From: Fikes, Cathy
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: City Council Meeting 3/19/2024
Date: Monday, March 18, 2024 10:40:09 AM
From:
K Carroll <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 12:46 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) <[email protected]> Subject: City Council Meeting 3/19/2024
Greetings Mayor Van Der Mark, Pro Tem Pat Burns, Councilmen
McKeon and Strickland:
Congratulations on the very successful results of the A & B Charter Amendments in the most recent elections! Thrilled to see the results! Thank you so much for bringing these items
forward. You
truly
mean it when you say you speak for the majority.
And, Congratulations on being the popular
vote on County Central Committee 72nd Assembly District. The results represented all but two of my votes. Most importantly, what my vote for Pat Burns for the County Central Committee.
Disappointed; but, darn close!
You have to feel proud though Pat, especially as you said when you first ran for council people were saying 'who is Pat Burns'. You have made a huge impact in such a short period of time.
I would
like to briefly relay my thoughts
on the following for the upcoming meeting agenda items:
24-204: Council Liaison - SUPPORT.
24-180:
AB1999 SUPPORT for all reasons outlined in communications shared. 24-197: Request for Proposals for managed Library Services. SUPPORT. However, strongly oppose Michael Posey being anything close to involved in this.
He was the one that initially proposed CCE
and ultimately deceived the residents. Along with many other detrimental outcomes of the council's actions during his term. He never supported the majority of residents as well as continuously attacked and clearly had a vendetta against Michael Gates. 24-209: Ordinance 4318 - Parent Guardian Review Board. SUPPORT. Very comprehensive. I think we all need to reflect on what got us here in the first place.
Graphic sexual books (blow jobs, sexual
positions, cartoonish graphic sexual books being available to children and minors. These are grooming tools. There was no oversight. We need parent involvement because the system in the library did not work.
24-208: Withdrawal from League of California Cities. SUPPORT for all the reasons outlined in Casey McKeon's Memo.
And, finally I would like to ask that the City Council maintain decorum in the Chambers. Each person has an opportunity to talk. No one should be heckled or bullied. I know,
first hand from attending
3/19/2024
10 (24-204)
the meetings. What you see on You Tube or the City Channel does not show the intensity of what you experience when attending the meeting in person. In person is much more amplified. It has gotten out of hand and frankly, I do not feel safe attending these meetings in person because of the mob hateful behavior and actions. I have seen others being verbally attacked while the meeting is going on. Please, institute a no tolerance policy for this type of behavior and have anyone who cannot adhere to the no tolerance policy or decorum policy removed.
As always, best regards and thank you for all you do. You truly are making HB better for all of the majority.
Best regards,
Kris Carroll
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) Subject: city council meeting 031924 please include in tonight"s agenda items.
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 7:25:26 AM
Attachments: city council meeting 031924.docx
Importance: High
Please include my comments on each of the agenda items.
If I need to send separate documents later, I will.
Thank you.
Terry Rose
City Council Meeting Agenda
03-19-2024
Terry Rose, resident since 1983, homeowner
I recently saw an unreleased as yet documentary at the Palm Springs Film Festival called Bad Faith about Christian Nationalism (the “moral” minority) whose mission is to destroy democracy as we know it today and establish a theocracy.
I believe that it is quite possible that Tony Strickland, Gracey Van Der Mark, Casey McKeon & Pat Burns are all Christian Nationalists as I truly believe they are trying to destroy Huntington Beach, are not interested in working for the good of the whole but only interested in serving themselves and driving our city into bankruptcy thus destroying it.
From their campaign lies to “no changes to our city charter” to their changing the protocol on who becomes our mayor and when to paying their “buddy” millions for an oil spill the city was not responsible for and for not sharing with the public the loss of income to the Pacific Air Show or the city to the proposed expansion of the Air Show including building a runway on the beach to what they led by so-called moralist Gracey Van Der Mark, in particular, are doing to our public library to the out and out political speech by the pastor of the Calvery Chapal of Huntington Harbor, they have proven, at least to me, that they do not believe in our democracy but only in their personal agendas.
I wish to go on record for the following:
File #: 24-204 Version: 1 Council Committee Appointments and Liaison Reports Oppose Gracey Van der Mark’s amendment because it is prejudicial and clearly favors the members of her buddies with Moser & Bolton only being assigned to one committee and Kalmick being assigned to none.
File #: 24-194 Adopt Resolution No. 2024-08 revising and restating Resolution No.2016-01 related to implementing Charter Section 805 and Municipal Code Chapter 5.90 regarding the number of permits issued for Safe and Sane Fireworks from fifteen (15) to sixteen (16) Oppose I would like to see Huntington Beach ban all fireworks in the city. The amount of illegal fireworks has more than tripled since the city approved the sale of “Safe and Sane Fireworks.” File #24-197 24-197 Request authorization to issue a Request for Proposals for Managed Library Services for the Huntington Beach Public Library system Oppose Too many unanswered questions:
• Will the library staff lose their jobs or be forced to take a reduction in their salaries in order to keep their jobs?
• If the private company decides they are not making enough money, will they just close the library completely?
• Will there be fees for everything?
• Who will make the final decision on what books the public has access to? • How much will this cost the city?
• Is the company friends with the foursome?
File #: 24-209 Approve for introduction Ordinance No. 4318 adding Chapter 2.66 to the Huntington Beach Municipal Code Relating to the Community-Parent Guardian Review Board for Review of Procurement of Children’s Library Material
Oppose This is taking away the rights of parents to make the decisions for their children and because each council member can select 3 people, this committee will be skewed in favor of Tony Strickland, Gracey Van Der Mark, Casey McKeon & Pat Burns’ choices. • What are the criteria to be on this committee?
• Will members of this committee be paid?
• Will this committee have the final say as to what books are in the library or will their suggestions be put to vote so that every citizen of Huntington Beach has a say so in the matter?
• Will teens be reduced to reading Dick & Jane?
• Will all people regardless of their ethnicity and sexual identification be represented in the books that are available to young people?
• Who decides what is pornographic?
• Too many questions
• Let the library be – let the parents decide
File #: 24-208 Item Submitted by Council Member Casey McKeon to withdraw from the League of California Cities
Queston: Why?
In answer to expanding the Air Show, I suggest we expand the Surfing Championship which brings people from all over the world to Huntington Beach. We could add everything the air show wants to add, except for landing the plane on the beach, and continue our legend as Surf City USA vs Pacific Air Show City USA. Let the Pacific Air Show try to find another beach in Orange County – I doubt they will be able to accomplish that.