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i like to call the meeting of the City Council public financing authority to order Clark, can I have the role, please? Yes. Council member Mosier here. Answer. Remember. Bolton s not yet arrived. Mayor pro Tim Burns Mayor Van Der Mark. Council member Strickland Council member McKeon Council member kalmick. Present. Thank you thank you moving on to council member comments. Would anyone does anyone have a comment to make ok, I do. Ok, Thank you? I just wanted to make a comment that, uh, this Saturday APRIL 20th is the Greater Huntington Beach Interfaith council co sponsored with the City of Huntington Beach Community Day of service. If, you can go to ghb ic.Org, You can find out more about projects that we have, Um you can also go to just serve.Org for more information. Thank you. Anyone else? Ok moving on to announcement of supplemental communications. Do. We have any supplemental communications? Not for Closed Session? No. Public comments pertaining to the close session items Do We have anyone signed up to speak? To find some You just Sure. I d like to reconvene the regular meeting of the City Council Public Financing Authority. City clerk. Could you please take the roll. Sorry, Mayor. Okay, Councilmember Moser. Here Councilmember Bolton here. Mayor Pro Tem Burns here mirror Vandermark here. Councilmember Strickland CouncilMember McKeon Councilmember Kalmick here present. Thank you. We ll now moving on to pledge of allegiance which will be lead tonight by Captain both friends, bro. Please stand If you re able Right Hand over your heart Ready Begin. Mission. Next to Nathan vocation will be given by Huntington Beach police chaplain Bobby Ewing. Would you all about with me, please. Almighty. GOD, we have come into your presence with grateful Hearts. Father. We are thankful for our great nation and the freedoms that we have. We are thankful for the men and women who have fought for these freedoms we hold so dearly. I thank you for our city and those who lead us. I pray that is our City Council deliberates tonight that you would grant them the wisdom needed to make decisions that will impact our city. I pray the same for those members of our city staff as they advise our council. Thank you for the freedom to offer opinions about City matters, and I pray that all who offer those opinions will do so with respect and courtesy. GOD, this city is a great city. We have so much to offer both our citizens and our visitors. So be with us tonight as decisions are made that will impact all Finally father. I pray for our public safety department. I asked father that you would be with Chief Parra and Haberle e, their command staffs and all of our men and women who serve we thank you for their service to our community in your most holy name, Lord, I pray Amen. So at this point, we d like to move forward with our fireworks, Slattery, and then we will continue on with public comments. All right, Mayor. I have a short presentation before I introduce MISS Huntington Beach. If. Julie can help me put it up on the screen. I ll go ahead and let everybody know Um, what happened during our application period. So for 2024. We. We had some high school winners that I m going to announce they re not part of tonight s lottery. But each private, I mean each public high school and conducts their own lottery with their own sports and extra curricular activity groups. So Edison High School submitted winners in for football and a s b. They have alternates, Boys Tennis Mun and girls lacrosse. Our next high school Huntington Beach, their girls Basketball Boosters Club was successful, as was Oilers Boys Basketball Boosters Association. They ll Go ahead and share that booth with alternates football and field hockey. Marina high school winners were field Hockey Girls Outdoor Sports Booster club, and the alternates were Marina high school swim and Boys Volleyball Booster club. Ocean view High school winners were baseball boosters and soccer and their alternates. Football boosters in volleyball. And for our private high school Liberty Christian High school. The. Proceeds of selected will go to their technology department. i d like to introduce MISS Huntington Beach Come on up Ruby Huntington Beach 2024 Ruby Brown. Will you? I Hope I said that right, Ruby? Ruby is going to help Mayor Van Der Mark conduct the lottery tonight and we re going to start by, um, moving on to our our first set of participants are going to be our partnership groups that, um We have this year we adopted a new resolution to allow for one additional fireworks booth permit to be exclusively issued to a city related organization or foundation, defined as a charitable organization that s been established as a result of a partnership. With, a specific City department and has the primary purpose of financially supporting city services and operations. So Tonight s participants in year one, and this is important or establishing an order or a list if you will, um, how these booths will be awarded in the years to come. There are three partnership groups right now. Huntington Beach Council on aging is number one. Huntington Beach Fire Outreach Foundation and Huntington Beach Police and Community Foundation. So MISS Huntington Beach or Mayor Van Der Mark. Can. You put balls 12 and three inside the The spinner. And you just close the top, and we re only going to be selecting the first ball that drops wins the booth. So. What number are we? Okay, so be to Huntington Beach Fire Outreach Foundation will Be, um, lucky enough to host a safe and sane fireworks booth this year now we can put in, we can go to our next group will be used Sports and so we can go balls. One through 11 can go into the spinner. One through 11. Okay? Eight. Yes? Yes so that one through 11 is in there correct? Just a moment. Steak, so We should have rolled for positions to, uh the 2nd and 3rd booth. So. Would you mind emptying the Yeah. Sorry. So we already drew ball number two. So. Let s put one in three back in there. Hmm. Thank you, Ashley. Uh, dropping Mhm. Okay, so one in three are in there, right? Alright, So. Let s go ahead and select the next number. B three Okay and obviously, that leaves ball number one and that can stay in there. We don t need to pull it out. So. We ve got our order, and now we can go ahead and put those back in one through 11. For youth sports. Yes. Ready. Everyone. Okay, so that is hb divers doing businesses. Coast divers number one Go ahead. Okay, okay. Oh, The five b five and that is Huntington Beach Valley Little League. And. If two came out. Go ahead. That s fine. No, that s fine. It looks like it be really easy, but it s not You okay, b 11 and that is North oc Youth Sports organization. That s our third winner. Yep. It s okay, It that s because it gets aside. The six b six That is team 90 doing businesses. California Rush number four and we ll do number five. Okay? Be to Seaview Little League. That is our fifth booth. All, right and we re going to draw three alternates. And that s in case one of the groups can t fulfill the Maybe a little slower. Ah! How about go the other direction. Yeah. Ah, there it is. The eight b eight Yes Huntington Beach Chargers youth football and cheer. That s alternate one. Okay? I don t know You re going pretty fast there. Okay, Reverse. Okay? Three b three That is culture Football. That s alternate number two. Pick one more. It always works really good when you re practicing. Yeah. Okay