A judge denied two emergency requests in the morning hours of June 30 targeting Huntington Beach’s settlement for Pacific Airshow, which was partially canceled in 2021 due to an oil spill off the city’s coast.
One of the requests sought to stop the city’s $1.9 million payment to the event’s organizer, which is due by July 31, and the other was requesting disclosure of the full settlement agreement to the public.
On June 29, former Huntington Beach Mayor Connie Boardman and former Planning Commissioner Mark Bixby filed a lawsuit against the city, arguing that the settlement is an “unlawful gift of public funds,” and that the city’s first payment should be stopped immediately….