Join us live as the City of West Hollywood swears-in Mayor Lindsey P. Horvath and Mayor Pro Tempore John Heilman on Monday, May 18, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. An Oath of Office ceremony will be administered during the City of West Hollywood’s 2020 City Council Reorganization and Installation meeting, which will take place in a virtual teleconference format.

The meeting will be live-streamed on the City website at www.weho.org/wehotv and at www.youtube.com/wehotv. The meeting will also be available on streaming services such as AndroidTV, AppleTV, FireTV, and Roku; as well as through broadcasts on Spectrum channel 10 in West Hollywood and AT&T U-verse channel 99 throughout Southern California.

Mayor Horvath’s Oath of Office will be administered by a special guest; Mayor Pro Tempore Heilman’s Oath of Office will be administered by West Hollywood City Clerk Yvonne Quarker. The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Rumi Nazemian. Openly gay country music singer/songwriter Chely Wright will perform the national anthem. There will be video presentations from former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and V. (formerly known as Eve Ensler, the writer of The Vagina Monologues). The regularly scheduled City Council meeting will follow the installation, and a live DJ set by DJ Asha will conclude the evening. 

Community members may view the agenda by visiting the City’s website at www.weho.org/wehotv. Members of the public wishing to provide public comment on agenda items are welcome to do so in the following two ways:

• To participate by providing an E-Comment: Members of the public who wish to comment on matters before the City Council are strongly encouraged to submit an E-Comment using the online form at www.weho.org/councilagendas by no later than 4 p.m. on Monday, May 18, 2020. E-Comments received by 4 p.m. will be forwarded to the City Council and posted on the City’s website as part of the official meeting record.
• To participate by phone: Members of the public are encouraged to email City of West Hollywood City Clerk Yvonne Quarker at yquarker@weho.org in advance of the City Council meeting to be added to the public speaker list for the meeting. Please include your name, the phone number from which you will be calling, and which item you would like to speak on. Then dial-in 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting (the meeting begins at 5:30 p.m.) The dial-in number is (669) 900-6833 and the participant passcode is 941 8875 1501 then #. It is important that all callers mute phones until called to speak. Comments from members of the public are limited to two minutes per speaker.