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By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager
The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, May 27. A special joint meeting of the City Council and Finance Committee will begin at 4 p.m., followed by a study session and regular meeting beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Agenda items include:
- Review of the proposed fiscal year 2025-26 operating budget. Staff will present revenue assumptions, expenditure requirements and program enhancement recommendations included in the proposed budget and any revisions required to the proposed budget as originally distributed.
- Review of the proposed fiscal year 2025-26 capital improvement program (CIP) budget. Public Works staff will present the CIP budget through 2030-31, which includes public improvements, special programs, ongoing maintenance programs and implementation of City master plans.
- Creation of a volunteer historian laureate position. The general role of the historian laureate would be to increase public awareness of City history. The position would be nominated by the Mayor and appointed by the City Council to a four-year term with no term limits.
- Schedule June 10 for the City Council’s annual budget public hearing and adoption. Under the City Charter, the City Council must set a public hearing date for the proposed annual budget, provide public notice and adopt a final budget by June 30.
The full agenda is available here: https://www.newportbeachca.gov/government/data-hub/agendas-minutes.
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 gets 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.