HUNTINGTON BEACH Central Library (Flickr/cclark395).
Just before the Huntington Beach City Council was poised to decide on whether to have management of the city library system taken over by a private firm, the proposal was … put back on the shelf.
The agenda on Tuesday called for consideration of a proposal by LS&S to provide “managed library services” for the city’s five-library system in response to a request for proposal on such a program.
But LS&S, represented by former Mayor Mike Posey, withdrew its proposal on Monday.
“We dodged a bullet today,” said one speaker.
Nevertheless, the issue dominated the public comments segment of the meeting. Of the 16 who spoke on the library issue, 15 were pleased by the dropping of the LS&S proposal.
Representatives of the ProtectHB group promised that solicitation of signatures to prevent the library system from being “privatized” or “outsourced” would continue.
Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark pronounced the matter finished. “It’s done,” she said.
The next meeting of the council is scheduled for Tuesday, July 2.
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Finally, the four city council majority were put in their place during last nights meeting. Especially delightful was watching Mayor Pro-tem Pat Burns squirm through an avalanche of public comments condemning his nasty, hateful and unprofessional language used during the city councils prior meeting. But even juicer was Mr. Burns bold faced lie that his nasty comments were not directed at the council minority. This elicited a loud spontaneous burst of laughter from the room due to Mr. Burns deceit. It’s frightening to think that a public official can easily make such obvious lies in public. Even more frightening to think this guy used to be in law enforcement. It appears that Mr Burns has now supplanted Mayor Van Der Mark as the most despised person in Huntington Beach and that speaks volumes.