The Long Beach City Council meeting for June 2 was canceled late Monday as the city extended its curfew for a third straight day after looting spread cross the city Sunday night in the wake of a massive peaceful protest.

The city’s lead public information officer, Kevin Lee, said in a text message that the meeting was canceled to allow the city to “focus on issues associated with civil unrest.”

Lee said that special meetings could be added if necessary and that the items on the June 2 agenda would be bumped to the June 9 meeting.

The decision to cancel Tuesday’s meeting will mean that important agenda items will be pushed back, but it’s unclear how it might impact the timing of their implementation.

One of the larger items the council was set to vote on Tuesday was a proposed $5 million rental assistance program that could help thousands of qualifying households across the city cover portions of their rents over the next three months by having the city make payments to their landlords directly.

The program was announced by Mayor Robert Garcia during a May 20 press conference. The program could be modeled after Los Angeles County’s program that pays $1,000 of rent for 3 months for qualifying tenants. However, the council could have given direction today to possibly lower the amount in order to help more tenants.

It’s unclear if voting on the item one week later will impact the timeline for applying for the program of the city’s first payout date, which was projected to happen by the end of July.

Councilwoman Stacy Mungo said the meeting was canceled in part because a flier had also been circulating for a planned protest in Downtown Tuesday night. In a Facebook post, Mungo said that, with the city’s curfew being extended for a third day, the meeting was abandoned to “ensure that all resources are focused on the community.”

She said that police were monitoring a number of possible protests that have been rumored to be planned in or adjacent to Long Beach.

Councilman Roberto Uranga said that he’d heard of the flier but understood that the meeting tonight was canceled to allow for city staff that still operate out of City Hall during council meetings to avoid having to drive home after the 6 p.m. curfew.

Around noon, the department tweeted it was “not aware of any planned protests happening” today in Long Beach.