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Home My WebLink About14 - Calling an Election for a Proposed Charter Amendment to Provide for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach - Correspondence - OpposeReceived After Agenda Printed October 26, 2021 Item No. 14 Correspondence - Oppose Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202111:43 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the Elected Mayor Process From: Elizabeth Adams <aa2adams5@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202111-42-39 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Tfine (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: I oppose the Elected Mayor Process [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 0O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Keep our model of City Council/ Mayor selection the same as it has been for almost 70 years. Thank you. Elizabeth Adams Mulvey. Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20215:49 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose this Initiative we need checks and balances we do not change the system that isn't broken just for personal gain From: Mindee Allchorn <womenrow@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:49:16 PM {UTC -08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca,gov> Subject: I appose this Initiative we need checks and balances we do not change the system that isn't broken just for personal gain [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DQ NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. This initiative allows a council person to finish 8 years in office and have another 8 years as mayor. It will create an immensely powerful mayor and it removes substantial authority from other decision makers. There is no logical reason to abandon the seven existing City Council districts with a rotating mayor but Mr. O'Neill has embarked on a solitary quest to completely remake our system of city government. I oppose this initiative, we need to serve the people, not the selfish political gains of being drunk on power! Many of us don't support this proposal because we see that having an abnormally powerful mayor silences the voices of others with differing viewpoints. Others are troubled that the initiative excludes the mayor from the term limits approved by the voters in 1992, allowing for Lip to 16 consecutive years in office, but maintains term limits for the other council members. Some don't like having one man decide how the government should run, especially if that one man is positioning himself to become that powerful mayor. They may recognize, as many of us do, that having a particularly powerful mayor will be extremely dangerous if he or she is beholden to special interests. In fact, a diverse group of residents of all political persuasions are opposed to thiS initiative and feel that our current City Council process has served us well. I9 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: October 28, 20215:02 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the elected mayor proposal. From: Shauna Amadore <dr.shaunaamadore@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:02:13 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the elected mayor proposal. [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As a resident and business owner in Newport Beach, I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Dr. Shauna Amadore 949-939-0242 1101 Dove Street, Suite 260 Newport Beach CA 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:48 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose the Elect our Mayor campaign From: Anne -Marie ramangeloffC]gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:48,06 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U.S & Canada) To. City Clerk's Office Subject: Oppose the Elect our Mayor campaign [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As a resident of Newport Beach I adamantly oppose spending any money to put an Elect the Mayor proposition on the ballot. This is a waste of taxpayer dollars. I implore the City Council to be fiscally conservative and save aur hard earned tax dollars. Best, Anne -Marie Angeioff Muive , Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:17 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayoral elections From: Rebecca Asa no rcdmbecca@yahoc. com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219;17:05 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayoral elections [EXTERNAL EMAIL] OO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To whom it may concern : Dear Madam/Sir, 1 am against changing the mayor's election procedures and do not think it is financially sound to spend $215K for a special election. Please consider that the "Grandfathered" mayoral election has had no political grandstanding as it would, were we to allow a special election. Thank you from a 34 years Newport Beach resident. Best Regards, Rebecca Asano Murrey, Jennifer Frorn: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2021232 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor agenda item From., SANDRA L AYRES <ssayres@mac.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 20212:31:41 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov>; City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor agenda item [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members There are many arguments previously put forward by wise, long time members of our community that remember and understand the history of why our Council has the currently design. We are fortunate to have those voices in our midst rising up to remind us and hoping to keep us from repeating previous mistakes. There was a reason the Council was created with power spread and balanced amongst our seven districts. The Charter has served us well and we are a functioning healthy political system in an otherwise topsy turvy scene. Examples can be found in our two nearest borders where an elected mayor system has not created balanced harmonious outcomes. In both those towns, power was centralized to the detriment of the representation of the citizens. I AM HEARING THE ARGUMENT "LETTHE PEOPLE DECIDE - HAVE AN ELECTED MAYOR." BUT IF WE PLAY OUTTHAT ARGUMENT IT SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO THE INITIATIVE SYSTEM, THERE IS NO GROUNDSWELL FROM THE CITIZENRY FOR THIS CHANGE TO OUR COUNCIL. AND THE INITIATIVE SYSTEM WORKS IN NEWPORT BEACH, CITIZENS WERE TOLD THEY HAD TO USE THE INITIATIVE FOR THE MUSEUM HOUSE VOTE. WHY WOULD THIS ISSUE BE ANY DIFFERENT?? SUCH A SERIOUS ALTERATION TO OUR SYSTEM SHOULD BE WELL CONSIDERED AND A MOVEMENT BY THE CITIZENS - NOT A MOVEMENT OF THE POLITICALLY CONNECTED. Thank you, Sandra Ayres Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 202110:00 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the elected mayor proposal From: Dennis Baker rdennis.baker@diandden.net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10:00:15 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. What a waste of time and city resources to use this process with a special election. 27)e4u;j 64,ez 6alraea dee ?ala t Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:52 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose electing a Mayor From: Janet Says <newbchmom@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:51:33 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Oppose electing a Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi- I wanted to voice my opposition to the proposal to elect a Mayor. In addition there should be no city $ spent on a speciai election for this. Please mark me as opposed to this proposal. Best Regards, Janet Bays 22 year Port Street/ Newport Beach Resident Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20217;59 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Special Election From: Pauline Bjorkholm <paulinespost@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20217:58:30 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Special Election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I'm for waiting until our scheduled election in 2022 for voting on the elected mayor issue. f believe the money could be spent more wisely like helping the homeless. 1801 Port Barmouth Place, NB 92660 Namaste a Pauline Bjorkholm 949 266 7723 Mulvey, _Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:53 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the Mayor proposal From: Yuri Blanco <yamiy85@icloud.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:52:2 7 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: 1 oppose the Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To whom it may concern I am sending this quick email, it state that I oppose the elected mayor proposal, Yuri Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 202110:28 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject. FW: NO to the elected mayor's proposal. From: Aline Blumetti <alinearbid@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10:28:12 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: NO to the elected mayor's proposal. [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello, 1 am writing in opposition to the elected mayor's proposal. I urge you to please not give way to such a blatant attempt to seize the city council's power and monopolize it in a purely self-serving move. This proposal will only hurt our city and cause a growing displeasure among us, the constituents. We need to keep a varied representation on the City Council and have aur different voices heard, not just one person's. The fact that this proposal gives the mayor near -sale authority to decide the city council's agenda items and prevent the City Manager from adding to them, as well as allows one person to potentially be mayor for 8 years, is extremely concerning. The list goes on and on. NO to the proposal. Aline A. Blumetti Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 202112:49 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose elected mayor From: Karen Borowiec <kkborow iec@hot mai1.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202112:49:17 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Oppose elected mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose an elected mayor Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217:35 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: No On "elected mayor proposal" -----Original Message ----- From: Lyle Brakob <lmbrakob@cox.net> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2021 11:43 AM To: Dept - City Council<CityCounciI@newportbeachca. gov> Subject: No On "elected mayor proposal" [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To: City Council Councilman O'NeaI's proposal is bad for our city -a -z! Move on to productive matters. Thank You Lyle Brakob 6 Baycrest Court Newport Beach 92669 Sent from my !Rhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:12 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Glenn Braunstein <gdbraunstein@gmaii.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20 21 8:10:25 AM (UTC -08: 00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Members of the City Council, We oppose the elected mayor proposal for multiple reasons. The most important is that term limits are an important check on unbridled power and would thwart the ability of the citizens of Newport Beach to voice complaints and be fairly represented. The current method of rotating the mayor position among the elected council members is a fairer method to distribute power and prevents one person from becoming the Newport Beach Czar for a long period. We need to try and maintain a representative, democratic process, and this proposal will do just the opposite. Sincerely, Glenn and Jackie Braunstein 9 Chatham Ct., Newport Beach, CA 92668 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:06 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: elected mayor proposal From: Taryn Suzy Briggs <tsb55@earthlink.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202112:05.37 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Re: elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I OPPOSE the elected mayor proposal. Sincerely, Suzy A. Briggs 2615 San Joaquin Hills Rd Corona del Mar, Ca 92625 Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 2S, 20212:06 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Agenda #14 -----Original Message ----- From: sylvia brooks <xxsbaggage@gmail-comms Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 2.05 PM To: Dept - City Council <CftyCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Agenda #14 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 1 strongly disapprove of passing this. NO, to agenda #14± Sylvia brooks Newport Beach resident. Mrs. Brooks Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:21 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor proposal From: Mary Ann Bruce <mabruce40@gma1l.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:21:12 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal! MaryAnn Bruce Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:18 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Proposal From: Richard Bruck, M❑ <rlbruckmd@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:18:09 AM (UTC -08;00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal, RL BruckMID, Corona Del Mar Sent from my iPad Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:11 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Mayoral Elections a Bad Idea!!! From: Charles Caldwell <chipster98@gmail.cam> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:01 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayoral Elections a Bad Idea M [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As a nearly 50 year resident of Newport Beach AND having worked in Newport Beach for 50 years, I have not seen any problem with the election of MAYOR by the Council itself. Further to reduce the Council to FOUR members takes away a great deal of representation in various districts within the City. It would redistribute the load to fewer Council persons over burdening those fewer representatives. It seems to me that it would create too much power in one person on the Council which is not a good idea. It would also mean that a newcomer to NB could simply arrive for the purpose of running for and possibly becoming MAYOR, without any prior experience of knowledge of aur City... could be big problem!!!! TONIGHT I URGE YOUR NO VOTE on this item. Sincerely, Charles B. Caldwell 2715 Bayshore Drive Newport Beach,CA As a 50 -year resident of Newport Beach, I am strongly OPPOSED to the Proposed Charter Amendment because it would ... i. undermine current term limits, which only allows council members to run for two, four-year terms 2. provides for mayor to set the agenda for meetings rather than the City Manager under the current system which could lead to a politically biased agenda 3. may make it more difficult to retain and/or hire politically independent new city managers if they do not have the power to set the agenda 4. reduces the number of City Council members thereby minimizing representative coverage for residents and increasing the governing burden on a fewer number of Council members 5. creates too much power in one person on the Council 6. means that a newcomer (non-resident) to NB could simply move to Newport for the purpose of running for and possibly becoming Mayor, without any prior experience of knowledge of our City 7. the existing election and appointment system for our Mayor has worked well for the past 50+ years and there is no good reason to change it Vote NO on the Proposed Charter Amendment to elect otir Mayor. Tom Callister, 1501 Dolphin Terrace Corona del Mar, CA 92625 tkcallisterC� mail.com 2 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 2:59 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Say NO to NB City Council From: Shirley Cameron <shir1eycameron4re@gmad.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20212:59:00 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Say NO to NB City Council [EXTERNAL EMAIL) ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. No to the special election. Wait until 20221 Just a waste of money! Shirley Cameron Newport Coast, Ca. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20217:24 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: NO Special Election for Mayor! From: allison carr <allisonpcarr@gmail,com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 7:23:13 PM (UTC -08:04) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: NO Special Election for Mayor? [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 00 NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Greetings at the City Gerk's Office, Please do not hold a special election for mayor of Newport Beach. The system we currently have works well. I am a voter opposed to spending money for this reason. Thank you for voicing my opposition. Sincerely, Allison Carr Registered Voter of Newport Beach 520 Larkspur Ave. Corona del Mar, CA 92525 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2021 10:11 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose elected mayor proposal! From: Poita Cernius <blueprint821@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:10:43 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose elected mayor proposal! [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:30 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Mary Citrano rmarycitrano@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:29:30 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Erected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am NOT in favor of this proposal. Mary Citrano 5509 Seashore Dr. Newport Beach 92563 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk`s Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:S2 PM To. Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose the Elected Mayoral Proposal From: Anna -Marie Ciaassen <claassenam@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:5 1: 55 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Oppose the Elected Mayoral Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello, I am a resident of Corona del Mar and I oppose the elected mayoral proposal. The proposal would give too much power and time in office to any elected official, would make elections very expensive and less competitive and create a new forum for demagogues to oversee the city with few checks and balances. Please consider this when making this important decision to put this proposal on the ballot. And please do not. Thanks, Anna -Marie Claassen Anna -Marie Claassen Anthology Interiors www.antholoavinteriors.com 949.375.1751 Instagram: @anthologyinteriors Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 939 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elect Mayor From: Dan Copp <danacopp@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9;58:44 AM {UTC -08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elect Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am apposed to this change Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for Wad Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:52 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Mark Coleman mark@tfpgroup.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:51:32 AM (U -FC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityDerk@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: Joan Coleman <joanaIicecoleman@gmail .com> Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My wife Joan and I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Mark Coleman, CEO Training Funding Partners 5912 Bolsa Ave, Suite 109 Huntington Beach, CA 92649 714.845.4406 (Direct) 949.689.4998 (Cell) mark@tfpgrc)up.com TFP �r�v Linked LU �f,,� Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:20 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the mayoral election 11� From: Sonja Conn <sonjalt@cex.net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:20: 15 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the mayoral election Q [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am strongly speaking up against this power grab. I am a resident of SO years. Sonja Conn Sonia Conn Franchise Owner Luxury Travel- Land and Sea C111SE KUNERS, F'OVR LANA AND CRV1111 KXPCRTS 949-933-4911 scoiin@crtiiseplatiners.com/ www.imaginetliattravel.com/ Facebook.com/imaginetllattravel Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021950 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Vote From: Steve Cooper <stevecoop@roadrunner.