Huntington Beach City Council members are slated to discuss prohibiting book bans at their local library amid concerns over what books will be available to check out. 

The concerns come in the final days of voters casting their ballots for Measures A and B, which if approved would dismantle the library’s restricted section and proposals for a book review committee, along with preventing the city from outsourcing the library’s operations. 

The last day to vote is June 10, and in person voting centers open on Saturday. 

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City council members have argued that there are a number of sexually explicit books available to children at the public library, encouraging voters to vote no on both A and B to allow their proposals to move forward. 

To see the full list of restricted books, click here.

Proponents of the measures argue that both the restricted section and the proposed book review committee are a thinly disguised effort to ban books or stop them from getting into the library in the first place, a claim the council has repeatedly denied publicly. 

Now, city council members are proposing an official resolution promising not to sell the library and to not ban books. 

“City Council does not support banning books and books shall not be banned from the (library),” reads the memo signed by Councilmen Chad Williams, Don Kennedy and Butch Twining. 

Williams is running the No on A&B campaign, and Twining donated over $8,000 to the campaign’s funds. 

For weeks, many residents have also shown up to protest or support a series of ads calling on voters to “Protect Our Kids from Porn – No on A&B,” that were greenlit by Williams.   

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The debate over the library has also become one of the most expensive special elections in the city’s history, with over $300,000 raised between both sides combined. 

City Council members also just unanimously voted to call for an investigation of the Friends of the Library nonprofit, which helps fundraise for the library and donated at least $47,000 to the Yes on A&B campaign. 

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Council members also issued similar calls against the Ocean View School District School Board for voting to support the measures and directing the superintendent to distribute the resolution of support to district parents. 

[Read: HB Council Moves to Probe Ocean View School Board, Who Say Effort is Potentially Illegal]

Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter. Contact him at nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org.