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File#: 25-670 MEETING DATE: 8/19/2025
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
SUBMITTED TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
SUBMITTED BY: Travis Hopkins, City Manager
VIA: Michael Vigliotta, City Attorney
PREPARED BY: Carlina Thomas, Assistant to the City Manager
Subiect:
Adopt Resolution No. 2025-57, clarifying that Resolution No. 2023-41 is no longer in effect
Statement of Issue:
Clarify that Resolution No. 2023-41 is no longer in effect because the Director of the Community and
Library Services Department, after the passage of Measure A, now has the authority to determine
children's library materials with sexual content.
Financial Impact:
N/A
Recommended Action:
Approve and adopt Resolution No. 2025-57, "A Resolution of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach Clarifying the Legal Status of Resolution No. 2023-41" to reflect the outcome of
Measure A.
Alternative Action(s):
Do not adopt Resolution No. 2025-57 to reflect the outcome of Measure A.
Analysis:
None
Environmental Status:
Not Applicable
Strategic Plan Goal:
Non Applicable -Administrative Item
For details, visit www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/strategicplan.
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File #: 25-670 MEETING DATE: 8/19/2025
Attachment(s):
1. Resolution No. 2025-57
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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-57
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH CLARIFYING THE
LEGAL STATUS OF RESOLUTION NO. 2023-41
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach adopted Resolution No.
2023-41 establishing a policy for children's library materials containing sexual content.
On June 10,2025, a Special Election was held wherein Measure A, a citizen initiative
passed which amends the Huntington Beach Municipal Code by deleting Chapter 2.66 titled
`Community Parent Guardian Review Board for Procurement of Children's Library Materials' and
adding Section 2.30.090 titled `Selection and Use of Library Materials'.
Because Measure A(Huntington Beach Municipal Code section 2.30.090) requires, in part,
that the Director of Library Services establish policies for the selection and use of library
materials, Resolution 2023-41 is no longer in effect as of the date of certification of the election
results.
NOW,THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby
resolve as follows:
1. Affirm that Resolution No. 2023-41 is no longer in effect because of the passage
of Measure A.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 19th day of August , 2025.
Mayor
INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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Res. No. 2025-57
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, LISA LANE BARNES, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the
City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted
by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a Regular meeting thereof held on August 19, 2025 by the following vote:
AYES: Twining, Kennedy, McKeon, Burns, Van Der Mark, Gruel, Williams
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California
From: Paula Schaefer
To: CITY COUNCIL(INCL.CMO STAFF)
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Subject: Agenda Item# 15-Delete the Parent Guardian Book Review Committee from City"s Municipal Code and Website
Date: Monday,August 18,2025 4:02:19 PM
Council Members:
I urge you to approve Resolution 2025-57. Doing so recognizes that the
success of Measure A requires the Parent Guardian Book Review
Committee be deleted from the City's Municipal Code.
Upon approving this Resolution, the following instructions should also
be given to City Staff:
1. Instruct City staff to remove this Committee from the list of boards
and commissions and delete the application for appointment to this
Committee.
2. Instruct the Director of Community and Library Services to update the
Library's collection and review policies to comply with the terms of
Measure A as stated in Municipal code section 2.30.090.
The current policies do not conform to section 2.30.090 or to the enacted
California Freedom to Read Act (AB 1825). This law requires every public
library jurisdiction, as defined, that directly receives any state funding to
establish, adopt, and maintain a written and publicly accessible
collection development policy for its libraries by January 1, 2026.
Paula A. Schaefer
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To: 5uDDlementalcomm(asurfcity-hb.orq
Subject: Tuesday 8/19 agenda Items 15,27,&unagendized item
Date: Monday,August 18,2025 4:14:20 PM
City Council—
I believe that your resolution 2025-57, item# 15 on the consent calendar,falls well short
of what you are obligated to do.
Measure A,which passed by a nearly 2:1 margin, did not call for you to make a resolution
that resolution 2023-41 was no longer in effect. It called for the complete repeal of the
ordinance that resolution created, as well as the creation of a new section of the
Huntington Beach Municipal Code that defines the "Selection and Use of Library
Materials".
That's not a resolution stating that the prior policy is no longer in effect—it is a complete
repeal of Chapter 2.66 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code that resolution 2023-41
created.
You may think that placing this in the consent calendar is a way to avoid having to openly
admit the outcome of the election, but it reads more like you trying to stick your thumb in
the eye of the 2/3 of voters who approved Measure A.
Next, at a time when the city is in significant financial distress,the appointment of a new
city treasurer,with no statement of qualifications, no resume, no biography—that is zero
information about the candidate- is distressing,to say the least. The one piece of
information that is readily accessible is that the candidate donated to the campaigns of
the three most recently elected council members. The aroma that this gives off is
unsavory, at best.
Finally, I will note that Council members McKeon and Kennedy have repeatedly stressed
how they are ensuring that all the city's leaseholders are being efficiently billed and
tracked for payment. How is it then that the International Surf Museum is being
considered for relocation into the Main Street Library? The International Surf Museum,
up until mere days ago,was 13 months in arrears on its lease payments. In what world
does a city in financial distress consider moving a tenant with a demonstrated record of
non-payment into a larger, more expensive location? And is it coincidental that,within
days of this delinquency being uncovered via a CPRA,the tenant paid the amount in
arrears? And why would this even be considered in the first place when the consultant
for the Library plan stated publicly that the concepts,functions, and use of a library and
a museum make them incompatible in the same structure?
David Rynerson
Huntington Beach