Our very first playground to today's vibrant recreation programs, we remain committed to creating spaces where friendships blossom, families thrive, and generations come together.
As we celebrate our centennial under the theme, a century of community, parks, people, and purpose, we're proud to honor the past while embracing the future.
In this July, we proudly join the National Recreation and Park Association's initiative to build together, play together.
A perfect reflection of the values that define Burbank, parks, and recreation.
Whether it's learning to swim, joining a youth league, taking an art class or picnicking in one of our 26 parks, Burbank, parks and recreation is where memories are made and lives are enriched.
Our dedicated team, from Recreation and Community Services, to land safe and forestry and business administration, work everyday to ensure Burbank is a place where everyone is welcome.
Landscape and Forestry Services, care for our beloved green spaces, trees, playgrounds, and trails, creating safe, beautiful environments that connect us to nature and each other.
As we reflect on the century of service, we invite you to celebrate with us and continue building the next 100 years of joy, inclusion, and community spirit.
We shout out to the Park's Rec Department in general, but tonight grew up within it.
It helped shape our childhood and I know it continues to serve families and young people who are finding them.
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All right, good evening and welcome to a joint meeting of the Burbank City Council and the parking authority on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
I will be presiding over tonight's meeting while Mayor Perez is out on leave after welcoming a baby girl a few weeks ago.
Mr. City Attorney, will you please state the items on the agenda for closed session?
Yes, Madam Vice Mayor, members of the Council for the benefit of the public, the City Council is meeting at 5 p.m.
This evening to discuss two items in closed session.
They're both matters of existing litigation.
The first item is Whitehead versus City of Burbank.
It's a personal injury case.
The second item is Piaali versus City of Burbank, which is a civil rights case.
Thank you, Mr. City Attorney.
Are we not discussing the baby name?
Is it not okay?
Sorry, I've been decided.
Okay.
All right.
If you are, it's not agendas.
Yes, sorry.
Brown act violation.
Madam City Clerk, do we have any in person or phone call or public comment?
We do not.
Okay.
There being no further public comment.
I now declare the public comment period closed and we will now proceed to a closed session meeting.
We will reconvene the council meeting at 6 p.m. in the council chamber.
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The televised portion of the closed session is now over.
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Good evening everyone, and welcome to a joint meeting of the Burbank City Council and the parking authority on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
I will be presiding tonight over the meeting, while May or Perez is out on leave after welcoming a baby girl a few weeks ago.
So please join me for a moment of reflection.
This moment is intended to begin our meeting with the positive and collective support for our beloved community.
The City Council welcomes everyone joining us this evening.
We encourage you to take a moment to reflect on our community and the work will be doing tonight.
Although each of us has our own unique reasons for being here, we are united in our passion for our wonderful city.
As we pause, let us consider our individual contributions and what they mean to those around us.
Let us find solace in knowing that by working together with a shared spirit of community and partnership,
we will always act responsibly for the betterment of Burbank.
Thank you, and now please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Please rise.
Ready for the act.
Madam City Clerk, please conduct the roll call tonight.
Thank you by Mayor Taga Hashie.
Council Member Anthony.
President of County for.
Council Member Mullins.
Council Member Rosadi.
Aye Mayor.
And by Mayor Taga Hashie.
Here and ready to go.
Thank you.
So tonight there will be four periods of public comment.
Members of the public may comment in person or by telephone during the general public comment period.
And must submit cards or call before the general public comment period begins.
The first public comment period is for general public comment on any matter concerning city business and or any agenda item.
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And then no additional calls will be taken.
Additional public comment periods will be available following each report to council this evening.
And interpreters are also available for assistance with public comment.
We have a Spanish interpreter here for us this evening sitting in front row.
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Please connect with them if you are need of services.
And tonight we have three announcements.
Or maybe four, three or four, I have conflicting information on my sheet.
The following are announcements for August 12, 2025.
Ready to go more places with Metro and Burbank Bus, qualifying Burbank and LA County residents can enjoy 23 rides every month on Metro and Burbank Bus through Metro's life program.
Sign up as easy and writers can get unlimited free rides for the first 90 days. Visit Metro.net forward slash writing, forward slash fares, forward slash life to learn more.
Korean, you won't want to miss this. Now through August 16th, the Burbank Animal Shelter is offering 50% off adoption fees for all texts.
Whether you're looking for a dog, cat, bunny, turtle, or guinea pig, your new best friend is waiting to meet you.
Visit Burbank Animal Shelter.org to see adoptable animals or stop by the shelter in person at 11.15 or 33 place, open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Don't miss your chance to give a loving animal a forever home. Come adopt your new best friend today.
The Burbank aquatic facility will be closed for annual maintenance from August 18th through the 31st.
During the closure, the Cambridge Fool will remain open to the public.
For hours and updates, visit BurbankCA.gov, forward slash Aquatics, or call 818-238-53-81.
Drop off your household hazardous and electronic waste at Burbank's free drive-through collection event on Saturday, September 6th.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., stop by the fire training center to turn in unwanted paints, you waste chemicals, sharps, and more.
Business waste, larger clients' or explosives are not accepted.
This event is open to all L.A. County residents. For more information visit L.A.C.SD.org, forward slash H.H.W.
This concludes the announcements for this evening.
Wonderful. Is it on? Is it on? No. Yes. Yes. Great. I can't hear it.
So tonight we have one presentation. We get to recognize the Burbank High School Baseball Program for their community service efforts tonight.
So yay.
So exciting. I love to see so many young folks in the room. It's amazing.
Our presentation this evening is the presentation of certificates of recognition to the Burbank High School Baseball Program for their community service.
The Burbank High School Baseball team regularly participates in the community service with the focus on giving back.
The team partners with local organizations such as the VFW to organize fundraisers and benefits veterans.
And the team can often be spotted at the city's annual Veterans Day and Memorial Day services.
The team is also volunteered at Courage Weekend, which is a competitive sports event for veterans, disabled veterans and first responders.
And of note for 2025, the team hosted an alumni baseball game to raise funds for the Central Altadina Little League, which lost equipment field and homes due to the tragic fires earlier this year.
The event included a home run derby and garnered significant support raising $2,438 in cash and gift cards along with the new uniform pants and other equipment.
Big round of applause for that.
The Burbank High School Baseball Program emphasizes the importance of community involvement.
And these initiatives highlight their commitment to developing well-rounded student athletes who understand the importance of giving back to the community.
At this time, I would like to welcome Head Coach Bob Hart up to the podium.
So thank you for being here tonight. Would you like to share a few words?
Sure.
Good evening.
On behalf of Burbank High Baseball, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the board, to the board for recognizing the dedication of our players, coaches and parents, both to our school and our community.
A fundamental aspect of our program is selflessness, both on the field and within the community.
Our boosters play a crucial role in that endeavor.
Last year, Bridges Snyder, our booster club president was instrumental in organizing and coordinating various events in the involvement from our players, coaches and parents was remarkable.
As Bridges transitions, the leadership to our new board president, Tammy Gibbs, we look back on our accomplishments with pride.
I have a couple of players up here. We'll give some words as well.
In January, January, we successfully raised $2,438 in caching gift cards, along with new uniform pants, baseball gloves and equipment for both the alternating a little league east and west.
We also created a special moment for young baseball players and families affected by the fires, allowing them to participate in our home run, derby, play games during innings and enjoy a day of fun.
While the fundraising efforts were commendable, the most significant takeaway for our program was a joy shared among families during that evening.
Coming together to momentarily escape the devastation of the eating fires and allowing our players to engage with them on the bulldog field, sharing moments in the dugout with the big boys was truly rewarding.
Reminds us of the many blessings we have and we feel honored to have played in a small part in the Altadina Little League's journey.
All right, hello. So in the fall, we host veterans tonight to honor those who have served our country.
This special evening features veterans on the field for the national anthem with the view of W. selecting a veteran to throw the first pitch and coordinate in the color ground presentation.
Additionally, none of these veterans will ever have to pay for a bulldog meal at the BHS baseball field.