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:50:23 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor Vote [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content Is safe. I can't attend the city council meeting, but I oppose the elected Mayoral Vote. Steve Cooper 14 Cape Woodbury Newport Beach, 92660 AVaSt This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:57 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Douglas Cotton ckanoacotton@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:55:43 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIIL] 00 NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal Douglas Cotton Cell: "14 269 5800 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or, attachments. If you do print, please recycle the paper. Disclaimer: Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-252 1, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing, in part or in whole, this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 2S, 20219:27 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor election From; Cox <inglis4@cox. net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219-.27:21 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. We are opposed to a special election costing $215,000 when it could be done another time Waste of taxpayer dollars Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 202111:57 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW; Oppose From: Kim Crawford <kperawford@cox.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202111--56:58 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Oppose [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Kim Crawford Sent from my Whone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 2S, 20217:24 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Opposition to Elected Mayor Proposal From; pick Crawfordrrcrawford@crawfordcustomhomes.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217:24:2 2 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Opposition to Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, I would like to express my opposition to the elected mayor proposal now being considered. I have been a citizen of Newport Beach since 1990. This proposal is not good governance and circumvents good checks and balances. Please mote against this measure, Thank you, Richard F Crawford 1942 Port Townsend Newport Beach, CA 92650 Sent from my iPhane to Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Elect the Mayor Initiative From: Gary Cruz c, Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:13 AM To: dept -City Council c aCouncldzDneApor E. > Subject: Elect the Mayor Initiative Dear Honorable City Council Members, I am trying to understand why this is needed and why now. Is this a solution looking for a problem? Being new to city politics you wiIi have appreciate my failure to understand the need but equally why now before any significant discussion, Newport Beach is a small city with 83,000 or so registered voters. To the best of my knowledge those cities with elected mayors are substantially larger cities. Most cities (65%) are governed the way Newport Beach is currently governed. Is there something wrong with this form of government that most other cities do not know about? There are currently seven districts that are divided into approximately 12,000 voters per district. If changed to six districts, then each district would have 14,000 or so registered voters. How is that giving more power to the voters in Newport Beach? Please do not say because the mayor is a voting council member when the mayor controls the agenda. How will those extra two thousand voters be allocated? Will the residents in each district have a responsive council member familiar with their community? Recently a small group of residents in my community were able to get an item on the agenda. It took aver two years, but that agenda item has succeeded in becoming an amendment to the Local Coastal Program. It was only through persistence, council and city staff discussion and the support of two council members that this happened. I am concerned that if the mayor solely controlled the agenda that our issue may never have made it onto the agenda. While the issue was of Immense importance to our local community, I am not convinced our limited voting power would have been sufficient either to be heard or for the issue to be put onto the agenda. What happened to term limits? Claes this not double the possible term limit for any council person that decides to run for mayor towards the end of their term? I cannot image anyone vying for the position of City Manager in Newport Beach if this initiative goes into effect. From what I gather there was an Insufficient number of signed petitions to get this initiative on the November ballot. Getting the council to put it an the ballot is a last-ditch effort. Maybe there is a message there? I have read the proposed ordinance. It is confusing and vague. Before something like this goes to voters (less than 50% of whom will vote), I believe this needs to be vetted by both city council and city staff. Please vote NO for this initiative. The current system from my perspective is working and in my opinion it works because there is a balance of power where no single council member has more power than any other council person. Gary Cruz 503 38" St Newport Beach, CA 92663 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021930 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the plan to elect the mayor From: Barbara Degroot rbdegroot@aol.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 930:14 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: I oppose the plan to elect the mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. The proposal to change the way the mayor of Newport Beach is chosen puts too much power in the hands of one individual and bypasses the current system of term limits. Any proposal to change the way the mayor is selected should be voted on by residents during a regularly scheduled election - not a special election that will only attract a few partisans. Please don't change the current system. Thank you, Barbara and Adrian De Groot 217 Jasmine Ave. Corona Del Mar Sent from my iPad Mulvey, Jennifer From. City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20212:21 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose Directly -Elected Mayor From: Susan Dvorak <susan dvorak@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20212:2 1:00 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Oppose Directly -Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Avery and members of the NB City Council: I am strongly opposed to changing our city charter to a directly -elected Mayor system because it will give the Mayor too much power over council meeting agendas; it will be too costly for regular residents to run for office unless they partner with moneyed influencers who don't care about our community; and, the district where the Mayor resides will be over- represented, It is far better for our city government to continue with an even distribution of power among all city council members. Sincerely, Sue Dvorak Newport Beach resident 239-580-7788 Sent from my Whone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20216:31 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: No On The Elected Mayor Proposal From: Elizabeth Edwards <Iwe61@me.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20216:30:2 8 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time {US & Canada} To: City Clerk's Office Subject: No On The Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the the Elected Mayor Proposal. Elizabeth Edwards Newport Beach, California Sent from my Whone Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Friday, October 22, 20218:20 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: How we select our mayor From: Aline Farmer <alinefarmer55@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 20214:22 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCounciI@newportbeachca. gov> Subject: How we select our mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL) DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I do not support Councilman O'Neil l's concept for changing the way that we select our mayor. I think it should be something initiated by the citizens of the city instead of originating from the council. In addition, I don't think we want to change a procedure that has worked so well for so many years. Please represent us, the citizens of NB, and not just special interests or special projects. Thank you for your consideration„ Aline Farmer Sent from Mail for Windows Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Friday, October 22, 20218:20 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: elect a mayor From: natalie fogarty <nataliefogarty5@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 20218:27 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: elect a mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. tradition has been to appoint from the. council- do not agree with elected mayor! Why the push for power by a few! natalie fogarty and Dave Sutherland Newport beach residents Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:44 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: elected mayor From: Linda Frakerrljfraker@me.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202112:43:35 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) TQ: City Clerk's Office Subject: elected mayor [EXTERNAL. EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 7;07 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: No special election From: Galefriedman <galefriedman0@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217:06:23 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <QtyClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Fwd: No special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Galefriedman rga1efriedman0@gmail.com> Date: October 25, 2021 at 7:03:49 AM PDT To: CityClerk@newportbeachgov.ca Subject: No special election As a resident I voice my opinion that the city council NOT hold a special election prior to the regular election in November. Gale Friedman 2001 Port Provence NB 92660 Sent from my !Phone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:55 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected mayor proposal From: Jeff Friedman <JFriedman@turnerfiber.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:52:05 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links a attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As a 40 year resident of Newport Beach, I am opposed to putting the proposal for elected mayor on the ballet I will be there Tuesday evening. Thank you Jeff Friedman Sent from Jeff Friedman's mobile Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:41 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: General Election of a Mayor -----Original Message ----- From: Jfurgatch-cox <jfurgatch@cox.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:38 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCounciI@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: General Election of a Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. As a resident and home owner in Newport Beach for 26 years I want to register my opinion that the current system of council members rotating the mayoral duties meets the needs of the residents of Newport Beach. I see no need to hold a separate election for this position. To do so would simply add cost and additional administrative burden to staff. There would no tangible benefit to the city or its residents. Respectfully, Jacor Furgatch Sent from my iPad Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 25214:33 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor From: Artyn Gardner <artyngardner@gmai1.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20214:33:19 AM (UTC -08;00) Pacific Time (US & Canada] To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected Mayor proposal. f can not be at the meeting to voice my disapproval Artyn Gardner 201 Emerald Avenue Newport Beach 92552 Sent from my Whone Mulvey, Jennifer From: nancy gardner <ngardner636@gmai l.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10;27 AM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Item 14 --placing mayor proposal on ballot [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Council Members, I have already expressed my concern about the rancor this proposal is stirring up, but I am just as concerned with the process being put forward Tuesday night. The message you are sending, if you approve #14, is that if residents want such a change, they have to do the hard yards by going the petition route --getting volunteers, spending the tedious hours getting signatures --but if you're on the council, you don't have to bother with all that. It comes across as elitist and adds fuel to the fire. Please do not increase the rancor. Vote no on #14. Nancy Gardner Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:07 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Mayoral Elections -----Original Message ----- From: Susan Gaunt <smgauntl@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:06 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayoral Elections [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, After serious consideration and reading several articles about this subject, I am OPPOSED to the idea of the general public electing the Mayor. The voters put trust in you council members to vote appoint a Mayor from your ranks. This system has been working well for Newport Beach for many years. I am afraid that some outsider who does not have Newport's best interests at heart could came in and make a mess of our city. We are witnessing too much fraud and crime in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, to name just a few. Please vote NO on this issue. Thank you, Susan Gaunt 414 Villa Point Drive Newport Beach, CA 92660 Sent from my [Phone Mulvey, Jennifer From: Berkeley Gauntlett <berkeleygauntlett@pacbell.net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20212:14 PM To: Dept - City Council Cc: Leung, Grace Subject: Please vote "NO" on placing "The Elect the Mayor" scheme on the Ballot ...Its rushed and at $215,000 its pure vanity - and a waste of tax payer funds! [EXTERNAL EMAIL] 04 NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach City Council I am asking that you VOTE: "NO" on Agenda Item Number 14! This entire scheme "To Elect The Mayor" has left so many of us totally perplexed? Why? What's wrong with how our current system works? Why the rush to have this added as a Special Election item on June 71h Ballot at the ridiculous cost of $215,400?? And the attachments to the resolutions also say nothing about the additional cost to redistrict the city from 7 districts to 6 if this would pass, I'm sure that's also a few hundred thousand dollars! Those who follow Newport Beach councilman Will O'Neill know that he parses words to hide the true meaning of what he is saying and that special attention is needed to understand the truth behind his words. For example, he has posted a series of FAQ on the website supporting his crusade to be an elected mayor_ In one of them, he states that his proposition does not change term limits for current council members. Nothing could be further from the truth since his plan undermines the term limits established by voters decades ago. Whereas any unsuccessful candidates for mayor coming from currently elected City Councilmen will have term limits applied to them, the success candidate for mayor will specifically be excluded from the 2 term limit and allowed to serve for another 8 years. Is this what voters anticipated when they adopted those term limits? Of course not!' His FAQ go on to say (soothingly!) that the mayor will set the agenda, but preserves a means for other council members to add items as well. Again, he is parsing words to hide the fact that the mayor will have near exclusive control of the agenda since he is removing most other means for others to add their items of interest. Control of the agenda means control of the direction of the city since items that cannot be placed on the agenda cannot be discussed or acted on. This single underhanded action suddenly changes the balance of power in the city and relegates the other council members to the role of onlookers instead of sharing power. That little fact is missing from the website. In every way, this scheme changes the whole dynamic of our city and puts only one man in charge of the most important tools of city government. It should be vigorously opposed by anyone who cares about aur city and especially all of you who are elected representatives! Don't get fooled into voting yes! This is not a fiscally responsible proposal in any way shape of form! Think about it, and VOTE "NO" Berkeley Gauntlett Newport Coast Mulvey, Jennifer From: Suzanne Gauntiett <surtg@pacbell.net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 12:37 PM To: Dept - City Council Cc: Leung, Grace Subject: Please vote "NO" on placing "The Elect the Mayor" scheme on the Ballot ...Its rushed and at $215,000 its pure vanity -- and a waste of tax payer funds! [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK finks or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach City Council I am asking that you VOTE "NO" on Agenda Item Number 14! This entire scheme "To Elect The Mayor" has left so many of us totally perplexed? Why? What's wrong with how our current system works? Why the rush to have this added as a Special Election item on June 7'h Ballot at the ridiculous cost of $215,000?? And the attachments to the resolutions also say nothing about the additional cost to redistrict the city from 7 districts to 5 if this would pass, I'm sure that's also a few hundred thousand dollars! Those who follow Newport Beach councilman Will O'Neill know that he parses words to hide the true meaning of what he is saying and that special attention is needed to understand the truth behind his words. For example, he has posted a series of FAQ on the website supporting his crusade to be an elected mayor. In one of them, he states that his proposition does not change term limits for current council members. Nothing could be further from the truth since his plan undermines the term limits established by voters decades ago. Whereas any unsuccessful candidates for mayor coming from currently elected City Councilmen will have term limits applied to them, the success candidate for mayor will specifically be excluded from the 2 term limit and allowed to serve for another S years. Is this what voters anticipated when they adopted those term limits? Of course not±! His FAQ go on to say (soothingly!) that the mayor will set the agenda, but preserves a means for other council members to add items as well. Again, he is parsing words to hide the fact that the mayor will have near exclusive control of the agenda since he is removing most other means for others to add their items of interest Control of the agenda means control of the direction of the city since items that cannot be placed on the agenda cannot be discussed or acted on. This single underhanded action suddenly changes the balance of power in the city and relegates the other council members to the role of onlookers instead of sharing power. That little fact is missing from the website. In every way, this scheme changes the whole dynamic of our city and puts only one man in charge of the most important tools of city government. It should be vigorously opposed by anyone who cares about our city and especially all of you who are elected representatives! Don't get fooled into voting yes! This is not a fiscally responsible proposal in any way shape of form! Think about it, and VOTE "NO" Suzanne Oauntlett Newport Coast Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:53 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected mayor proposal From: Jodi Geoffroy<maddmom12211@roadrunner.