b, nine. That is Beachley volleyball, so that s alternate number three. So congratulations to hb divers. Huntington Beach Valley Little League. To North oc You Sports Association Team, 90, California Rush and Cebu Little League and, um we ll go ahead and be posting that on the Web tomorrow and you ll be hearing from Fire department representatives about your permit obligations. So now we can go ahead and put in all balls up to 17. So I think everything on the board can go back in and we ll move on to civic organizations. Okay. Ready? Okay, Winner number. What? There you go. Beef three, Okay b three Compass Bible Church is winner number one I think it s easier when there more in there, too. Now you tell me. Before thine Lutheran Church of the Resurrection number two. Beach, 12. B 12. Refuge Cavalry Chapel. Number three. B six Is hb Elks Lodge number 1959 number four One more winter and then we ll pick some alternates. B one Be one therapeutic writing center. Alright. Okay, so we ll go for a three alternates. B 13 alternate one number one. Orange Coast. Get coup in Be 16 hb Council on aging. Alternate to I feel like b 11. Is Los damos Alternate number three. Lisa Alright. So. Um, I d like to congratulate therapeutic writing center Compass Bible Church, hb Elks Lodge number 1959 Refuge Calvary Chapel and Lutheran Church of the resurrection for winning a fireworks booth and all winners will be contacted by our fireworks representatives because I have all your contact information, and so does the fire department and I want to thank Ruby for helping us out tonight. Thank you so much, Ruby. This tending to beach, Everybody Right here. I was like it was like, Shut up, Tony. In the jungle. I didn t drop the ball last year. The strongest guys. You re next. Okay. Now we re moving on to Closed Session reports by our city attorney. Do, you have anything to report? Nothing tonight? Thank you, Mayor. Announcements of Supplemental Communications received after the agenda. City clerk Do We have any supplemental communications Yes, we do. Mayor hold on one moment. It was on my screen and my screen. Hang on one second. Okay? There it is. For consent calendar item number 13. There was a memo from Arc, Director of Community Development department, Jennifer via senor, whether revised management District Plan and Power Point presentation for the adoption of Resolution 2024 13, declaring the city s intention to modify the management district plan for the Huntington Beach tourism Business Improvement District. Email communication was received from Jennifer Williams, senior director of marketing and Public Relations, Pacific City regarding that item. Email communication received from visit Huntington Beach board of directors regarding that item. Email communication received from John Benson, general manager for Hiatt Huntington Beach Resort and Spa regarding that item. And nine additional email communications. For item number 14 email. Received regarding the annual military equipment use report a b 481. For consent item. 15 email communication regarding the adoption of ordinance number 4317. That was police services at lab parties and other activities for consent. 16 email communication regarding, um Let s see. Chapter 13.8 of the Huntington Beach municipal code was received from Jonathan Markowitz, free expression and access to government staff attorney with American Civil Liberties Union. Foundation of Southern California. And then I ll announce the public hearing items at that time. That s it. Thank you. For moving onto public comments. Do We have anyone signed up to speak? Yep. I think we re just over? The 40. Mark, Tanya. What s our number 39. Yeah. Okay. We ll do two minutes, Okay? We re going to do two minutes, So I m going to call the first group. Of 10, Please come up and approached. Both podiums get things moving quickly. Barbara Shapiro. Surely debt. Lof Melissa running Marie Hanson, Stephen Quinn. Marissa Jackson be Chanel. Bethany Web. Shammi Dingus, Harry Potter. Thank you at this time the City Council will receive comments from members of the public regarding any topic, including items on the open session agenda. Individuals wishing to provide a comment MAY do so in a in person by filling out a request to speak for him delivered to the city clerk. All speakers are encouraged but not required to identify themselves by name you speaker MAY have up to three minutes unless the volume of speakers warrants are reducing the time allowance. Please note that the Brown Act does not allow discussion or action on topics that are not on the agenda. Members of the public who would like to speak directly with the Councilmember Adam, not on the agenda MAY consider scheduling and appointment by contacting the city Council s administrative assistant at area code 7145365553 or emailing the entire City Council at city dot council at search City hb dot org First Speaker, please go ahead. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Shirley debt loft and I ve been a resident of the City of Huntington Beach since 19 or I was very concerned after attending a meeting of the Library Services Commission last week and listen to the presentation regarding the decisions made by the City Council regarding the library. The board heard that there would be a 21 member committee to review books to end Children s books to ensure that they were not allowing any Children to read books that say felt contained pornography and then that they the City Council would be going out with bids for a company to possibly manage the library. That s taking it out of the hands of our current team, a very qualified librarians. My concern was that this report should have come first to the Library Services Commission for their consideration. This is why you have boards and commissions and committees. They are there to review possible actions regarding the library and to give their qualified assessment of such decisions? They are presented with the most updated information on both privatizing and having a Citizens committee select books, Then This information We were presented to the council and then turn could base their decisions on a well studied on well studied issues. These are the people you yourself were qualified to do the job. Another bad decision was the way you went about Putting a three charter issues on the MARCH 5th ballot. You once again did not appear to trust the judgment of the citizens who could have been appointed to a charter revision committee. The normal procedure. Is to appoint citizens to review the charter, a charter change and any proposed charter or amendments. They would usually have a consultant who has has a background in charter issues who would guide them through a review. Then they would come to some decision as to the need and have changes were legal. This could have prevented the total chaos that was created and threats from the state. For some of the actions they might take if those amendments were passed. Well they did take action, and now we have a costly new lawsuit, which we once again lose and at great cost to our taxpayers. Ignore thank you for coming. Hi I m Sam e. D. Promises made promises broken. Of course I m talking about the authoritarian four on the city Council who don t give a damn about what residents think about their proposals. This is what they ran on in 2022. No charter changes. More transparency. Fiscal discipline. And fixing homelessness in 90 days. But. This is what they really