City council members have many roles. They serve as representatives of the public, they adopt budgets and pass laws in the form of ordinances and regulations and sometimes cut ribbons for grand openings.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council, three members of the council – Mayor Pat Burns and Councilmembers Chad Williams and Butch Twining – will talk about their roles as investigators.
In a letter to the whole council, they stated that “we have conducted an informal independent investigation of the financial dealings of the Friends of the Huntington Beach Public Library,” alleging that the group had made “suspected campaign finance and charitable law violations.”…