Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager Two of the City’s longtime department directors will be retiring in the next few weeks. Recreation and Senior Services Director Laura Detweiler is retiring after 20 years of service (14 years in her current position) and Library Read More
I’ve heard some rather odd rumbling around town that even though the people don’t have the right to directly vote for our Mayor, this system “isn’t broke so we don’t need to fix it.“ This suggests that our system was whole and right to begin with. But when the government Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager Our next City Council meeting is Tuesday, April 26. Items of interest are highlighted below. The entire agenda and reports can be viewed here: https://newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/68242/72?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery. 4 p.m.: Study Session. Agenda items include: Residential refuse program update. Staff from the Public Works Read More
I want to have a direct say over who becomes Mayor of Newport Beach. And I want the Mayor to be directly accountable to me. It’s that simple. That kind of power – the power to select the Mayor – should be with the voters. We’ve seen what it looks Read More
I was speaking to a group of people last week about how important it is to Vote NO on Measure B when all of a sudden a person in the audience spoke up and said the following… “I personally know and LOVE Will O’Neil. I have donated to his campaign, Read More
No Elected Mayor…Why does that sound like a campaign to limit my ability to decide who leads my City? Because it does. Sadly, it’s the No On Measure B campaign’s intent. It should give everyone pause, to just think about those words. The Elect Our Mayor (Yes On B) campaign Read More
Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager The rollout of new, green-top organics recycling carts by Newport Beach’s waste contractor, CR&R, is nearly complete as of Friday, April 15. CR&R has distributed thousands of organics carts to residential households since January to meet the state requirements for recycling Read More
I feel sorry for my neighbors who live on Riverside Drive. We have been aware in Newport Heights of a traffic circulation change being considered for the last several months. The City Council has even gone so far as to close off upper Tustin on a trial basis and the Read More
Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager Newport Beach’s new mobile mental health crisis intervention service, Be Well OC, started in late February and is already making a difference in the community. In just a few weeks on the job, the Be Well team Read More
Over the years I have watched with great interest the consistent hard work and tremendous amount of time Robyn Grant has given to the City of Newport Beach and to various Organizations and Boards within our City. As a little background, Robyn Grant is a USC educated attorney with a Read More