We have also partnered with Angel City Sports for the youth weekend where athletes, coaches and families volunteer to introduce youth with disabilities to adapt to sports opportunities.
We also collaborated with Angel City Sports for their courage weekend providing veterans and first responders to explore adaptive sports.
Twice a year, we organized a veterans pancake breakfast in partnership with the VFW.
Our athletes actively sell sponsorships so that all veterans can enjoy a free meal on the day of our pancake breakfast.
Finally, we collaborate with the guide dogs of America who join us at our events to raise awareness for the invaluable support of their service animals.
And connect veterans who might be interested in getting a service animal.
Those young men are a great illustration of why I'm so proud of our program. They do a great job.
In closing, I want to personally thank our players, coaches and parents for their selfless efforts for the consistently exemplifying character commitment and dedication.
Not only to our team, but to our community as well.
I also have a special recognition for Robert Snyder and Jeremy Lee. They were all league selections and those that information didn't come out until after they had graduated.
So come on up and receive your much deserve the award. Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing those projects with us and for contributing to the community.
It's I wonder how do you find time to play baseball.
So congratulations on what was that award that they just won?
That was all league award for specifically all league has nominated by coaches.
Wow, big round of applause.
You're not at the hook yet. You're going to help me with certificates.
So at this time, the coach will be calling players one by one and they will each receive a certificate.
And we'll take a photo of each one I believe one at a time.
One group photo at the end. So we're going to do photos at the end and feel free to send some love for each of these guys.
Jeremy Lee.
Andrew Machado.
Adrian Basquez.
Chris Hadad.
Max Mahadevan.
Grady Gibbs.
Casey Peterson.
Carter Williamson.
Robert Snyder.
Tanner Kramer.
Taylor prior.
Luke Kuiper.
Ezekiel Canto.
Anthony Sanchez.
Thomas Angel.
Julian Riceños.
Brian Lecler.
Brandon Hernandez.
Mason Schwartz.
Gio Greer.
Michael Booy.
And Sebastian Aguirre.
Our coaching staff as well as our athletic director, Allison McCain.
Coach Tony Cachoni.
Our good luck charm Ed Herkera.
Coach Lennley.
And coach Michael Clare.
And we have one for you.
Big round of applause.
Bob Hart, everybody.
Wonderful.
I know your hands are super tired but let's give one more round of applause for all of these folks.
So wonderful.
All right.
So now we're going to do a group photo with let us know how you want to situate us.
Thank you.
Good job, we're being done.
Thank you.
As we as folks leave the room, we'll take a minute here.
Thank you.
Madam Vice Mayor, while the folks are filing out, I just wanted to let everyone know.
My son took a summer workshop based ball workshop with the coach of the summer and it was fantastic.
He's so great with these young kids middle school age kids prepping them for high school and that lead level of athleticism.
It was great to see it in person and he's really good.
Let's give him a couple more minutes to get out.
Much fewer people today.
All right.
Let's get back to business here and I just wanted to make a quick correction earlier in my opening comments.
I mentioned that there were there was a public hearing.
There's no public hearing tonight. There's just three.
There's three council items. So if you'd like to do a public comment for general public, now's the time to bring in your cards before that starts. And then we'll have three individual opportunities as well for each council item.
All right. I guess what is next now is Mr. City Manager.
That's all right. Now, Mr. Hess, do you have anything to report?
Yes, I do. By tomorrow, I do have a couple of items, a couple of exciting items. The first, so we actually have two new faces in City Hall. So I'm going to invite first up our library services director to introduce our first new city employee and that's our new social worker. So I'll have Eric Lashley come up and do the first introduction.
Welcome, Mr. Lashley. Welcome, good evening Vice Mayor and council. Eric Lashley, library services director. This evening, I have the privilege of introducing Kayla Fields, the library's new full-time social services supervisor. Kayla has a bachelor's degree in social welfare and social justice from Cal State Northridge.
She previously worked in the nonprofit sector, providing shelter and services to the unhoused. She most recently worked throughout LA County with foster youth.
Kayla will be a member of the city's staff's homeless planning committee as social services supervisor. She will partner with our area nonprofit organizations and assist library patrons and gaining social services.
She will plan, publicize, coordinate social services programs, train staff, and de-escalation techniques as well as show how to work with patrons experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Kayla will be responsible for the library's two link rooms, one which is located at the Central Library and one at the Buena Vista Library. She'll be normally working at the Central Library but will be working on Thursday's at the Buena Vista Library.
The link rooms provide a comfortable and supportive environment for community members to access services through Kayla or our nonprofit organizations.
Kayla started work last Monday and I'm so glad she came back because she worked with me the first day.
Really please for her ever to join our team so please welcome Kayla Fields.
Welcome to the team thank you so much for being part of thank you.
Okay and then second we we had a promotion with our school resource officer so we had to find anyone.
So I'm going to call up our police chief chief chief and went Quintero to come and introduce us to our new school sort school resource officer.
Welcome chief.
Vice Mayor council staff police chief for a fellow.
I'm actually going to have police captain Eddie Ruiz introduce our new sir officer.
Thank you chief.
Good evening.
We're transitioning to school starts tomorrow.
We have a new SRO officer Courtney Pinsky is replacing detective Roberts.
She assumed her new role on July 20th.
And in the meantime she's been training with detective Roberts and in addition to that prior to coming up to the investigation division where the SRO falls under.
Me and that my command she's taken specialized courses in order to help her fulfill her duties.
We're very confident that she's going to do an outstanding job for us she's going to be a great asset for the community and our school children and our staff.
I just want to thank you for this opportunity as a police officer as well as a mother.
I know the importance of protecting the safety of our children.
So with that I take this position with great respect and responsibility.
Thank you.
Tonight we have a presentation.
We have a federal legislative update from United States Congresswoman Laura Friedman.
Is she there she is.
Hi.
Please step on up and give us an update.
Good to see you.
Thanks for being here.
It's great to see all of you.
Thanks so much for letting me come tonight to just give a little update of what I've been working on for the past six months since I've been in Congress.
I want to first thank all of you for your work coming from local government myself.
I know what a hard job this is but also how incredibly important it is for all of the people that you serve and you all do a great job representing your community and you're never shy to reach out to me.
Whenever you need anything federally and I appreciate that partnership.
I also want to commend the staff you have a fine staff here in the city of Burbank who serves the public very well.
So I think I have a power point and there.
Okay.
So my focus when I came into Congress back in January was to continue the work that I have done in the legislature particularly around our affordability crisis when it comes to housing.
The cost of housing making sure that we have enough housing for everybody.
Making sure that we have the quality of life that we all want here in Southern California on the environment etc.
But I will say that a lot of that changed for a few reasons.
The first is that my second day in office the terrible wildfires happened here in the Southland.
I immediately flew home.
Came home to a dark house with no power, not knowing where the fires were kind of going through that with my community in Glendale.
And trying to help us best I could with my brand new district as we had fires, you know, in Hollywood and all across the Southland.
So I have independently introduced six bills, two of them trying to help with fire resiliency and fire victims, including the bipartisan don't penalize victims act,
which changes the way that FEMA works when it comes to disaster victims who get charity.
So if you are losing your house in a fire, let's say God forbid, and your synagogue does a go-fund me page to raise money from you.
Currently FEMA can deduct that money from the amount that you're owed.
Which I don't think is fair.
So we have bipartisan support in this bill hoping to move it forward to help our victims so that they could keep every dime of charity care that they get from their community.
I also just introduced the Reducing Essential Health Care Act, which would restore the Medicaid funding to plan herandhood.
And plan herandhood gives really essential care across the country, particularly in communities that are healthcare deserts.
They provide cancer screenings, STD support, HIV prevention, and so much more family planning.
And since these cuts we've already seen five plant parenthood clinics in California clothes.
This bill has over 100 co-sponsors within a week of it being introduced.
And so we're going to continue to fight for a healthcare access across the country, particularly here in California.
So very excited about that. We now have 134 co-sponsors and counting on that bill.
