1 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:45,080 And everyone, and happy new year to all. I am calling to order the special meeting of the Glendale City Council for January 2nd, 2026. May we have roll call? Council Member Alcindria? 2 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:48,300 Problem in here. 3 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:49,820 Garpetian? 4 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:50,340 Here. 5 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:51,300 Busoccan? 6 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:51,600 Here. 7 00:00:51,980 --> 00:00:52,560 And there in the giant. 8 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:53,080 Here. 9 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,620 May we have your report? 10 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,740 The agenda for the Friday, January 2nd, 2026, Special Public Meeting with the City Council 11 00:00:58,740 --> 00:01:03,240 was posted on December 31st, 2025, on the Bolton Board outside City Hall. 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,220 And the first item, please. 13 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,440 See the attorney regarding ratification of the proclamation of the Director of Emergency 14 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:15,060 Services, declaring a local emergency related to 2025 late December storms, A. Resilble 15 00:01:15,060 --> 00:01:20,480 In conclusion, ratifying the proclamation of Director of Emergency Services, declaring a local emergency. 16 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:22,080 Mr. Rilania. 17 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,460 Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and Mr. City Council, Happy New Year. 18 00:01:27,180 --> 00:01:33,300 Thank you for agreeing to meet on this emergency special meeting this afternoon. 19 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:43,720 Just to let you know that starting Christmas Eve, the eve of Christmas, we had because of the atmospheric 20 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:51,240 river situations, a series of them, extensive damage to several of our facilities, sidewalks, 21 00:01:51,380 --> 00:01:59,800 roads, debris basin that included damage at the western electric substation that resulted 22 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:08,320 in outage to 7,000 residents. Thankfully, and I wanted to extend my appreciation to the 23 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:14,540 crews and the engineers, the Christians who came in that evening, Christmas Eve, worked 24 00:02:14,540 --> 00:02:24,300 around the clock to be able to bring the substation up to operation and reinstated, reinstalled 25 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:30,940 the equipment that were damaged and the 7,000 residents were able to get their power back. 26 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:39,740 Christmas Day. We had a water main break just on Maple, East of Central Avenue. I was a major 27 00:02:39,740 --> 00:02:48,360 damage, again, folks from our waters division of our GWP water and power department were out there 28 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:56,120 in the rain. Took a few hours, but they were able to fix it, bring it up into operation as well as we 29 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:02,720 We had water intrusion, a first floor of our police department building that damaged 30 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:10,800 some equipment, computers, and etc., that our facilities section of public works department 31 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,900 were able to fix and do the complete repairs. 32 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:27,350 The governor on December 25th, I believe, issued a state of emergency and hence I was asked 33 00:03:27,350 --> 00:03:36,850 by our city attorney to also sign the declaration of emergency and today will be presenting the resolution 34 00:03:37,530 --> 00:03:45,910 for you to ratify so that we are able and qualified to apply for potentially federal 35 00:03:46,650 --> 00:03:55,430 and state funding as the time comes. Currently, we don't have an estimate of the damage, 36 00:03:55,430 --> 00:04:10,030 but it will be upward of $2 to $3 million staff in public works, in parks, GWP, obviously a fire department are working on putting together that cost estimate for submission. 37 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:17,290 Chief Brooks is here, if you have any questions, as well as obviously our city attorney who put together this resolution. 38 00:04:18,590 --> 00:04:20,510 Do my colleagues have any questions? 39 00:04:22,110 --> 00:04:23,070 Mr. Carpetje? 40 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:23,970 No, I don't. 41 00:04:24,150 --> 00:04:24,230 Oh. 42 00:04:24,650 --> 00:04:25,190 Thank you. 43 00:04:26,430 --> 00:04:33,150 I just want to say one thing, it is my New Year's resolution not to be on social media 44 00:04:33,810 --> 00:04:41,130 as much as I had been before, but before the New Year chimed in, I was in social media. 45 00:04:41,470 --> 00:04:45,390 And I'm really dismayed at some of the residents. 46 00:04:45,390 --> 00:04:47,930 I understand there was a power outage in New Year's Eve. 47 00:04:48,270 --> 00:05:07,650 Actually, me, Christmas Eve, many were left without power, but the, you know, the bitterness at some of these residents attempting to turn it back onto the City Council, it's a failure of our policy, it's a failure of our infrastructure, it's totally false. 48 00:05:07,650 --> 00:05:10,870 I don't know if people are trying to manufacture campaign issues. 