HUNTINGTON BEACH Central Library (Flickr/cclark395).

A marathon meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council lasted nearly seven and one-half hours from Tuesday evening to early Wednesday morning.

The session attracted 117 speakers, many of them making comments on the two most controversial topics on the agenda: a proposed resolution condemning anti-Semitism (as well as white supremacy and anti-LGBTQ hate) and a request to keep minors from having access to “age-inappropiate, obscene, pornographic and/or sexually explicit materials in city libraries.”

The anti-Semitism resolution – suggested by Councilmembers Dan Kalmick, Rhoda Bolton and Natalie Moser – was amended to add “Catholics, Christians, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Indians, Persians, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhists, Mormons, Whites, and Women.”

That passed 5-0-2 with Kalmick out of the room and Bolton abstaining.

The item on library materials put forth by Councilmember Gracey Van Der Mark, was amended to direct the city manager to work with the city attorney to return in September with “safeguards” to keep such content from minors. Deleted was a proposal regarding “the process to part ways with the American Library Association.”

That item passed on a 4-3 vote with Kalmick, Bolton and Moser.

Also, the council continued to the June 26 meeting consideration of the city budget for 2023-2024 budget.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:25 a.m. Wednesday.