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:52:5 7 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Do not pass this. Sincerely, Judy GeofFroy Sent from my !Pad Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 202131-35 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Item 14 on the November 25th City Council Agenda From: Gerald Giannini <geraldagiannini@me.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20213:34:57 PM (UTC -08;00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: Avery, Brad <bavery@newportbeachca.gov>; Dixon, Diane <ddixon@newportbeachca.gov>; Brenner, Joy <JBrenner@newportbeachca.gov>; Muldoon, Kevin <kmuldoon@newportbeachca.gov>; Duffield, buffy dd u ff i eld @ n ewpo rtbeach ca . gov > Subject: Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: There is a time-honored axiom. that should be the guiding principle for all elected Government leaders and officials, fran.sI)al-encY when conclur:ling GovernlYYentul husiness. At times, trun.ypurency is thrown under die preverbal bus, and when this occurs, attempts to justify why it is necessary to not be transparent in a particular matter uses such trite reasons as expedience. or that the existing procedures are too Cumbersome. or they are out of date in today's world. None of these hogwash reasons are acceptable. as they erode the public's confidence in their elected leaders and usuaiiy mean there is something nefarious motivating this change. What is CounciIperson William O'NeiH's real underlying reason f'or advocating this charge, without following the prescribed procedure'? There is a delineated process that should be followed. the First or which is to obtain 9,000 signatures to piace the itein on the ballot. so that the residents of Newport Beach can have an informed vote on the measure. During the time the 9.000 signatures are being gathered, robust discussions are held. and the proposal is accurately explained, so that citizens will understand what this change will mean to the City Council and to Newport Beach in general. It is important that Council remember that thev are elected to serve the electorate or Newport Beach and we should not be treated as an annoyance by Councilperson William O'Neill, as he try's to short circuit a necessary process ear change. Please vote no on item 14 on the November 35,t'. Respectfu1l} _ Gerald Giannini Big C'an}'cm, No wrort 13cach Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 202112:50 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Mayor Measure #14, Council Meeting October 26th From: Kathi Glover <keg51@hotmai1.corn> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:12 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayor Measure #14, Council Meeting October 26th [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council Members, Please vote NO on Agenda Item #14 (Calling for A Proposed Charter Amendment for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach.). This charter amendment has been entirely written by Will O'Neill with no other citizen or even other council involvment. We believe that the current system works fine and there is no need for it to be changed. Thank you for your time. Kathi Glover Jim Glover Residents of Newport Beach Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:06 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor proposal From: Anne Gordinier<anne.gordinier@gmaiLcom> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:06:0 5 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time {US & Canada} To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am completely against the Elected Mayor proposal, the system works fine as it is, and shares power. The proposal is a power grab and works against sound local government. Anne Gordinier, 21 year N8 resident, 92660 Sent from my Phone LAW OFF'IC:ES OF PHILLIP B GREER East Tower 4000 MacArthiir Blvd suite Coo Newport Beach, California 9266o (949)554-9379 October 22, 2021 Han. Brad Avery, Mayor Hon. Kevin Muldoon, Mayor Pro Tem Hon. Will O'Neill Han. Noah Blom Hon. Duffy Duffield Han. Diane Dixon Hon. ,loy Brenner Re: Direct Election of Mayor Hon. Mayor and City Council Members: Over the years, I have had the privilege of participating in a number of the most significant political lawsuits emerging from our County. They range from restructuring how votes are recounted (Supervisor, now AssemblywomanJanet Nguyen) to First Amendment issues (Senator Pat Bates) to question of home rule in the appointment of individuals to vacant government positions (Supervisor/Senator Bill Campbell and Assemblyman/Supervisor/District Attorney Todd Spitzer). Then there are the numerous recounts and other political challenges that I have been involved in. I bring these matters up not to toot my own horn but to establish that political and election law are one of the few areas where I actually do know what I am talking about. Furthermore, it is not my purpose here to advocate either for or against the proposal. My intent is to simply point out some significant flaws in how this matter is being processed and what might be done to make it a more coherent matter for voters to understand and determine. Section 400 of the current and proposed charters defines the city council as the mayor and the members. The section goes on to state that any changes proposed or made that are "contrary to the intent and context of other such provisions" are invalid. The direct election of a mayor would allow for one person to serve on the city council, in one capacity or another, for a total of sixteen years. This is directly in contradiction to the intent and context of the term limit provision passed by the voters. LAW OFFICES OF PHILLIP GREER Mayor/City Council Elected Mayor October 22, 2021 Furthermore, the initiative envisions a process whereby the elected mayor will ascend from the ranks of the city council. However, it does nothing to prevent an individual from being elected mayor for two terms and then running for city council, thus, again, circumventing the intention of the voters. By any standard, the language is vague and ambitious, and perhaps contradictory, and thus subject to challenge. At Section 404(b) of the proposed initiative, all power regarding agenda items and, essentially, all issues to be determined by the city government, are in the hands of the elected mayor. Thus, individual members of the city council, and by extension their district constituents, are prevented from bringing issues to the council that might only impact a specific district, again barring voters access to the legislative process. This subjects both city policy and even the ability to raise city issues to the subjective, arbitrary and capricious whims of the elected mayor. With regard to the nominating process, Section 1004 requires that a specific number of signatures be gather on a nominating petition. Unlike City Council candidates who are required to secure signatures from the district that they want to represent, there is nothing in the mayoral requirements that discusses where the signatures must come from. As such, an individual can secure the entirety of the signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot from a single district, or specific portion of that district. This provision again denies the average voter his due process rights since he has no say in who is nominated. Reducing the number of districts from seven to six further disenfranchises voters and dilutes their votes, in direct violation of the California Voting Rights Act. As an aside, I have litigated several voting rights actions and, frankly, the bar for making the argument regarding disenfranchisement, and thus forcing all districts to be redrawn, is quite low. Additionally there is no analysis of how these substantive changes in our city charter will fiscally impact the city and its operations. This omission is in direct contradiction to the mandates of California Elections Code Section 9005. Additionally, the proposed initiative does not provide an impartial analysis by either the City Attorney or the City Manager as prescribed in California Elections Code Section 9oo8. It is impossible for the city council, much less the general public, to make an informed decision as to whether or not the question should even be on the ballot until they are fully informed as to the potential consequences that A] be realized. LAW OFFICES OF PHILLIP GREER Mayor/City Council Elected Mayor October 22, 2021 The city council is seeking to make substantive changes to how our city operates and how we choose the people who will represent us. This should not be a rash rush to an end that may not be justified or necessary. It is respectfully requested that the City Council table this proposal for ninety days so that significant public input can be secured, a comprehensive study of the impact and ramifications of the issues presented can be conducted and, then, with an understanding of where we are potentially going, the City Council and the public can have an informed discussion about whether or not it makes sense to directly elect our mayor. Respectfully, Phillip B Greer 3` Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:17 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW- Elected Mayor proposal From: Laurel Gregory <gregoryfam5@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:17:05 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] D❑ NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. We oppose the elected mayor proposal. Laurel Gregory and Robert Gregory Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 20217:09 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: No Elected Mayor -----Original Message ----- From: Parissa.hagh <parissa.hagh@cox.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20214:56 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: No Elected Mayor (EXTERNAL EMAIL) DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and Know the content is safe. f am a NB resident and I am against the idea of having an elected Mayor in NB. Parissa Hagh Sent from my Rhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 202111:32 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the ELECT OUR MAYOR proposal From: Catharine Hardesty `catehopper@me.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 11:31:38 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the ELECT OUR MAYOR proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, I object to this ELECT OUR MAYOR proposal. The new system would concentrate power in the hands of the mayor rather than evenly distributing it between council members and their districts. The proposal states that the mayor gets to "interpret the policies, programs and needs of the city." In other words, the mayor gets to decide what a policy means and what programs the city needs (or doesn't need.) That is a remarkable power that could be seriously abused by the wrong person in office. Why bother having council members as representatives of districts? If district representative won't have the power to put items on the agenda, Newport will not have fair democratic representation. Please do not support this proposal. Thank you, Catharine Hardesty Newport Beach Resident Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20214:47 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayoral proposal From, michaei hardesty <hardesty5902@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20214:47:05 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayoral proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am opposed to this proposal, Mike Hardesty 250 62nd st Newport Beach, CA 92553 2; Mulvey, Jennifer From: Chet Harrison rchet.harrison@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:03 PM To: dept - City Council Subject: Mayoral Change Proposal I am a third generation resident to Newport Beach. This is outrageous. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:1.3 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Special election for mayor Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed From: Susana hegstrom <susanastarr@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202112:13:05 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Special election for mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose using taxpayer money for a special election for mayor. PIs, City Council, include the matter in the general election Susana hegstrom 428 Vista Grande 949-291-3655 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20215:12 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: "I oppose the elected mayor proposal." From: hezar@pachell.net rhezar@pacbell.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20215:12:17 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: 1 oppose the elected mayor proposal," [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. This proposal would eliminate the current term limits for an elected mayor and allow one person to remain on the City Council for up to 16 years! The proposal would also create impediments to the public process by requiring the City Manager seek the mayor's permission to place regular City business on the Council meeting agenda. This would decrease the ability of other Council members to get items added to the Council meeting agenda and is an unprecedented restriction that doesn't exist in any other City! Faye Hezar Newport Coast Resident 21 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:41 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: EW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Sara Hinman <sarahinman19@gmaif.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:40:29 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Please vote no. Sara Hinman Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217:54 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: No on election of City mayor From: Walt Howald Ewalt@howald.us> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217.53:45 AM (UTC -08:00) pacific Time (t1S & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: No on election of City mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] D NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. We are against the proposal to elect the mayor. Please leave this as it -is ±I Walt and Karen Howald. Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:29 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected mayor From: Pam Howard rpamhoward123@gmai1.Com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:29:05 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mike and Pam Howard are OPPOSED to changing our charter to an elected mayor. And to spend $275,000 for a special election to pass this is ridiculous. What a waste of money) (Would much rather see that money distributed to charitable causes). Our existing system of the Council appointing the Mayor and rotating the position has worked well for us for many years. "If it's not broken, don't fix it" Pam and Mike Howard 1295 Sandkey CDM Sent from my Whone Ted Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:39 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor proposal From: Mike Howard <mhoward@howardbuilding.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:39:13 PM (UTC -0$:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportheachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. So far, this sounds like a hijacking! Proponets seems to be cutting off public debate and they want to spend additional taxpayer funds to hold a special election rather than wait until 11/22. This really smells bad. NB is a small town and small town politics has worked here, forever. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Sure, there are always issues but a mayoral election indicates 'big city' politics and control by a few. We don't want that. I really have to question what Mr O'Neill's motives are. Mike Howard Founder !Toward Building Corporation 3184 Airway Ave., Unit K Costa Mesa, CA 92626 0: 714.438.2272 1 M: 714.606.8824 19%; An employee -owned company October 25. 2021 Re: Opposed to the proposal to change the charter for election of Mayor for Newport Beach Dear City Clerk I am opposed to the proposal to change the charter regarding, the election of Mayer for the City of Newport Beach. My concerns are the following: I . Elections are expensive. A separate election tar Mayor puts candidates into an expensive race which benefits the candidate with more money. Ifthe person running for Mayor has more rnoney- they will likely win. Newport residents want to preserve a democratic process. ?. A potential S year term is way too long for any Mayor. 3. The proposed changes allows a person to run for mayor as long as they lived in the city for 30 days. ...NO PERSON SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO HOLD THE OFFICE OF MAYOR UNLESS HE OR SHE IS, AND SHALL HAVE BEEN FOR AT LEAST THIRTY (30) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING HIS OR HER NOMINATION OR APPOINTMENT... Thirty days isn't long enough to qualify them to be Mayor of OUR City. A person can fly in here from Seattle. Florida, or Texas and prove residency in 30 days and run for mayor. They will likely win because he/she has money. Then they will pursue whatever airport, beach, drilling etc, changes they want or need for their own profit`? I don't' think so. NOT here. We have a special ecosystem, delicate wetlands and we can't ever take the risk of being exploited. 4. The current charter protects the city from corruption and serving special interests. The new charter would allow the Mayor to interpret policies_ programs and needs of the City. This is a misuse of power and could lead to potential fraud. ..THE MAYOR SHALL HAVE THE PRIMARY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INTERPRETING THE POLICIES. PROGRAMS AND NEEDS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT TO THE PEOPLE..., The City is too small to require the separate election for Mayor. 5. In a time when the City is divided and cannot even agree on postponing the Christmas Boat Parade during a pandemic and when we have City Council members that 'team up' together to represent special interests the last thing we need is a Mayor who is bought and sold to serve those interests. The time of serving a private agenda must be stopped. 5. We want hard working council members like Joy Brenner who goes the extra mile to show- Lip. Who serves the people, is sincere, respectful. not rude and demeaning with clipped answers and most importantly she does not serve special interests, nor does she belong to a -team' of members. 7. 