HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-5 - Creating an Ad Hoc Committee to Review the City Council Policies and Make Recommendations to the City Council Regarding Revisions TheretoRESOLUTION NO. 2025-5
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, CREATING AN
AD HOC COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE CITY COUNCIL
POLICIES AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE
CITY COUNCIL REGARDING REVISIONS THERETO
WHEREAS, Section 200 of the Charter of the City of Newport Beach ("Charter")
vests the City Council with the authority to make and enforce all laws, rules and
regulations with respect to municipal affairs subject only to the restrictions and limitations
contained in the Charter and the State Constitution, and the power to exercise, or act
pursuant to any and all rights, powers, and privileges or procedures granted or prescribed
by any law of the State of California;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the City Council by the Charter,
the City Council has adopted official polices to provide guidelines and procedures
governing the conduct of City business in conformity with the Charter ("Council Policies");
WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the importance of periodically reviewing
and updating Council Policies to maintain relevancy, brevity, and coherency for the
benefit of the people of Newport Beach; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create an Ad Hoc Committee for the
purpose of reviewing the Council Policies and submitting recommendations regarding
potential revisions to the Council Policies to the entire City Council by December 31, 2025.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby creates the Ad Hoc Council Policy Review
Committee ("Committee") consisting of three (3) Council members appointed by the
Mayor and confirmed by the entire City Council. The sole purpose and responsibility of
the Committee shall be to review the City Council Policies and submit recommendations
regarding potential revisions thereto to the entire City Council by December 31, 2025.
Section 2: Unless terminated sooner by action of the City Council, the
Committee shall be advisory and shall expire upon making a final recommendation to the
City Council or December 31, 2025, whichever is earlier.
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Section 3: The Committee shall not be subject to the Brown Act; however, the
recommendation of the Committee to the City Council shall be considered at a meeting
of the entire City Council noticed in accordance with California Government Code Section
54950 et seq.
Section 4: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 5: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 6: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the
activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378)
of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3,
because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or
indirectly.
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Section 7: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this 14th day of January, 2025.
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp ,
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ; ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2025-5 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of
said Council held on the 14th day of January, 2025; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Joe Stapleton, Mayor Pro Tern Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Michelle Barto,
Councilmember Noah Biom, Counciâ–ºmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember Sara J.
Weber, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said
City this 151h day of January, 2025.
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California