I am helping to lead the no masks for ISAC to make sure that we have accountability.
And we have law enforcement done in a way that is protective of our community and also gains the trust of our community.
And having mass, uh, ICE agents who are masked and without ID means that if someone feels that they're civil rights have been violated, they have nowhere to turn because they don't know the name of that officer.
And we've also seen people not even know if they're really from ICE or federal agents or just someone kidnapping someone on the streets or someone committing a crime.
So this would help a lot with that, um, and proud to be leading that effort here in Los Angeles.
I am also working on a national film tax credit to build on what California has done to try to bring the industry back to Los Angeles.
It's the industry that brought me to LA and my husband to LA in the first place. You all know very well being the home of many students being being, you know, the media capital of the world.
How important this industry is for our identity here in Los Angeles region.
So, um, working, um, trying to work across the aisle on this as well to try to keep a signature American industry right here at home in America and to make sure that films are produced in the United States.
In terms of federal investments for Burbank, I have personally requested and made great progress in securing millions of dollars in federal investments for Burbank.
I work with you and your staff on this and I am pleased to report that four key projects have been implemented and included in the house appropriations bill.
Now there's still a ways to go because this bill first has to get off the floor of the house has to go to the Senate and then go back to the to the president for his signature.
Hopefully that all happens and you and we bring that money home for Burbank.
And that includes over a million dollars for the replacement of the Burbank Water Empowerable Potable Water Reservoir to ensure that our community has access to clean and safe water.
Three million dollars for the construction of the new Burbank Central Library in the downtown Civic Center. I'm very excited about that.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the design and environmental review to support replacement of the all of Avenue Bridge.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for to update and install a new customer information service signs and monitors for the Burbank and Glendale Metro Instations.
And as a transit writer myself it would be great to kind of grow up and have what a lot of other major cities have and that's monitors.
I tell you where the trains are and when they're coming and if there's a problem and if so where you can go to get where you're going.
And I'm also proud to announce that over sixteen million dollars of federal funding is going to be flowing to the Burbank Airport for the new passenger terminal project.
I've been continuing to work on advocating for this project going back before my assembly days back when I was a Burbank airport commissioner for the city of Glendale and I'll continue to fight for this airport in Congress.
It's certainly important for those of us smart enough to fly into Burbank not into other large airports that might be at least two hours away if you're in rush hour traffic.
Also very important in terms of emergency to have an airport that supplies can fly in and out of.
I am also honored to have led the federal effort to restore almost twenty million dollars in HIV prevention services in LA County which have been frozen by the Trump administration.
When I found out about this about two months ago I was able to raise a very big fuss about this in the media and with my college I engage with LGBTQ organizations and stakeholders and round tables to talk about what was happening in the impact that had.
Which was that that the LA County cancelled all 35 of their HIV and the STD prevention grants which meant that you know we were out there defenseless against the rise of this terrible disease and now that money has been restored at least for this year.
When hopefully we don't have to keep fighting year to year hopefully we work on prevention to make sure that we keep that under control.
And in terms of the district one of the most important things to me is to make sure that we service just plain constituents here in Burbank and help people navigate.
With can be often of confusing and overwhelming federal system. So my office has been busy at work in the district right next door to you.
Every day our casework team so far has solved almost 900 constituent cases returning more than three million dollars directly to taxpayers and cases ranging from social security issues to immigration.
I have attended and held more than 15 town halls rallies and round tables where I get to meet directly with constituents and stakeholders answer their questions and work on a path forward just this week alone.
I've been touring medical clinics that are impacted by the Trump cuts all across this district to talk about ways that we can prevent the worse from happening when it comes to food aid and homelessness prevention services.
We have answered I have answered my you know we have answered more than 9,000 90,000 constituent questions from people who call us directly or right to my office.
We make sure that every single one of them gets an answer back and I've joined over 100 community events all over this district.
I have signed on to more than 550 letters that's more than two a day to various federal agencies and also in co-sponsoring various pieces of legislation and that's in six months so I am just getting started.
Looking ahead it has been a very tumultuous past six months in Congress and in the world.
But I want to give you my guiding lights as we close out and move into the second half of the year.
I can be committed to protecting democracy and pushing back against the Trump administration's attack on our communities is paramount.
We are in charge with upholding our democratic values in Congress and making sure that we have separation of powers so that when Congress appropriates money.
It gets to those groups that have been promised they're funding.
And that we have transparency and everything that we do in government.
Our wildfire victims are still looking for help and answers and I have been prioritizing them and all disaster survivors in my legislative work.
The federal government needs to set up for the plate. We can't continue to have a system where the president with holds FEMA money from disaster victims saying that he doesn't think the California deserves to get relief money.
And he certainly can't help victims by dissolving FEMA.
You know, we the last FEMA head who was appointed by Trump himself said publicly when I asked him will dissolving FEMA help her victims and he said her victims and he was fired within a week after saying that publicly.
Defending health care access is critical. We had a struggle with health care health care access before this administration.
But cutting cutting trillion trillion dollars out of Medicaid and kicking 13 million Americans off of Medicaid is going to make things exponentially worse.
And outside of those individual people that are being that are going to have a challenge of still accessing Medicaid.
We are hearing from providers and just today are heard from project angel food that they have had almost they've had over a half a million dollars cut for this year's budget.
These are the people that provide medically necessary meals to cancer patients people on dialysis, etc.
And they don't know how they they might have to cut 600,000 they might have to cut thousands of people from getting those.
Those meals, because of the cuts of Medicaid, because Medicaid funds a lot of that program. And so there's
a lot of ancillary funding that's being cut that hasn't even hit the radar yet. I'm continuing
to defend healthcare access for our LGBTQ community, for everyone who's vulnerable, and leading
legislation to restore Medicaid funding to plan parenthood. And again, as a former film producer,
making sure that we have a healthy local economy and have the film industry present and back in
our region and the studio's full and those sound stages active is a top priority of mine. And
I'm continuing to work on that. So contact me. You can contact me through my office in Washington,
D.C. or Burbank. That information is on the screen, including my website, which is a great
way for members of the community to share their thoughts, or to request help from my office. I want
to thank you again for having me, and I don't know how to turn this off. So maybe somebody else can
do that for me. But I want to thank you again for having me. I want to thank you again for all of
your work and your partnership. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you have.
Great. Thank you so much for taking time out of your break to come update us over here.
Well, it's not a break. It is a recessed work period, as my schedule could tell you.
So I'm, you know, really excited to be out doing that work in this capacity.
Council any quick comments or questions for the comments? Yes.
That's what it's like. Just thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. Just a couple of comments. And thank you
for all your hard work, Congressman. I just want to tell you, insurance at affordable rates,
and coverage is is even tougher to get, and it's a barrier to housing. Yes. Once people get that
insurance bill, as grows are being canceled. And other areas now in this region, I've been deemed
high fires on areas. It's putting a lot of pressure on families and seniors so I just want to
bring that to your attention. The pipeline to housing itself building is at all time low. I'm just
not seeing anything. Any transactions are happening other than the stuff that's already in the pipeline,
but new stuff being built. So anything we can do to incentivize development through text credits or
capital gains reductions or or something to kickstart the housing in this area. So just want to
be out to your attention. Thank you. Thank you. Council member for bringing that up. And I really appreciate
you championing these issues. I am about to introduce the housing package. It's going to be additive
and something that to help give cities tools to help with things like infrastructure upgrades,
you know, that kind of barrier. And in terms of insurance, absolutely. As someone who is on fair plan,
myself, I understand the gaps that that gives and the the nervousness of living in brushes I do,
and the difficulties of maintaining insurance. And it's not just us in California, Florida,
is having a crisis as well. It's happening around the country as whether it gets more unpredictable
and more extreme and disasters become more frequent. And so the state has to deal with it, but also
the federal government has a role to play. So I appreciate you're putting a flag on that and look
forward to working with you on that. Thank you. Yes, Council member Anthony. It's funny. I spoke with
somebody who's about to announce that they're running for California insurance commissioner and their entire
platform is exactly what you were talking about. I want to point out two things and then I want to ask a
question unrelated. In 2022, this body unanimously endorsed ending military aid to Azerbaijan. In 2024,
this body unanimously endorsed an end to the war in Gaza. Moving forward, please consider both of
those unanimous statements from this body whenever you see military funding. Separate from that.
