HUNTINGTON BEACH Central Library (Flickr/cclark395).

Should the Huntington Beach City Council tell the city’s libraries how to handle materials on sexuality?

The council will take up that potentially controversial action when it meets on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark is requesting that the council take action on the selection, display and circulation of library books and other materials that are “obscene and or pornographic” and making them unavailable to minors.

Her request is to direct the city manager to return to the council in August with a proposed ordinance on that matter, with the city attorney evaluating the materials “under the First Amendment.”

The second part of the request is to direct the city manager to “look into the process to part ways with the American Library Association.”

Van Der Mark’s request tracks with efforts in Florida and other states in which conservative governors have attempted to remove or restrict access to information about homosexuality and “gender identity.”

To date, no federal court has classified such information as obscene or pornographic.

Also on the agenda is a request from Councilmembers Dan Malmick, Rhoda Bolton and Natalie Moser denouncing anti-Semitism, white supremacy and ant-LGBTQ hate.”

Additionally, the council will take up a continued public hearing on the city budget for 2023-24.

There’s a special meeting of the council acting as the housing authority at 4 p.m.., followed by the regular session at 6 p.m. The council meets in its chambers at 2000 Main St. (at Yorktown Avenue).