CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS
Council Chamber
455 North Rexford Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
February 7, 2025
2:45 p.m.*
Members of the public may participate in the meeting by attending in-person or telephonically, and may view the meeting through live webcast or BHTV Channel 10 on Spectrum Cable.
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The City Council may act on any item listed on the agenda.The City Council Regular Meeting was called to order by Mayor Friedman at 2:45 p.m.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. ROLL CALL
Present: Councilmember Corman, Councilmember Mirisch, Vice Mayor Nazarian, Mayor Friedman
Absent: Councilmember Wells
B. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
1. TELEPHONE CALL-IN: (310) 288-2288 Members of the public are invited to listen to the meeting telephonically or share oral communications on this phone line.
2. AUDIENCE COMMENTS. Any person wishing to address the City Council on any matter on the agenda may do so in writing, through email or in-person. However, theState open meetings law (Government Code Section 54950 et seq.) prohibits the City Council from providing a detailed response or acting upon any item not contained on the agenda posted 72 hours before a regular meeting and 24 hours before a special meeting. If you wish to address the City Council at this time, please email or provide anin-person speaker card to the City Clerk prior to or during the meeting. The City Clerk will read only the first three minutes (approximately 350 words) of a written comment. Inthe event of a large number of written comments on one item, written comments may be summarized by the City Clerk’s Office. The entire written comment shall be archived in full as part of the record. Public comment via video conference or in-person will be no longer than three (3) minutes per each individual comment, subject to City Council discretion based on the anticipated length in the meeting. 3 BEVERLY’
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C. CITY COUNCIL CONTINUED AND NEW BUSINESS
1. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE RECENTLY ADOPTED URGENCY SHORT TERM
RENTAL ORDINANCE AND THE RECENTLY ADOPTED URGENCY PRICE
GOUGING ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS TO BRING THEM INTO CONFORMANCE
WITH THE CURRENT AND FUTURE EXECUTIVE ORDERS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNOR AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF.Comment: This ordinance will alter the provisions of the City’s urgency price gougingordinance amendments and the City’s urgency short term rental ordinance to conform to the recent executive order of the Governor and potential future executive orders.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY’S PRICE GOUGING ORDINANCEAMENDMENTS TO CONFORM TO ANY CURRENT AND FUTURE EXECUTIVE ORDERS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNOR.Comment: The City Council will be asked to conduct another first reading of the City’s price gouging ordinance amendments to allow the price gouging ordinance provisions to be modified in response to any current and future executive orders issued by the Governor.City Attorney Laurence Wiener presented information related to this item. On Tuesday, February 4, 2025 the Governor signed an Executive Order related to the price gouging ordinance that Council adopted on February 5, 2025. The existence of the Governor’s Executive Order was not known to staff, including the City Attorney’s office. The City Council is being asked to consider a resolution ratifying the rules and regulationsadopted by the Director of Emergency Services that incorporated the changes set forth in the Executive Order into our local ordinances.
MOVED by Vice Mayor Nazarian, seconded by Councilmember Corman to approve item C-I as follows:
THAT THE RESOLUTION ENTITLED “RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS RATIFYING THE RULES PROMULGATED
BY THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES DURING THE LOS
ANGELES COUNTY FIRES AND WINDSTORM EVENT OF JANUARY 25, 2025” BE ADOPTED AS AMENDED
Ayes: Councilmember Corman, Councilmember Mirisch, Vice Mayor Nazarian, Mayor Friedman
Noes: None
Absent: Councilmember Wells
CARRIED
ITEM C-I: ADOPTED AS AMENDED, RES #25-R-13543
City Council Special Meeting
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The next City Council meeting is scheduled for February 19, 2025.
There being no further business, Mayor Friedman, with the consent of the City Council, adjourned the meeting at 3:02 p.m.
PASSED, Approved and Adopted
this 18th day of March, 2025
HUMA AHMED, CITY CLERK
LESTER J. FRIEDMAN, MAYOR
This meeting was broadcast on live television, on City of Beverly Hills municipal government television access Channel BHTVIO Spectrum Cable.