Congressman Kylie Republican in Central California, he's trying to move forward with a bill that would
outlaw Jerry Mandarin across the country. What are you seeing on how viable that bill is? Is it
getting broad support? This is a big issue that California's dealing with Texas's dealing with.
What is your take on that? Thank you. So I haven't read his bill yet and I look forward to doing that.
And of course, we'll consider supporting anything that I think for those democracy and protecting voters.
My understanding is the bill doesn't touch Jerry Mandarin. It only is about redistricting mid-cycle
redistricting. Oh, I see. Okay. Not Jerry Mandarin. In fact, a few years ago, there was a bill
on the floor of Congress that would have outlaw Jerry Mandarin nationwide and instituted what California
similar to what California has independent redistricting commissions based on the voting rights act.
Every Democrat voter for that and every Republican voter against it. So I'd be very surprised if he
would introduce an anti-Jerry Mandarin bill. However, the redistricting that's happening now,
midstream and Texas and now Florida is announcing looking at the same thing. I think it's that's awful.
And so I will certainly take a close look at his legislation. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it.
Yes, it counts very well. Thank you very much for being here and for always supporting
Burbank and we really appreciated all the funding that you find for us. So this is great. Keep it going and we
like to have more. Very important topic that we have been talking about lately, which is the media industry
and losing a lot of jobs. And we definitely have seen the impact here in Burbank where individuals
lost their jobs. They moved out of California. They're relocating somewhere else where we can get
jobs. I just want to know if there is any hope, I know the funding has been put on the table and offered
to the media industry. But it seemed like it's not enough. We're still losing more and more every day.
How soon are we looking at bremitting all this and making it happen sooner so we can start filming back
again here locally? Thank you. It's an excellent question. So the state did just massively increase
their own film tax credit. So that hopefully will start to kickstart more production here in the
Southland. And I do believe that that will be a tremendous help because the first film tax credit made
a huge difference in bringing productions back home, particularly on the television side. I wrote a letter
asking the studios to shoot Los Angeles as part of fire recovery. So many of the people who
lost their homes are either in the industry themselves or work in fields that are touched by them,
whether it's a dry cleaner or a caterer, we know that the industry touches a lot of other
touches the economy of the whole region. And if the fast in the furious is going to be shooting here in
Los Angeles and the studio did announce that they want to do that partially as fire recovery. So I do see
some things starting to change in terms of timing for the national film tax credit. We have a ways to go.
We first have to get support for more members, which means educating them as to why this is important and
getting bipartisan support. So I couldn't give you a timeline on when that will pass. Right now I'm
working on building the support internally in Congress, putting all of the stakeholders together so that
people understand that this industry is worth supporting. And the same way that tax credit support,
the pharmaceutical industry and many other industries are supported by tax credits,
the energy sector is supported by tax credits. This is a very American product that also gives us a chance
to tell our story the way that we want to the rest of the world. So there's there's reasons beyond
economy that I believe the industry is important for this country. And so now it's my job
along with my colleagues and Adam Schiff, who's working with me on this to convince enough legislators
to move this forward to the president's desk. Great. Thank you. I do have one more question. Is the
no mask for ice act? So we have an item coincidentally on the agenda tonight. I'm just wondering if he can
give us an update to what the progress is, what's happening, what is the progress? Who's exactly
working on this because as local government, you know, we are trying our best to protect our
community, but I just want to hear from you, like how far has it gotten. What are we looking at? Right.
So we are still asking for co-sponsorship in the house. There was a similar bill on the Senate. I
believe Alex Padilla is leading that effort. So there's efforts in both chambers and, you know,
I am still have hope that this could be bipartisan. Because I think, you know, having people that are
not identified, you know, out there in the public, confusing the public without having a chance for
accountability to me should be bipartisan effort. I support law enforcement. We all support law
enforcement. Law enforcement doesn't work if it doesn't have the trust of the public. If it's not
working hand-in-hand with the community. And we have heard from people fear from these agents.
I've been told by law enforcement that they get calls all the time of people saying,
I saw someone get thrown into the back of an unmarked van and I think I may have just seen a kid
napping. And they have to go in and run that down and spend time for officers to chase that down.
Sometimes they know often they find out that that's ice. And we could have avoided all of that if they
were clearly identified and the public would know what they were seeing. So I'm still hoping that this
can be a bipartisan effort. And we'll move it forward and make our case. And I think the American
public is making their case because these current efforts and what ice is doing is deeply unpopular.
It's deeply unpopular here in Los Angeles. It's deeply unpopular in every community where we
have seen this happen, which by the way are almost all have been democratically led communities.
But it's not a popular thing. I would hope that Congress would follow and ice would follow.
The will of the community that they are supposed to be protecting and conducting themselves in a way that
gains trust and doesn't terrorize people. Thank you. Thank you for feeling our questions.
I have a quick follow-up question from that. If you don't mind, one of the challenges is that once somebody
does go into the system is keeping track of where they are. Right. So we have a two part question
there. Is there anything in the pipeline to help make that better to find people easily easier in
the system? And secondly, if there are local folks who are having trouble finding their loved ones,
can they contact you to help find those folks? If their loved ones are constituents in this district,
absolutely we will do your best. If not, we will connect them with whatever office represents them.
And I will confess that it's hard for us as well. We as Congress do not, we don't get to
call, you know, control ISIS policies necessarily. And they have been very non-responsive with us.
When we have asked about people, sometimes it's even American citizens or people who are here legally,
it's very difficult for us to get answers and to get them in a timely fashion. And people are being moved
around, like you said, they cannot have access to their lawyers. They're being held in really inhumane
overcrowded conditions, including children. Children being held in facilities that are not meant to
hold people without proper food, without blankets, without pillows. So we're treating people terribly,
who are just trying to follow the American dream, the vast majority of them. And it's being done again
without accountability. Just yesterday's, my colleagues went to an Israeli facility and found it empty.
They had clearly, they had moved everybody out because they didn't want members of Congress interviewing them.
So this is what we're facing. And again, this isn't how a democracy operates and it's certainly
not how the United States should be operating. Well, thank you for that update and fortunate news,
but you know, thank you for fighting the good fight. And then more locally, I just wanted to bring
it back to Burbank, even though that is affecting us. The funding, again, that Council Member Mullins mentioned,
thank you so much for earmarking these specific projects that you earmarked for funding for federal level.
You know, it may not seem to folks outside of our community that these are important, but these are
very, very important projects for us in this community. So, so much, thank you for that. And thank you for
what I notice is that you take things that maybe are indirect or maybe are overlooked and work on those issues,
and I really appreciate that in some of your policies. So because sometimes it's easy to not see the little things
and you see them. So appreciate that. Any other questions are going to wrap up? Well, thank you for coming
out, giving us an update, fielding our questions and comments and looking forward to continue.
We'll continue working with you. Well, thanks again for your work and your partnership.
Appreciate it. Sure, why not? All right, we are now to the City Attorney. Mr. City Attorney, will you please report
on closed session? Yes, Madam Vice Mayor. Members of the City Council and for the benefit of the
public, the City Council met this evening at 5 p.m. in closed session to discuss two items of existing
litigation, pursuant to government code section 54.956.9 D1. The first item was
Littis Sherry Whitehead versus City of Burbank, personal injury case, and the second item was
Luring Paiale versus City of Burbank, a civil rights case. The City Council took no reportable action this
evening. Great, thank you for that report. All right, the moment you've all been waiting for,
is the time for general public comment. I will be calling out the speaker's name as well as the person
who is next in line to speak. In order to keep public comment moving in a timely fashion, we have
designated seat in the front row for speakers here up next to the podium with that little black cover is.
A timer is available on the podium. This is also the last call for anyone who needs an interpreter
or that staff member will be released. Did anybody contact you about an interpreter?