1 request a study group be formed to review any issues and concerns moving forward. No action should be taken now. It is not the time to push through an agenda that smacks of a power grab. Thank N ou. .lennifer Irani Newport Beach, ca 92663 Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW; Vote "No" to Direct Elected Mayor From: Judy Johnson < udirvine@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202111:51 AM To: O'Neill, William <woneili_@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: Dept - City Council <City ounal @ new portbeachca.gov> Subject: Re. Vote "No" to Direct Elected Mayor Dear Councilman O'Neill, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Our current system is, and has been working for many years. I don't understand why we would ask the voters to "fix" something that isn't broken. I understand the Mayor would still only have one vote, but it's the other powers that "one" person would have that concerns me. For Instance, "the mayor shall have the sole discretion to set City Council agendas", and the redistricting that gives the Mayors district double representation. Even though i sometimes believe that "the person with the most money wins" when it comes to elections (and lawsuits and criminal trials), having our current rotation within the City Council helps keeps things honest. Again, I do nat believe that this change is needed, and do not want to see it put to a city wide vote. Respectfully, Judy Johnson From: O'Neill, William_ Sent: Saturday, October 23, 20214:28 PM To: Judy Johnson Subject: Re: Vote "No" to Direct Elected Mayor Thank you Judy. I appreciate your voice on this matter. To your points, it's worth noting that the proposed Mayor system would ensure that the Mayor has only one vote of seven, and there is nothing that gives the Mayor powers like those of the Governor or President that you're referencing. Those are of course executive functions with veto power — which is nothing like what the proposed Mayor system would have. The Mayor position would run city-wide, which is no different from our current system far electing city council members. So to the extent you mistrust one system, that same mistrust would exist for city council. I hope that we haven't caused you to lose faith in our voting system here in Newport Beach over the past decades. Finally, it's worth noting that our vote on Tuesday is not to change the system —we don't have that power. It is to give voters the chance at a regular election next year to decide for themselves. Based on your views that voters should be trusted over government institutions, hopefully you'll support giving voters this say. Sincerely, vim 11 P.S. AB109 and Prop 57 were indeed bad laws and I've done my best to campaign against them. I will continue to do so. Will O'Neill Newport Beach City Council From: Judy Johnson <judyjirvine@hotmail.com> Date: Friday, October 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Vote "No" to Direct Elected Mayor Dear City Council, Please vote "No" to a direct elected Mayor. This would give far too much power to an individual. Sadly, we have seen how in the County, State, and Nation one person can single-handedly make horrible decisions affecting everyone that may or may not be reversible. Our current process ensures no one person can be elected Mayor who may have the backing and funds to "spin" issues and deceive the voters into electing them. Again, sadly we have seen how this has happened (A6109 and Prop 57). Please vote No to a direct elected Mayor. Respectfully, Judy Johnson Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:31 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the elected mayor proposal From: Michelle Jordan <jordanllc@cox.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:31:18 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: f oppose the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Another shameful example of both looking manipulate the process simply for self interest and wasting residents' money Best way they can represent their constituents is by sticking to the job we elected them to perform. Enough grandstanding Michelie Jordan Jordan LLC, Strategic Communications 220 Newport Center Drive # 11-344 Newport Reach, CA 92660 949 640 1684 - off. 949 632 7848 - cell www. i ordanil.:. r --t Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20214:27 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Special Election From: Cheryl Kelly <chrlkelly4@gmaH.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4:26:47 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Special Election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please do not spend $215,000 on a special election for Mayor of Newport Beach. I like the idea of rotating the position. It has worked fine for our city, why spend so much money especially in this economy. Please think of us taxpayers and table this idea. Very truly yours, Cheryl Kelly Newport Beach Resident 3 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10:15 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW; Mayor proposal From: Donna Kidde <jdkidde@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 202 110:15:09 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Donna Kidde Sent from my Wad Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:49 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected mayor proposal From: Chris Kiger <cdkiger@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 3:48:47 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To Whom It May Concern, Please add my name to the list of Newport Beach homeowners that oppose the elected mayor proposal. In addition, should the required number of signatures be gathered to move this proposal forward, i do NOT support holding a special election regarding this matter. Thank you, Chris Kiger 4309 Patrice Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92663 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20212:49 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose special election funding From: Paul King <peakay@gmail,com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 2:49:05 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose special election funding [EXTERNAL EMAIL DO NOT CLICK finks or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi there, I oppose the special election coming up and would rather this to be voted on during our elections in 2022. Please do not spend our money on what could be handled for almost free during our regular voting cycle. Respectfully, Paul King 1819 Newport Hills Drive Fast, NB, CA 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:35 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elect Our Mayor - special election From: J Kline <jklinex5@aoi.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:34:22 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elect Our Mayor - special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please note that I am not in favor of spending ANY money on a special election to "Elect Our Mayor"!! Jerrilynn Kline 1957 Port Chelsea Place Newport Beach 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202111:26 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: 10/26/21 City Council Agenda Item XIX 14 From: Charles Klobe <cklobe@me.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:23:51 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov>; City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: 10/26/21 City Council Agenda Item XIX 14 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Good day Mr. Mayor and Members of the City Council, The headline in Tom Johnson's Fair Game today says, "Perhaps the biggest Council issue since Museum House". An interesting statement since this "issue" has not been brewing for a long time like one might expect. The elect our mayor website was registered on August 25th, 2021, 62 days later this council is being asked to put a major charter amendment on the ballot. An amendment that has been written with no other council or any citizen involvement. Nearly unconscionable yet here it is. There is an article in the LA Times today by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Patt Morrison titled "In LA, At Least Our Corrupt Officials Don't Have Much Power". Ms. Morrison says "LA's political scandals look pretty small compared to those of other burgs. That may be in part because of how LA city government is designed: To spread out power and keep as much of it out of the hands of any one politician The decision before you tonight, crafted with no citizen involvement, is a consolidation of power. Walter Stahr and Homer Bludau have written comprehensive analyses of this in local news media. As I have said before this is not about how popular Will O'Neill is. Tonight the room will likely be full of his admirers. I am one of them. This is about what is left after Will is gone. Consolidation of power breeds corruption. Your decision tonight may well be your legacy on this Council. If you look through the names of the residents that oppose this, you will see many past and some future leaders. If I was receiving that advice from so many engaged folks, I would listen to them. Also, worth noting is how many engaged residents oppose this but do not want their name used publicly due to fear of retribution. Save the two hundred fifteen thousand dollars and move on to the real issues facing the city like digesting the RHNA allocation through less market rate apartments and addressing homelessness by building permanent supportive housing. This is about what's best for Newport Beach. Seven councilmembers with an equal vote works. Thank you for your service. Charles Klobe Mulvey, Jennifer From: dorothyjkraus <dorothyjkraus@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 10:57 AM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Item XIX, 14: Proposed Charter Amendment [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Avery and Council Members, There is so much public controversy surrounding this charter amendment, which is sadly creating divisiveness in aur community. I keep asking myself, "why?", when our city governance system works so well. What's in it for me? Why isn't the public allowed the opportunity to openly discuss this severe change with city representatives, complemented by a complete financial analysis? What is the price to the taxpayers to put this on the ballot then fund it, should it pass? I guess I'll never have the opportunity for this kind of discussion and have my questions answered in a structured and facilitated discussion. What's right about this lopsided process? Please vote N0 on putting this charter amendment on the ballot. Instead, propose allocating time for public discussion. The public deserves more, don't you think? Respectfully submitted, Dorothy Kraus iL�rrr Til IT1 WV V- ,. ] 11g8y smartpnone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:14 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Janice Whitman <jla.whitman@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:14:01 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's office Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal IEXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. We are extremely opposed to this proposal and the strong arming and overreaching it reveals. Janice Kreidman 2770 Hillview Drive, NB 92660 Sent from my iPhone K Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 T30 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I Oppose From: Michelle Lebron <michellelebronnb@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:30:10 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <C1tyClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I Oppose [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the new electoral Mayor proposal. Michelle L. Lebron Newport Beach Resident is Mule , Jennifer Subject: FW: Electing the Mayor From: Larry Leifer <[awreIe i �)g naiI -comp Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202111:38 AM To: Dept - City Council r,= rY«uncil@newportbeachca. v> Subject: Electing the Mayor Honorable City Councilpersons: The City of Newport Beach is a small diverse city that is apparent when contrasting just two of the councilmanic dlstricts namely the Newport Coast area in the east and West Newport in the west. The differences are significant in terms of age of housing, condition of the infrastructure, terrain, proximity to Newport Bay and the ocean and population demographics. Our present system of city government provides for councilpersons representing each of the seven districts with a mayor chosen from the council, It is a system that has served the city well since its incorporation and provides equal representation to all seven districts. The proposal before the council to have a mayor directly elected by a vote of the citizens is ill conceived in that it essentially reduces representation of citizens and councilpersons, promotes one-man control and invites campaign corruption. I am fully in accord with the objections to direct mayoral election as stated by former city manager Homer Bludau and former councilperson Jeff Herdman who have carefully analyzed this issue and found the proposal to be detrimental to good city government and lacks any compelling benefit. Sincerely, Lawrence Leifer 3706 Channel Place Newport Island Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20215:21 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Against Charter Amendment to Provide for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach From: Bridget Lindquist <bridget2661@gmail.com> Seat: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:21:02 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Against Charter Amendment to Provide for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and Icnaw the content is safe. As a homeowner in Newport Beach for 30 yrs, I see no reason to make this change. Having the City Council choose from one of their own each year ensures who have someone that has experience with city government and it shares the responsibility since each member knows they may be Galled upon to serve. And since the city manager is selected by the city council they can't force the council to put items on the agenda, I don't see this as a problem, especially not ane worth changing the current system, which has served us well. I support the more egalitarian system we have in place. This prevents one person with more wealth or resources from in essence buying an election and having all the power. I was hoping to attend this evening but am cautious about being in large groups indoors, so I hope this quick note reaches you in time to be added to those concerned citizens who are asking you to vote 'no' making this change and to putting it on the ballot. Once again, my concern is that money will change what has been an egalitarian way of governing our city, one that has been more representative and served us well. Sincerely, Bridget Lindquist -Sent from my iPhone 20 Mulve , Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:26 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW_ Yet another power grab!!!! From: Rob Lonardo <roblonardoS@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 8.25:04 AM (UTC -08:00] Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityCierk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Yet another power grab!!!! [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am vehemently opposed to changes being considered to the structure of City Council, the Mayor and the destruction of the role of what have been excellent City managers. I do not want a 16 year career politician deciding all agendas. our beautiful city is just that because leaders are elected by the people, as issues change and new problems pop up. No change please without a thorough debate by the citizens of Newport Beach! Respectfully, Robert Lonardo Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:58 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Council Meeting October 26th, 2021 -----Original Message ----- From: Lynn Lorenz <lynnierlo@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 202110:56 AM To: CityClerk@new portbeach.gov; Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@new portbeachca.gov> Subject: Council Meeting October 26th, 2021 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. October 26, 2021 Attention: Honorable Mayor, City Council Members and City Clerk, I can think of no greater reason to question the viability of changing our system of governing in Newport Beach than the fact that it is the brainchild of one person only. It is not the result of criticism by residents, community leaders, or outside pressure. Newport Beach has the same system of government as other cities of the same size in Orange County, the "Council Manager" configuration. With the exception of Stanton, cities of our size have governments similar to ours. They do not elect their mayor. Also, the larger cities in Orange County who do elect their mayor, also have a council that is elected directly using district voting, not "at large" elections such as ours. If there is an argument to be made that electing mayors is more democratic than appointing them by council, than we should be willing to say equally that it is more democratic to have district elections, because then our residents would vote directly for the council person who represents their district, as well as the mayor. The other greatest arguments for district voting are that more people would run for office because the expense of campaigning in one district is so much less than doing so in the whole city, and there would be more autonomy for individual council members. At present aur Council members are too easily influenced by powerful individuals and politics. This is evidenced by the case at hand. Even though the other members of Council were not involved in the naissance of the proposal to directly appoint the mayor, they feel pressured to go along with the idea because of the "assumed" political power behind it. There are many other reasons that directly electing a mayor for Newport is such a bad idea: the potential costs of an election, the lack of support from the leaders of the community, the possibility that one person could potentially be in power for 16 years, the opportunity of cr outside moneyed power players * having more power than they do now, the fact that it gives way too much power to one person, and perhaps most importantly, there has been absolutely no public debate. What this is, is an audacious power grab. Sincerely, Lynn Lorenz Redlands Ave., Newport Heights *City Clerk, please acknowledge receipt of this letter and the fact that is going to be in tonight's packet. Thank you very much! Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24,20219:09 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject. FW: Elected Mayor proposal From; pamella marks <apmarks92625@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:08:50 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DQ NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach City Council Members, My husband and I strongly oppose the elected mayor proposal! We are registered voters and property owners in Corona Del Mar, I urge you to vote against this proposal and do what is right for our city! Sincerely, A. Pamella Marks Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android 12 Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:55 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW; No To An Elected Mayor From: Scott McFetters <smcfetters@outlook.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:35 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCounciI@newportbeachca. gov> Subject: No To An Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Honorable City Council, I am against and elected Mayor in the City of Newport Beach for a lot reasons but most of all to protect the equal representation of all neighborhoods and preserving the history and small town feel of the Newport Beach community. For those of us who have had neighborhood issues or ideas that need City Council support know how hard it can already get your issue or idea on the City Council agenda. The current City Manager for the most part has to know that a majority of the City Council will support the agenda item to get it on the City Council Calendar. This means there are a lot of meeting and education involving different council members in order to gain support for your neighborhoods issue or idea. An elected Mayor may interpret they could solely dictate the agenda or no one will stand up to that amount of power and elected Mayor would have. An elected mayor could come out of nowhere or not represent the quality of life that each Newport neighborhood deserves. Even if the first elected Mayor was an awesome individual and the best person ever, what about the next? A Mayoral candidate would not have to earn the position through community service but maybe by just being a social media influencer or a powerful individual or group from somewhere else. The Newport resident's quality of life should be first priority while also supporting our many Total businesses that make our community proud! We do not need to expose ourselves to a potential trojan horse or horses that might cater to outside interests and agendas. The new power provided to an elected Mayor could ruin the neighborhood feel and quality of life for years to come. There is no I in team which is what our current form of City Council is. Please do your homework but I am voting no for an elected Mayor in Newport Beach. Best regards, Scott McFetters Mulvey, Jennifer From: Patricia McNally <patty.mcnally@icloud.