did. Changes. Introduced about 10. And, then paid $400,000 to put three of them on a ballot. Financial discipline. Without even one hearing on the air show lawsuit before Judge They signed a secret agreement to pay out over $7 million Transparency. With They got rid of about half of the committees and commissions that allowed residents to participate in planning. Now we just have three person council committees that maintenance secret. And fix homelessness in 90 days. What sure didn t happen. So please just do the things you said you would do. No more charter changes. Bring back transparency, commissions and committees that allow residents to hear what s going on and comment on it in a reasonable way. Bring back You re spending money conservatively. Quit making optional, Uh, thank you for coming. Former Oh, Excuse me. It s over there, okay? Just some the churches the center of their universe and gives them peace. To others. The public Library is a sanctuary that restores their soul. They, often in the room is that there s a local church that seems to violate the sacred constitutional guarantee a separation of church and state. Here s Gracie pushing the conspiracy theory of voter fraud. Now, Mr Gates veils to fight for the will of the people now that we are being sued again. Brilliant legal logic, Mr Gates crying voter fraud when you lose supporting election results when you win Have you? No shame, Mr Gates. The five s newest conspiracy theory is that librarians are trying to quote groomed Children for sexual relationships. This is an a porridge accusation to justify replacing librarians with parents picked solely by their religious beliefs. So who was actually most likely to be a predator Librarians. Or We ll just go through and look at some examples here. Moms for Liberty Big Book Banner. What did she get in trouble for I. Don t see any librarians. Stop making false accusations about our librarians and keep your church private and our library public. Thank you for coming. Mayor Gracie Stephen Quinn Grateful Citizen of Item Beach. I had not intended to speak on the library issue. I prefer to avoid such rhetorical brawls whenever possible. But when I witnessed the ferocity and the mendacity of the opposition, as forced to reconsider my decision and come out of retirement, outwardly appears to be a simple dispute over where in the library certain books should be placed, has morphed into a kind of mutiny. An intellectual insert insurrection by our library staff as well as a direct assault on parental authority, refusing to obey the wishes of the public. They serve. They proclaim themselves to know what s best for our Children. When asked from where this awesome power devolves they point to their advanced degrees, who are mere parents to differ with him? This intellectual aristocracy has a distinguished track record in recent years. Let s examine their report card. Did I mention that this highly credentialed and self glorifying class of people are the same ones who believe a man can become a woman that it is the job of physicians to mutilate Children and bombard them with hormones based on their fleeting adolescent delusions. It is they who have abolished concepts like meritocracy and racial equality in favor of a whole new class of race overseers. Branding this race to be victims and that to be oppressors, destroying the careers of anyone who dared differ, dooming everyone to a culture of perpetual walking on eggshells. The same culture experts suspended the most basic constitutional rights and virtually crushed the nation s economy in response to a virus with the 99% survival rate. It is they who wish to compel people To drive less efficient electric cars all the while raping the earth to gain the necessary minerals, all to avoid a fanciful climate catastrophe, which never seems to appear. Should. The library be privatized. I will leave that to better minds than my own. To make that case. I do know one thing, though it is possible to be highly educated and still be a fool. Thank you. Next speaker. Well, okay. So. I want to, um, start with since Mr Gates his back here. I want to start with the MARCH election and half a million, almost half a million dollars that we spent for some of you that think that we were actually thought that your goal was a and b, which was voter. I d. Like. Anybody undocumented is going to go in person and commit a felony to try to vote when we have mail in voting. That was not what you wanted. The flags you had already voted on. That s not what you wanted. What you wanted was the power that came with numbers. See the one you lost. You spent a half a million dollars of our money to lose. So that s not the only time you re going to lose. I came in today and got a page and a half of lawsuits. I m a homeowner and Huntington Beach that we re going to pay for again and lose again. You but To say this. That s not where our biggest losses are coming from. Your culture wars are hurting, honey 10 beaches reputation. There is a lot of talk that the Olympics are not coming here that the company s Let s see what happens. This is hurting the beach vibe. This is not a Huntington Beach Huntington Beach is not a maggot headquarters for crazy, right wing conspiracy Bologna. So why not? Don t you try for once to do something that s good for the city of honey to beach. Let s clean the bathrooms at the pier. Let s Let s do things that that actually need to be done. Let s clean the fountain at the library finally. We had another protest at with over 200 people. This is the most unpopular Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Go ahead. Good evening City Council. My name is Melissa raining. I used to love working for the city of Huntington Beach. I loved when i was the Children s library and loved being the senior librarian for Youth services. I love my job as principal librarian. But then City Council set out on their destruction of the library when the Fab Four were elected into office. I feel completely let down by our city leadership. I have not felt supported by our acting city manager or assistant city manager, our city attorney or any other management personnel. The fact that we are referred to as pedophiles and groomers on social media and nobody from the city speaks up to defend us speaks volumes, The fact that certain members of council accusing librarians of providing pornography to Children when we have never had pornographic material in the library. And. Nobody defends us. That s obscene. The fact that we had to supply the information needed to outsource our jobs to the deputy city manager. That s ludicrous we have been abandoned during a time when we needed the most support. Because of you. I ve had to look for a new place to be a librarian to find a committee that will appreciate my knowledge skills and 25 years of experience. I had to find a place where I can finally sleep through the night because I won t be stressed over what the City Council will do next to undermine my job. So tonight i m here to tell you I resigned. To, the library community that supported us. I thank you. To, My Coworkers. I love. I m sorry for coming. Next speaker. Go ahead. Good Evening City Council members. My name is Gary Potter. I m, a longtime residents of direct image. I come before you to urge you to find a way to keep the I don t reading material and sexual pictures away from our Children s and grandchildren s eyes and ears. First. I want to make clear that I agree with all of those