Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz will step down from his elected role, he said June 1 during the city council’s first in-person meeting of the year.
“I ran for this position with hopes to better my community, work with my constituents and give them a voice, making our beautiful city safe and clean, and to ensure a bright future for my children,” Ortiz said when announcing his resignation. “I was under a notion that I was in a bipartisan position and ... to put it frankly, that’s not the case.