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20213:01 PM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DD NOT CLICK finks or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, I strongly object to a change in the Council/ it's Manager form of government with no directly elected Mayor. In its present form, it allows a professional, experienced manager...( at the direction of the whole council) to run our city smoothly and efficiently. i do not want one person to have the peer to run the city. I want all council members to share in decisions. Why change when it's working?? Very Bizzarre! Best, Patricia McNally Voter from the Bluffs community Sent from my iPhone Mulve , Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 11:47 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: NOT in favor of proposal to elect NB mayor From: Toni Moccia <toni.moccia@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2 02 11:46:39 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Mime (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: NOT in favor of proposal to elect NB mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please do not consider allowing any one individual to be *elected* mayor in the City of Newport Beach. It's a really bad idea for this city, on so many levels. We are not Los Angeles (or any other large city), nor do we want to be. Thank you. Toni Moccia 420 Vista Grande NB CA 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:41 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayors proposal From: Lesia Munday <lesiamunday@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218,40:43 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayors proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] OO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am sending this email to let you know I am strongly opposed to the mayors proposal. Lesia Munday 3 Ima Loa Court Newport Beach CA 92653 Sent from my Wad Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:18 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Special Election From: Deborah Myers <myersdeborah88@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20211:17:33 PM {LITC-08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Special Election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, We understand that you are going to propose a special election for a project called "Elect our Mayor" which is expected to cost around $215,000. We want to go on the record that we feel this is a waste of taxpayer dollars, for there is no rational reason to spend extra money on a special election when there is a general election a few months later that is free where this project can be addressed. So, please DO NOT spend money on an extra election! Thank you, Keith and Deborah Myers 1818 Port Renwick Place Newport Beach, CA 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:03 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal (Oppose) From: Nicole Nelson <olenicole@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219.02:46 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal (Oppose) [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach City Council: Regarding the elected mayor proposal, I am opposed. In addition, please do not waste over $200K on a special election when putting the proposal on the November 2022 ballot could happen at minimal cost. Sincerely, Nicole Nelson Newport Beach, CA Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:59 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor proposal From: Joni Nichols <jonibnichols@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:58:41 PM (UTC -08:40) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Do NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I'd like to go on the record as being opposed to the proposal. Thank you. Joan Nichols 213 Diamond Newport Beach Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 2S, 2021 12:04 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Ref: the elected mayor proposal From: John Nichols <jhnhnichols123@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:03:19 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityGerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Ref: the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. It is a terrible proposal. It concentrates too much power in the office of the mayor. Our current form of city government is far superior and more in the interest of voters. John H. Nichols 213 Diamond Ave. 92662 have been a homeowner in Newport Beach since and a permanent resident since 2009. 3 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20217:10 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: From: Ann Obegi <ajobg2@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 7:09:27 AM (UTC -08:00) pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal, Ann Obegi 1101 Somerset Lane Newport Beach 92650 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20219:17 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayoral election From: Linda Oeth rlinda.oeth@gmaii.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:17:20 AM [UTG08.00] Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayoral election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. This subject is important and needs careful study, please postpone this dicision at tonight's council meeting Linda ❑eth Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:08 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor From: LESLIE 0ROURKE rl_rourke@sbcgloba1,net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:07-48 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the "elect a mayor" proposal. I'm very suspicious about the intent of this idea. What's the hidden agenda? Leslie O'Rourke, 200 Abalone Ave., Balboa Island Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Friday, October 22, 202110:36 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Elect our mayor initiative -----Original Message ----- From: Vic Paglia rvic_paglia@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 202110:35 AM To: Dept - City Council <CityCounciI@new portbeachca.gov> Subject: Elect our mayor initiative [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My wife Harela and I, who live on Seashore Drive, want it to be known that we are against the new elect our mayor initiative. Please have this recorded in the minutes of the next Tuesday council meeting. Thank you. Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: October 28, 202112:45 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: O'Neill motion for a voting on the mayor From: Victor paglia <vic_paglia@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:44:41 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council; City Clerk's Office Subject: O'Neill motion for a voting on the mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My wife and want it recorded that we oppose O'Neill's motion being passed for public voting on electing a mayor Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:44 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Change to city charter: Elected Mayor From: Michael Pilsitz <mpilsitz@att.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:43:41 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Change to city charter: Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. City Council of Newport Beach. We oppose the change to the city of Newport Beach charter which would allow for an election for mayor, We are especially opposed to spending over $200.000.00 to put this on the ballot. Michael & June Lee Pilsitz Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rosalie Puleo <rpuleo@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20218:57 PM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Charter Amendment to Elect NB Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL pQ NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am asking that you stop this charter to amend the Newport Beach election process for Mayor, There are so many reasons why not do this so I'm going to site a few below. The most important being opening the: door to corruption and carpetbaggers!!! This has been a safe place to live run by people that live here and love this city. If this is allowed before you know it Soros w ill be paying, for someone to come in and be Mayor and destroy this cltyf ! ! 2. 13 REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT THE "ELECT OUR MAYOR" PROPOS 1. It's a power g ra b The new system would concentrate power in the hands of the mayor rather than evenly distributing it between council members and their districts, as the current system does. 2. It bypasses term limits Council members are currently selected by their peers to act as mayor for one 1 year, and the position rotates. Even an unprincipled mayor can't get us into too much trouble in that time. 8 years is a different story. With this proposal, a person could serve on the council for 8 years then as mayor for 8 more, for a total of 16 years. This is what Newport Beach voters had in mind when we approved term limits in 1992: we don't want entrenched politicians governing us. 3. It would give one person almost exclusive control of the agenda The person who decides what's on the agenda decides what items get discussed, what neighborhoods get attention, what development projects get considered. The new system would give the mayor close to absolute control over the agenda and thus over the city's future. 4. Such a radical change requires public debate A charter amendment that would so profoundly change how Newport Beach is governed should be the subject of public debate. A committee should be appointed to weigh the pros and cons with public input. None of this has happened. Even the council hasn't discussed it! Good ideas get shared out in the open, bad ones get promoted through one-man marketing campaigns. 5. It would silence certain voices If a hideous, traffic -snarling project is proposed near your home, it's possible that you, your neighbors and your council representative would never be able to get it on the agenda no matter what you did. That's because under the new system, 56% of the council would have to agree that an item needs to be brought before the council. 6. The mayor decides almost everything The proposal states that the mayor gets to "interpret the policies, programs and needs of the city." In other words, the mayor gets to decide what a policy means and what programs the city needs (or doesn't need.) That is a remarkable power that could be seriously abused by the wrong person in office. 7. It's designed to benefit professional politicians Our current system gives regular citizens the chance to give back to the city by serving on the council for 1 or 2 terms, in theory acting as mayor or mayor pro tem for at least 1 of those years. The new system would make running for council less appealing for citizens who might want to be mayor for a year, while attracting professional politicians who are after power and prestige. 8. It would open the door to corruption Campaign contributions already exceeded $1 million in the last two council races, even though no individual member had anywhere near as much power and influence as the mayor would have under the new system. You can be sure that a corrupt candidate would be attracting millions of dollars from special interests, including from different cities and even states. It would attract carpetbaggers Carpetbaggers are those pesky people who move to a place to which they have no real connection and run for office solely for their personal benefit. Imagine how being the elected mayor of Newport Beach could attract a billionaire developer willing to drop a few million to buy the seat then dictate where the new development projects go... our worst nightmare! 10. No other city prevents the City Manager from adding items on the agenda Newport Beach prides itself in having outstanding city managers, and they play an important role in creating the agenda, with input and guidance from the council. The new system would allow the mayor to micromanage and overrule the city manager at every turn. It would be like putting the chairman of the board in charge of a company's day-to-day operations, sidelining the CEO. This is especially important since our City Manager is being recruited by Irvine and may leave. Why would anyone want to take a job with this type of restriction? This change will make it very difficult to recruit a competent City Manager in the future. 11. The race would be incredibly expensive A candidate for mayor would need to raise a lot of money, much more than for a regular council seat. Ultra -wealthy donors and special interests from other cities and states could dump huge sums into our elections to get their candidate into the seat that holds all the power. This would leave the elected mayor with favors to return, especially if they are planning future campaigns. 12. Representation would be imbalanced The new system would divide the city into 6 districts, vs. 7 currently. That means that each council member will have more constituents than today, increasing their workload, which could make them less responsive. On the other hand, those who live in the same district as the mayor will effectively have two representatives. Chances are very good that unpopular development projects will NOT wind up in those districts. 13. It would make our elections even less competitive In 2020, only 5 candidates ran for three seats. One person ran unopposed. Our council races have gotten extremely expensive and grueling, discouraging many potentially outstanding representatives from running. Under the new system, requiring 50% of the council to agree to put something on the agenda, members who are not allies of the mayor would basically be figureheads, further reducing the appeal of the position. Newport is best served by a system that distributes power equally between council members and districts. Thank you!! Rosalie Puleo, Broker Bridgelink Insurance Solutions CA Licensed Agent: 0JO4809 c: 714-292-3796 f 949-644-967' Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:16 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Item 914 at City Council Meeting -----Original Message ----- From: Gary Ranes <zone24@att.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20212:15 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Item #14 at City Council Meeting [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please do not go forward with Elect the Mayor Charter Amendment. Everyone i know in Newport Beach is against it! Resident of Newport Beach Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4.35 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Gena Reed <genahreed @gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20214:35:05 PM (UTC -0$:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal (EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. A change of this magnitude should be the subject of public debate. We should investigate the pros and cons; and the public should have input. This measure should be stopped. yenr�r, # lYeed Gell 949.95053-90 Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Electing the Mayor From: Bud Reveley <budrevele mail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:38 PM To: Larry Leifer <l_awrelei2gmail.com> Ce: Dept - City Council <Cit Council P new ortbeachca. ova Subject: Re: Electing the Mayor Well said! On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:38 AM Larry Leifer <lawrel ei L@gmai1.com> wrote: Honorable City Councilpersons: The City of Newport Beach is a small diverse city that is apparent when contrasting just two of the councilmanic districts namely the Newport Coast area in the east and West Newport in the west. The differences are significant in terms of age of housing, condition of the infrastructure, terrain, proximity to Newport Bay and the ocean and population demographics. Our present system of city government provides for councilpersons representing each of the seven districts with a mayor chosen from the council. It is a system that has served the city well since its incorporation and provides equal representation to all seven districts. The proposal before the council to have a mayor directly elected by a vote of the citizens is iii conceived in that it essentially reduces representation of citizens and councilpersons, promotes one-man control and invites campaign corruption. I am fully in accord with the objections to direct mayoral election as stated by former city manager Homer Bludau and former councilperson Jeff Herdman who have carefully analyzed this issue and found the proposal to be detrimental to good city government and lacks any compelling benefit. Sincerely, Lawrence Leifer 3746 Channel Place Newport Island Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Proposed Charter Amendment to Elect Mayor From: Nicole Reynolds <nfreynoIds@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20215:16 PM To: Dept - City Council rClt Council @ new ortbeachca. ova Subject: Re: Proposed Charter Amendment to Elect Mayor Will O'Neill has been exemplary on the City Council and as Mayor, during his two terms. I have nothing negative to say about him. BUT ... the reason we have term limits in NB City Council is so that one person cannot have more power than the other members. He can wait four years after the end of his term, and run for City Council again, if he doesn't plan to move out of NB for greater ambitions. I am strongly OPPOSED to the Proposed Charter Amendment because it would: L undermine current term limits, which only allows council members to run for two, four-year terms 2. provides for mayor to set the agenda for meetings rather than the City Manager under the current system which could lead to a politically biased agenda 3. may make it more difficult to retain and/or hire politically independent new city managers if they do not have the power to set the agenda 4. reduces the number of City Council members thereby minimizing representative coverage for residents and increasing the governing burden on a fewer number of Council members 5. creates too much power in one person on the Council 6. means that a newcomer (non-resident) to NB could simply move to Newport for the purpose of running for and possibly becoming Mayor, without any prior experience of knowledge of our City 7. the existing election and appointment system for our Mayor has worked well for the past 50+ years and there is no good reason to change it Vote NO on the Proposed Charter Amendment to effect our. tilayor. He is much better off spending the next year, after he is termed out, collecting signatures for the Initiative to overturn SB 9 & 10 imposed by Sacramento on every city in California and showing how much he cares about Newport Beach. www.5to Sacramento.or Nicole Reynolds Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 1:31 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: No special election From: Emi Rigby remidunnrigby@gmaif.