CITY COUNCIL
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
MINUTES FROM APRIL 26, 2023
2000 MAIN STREET, Lower Level HR Conf Room
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92648
Call to Order at 10:04 AM.
Roll Call
• Council Liaisons: (Present) Mayor Strickland, Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark; (Absent) Council Member Burns
• Staff: Hopkins, Levin, Frakes, Luna-Reynosa, Villasenor
Public Comments (2 minutes per speaker): NONE
Approve Minutes from February 13, 2023 meeting: APPROVED 2-0
DISCUSSION ITEMS
1. STATE LEGISLATURE – all SUPPORT or OPPOSE will be brought to the next City Council meeting for approval of letters to be sent to related government offices and associations.
• AB 480 (Ting / Umberg) Surplus land – OPPOSE
• SB 747 (Caballero) Surplus Land - SUPPORT
• AB 1035 (Muratsuchi) Mobilehome parks: rent caps - OPPOSE • SB 4 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education institutions and religious institutions – OPPOSE
• AB 1485 (Haney / Wiener) Housing element: enforcement: Attorney General – OPPOSE
• AB 68 (Ward) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: density, subdivision, and utility approvals – OPPOSE
• SB 423 (Wiener) Land use: streamlined housing approvals: multifamily housing developments - OPPOSE
• SB 222 (Nguyen) Outdoor advertising: applications – Check with Nguyen’s office to see if they would like our support, and if they would, WATCH • SB 1175 (Quirk-Silva) Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas – WATCH
• AB 966 (Davies) Division of Boating and Waterways: report to the Legislature:
shoreline erosion control and public beach programs – SUPPORT • AB 882 (Davies) Coastal resources: State Coastal Conservancy: advance payments. – Luna-Reynosa to check over the bill to ensure it does not take away local control, and if it doesn’t, SUPPORT
• SB 252 (Gonzalez) Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment – OPPOSE
• SB 381 (Min) Electric bicycles: study. Supported in February 2023 – Information provided, WATCH.
2. Federal Legislature
Mayor Strickland and Mayor ProTem Van Der Mark gave brief update on their visit to ACC-OC Washington D.C. Meetings were productive. Met with Speaker McCarthy,
CITY COUNCIL
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Senator Alex Padilla staff regarding earmarks, and Jason Smith, Chairman of Ways & Means committee.
Adjournment – 10:52 AM
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be on May 17, 2023 at 1:00PM.