna fund it.

So are we talking about the Charlie Kirk thing?

Well, I'm just asking the permission, I forgot.

I mean, we I remember you pushed that thing and we're gonna be able to do that.

Are we talking about you asked me questions?

Yeah, let Don's got the floor.

No, so uh I I I can't recall when you brought the Kirk.

I can't recall either, to be honest.

Well, I don't think it's whether there was a set aside or not.

I don't believe that there was a set aside on that.

I think I think if we wouldn't have said anything about setting aside this, it would have been voted on.

I you probably didn't know about resolution.

I didn't know about 2017 25.

Uh I think our city manager brought it up, so it if if it wasn't brought up, maybe he would have to be able to do that.

I didn't realize it was such an inconvenient rule for you guys.

I just want to follow the rules.

You guys don't have to follow the rules.

You could vote to set it aside.

All right, so there's a substitute substitute motion on the floor.

Second on substitute substitute.

So motion is second by Burns.

Can can you outline that please?

Yes.

We are gonna uh council will work with staff on a template.

We will consult with the historic resources board.

I will consult with my uh community library and services commissioner on input simultaneously, then a draft will be brought back at the August 18th meeting for review, amendments, tweaks, changes, whatever, and then from that step we can you know either vote on it then or make changes and bring it back.

So I mean the axle admitted to the case.

We can allow the Chaz community library service person.

I mean please call it.

So I didn't hear a set aside in there.

There's no set aside.

That's good.

No set aside.

Yeah, mayor.

Set aside resolution number two zero one seven-two five.

Thank you.

So either way, the final is gonna be the draft will come to us for approval.

If that doesn't work out, it'll come back to the case.

Or modification.

Yeah, so we can the final one would still have to come through council.

Correct.

So three of you guys are not just gonna sit there.

That's correct.

This is what we want.

That's correct.

And the public will have input, they'll see it before it comes to the council.

It'll be agendized.

It'll be bought back for council, public comments, requested changes.

So the public will have the opportunity to comment on the night that it gets voted on.

And it so the draft, yeah.

The final it's a final draft.

That's the way that was written in final draft.

Set aside okay.

My substitute substitute motion is set aside a resolution number two zero one seven-two five and direct staff to create the engraving template for review by council members.

With input from the historic resources board, with input from the community library services with a draft brought forward for vote and review on the August 18th City Council meeting for the monument in Pure Plaza to commemorate the American Beach.

Hunting Beach America 250 celebrations.

Councilman Grohl.

No, I just think we should just get to the point where all of us agree, just not set aside the resolution.

Everybody will be on board, and then it's good to go.

Councilman Kennedy?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Twine?

Yes.

Mayor McKeon.

Yes.

Councilman Burns.

All right.

Councilwoman Vandermark?

Yes.

Councilman Williams.

No.

Item passes five two.

So before we adjourn, I just want to um honor and remember uh previous mayor, Joseph Joe Carcio, who passed away recently.

Joe Carcio was known to so many simply as Jersey Joe, and he dedicated his life to service, whether in uniform, in business, on the battlefield, or in City Hall.

And he believed that communities become stronger when people step forward to give back.

Joe's journey began in New Jersey, where he developed the values that would define his life.

His service to the United States Army instilled a sense of duty and leadership that remained with him for decades.

After making Huntington Beach his home in 1979, Joe became much more than a successful businessman.

Through Bellaluna and Jersey Joe's restaurant in Delhi, he built gathering places where friendships were formed, stories were shared, and neighbors became family.

One of Joe's greatest passions for was for investing in young people.

For 15 years as a varsity baseball coach and 10 years as a football coach at Ocean View High School, he taught lessons that extended far beyond the scoreboard, discipline, teamwork, perseverance, and character.

Those who knew Joe often say he never met a stranger.

He had a remarkable ability to make people feel welcome, valued, and heard.

And that genuine connection with people became one of his greatest strengths as a public service.

Joe carried that same people first approach into public office.

After being elected to the city council in 2006 and serving as mayor in 2011, he led with accessibility, common sense, and a deep love for Huntington Beach.

While he was mayor, he celebrated the HB Little Lake winning the World Series and presented the key to the city to serve for Kelly Slater.

I know that was one of his proudest moments.

He understood that thriving local businesses are the heart of a strong community.

His creation of the Surf City Savings Program reflected his commitment, supporting local entrepreneurs and strengthen our local economy.

Even after leaving elected office, Joe never stopped serving.

He remained engaged as a legislative liaison, mentor, advocate, and trusted friend of so many in our community.

Joe's legacy cannot be measured only by the offices he's held or the policies he championed.

It is found in the lives he touched, the young athletes he coached, the businesses he supported, the colleagues he mentored, and the residents who knew they always had someone to listen to.

On behalf of the city of Huntington Beach and our city of Huntington Beach City Council, is our privilege to present this celebration of life uh commendation and recognition of Joe's decade, which we're gonna uh it's I think it's in August, right?

Yeah, so we're gonna give a nice commendation for Joe to honor his life and recognition of Joe's decades of uh dedicated service and his lasting contribution to Serge City USA.

So to Joe's families, we extend our deepest condolences and our sincere gratitude for sharing with him with his community for so many years.

Joe often led with energy, optimism, and unwavering belief that public service is about people first, and his example reminds us that leadership is measured not only by what we accomplished, but by how we treat others.

So we may honor his memory by continuing to serve our community with the same generosity, humility, and love that defined Joe Carcio's remarkable life.

Thanks, Joe.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

Motion.

Second.

Meeting adjourned.