September 1, 2026
To: Mayor Kleiman, Mayor Pro Tem Blom, Councilmembers Stapleton, Barto, Weigand, Grant, and Weber and the Police Station Advisory Committee
CC: Deputy City Manager Ben Zdeba and Newport Beach City Clerk As an organization dedicated to protecting Orange County's natural resources for present and future generations, the Sierra Club Orange County Conservation Committee urges the City of Newport Beach to abandon any proposal to locate its police headquarters within Civic Center Park and instead pursue a viable alternative site that would prevent any permanent damage and fragmentation of this remarkable public landscape.
Civic Center Park represents far more than landscaped open space or a showcase for the “Bunnies.” It is the product of years of thoughtful planning, substantial public investment, and careful ecological restoration, and it is a source of pride and joy for Newport Beach residents and visitors. The park was intentionally designed to integrate civic architecture with natural habitat, preserving native coastal sage scrub, freshwater marsh, riparian vegetation, and wetlands while creating one of Southern California's most distinctive civic landscapes. In other words, it is irreplaceable .
The park is ecologically vulnerable precisely because it is isolated within an urban environment.
Habitat fragmentation, altered hydrology, increased lighting, noise, grading, and expanded human disturbance all carry radiating consequences that extend well beyond a project's physical footprint. Once these ecological functions are diminished, they cannot simply be recreated elsewhere, as was determined during the original Civic Center relocation, leading to the protection and preservation of this area.
Beyond the animal and plant ecology, human quality of life is an integral part of the park’s importance. Over the years, the Civic Center Park has become a place for:
● Families to take photos together
● Artists to display their work
● Civic Center employees to unplug and return refreshed ● Friends to meet
● And for neighbors to feel connected to their community These activities have intrinsic value – particularly in the center of a highly urban area. The mental health and social impacts of the proposed demolition must not be overlooked.
Civic Center Park has become one of Newport Beach's defining public spaces; a place where residents of all ages experience nature in the heart of the city. Its sculptures, trails, restored habitat, and open space reflect a civic vision developed over decades with significant public participation. That vision and investment deserves respect.
Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter - Orange County Conservation Committee
Before sacrificing protected open space, the City has an obligation to conduct a transparent, objective comparison of all feasible alternatives, supported by complete environmental analysis and meaningful public participation. This means expanding the site search beyond only one or two locations, and committing to a broad and objective search, rather than focusing only on the Park site.
California's environmental laws exist precisely to ensure that irreplaceable public resources are not lost. The City should not continue advancing a proposal that unnecessarily places this public park and its sensitive natural resources at risk without demonstrating that no feasible alternative exists. The City should maintain full compliance with California environmental law.
We respectfully request that the Newport Beach City Council restore public confidence through a transparent analysis of alternatives and commit to locating the police headquarters on a site that meets the City's operational needs while preserving one of Newport Beach's most significant civic, social, and ecological assets.
Future generations deserve both a safe city and a protected Civic Center Park. Newport Beach is capable of delivering both.
Signed,
Orange County Conservation Committee
Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter
Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter - Orange County Conservation Committee
From: Eplanet Thunderstriker <[email protected]> Sent: September 01, 2026 2:12 PM
To: City Clerk's Office
Subject: Public Comments-9/1/2026-PARKS, BEACHES AND RECREATION
COMMISSION
Attachments: climate architecture.txt; Beach System Prototype.txt
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(Irvine/Newport civic context — September 2026)
1. Context and Procedural Note
I want to briefly note that several of my prior public comments — including submissions to Irvine City Council and follow-ups with the clerk’s office — have disappeared from the public record. This includes comments on competitive leadership programming and formal notices of procedural infractions. Newport is no less structurally confused; I am simply not as deep in this venue yet.
These coordination failures directly affect my ability to contribute to the community, and they affect the community’s ability to benefit from work that is meant to support them.
2. WCO / Rule — Decentralized Coordination Primitive
A Decentralized Framework for Sovereign Participation
The World Citizens Organization is intentionally simple and flexible: Each country determines its own internal structure organically.
Government Individual Slot Optional — may be filled by an official government representative, or left completely empty.
Citizen Individual Slot Optional — may be filled by any citizen acting in their personal capacity, or left completely empty.
Either slot, neither slot, or both may be active. There is no requirement to fill one in order to use the other. No central body imposes rules on how any nation should organize these roles.