that hoist their opinion opposition to banning books and suppressing ideas that would be comparable to the burning of books by the Nazi, Germany in the 19 thirties. That s correct, although the Nazi Germans were not burning their own books, they were burning the Jewish books. That s not what this is all about. The concern is that in the early years of our Children and grandchildren s lives Their mind is like soft clay. And there will is flexible, easy to mold. Any adult over a period of time can open about child s mind to adult activities and adult desires. My wife when she was a four year old girl was exposed to the same type of exposure. She was shown pictures of noon adults and nude Children having various types of sex. The pedophile would read her sexually laced stories telling her look see. This is okay. Everybody does this It s normal. It s all right. But don t tell anybody. Not even your parents. This is just our secret. Does that sound familiar? The innocence of a young life was taken from her it was stolen it and replaceable. My question is, why are so many adults trying to teach And indoctrinate our young Children in our public libraries and our public schools with this type of exposure in this type of lifestyle. Why are so many adults standing back. Staying silent and letting this happen. Yes. This is unshared left unchecked, It has the potential to do what? Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Go ahead. Hi. My name is Marissa Jackson. And. I m, a grateful citizen of Huntington Beach. And I. Wanna first off Thank Harry Potter for his comments. I pray that we We make the right decision. I pray that Each of you, who are in a position of influence will pray to GOD to know. To make the right decision on the library. Whatever that MAY be. I also want to make a quick announcement. This Saturday. We have the opportunity to do something. To make a difference. We have the opportunity to serve our community this Saturday, APRIL 20th From nine to noon. Okay. It s, um, Community service Day. And. There are 40 different projects here in the city where you can participate 40 so Different locations. And if you go to Community service day dot org, you will find more information on that. And. I am leading the Hygiene kits project. To help Mercy house and help the homeless. We Desperately need supplies for that project, which include travel size shampoos, conditioners, razors, travel, toothpaste, toothbrush. All of those kinds of items to help the homeless. And If, you are able to contribute to that. I d love it if you could come to me after the meeting or during the meeting, that s fine. And there s other opportunities to serve as well. And. This is a great opportunity or we can make a difference and help each other out. As citizens of Huntington Beach Hope you can all come out. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, Mr Hansen. Thank you ma am Mayors. My name is Mr Emery Hansen. I m speaking tonight in support of I am 16. You re an in trying to certain activities on the Sea beach. This ordinance will provide additional tools to boys to address various situations that MAY come up on the beach and continues to see councils balance approach of a assistance and enforcement. In particular The ordinance allows the police additional resources during various special events. Huntington Beach is an excellent city and a wonderful place to share with the world. I urge to see Council to ensure efforts to have more special events of Huntington Beach are uninhabited by public safety concerns. Once again, I urge a Yes Vote on m 16. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening 35 Year resident and homeowner. As. We reflect on the complete circus that this city clown cell majority has made of our city. Let s start by acknowledging all the city staff who have resigned. In fact one does resigned right in front of our eyes. How dare you guys platform that Who wants to work for a bunch of people. Hell bent on political stunts instead of taking on the issues of the city that really matter. So. Far. Under this leadership, the City of Huntington Beach has lost the public s works Director Sean crumby lost to Irvine Community and Library Services director Chris Lama lost or Irvine Community development Director Ursula Lunar Ray knows a lost Garden Grove administrative services director Brittany Melo lost to Menlo Park chief financial officer. Bullets on lost to Irvine. And, the newest city manager, Mr Zelinka, who abruptly resigned. Was he and willing to be a yes man to the f four. Now they want to drive away our cherished longtime librarians and historians by threatening their jobs and pensions and making their environment miserable, as was just testified to with their confusing censorship policies and by stoking the flames of attacks on them by their supporters who shamefully called librarians, pedophiles and groomers. Shane. They want to take the beautiful library that we the people have paid for with our taxes and hand over the keys to a greedy corporation at the direction of sneaky lobbyists, Mike Posey. Are you serious as we face yet another lawsuit from the state, the City Council Majority attorney Gates aren t cahoots cooking up there next political stunts as they bleed Huntington Beach dry and we go bankrupt, will be forced to cut city services, endangering our award winning libraries. Homeless Solutions, clean beaches, downtown business solutions increased tourism Park rangers, aging infrastructure and being able to fill pivotal city employee vacancies because no one wants to work for people whose legacy will be book banning cruelty and decimating our mass Stir piece of the most beautiful historical library in all. Thank you for coming. The Next 10 speakers. Vivian Potter. Wendy Rincon. Linda Diaz, Chad Williams. Brenda glimpse Andrew Einhorn. Rick Brown. Mark Tonka vich. Tisha Prieto. Crystal Leone. Next speaker. Go ahead. Wendy Rincon 50 Year resident the most important asset of any library goes home at night. The Library staff. We just saw Melissa walk out for the last time and you all bear responsibility for that. The real reason that you want to privatize library. It s not to save money, you would not be handing out settlements. Dear friends that cost us money. We would not have a city charter amendment that now has a city running elections with no proposal line item budget that were now being sued over If saving hb money was a priority. You would not be entered into last year s that cost us money, So let s agree it s not about saving money. It s about creating a narrative that are steamed librarians are the enemy proven. That the books in our library under their care are dangerous. It is just not true. So what is You are union busting. Many people believe that are educated Librarians are the enemy also that you can bust their union. The. Next step will be working with Michael Posey. Who wanted to union bus when he was on the hb City Council to bring in a private company owned by private equity that will fire are librarians and bust their union. We will then just move onto the real reason behind the attack on the library s busting other unions. You re going to go after the Huntington Beach Fire department and bring in Orange County Fire authority busting the Huntington Beach Fire Department union. Seniors. This will hurt all of us because of the show up time. Funny how Pat Burns and Gracie did not receive police endorsement as a child of an l a p d. I understand