All right, well thank you for staying here this long and enjoy the rest of your evening years.
You're free to go. Thank you. Persons may choose to use the first period of public comment to address
a gender's report, but will not be able to speak on that item fall in this segment.
When you speak, please state your name for the record. The general public comment is now beginning
and no additional cards or calls will be accepted. Madam City Clerk, how many public comment
cards and calls do we have for public comment? 15 total. 15 total. So 15 total, good news. You get three minutes
to do your public comment. So let's see. This is four.
Okay. First up, we will have Alex.
Avignasian, followed by Adrian Dileon.
Welcome Mr. Avignasian.
Thank you, Good evening, Vice Mayor.
Members of the City Council.
My name is Alex Avignasian, and I'm with the Office of California State Assembly Member Nick Schultz.
We have Assembly Member Schultz.
I have a video to share regarding State Senate Bill 805 by Senator Perez.
Specifically, thank Mr. Feldman and the police chiefs for being on that Zoom.
Colleagues, I am recommending an eye senator.
I want to thank you and your team, your sponsors.
I also want to specifically thank Mr. Feldman and the police chiefs for being on that Zoom
late last night trying to craft the deal.
I think this is good public policy.
It's great to strike the right balance and see law enforcement and the community coming together.
Not that it's exactly applicable, but from my legal training, I think about the confrontation
clause and the basic premise in our justice system that if someone is going to apprehend
you, take you from your home, take you from your place of work, the very least that you
are entitled to is to know who the hell they are and what you're accused of doing wrong.
And when they don't have identification, when they're masked up, that is my concern is that
that basic premise of our justice system fails.
So Senator Greenville would love a jump on as a co-author, applaud all the collaboration on this,
let's get it done.
I rarely say this, but I think there's only one way to vote on this one, let's call it all.
And in addition to the video, I have a letter on behalf of Assemblymember Schultz on this bill
that reads Dear Honorable Mayor Perez and Members of the City Council.
I urge you to support SB 805, the Novigilantees Act by Senator Perez.
This bill mandates personnel of any local, state, or federal law enforcement agency, except
for undercover personnel to visibly display identification that includes either a name or badge
number to the public when performing their duties.
A violation of this requirement is punishable by imprisonment for up to six months of fine of $1,000
or both.
This bill prohibits individuals authorized to apprehend a bail fugitive from using their position
for immigration enforcement.
In light of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration raising Los Angeles, it's imperative
that we draw a distinction between local law enforcement and their duty to keep our community safe
and federal immigration enforcement.
I'm proud to call off that this bill that helps bring transparency to our communities.
SB 805 passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee on July 15th, and will be heard next in the Assembly
Appropriations Committee.
Given the recent escalation of Issactivity in Burbank and across Los Angeles, I urge the City Council
to support SB 805 to bring increased transparency and public safety to our community members.
Thank you for your consideration and thank you for your time this evening.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up, we have Adrian Delion, followed by Ron Bax.
Well, I'm the short.
Good evening.
Vice-mirror talk of how she counts members, say staff and everyone in the chambers and everyone
watching online.
So, I typically, I'm oyster.
I typically reserve my rights to comment unless I have some education or experience or
expertise on the topics that are introduced or on the agenda.
In that case, I'd like to talk about, I have number seven, the San Francisco Plan.
So, I was there during the transportation cushion meeting, and I know I'm always here by
doing a full-time job.
I work on an ambulance, I'm an EMT, so I live in Burbank, I'm a whole life, I've went to
Brett Hart, I bike to Luther and Burroughs, but these days, when I'm driving the ambulance
on the cities that I work on, they're unincorporated, so they don't really have the best
of streets.
I'm sure with the index of our public works department, it's quite, quite the comparison.
So, that being said, I don't only have any topics planning to regarding city planning or
publics in general, but in terms of, like, more of a PSA or safety announcement, what I've
noticed is even on the highways on a traffic officer or a CHP problem, but people are turning,
they're kind of going into other lanes, they're not signaling, they're kind of relying on
their blind spot detection mirrors or signals of how that works, and people are kind of just
swerving.
They're going really fast, they're not really knowing where they're going in the first place.
So, whenever I'm doing a medical assessment, people are so flustered that I didn't see them.
I don't know where they're coming from, I don't know where they're going, and oftentimes
it's just the matter of not really regarding other people as people.
It's kind of obstacles in a way to get somewhere.
And in the grid a lot of times this area, it's kind of hard to remember that the bigger people
on the streets on the highways and everything, so in that regard, trying to see other people
as people, just remembering that everyone is living around you, it's not just busy day-to-day
life, it's people living a life, living a story.
So, especially in regards to school with coming back up, especially with the streets being
as they are now, I just want to present upon that.
So, look out for each other, both literally physically and also just as people.
So, as always, I'm going to be in the back, you know, just listening, learning, laughing alongside
you, so without it, I hope you all look great night.
Thank you for your comment.
Up next is Ron Bax, followed by Tom Stinger.
Welcome, Mr. Bax.
Good evening, Council.
I had planned to continue and complete my presentation of the Maui Apartments episode.
However, other matters have a reason that are more current and pressing, so it has been pre-empted
along with Episode 5.
To Council Member Rosati Statement at the July of 2015, 2025 City Council meeting regarding
rent control, there is always a point, I think, when Council starts to realize that the information
they are getting is not reliable, unquote.
I hope you are not referring to the information I and other House providers have been providing.
If anyone believes I have given erroneous, misleading, untrue, deceitful, disingenuous, or purposely
inaccurate information during the last two and a half years see me, we will review the underlying
data.
We housing providers do not give anecdotal, gossip, second-hand, conjecture, guesswork, or hearsay-based
presentations.
We nearly always, I say nearly because I am not going to review two and a half years of city council
records, recordings, to validate a 99% or greater claim, give accurate factual data and logical
conclusions.
I received my trash service bill a week ago, I noticed that it grew in Christ.
I thought to myself, it just increased, so I investigated.
The charge increased 5% in February, two months later, April, it increased 5%, three months later
July, it increased 6% and one month later, this month, it increased another 6%.
Mass shows the compounded increase to be 24% in a 6-month period.
This is not a major expense, but when combined with other significant expenses of electricity,
water, sewage, and professional services that are increasing a comparable rate, maybe not
in the same timeframes.
Result an aggregate comparable to the major expense of hazard and liability insurance, which
as an aggregate is self, has increased more than 200% tripled over the last two years.
The statement on July 29, 2025, City Council meeting, quote, if you are truly a good landlord
and who doesn't raise rents much and takes care of his tenants, our proposed protection
won't affect you, unquote, is only true if expenses do not increase much and you are never
able to have a bad tenant, which is not realistic.
I have certain that if an economist or bank loan officer was asked, quote, can a business that
is regulated so extensively, who is regulated so that expenses exceed income remains financially
solvent, would answer no and follow up with questioning your mental health.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Tom Stinger, followed by Mark Scrox.
Tom Stinger, going once, going twice, okay.
Next up is Mark Scrox, followed by Mark Daryan.
Good evening, everyone.
Mark Scrox.
First, I want to thank everyone who is involved with the planning and running and putting together
the Burbank Media Fair a couple weeks ago, including, you know, Council Member Anthony,
whose idea was originally a great job.
It was a great crowd, a great variety of boost, and really nice campus, I have really been there.
The talent reps who were with me at my booth were really impressed by how much was going on.
My friends and clients were there, one of my younger clients, who just graduated.
He says, I learned more today than I learned in the last two years of college.
This is just how the business works, which is nice.
It was a lot of good information.
I think a lot of people came up, you know, it went well.
But I also know, and I got, we felt it too, because there weren't a lot of jobs there, and
there were a lot of people looking for jobs, that there was a lot of frustrated people.
We had a lot of people trying to give us resumes, you know, besides actors looking for jeopardy
representation was a little holder, you know, can of worms, I'm still getting that from people.
But, you know, I understand the frustration, but this is a positive step.
The city did something that no one else has been doing.
