What Brea is about to decide
Brea’s council meets as a special meeting, general session at 6:30 p.m., in the Council Chambers, 1 Civic Center Circle, sitting also as the Successor Agency to the Brea Redevelopment Agency. The agenda is short — a consent calendar and then the 2026 State of the City address at 7:00 p.m. There is no closed session and no public hearing. These are pending decisions from the posted agenda — not outcomes. Every item links to the official record.
Source: Special City Council Meeting agenda packet (PDF) · Brea agendas · Agenda posted September 10, 2026
✅ What actually passed (per the adopted minutes record): The city’s minutes record on AgendaLink — now marked as adopted minutes — shows the general session running from 6:32 p.m. to 7:13 p.m. with all five members present. The consent calendar passed 5-0 in one motion by Stewart, seconded by Simonoff, at 7:12 p.m.: Hupp, Marick, Simonoff, Stewart and Vargas all voting yes. The adopted record words the motion as one “to approve Consent Calendar items 2A - 2G, excluding item 2D.” Ordinance No. 1277 (higher e-bike fines) was not adopted that night: the draft minutes of this meeting, attached to the council’s October 6 agenda packet, record the motion as approving consent items 2A–2G “excluding item 2D” and state that Item 2.D, the second reading of Ordinance No. 1277, “was removed from the Consent Calendar and will return at a later date.” The second reading is on the October 6 agenda as Item 3.C. The 5-0 consent vote approved the Tracks at Brea Trail easement with Oltmans Investment Company, LLC at 3200 Nasa Street, adopted Resolution No. 2026-64 (Conflict of Interest Code) and Resolution No. 2026-65 setting the October 20, 2026 public hearing on the Waste Water Disposal Company pipeline franchise, and received the disbursement registers, the August 31 investment report and the August 18 minutes. The two Successor Agency items passed 5-0 on a separate motion by Stewart, seconded by Simonoff. The record lists the State of the City presentation by Mayor Cecilia Hupp with no action, and shows public comment running from 6:46 to 7:11 p.m. Updated October 8, 2026: the record is now marked as adopted minutes; its text matches the draft, including Item 2.D being “removed from the Consent Calendar.” Updated October 9, 2026: the draft minutes record of the October 6 meeting states that the council “waived full reading and adopted Ordinance No. 1277” on a 5-0 consent vote that night; see the October 6 brief.
Correction (October 2, 2026): an earlier version of this section said the 5-0 consent vote adopted Ordinance No. 1277 and that the higher e-bike fines “are now law.” That was wrong. The AgendaLink record we relied on showed a single consent motion without the exclusion; the city’s draft minutes, published in the October 6 agenda packet, show the item was pulled before the vote. The ordinance has not been adopted. We regret the error.
The headline: the council is set to adopt Ordinance No. 1277 on second reading, revising Brea’s electric mobility device regulations and increasing e-bike fine amounts — the step that makes the higher fines law. On consent it would also grant an easement at 3200 Nasa Street for the Tracks at Brea Trail extension, and set an October 20 public hearing on a wastewater pipeline franchise.
🚲 E-bike fines become law
- Second reading of Ordinance No. 1277. The council would waive full reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1277, “An Ordinance of the City of Brea Revising Electric Mobility Device Regulations, Amending the Brea City Code, and Approving a CEQA Exemption.” A second reading is the final step; the agenda does not restate the fine amounts. Item 2.D
🏗 Land, pipelines and the trail
- Easement for the Tracks at Brea Trail extension at 3200 Nasa Street. The council would approve an easement agreement with Oltmans Investment Company, LLC, successor-in-interest to Menlo Business Park, LLC, authorize the Mayor to execute it, and authorize the City Manager to execute any non-monetary amendments and ancillary documents needed to implement it. The agenda states no dollar figure. Item 2.B
- A wastewater pipeline franchise heads to hearing. The council would adopt Resolution No. 2026-65 noticing a public hearing for October 20, 2026 to consider granting Waste Water Disposal Company a franchise to operate and maintain an existing wastewater pipeline in the city. Tuesday’s action sets the hearing; the franchise itself is not granted yet. Item 2.E
🪑 Also on the agenda
- Conflict of Interest Code. Resolution No. 2026-64 would amend the city’s Conflict of Interest Code for designated employees and officials “to address organizational changes and conform to current state law.” Item 2.C
- Money on receive-and-file. City disbursement registers for August 14, August 21, August 28 and September 4, 2026, and the monthly report of investments for the period ended August 31, 2026. As Successor Agency, the council would also receive and file its own August 31 investment report and its September 4 disbursement register. The agenda states no totals. Items 2.F, 2.G, 3.A, 3.B
- Minutes. Approval of the August 18, 2026 regular meeting minutes. The packet includes those minutes marked “a draft of the minutes and not the official approved minutes.” Item 2.A
- State of the City, 7:00 p.m. A presentation by Mayor Cecilia Hupp. No action is listed. Item 6.A
- Opening items include a Hunger Action Month proclamation, a commendation for Detective William Montalvo’s retirement, the Pledge led by Girl Scout Troop 4089, and an invocation by Pastor Rick Crockett of Crosspointe Church. Public comment on agenda and non-agenda items is taken in one period, five minutes per speaker. Items 1.B–1.H
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