the brotherhood and it s interesting that the brotherhood didn t stand behind you. Pat. Why is that? I am Assuming the loyalty is not there nor the left. So you re going to go after the Huntington Beach Police Officers Association. Hb Fire Department and Police heed my warning. They re coming after your unions. Librarians were first Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Andy Einhorn Huntington Beach your scheme to privatize our great library exposes leadership failures in there are City while parents guide their own re Children s reading. They shouldn t impose it on others. Look what your kids are reading, not what s in the library. The library is supposed to contain the diversity of thought, allowing unqualified individuals to review books is unacceptable. The Library already has a system in place to challenge books. We do not need to change this system. Perhaps. Our mayor would like to censor books on the Holocaust or remove literature about JANUARY 6th insurrectionists replace them with narratives that call them hostages. Is is the privatization fiasco driven by cost cutting. Spending 400,000 plus on the recent election and another 1.6 to purchase all the necessary election equipment and pieces is certainly not cost savings stick to addressing City challenges such as infrastructures, deficits and halt your detrimental decisions that lead to costly lawsuits. Our legal budget has ballooned by $1.2 million since the majority assumed power. I believe someone this canceled got another issue Incorrect. Last Wednesday, the Community and Library Services Commission meeting should have been conducted prior to your vote on the library debacle. I suggest the majority and rolls in the Huntington Beach Citizens Academy to enhance your knowledge and improve your strategically incoherent management of the city. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is Vivian Potter. I m, a resident of Huntington Beach, this beautiful city. But. I. Want to share something with you that I ve been living with since I was four years old. I will be 80 years old in OCTOBER. Do the math. Okay? Listen up, ladies, because those are the ones have been speaking about pornography about you. Maybe you didn t mention the grooming. I was groomed I was a victim. I. Remember every single page that was shown me From, the pedophile that raped me and did horrible things to me. Yes. All my life. I have lived at Talk that one. Now. This is crucial. Anybody that agrees to have these books on the shelves is just in fact, is worse than those pedophiles because they re condoning it. They are putting this garbage evil on the books on the shelves so that Children can be groomed. You are grooming them for those pedophiles. Shame on you shame. Oh. Yeah. Anybody that condones that behavior is grooming those Children. How dare them that is evil. I have lived it all those years. Yes. I am a Christian. I have been redeemed from all that garbage. They taught me that It was my fault. I wanted this. This is what those pedophiles did. Okay. This is the truth. You re looking at a survivor. Who lived through this all these years. How dare anybody say that these books are good and that we should have them in the library, and I m paying taxes for that? I? Don t think so. No. This is hideous, evil and horrible. Anybody that condones this behavior. Well. I can t say that. Thank you deal with you. Next speaker. Go ahead. I was abused at eight years old by a pastor s son. K. I still want the library to be able to have books of all kinds. They do not have pornography. City Council. Your shenanigans are hurting the coffers of the city as well as people s livelihoods. I see it in my business. And. Others have said the same thing. It feels like we, the people of Huntington Beach or being held hostage by game, a gang of Maga wannabes stealing our taxpayer money to further their careers. No matter how it impacts our City. You tax our tax dollars and spend them on its $7 million buddy, give away a pay raise that exceeds l. A for our city attorney more staff to support the city attorney agenda laden lawsuits that do not benefit the taxpayers but hurt the city. Stupid stupid, stupid charter a minute that the state warned you that they would sue you create bad publicity worldwide about what the banning of certain Children s books because they talk about poop and body parts by a mayor, who usually has more on display than those books show. Trying to privatize our library. I still don t get this one. But I m sure someone s pocket is going to be line and the services. The library currently gives us will be stolen from us all while they hand out Bull pucky excuses. But. Let s get this straight, The pendulum will swing back and you will be like gum on the bottom of his shoe, something to be scraped off and thrown out. Thank you. Next speaker. Oh my goodness, My, Honorable Mayor Great and City Council. I. Ask that you sincerely listen to my words. Our goal is always to pursue peace. It is with caution that we move forward with clarity regarding the Huntington Beach library. So. How do we let peace rule When. We lower our standards to the point where it violates the safety of Children. And. Yes, This has occurred many times for 1020 30, plus more books. Containing pornography or sexual perversion has been put onto this. The shelves in the Children s section of the library. For the pg books. I saw a drawing of a young child on his knees with his mouth open. Another of a young child naked. Standing bent over In a position to be in turn it penetrated into his rectum. This is not appropriate material for the Children s library. I ve been Anyway, I been. I ve been at court here before where I have witnessed The gavel go down. And somebody be convicted of sexual molestation for touching a child on top of the clothing. So you re you got to be real careful what you re doing because this is not okay. These types of books that show color pictures of Children being sexually violated and crosses boundaries into perversion. Our Children are not to be recipients of sexual molestation due to the content provided by library books. This Library is a sanctuary. We pursue peace and safety for entire family. So. Let s make the proper corrections to the books in the library and let s move on in peace and safety. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is Tisha Prieto and I m, a mother of two Children. One of the best memories we have a is going to the library. My. Children thoroughly enjoyed it. It was one of their greatest pleasures and also it was a wonderful place for me to feel safe to know that my Children were looking at things that were appropriate. My Children are now grown, but my heart is grieved to think of the Children that no longer have that same safety in the city. Children are immature and by nature laugh and giggle at things that make them feel uncomfortable. The things that are being available to them in the library today is inappropriate for their young age as a mother. It is my responsibility and a parent to teach my child when they re appropriate. Lee mature enough to receive the sexual information that they re being shown. In public libraries today. I believe that Our our right as a parent is to protect and guide our Children and to lead them in Appropriate inappropriate manner. Sexism is a beautiful instrument that has been given to us and it something that shouldn t be made fun of. It shouldn t be joked about But Children in their