This design preserves complete sovereignty and authenticity for every participating country and community. Participation emerges naturally — from within. Each country must begin this itself — from within.
This framework already has serious geopolitical history, including use during the 2020 India/China border tension.
3. Why Parks & Rec Is the Flagship Prototype Surface
Parks & Recreation is actually the ideal flagship prototype for the climate architecture.
Your department already handles:
• micro-observations (erosion, tree health, soil moisture, trail conditions) • community input
• environmental data
• coordination with Public Works, Planning, and Emergency Management These are exactly the primitives the climate architecture formalizes.
4. The Climate Architecture — Layperson Explanation
For 30 years, climate work has been fragmented. Parks track one set of observations, Public Works another, scientists another, insurers another. None of these systems speak the same language.
The climate architecture is simply the missing coordination layer: a way to turn small local observations into structured objects that can connect upward to city planning, resilience, and regional climate adaptation.
It doesn’t replace anyone’s work — it finally lets all the pieces interoperate.
5. The Actual Architecture (Micro → Meso → Relation → Composition) This section is grounded directly in your uploaded documents.
Micro
A Micro is a small signal: an observation, measurement, constraint, question, idea, or local condition. Your document states:
“Every contribution is treated as a signal — a fragment offered by the public that the architecture must receive, interpret, connect…” Examples for Parks & Rec:
• soil moisture reading
• a photo of erosion
• a note about tree stress
• a resident’s observation of heat-island effects
Meso
Promotion turns a Micro into a structured object — a project, intervention, dataset, plan, or assessment. Your document states:
“Promotion turns a Micro into a Meso, a structured object assembled from relevant information…”
Examples:
• “Erosion-risk zone”
• “Urban canopy micro-project”
• “Trail heat-stress assessment”
Relation
Relations explicitly connect Mesos to other objects, actors, constraints, outcomes, dependencies, conflicts, or opportunities. Your document states:
“Relations explicitly connect Mesos to other projects, observations, actors, constraints, outcomes, dependencies, conflicts, or opportunities…” Examples:
• connecting a soil-moisture Meso to drought-risk planning • connecting a tree-health Meso to wildfire-risk mitigation • connecting a flood-photo Micro to stormwater infrastructure planning Composition
Once objects are represented, they can be combined into candidate configurations. Your document states:
“Composition… provides the structure in which relevant components and constraints can be brought together, evaluated, and compared.” Examples:
• canopy + permeable surfaces + flood-risk + budget constraints → street-level retrofit • erosion observation + trail-use data + slope angle → micro-intervention plan Coordination
This is the final step: Micro → Meso → Relation → Composition → Coordination Your document states:
“Composition creates a pathway from isolated activity toward coordinated climate action.”
This is the missing layer Parks & Rec can pilot.
6. What Parks & Rec Can Actually Implement (Starting Today) Here is the practical, minimal implementation:
Step 1 — Accept Micro Signals
Allow residents and staff to submit tiny observations:
• photos
• measurements
• notes
• constraints
• questions
No formatting required.
Step 2 — Promote to Meso
Staff convert these into structured objects:
• “erosion-risk micro-project”
• “soil-moisture dataset”
• “tree-stress observation”
Step 3 — Add Relations
Connect each Meso to:
• relevant departments
• constraints
• outcomes
• risks
• opportunities
Step 4 — Build Compositions
Use these relations to generate candidate interventions.
Step 5 — Share Upward
Make these objects legible to:
• Public Works
• Planning
• Emergency Management
• regional climate networks
• insurers
• researchers
This is the first working prototype of the climate architecture.
Parks & Rec is the perfect flagship prototype surface for this work, and implementing the Micro → Meso → Relation → Composition pipeline will allow Irvine and Newport to finally connect local environmental knowledge to city-scale climate resilience.
Narrative Walkthrough — How a Beach Becomes a Climate-Architecture Prototype
Imagine a single morning at the Newport or Irvine coastline. A lifeguard notices that the rip current is unusually strong. A parks staffer sees that a dune has slumped slightly after last night’s tide. A resident walking their dog takes a photo of discolored stormwater outflow. A volunteer group doing a beach cleanup finds a pocket of micro-plastics. A ranger notes that a patch of dune vegetation looks heat-stressed.
None of these observations are dramatic. None of them require a meeting. None of them, individually, trigger a city-scale response.
But they are signals — the raw material of climate coordination.