I know Santa Monica started to do some different things also, but it's great that we're doing this.
It's like with the task force, we're making positive steps, because this is a long haul.
We're not going to get studio films back for a long time, if ever.
It's going to be more independence and more creative projects on their own.
But yeah, so it was good.
I did want to say, too, I saw a list today of all the TV stuff shooting right now or in the next
month.
And looking at it, only about 22 to 23 percent are shooting here.
So much of it's in Canada, but that was telling Representative Freeman, there's something with
Canada with tariffs and people wanting to go here, so they're all going New Jersey for whatever
recent right now, so that's something to think about.
So who knows what's going on to the economy, is screwed up for everybody.
And then I'm going to start sharing some other things that we can do to help bring things back,
besides just ask for more money, because the most of this is going to go for independent films.
I know the Brad Pitt film is shooting here.
I think some of it's going to shoot here and burn me to at some point, so that'll be nice.
It's getting a lot of attention.
And last, to the audience out there, I want to suggest checking out the Instagram account
of producer Patrick.
He's been doing a bunch of stuff about different things, like studio space, filming in other
places.
He did something today about going back 30 years to look at Robert Romeras, Quentin Tarantino,
in Kevin Smith, and how they made money on no project with no money to build careers.
And that's what we got to really encourage here now, too.
And they did it.
It was a lot harder than with big films when we now have cameras that can do most of that work.
So that's it for tonight.
Perfect timing.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Mike Durian, and followed by Diana Pulver.
Good evening, council members.
My name is Mike Durian, and I'm a housing provider in Burbank.
John Maxwell, leadership expert in author of over 80 books, one said, leadership is influence, nothing
more, nothing less.
Influence demands courage, and courage means speaking when it's easier to stay silent.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, our lives begin to end, the day we will become silent about
things that matter, and he will not just say there comes a time when silence is between.
This is not an option when the future of Burbank is at stake.
Whether you support or oppose red control and red registry, your responsibility as city council
members is to ensure Burbank stays unique, thriving, and far better than Los Angeles with
its crime, homelessness, failing schools, and neglected neighborhoods.
This council has built a layer upon layer of protections for tenants, but it's time to
also show appreciation and stop demonization of responsible housing providers.
Who invest in and maintain very homes, tenants living, as a real estate broker of 36 years.
I can tell you, some investors are already walking away from Burbank.
If this continues, people like me, who are proudly invested here, will have to look elsewhere.
That will be lost for this city.
The next time someone says, LA, my Burbank, stand up and make it clear why our standards must
be protected.
Not remaining compassionate to our tenants and fair in shaping housing policy.
Any true resident of Burbank would not want Burbank to be LA.
Leadership means standing up for everyone, you represent, not just a few.
It means protecting what makes Burbank special.
It means speaking up, because silence is not an option.
We are watching.
We expect leadership.
Keep Burbank moving.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Diana Pulver, followed by Jason Lewis, welcome as Pulver, you have three minutes.
I will need all three.
Good evening.
If I may are in council members, my name is Diana Pulver.
This small mom and pop housing provider.
I work hard to maintain and make improvements by reinvesting in my property.
I absorb as much as I can, so as not to pass the costs on to the renters.
Because I am mindful that we are all facing rising costs.
Short-sided regulations like the rent registry will make this that much harder to do.
Rising costs stifle reinvestment.
Mom and pop providers face hurdles like this every day, and we face them without help.
Mom and pop providers are the backbone of Burbank.
Placing obstacles like the rent registry makes our job that much harder.
Please, don't delay my break. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Jason Lewis, followed by David Donahue.
Welcome, Mr. Lewis. You have three minutes.
Thank you. Good evening. Madam Vice Mayor of Council members and staff. I was on vacation a couple of two days ago. I'm here tonight as a private citizen, but I have served as a transportation commissioner and thanks to your appointment for four and a half years.
At the time I have served in the passes Vice Chair and Chair. And I am not in favor of reducing the size of the boards and commissions.
When I was last year we had a house full of folks, new applicants, folks like me seeking reappointment, spouses, children, all manners of supporters here.
This is an engaged citizenry and if anything we should be seeking to increase the size as we're feasible.
Members have vacations. They get sick and I know that we've all had to suspend meetings because of quorum issues.
The meetings could be shorter if we had 12 meetings a year, not if we had fewer voices in the room.
And the voices all bring a rich background of experience and we have generally reached consensus of emotions we've sent to Council.
Speaking of boards and commissions and consensus, the Transportation Commission has sent not one but two motions in favor of a dedicated BRT links on all of the first motion read.
The Commission passed a motion recommending the City Council support the Metro North Hollywood to pass it in a BRT project with the all of Avenue section implemented as a side running bus only lane.
But with later conversion to mixed flow if traffic insers or other issues are identified and to ensure that street parking on all of Avenue be preserved.
This motion passed five to one to one. That was December 20, 2021.
The second motion passed on January 22nd, 2024 reads the Commission passed the following motion.
The Commission supports dedicated bus lines, yada, yada, yada, including the bus on all of bridge which we now have a $250,000 for the design.
Thank you Congresswoman Friedman. I will read all the rest of it but the motion passed 601.
So as Metro listened to a request, they offered us permitt authority and as an engineer, that's a big deal.
I can talk to you later if you like about why that's a big deal next time.
But if we don't if we just give Metro nothing, they can just walk away. They don't have to support us about the all of Avenue Bridge.
But together we can make a better and stronger case to take to CalTrans to stay on Bridge.
And because it's not currently at the safety code, you just walk over it to find out.
And if we band together with Metro to get a shared wind, the new all bridge over the channel.
We can definitely be better than if we're going afterwards with the BRT.
It already has two other stations that don't implement a new bridge.
So in advance of the upcoming meetings, I would employ you to revisit this with fresh eyes and be open to continuing the dialogue with Metro.
Considering the future of Burbank will be multimodal as it was from the beginning.
Trains covered wagons and specific electric light rail horses bicycles, all race histories of Burbank for cars.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up, we have David Donnie who followed by Harry Tamarion.
Welcome to Sedona here for three minutes.
Thank you very much.
Vice-meritalkahashi Council members, David Donnie who pissed us on the resident.
The previous speaker speaking, I think as a resident or a member of the Transportation Commission.
I'm not sure I didn't hear that.
The nice thing about boards and commissions is they report to this body.
They do not make decisions for the city of Burbank.
So if it was 415161101, it doesn't matter to this body.
You all were elected to make those decisions for us.
There's been a great deal of effort to keep all of Avenue the way that it is.
And just have a mixed flow until the ridership is increased.
This body has voted twice to support that.
And I am confident that even against what council member Anthony has said to the Metro Board twice.
They're in person against the guidance of this body on his own.
Joking and grinning the way that you are now.
That doesn't care.
Even though the council recommended it for that.
It didn't hurt you.
It probably helped.
So good job.
Brilliant political guy.
The other thing I want to talk to about and it's probably directed at.
I believe the Mareperas and any any council member who said that it's not on the agenda.
So why are you here talking about it?
Men out of said that specifically.
But we're here because why?
Look, this is a little counter.
I still have a minute 30.
I don't have 60 seconds.
I can talk to you about the BRT like I just have.
And now we're going to be talking about rent control and rent caps bad.
Burbank fair housing.
A brilliant political action committee.
Burbank fair housing.
Don't delay my burbank.
We are putting together a series of videos on our YouTube channel.
And I've never had better community outreach from housing providers.
And the next phase are going to be tenants.
Tenants that have not come to this group because I believe the level of intimidation by the Burbank
and its union who go to these places and say, don't you want representation?
Because you're being discriminated against for any reason.
They're demonizing housing providers and that has to stop.
So I respectfully thank the council for looking at these issues from both perspectives.
And that particularly on a slow night like tonight,
we're going to take our opportunity with public comment to say just that.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Harry Jamerian followed by Elizabeth Bax.
We'll wait till everybody gets it.
Welcome Mr. Tamarian.
You have three minutes.
Thank you.
