City Council/Public Financing Authority

AGENDA CITY COUNCIL/PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY Thursday, December 10, 2020 Council Chambers 2000 Main Street Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Special Meeting Regular Meeting - 5:00 PM MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL KIM CARR, Mayor TITO ORTIZ, Mayor Pro Tem BARBARA DELGLEIZE, Councilmember DAN KALMICK, Councilmember NATALIE MOSER, Councilmember ERIK PETERSON, Councilmember MIKE POSEY, Councilmember STAFF OLIVER CHI, City Manager MICHAEL E. GATES, City Attorney ROBIN ESTANISLAU, City Clerk ALISA BACKSTROM, City Treasurer MEETING ASSISTANCE NOTICE: In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, services are available to members of our community who require special assistance to participate in public meetings. If you require special assistance, 48-hour prior notification will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements for an assisted listening device (ALD) for the hearing impaired, American Sign Language interpreters, a reader during the meeting and/or large print agendas. Please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (714) 536-5227 for more information, or request assistance from the staff or Sergeant-at-Arms at the meeting. PUBLIC COMMENTS: To address the legislative body on items of interest not scheduled for public hearing, Request to Speak forms will be made available at the meeting and are collected by the staff or Sergeant at Arms. Some legislative bodies may provide different Request to Speak forms for public hearing items. AUDIO/VIDEO ACCESS TO BROADCASTED MEETINGS: City Council and Planning Commission meetings are televised live on HBTV-3 Channel 3, and can be viewed via live or archived website at https://huntingtonbeach.legistar.com. City Council/Public Financing AGENDA December 10, 2020 Authority 5:00 PM – COUNCIL CHAMBERS CALL TO ORDER SPECIAL MEETING ROLL CALL Peterson, Kalmick, Ortiz, Carr, Posey, Moser, Delgleize ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS (Received After Agenda Distribution) PUBLIC COMMENTS (3 Minute Time Limit) - At approximately 5:00 PM, individuals wishing to provide a comment on agendized or non-agendized items may join the Zoom Webinar by entering Webinar ID 971 5413 0528, or join by phone by calling (669) 900-6833. Individuals that enter the meeting will be placed in a holding queue and prompted to speak when the Clerk announces your name or the last three digits of your phone number. The holding queue will remain open for approximately 15 minutes, and speakers are encouraged, but not required to identify themselves by name. Each speaker may have up to 3 minutes to speak, but the Mayor, at her discretion, may reduce the time allowance if warranted by the volume of speakers. ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS 20-2082 Consider joining the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA), a Community Choice Energy (CCE) Joint Powers Authority (JPA) by adopting Resolution No. 2020-87, approving for introduction Ordinance No. 4227 and authoring execution of a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) Recommended Action: Provide direction to staff on whether to join the Orange County Power Authority CCE JPA as a Founding Member. If the City Council directs to move forward, the staff recommendation would be as follows: A) Introduce Ordinance No. 4227 for first reading; “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach Authorizing the Implementation of a Community Choice Aggregation Program;” and, B) Adopt Resolution No. 2020-87; “A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, Approving the Orange County Joint Powers Authority Agreement and Authorizing the Implementation of a Community Choice Aggregation Program;: and, C) Authorize the City Manager to execute the Orange County Power Authority Joint Page 1 of 2 City Council/Public Financing AGENDA December 10, 2020 Authority Powers Agreement; and, D) Appoint from the City Council one Board Member and one Alternate to serve on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Power Authority on behalf of the City of Huntington Beach; and, E) Authorize and direct that staff perform a full financial risk assessment associated with joining the Orange County Power Authority, and bring those findings back for City Council consideration by February 1, 2021, to determine if the City should maintain membership or withdraw from the Orange County Power Authority before the March 1, 2021, no-risk deadline. ADJOURNMENT The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council/Public Financing Authority is Monday, December 21, 2020, at 4:00 PM in the Civic Center Council Chambers, 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, California. INTERNET ACCESS TO CITY COUNCIL/PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY AGENDA AND STAFF REPORT MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE PRIOR TO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS AT http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov Page 2 of 2