1 00:00:01,650 --> 00:00:19,070 Session, meeting of September for 2026 to order. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll. Councilmember Board? Here? Councilmember Hart? Here? Councilmember Freyis? Here? Mayor Proton Taylor? Here? And Mayor Campbell? Present. Madam Clerk, do we have any request to speak forms? 2 00:00:21,710 --> 00:00:24,330 Do we? Are you a request to speaker? 3 00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:33,780 Yeah, if you'd like to address the council, yeah, absolutely. The mic is open, please do. Your timing is impeccable. 4 00:00:37,940 --> 00:00:40,400 Yeah, once you start of it, so the mic gets it. 5 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:43,320 I am Renee Borsak, we met a couple weeks ago. 6 00:00:43,540 --> 00:00:44,460 Did you see you again? 7 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:47,120 I did not want to send anything and writing to anybody. 8 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:51,780 I didn't want any string tied to my email, so I thought I would just come real quickly. 9 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,720 As follow up, I did quite a bit of due diligence. 10 00:00:56,180 --> 00:01:03,200 I was going to ask the clerk to make copies, but I just printed off for you a sampling of the ads, 11 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:11,100 As the vendors and all kinds of items related to the McLaughlin wedding venue, party venue, 12 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,680 such more of a wedding venue. 13 00:01:13,060 --> 00:01:21,580 I have also spoken to a very prominent wedding planner that is approved from the Monarch Beach Resort. 14 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:27,640 It's Carlton and she does a lot of weddings there in Hasmansons 2-16, she explained to me the process. 15 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:35,400 Yes, I have an actual post from Lauren McLaughlin herself on Instagram. 16 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:37,700 Love to just read the first couple sentences. 17 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,420 We are our private residents in San Juan, Capastrano. 18 00:01:41,980 --> 00:01:43,600 We can host up to 200 guests. 19 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,060 We follow the city noise audience at 10 PM. 20 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:51,120 We are in all outdoor venue with a beautiful landscaping and lighting throughout. 21 00:01:51,660 --> 00:01:54,560 We do have availability so feel free to contact us. 22 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:55,580 We'd love to help you. 23 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:59,180 She has since pulled this post down, but I got it off Instagram. 24 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:06,220 If you guys, if anybody on the board has TikTok, all you need to do in the search bar is plug-in. 25 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:14,040 Mick Loughlin estate, Mick Loughlin wedding venue, Mick Loughlin estate up to 200 people. 26 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:23,220 And you will find all of their DJ vendors, florists, they're flooring people you can use for them. 27 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:26,280 There's tons and tons of video reels. 28 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:28,100 I'm going to give you a few samples. 29 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:29,820 Each page has three. 30 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,340 I have five pages for you. 31 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,880 The person that's running it is his wife, Lori Lothlin. 32 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:46,280 She has now just started a new business and it's called Click on the Coast in Dana Point. 33 00:02:46,980 --> 00:02:50,220 It's a little private kind of party venue. 34 00:02:50,220 --> 00:02:56,400 I think I might have mentioned the last time that brides can also rent this out to get ready for their wedding. 35 00:02:56,740 --> 00:03:00,460 So she does have, I don't know like license wise or whatever, but 36 00:03:00,460 --> 00:03:05,740 she does has this business that she kind of, I want to say kind of co-mingles the incentives. 37 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,840 One of my closest dearest friends just decided that he was the venue and 38 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,320 she just toured it last week and they have three different packages under 100 people. 39 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:29,400 It's 9,500, $120,000, $150,000, roughly, and $150,000 to $200,000, it's about $12,000. 40 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,340 You pay in increments like you would any place. 41 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,160 You put down a deposit and you pay along the way. 42 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,380 And I asked, so how do you pay? 43 00:03:40,260 --> 00:03:45,680 She didn't understand that she was giving me information, so I just took it all in and basically 44 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,580 she said, they just, I go, what do you do, cash out like 100, 200, 300. 45 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,380 She goes, no, no, they take Venmo, Zell, like everybody else does. 46 00:03:53,380 --> 00:03:54,040 I go, oh, great. 47 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:54,660 Thank you. 48 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,400 Well, thank you so much. 49 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:57,140 That's all I wanted to say. 50 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,060 And I want to leave this with you. 51 00:03:58,100 --> 00:03:58,500 Please do. 52 00:03:58,940 --> 00:04:02,400 Look at all the hashtags that they're using because it's all time back to them. 53 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:03,320 I think that's great. 54 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,480 And thanks for doing the investigative work. 55 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:06,760 Really appreciate it. 56 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:07,760 Thank you so much for being here. 57 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:08,580 Thank you. 58 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,400 And lastly, some of their alcohol passing 59 00:04:16,140 --> 00:04:19,980 around like Rick Costco, they do have it run through 60 00:04:19,980 --> 00:04:25,740 the catering services, the sun-dried tomatoes, one of their catering surfaces, it does a lot 61 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:29,560 of venues there, and there's a few others if you need it, but you can find it all on social 62 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:29,900 media. 63 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:31,120 It's for the public. 64 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:31,980 Thank you so much. 65 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,040 I appreciate your time. 66 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,080 Thank you for letting me speak. 67 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:34,560 Of course. 68 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:39,240 Is there anyone else that would like to address the City Council by phone? 69 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:40,440 No, Mayor. 70 00:04:41,340 --> 00:04:41,460 Okay. 71 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:47,960 Do any council members need to recuse or abstain from any of the executive session items listed 72 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,280 on the agenda, and if so, please provide your reason for accusing or abstaining. 73 00:04:55,750 --> 00:04:58,370 Okay, the City Council will now go to executive session, thank you. 74 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:00,560 Second. 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