Huntington Beach Civic Center and City Hall Complex
Huntington Beach City
Hall is located in sort of a campus atmosphere. The
Civic Center complex includes three separate building
facilities surrounded by grass lawns, flowering trees, a
Japanese garden with water fountain, a memorial rose
garden, and a significant set of tile murals with birds
and ecology themes.
Huntington Beach Police headquarters are located in
one building that includes a jail. Another building
contains the City Council facilities where meetings are
held by the mayor, city council members and city
government staff such as the City Administrator, City
Attorney, City Public Information Officer and City Clerk
(to name a few), and the public. At these public
meetings, you can go and speak (usually 3 minutes) on
subjects on the council agenda.
Then there's the
building you are looking at in the photo above. This is
the headquarters of city government. It contains four
floors of administrative offices for city operations.
On the basement floor is a new cafe-style restaurant the
public can dine in. Also available at City Hall is free
Internet wi-fi. And on the second floor, you'll find the
passport
services at the Office of the City Clerk. Special
events where you can meet many of the city employees
include
Customer Appreciation Day.
While many of the
city's employees work in this building on Main and
Yorktown streets, there are other city facilities and
divisions, such as
Marine Safety, which is home to the HB Lifeguards.
Set on a prominent
corner of Main Street (2000 Main), across the street
from the Civic Center you can see the
historic
Huntington Beach High School buildings and also the
Seacliff Shopping Center where you'll often find city
employees out for lunch, enjoying a bite of food at one
of the many restaurants.
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