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 1:30:43 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: No special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi I Please pass along comments wishing for no special election. Our household does not agree with spending the extra money to hold the elect our mayor campaign when it can be held with the regular election. Thank youll Sent from Emi's iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:10 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer: Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayoral power grab From: Tracy Robert <tracyannrobert@gmail,com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 9:10:09 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayoral power grab [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I do NOT support the prospect of a council person/mayor holding office for as much as 15 years. Such a profound change in our local government cannot be ramrodded through, and it demands public debate and attention. Sincerely, Tracy Robert Newport Beach ll Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:13 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Special Election From: Bobbi Robinson <bobiroboc@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:12:58 AM (LfTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Special Election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please don't allow this special elections to take place. 1 have lived in New Port Beach since 1977. This money is better spent mitigating the horrendous traffic issues . People of substantial economic means are leaving due to the added risks which come with the increase of traffic, pollution, theft, accidents, noise pollution and absence of speed bumps in neighborhoods which incorporate schools, families, Children, parks, and so on. Thank you for considering the issue of NOT waisting this money on a " Special Election " Barbara Robinson Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW; 10/26/21 Agenda Item 14 From: Siobhan Robinson <robiiand@gmail.corn> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20214:38 PM To: Dept - City Council <CityCouncii@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: 10/25/21 Agenda Item 14 Re: XIX. CURRENT BUSINESS Calling an Election for a Proposed Charter Amendment to Provide for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach. Item No. 14 Dear Newport Beach City Councilmembers, If 2020 and 2021 has shown us anything, it has been that almost everything has become political. Education, health, and our civil liberties are all becoming politicized. And now a measure is being placed before the City Council to politicize the Mayorship of Newport Beach. The current rotation system of Mayorship does give the citizens of Newport Beach the opportunity to decide who their €uture mayors are through the process of electing seven city council members that each live in and represent their respective districts within the city, which then allows everyone on the council to serve as Mayor Pro -Tem for one year and then as Mayor for a one-year term. The beauty of this process is that it helps to eliminate all the politics and personalities fromi)Rrl the position of mayor. The Mayorship in Newport Beach rotates between council members not by bureaucratic fiat, but rather by tradition. A tradition that has been in effect for seventy years and has worked extremely well as a means of depoliticizing how the City Council chooses its mayor, This successful process has discouraged the forming of factions on the Council and ensures equity that all Newport Beach residents are represented on a rotating basis reflecting our constituency. The idea of electing a mayor for the smaller sized city of Newport Beach would create a strong and costly second executive body, which would thereby lessen the power of the City Council and City Manager. For example, in the proposed measure, Section 404 (B), it states, "The Mayor shall have sole discretion to set City Council Agendas and to change the order of business on the agendas." Furthermore, the measure would change the city charter to make the office of the mayor a four-year term and allow two terms in office. The current one-year term versus the proposed four-year, or eight-year term of mayor discourages the possibility of corruption by limiting the role of mayor to presiding over city council meetings, and rather encourages cooperation between city council members who are respectfully united in a common purpose to work together toward the purpose of the welfare of all Newport Beach residents. There are no good reasons to change this seventy -year-old process of rotating Mayorship that has served our community so well in both good times, and in navigating through the extremely difficult times, as well. Which begs the question, "What problem are we solving?" As a thirty -eight-year resident of Newport Beach I believe instead that the proposed change to the city charter via this measure seems unwarranted and, in its place, gives rise to a single, stronghold position as the mayor of Newport Beach. As currently written, this proposed measure should not be placed on an upcoming ballot just because there are a few who are driving this proposal. Instead, I ask the city council members to take on the difficult task of voting NO on an issue that could potentially politicize and critically alter the city charter, City Council, and the future role of the mayor of Newport Beach. Sincerely, Siobhan Robinson Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20219:30 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Proposed Charter Amendment From: Berl Rubin <ben@2rubins.com? Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20219:29 AM To: Dept - City Council<CityCounciI@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Proposed Charter Amendment [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. To: Members of the City of Newport Beach City Council RE: Proposed Charter Amendment to Elect Mayor City Council Members; I am writing to you to urge a NO vote on the proposed amendment to the city charter regarding the election for Mayor of the City of Newport Beach which you wilI be discussing at tonight's meeting. I have been a resident of Newport Beach for 33 years, and I have significant concerns regarding the acceptance of a change in the way that our mayor is elected. My understanding of the amendment as proposed is that it will: effectively alter the current term limits of council members, allow the mayor to set the agenda for council meetings, reduce the number of City Council members with resultant decrease in representation for residents, and allow for a non-resident with little knowledge of the history of our city move here to run for the office of Mayor. The system that we currently have in place with the election of City Council members and subsequent appointment of out Mayor seems to work quite well and based on the information that I have received, I do not see a valid reason to make a change. I urge you to vote NO on tis issue tonight. Thank you for your time and consideration. Ben Rubin, M.D. 21 Chatham Court Newport Beach, CA 92660 ben@2rubins.com Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent_ Monday, October 25, 20218:55 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the "elected mayor" proposal From: Jeff 5chulein <jeff@crownhardware.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:54:59 AM (UTC -08: 00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the "elected mayor" proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK finks or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Jeff Schulein 15 Linda Isle., NB 949,294 9363 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:36 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I OPPOSE the elected mayor proposal From: Linda Schulein <lindaschulein@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:36:05 PM {UTC -08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I OPPOSE the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. and I abject to the use of taxpayers' money for an unnecessary special election. I support the current system and will vote for candidates who are in support of retaining the current system. This is a blatant power grab! Linda Schulein Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Council Meeting -10/26/2021 -Comments on CURRENT BUSINESS agenda item 14 Attachments: Comparison Chart-Final.pdf From: Leonard Simon <Lsimon@seniorcomputers.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:30:57 PM {UTC -08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dixon, Diane <ddixon@newportbeachca.goov> Cc: City Clerk's Office <CityCl_erk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Council Meeting -10/26/2021 -Comments on CURRENT BUSINESS agenda item 14 Dear Councilmember Dixon, This email has the chart attached. Regarding City Council Meeting October 26, 2021, CURRENT BUSINESS agenda item 14: Calling an Election for a Proposed Charter Amendment to Provide for the Direct Election of the Mayor of the City of Newport Beach — I ask you to please vote NO for the following reasons: One would expect the City Council and the Public to see what the Proposed Amendment to the City Charter contains. It is not one of the items attached to the agenda. Initiatives of this serious type usually require a petition be circulated and signed by 9,000 eligible voters and then submitted for inclusion on the Ballot. It is my understanding that if the ballot measure succeeds the elected Mayor will have the sole ability to set the Council Agenda, not the City Manager and/or the Council. I believe this is a restriction that no other city requires. Has the Council considered the additional costs involved with the additional staff required to staff an elected Mayor's office? If the measure succeeds, will the Elected Mayor be a full-time or part-time position? Moreover, what are the added costs to the budget? Redistricting from 7 to 6 districts will increase the number of residents to be represented by each Councilperson by 1711Io. Representation as it is now works, Why do we want to increase the representation load on our representatives? Attached to this email is a PDF chart providing interesting statistics of the seven (7) cities in Southern California, which have a population of 80,000 to 90,000 citizens. None of these seven cities has a form of government, which is proposed in the Charter amendment. Please consider the enumerated points above and the information on the attached chart as you deliberate on this agenda item. 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C 0 '+� U Z li ICE r N {000 r y LL7 OD n F Q i Z M m QQ ', � m IV 4- a V] O N c L❑ u 0 3 L 0 L 0 0 n +- 4- EC' y � 2- _o z c v�t 3 I z Ww o z m w ro� Mz moo Z 2 ca Z Z u e.I N m Mulvey, Jennifer From: jskinnermd@aol.corn Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 3:17 PM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Initiative to elect a mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Avery and Members of the City Council: am strongly opposed to this initiative which was apparently drafted by one Councilmember without any known consultation with others on the City Council. For those of you who feel the need to change our current system of selecting a Mayor, please be good enough to share publicly with the community what you think is wrong about the current system. I, for one, would like to know and to try to understand what may be missing. I think the current system of in-house election of Mayors works best for our City. Even if one were to like the initial concept of a directly -elected Mayor, one needs to read the words of the initiative carefully and to think through the consequences of taking away the ability of a City Manager to add agenda items for City Council meetings. Why would any qualified and competent City Manager want to come to Newport Beach under those kind of restrictions? What are the potential consequences of someone only living in Newport Beach for 30 days making virtually all the decisions for the governing of Newport Beach? Not even the City Manager having a voice. This proposed initiative gives way too much power to just one man or one woman. Do we want that? I certainly hope not. If the supporters of this initiative are not able to get enough signatures to put this to a vote, it probably means that it wouldn't succeed at the ballot box. Saving $215,000 for an unnecessary election is not an insignificant amount of money that could be used in a much better way. Thank you for giving my thoughts your consideration. Nancy Skinner 1724 Highland Drive Newport Beach, CA 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: Susan Skinner <susanskinner949@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:14 AM To: Dept - City Council Subject: Opposition to elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council: I would like to register my opposition to the elected mayor proposal. There are any number of things wrong with this proposal but the fact that it undermines term limits as well as undermines the City Manager are two of the big issues. Grace is being recruited to leave Newport and go to Irvine. if this proposal passes, our next City Manager search is going to be much, much harrier. What competent City Manager would want to work in a city where they are so restricted? This is a very bad proposal and should not be put on the ballot. Thanks you, Susan Skinner Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:46 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From: Sunny Smith rsundialsunny@gmall.com> 5ent: Tuesday, October 26, 202110.46:06 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] OO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I strongly oppose the elected mayor proposal. Gloria Smith Newport Beach Resident since 1995 Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 2.29 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor From: Mike Smith rmike.cdm@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 2:28:25 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLIC{ links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the proposal that would use a public vote to select our mayor. There are a number of very valid reasons for NOT electing our mayor by public vote. For one, the proposed mayor would have powers that would supersede council members. Michael C Smith 1807 Bayadere Terrace Corona del Mar, CA 92625 (949) 285-3275 .3 Mule , Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20219:38 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Public vote on NB Mayor, From: EP SMOOT <epsrnoot@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 20219:38:21 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Public vote on NB Mayor. [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. am opposed to having the public vote for our City Mayor!! PHIL Smoot Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20211:42 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Hold off on special election From: Amy Snyder <amyksnyder@aol,com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 1:41:30 PM (UTC -08;04) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Hold off on special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and knowthe content is safe. Please wait until 2022 to address this mayoral election issue. We do not need to waste our hard-earned money there. 2022 will be here soon enough. Thank you. Array Snyder Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:50 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Oppose the elected mayor proposal From: Linda Stoll <Ijstoil@me.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:49:53 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca,gov> Subject: Oppose the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Linda Stoll 73 Old Course Newport Beach 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 12:59 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda From: iynn@lynnswain.com <lynn@lynnswain.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 12:58:25 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Fwd: item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Begin forwarded message: From: lynn@lynnswain.com Date: October 24, 2021 at 11:10:37 AM PDT To: bavery@newportbeachca.gov, Diane Dixon <ddixon@newportbeachca.gov>, Joy Brenner <JBrenner@newportbeachca.gov>, Kevin Muldoon <kmuldoon@newportbeachca.gov>, Duffy <dduffield@ newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda Ladies and Gentlemen, Please consider that a public discussion and vetting of this initiative is necessary and beneficial to the community to understand what is in it. If the city Council votes on Tuesday to put the initiative an the ballot without the necessary signatures, then there are no changes allowed. There has been no community discussion, no debate, no consideration of any other provisions that could improve this initiative, it is one man's opinion — one man and a keyboard, a mailing list and false assertions — that could potentially radically change the form of government in place in Newport City for 70 years. Why no debate? What are you afraid of? A future elected mayor who can single handedly make policy adverse to your interests? One man rule has consequences and the consequences have begun. He's pressuring you and making the community believe, that if you vote no, this will not be on the ballot. This is absolutely NOT true) PLEASE VOTE NO to make Will take the time to get the necessary signatures required. Voters can stiff make the choice and it can still go on the ballot. Your vote has NOTHING to do with whether or not you support the change. Your vote enables Will to do it the easy way and the community sees that as preferential treatment. Lynn Swain Big Canyon 12 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20218:14 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor election proposal From: talbot@spacelines.com talbot@spacelines.