Attachment A
Resolution No. 2025-65 to Create the Ad
Hoc Committee
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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-65
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE
NEWPORT BEACH POLICE HEADQUARTERS
ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 200 of the City Charter, of the City of Newport Beach (“City”),vests the CityCouncil with the authorityto make and enforce alllaws, rules and regulationswith respect to municipal affairssubject only to the restrictionsand limitationscontained in the City Charter and the State Constitution,and the power to exercise, or act pursuant to any and allrights,powers, and privilegesor procedures granted or prescribedby any law ofthe Stateof California; WHEREAS, at itsmeeting on September 23, 2025, the City Council voted to consider the formation of an ad hoc committee to evaluate potentialsites and assess the feasibility,cost,and design of constructinga new Newport Beach Police Department (“NBPD”) headquarters;
WHEREAS, the current NBPD headquarters, located at 870 Santa Barbara Drive,was constructed in 1973 and no longer adequately meets the operational needs of the NBPD;
WHEREAS, the City’sPublic Works Department completed a use survey of the existing NBPD headquarters, along with a comprehensive needs assessment, to evaluate currentspace utilizationand futurerequirements; WHEREAS, the use survey determined that the existing facilitycomprises 49,284 gross square feet, while the needs assessment concluded that a new headquarters should be a minimum of 73,000 square feetto adequately accommodate the Patrol Division and include a properly designed firearms trainingand shooting range; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create the Newport Beach Police Headquarters Assessment Committee to evaluate potential sites and assess the feasibility,cost and design options fora new NBPD headquarters.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as follows:
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Resolution No. 2025-65
Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Newport Beach Police HeadquartersAssessment Committee (“Committee”),the purpose of which shall be to evaluate potentialsitesand assess the feasibility,cost and design of constructinga new Newport Beach PoliceDepartment headquarters.
Section 2: The Committee shallbe an ad hoc advisory committee and shall be subjectto the Brown Act.The term,qualificationofappointees, selectionof appointees, appointment process, membership, responsibilities,and expiration shall be done in conformance with this resolution and Attachment 1, which is incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 3: The recitalsprovided inthisresolutionare true and correct and are incorporatedintothe operativeportionofthisresolution.
Section 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolutionisforany reason held to be invalidor unconstitutional, such decision shall not affectthe validityor constitutionalityof the remaining portions of thisresolution.The City Council hereby declares that itwould have passed thisresolution and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespectiveof the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
The City Council findsthe adoption of thisresolutionis not subjectSection 5:
to the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (theactivitywillnot resultina director reasonablyforeseeable indirectphysical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activityis not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines,CaliforniaCode of Regulations,Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3, because it has no potentialfor resultingin physical change to the environment, directly orindirectly.
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Resolution No. 2025-65
This resolutionshall take effect immediately upon itsadoption by the CityCouncil,and the CityClerkshallcertifythe vote adopting thisresolution.
Section 6:
ADOPTED this14th day of October, 2025.
Joe Stapleton
Mayor
ATTEST:
Molly Perry
InterimCityClerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
CityAttorney
Description of the Newport Beach Police Headquarters Assessment Committee
Attachment 1;
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ATTACHMENT 1
NEWPORT BEACH POLICE HEADQUARTERS ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Established by Resolution No. 2025-
October 14, 2025.
adopted onAUTHORIZATION:
Seven (7) members appointed by the Mayor and
confirmed by the CityCouncil.
MEMBERSHIP:
Membership shallbe indefinite,pending expirationor
termination of the Committee. Committee members
shallserve at the pleasure of the City Council.
MEMBERSHIP TERM:
Committee meetings willbe held as necessary or
convenient for the Committee. All meetings shall be
noticed and held in such locations and at such dates
and times consistentwith the Ralph M. Brown Act.
MEETINGS:
The seven (7) members shallbe comprised of three
(3)CityCouncilmembers and four(4)residentsofthe
City of Newport Beach.
COMPOSITION OF
APPOINTED MEMBERS:
Members shallbe City of Newport Beach residents.QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS:
SELECTION OF APPOINTED Except as otherwise requiredby state law,the Mayor MEMBERS: (or his/her designee) shall have the discretionto determine the process for selecting members and
shallnot be requiredto form an “ad-hoc appointments
committee” or comply with the procedural or timing
requirements set forthinCouncil Policy A-2.
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A. Evaluate potentialsitesfora new Newport Beach
Police Department station headquarters and
provide recommendations to the CityCouncil;
PURPOSE &
RESPONSIBILITIES:
B. Assess the feasibility,cost and design of
developing a new Newport Beach Police
Department station headquarters and provide
recommendations to the City Council; and
C. Such other relatedmatters as directedby the City
Council.
The Committee shall expire upon making its
recommendations to the entire City Council at a
noticed public meeting of the City Council, or
December 31, 2028, whichever isearlier.
EXPIRATION:
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