What Newport Beach is about to decide

The council meets Tuesday at 4:00 PM, Council Chambers, 100 Civic Center Drive. The posted agenda is a 16-item consent calendar followed by a two-matter closed session; no public hearings or current-business items are listed. These are pending decisions from the posted agenda — not outcomes. Every item links to the official record.

Source: official agenda (PDF) · meeting page

✅ What actually passed (per the draft minutes): The draft minutes of this meeting, attached to the September 22 agenda and adopted by the council as part of the September 22 consent calendar (7-0), record all seven members present. The Ad Hoc Public Safety Committee was rejected, 4-3. Mayor Pro Tem Blom pulled Item 7 and moved “to deny staff recommendation to adopt Resolution No. 2026-76,” seconded by Weber; the minutes list Weber, Weigand, Blom and Mayor Kleiman voting aye and Grant, Barto and Stapleton voting no. Blom called an added committee of non-experts redundant; Grant restated her support for one. Ordinance No. 2026-15, the large-gatherings and curfew ordinance, was introduced 7-0 (Weigand/Blom) and passed to second reading on September 22, after Grant proposed deferring the vote until after a District 1 town hall. Per the minutes, Police Chief David Miner told the council that approximately 20% of the 439 arrests on the 4th of July were juveniles aged 13 to 17, and that 97% of all arrestees were from out of town. The rest of the consent calendar passed 7-0 (Blom/Stapleton), with Barto recused on the Balboa Bay Club ground lease (Item 13) and Stapleton recused on the pavement notice of completion (Item 8): that adopted Ordinance No. 2026-14 amending the short-term lodging permit chapter, introduced Ordinance No. 2026-16 on the police military equipment policy, and approved the Turbo Data Systems amendment (not to exceed $1,652,496), the police vehicle purchases ($354,938.46 and $400,646.14), the JPW Communications harbor outreach agreement ($195,342), the Balboa Bay Club Ventures lease, the 1201 Dove Street property management agreement and the Medi-Cal intergovernmental transfer resolution. The City Attorney reported no closed session report.

The headline: everything of substance is on consent. The council is asked to introduce Ordinance No. 2026-15, a municipal-code package "to Address Illegal Activity and Public Safety During High-Risk Periods and Other Significant Crowd Events" that amends the Safety Enhancement Zone penalty provision and the minor's curfew chapter and adds a new chapter on "Public Safety Orders and Regulation of Large Gatherings" — paired with a resolution creating an Ad Hoc Public Safety Committee. On the money side: a Turbo Data Systems parking-citation contract amendment with a not-to-exceed of $1,652,496, police vehicle purchases of $354,938.46 and $400,646.14, a rewritten ground lease with Balboa Bay Club Ventures for the tidelands at 1221 West Coast Highway, and a Medi-Cal transfer program budgeted at $137,957 in cost against $314,565 in projected revenue.

📜 Ordinances & policy

Crowd-event and curfew ordinance, first reading: the council is asked to introduce Ordinance No. 2026-15, amending Subsection (B) (Safety Enhancement Zone) of Section 1.04.010 (Violations, Penalties and Enforcement), amending Chapter 10.36 (Minor's Curfew), adding Chapter 10.80 (Public Safety Orders and Regulation of Large Gatherings) to Title 10 (Offenses and Nuisances), and amending Section 11.03.020 (General Provisions) of Chapter 11.03 (Special Events) — all "to Address Illegal Activity and Public Safety During High-Risk Periods and Other Significant Crowd Events." If introduced, it passes to second reading on September 22, 2026. A redline of the affected code sections is attached. Item 2
Ad Hoc Public Safety Committee: Resolution No. 2026-76 would create an Ad Hoc Public Safety Committee. The agenda gives no further detail on membership or scope. Item 7
Police military-equipment policy: introduction of Ordinance No. 2026-16, updating the Military Equipment Use Policy for the Newport Beach Police Department, with second reading September 22, 2026; the council is also asked to receive and file the 2024/2025 Military Equipment Use Report. Item 3
Short-term lodging, second reading: adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-14, amending Chapter 5.95 (Short Term Lodging Permit) of the Municipal Code. Item 4
Holiday closure: approval to close City Hall and provide limited services at certain off-site facilities from Thursday, December 24, 2026, through Friday, January 1, 2027. Item 16