Honorable Vice Mayor City Council.
Good evening.
I'm here to speak about two items today.
On July 15, I sent an email to each of you requesting updates to terminology
and policies relating to housing providers.
This request came on behalf of the Burbank Association realtors and included three specific items
that we believe are essential for fairness and professionalism in our city's housing landscape.
These are not radical changes.
They are practical, respectful, and long overdue.
We asked the city of Burbank up to this terminology.
Replacing the word landlord with housing provider in all official documents, communications and commission titles.
For example, the landlord tenant commission should be renamed to housing provider tenant commission.
Why?
Because words matter.
This change would reflect mutual respect and acknowledge the important role housing providers playing our community.
It's about recognizing that housing providers are more than just property owners.
They are partners in creating safe, stable homes.
Second, we request the city prepare and maintain professional dedicated forms for housing providers.
Right now, most city forms are written exclusively for tenants.
Housing providers often have to cross out the word tenant and handwrite housing provider.
This is not just inconvenient.
It is unprofessional.
It's unprofessional.
Inequitable and sends a wrong message about the city's disregard for housing partners.
A clear accessible and professional prepared forms would go a long way in building trust and cooperation.
Third, we are as a city to adopt an anti-airassment ordinance that protects housing providers from tenants or assments.
Just this tenants already are already protected.
Horizons can include threats, vandalism, frivolous legal actions, or repeated lease violations.
These behaviors cause real harm both financially and emotionally and should be taken seriously.
The city of Claire Mont has already enacted such protections.
Birmingham should follow that example, ensuring a balanced and fair approach for everyone.
Implementing these changes, terminology updates, professional forms, revisions, and anti-airassment protections will foster a more cooperative, respectful, and sustainable housing environment in Birmingham.
Remember, housing providers are not adversaries.
They are allies in keeping the city livable, safe and welcoming.
Second, September 7, Council members Anthony and Rosati are hosting a pickle ball tournament to support BCR.
I am proud and honored to announce that the Burbank Association of Realtors, Terrible Arm, the Burbank Realtors Community Foundation will be sponsoring the entire lunch for all the participants.
The sponsor amount is $700.
Realtors and housing providers together love giving back to this community.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Elizabeth Bax, followed by Chuck Mercer and that's my last card.
Welcome, Ms. Bax, you have three minutes.
Hello, everybody. I'm Elizabeth Bax.
I'm going to continue a little bit on where I left off last week since I only had 60 seconds.
I don't when Mr. Donahue said that Council member Anthony was able to go to the LA Metro and say what we did not represent here in Burbank twice.
And it didn't affect him. Council member Anthony, it didn't affect you that you spoke their twice. Nothing happened to you.
But if this becomes a dedicated lane, it's going to affect a lot of people that live here in Burbank.
Not just one, but a lot.
And yes, there are some pluses to it, but the people that live between point of vista and victory.
Not even going over the overpass will be deeply affected.
I don't think I need to remind you school starts tomorrow for all of Burbank School District.
John Burrow's high school, Disney Elementary School.
Howard's middle school.
And I can add into that pack, Roosevelt Elementary and Stevenson Elementary will all be affected with a dedicated lane.
All the families, not just the people that live in those neighborhoods, but all the people that feed into that.
We have two major public high schools in this area.
So half of the city's kids go to that school and half of them go to the other school and they have to get there.
And the Metro link or the Metro bus will not take them there.
I would like to encourage you to participate tomorrow morning.
Maybe starting at 730.
You could maybe hang out at the Starbucks on sparks and all of it in Virgo.
That's a big intersection with a lot of people going through it.
And then I would invite you to come down to Oak or maybe go over to Clark.
Clark up by Burrows and see what the traffic patterns are already like.
Because I'm close to Oak and I see those traffic patterns.
And I hear those horns honking honking every morning.
Now what's going to happen when we have a dedicated lane?
And all the people, all the extra people that want to bleed down into our neighborhoods are going down Oak and Clark.
No big deal.
No big deal that we're going to take care of the bridge.
That's the trade off.
We get the bridge paid for.
And no big deal that maybe somebody gets killed.
Because I don't have a stop sign on Oak by my house.
So either they're going real fast or they're not paying attention,
but they're usually going real fast because they're late.
So I'd like for you.
I'd encourage you to do that.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Last up we have Chuck Mercier.
That's my last card.
And Tom Stender's not here right still.
Okay.
Welcome Mr. Mercier.
You have three minutes.
Thank you.
Thank you, City Council.
I appreciate the time.
I'm very lucky to be a businessperson for 46 years in the city of Burbank.
This is about the safer streets plan.
I have a lot of questions about it.
When they replace the Burbank Boulevard overpass the bridge,
I was affected greatly by it.
Because I was basically strike out of business by the city of Burbank.
I had to get the city to change the striping.
But my business collects about $1.40 a gallon.
That everybody has to pay for gas.
It doesn't have an electric car.
The people have the rights to use these streets.
They pay for it.
They pay for it in taxes.
Okay.
Plus we get three quarters of a percent for the city of Burbank.
Over the $1.40 a gallon.
It's collected.
State federal.
All the different funds are there.
I'm very lucky to be in Burbank.
And I.
So fortunate to be.
Have the city of Burbank.
The police department and the fire department both.
They're awesome.
You guys have taken one lane.
Up on all of.
And that turned it into a bus lane.
And you guys have a lot of issues with that.
I don't know that the.
The funding that we get from the government for what they want to do with the streets.
And the bike lanes and all these things that they want to block.
And maybe take the sidewalks out.
I live.
My business is in the San Fernando corridor.
Okay.
So that corridor.
I don't know what they're going to do with it.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not sure what the plans are with the safer streets.
Number one is the speed of the people driving.
They expect in the lawlessness that the drivers have.
And the disrespect that they have for the pedestrians.
The people or other people.
It's number one.
It's the drivers that causes the accidents and the safety.
And they're lack of paying attention to what they're doing.
And I'm not sure what the money is going to be done for the streets.
And what you guys are going to change in there.
A lot of the stuff.
But how much is it going to cost? When I was going through some of the paperwork on your 158 pages on your presentation for safer streets, there was an article in there and I just have a question about it.
It's in there. In 21, there was $5 billion and please correct me if I'm wrong, but it was there. There was $5 billion, supposedly over five years. Maybe that was for Burbank or for all of LA.
I don't know. Can anybody clarify that? It's in your 158 pages on this safer streets.
You can't do it back and forth here, but the staff may respond to you.
Okay. Also, a lot of it is done for bicycle safety. Okay.
At my intersection at Burbank and San Fernando, and I'm sure everybody here has gone through that intersection.
Thank you. That's your time. I'm sorry.
So where you avoid that intersection because of the traffic problems.
That was our last speaker. And we haven't completed in person general public comment and we'll be moving on to call ins.
For callers, please remember to lower the volume on your TV or computer and take your phone off speaker when you deliver public comment.
Madam city clerk, how many callers do we have on the line tonight?
We have three callers on the line.
Okay. Please.
Send them in.
The first caller is John Jero.
Welcome Mr. Jero, you have three minutes.
Yes. I think that's where council members have.
There are 527 frequencies in Burbank, presently.
That's according to Zillow.
The market is very, very soft that demand is very low.
And the supply with 527 units is plantiful.
Not only is that the existing number, but we have more housing coming online, almost monthly.
My point is that the market will adjust economically on its own merits.
There is no need for rent caps, no need for rent registries, rents are decreasing actually.
And there's no need for more Burbank housing ordinances or restrictions.
Allow the market place to handle itself economically.
That is the proper adjustment.
It does not need additional government supervision.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your call. Next caller, please.
Hello.
The next caller is Jackie.
Welcome Jackie, you have three minutes.
Okay, thank you.
Good evening, city council.
I wanted you to discuss some, this is quite nice.
In the last few minutes, but city council trying to silence people from talking about rent control.
I don't get this.
If there's becoming to be a very large suspicion in the communities at the council,
really isn't listening to anybody's anyway, so they'd rather not hear people coming down talking about that.