immaturity, they don know any better, and that s where parents are to guide them. I do not believe having this kind of information available. To be seen by Children is appropriate and it should be removed. It is our It is our gift to have these Children to raise them and to guide them. But today our Children are being desensitized by the type of information they re being allowed to view on computers in, um in inappropriate books that are now available in the library and the public schools. Our Children are not ready to receive this kind of information. They re not mature enough. And as a result, they re going to be making bad decisions in their later years, so give our Children a chance for coming. Protect them. Next speaker. Good evening, City Council and mayor names marked on Covic. I don t have anything planned to say here. I can just say I hear a lot of people talking about calling names and so forth and all this the facts are you guys got elected because you got more votes than other people period. Okay? And measure a and b got more votes than didn t so that went through. So. Really? I. See it that you re listening to the people. And the people that didn t vote for you didn t win are the ones that are coming out and giving this attack? It s obvious? As for the library? Thank you, Gracie for finding out one book in there? Personally, I think that they re dealing with the l. A getting their ideas for the books like that. I don t care if you got a master s degree, if you look at some of these books, they re not right for Children. They shouldn t be in there. Everybody says You re banning books. No, you re moving books to a certain section If. The parents want to have the kids access to it. They give them a card that gives them unrestricted. In my case, my kids would have restricted access because I don t want them to have those books if I want them to have those books, I ll go check them out and go over it with him. So that s That s my point on that, Um And no one increased water bills. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker. Thank you for your time. My name is crystal down. I stand before you today as a Huntington Beach constituent whom you represent. Concerned mother and master social candidate at usc. I want to voice why we should not privatized Huntington Beach public library. First. Public Libraries are essential for Children, youth and families. As a first time mother. I have personally experienced how programs like Huntington Beach public Libraries award winning Children s Story time can make all the difference to build up mothers, fathers and our communities, little ones. They provide valuable public resources available to all. To help them navigate life, including Huntington Beach students and their parents. Second the statement that privatizing what saves the city money is not supported by any evidence and contrast other cities that privatized their public libraries through l s and s soon realized it was not a wise choice and became public again. For example. Many cities saved money when they converted back to public even very, um each varying from 68,000 to $408,000 400,000 dollars. Sorry. Some cities canceled because of late payments on bills and lack of transparency with the budget. Some rejected Ellis and his his proposal because it was unfair to employees, including layoffs. I urge you to find it in your heart to reject Alice and as privatization over the treasured Huntington Beach public library that Huntington Beach residents you represent have passionately and respectfully requested. If, not for anyone else, then for the youth who love hbp, l and all it currently has to offer the public. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Good Evening Mayor Today Council. My name is Joanne Sosa and I just want to make it clear. I ve been hearing this. The liberals saying that it s a ban. A band means you have no access. It s not true. These things are just being moved. So just like anything else If you have to ask permission or if it s going to be in a different section. You need that access. It s not banned, bending is completely forbidden, not ever able to see it at all. So that s that false number one number two if all parents who are all of you usually parents and grandparents, when you take your child to the movies. Mm. You don t take a three year old child to an x rated movie either. Why is it a problem for this moving that you call it? The band is moving it to a different section. But yet if you want your kids to go see a movie, it s okay to be a pg rated or whatever it is, And already. You can you can decide on the age appropriate. What s the difference. It s the same thing. You you can have access if your parents says You can read this book. That s okay. Your teacher doesn t want you. I m giving you permission to read it, Then. They do have access. That s not a ban, but I don t think any of us want our grandkids to come over and when we asked him Hey, what are you reading? What do you do in your book report on they start reading sexually explicit things at the age of 12 and describing all these rape, disgusting things. You re setting up the kids for rape. You re setting them up to be groomed. And I m talking about. I know what that feels like because I got groomed on the set of trawler Billy Jack, and that was back in the seventies, and it s an ugly thing, but it s still out there and we re seeing this all the time. Now if you have any any kind of sense of distance, you decency you wouldn t want your grandchild or a baby to be penetrated by some disgusting pervert And this city. I think it has a better reputation than that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Mayor Van Der Mark City Council members a little about the hypocrisy that s going on here. It interesting. How, um The left, has been taking the opposition of state columnist censorship. But Let s Take a Look at h b book banning. That s a false narrative book banning the most widespread form of censorship occurs when private individuals, government officials or organizations are involved with removing books from by libraries, removing school reading list and removing books from bookstore shelves because they object to the content, ideas or themes, But here is the truth. Behind. The Beach City Council passed a resolution to establish guardrails to prevent young Children from being exposed to inappropriate sexual material. Nothing has been banned. Simply placed in young adult or adult sections, so that s a false narrative that needs to be addressed. But What is real censorship, So real censorship really is threatens the freedom at the very core. For example. Social media companies. Restrict and blocked conservative voices. That s censorship and that includes Facebook that includes YouTube Instagram Twitter associate also mainstream media. They distort conservative positions on a regular basis for all intensive purposes, the other marketing arm of Democratic party that censorship academia. There s no denying their overwhelming majority universities across the country are liberal progressive socialists and otherwise left wing organization. That s an absolute fact. That s censorship, Hollywood Hollywood movies and tv series are biased against conservative voices and the print media. They parrot, the liberal talking points in their anti conservative So, where exactly is left concern about the constitutional freedom of speech right? That does not exist for free and loving Americans on the right hand side that censorship and where is your voice? You re talking about censorship here in Huntington Beach, California. Let s talk about what s going on on national basis. That s true censorship, not what s going on here in Huntington Beach library. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Good evening, folks. My name is Chad Williams born and raised here in Huntington Beach, Former. U s Navy Seal. I fought for this country and now have a desire to fight for our city as I ve thrown my name into the hat for City Council candidate NOVEMBER 2024 You folks turn your attention to the screen. We have a picture of a picture book that is currently targeted at three year olds in our city library in the Children s Picture Book section. What you have right there is normalizing adults bathing nude with Children, whether you like it or not, this is a pedophile s dream Come true. I posted about this on Facebook and Facebook flag that photo right there that picture As, a child sexual exploitation. And Yet there are those here on the council like Dan Kalmick. That would tell. You know this is child education, discussing the book in an interview, the author of this book said about this book. I Hope that the public bastard becoming more hospitable, especially to those who identify as transgender, and there it is the quiet part out loud. She hopes things become more hospitable towards fully nude biological men bathing naked with naked little girls. Let that That sink in. And the disturbing words of the San Francisco Gay choir They claim will convert your Children happens bit by bit. And just last MARCH 19th Dan Kalmick who sits right there, talking about this very book right there, said I quote. I would absolutely read that with my four year old. You folks vote for me in NOVEMBER and I will join this team to fight to protect our kids and let s send the likes of Dan Kalmick packing to read whatever he wants, or do whatever he wants with his Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. The next group Peter Town in Kathy Rider. Dina Chavez. Dean Torrence. Paul Madison, John Villa. Russ Neil. Gretchen Erickson. Kelly Miller. For speaker Go ahead. Good evening City Council and Mayor Gracie Um Peter p t. Townend, executive director of the and in the Pitch International Surfing Museum have been a resident here for 45 years, which i m very proud of 1.5 my life You can tell Nazi Um I m here to talk a little bit about the item. 13. We live in California in a tourism economy. Do you know that in the occupancy in FEBRUARY that ocean side was up 22% Huntington Beach was only up 2%. San Diego is outspending is in the tourism Makani 10 to 1 and that is what happens when it starts to shift. Don t take for granted. That will get the surfing Olympics. We need as service City. To keep our awareness. In coastal California at the highest level. We have once in a lifetime opportunity. For this to be known as an Olympic venue. That only comes along in our time and once in a lifetime, Let s not blow it. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is Deena Chavez and I have a video. Maybe. It s a silent So with the remainder of my time. I d like to address my comments to the city manager, Sir, if you will. If. You have any intention at all of saving our library in any way, shape or form or standing up for our librarians? Um, now would be the time. We are Possibly past the point of no return here for the break. The Library blamed the library privatized the library. I would really appreciate it if you could stand up for our library somebody needs to anybody. Anybody anybody? From this city. This Center for our library. This city is very close to being broken. I mean this is out of control. And if you could simply reach out to them. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Kathy Rider, a homeowner and voter in Huntington s since 1985 on APRIL 10th. I attended the community in Library Service Commission meeting, along with a few dozen other concerns, Citizens. Because the city website states that the mission and purpose of the commission is to make recommendations. City Council on matters relating to the development acquisition and renovation of Park Beach Libraries and Rigoberta facilities. Commissioners are to study report and interpret the needs of the committee of the community to the City Council. But. It seems odd that the commission had to hold a Study Session. To review actions that would all being voted on by the City Council. Shouldn t. Our commissioners have been on the front line of the actions and not needing to be giving a steady section on a summary of the actions already taken. Why, Are, you ignoring this commission? The Council majority has made it clear that they do not want the citizens to question their actions. It seems that you re really not here to serve all the people of Huntington Beach. So. Shame on you urged folks to join me tomorrow morning at 11 A.M. Right here at the city Hall Chambers as we launch a citizen driven petition to repeal Ordinance 4318 in chapter 2.66 of the municipal cold. And. Finally mayor. Your actions to destroy what is considered to be one of the crown jewels of trying to beach have ignited folks here in Huntington Beach have deep media relationships, and they even orchestrated the recent Katie l a piece on your type of a book restrictions. You can feel powerful in this room and you can continue to ignore us, but there is going to be more pressed about who you are and what you re doing. It s coming. We are just getting started. Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is Paul Madison. I am the general manager and Hotel Hotel and Spa here in Huntington Beach. I m here to speak in support of the resolution to modify the tourism bid because obviously this right now there is an opportunity for us to be more competitive in our in our landscape, especially with the Cities tours surrounding areas. We all compete very hard to attract not only the tourist guests, but also the group guest and he was those off seasons we employ over 350 team members in our property. It s it s a landmark to have people come and just being all of Huntington Beach, and what we want to do is to make sure we re able to represent that and and promote what we have here in the Huntington Beach and all the great things that we do have One of the area s always that we can do that is by making sure that there is an additional funds to promote our into our community. This is a self assessment, so this is not doesn t touch the taxpayers. And anyway. This the only way that you would be a tax it would affect you if you want a little staycation. You want to come to the hotel, then you might have a little extra on the bottom there, but there was no effect to anybody in the city other than additional ways to bring awareness positivity. And just really, you know, be a part of the community that shows ourselves in such a great way. So we definitely support this measure as one of the main hotels that are down by the beach, and we look forward to seeing continued resolution in this way. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Next speaker. Evening Mayor Council members I m John via the executive director for the Hind Beach. Well, it s Conservancy and I won t go into all the other things I do for the city, but I m very supportive. I m here for the t bed. Um, increase for the visit Huntington Beach Bureau. Understanding that they are the arm, bringing in tourists to this city. They re the ones that go out and do all the marketing. They do all the commercials. They go to the other cities and work with the other tourist groups to bring him here. They re probably gonna be our major force. To, bring, um, limits here in 2028. Without this funding they can t do what they do. It s something that the city doesn t pay for, but visit hb does this year they even put some money into the infrastructure. To help out the city they didn t have to do that. But. Some of their funding went to that. There s no other organizations within this city has has done that, with the exception of a yes That has put money in so I think this has the prior individual just mentioned this is not a tax that the individuals within the city have to pay. This is visitors are coming. They re going to be paying that and the city is going to see that as positive and going back to bring in tourism. So. I m here in support of it, And I. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we hear Good Evening Mayor and Council. I m Kelly Miller, the PRESIDENT And ceo of visit Huntington Beach php. I m here tonight representing the vhp border directors to speak in on the consent agenda item number 13 the tourism business improvement modification. We re 33 years old nonprofit organization representing the city s vital tourism industry. We bring in millions of visitors, generating over about half a billion dollars in annual direct economic impact and supporting over 4000 jobs are visitors also spend money here, which helps local businesses remain open and workers employed throughout the year. But the stark reality Is that this this is much at risk if the t b assessment is not modified. Currently, there s a 4% self assessment. The lodging business is placed on themselves. Bhp board is simply asking to adjust their assessment from 4% to 6. This assessment is not a sales tax. It s not a property tax in his 100% paid for Guests who check into hotels or short term vacation rentals. It doesn t cost the residents a dime. Other residents, destinations bring up bringing a new hotels, new attractions, the rising costs of doing business in a growing marketing gap budget gap between hb and these other destinations. The borders simply requesting to increase the assessment to compete. I ve been doing destination marketing for 35 years. This is the perfect storm. Hence we re doing this. Hopefully this adjustment to be clear a drop in visitors to Huntington Beach will undoubtedly reduced t o t revenues, sales tax and parking revenues, all of which go back to the city to help pay for the essential services for residents if this modification is approved, we will bring to life tourism enhancement programs like the iconic h b. Pierce sign. Seasonal beach restrooms, nighttime ambassadors and various other things just to name a few. We will also have an additional $2 million a year to market and target non peak in midweek business in Huntington Beach, Finally. This, tb and modification is about jobs in our small businesses being successful in this wonderful city. We all love Thank you for coming. I m. Dean Torrence. I joined this group of crazy guys. Uh, 1998. It s been a long time, so I ve been through many, many, many boards and many staffs and I gotta tell you this is the best forever going to get so. I want people to come to our great city search City by the way. And just want to keep them coming. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, Gretchen Eriksen 22 Year Residents 16 Year employee and fairly newly minted chief shop steward for the Huntington Beach Municipal Teamsters, representing employees in all departments throughout the city. First. I d be remiss in not thanking the various Teamster locals 3 99 9 86 for 95 9 11 and joint Council 42 who have extended support to our library services staff members during this tumultuous time, I d like to also thank our amazing police and fire staff who maintain order and keep these meetings safe for all of us. Lastly, I d like to give a special shout out to our incredibly brave high school model. United Nations students who speak so eloquently at these meetings and give me great hope for our future like to remind the city manager s office and human resources that are organizations submitted a public records request on MARCH 7th 40 days ago and continue to await a response. Next. I wanted to take a moment this evening to highlight administrative regulation 924 available on the city s website. For all to view the policy is titled a Respectful Workplace Policy established in JULY, 2023. These words are not my own their direct from the policy. The purpose of this policy is to promote and maintain a safe and respectful workplace where every individual is treated with civility, dignity and respect. This policy is not intended to deprive any person of his or her right to freedom of expression, but only to maintain to the extent possible and reasonable, a safe, productive and harassment free workplace for city staff and a safe and non threatening environment for visitors and customers. This policy applies to all officials, officers and employees of the City of Huntington Beach as well as City volunteers, vendors or contractors. The City also seeks public cooperation with this policy, any citizen visitor or guest present on city property or participating in a city event meeting or other function. And failing to adhere to this policy MAY be addressed as follows. Issuance of an official warning suspension from the government building up to a cease and desist order. It is very apparent thank you for coming opinions. Good or Good Evening. Mayor Van Der Mark and Councilmember Twining name is Russell. Neil and I live in Huntington Beach. The Declaration of Independence says that America is founded on the bedrock of the laws of nature and of nature s GOD. The recognition of GOD s higher moral law is the basis for what we call the rule of law, the alternative to the rule of law. Is the rule of man, a government not based on the reasoned application of GOD s unchanging moral law, but on emotion and the shifting sands of political passions. Today s battle between conservatism and leftism is a battle between these two philosophies. A battle between reason and emotion or choice between the unbiased application of neutral law and the screaming demands of an agitated mob. We see this very clearly in the current issue of objectionable books in the library. When the reasoned attempt by the council majority to protect Children is opposed by an ill informed assembly of people unconstrained by reason or decency. Let alone Facts and truth. I stand tonight to encourage the council majority in your battle for reason and justice. Your battle to uphold the rule of war. Thank you and Good evening. Thank you. All right. The last the last group of pink sheets, Tim Giddis. Polish Schaefer, Janine stutter. Don McGee. Can in Durham. Pablo Hospice. Barbie Arnold. Patty. See Yeah. First speaker Go ahead. Good Evening Mayor and City Council. Tim. Get us here Last week I attended the Community and Library Services Commission meeting with a couple of dozen or more concerned citizens who wanted to hear the Study Session on our library situation. It was definitely a cart before the horse experience. The Ordinance and Parent Guardian Review Committee having already been approved along with the rfp for privatization of library services. There was extensive questioning but of staff by chair Austi