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On the Agenda: June 25, 2024 City Council Meeting

The next City Council meeting is Tuesday, June 25. Items of interest are highlighted below. The entire agenda and reports can be viewed here.

The regular meeting will begin at 4 p.m. Agenda items include:

A resolution allowing the Newport Beach Police Department to close selected streets and parking lots as needed during the upcoming July 4 holiday. This item would allow temporary closures or traffic diversions from Back Bay Drive; the 100 block of Orange Street from traffic off of Pacific Coast Highway; San Joaquin Hills Road between Back Bay Drive and the entrance to the Park Newport Apartment complex; and Via Malaga between Via Oporto and Via Lido.
Acceptance of artwork from the Newport Beach Sister City Association. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Newport Beach's Sister City friendship with Okazaki, Japan, the association commissioned artist Pierce Meehan to create Indivisible, a mixed media piece, for donation to the City. The City Arts Commission previously approved the acceptance of the piece into the City art inventory and the Board of Library Trustees agreed to install it in the Passport Office at the Central Library.
Approval of the collection of certain sewer and recycling fees through the property tax roll. About 5,600 sewer and/or recycling customer accounts do not currently receive a water bill from the City of Newport Beach. Enrolling these types of charges on the property tax roll is a common practice, particularly in instances where a customer is not receiving water service from the billing agency. Such charges are billed as part of the normal property tax billing as an add-on charge.
Annual appointments to various City board and commission seats whose terms expire June 30. As directed by City Council policy, a Council ad hoc committee interviewed applicants and made nominating recommendations for the vacancies (with the exception of the Civil Service Board seats, which were nominated by police and fire associations, as outlined in the City Charter). The Council will consider approving nominations to the following boards and commissions: Board of Library Trustees; Building and Fire Board of Appeals; City Arts Commission; Civil Service Board; Harbor Commission; Parks, Beaches and Recreation Commission; and Planning Commission.

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated so please don’t hesitate to ask a question or offer a comment.

Grace K. Leung
City Manager, gleung@newportbeachca.gov

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City Council Meeting Information

The Newport Beach City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of most months (the exceptions are August and December). Typically, there is a Study Session that starts at 4 p.m. Study sessions are times for the Council to take a deeper look at a specific issue, or hear a presentation, that might eventually lead to a specific and more formal action. A closed session often follows the Study Session. Closed sessions are typically to address legal, personnel, and other matters where additional confidentiality is important. The Regular (evening) Session typically starts at 6 p.m., and often has a specific listing of different items ready for formal votes. Items on the “Consent Calendar” are heard all at once, unless a Council member has removed (aka “pulled”) an item from the Consent Calendar for specific discussion and separate vote. If an item on the agenda is recommended to be “continued”, it means that the item won’t be heard nor voted on that evening, but will be pushed forward to another noticed meeting.

Public Comment is welcomed at both the Study Session and the Regular Session. The public can comment on any item on the agenda. If you want to comment on a Consent Calendar item that was not pulled from the Consent Calendar by a Council Member, you will want to do so at the time listed on the agenda – right before the Council votes on the entire Consent Calendar (it’s Roman Numeral XIII on the posted agenda). If an item is pulled, the Mayor will offer that members of the public can comment as that specific item is heard separately. Additionally, there is a specific section of Public Comment for items not on the agenda, but on a subject of some relationship to the city government. If you cannot attend a meeting and/or want to communicate with the City Council directly, this e-mail gets to all of them: citycouncil@newportbeachca.gov. The City Manager also get's a copy of the email, because in almost all cases it’s something that the City Manager follows-up on.

The Council meets in the Council Chambers at 100 Civic Center Drive, off of Avocado between San Miguel and East Coast Highway. There is plenty of parking in the parking structure. You are always welcome to attend in person, but you can also watch on TV, Spectrum channel 30 and Cox channel 852 or stream it on your computer.

This Insider’s Guide is not an attempt to summarize every item on the Agenda – just the ones that seem of specific interest to the City Manager. You are encouraged to read the full agenda if you wish.

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