2026-11-10 - City Council Meeting

Summary

Built from the posted agenda; no minutes or video recorded yet. Outcomes are not stated. This is a regular City Council meeting that includes a special joint meeting with the Great Park Board (no separate Great Park Board page exists for November 10).

  • Public hearing: annual Development Agreement status report, with a finding that all active development agreements are compliant.
  • Council business: introduction and first reading of an ordinance regulating nitrous oxide (Nitrous Oxide Ordinance).
  • Council initiated: James Mai asks for discussion of developing Irvine Meadows at the Great Park and revenue opportunities (Irvine Meadows at the Great Park).
  • Joint consent items: Fiscal Year 2025-26 year-end report (budget adjustments, closure of 43 capital projects, escheated funds transfer, CFD reports), a $9,841,743.24 contract for Perimeter Park precise grading, and a fifth lease amendment with Tierra Verde Industries.
  • Council consent: 2027 meeting calendar, 2027-2028 legislative platform, homeless housing grant (HHAP) signing authority, a traffic signal contract of $865,689.28, a catch basin screen contract of $568,200, a purchase and sale agreement for the Jeffrey Walnut intersection project, and Measure M2 grant applications.
  • Closed session on two existing litigation matters; presentation from the University of California, Irvine.

Agenda

Starts 4:00 PM. Closed session estimated to conclude 5 PM; presentations estimated 5:15 PM.

Closed session

  • 1.1 Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation (Mayorga v. City of Irvine, Orange County Superior Court No. 30-2024-01437914-CU-PA-CJC)
  • 1.2 Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation (In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804)

Presentations

  • 2.1 University of California, Irvine

City Manager's report; announcements and council reports; public comments on non-agendized items.

Special joint meeting with the Great Park Board (Go, Chairman; Carroll, Vice Chairman)

Consent calendar, City Council

  • 3.1 Minutes of the October 27, 2026 adjourned regular meeting (2026-10-27 - City Council Meeting)
  • 3.2 Warrant and wire transfer resolution
  • 3.3 2027 City Council meeting calendar
  • 3.4 City of Irvine 2027-2028 State and Federal Legislative Platform
  • 3.5 Resolution updating HHAP grants signing authority
  • 3.6 Paseo Westpark and San Remo Traffic Signal Modification, CIP 332003 ($865,689.28, Alfaro Communications Construction, Inc.)
  • 3.7 Citywide Catch Basin Connector Pipe Screen Installation Phase 5, CIP 500006 ($568,200.00)
  • 3.8 Purchase and sale agreement, Jeffrey Walnut Intersection Project (CIP 314240)
  • 3.9 Resolution approving Measure M2 Comprehensive Transportation Funding Program grant applications
  • 3.10 Notice of pending approval of a tract map in Gateway (receive and file)
  • 3.11 Community Partnership Fund nominations: $1,000 to Irvine 2-11 Marine Adoption Committee Inc. and $3,000 to the Irvine Valley College Foundation

Consent calendar, City Council and Great Park Board

  • 4.1 (also reviewed by the 2026-11-02 - Finance Commission) Fiscal Year 2025-26 year-end report: budget adjustment, closure of 43 capital projects, continuation of 25 projects including 3 new, $5.13 million for capital adjustments, escheated monies resolution, CFD annual reports
  • 4.2 Perimeter Park Precise Grading and Site Improvements, CIP 700002 ($9,841,743.24, MDB General Engineering, Inc.)
  • 4.3 Amendment No. 5 to the lease with Tierra Verde Industries

Public hearing

  • 5.1 Annual Development Agreement status report

Council business

  • 6.1 Nitrous oxide ordinance, first reading

Council initiated

  • 7.1 Request by Vice Mayor Mai on Irvine Meadows at the Great Park and revenue opportunities (supplemental memo posted)

Sources