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20218:14:03 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor election proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Newport Beach City Council, I strongly oppose the proposal, and request that it not be adopted. Thank you, Mike Talbot 324 Signal Road Newport Beach CA 92663 M. D. Talbot Aerospace & Defense Consultant Telephone: 949-386-0000 Cell Phone: 949-795-9900 Email: talbot@spacelines.com Mulvey, Jennifer From: Robert Theorum <subscriptionshello@gmail.com> Sent. Saturday, October 23, 20218:18 PM To: mduffield@duffyboats.com; Dept - City Council Subject: Fwd: Action Requested [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mr. buffy, I got this from the Elect The Mayor folks and thought you and the council should see that they are pushing people to write [Mails to you and the other councilmen. I was a supporter at first until I learned more about it from an EMail I got forwarded from a friend. f just wanted to say that your dad did such great things on the freeway years ago, but he might not have been able to do them if we had this set up. My understanding is that the whole council was not on his side at first but came over little by little until he won them over. If there had been one super powerful mayor at that time controlling what the council discussed, would that person have supported your dad? If not, would the whole thing have just died? It seems like the city runs better when there is equal power shared by the councilmen, not just one guy. Please don't vote for this. Thanks, RT ---------- Forwarded message ---_----- From: Elect Our Mayor <electourma or mail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 4:07 PM Subiect: Re. Action Requested To: <electourma or mail.com> Good afternoon, We received requests for an email link that has language included in the email already. Happy to help. Click the link below and sign your name at the bottom before sending. Link: City Council Email Thank you! Mulvey, Jennifer From: Robert Theorum <subscriptionshello@gmaiI.com> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 20219:18 PM To: O'Neill, William; dept - City Council Subject: Re: Action Requested [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Why should I offer Mr. Duffy an apology? His father did great things. I'm sure he is thinking about his legacy as well and people tend to remember the last thing someone does in office. This could well be his legacy and what he is remembered for. If it ends up going dawn in flames, he'll be just as tied to it as you are. If it ends up passing by a landslide, same thing. On Sat, Oct 23, 2821 at 9:11 PM O'Neill, William <wonei[I@newportbeachca.gov> wrote: Not at all. The proposed system has the ability for three council members to place items on the agenda (exactly like the current system now). If a majority wanted the freeway, that path was still available. Howard Rogers didn't become mayor until years later because he was already on the council during the fight and was one of the two opposed. Had he run for mayor directly, and on this issue, don't you think that would have had bearing on the outcome? Either way, please consider offering Duffy an apology for invoking his father in this discussion. At a minimum, the email Is historically inaccurate and serves as a reminder that the current system - not the proposed one - led to the need for the freeway fighters. Will O'Neill Newport Beach City Council Visit www. newp_ortbeachca.goylcovid19 to see our City's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Please sign up for City updates. On Oct 23, 2021, at 9:02 PM, Robert Theorum <subscriptionshe Ilo@gmai1.ccm> wrote: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Howard Rogers didn't become mayor until years later and you make my point for me: "Had there been a directly elected mayor who ran on that issue, it seems much less likely that the progress of a potential ten lane freeway would have made it that far." In other wards, if one person controlled the agenda, things would have been managed in a different way and the council majority would not have prevailed. On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 8.44 PM O'Neill, William <woneiII@newportbeachca.gov> wrote: Robert - I'd encourage you to go back to look at the history on the freeway fight. That system - which is essentially our current system- resulted in a 5-2 majority in support of the freeway. Had there been a directly elected mayor who ran on that issue, it seems much less likely that the progress of a potential ten lane freeway would have made it that far. That mayor likely would have been Howard Rogers, who was part of the fighters. https://www. newportbeachindy.com/mayor-howard-ropers-freeway-fight/ On a side note, I'm not sure why you think a proposed system that would keep the mayor as one of seven votes (without veto power) would result in just one person in power. I encourage you to spend more time looking at the proposed language. Whatever email you were sent seems to have given you skewed information. Will O'Neill Newport Beach City Council Visit www.newportbeachca.gov/covid19 to see our City's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Please sign up for City updates. On Oct 23, 2021, at 8:18 PM, Robert Theorum <subscriptionshello@gmail.com> wrote: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Mr. Duffy, I got this from the Elect The Mayor folks and thought you and the council should see that they are pushing people to write EMails to you and the other councilmen. I was a supporter at first until I learned more about it from an EMail I got forwarded from a friend. I just wanted to say that your dad did such great things on the freeway years ago, but he might not have been able to do them if we had this set up. My understanding is that the whole council was not on his side at first but came over little by little until he won them over. If there had been one super powerful mayor at that time controlling what the council discussed, would that person have supported your dad? If not, would the whole thing have just died? It seems like the city runs better when there is equal power shared by the councilmen, not just one guy. Please don't vote for this. Thanks, RT ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Elect Our Mayor <electourmayor@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Action Requested To: <electourmayor@gmail.com> Good afternoon, We received requests for an email link that has language included in the email already. Happy to help. Click the link below and sign your name at the bottom before sending. Link: City Council Email Thank you! <IMG 2179.PNG> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 10:30 AM Elect Our Mayor <electourmayor@gmail.com> wrote: Good morning! Thank you very much for supporting the Elect Our Mayor initiative. To make sure that all voters get a say who their Mayor is, voters need to first be given the chance to vote on changing our system. The City Council is voting on Tuesday night whether to put the option on next year's ballot. And we need your help. Please email in your support by clicking this link: Email To City Council An email screen will pop up and you can write a short (or not so short) email supporting the initiative. If you're looking for inspiration, you can read an op-ed about trusting voters, or one explaining the term limits solution, or one calling for the people to take this power back, or why a city council can find out what the community wants only by letting the community vote. Either way, please make sure to click this link and email the City Council to let them know that you want the ability to decide for yourself. Email To City Council Thank you! This is how we effect change. Let's Elect Our Mayor! —The Elect Our Mayor Team— <IMG 2179.PNG> Paid for by Elect Our Mayor, 220 Newport Center Dr., #11-385 Newport Beach, CA 92660. FPPC ID# 1440856 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 202 13:11 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From; Jim Tucker <tuckerj22@cox. net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:10:28 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose !!!! Not necessary; the current council and City Manager works just fine. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent-. Monday, October 25, 20219:33 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elect the Mayor From: Clarence Turner <cjtsr@sboglobal.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20219:32: 51 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <QtyClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elect the Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am totally against this proposal to Elect The Mayor as separate office holder from other members. I speak with some authority on the subject because i was the Mayor in 1993 and 1994. During that period we handled some very significant issues including construction of the new Central Library, we came close to obtaining EI Toro as a second airport in Orange County, we worked our way through a contentious Issue with sexual harassment problem in our Police Department and negotiated a complicated entitlement procedure allowing redevelopment of the Bay Club. There were other Issue but you get my point. The present system works. Do not change it. Clarence J. Turner Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 202110:43 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor on ballet From: Margiebil! rmargiebill@cox.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 202110:43:15 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayor on ballet [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I am apposed to having a mayor of Newport Beach be in charge for that many years. It may leads to agenda favoritism in development or other veins. Keep it the way it is now please! Marjorie von KleinSmid Sent from my !Phone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20218:13 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: I oppose the elected mayor proposal From: kjwagener@gmail.com <kjwagener@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20218:13:14 AM (UTC -48:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the elected mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL) a❑ NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I was guided to write to get my voice heard on the directly elected mayor proposal. I oppose this proposal. Thank you, Kenny Wagener 21.0 % Diamond Avenue Balboa Island, CA 92662 970.988.9611 kjwagener@gmail.com October 24. 2021 TO: Mayor and City Council, City of Newport Beach FROM: Jean Watt; 4 Harbor Island jwatt4�aol.com RE: Council Agenda Item XIX 14. Calling an Election for proposed City Charter Amendment. Dear Mayor Avery and members of the City Council, Please see the following comments with regard to the proposal to put the election of mayor Charter Amendment directly on the ballot thus bypassing the signature gathering that would otherwise have to take place. I urge you to vote NO on this proposal. It has been written by one City Council member with heretofore no input from the other Council members or the public nor, indeed, any problem with the current system. If there is any such problem it would be about the difficulty with which the average citizen can carry out a successful campaign in the face of the big money that is often brought to bear against them. This problem is only made worse by this initiative and might be made better by District voting but that too has not been discussed. The signature gathering for this initiative, at the least, would afford some opportunity for discussion as people have an opportunity to ]earn about it as they choose whether to sign and as it becomes more available and transparent. The question of whether the Mayer is elected directly by the people versus one selected by their peers on the City Council is one with many views and many answers. Since bath systems are fraught with politics and the powerful influence of money, neither is an absolute best from the standpoint of fair and equal representation. The problem with this initiative isn't about having a directly elected mayor. Instead it is about the clauses in the initiative that cumulatively give significantly more power to the mayor and less to the other Council members and thus their constituents. The goat is to provide for fair and equal representation. To name a few of the ways that this initiative is detrimental to that: • Representation for voters in the City could be negatively affected by having 6 larger Districts and a Mayor who could live anywhere. There has been no discussion of how these Districts would be formed. • Representation for voters in the City would be negatively affected because anyone with enough money or funds from anywhere to fund a campaign can move into the City, run for Mayor, and win with no experience at all in any of the City government. Currently our system effectively ensures that mayors at least have 1 to 2 years on the City Coullei[ ti rst. • Representation for voters in the City would be negatively affected by the giving of more power to the Mayor in setting agenda items versus the other City Council members and thus their constituents. The City Manager who is charged with serving each and every City Council member would be less able to do so as the Mayor would be preparing the Agenda. As people look through the initiative and the fine lines, there is more but, given the difficulties of carrying out a campaign already because of the heavy influence of money, anything we can do should be aimed at making a system where every resident voter can be equally and fairly represented. In short, whereas money and thus power have a great deal to do with the outcome of races in our City, this initiative only makes matters worse. Please vote NO and at least let more discussion take place through the signature gathering phase. Sincerely, Jean Watt Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW; Direct Election of the Mayor Initiative From: Portia Weiss ruortiavveiss �gmaii.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 20213:07:30 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk,d. newportheachca.gov> Subject: Direct Election of the Mayor Initiative Dear Council Members, I am 100% opposed to the initiative being considered this evening to change our city charter to elect our mayor directly. I heartily agree with the following reasons below which should certainly be enough for all of you to vote NO this evening and get back to vital city business. It's a power grab. The new system would concentrate power in the hands of the mayor rather than evenly distributing it between council members and their districts, as the current system does. It bypasses term limits Council members are currently selected by their peers to act as mayor for one 1 year, and the position rotates. Even an unprincipled mayor can't get us into too much trouble in that time. 8 years is a different story. With this proposal, a person could serve on the council for 8 years then as mayor for 8 more, for a total of 15 years. This is what Newport Beach voters had in mind when we approved term limits in 1992: we don't want entrenched politicians governing us. It would give one person almost exclusive control of the agenda The person who decides what's on the agenda decides what items get discussed, what neighborhoods get attention, what development projects get considered. The new system would give the mayor close to absolute control over the agenda and thus over the city's future. Such a radical change requires public debate A charter amendment that would so profoundly change how Newport Beach is governed should be the subject of public debate. A committee should be appointed to weigh the pros and cons with public input. None of this has happened. Even the council hasn't discussed it! Good ideas get shared out in the open, bad ones get promoted through one-man marketing campaigns. It would silence certain voices If a hideous, traffic -snarling project is proposed near your home, it's possible that you, your neighbors and your council representative would never be able to get it on the agenda no matter what you did. That's because under the new system, 50% of the council would have to agree that an item needs to be brought before the council. The mayor decides almost everything The proposal states that the mayor gets to "interpret the policies, programs and needs of the city," In other words, the mayor gets to decide what a policy means and what programs the city needs (or doesn't need.) That is a remarkable power that could be seriously abused by the wrong person in office. It's designed to benefit professional politicians Our current system gives regular citizens the chance to give back to the city by serving on the council for 1 or 2 terms, in theory acting as mayor or mayor pro tem for at least 1 of those years. The new system would make running for council less appealing for citizens who might want to be mayor for a year, while attracting professional politicians who are after power and prestige. It would open the door to corruption Campaign contributions already exceeded $1 million in the last two council races, even though no individual member had anywhere near as much power and influence as the mayor would have under the new system. You can be sure that a corrupt candidate would be attracting millions of dollars from special interests, including from different cities and even states. It would attract carpetbaggers Carpetbaggers are those pesky people who move to a place to which they have no real connection and run for office solely for their personal benefit. Imagine how being the elected mayor of Newport Beach could attract a billionaire developer willing to drop a few million to buy the seat then dictate where the new development projects go... our worst nightmare! No other city prevents the City Manager from adding items on the agenda Newport Beach prides itself in having outstanding city managers, and they play an important role in creating the agenda, with input and guidance from the council. The new system would allow the mayor to micromanage and overrule the city manager at every turn. It would be like putting the chairman of the board in charge of a company's day-to-day operations, sidelining the CEO. This is especially important since our City Manager is being recruited by Irvine and may leave. Why would anyone want to take a job with this type of restriction? This change will make it very difficult to recruit a competent City Manager in the future. The race would be incredibly expensive A candidate for mayor would need to raise a lot of money, much more than for a regular council seat. Ultra - wealthy donors and special interests from other cities and states could dump huge sums into our elections to get their candidate into the seat that holds all the power. This would leave the elected mayor with favors to return, especially if they are planning future campaigns. Representation would be imbalanced The new system would divide the city into 6 districts, vs. 7 currently. That means that each council member will have more constituents than today, increasing their workload, which could make them less responsive. On the other hand, those who live in the same district as the mayor will effectively have two representatives. Chances are very good that unpopular development projects will NOT wind up in those districts. It would make our elections even less competitive In 2020, only 5 candidates ran for three seats. One person ran unopposed. Our council races have gotten extremely expensive and grueling, discouraging many potentially outstanding representatives from running. Under the new system, requiring 50% of the council to agree to put something on the agenda, members who are not allies of the mayor would basically be figureheads, further reducing the appeal of the position. Newport is best served by a system that distributes power equally between council members and districts. If our current mayor Is aware of a city account sitting idle with an surplus of $200,000, why is he not recommending to his city council colleagues to earmark these funds for any one of innumerable city concerns, one of which could be the addition of another traffic officer to help curb the endless traffic violations which threaten the daily safety of our children, adult residents and visitors? Please, let us dissolve this idea to destroy the balance of power and move forward with real city priorities. . Thank you Portia Weiss Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 20217:08 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Mayor election by city council or by the citizenry' From: Basil Witt <bgwitt@msn.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20216:06 PM To: Dept - City Council<CityCauncil@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayor election by city council or by the citizenry! [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Leave the existing structure alone, Any change in that structure should be the result of a vote of the citizens of Newport Beach. Obviously a full understanding of the changes, anticipated effects and risks must first be shared with the voters. Thank you! Basil & Judi Witt 111 Abalone Ave. Balboa Island, Ca. 92662 12 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20213:55 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW; Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda From: Gerral Group <gerral@outlook.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20213:55:18 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov>; Avery, Brad <bavery@newportbeachca.gov>; Dixon, Diane <ddixon@newportbeachca.gov>; Brenner, Joy <JBrenner@newportbeachca.gov>; Muldoon, Kevin <kmuldoon@newportbeachca.gov>; Duffield, Duffy <dduffield@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. PLEASE VOTE NO on this item, and do not permit Councilperson Will O'Neill to evade the signature gathering of 9,000 voters before this item is placed on the Ballot. Voters are being short changed and need to understand all the ramifications of such a proposed change, before it is thrust upon them, without sufficient information. Thank you. R.P. "Skip" Wilson, Jr. Canyon Mesa, Big Canyon Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 11:37 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW; I oppose the elected mayor proposal. From: 1306 YANT <byant@aol.com Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 11:35:24 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (U5 & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: I oppose the elected mayor proposal. [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Bob Yant 2113 Seville Avenue Newport Beach, CA 92661 949 673-8474 Mulvey, Jennifer From: Rieff, Kim Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20213:55 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Froth: Yost, Elizabeth <EIizabeth _Yost@steris.