🏗️ Contracts, bids & infrastructure

Turbo Data Systems, Inc. — Amendment No. Two to the professional services agreement for parking permit management and citation processing services, raising total compensation to a not-to-exceed of $1,652,496. Budget Amendment No. 27-019 would add $180,000 in General Fund expenditure appropriations (account 0103032-811080), "offset by a corresponding increase in revenues" to account 0103032-531045. Item 11
Police vehicles: six black-and-white Ford Explorer patrol vehicles from the National Auto Fleet Group of Watsonville using Sourcewell cooperative pricing, a purchase order of $354,938.46; and nine unmarked administrative/investigative vehicles from the same Watsonville vendor, purchase orders totaling $400,646.14. Item 9
Balboa Bay Club ground lease: the Mayor and City Clerk would be authorized to execute a Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease with Balboa Bay Club Ventures, LLC for the tidelands property at 1221 West Coast Highway, "in a form substantially similar to the agreement prepared by the City Attorney's Office." Attachments include the 2013 Amended and Restated Ground Lease and a letter from Balboa Bay Club Ventures; no dollar terms appear on the agenda. Item 13
1201 Dove Street property management: a professional services agreement — titled on the agenda as with Lincoln Property Company, and in the recommended action as with LPC West LP — for "leasing, operations, and management of City property, an office building located at 1201 Dove Street." No contract amount is stated on the agenda. Item 14
JPW Communications, Inc. — an on-call professional services agreement for Harbor Management community outreach services, not-to-exceed $195,342, plus a $9,302 contingency (5% of the cost). Item 12
Utilities vehicle replacement: Budget Amendment No. 2027-014 appropriating $50,000 from the Equipment Replacement Fund unappropriated fund balance to the Rolling Equipment account (7529032-911016) to replace Utilities Department vehicle Unit 9296; a National Auto Fleet Group quotation is attached. Item 10
Notice of completion: acceptance of the finished Bristol Street North, Spyglass Hill Road, and Von Karman Avenue pavement rehabilitation, Contract No. 8895-3 (projects 25R11, 25R15, and 23R15). Item 8

💰 Money & personnel

Medi-Cal Intergovernmental Transfer program: Resolution No. 2026-75 would authorize an Intergovernmental Agreement Regarding Transfer of Public Funds with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and a Health Plan-Provider Agreement with CalOptima to participate in the Medi-Cal Rate Range Intergovernmental Transfer (IGT) Program. The budget amendment appropriates $137,957 in increased expenditures (account 01040404-821008) from General Fund unappropriated fund balance and raises revenue estimates for the program by $314,565 (account 01040404-431246). The recommended action calls it Budget Amendment No. 27-017-CC; the attachment list labels it "Budget Amendment 27-016." Item 6
Public-safety pay side letters: Resolution No. 2026-74 would modify the Key & Management Compensation Plan and approve side letters with the Newport Beach Police Association, Police Management Association, Fire Management Association, and Lifeguard Management Association "Relating to Holiday Pay, Temporary Upgrade Pay, and Scholastic Achievement Pay." No dollar figure is stated on the agenda. Item 5
$200,000 check from the Friends of the Newport Beach Library, to be accepted and appropriated to the library's Fiscal Year 2026-27 maintenance and operation budget through Budget Amendment No. 27-008 (Division 0106052). Item 15

🔒 Closed session

Conference with legal counsel — existing litigation, Government Code § 54956.9(d)(1), two matters: (A) City of Newport Beach v. Newport Beach Stewardship Association & Newport Beach Stewardship Association v. Lena Shumway et al., Orange County Superior Court Case No. 30-2026-01559183; and (B) City of Newport Beach et al. v. Robert Page et al., Orange County Superior Court Case No. 30-2026-01580961. A closed session report follows before adjournment. Item 17

🪑 Also on the agenda

Approval of minutes for the August 25, 2026 regular meeting and the August 18, 2026 special meeting. Item 1
Presentations: recognition of Newport Mesa Unified School District students, and a proclamation declaring September 2026 Hunger Action Month for Second Harvest Food Bank. The invocation is by Reverend Monsignor Doug Cook of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. Section II
Council listed on the agenda: Lauren Kleiman (Mayor), Noah Blom (Mayor Pro Tem), and Councilmembers Michelle Barto, Robyn Grant, Joe Stapleton, Sara J. Weber, and Erik Weigand; staff listed are City Manager Seimone Jurjis, City Attorney Aaron C. Harp, and City Clerk Lena Shumway.

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