Huntington Beach, Surf City USA and Orange County’s largest beach city, is home to about 191,000 people. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget and its fights with the state over housing and other laws.
Documents from a series of City Council study sessions that
hammered out budget issues were buries in little-publicized
information packets called late communications.
Poseidon Resources, the company proposing a $350 million
desalination plant in Huntington Beach, says the plant will come at
“no financial risk to taxpayers.” But what does that really
mean?
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Reporter David Nazar visits the controversy in Huntington Beach
over a proposed desalination plant.
Huntington Beach’s chief of police, Ken Small, got a $100,000 gift to move from his Daytona Beach, Fla., home to Surf City.
The City Council voted to levy emergency response fees on nonresidents who are at fault in car accidents.
Amid budget cuts, the city saves two lifeguard towers by allowing Hurley to stamp them with its brand.
The department says it wants to send a message to the public that drunken driving enforcement is real, the local newspaper is reporting.
The Brown Act has nothing to say about so-called “late communications,” reports, correspondence or emails that come in too late to be included in the normal council meeting agenda packet. As Huntington Beach example shows, they can contain crucial information that the public doesn’t see.
Poseidon Resources, which wants to build a drinking water plant in Huntington Beach, is on track to have San Diego County Water Authority as a customer if it builds proposed plant in Carlsbad.
Council members swayed by well-researched presentation by residents showing that the RV storage lot proposal is a bad idea.
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