In the current system, these signals vanish. They live in personal phones, staff memory, scattered emails, or informal conversations. They never become part of a shared picture.
The climate architecture changes that.
It treats each signal — each tiny observation — as a Micro. A Micro is not a report, not a project, not a dataset. It is simply a fragment of reality that the architecture receives without demanding formatting, structure, or interpretation.
The lifeguard’s note becomes a Micro. The dune slump becomes a Micro. The stormwater photo becomes a Micro. The micro-plastics discovery becomes a Micro. The vegetation stress becomes a Micro.
The architecture’s first job is not to analyze these signals — it is to catch them.
Once caught, the architecture promotes them into Mesos. Promotion is not complicated.
It is simply the act of turning a raw signal into a structured object that can be shared, referenced, and connected.
The dune slump becomes a “Dune Stability Object.” The stormwater photo becomes a “Water Quality Event.” The rip-current note becomes a “Hydrodynamic Condition Object.” The micro-plastics discovery becomes a “Pollution Indicator Object.” The vegetation stress becomes a “Heat-Stress Vegetation Object.”
These Mesos are not final products. They are containers — places where additional information can be added over time.
A parks staffer can add slope angle to the dune object. Public Works can add upstream infrastructure notes to the stormwater object. Lifeguards can add tide and wind data to the hydrodynamic object. Environmental staff can add density and type to the micro-plastics object. Botanists can add species-specific stress thresholds to the vegetation object.
The architecture does not require all information at once. It simply provides a place for information to accumulate.
Once Mesos exist, the architecture begins forming Relations.
Relations are the connective tissue — the way the system learns that one object affects another.
The dune stability object relates to erosion-risk mapping. The stormwater event relates to upstream drainage infrastructure. The hydrodynamic object relates to lifeguard staffing and emergency-response planning. The micro-plastics object relates to regional ocean-health networks. The vegetation object relates to heat-island effects and dune-anchoring stability.
Relations are not abstract. They are the real-world connections that already exist — the architecture simply makes them visible.
As relations accumulate, the architecture begins forming Compositions.
A Composition is a candidate configuration — a way of combining objects into a coherent intervention.
The dune stability object, the vegetation stress object, and the erosion-risk mapping might combine into a “Dune Resilience Plan.”
The stormwater event, the micro-plastics object, and upstream infrastructure notes might combine into a “Water Quality Response Pathway.”
The hydrodynamic object, tide data, and staffing constraints might combine into a “Rip-Current Safety Adjustment.”
These compositions are not decisions. They are options — structured possibilities that can be evaluated, compared, and refined.
This is where Parks & Rec begins to see the architecture’s value.
Instead of isolated observations, the department now has:
• a shared picture
• structured objects
• visible connections
• candidate interventions
• and a pathway to coordination
And none of this requires software.
A shared folder, a simple spreadsheet, or a basic internal form is enough to begin.
The architecture is not a tool — it is a method.
Once these compositions exist, they naturally scale upward.
A dune resilience plan can be shared with regional coastal-resilience networks. A water-quality pathway can be shared with county environmental agencies. A hydrodynamic safety adjustment can be shared with state coastal-management offices. A pollution indicator object can be shared with national ocean-health databases. A vegetation stress object can be shared with global dune-stability research networks.
This is not extra work. It is the same work — simply structured in a way that other systems can understand.
This is how a single morning at the beach becomes part of a regional, national, and global climate-coordination picture.
This is how Parks & Rec becomes the flagship prototype for the climate architecture.
This is how local knowledge becomes climate resilience.
The Missing Coordination Layer in Climate Work
Climate work has no shortage of projects, observations, interventions, funding mechanisms, infrastructure, policies, models, and technical solutions.
What is missing is a common coordination layer that allows these things to become structurally connected.
That is what this architecture provides.
It gives climate activity a common compositional structure through which:
signals can become structured objects, structured objects can connect, and connected objects can be composed into coordinated action.
1. The Problem
Climate work is fragmented.
Observations exist in one place.
Projects exist somewhere else.
Funding mechanisms have their own structures.
Infrastructure, ecological interventions, engineering projects, policies, constraints, actors, and outcomes are represented differently again.
As a result, potentially useful relationships often remain implicit.
A soil-moisture observation may be relevant to a drought assessment.
A drought assessment may be relevant to infrastructure planning.
Infrastructure planning may depend on funding, land constraints, ecological conditions, and responsible actors.
