Huntington Beach will hold June 10 special election over two library initiatives

Huntington Beach will have a special election on June 10 for voters to decide two ballot initiatives created in response to the City Council’s controversial pushes to consider privatizing the city library’s operations and to make a children’s book review board.

The City Council on Tuesday, March 4, unanimously approved placing the measures before voters in a special election versus the next available general election and did not discuss them any further. The election will test the popularity of the conservative council’s library policies, which have brought some of the strongest reactions of outrage from residents.

The initiatives qualified for a ballot after their proponents gathered enough signatures in support from at least 10% of registered voters in the city to force the public decision.

The first initiative would repeal a children’s library book review board law that the City Council created in 2023.



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