From: Fikes, Cathy
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: Ordinance No. 4326
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024 9:54:04 AM
From:
ginger sammito <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2024 12:28 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) <[email protected]> Subject: Ordinance No. 4326
First, thank you for boldly fighting back against the state's overreach with respect to our children.
God Bless you all!
We too are looking for a path to keep our children safe within the school systems in this state and have followed your ordinance as a model.
Hope you don't mind me asking you a question on the ordinance.
My question is about the
weight of Huntington Beach being a Charter City.
Did being a Charter vs General Law have
any influence on whether the ordinance would be a viable
option to press back?
Thank you so much.
Ginger Sammito
[email protected]
(530) 598-9474
9/17/2024
12 (24-634)
From: Levin, Shannon
To: [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: Parents Right to Know Ordinance
Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 7:02:49 AM
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From: Michelle Larsson <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2024 8:12:25 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) <[email protected]> Subject: Parents Right to Know Ordinance
Council members, Thank you to the 4 Councilmembers who actually care about children & parents in our city. To the 3 opposing this ordinance: shame on you for having no morals or family values.
ML
Voter/Property Owner/Resident/Tax payer
From: Michele Burgess
To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: 9/17/24 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AGENDA ITEM #12, FILE #24-634 Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 10:38:02 AM
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To refresh your memory, these are the two letters I sent previously regarding this disgusting issue. Obviously, I'm still vigorously opposed to what you're doing, and it's probably also illegal.
FOR AGENDA ITEM #20, 9/3/2024
To the MAGA 4+1:
At the August 6 meeting you claimed your ridiculous and unlawful ordinance would apply to educators in schools, now you sneak in extra language also applying it to those who work in the city's libraries, parks, recreational and community service facilities and programs, ad infinitum. Did you think no one would notice? We are watching you every minute because you cannot be trusted.
What the hell is wrong with you people? This isn't Nazi Germany, where friends, relatives, and fellow citizens are charged with outing Jews. Just leave people alone and stop imposing your homophobic crap on the rest of us. LGBTQ+ individuals have human rights, too, including the right to dignity, equality, and yes, even privacy. Mind your own damn business. Take care of your own intolerant selves and leave everyone else alone.
Michele Burgess
Huntington Beach resident since 1961
FOR AGENDA ITEM #30, 8/6/2024
Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark begins her issue statement with a blatant lie:
“...Assembly Bill 1955...prevents educators from informing parents of their child’s gender identity or gender expression.” Fearmongering and misinformation as usual, her specialties.
AB 1955 DOES NOT PREVENT educators from informing parents of their child’s gender expression and identity. It only prohibits school boards from FORCING teachers to out students against their will.
It does not say anything about schools keeping secrets from parents. If a teacher thinks it’s in their student’s best interest to talk to a parent about something going on with that student, the teacher is free to do so. If a student is afraid to talk with a parent about such issues, the teacher can help develop a plan or refer the student to other help.
Mayor Gracey seems to have appointed herself some kind of savior. “Protect the children!” is her battle cry. However, considering her personal history with children and the gay community, I’d posit she’s not the best choice. * Her children were removed from her custody at some time in the past. * She has posted Facebook photos posing with Proud Boys, one of whom is showing her young son how to wear a gas mask “to protect himself against the Antifa masked cowards at rallys [sp] and patriotic events.” That Proud Boy was sentenced to prison for involvement in the January 6 riot, was also convicted of assaulting a restaurant worker and for tearing down a Hanukkah menorah outside the Arizona state capitol a month before the insurrection. * She helped revise the city’s human dignity statement to remove any reference to hate crimes and state that the city “will recognize from birth the genetic differences between male and female.”
* She voted to revise the city’s flag policy to prevent the pride flag from being flown on city property.
* She was instrumental in removing all library books from the children’s and teens’ sections with any “sexual” references, particularly if related to LGBTQ. * She was a featured speaker at a God, Guns, Government conference, a group that promoted a Patriot Boys camping trip for boys 7 and up, teaching them to love Jesus and be masculine.
* She was a featured speaker at Eagle Forum of Orange County, and praised for creating a children’s book review board and banning the flying of the LGBTQ pride flag over City Hall.
* She actively solicits support from Calvary Chapel of the Harbour and other evangelical churches that consider homosexuality an abomination.
So, hypothetically, if a teacher were forced to tell Gracey that her child is transgender, even if the child didn’t want the teacher to do so, what would Gracey do? Pray the gay away? Send the child to conversion therapy? Kick the child out of the family home? Disown the child? “Disappointed” parents often verbally and physically abuse their child in such situations. Would that be in the best interests of the child? Would that be “protecting the children”? Sometimes children need to be protected from their parents.
Mayor Gracey should stop wasting staff time and taxpayer money with culture wars and political theater — and mind her own damn business. Always yammering about government overreach. Gracey, dear, you ARE the government and you are definitely overreaching. The City Council does not have jurisdiction over education policy, nor would it have standing in any legal case.
By the way, who gives a rat’s ass what Elon Musk says and does? He’s a very rich wacko whose estranged transgender daughter disowned him and changed her surname.
Michele Burgess
Huntington Beach resident since 1961
From: cathy werblin
To: [email protected]; CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) Subject: Agenda item 24-634
Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 4:04:39 PM
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I am writing to state my strong objection to item 24-634, the proposed ordinance to make Huntington Beach a "Parents Right to Know City" on the council's Sept. 17 agenda. Like so many of the council's recent decisions, this ordinance is a misguided attempt to inflict the majority's unwanted philosophy on the residents of the city, It is another in a string of moves to solve problems that simply don't exist.
In pitching the ordinance to the council during the last meeting, Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark used the example of her own teenage pregnancy, and remembered how afraid she was of her parents' reaction and disappointment. In the end she nonetheless had to approach them and tell them her situation. In her own specific example, the mayor didn't have members of her city government calling her parents to tell them they suspected she was pregnant. She approached her parents in her own time and with her own thoughts - not those of prying eyes in her community. Why the mayor thinks it would have been better for her teachers or coaches or tutors or librarians to call her parents is a mystery, In fact, her situation and resolution seem contrary to the ordinance - no one interfered in her life and she resolved the problem on her own.
It is obvious that the council majority fears children becoming gay or transgender. They are allowed their own fears and prejudices. But be clear that community member not only don't share these feelings, but in fact are more fearful of the government meddling in what should be private family matters. Additionally, there is no outline for training these community reporters, no suggestion of how to perform these duties, and in fact the ordinance lacks any specifics at all for how it will be implemented.
In watching and attending city council meetings over the last few years, I know the majority of the members will not pay any heed to objections from the community, I sincerely wish it were otherwise, and that you could see the damage you are doing to your own community and to the residents who just want to live their lives without constant interference and threats from their elected officials.
Cathy Werblin
Old Town Resident