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January 30, 2026

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Annual Strategic Planning Session - 1/30/2026 4:30:00 PM

CITY OF LAGUNA BEACH

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
JANUARY 30, 2026
COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 505 FOREST AVENUE, LAGUNA BEACH, CA 92651

SPECIAL MEETING
2026 STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
that the Mayor of the City of Laguna Beach has called a special meeting of the City Council to take place at 8:30 AM
on
JANUARY 30, 2026
, fo
r the purpose of
holding a Strategic Planning workshop.

No other business shall be considered at the Special Meeting except as listed below.

MARK ORGILL, Mayor
HALLIE JONES, Mayor Pro Tem
SUE KEMPF, Councilmember
ALEX ROUNAGHI, Councilmember
BOB WHALEN, Councilmember
DAVE KIFF, City Manager
MEGAN GARIBALDI, City Attorney
LAURA PARISI, City Treasurer
ANN MARIE McKAY, City Clerk
LEVINE ACT DISCLOSURE:

Pursuant to the Levine Act (Govt Code Section 84308), any party to a permit, license, contract, or other entitlement before the City Council is required to disclose on the record any campaign contribution, including aggregated contributions, of more than $500 commencing on January 1, 2025
, made by the party or the party’s agents within the preceding 12 months to any City official. Participants and agents are requested to make this disclosure as well. The disclosure should be made when the agenda item is called and must include the name of the party, participant, or agent, and any other person making the contribution, the name of the recipient, the amount of the contribution, and the date the contribution was made. Council Members are also required to make such disclosures and recuse themselves.

Public Participation:

You may submit comments in person on any agenda item or any item not on the agenda. You may also submit written comments on any agenda item or on any item not on the agenda via mail to the City Clerk at 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA. 92651 or by email to [email protected]
. In order to allow sufficient time for members of the City Council and staff to review and consider your written comments, written comments will be accepted for consideration up until the close of business (i.e., 5:30 p.m.) on the business day before the date on which this public meeting is scheduled. Written comments

WILL NOT
be read aloud during the City Council Meeting.

Please note that written comments are posted on the City’s website, so do not include any personal information you do not want posted on the web.

Any comments received after the deadline for submittal may not become part of the public record for that meeting.

For comments submitted on a topic
not
on the agenda, please indicate that you would like your comments included in the official record for this meeting.

Courtesy Virtual Broadcast
:  Please take notice that the City also plans to broadcast the meeting via the below listed mediums. These virtual broadcast mediums are also provided as a courtesy only and are not guaranteed to be technically feasible or uninterrupted. Thus, in order to guarantee live-time viewing, members of the public are encouraged to attend in person.

1.    Online on the City of Laguna website:
www.lagunabeachcity.net/meetings

2.    Cox cable channel 852

3.    Online on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsj8cEM7IvTH6p4uf3NUzQ ANNUAL STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION: 8:30 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. ************************************************

1. 2026 STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION

0. Cover Page - Strategic Planning

1. Strategic Planning Session Agenda Outline

2. Table of Contents- City Council 2026 Annual Planning Workshop

3. 2026 Strategic Planning Deeper Dive. PPT

4. Issue by Issue - 2026

5. 2025 Key Initiatives - Recap

6. 2026 Key Initiatives

7. City Council Ad Hoc Commitee - Updated 11.20.25

8. 2025 Organizations & Committees Represented by City Council_FINAL_1.14.25

9. Wildfire Mitigation and Fire Safety Report - Action Items Chart - Progress as of January 27 2026 public comments

ADA ACCOMMODATIONS
*************************
Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons with a disability who require a disability-related modification or accommodation in order to participate in a meeting, including auxiliary aids or services, may request such modification or accommodation from the City Clerk at (949) 497-0705 (telephone) or (949) 497-0771 (facsimile). Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to assure accessibility to the meeting.

COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54957.5
********************************************************* Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packets are available for public inspection in the City Clerk's Office at 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, California, during normal business hours.

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