From: Switzer, Donna
To: Molina, Monica
Subject: FW: Visual for April 21 Council Meeting (Agenda Item 26-280) Date: Monday, April 20, 2026 11:21:33 AM
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Appellant Visual Exhibits (Agenda Item 26-280).pdf
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Donna Switzer, CMC
Senior Deputy City Clerk
Office of the City Clerk
Office: (714) 374-1649
[email protected]
2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
From: Barnes, Lisa Lane <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 10:45 AM
To: Toledo, Julie <[email protected]>
Cc: Esquivel, Juan <[email protected]>; Switzer, Donna <Donna.Switzer@surfcity- hb.org>
Subject: Fw: Visual for April 21 Council Meeting (Agenda Item 26-280)
Hi Julie,
Please see the email string regarding agenda item 15 (26-280). Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Lisa Lane Barnes
Elected City Clerk
Office: (714) 536-5405
[email protected]
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
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appointments please visit:
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From: Jesse Bolling <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 10:25 AM
To: Barnes, Lisa Lane <[email protected]>; Esquivel, Juan <[email protected]>
Cc: Cheryl Gates <[email protected]>; Scott Warren <[email protected]>; Susan Ridgway <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Visual for April 21 Council Meeting (Agenda Item 26-280)
You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important Correct. Thanks, Lisa!
Jesse K. Bolling
Managing Partner
(714) 292-0262
From: Barnes, Lisa Lane <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 10:24 AM
To: Jesse Bolling <[email protected]>; Esquivel, Juan <[email protected]> Cc: Cheryl Gates <[email protected]>; Scott Warren <[email protected]>; Susan Ridgway <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Visual for April 21 Council Meeting (Agenda Item 26-280)
Hello,
To confirm you are the attorney for the appellant?
Thank you.
Lisa Lane Barnes
Elected City Clerk
Office: (714) 536-5405
[email protected]
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
For passport information and
appointments please visit:
Passport Services Website
From: Jesse Bolling <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 10:02 AM
To: Barnes, Lisa Lane <[email protected]>; Esquivel, Juan <juan.esquivel@surfcity- hb.org>
Cc: Cheryl Gates <[email protected]>; Scott Warren <[email protected]>; Susan Ridgway <[email protected]>
Subject: Visual for April 21 Council Meeting (Agenda Item 26-280)
You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important Ms. Barnes and Mr. Esquivel,
Please see the attached document, which we would like presented at the hearing tomorrow in connection with Agenda Item 26-280.
Best,
Jesse
Jesse K. Bolling
Managing Partner
3200 Bristol Street, Suite 500
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: (714) 292-0262
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From: Pat Goodman
To: McKeon, Casey; CITY COUNCIL (INCL. CMO STAFF); [email protected] Cc: Hopkins, Travis; Vigliotta, Mike
Subject: Concerning Practice of Self-appointed Ad Hoc Committees - No on #"s 26 and 27 Date: Monday, April 20, 2026 12:09:31 PM
Dear Mayor McKeon and City Council,
I find the self-appointed ad hoc committees proposed in agenda items #26 and #27 (April 21, 2026) troubling, as they conflict with the transparency essential to democratic government. The city council's role is to set policy and direction for staff — not to operate through informal, self-selected bodies.
Item #26 is unnecessary. Staff should submit the requested reports directly to the city council for presentation at a public meeting, where open discussion can take place and the public has full access.
Item #27 Please direct the City Manager to appoint a committee of professional staff to assess the branding and marketing proposals. The committee should return their top three recommendations — or a full ranking of all submissions — with written justification for each. This approach ensures transparency and protects the council from any appearance of self-dealing, favoritism, or impropriety.
Taking such actions will begin to restore trust in the city council.
Thank you.
Pat Goodman
Huntington Beach, CA
From: Charlie Jackson
To: [email protected]
Subject: Against items 26 and 27
Date: Monday, April 20, 2026 3:34:33 PM
Dear Huntington Beach City Council
Forming Ad Hoc committees to focus on tasks that should be done by a normal, standard process can only serve one purpose. To hide the decision process behind a dark curtain.
The Ad Hoc committees will be closed meetings, without verifiable minutes. There will be no transparency. The Ad Hoc committees will be highly politically motivated. The results will be cronyism at its worst.
Charlie Jackson
25 year Huntington Beach Resident
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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