Long Beach City Employees Assn., Inc. v. City of Long Beach

In Long Beach City Employees Assn., Inc. v. City of Long Beach (1977) 73 Cal.App.3d 273, the Court affirmed a judgment after a demurrer was sustained (without leave to amend) to the petition. The petition alleged the execution of a MOU which expressly provided that it would not be effective until its provisions were approved by the city council. The petition further alleged that the "'City Council did not approve'" and that "the MOU in its entirety was read into the minutes of the City Council with the proviso that subsequent approval of its minutes by the council was not to constitute an adoption of the MOU." ( Id., at p. 276.) The petitioner in Long Beach was not contending that the MOU was approved but rather that the city council had no power to disapprove it.