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 20213:52 PM To: Dept - City CouncilrCityCounciI@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Elected Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members, I strongly object to a change in the Council/ its Manager form of government with no directly elected Mayor. In its present form, it allows a professional and experienced manager (at the direction of the whole council) to run our city smoothly and efficiently, I do not want ane person to have the peer to run the city. I want all council members to have a share in decision making for the city of Newport Beach. This is in the best interest of all within the City. Why change when it's working to a model that is not public -minded! Best regards, Elizabeth S. Yost The Bluffs HOA Newport Beach Phone. (650) 787-4206 Email: evost@steris.com Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 20218:47 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Proposed special election From: Patricia Zartler <zartco@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 8:47:05 AM {UTC -08:00} Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Proposed special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please include me with the residents that oppose the special election regarding electing a mayor at large. If there is a need for a vote by the citizens then include this issue with the regular election in November 2022_ Thank you, Pat Zartler 1970 Port Provence PI Newport Beach, Ca 92660 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 1154 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Proposal to directly elect the Mayor From: Peter Zeughauser <zeughauser@CONSULTZG.COM> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 11:53:33 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Dept - City Council<CityCouncil@newportbeachca.gov> Cc: City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Proposal to directly elect the Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK finks or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Council Members — I am a 38 year resident of Newport Beach. I read this past week that the former mayor has proposed or plans to propose at the councit's October 30 meeting that the city vote on whether to change how it is governed so that the mayor would be directly elected by the voters and would greater power over the council agenda than other council members. It is also a backdoor for former mayor to avoid the current city council term limits, This is a bad idea. I am writing to express my strong disapproval of this proposed ballot measure. htt s: Voiceofoc.or 2021 10 new ort -beach -voters -could- et-to- di_rectly-elect-their .mayor -power -gra b-concerns_surfacel. The former mayor's self-interested proposal if adopted by the voters would strip other council members of significant power. The additional power vested in a directly elected mayor would draw particular interest in the mayor's race from special interest groups and entities doing business with the city, causing them to contribute heavily to campaigns for mayor and thereby disenfranchising the average voter and making it more difficult if not impossible for many civic - minded residents of the city to seek the office. It would favor incumbents. ft would change the character of our city's government from one of citizen leadership to Leadership by career professional politicians. To what good end would this change lead? We are all too aware of the rampant flaws professional politicians wreak on good government. That is the rationale for term limits. Let's not create a backdoor allowing incumbents to circumvent them. In the 38 years I have lived in the city I have attended one city council meeting, I regret that I will be unable to attend your meeting on the 30t0 to voice my objection to this proposal. This ballot measure is a bad idea and a huge waste of taxpayer money. In recent years our city council seems to have become a cabal of self -glorifying spendthrifts, first with an extravagant new city hall and now with a ballot measure to create an expensive -to -win and all-powerful mayor designed to entrench incumbent career politicians in office and insulate them from challengers. The ballot measure itself would be a wasteful and expensive fight to preserve good government, likely heavily supported by special interests who do business with the city. I urge you to vote against putting this self-interested ballot measure before the voters. Sincerely, Peter Zeughauser Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 10:19 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Elected Mayor Proposal From, Jeff Zielinski <zgangz90@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 10:28:29 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Elected Mayor Proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the elected mayor proposal. Jeff Zielinski 529 Poppy Ave CDM Sent from my Whone Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20212:34 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer, Rieff, Kim Subject: FW; No special election From; Tracy <thoc444@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20212:34.08 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: No special election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. It has come to my attention that a special election is being considered. We do not need a special election. Use the regularly scheduled Election Day to vote, Thank you. Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2421 8:59 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayor From: Michelle <ashegh1@yahoo.corn> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 8:58:24 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk`s Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Mayor [EXTERNAL EMAIL] a0 NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I oppose the new proposal by Will O'Neif for electing the mayor. Michelle Newport Coast Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:03 PM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: Mayoral election From: Linda's Omail <Hnda.oeth@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:02:54 PM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office Subject: Mayoral election [EXTERNAL EMAIL] ❑O NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I support putting this issue on the ballot in 2022, save the taxpayers $215,000 Sent from my iPhone Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Please require Will get the required signatures! From: Home Owners <canyonmesahoa@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 10:01 AM Subject: Please require Will get the required signatures! To: <bavery@newportbeachca.gov>, ddixon@newportbeachca.gov <ddixon@newportbeachca.gov>, <dduffield@newportbeachca.gov>, <jbrenner@newportbeachca.gov>, <kmuldoon@newportbeachca gov> On behalf of the residents of Canyon Mesa Homeowner Association, as well as all the members within the Big Canyon Community, we again thank you for your support in opposing the Shell Station request to add a Car Wash to their already over developed property. Unfortunately, our representative Councilperson, Noah Blom, did not vote with the majority of the other astute council members, even though more than 100 signatures were presented opposing this ill-conceived application. Again, we are asking for your support, by opposing Item 14 on the November 26th City Council Agenda, which is calling for a proposed charter amendment on how the mayor is determined. PLEASE VOTE NO! PLEASE FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE your elected obligations to your constituents and follow the stated procedures in place, if such a change is to be considered. Most importantly, additional discussions are required before this matter is ready to be placed on the Ballot. The petition gathering process is fundamental to the democratic process. Therefore, PLEASE permit the petition gathering to continue and do not let Will O'Neill circumvent the system, by allowing this item to be on the ballot, without obtaining the compulsory 9,000 signatures. The residents of Newport Beach will still vote, and it can still be on the ballot, but only AFTER the required 9,000 signatures are obtained. No councilperson, including Will O'Neill, should receive privileged treatment. This is how the political "swamp" continues to grow and the community views you all as the good ole boys. Please keep Newport Beach Council "clean" and a model of what Government should be. Make Will O'Neill get the votes! Then the voters can decide. Thank you. Voters of Big Canyon 1 Mulvey, Jennifer From: City Clerk's Office Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:38 AM To: Mulvey, Jennifer; Rieff, Kim Subject: FW: READ THE FACTS PLEASE! NO ELECTED MAYOR From: Home Owners <canyonmesahoa@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10:37:45 AM (UTC -08;00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Avery, Brad <bavery@newportbeachca.gov>; City Clerk's Office <CityClerk@newportbeachca,gov>; Dixon, Diane <ddixon@newportbeachca.gov>; Duffield, Duffy <dduffield@newportbeachca.gov>; Brenner, Joy <JBrenner@newportbeachca.gov>; Muldoon, Kevin <kmuldoon@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: READ THE FACTS PLEASE! NO ELECTED MAYOR [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. https://www.stunewsnewport.comLndex.php�2=uncate orised112303:g_uest-letter-hludau- 1026211#. YXgkYwkV58U. maiIto Big Canyon HOA Mulvey, Jennifer Subject: FW: Call to Action: Charter Amendment to Elect NB Mayor From: SPON: Still Protecting Our Newport <info(d)spon-newportbeach.org> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20218:00:49 AM (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: City Clerk's Office<CityClerk(anewportbeachca.gov> Subject: Call to Action: Charter Amendment to Elect NB Mayor To view inyour browser click here. October 24, 2021 Call to Action Charter amendment threatens balance of power on City Council Dear City, On Tuesday, October 26th, City Council will consider a very important matter. In its most simplistic description, it is a decision to put a Charter amendment on the June 2022 or November 2022 ballot to directly elect our mayor. This idea is not being proposed by city staff. It has been proposed by a single Councilperson. No Councilmembers or committee of residents have convened to study the need for this change to our seventy -year-old mayoral appointment process. Our current system is called a Council/Manager form of government. The public elects seven members of the community: one in each of Newport's seven council districts. The entire population votes for all seven Councilmembers regardless of the district in which the voter lives. There is a rotation of districts, so three districts are up for election and two years later, the remaining 4 districts are up for election. Each councilmembers is elected for a four-year term. Several years ago, the voters approved term limits, which restrict Councilmembers to two consecutive terms in office. It is possible for a Councilperson who is termed out to take four years off and run again after that hiatus. This has never been attempted since the term limits have been in place. In our current system, the mayor is chosen by the City Council each December and serves for one year. Historically a person is on Council for at least a year before they are chosen as mayor pro tem for a year. The following year they are usually chosen as mayor in their third, or sometimes fourth, year on council. There has been a general rotation of the mayor position for many years. Currently the City Manager sets the Council meeting agenda. City Policy Al allows a Councilmember to request that an item is put on a future agenda and in practice they usually get it approved by the other councilmembers. The mayor position is largely ceremonial. Mayors run the Council meetings, go to ribbon cuttings, and give a state -of -the -city address each year. Each Councilmember, including the mayor, has an equal vote. As currently written, the proposed ballot initiative allows a person to run for the mayor's position starting in 2024. There is no historical residency requirement, meaning a person could move to town in 2024 and run for mayor in 2024. In 2024 the person who gets the most votes for mayor would become mayor for the next four years. The city would be broken down into six districts instead of the current seven. Any person who runs for mayor can live anywhere in the city. The mayor would be allowed to run for two, four-year terms. It would be possible for a person to serve on council for two terms (eight years total) and then run for mayor and serve two more four-year terms. This means a person could serve on City Council for up to 16 consecutive years! The mayor would be the sole person to set the agenda and not the City Manager. If any Councilmember wanted to put something on the agenda, they would be required to get two other Councilmembers to agree, or the item would not be added. The mayor would likely want, and be given, a staff. Currently there is no full-time staff attached to the City Council or mayor, so this would be an additional expense. The cost of new permanent staff is unknown at this time. The cost to add this initiative to the ballot is $215,000. It requires an amendment to our approved budget. This budget amendment is also on the agenda for the October 26th Council meeting. We have touched on the highlights of this proposed initiative. Tuesday may the only chance that the public can weigh in on this. Whether you support this idea or oppose it, we urge you to attend the meeting and see firsthand what transpires. The meeting starts at 6:00 p.m. It is Agenda Item 14 so it will come up later in the meeting. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 City Council Meeting Civic Center Council Chambers 6:00 p.m. Regular Meeting Agenda here See XIX Current Business Item 14 • Call for Election to Amend City Charter • Budget Amendment • Staff Report • Statements For & Against Electing Mayor Please visit SPONNB.org regularly for updates on projects and issues that we are watching. We appreciate your support as we continue our efforts to protect and preserve our residential and environmental quality of life. SPON Board of'Directors SPON is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Memberships and general-purpose contributions are tax-deductible. Your contribution today will be greatly appreciated and will be put to good use working on issues such as this. SPONNB.org I VM/Text (949) 864-6616 3 SPON l PO Box 102, Balboa Island, CA 92662 Unsubscribe ciryclerkOd newportbeachca.goy Update Profile I Constant -Contact Data Notice Sent by info�gspon-newportbeach.org powered by T v email marketing for f'ee Coda/' Mulvey, Jennifer From: Susan Skinner <susanskinner949@gmai1.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 20219:17 PM To: Dept - City Council Subject: List of residents opposed to the Elect Our Mayor proposal [EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council: The following is a list of people who are publicly opposed to the elected mayor proposal: Assemblywoman Marilyn C. Brewer, ret. Elizabeth Stahr (Citizen of the Year) Don Webb (Former Mayor) Tom Edwards (Former Mayor) Nancy Gardner (Former Mayor) Walt Howald (Citizen of the Year) Nancy Skinner (Citizen of the Year) Jean Watt (Former City Councilwoman) Evelyn Hart (Former Mayor) James "Buzz" Person (Former PC) Mike Henn (Former Mayor) Clarence "Buzz" Turner (Former Mayor) Gary Adams (Former Mayor) Steve Rosansky (Former Mayor) Laird Hayes Lynn Swain Poita Cernius Jennifer McDonald William F. Kroener III Steven Cooper Nancy Dahlfors Richard and Lisa de Lorimier Mike Andersen Evangeline Andersen Susan Skinner Walter Stahr Sam and Susan Anderson Kevin and Nella Webster O'Grady Bill Cool Phil Smoot 1 Dennis Baker Lynn Lorenz Susan Menning Eric Nowlin Jackie Nowmin Jeff Herdman atty white Lynn Lorenz Carrie Christy Janice Kreidman Renee Gregg Tricia Nichols Irene Kinoshita Sue Dvorak Michael Pilsitz Steven Beyrooty Susan Tate Anne Pamella Marks Janine Allen Anne Gordinier Kenneth Vandeveer Suzanne Gauntlett Walter Stahr Drew Wetherholt Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Sohrab Charna Natalie Giannulli Richard Haskell Remington Weiss Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Lyle Gary Crane Melinda Seely Mary K Madison Judy Cooper Jerry Schmitt Sandie Haskell 2 Cynthia Bartlett Mary Ann Bruce Patricia Dreyfus Paula G Feldman Dorothy Kraus John Kidde Donna Kidde Tom Moulson Michelle Micci Candi Hubert Shirley Feller Lisa Thompson Laurel Gregory JONATHAN WEINER Robert Lonardo James M Madison Sheila Koff Don Menaguale Richard Weiss Portia Weiss Remy Weiss Janine Allen vicki Ronaldson Rob Caustin Elaine Linhoff Sherry pollack Virginia Riley diane schmieder Ed Miskevich David Byrd Simone Wilson Nicole Reynolds Jim Reynolds HALL SEELY Ann Obegi Lori S Bloom 3 Julio Zunzunegui Julio Zunzunegui Tom Baker Lu Baker Patricia Dreyfus Charles Klobe Lynn Lorenz Darcy Zulpo Judy & STEVE Strauss Virtue Byrd Geri Ferguson Janice Kreidman Kathleen Andrews Nita Suzanne Gauntlett Cate Hardesty Nicole Nelson Aline Blumetti Anna -Marie Claassen MAXINE H MALY John Gregg James D Tucker Susan Stoneburner Roberta U Schmidt pam and Mike howard Dr & Mrs Sanford Lyle Leslie O'Rourke Patricia A Nangle Chris Mckinley Michael C Smith MARY ANN HEMPHILL Anne Pamella Marks Greg and Sharon Wohl Sunny Smith Barbara Peckenpaugh Patricia McNally 4 Joni Nichols Steve Fryer Suzanne Forster Jeanne Fobes Toni Moccia Mongdiep (Bette) Vovan Diane West Carol Hundere Tina Wayt William L Wayt Julie Siebel Cindy Valdes Lori Karaguezian Jeff Zielinski Lauren Zielinski Bob Yant Melinda petkins Sonja Conn Tracy A Robert B Jones Ellen Weinstein Theodore j Gundlach Catherine Lee Lynn Friedman Jeff Friedman Chris Harano Suzy Briggs Nancy Skinner Patricia Griffith Peggy V. Palmer GERALD G KELLEHER JR Nancy Kern Kelleher Barbara Thibault Janisse Dale Jerri Fullmer Ladeana Young E Leo Young Janet Bays Peter Zeughauser Teresa iott Nadeem Reinhardt Sallie Jane Super Eileen Caravello Susan McFadden Dennis Pierret Judy & Steve Strauss Carol Lind Barbara De Groot Christine Kiger Kim Crawford Linda Schulein Mike Talbot Kimberly Leibe DENISE NEWCOMER Susan Kemp David stoll Randy Harding David Fletcher PAUL TOBIN jill n nelke Richard Bruck, MD Janice Kreidman Stephen Nitkin Douglas Cotton June Marchigiani Anne Conover Catherine Annerl Shirley Inman Elizabeth D. Stahr Gale Edelberg Judith Brower Mary Ann Helmes 0 Michael Helmes Linda Seaborn Gail Reisman Sorel Reisman Mary E Citrano Roberta Lessor Faye Hezar Nedda Afsaneh Alisobhani Linda Oeth Sophie ghafari Lauri Preedge Darryl Preedge Sheila Koff Don Menaguale Sosha Ala joan Elizabeth Ramstedt -Andersen & Jack Andersen Holly Fuhrer Marjorie von KleinSmid Dana White Teri Winton Kathleen Murphy Michael Murphy J Norminton Richard Crawford Susan Gilbert Ruth G. Evans Allison Gilmore John Kidde Gary Cruz Harold E Meany Yvonne Molnar Aline Farmer Roger Naff Toni Antonacci michael munz 11 Marilyn Jones I find the changes proposed by the mayor of Newport Beach shocking! Please add me to your opposition list. Trish Nichols Lyle Brakob Katharine Young Elizabeth Adams Jodi Geoffroy Peter Stein Mike Grant Thank you, Susan Skinner