But without a common structure, these relationships are difficult to represent, discover, compare, and compose.
2. The Architectural Solution
Give these different forms of climate activity a common compositional structure:
Micro → Meso → Relation
Micro
A Micro is a small signal.
It might be:
an observation
a measurement
a change
a constraint
a question
an idea
a proposed action
a local condition
A Micro does not have to be a complete project or solution.
It is simply something potentially relevant.
Meso
A Meso is a structured object assembled from relevant information.
It might be:
a project
an intervention
a proposal
a dataset
a plan
a model
a problem statement
an assessment
The important operation is promotion:
Micro → Meso
A small signal can become evidence for, input to, or a component of something that can be acted upon.
Relation
A Meso object does not exist in isolation.
It can be explicitly related to:
another project
an observation
an intervention
an actor
a constraint
an outcome
a dependency
a conflict
an opportunity
an environmental condition
This makes relationships themselves part of the architecture.
3. From Isolated Activity to Composition
Without such a structure, climate activity often looks like:
A | B | C | D
With explicit relations, it can become:
A ↔ B ↔ C ↔ D
These are not merely hyperlinks.
The relationships can represent meaningful structural properties such as compatibility, dependency, conflict, constraint, opportunity, or combined effects.
This creates the fundamental sequence:
Signal → Structure → Relationship → Composition → Coordination
That is the missing layer.
4. The Composition Principle
Once things are represented as composable primitives, candidate configurations can be constructed from them.
Primitive A + Primitive B + Environmental Condition C + Constraint D → Candidate Configuration E
For example:
Urban canopy + permeable surfaces + flash-flood risk + tight budget → localized low-cost street retrofit
The architecture does not need to prescribe the answer.
It provides a structure in which relevant components, conditions, and constraints can be brought together so that possible configurations can be identified and evaluated.
In plain language:
Take things that could contribute to an intervention, consider the conditions in which they have to work, account for the real-world constraints, and determine what combinations might work.
5. An Operational Example
Consider a farmer who records a soil-moisture observation.
That observation begins as a Micro.
It can become evidence within a regional drought assessment:
Soil-moisture observation → regional drought assessment
The drought assessment is a Meso.
That Meso can then be related to:
affected infrastructure
drought interventions
funding mechanisms
environmental conditions
relevant constraints
responsible actors
other regional assessments
The structure therefore allows:
Actor ↔ Micro → Meso ↔ Meso
with Relations able to connect across the entire structure.
A small observation can therefore participate in a much larger coordination process without losing its original context.
6. Why This Is Different From Simply Connecting Data
The architecture is not merely a database of climate information.
Its key operation is composition.
A Micro can be promoted into a Meso.
A Meso can be related to other Mesos.
Relations can expose how those objects interact.
Those relationships can then support comparison, combination, evaluation, and coordination.
So the architecture changes what can be done with climate activity—not merely how that activity is described.
7. Interoperability
The individual components are not necessarily novel.
Observations, projects, datasets, interventions, actors, constraints, and environmental conditions already exist.
The architectural contribution is providing a common structure in which these heterogeneous elements can become interoperable and composable.
That means different domains can potentially connect without requiring every participant to use the same software platform, proprietary database, or token system.
Multiple software implementations can realize the architecture.
The architecture is therefore the coordination principle, not the particular technology used to implement it.
8. The Core Idea
The simplest way to express the architecture is:
Micro → Meso → Relation → Composition → Coordination
A small signal becomes structured.
Structured objects become connected.
Connected objects become composable.
And composition creates a pathway from isolated climate activity toward coordinated action.
That is the missing coordination layer in climate work.
Climate Architecture — Beach System Prototype (Full Example) (Add this to the bottom of your written submission)
Beaches are one of the clearest examples of why the climate architecture is needed. They generate constant micro‑signals, but almost none of these signals are structurally connected to city‑scale or regional‑scale climate planning. The architecture provides the missing coordination layer.
1. Micro Layer — Raw Beach Signals
A Micro is any small observation or measurement.
Your documents describe this as:
“Every contribution is treated as a signal — a fragment the architecture must receive, interpret, connect…”
Beaches generate hundreds of these daily:
erosion at a specific dune
sand loss after a storm
kelp accumulation
water clarity changes
heat‑stress on beach vegetation
resident photos of unusual tides
lifeguard notes on rip‑current strength
micro‑plastic presence
bird‑nesting disturbances
stormwater outflow discoloration
These are raw fragments — but they are the foundation of the architecture.
