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Subject: Agenda Items 25, 26, 27, New (28)
Date: Monday, April 20, 2026 4:38:36 PM
Item 25: Please vote to defeat this item. After reading the background information, it seems like quite the convoluted stretch to try to make a connection between Huntington Beach and President Theodore Roosevelt. Furthermore, Theodore Roosevelt was a Progressive and a Conservationist. This Council has actively tried to restart oil drilling in HB and intended to allow a massive light show to disrupt the wildlife in Central Park. Nothing in Theodore Roosevelt's biography matches with the goals of this Council and this item is clearly an attempt to distract from what you have been and will be doing.
Item 26: Please vote to defeat this item. It is NOT the job of the Council to be reviewing the City's lease portfolio. If there is a desire to look at the leases, pass an item asking staff to compile the information and make recommendations to the Council so the Council can discuss all of the information at a public meeting, not behind closed doors in an ad-hoc session. Please return to basic good governance.
Item 27: Please vote to defeat this item. Again, this item is attempting to use a closed door, ad-hoc committee to do the work of City staff. It is the job of City Staff to write RFPs and to receive, and evaluate the subsequent proposals. After the professional staff has evaluated the proposals, they will present their findings to the Council for public discussion and guidance for the staff to proceed. In this case in particular, it seems the resulting contract will be in the neighborhood of $700,000 and moving forward on that requires public input and public discussion.
New Item (28?): I am very much in favor of this item. It is clear that Wolffhaus engaged with the City due to his personal relationship with at least one councilmember. Even after all these weeks, the Wolffhaus website is still not up. Is that the kind of prompt, responsive work we should expect if the contract is issued to his company? I am very interested in watching the discussion of this item to make sure the public has a full understanding of what has transpired so far with our money and what some councilmembers were ready to just give away without any competition or public discussion.
Thank you,
Diane James