49 00:05:11,090 --> 00:05:18,030 This is an unforeseen occurrence that resulted in a fire, that resulted in crews being called 50 00:05:18,030 --> 00:05:27,010 back, our fire department as well, our GWP water electric workers on their Christmas Eve 51 00:05:27,010 --> 00:05:33,250 also, in tough situation in the rain, with fire and electricity, very difficult situation. 52 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:40,890 and they did their darndest to get that particular calamity resolved. 53 00:05:41,690 --> 00:05:48,950 So I do want to thank all of them and, you know, everyone just accidents happen. 54 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:56,050 It's not always the fault of the mayor, let's say, usually, or anyone on council, 55 00:05:56,270 --> 00:05:58,070 or anyone for this type of thing. 56 00:05:58,070 --> 00:06:04,630 Kudos to Chief, your men and women who are involved in that, as well as all the other issues 57 00:06:04,630 --> 00:06:10,850 that you prepared for during this week of heavy rain, which may continue I guess in the 58 00:06:10,850 --> 00:06:17,490 next day or two, so I don't know if that's, I'm sure I'm speaking for my colleagues 59 00:06:17,490 --> 00:06:27,930 to just, everyone relax, and let's get on with that. 60 00:06:27,930 --> 00:06:29,450 Just responding to those, but 61 00:06:30,050 --> 00:06:36,110 taking an opportunity to say thank you to all of our staff from when no water and power to fire to public works. 62 00:06:37,310 --> 00:06:44,510 To RPP, who was overseeing the streets because the lights were out and it was dangerous driving conditions. 63 00:06:44,890 --> 00:06:48,250 There's a reason why we have a state of emergency and 64 00:06:49,010 --> 00:06:54,410 times of emergency bringing unfortunate events like this, so thank you, man, and thank you to everyone. 65 00:06:56,750 --> 00:07:07,090 And I'll also just say that in light of the tragedy that happened in Switzerland at that bar where a number of people lost their lives in the fire. 66 00:07:09,250 --> 00:07:16,690 Let power outage and the inconvenience that comes with that be the most of our worries during a situation like the one we just went through. 67 00:07:16,690 --> 00:07:44,950 So I think all of the staff, I think all of the residents, everyone who exercise caution while driving under pretty difficult conditions and took extra care to make sure they're safe in their neighbors are safe so far we've made it through the worst of it, but I'm sure there will be other atmospheric river events or these super storms and hopefully we'll be prepared because we have very dedicated good people on the job. Thank you. 68 00:07:46,690 --> 00:07:47,930 Thank you, colleagues. 69 00:07:48,190 --> 00:07:49,710 Actually, if I can use that one. 70 00:07:51,190 --> 00:07:57,710 I know part of that conversation was when the lights went out, the streets were so dark. 71 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:02,510 It was difficult for people to actually drive and our PD was having issues. 72 00:08:03,170 --> 00:08:09,110 I don't know if you're as you go through maybe lessons learned looking at maybe public works 73 00:08:09,110 --> 00:08:14,510 when things like that happen in certain subsections for there to be some sort of lights placed 74 00:08:14,510 --> 00:08:35,350 on the streets that can have some signage or whatnot that gives some light for individuals trying to go through lights that would have otherwise been there, but I know that I ran into some of our officers on the street and they were saying it was a very scary thing that just to watch because there was there was no light but people were driving. 75 00:08:36,930 --> 00:08:39,590 Okay, will someone make a motion? 76 00:08:40,570 --> 00:08:41,410 I move the item. 77 00:08:42,890 --> 00:08:43,290 Second. 78 00:08:44,070 --> 00:08:44,470 Roll call. 79 00:08:45,190 --> 00:08:46,650 I don't remember I said they're in it. 80 00:08:46,890 --> 00:08:46,970 Yes. 81 00:08:47,350 --> 00:08:47,690 Broadman? 82 00:08:47,930 --> 00:08:48,110 Yes. 83 00:08:48,430 --> 00:08:48,850 Garpet hint? 84 00:08:49,030 --> 00:08:49,230 Yes. 85 00:08:49,610 --> 00:08:50,010 Kassakian? 86 00:08:50,190 --> 00:08:50,330 Yes. 87 00:08:50,610 --> 00:08:51,170 Mayor Negerian? 88 00:08:51,390 --> 00:08:51,510 Yes. 89 00:08:52,330 --> 00:08:53,530 What is our next item? 90 00:08:53,750 --> 00:08:55,470 Our next item is a closed session item. 91 00:08:55,910 --> 00:08:57,430 And we will be recessing. 92 00:08:59,090 --> 00:09:01,910 We don't need to return to adjourn. 93 00:09:01,990 --> 00:09:02,810 How do we do that? 94 00:09:03,850 --> 00:09:11,890 I'm actually going to ask you to report one item out related to that, so we will be returning to report out. 95 00:09:12,630 --> 00:09:15,450 Okay, so will you please read item two, the closed session item. 96 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:20,410 A closed session conference with the council anticipated litigation, significant 97 00:09:20,410 --> 00:09:26,570 exposures, litigation pursuant to subletters D2 and E2, other government closed section 5, 4, 9, 5, 6, one potential case. 98 00:09:27,450 --> 00:09:31,250 And as a city attorney stated, he does anticipate that we will report out. 99 00:09:31,250 --> 00:09:43,670 Now, if I may just for the record, the item of significant exposure is a threat of litigation made by the owners of the property of 236 or central to a 1 and 2, 12 West California, known as the Sears site. 100 00:09:44,350 --> 00:09:45,810 Okay, and 101 00:09:48,050 --> 00:10:00,070 we have canceled our meeting for January 6th, so everyone, all those who are ready to start the new year with a bang that will have to wait. 102 00:10:01,070 --> 00:10:03,530 The next meeting will be one, Mr. Galania. 103 00:10:03,650 --> 00:10:05,030 January 13th. 104 00:10:05,050 --> 00:10:07,890 And that'll be a regular meeting in chambers. 105 00:10:08,390 --> 00:10:08,630 Okay. 106 00:10:08,910 --> 00:10:10,970 And with that, we will recess to close session.