2. Meso Layer — Structured Beach Objects
Promotion turns a Micro into a Meso:
“Promotion turns a Micro into a Meso, a structured object assembled from relevant information…”
Examples:
Erosion‑Risk Zone
location
severity
photos
slope angle
tide interaction
Stormwater Outflow Event
timestamp
water quality indicators
upstream infrastructure notes
Rip‑Current Strength Assessment
lifeguard observations
tide data
wind conditions
Micro‑Plastic Detection
sample location
density
type
Each Meso is a legible object that can be shared upward.
3. Relation Layer — Connecting Beach Objects to Larger Systems Relations explicitly connect Mesos to other objects, actors, constraints, outcomes, or opportunities.
Your document states:
“Relations explicitly connect Mesos to other projects, observations, actors, constraints, outcomes, dependencies, conflicts, or opportunities…”
Examples:
erosion‑risk → Public Works → dune‑stabilization budget
stormwater outflow → upstream infrastructure → water‑quality compliance
rip‑current strength → lifeguard staffing → emergency‑response planning
micro‑plastics → regional ocean health → state environmental reporting
kelp accumulation → biodiversity → coastal‑resilience mapping
Relations create meaningful pathways between departments.
4. Composition Layer — Building Beach‑Scale Interventions Composition is where objects combine into candidate configurations.
Your document states:
“Composition… provides the structure in which relevant components and constraints can be brought together, evaluated, and compared.”
Examples:
Beach Resilience Composition
erosion‑risk zones
dune‑vegetation stress
stormwater outflow events
tide‑cycle projections
budget constraints
community‑use patterns
This produces a coherent intervention plan, not isolated actions.
Water Quality Composition
stormwater outflow Mesos
micro‑plastic detection Mesos
lifeguard observations
regional ocean‑health data
state compliance requirements
This produces a city → county → state coordination object.
Heat‑Stress Composition
sand temperature readings
vegetation stress
shade‑structure feasibility
visitor‑density patterns
This produces a micro‑intervention plan for heat‑resilience.
5. Coordination Layer — Local → Regional → National → Global This is the final step:
Micro → Meso → Relation → Composition → Coordination
Your document states:
“Composition creates a pathway from isolated activity toward coordinated climate action.”
Beaches are uniquely positioned to scale upward:
Local
Parks & Rec
Public Works
lifeguards
environmental staff
Regional
Orange County coastal resilience
watershed management
emergency‑response networks
National
NOAA coastal monitoring
EPA water‑quality reporting
FEMA resilience planning
Global
ocean‑health networks
climate‑risk insurers
coastal‑adaptation research
international shoreline‑erosion datasets
Beaches are one of the few domains where local signals naturally propagate upward.
From: City Clerk's Office
Sent: September 07, 2026 10:15 AM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: URGENT: Safety Hazards and Severe Sand Erosion at The Wedge / Community Communication Request
From: SEASON LEECH <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2026 10:14:28 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT: Safety Hazards and Severe Sand Erosion at The Wedge / Community Communication Request
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Dear Mr. Gentry and Mr. Pekar,
I am writing to you today to express my urgent concern regarding the hazardous conditions at The Wedge caused by recent severe sand erosion.
As the erosion has accelerated, it has exposed a significant amount of dangerous construction debris—including rusty metal rods, old piping, and sharp materials—originally left behind from the historical building of the jetty. Because this debris is sitting directly in an active, high-impact surf line and shorebreak area, it poses an immediate and severe safety risk to swimmers,
bodyboarders, surfers, and beachgoers.
This is an urgent plea from your citizens for help. We should not have to wait for someone to be catastrophically injured or die in the surf before meaningful changes and safety interventions occur. The physical danger to the public is real, immediate, and entirely unacceptable for a world-class beach.
Furthermore, there is a distinct lack of communication from the City regarding this evolving situation. The local community and regular beach users are largely being left in the dark about what mitigation measures are currently being taken, what the timeline looks like for debris removal or sand replenishment, and how the City plans to ensure public safety in the interim.
Could you please provide an update on the following:
1. What immediate steps are being taken by Municipal
Operations to mark, fence off, or remove the exposed sharp debris at The Wedge?
2. What long-term plans or partnerships (such as with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers) are currently being organized to address the underlying erosion?
