All held meetings in the years covered by this prototype are listed here—even when a public brief is not ready.
Most of the evening turned on two questions: whether to accept the police department's annual report on its military equipment, and whether to fight a county plan to house people leaving jail in Santa Ana.
The council voted five to two to ask voters in November whether to remove the expiry date from the city's local sales tax.
The council voted five to two to abolish five of its citizen commissions, covering arts, environment and transport, historic buildings, parks, and youth.
The council heard that Rosita Elementary is being renamed for Frank and Irene Palomino, and agreed to look at renaming Rosita Park to match.
Before hearing from the public, the council voted four to three to cut each speaker's time from three minutes to one.
It approved positive performance evaluations and pay adjustments for the city clerk, city manager and city attorney — the only three employees who work directly for the council — by six votes to one.
The police department gave its long-awaited account of how it responded to the anti-ICE demonstrations of June 2025.
It voted unanimously to rename Cesar Chavez Campesino Park back to Campesino Park and to remove his name and likeness from every city-owned asset.
It voted five to two to prepare public information and develop a November 2026 ballot measure, with a tracking survey.
The council handed the River View Golf Course to a new operator, and Councilmember Hernandez cast the only vote against.
It approved selling a parcel on West Walnut Street to a community organisation for less than its market value, five votes to none.
It approved an agreement with Axon for a "drone as a first responder" system and patrol drones, by four votes to three.
This special meeting was a work study on rewriting the ordinance that governs the city's Police Oversight Commission, and no vote was taken.
This was a goal setting session, the meeting where the council tells staff what it wants prioritised before any budget is written.
The main business of the night was choosing a Mayor Pro Tem for 2026, and the council split four to three over it.
Staff presented a count of people living homeless in the city, carried out by an outside organisation.
The most contested item was a change to the rules governing how the city commits money to affordable housing projects.
The school district presented on children's reading levels.
The most contested item was whether to censure Councilmember Hernandez — a formal statement of disapproval by the council, which carries no legal penalty.
The longest item was a work study session on rewriting the rules for the city's Police Oversight Commission.
The police department presented three years of overdue reports on its military-style equipment, after failing to file them on time.
Staff updated the council on activities with Santa Ana's sister city, Sahuayo in Mexico.
It approved a density bonus agreement, which lets a developer build more homes than zoning allows in exchange for including affordable units.
It updated the rules for its Housing Choice Voucher programme, which helps low-income residents pay rent.
Members discussed the meeting calendar and whether to hold fewer or lighter sessions over the summer.
It adopted the rules restricting polluting industrial uses near homes, ending a process that began with a moratorium in April 2024 and lapsed in April 2025 when too many members were recused to extend it.
It gave first approval, by six votes to one, to an ordinance requiring people seeking city business to disclose federal and state campaign enforcement actions against them.
This was a special meeting with one item: a work study on the 2025-26 budget, continued from 6 May when the council ran out of time.
The longest and sharpest debate was over hiring two companies, Flock and Motorola, to install automated licence plate reader cameras across the city.
A plan to pay two community organisations to run outreach for the city's zoning code update failed on a three-three tie.
It approved a pay rise for the city manager by five votes to one, the only division of the night.
A move to bring the whole parking package back for more detail tied three votes to three and therefore failed.
It pulled the parking enforcement contract for discussion after months of complaints from downtown businesses about how aggressively the contractor's staff issue tickets.
The reappointment of Amalia Mejia to the Police Oversight Commission won four votes to three and still failed, because the city's own code requires five votes for that appointment.
It voted four to three to approve the environmental finding for the Fairview Street improvements, over objections that the design was not finished.
It elected Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez as Mayor Pro Tem for 2025, replacing Councilmember Phan, who had held the post through the earlier part of the meeting.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
It voted four to three to put a rent stabilization and just cause eviction ordinance to the city's voters in November 2024.
It adopted the city's Vision Zero plan, aimed at eliminating road deaths, seven votes to none.
It extended, by seven votes to none, the moratorium stopping new or expanded industrial uses in the Logan and Lacy neighbourhood.
This was a special meeting with one item: a work study on the 2024-25 budget, the second in a series.
Its longest debate was over the contracts for council aides — the staff who work for individual councilmembers rather than for the city.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
It adopted, seven votes to none, a 45-day emergency moratorium stopping new industrial activity and permitting in the Logan and Lacy neighbourhoods.
It banned short-term rentals — but only on the third attempt, because an urgency ordinance takes effect immediately and needs five votes rather than four.
It could not agree on adding police department positions: one motion failed, a second tied three to three, and the council settled for approving a deputy city manager and a human resources analyst only.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
It approved an addendum to the city's housing solicitation with the rental component removed, four votes to three.
Choosing a Mayor Pro Tem for 2024 was contested, with two nominations.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This was the meeting where the November 2022 election results were certified and the new council was sworn in.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This was a work study session, where the council gives staff direction without taking any votes.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This was a short special meeting called only so the council could go into closed session, and it ran about five minutes in public.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
The council gave first approval to the city budget for 2022-23, along with the seven-year plan for construction projects.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This was a workshop on the draft city budget for 2022-23, where councilmembers tell staff what they want funded before a budget is written.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This special meeting was called to settle the city's new ward boundaries, the lines that decide which councilmember represents each neighbourhood.
The council spent almost four hours trying to choose new ward boundaries and failed to choose any.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
This was one of a run of special meetings on redrawing the city's ward boundaries, held without Mayor Sarmiento, who had left for an off-site event.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.
No resident-facing brief has been published for this meeting yet.