Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The long-awaited dredging project for lower Newport Harbor will move forward, following recent approval by the Newport Beach City Council and Port of Long Beach to use dredged sediment for a pier fill project at the port. This arrangement is similar Read More
Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, January 28. A closed session meeting will begin at 4 p.m. The regular meeting begins at 5 p.m. The full agenda is available here: Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager In addition to signing up for Newport Notified at https://newportbeach.genasys.com/portal/en to receive timely emergency alerts, I encourage you to download the City’s MyNB smartphone app at https://newportbeachca.gov/government/data-hub/online-services/mynb-mobile-app for many day-to-day transactions, information and service requests. MyNB is designed to give residents, Read More
Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The City’s Permit Center received largely favorable reviews for customer service in 2024, according to a year-end report. Survey responses are prompted by a text asking customers to rate their experience. The City received 448 surveys in Read More
With fires raging in the county adjacent to Orange County it is difficult to concentrate on anything else. At the end of last week I was glued to my TV, watching the disaster take shape in the county in which I was born and still have family and friends. Several Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The next Newport Beach City Council meeting is Tuesday, January 14. Items of interest are highlighted below. The entire agenda and reports can be viewed here: file:///C:/Users/ctrel/Downloads/Agenda%20(6).pdf A closed session meeting will begin at 4 p.m. The regular meeting begins at Read More
Blake Foster By Blake Foster, Financial Advisor, UBS (Newport Beach) As of 2024, there were a record 813 billionaires worth a combined $5.7 trillion in the United States, according to Forbes, up from the 756 billionaires quoted by World Population Review in 2023. That year, the U.S. was the country Read More
Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager On behalf of the City of Newport Beach staff, I wish you and your families a very happy holidays and New Year! It has been our pleasure to serve you and the Newport Beach community in 2024. Here is important information for residents to Read More
Preparing for the wedding procession: Bill Yingling, Dee Devaney, Robert Painter, Stuart Friedman. Photo by Spencer Grant. By Spencer Grant and Mara Casey Byrdie Friedman and Max Painter were united in wedlock on November 30 at the Corona Del Mar home of artist Debbie Painter. Some two dozen guests arrived Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager During the annual Newport Beach City Council reorganization on Tuesday, December 10, the Council elected Joe Stapleton and Lauren Kleiman to serve as the Newport Beach’s 2025 mayor and mayor pro tem, respectively. This City also welcomed its first woman-majority City Read More