3. How and when does the City plan to formally communicate these updates to the residents and stakeholders of the
Balboa Peninsula?
Thank you for your time, your prompt attention to this safety matter, and your dedication to keeping Newport Beach's
coastlines safe for everyone.
Season Leech
Citizen, Corona Del Mar
From: Allen Yourman <[email protected]>
Sent: September 07, 2026 12:44 PM
To: City Clerk's Office
Subject: Voter Approved Initiatives
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To whom it may concern,
I request the City Council STOP wasting my money in their efforts to continue to delay the three voter-approved initiatives and follow the superior court's directions to allow the citizens a vote. The City Council's efforts are a direct insult to our representative democracy. From my observations, the current City Council efforts have and will cost the taxpayers several million dollars. I am concerned that the likely true cost will be hidden from us taxpayers similar to the efforts to disobey our legal system.
Allen Yourman,
2507 Buckeye
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Sent: September 05, 2026 5:16 PM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: City Council Contempt and Request for Accountability- For the Public Record
From: Denys Oberman <[email protected]>
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Mayor and Members of the City Council,
The arrogance and contempt for both the Court, and the residents of Newport Beach, that the Council repeatedly demonstrates is
Objectionable.
We request immediate disclosure of the following:
• 1-Why is the Council so intent on squashing residents’ right for transparency, and to vote?
• 2-How much of OUR money has the City thus far spent on Legal fees to fight the people’s right to vote?
• 3-Now that the City willfully dragged its feet on complying with Court orders to allow the initiatives to be voted on in 2026, what will the City need to spend in additional Legal fees To conduct s Special election to afford the right to vote in 2026 ?
Our estimates are that items 2 and 3 will cost in excess of $ 1- 1.5 mil. In Legal fees.
We find it irresponsible and reprehensible that the City Council insists on using City money to fight its own residents who have simply petitioned for their right to vote.
Denys H Oberman
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Sent: September 04, 2026 5:36 PM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: disappointing city council
________________________________________
From: Maureen <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 5:35:24 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office
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As a former city arts commissioner, I am shocked that the city council is ignoring their constituents and ramrodding the police station into the park and destroying the Sculpture Exhibition. Robyn Grant is the only true representative of her constituents and thinks independently, unlike most of you.
I find the majority of the city council tone-deaf to the people they are representing. Judge Bancroft sure has your number.
Keep the police station out of the park, and when those initiatives are presented to the voters, watch out. You will hear from the people as you did when the Snug Harbor initiative caused you to change your vote on overriding the General Plan.
Stop considering the police station relocation in the park and do something positive for a change.
Maureen Flanagan
From: City Clerk's Office
Sent: September 04, 2026 10:32 AM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: I'm on board with the Sierra club. At least they stand from something instead of themsselves!!!
From: Jennifer I <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 10:29:30 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council <[email protected]>; City Clerk's Office <[email protected]>
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Aside from Barto and Grant...the rest of you are showing your true colors. Nobody like what we see.
Sierra Club’s Orange County committee urges city
to abandon Civic
Center Park police station site
The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter’s Orange County Conservation Committee is calling on Newport Beach to pursue another location, warning that development could permanently damage sensitive habitat, open space and one of the city’s defining public landscapes…
From: City Clerk's Office
Sent: September 04, 2026 10:30 AM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: Stop the nonsense!!!
From: Jennifer I <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 10:28:02 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council <[email protected]>; City Clerk's Office <[email protected]>
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Give the people what they are asking for. What is
so hard about that? or do you have alternative
back yard deals? why else would you drag this out
and create a total costly alternative.
shame on you. step down.
As Judge Bancroft roars again, city could face $1.5
million-plus bill for November 3 election
With the county saying it is too late to add three citizen-sponsored initiatives to the consolidated ballot, Newport Beach has appealed the court’s order as the prospect of a costly stand-alone election looms…
From: City Clerk's Office
Sent: September 04, 2026 10:28 AM
To: Mulvey, Jennifer
Subject: FW: what is wrong with the city council?
From: Jennifer I <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 10:26:13 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council <[email protected]>; City Clerk's Office <[email protected]>
Subject: what is wrong with the city council?
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Why are only two council members on board with doing
the right thing? Barto and Grant. What is wrong with the rest of you? You all are costing us alot of angst and
money!
Just do the right thing and suck it up. You postponed the ballot measure and now you may have to pay up .Your
fault.