From: Jan Madnick
To: [email protected]
Subject: Agenda Item 25-313
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2025 10:26:07 AM
With all of the budgetary issues looming over Huntington Beach, the fact that you would choose to fabricate some ridiculous rationale for forming an "ad-hoc" committee of City Council members to evaluate non-profits
is just
another one of your power-grab attempts.
The groups listed in the item include those already attacked and vilified by the lot of you.
The "Friends of the
Library", for example, has been attacked repeatedly as you have also attacked the library.
I guess the fact that it
generates several hundred thousand dollars a year which is PUT BACK INTO THE LIBRARY means nothing.
If these non-profits feel their relationship to the City needs to have a "formal agreement", I trust they can make that determination.
Considering their contributions to making Huntington Beach culture richer, I, again, question the rationale for this ad-hoc committee.
Sincerely,
Jan Madnick
43 year resident
4/15/2025
18 (25-313)
From: Fikes, Cathy
To: [email protected]
Subject: FW: Ad hoc ommittee
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 10:36:13 AM
From: Janet Bean <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 8:42 AM
To: CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF) <[email protected]> Subject: Ad hoc ommittee
I am blown away at your suggestion of an ad hoc committee to oversee volunteers in our community. I cannot remember a single time where I have read of litigation regarding a volunteer. So this sounds to me, and many in the community, as retribution against volunteers who spoke against you.
Strange that it is all coming about after volunteers spoke out about the destructive proposals at both Central Park and Edison.
Volunteers are the backbone of our community. They give freely of their time and efforts hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year.
AND now you guys want to stifle them and take away their desire to give back to the community after all they have given, and over what, they do not agree with you. I am curious as to how much volunteer time each of you have given to the community of volunteers you sit in judgement of?
As we know with this council, no different than the Carr council, that it is a forgone conclusion. Just as in Carrs day, the public has no say, the closed minds are already made up. Pretty darn sure this will be a 7-0, unless you have pre planned a couple of dissenters just to put a facade on the vote.
I say NO to a stifling ad hoc committee.....don't we have a budget to to balance rather than wasting time punishing outspoken volunteers? As a conservative, I have never been more disappointed in those I thought I aligned with. Vote after vote, you prove that you are not inline with many conservative voices in our city.
Thank you,
Janet Bean
Mr. Amory Hanson
8102 Ellis Avenue
Apartment 121
Huntington Beach CA 92646
April 15, 2025
The Mayor Of Huntington Beach
2000 Main Street
Huntington Beach CA 92648
My Dear Mister Mayor,
I would like to express my support for Item XVIII, The Mayor and Councilman McKeon and Vandermark’s item to form a nonprofits review committee.
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Amory Hanson
CC: The Honorable Casey McKeon
CC: The Honorable Andrew Gruel
CC:The Honorable Donald C. Kennedy
CC: The Honorable E. M. Twining
CC: The Honorable Grace Vandermark
CC: The Honorable Chad Williams
From: Ann Palmer
To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Support April 15 Agenda Items 18 and 19
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 7:36:46 AM
All:
This communication is in support of the following items listed on the agenda for the Huntington Beach City Council meeting in April 15, 2025.
Agenda Item
18. #25-313
An ad hoc committee to familiarize and evaluate various entities that contribute to, support or involve the city — but are not necessarily governed or compensated by the city — is a good practice. This can highlight the many advantages the city and its residents gain from traditional community and volunteer efforts and organizations. It may also reveal where city governance and outside organizations may overlap or fail to operate in concert.
19. #25-295
A better organized, collaborative association between Charter Cites in California is long overdue. Done properly such effort could strengthen the unique rights grated to Chater Cities under the California State Constitution.
Such association may support better local governance such areas as:
• Zoning, Planning and Development
• Law Enforcement
• Municipal election administration
This collaborative association might also serve as a resource for other California cities attempting to become charter cities or considering such option for their municipalities.
Thank you to all of the city council members and city staff who work so diligently for Huntington Beach and its residents.
Very best,
Ann Palmer
HB 92648