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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?
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Do we? Are you a request to speaker?
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Yeah, if you'd like to address the council, yeah, absolutely. The mic is open, please do. Your timing is impeccable.
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Yeah, once you start of it, so the mic gets it.
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I am Renee Borsak, we met a couple weeks ago.
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Did you see you again?
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I did not want to send anything and writing to anybody.
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I didn't want any string tied to my email, so I thought I would just come real quickly.
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As follow up, I did quite a bit of due diligence.
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I was going to ask the clerk to make copies, but I just printed off for you a sampling of the ads,
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As the vendors and all kinds of items related to the McLaughlin wedding venue, party venue,
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such more of a wedding venue.
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I have also spoken to a very prominent wedding planner that is approved from the Monarch Beach Resort.
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It's Carlton and she does a lot of weddings there in Hasmansons 2-16, she explained to me the process.
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Yes, I have an actual post from Lauren McLaughlin herself on Instagram.
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Love to just read the first couple sentences.
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We are our private residents in San Juan, Capastrano.
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We can host up to 200 guests.
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We follow the city noise audience at 10 PM.
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We are in all outdoor venue with a beautiful landscaping and lighting throughout.
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We do have availability so feel free to contact us.
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We'd love to help you.
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She has since pulled this post down, but I got it off Instagram.
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If you guys, if anybody on the board has TikTok, all you need to do in the search bar is plug-in.
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Mick Loughlin estate, Mick Loughlin wedding venue, Mick Loughlin estate up to 200 people.
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And you will find all of their DJ vendors, florists, they're flooring people you can use for them.
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There's tons and tons of video reels.
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I'm going to give you a few samples.
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Each page has three.
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I have five pages for you.
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The person that's running it is his wife, Lori Lothlin.
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She has now just started a new business and it's called Click on the Coast in Dana Point.
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It's a little private kind of party venue.
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I think I might have mentioned the last time that brides can also rent this out to get ready for their wedding.
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So she does have, I don't know like license wise or whatever, but
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she does has this business that she kind of, I want to say kind of co-mingles the incentives.
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One of my closest dearest friends just decided that he was the venue and
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she just toured it last week and they have three different packages under 100 people.
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It's 9,500, $120,000, $150,000, roughly, and $150,000 to $200,000, it's about $12,000.
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You pay in increments like you would any place.
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You put down a deposit and you pay along the way.
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And I asked, so how do you pay?
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She didn't understand that she was giving me information, so I just took it all in and basically
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she said, they just, I go, what do you do, cash out like 100, 200, 300.
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She goes, no, no, they take Venmo, Zell, like everybody else does.
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I go, oh, great.
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Thank you.
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Well, thank you so much.
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That's all I wanted to say.
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And I want to leave this with you.
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Please do.
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Look at all the hashtags that they're using because it's all time back to them.
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I think that's great.
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And thanks for doing the investigative work.
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Really appreciate it.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you.
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And lastly, some of their alcohol passing
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around like Rick Costco, they do have it run through
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the catering services, the sun-dried tomatoes, one of their catering surfaces, it does a lot
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of venues there, and there's a few others if you need it, but you can find it all on social
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media.
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It's for the public.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate your time.
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Thank you for letting me speak.
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Of course.
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Is there anyone else that would like to address the City Council by phone?
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No, Mayor.
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Okay.
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Do any council members need to recuse or abstain from any of the executive session items listed
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on the agenda, and if so, please provide your reason for accusing or abstaining.
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Okay, the City Council will now go to executive session, thank you.
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Second. Second. Second. Second.
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