Now, I don't know if that has been provided.
So, Burbank tenants are not really sure, but I thought it was pretty unprofessional of the city council members to say,
we're not talking about rent control.
Well, you may not be, but we are.
The people who are coming before you have every right to speak on any general topics affecting the city, rent control, rent registers is one topic.
I'd like to remind you once again, there was two votes in the city Burbank that denied the desire for rent control.
There was also a big line vote.
Pop 33 that was voted down to the peak.
Faving that the people don't want it.
So, we have five city council people who are going to impose their will against the will of the people.
That is really unnecessary.
And it's a different strategy.
And I hope that every one of you stops to think about, are you there to represent citizens?
Or are you there to represent your own personal agenda?
Quite frankly, I hope you decide the right way.
We are having a lot of positive, positive words, you know, soundbites.
People have evil landlords, all of that stuff.
And quite frankly, the data doesn't support any of that.
The housing crisis, they all come in down.
And if the government, you tried council people, would get out of the way and let the free market regulate what needs to be happening, it will work out.
You have so few complaints to murder.
Regarding trends being harassed and retaliated, all of that.
There's an eighth in the city.
So, you know, one thing is this problem.
A few people.
A few people cannot really be paid to at the expense of the greatest majority.
I would suggest that the city council read some of the Orwell novels.
Or Joywell and I'm fine with the good one.
That's her time.
Thank you for your comment.
Next, caller, please.
The last caller is Jopinganta.
Welcome Mr. Pimienta, you have three minutes.
Hi, good evening, council.
Once again, wishing I was there in person, but I'll ask here we are.
I hope you're doing well.
So, do you need everyone?
I've got to include the significant part of council, staff, and everybody in the chamber.
As you all know, Jopinganta currently a resident of Perbank.
I'm calling too much specifically to talk about them.
So, last year, as you all remember, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Chandler Bikeway.
And everyone had a great time and it was really cool.
And everyone was just saying how it's such a great gem to the city.
When we were organizing for that, some of the things that we kept coming across because we were prepping for, you know,
for like the trivia not enough.
One of the things that we came across was just during the design of that,
how much opposition there was and how many people were opposing and saying all these things
that it was going to ruin the community and it was going to ruin the neighborhood.
And the reason why I bring that up is because it was the same talking point that we are hearing now
when it comes into the PRT.
I'd be exactly one two to two of just like how it's going to ruin the neighborhood,
how it's going to ruin everything that is happening on all of it.
Well, like we just noticed that's not true.
Because the similar thing happened when they were doing the at the Perbank Channel Bikeway,
which goes all throughout the Perbank Canal.
So again, just something to consider.
Because again, as we all know, the more diversity there is for public transportation,
the more accessible it becomes the safer it becomes, the safer it becomes, the safer it becomes,
sorry.
Because again, like that's something that we all keep saying that if we want to keep furthering safe,
when it comes into traffic, what makes it unsafe is the cars.
Well, it's just wanted to point that out.
Also, I do want to just add a little bit of more extra support for the SBO5,
because we all know, really, it's ice that is really putting in a thread into our community.
Ice is what's making a lot of people feel unsafe.
Ice is what's threading is what is threading a lot of our residents.
So yeah, I'm really glad to hear that there is a port to make sure that they say that out of a way out of our city.
And lastly, I wasn't going to say too much about housing, because you all know where I stand.
But I just think it's hilarious if someone came in, quoting MLK, not knowing if it's politics.
And I also think it's really fun that someone's put in Mr. Spock, a cup of needs of the many.
When again, we keep saying that yeah, that the men in the community is a majority of residents in the city,
which happen to be this in franchise in this case.
So with that in mind, once again, thank you for your service.
I hope you're doing well, and I hope to see you on the next one.
Enjoy the rest of your evening.
Thank you for your call.
So another caller on the line?
That was our last caller.
Great, thank you.
There being notes for other public comment.
I now declare the general public comment period closed.
Now's the time for a brief response from city council, city manager or the city attorney.
City manager, city attorney, do you have any response?
No.
Okay.
Council.
Would like to go first.
Mr. Council.
Thank you.
First of all, thank you all for coming down.
Mr. Donna here.
You're correct.
It is opportune to come on a slow night.
You do get the full three minutes.
So there is some merit to that.
I do agree with you.
I wanted to recommend the gentleman.
It was talking about the five billion dollars.
I haven't found that in my packet.
I was looking for it.
If you want to stick around, it is agenda item number seven.
You can hear the staff report and maybe we'll hear back from them at that point.
If you want to hang out and listen.
Page 19.
I'll look it up.
Thank you.
Ms. Bax.
I, my concern with the early morning drop-offs.
I take my son to mirror every morning.
Yes.
It does get out of hand and it is dangerous.
We actually have an item number eight.
Later on today, talking about,
sorry, number seven.
Talking about safer streets.
And hopefully we can have a good discussion tonight about that.
The media jobs expo was a phenomenal success.
Even more people showed up this year than last year.
And I agree with you, Mr. Scrogues.
The number one complaint I got back from people was nobody was hiring.
I want to just inform the public.
The jobs are down.
Media jobs are not back where they were pre-pandemic.
They're coming back.
They're not at the levels where they should be.
And it's a multitude of factors.
It's a whole bunch of brief comments.
This is not an agenda.
It's topic.
You're right.
So it is difficult.
That's the last thing I wanted to say.
And I will look up that producer Patrick on Instagram.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We'd like to go next.
Councilmember Mullins.
Okay, I guess I was chosen to go.
Thank you.
I want to congratulate Burbank High School.
Great job.
I mean the team.
I'm very impressed with these young men are doing to help other communities.
So congratulations.
Also to Kayla, our new social worker and officer Paniske for welcoming to our team.
And furthering the new role they have right now.
I do want to ask a quick question regarding Mr. Bax.
24% increase in our trash.
Would our public work director, is that accurate?
I just want to make sure not that Mr. Bax put it down in paper.
That was in accurate.
But is it a total 24% and less than a year?
Is that number compound somehow?
So Madam Vice, Mayor Councilmember.
Thank you for the question.
Councilmember Mullins.
Councilmember E. calls part of the budget process that there was a for refuse an 8% increase this year.
This fiscal year and next fiscal year.
So July 1st, you know, it's typical in these scenarios where the solid waste.
The customer service call center will get calls.
Why is my trash bill coming up?
Now in the case of potentially multi-family.
They don't have to choose city of Burbank services.
They could be private services.
So I'm not sure exactly which bill the general will be looking at.
But for us and city services, it was only an 8% out of me only.
The only increase for a city of Burbank was 8% for refuse.
Okay, so I just would encourage Mr. Bax perhaps contacting public works department and looking at the the bill.
If that seemed to.
Okay.
Well.
And if I may.
Councilmember, if anybody has questions, please call 818-238-3800 for the public works services yard.
And they can answer any questions about your solid waste services.
Thank you.
I also want to address Mr. Lewis.
The comments that were made in regards to BRT and relating and it's not on the agenda.
So I have to keep it brief before the city attorney tells me to keep it brief.
I just want to say it once again because I heard it twice tonight that the bridge.
The bridge and BRT. Those are two separate items. The bridge is a project for the city of Burbank.
BRT is a separate project and it has nothing to do with the bridge meaning BRT comes.
The bridge is not going to be built or BRT doesn't come if the bridge doesn't get built.
Either way, we are working on the bridge and thanks to congresswoman Friedman.
She's giving us some extra money to help us with the project.
So please separate that.
No, see the trick is to keep talking until he tells you.
No, no, no. Let's more smarter so I can keep on going.
I'm looking at him on this idea.
Also, I'd like to address the Mr. Tamarian talking about the item that he emailed us.
I did receive the email at the end of this meeting. I will be asking for an additional report to come back.
So, I apologize if I didn't get back to you on an email to let you know exactly what we're looking at.
Thank you for speaking tonight and I will be requesting for a report to come back. So, we have more information on it.
Also, thank you, Mr. Jero. I haven't heard from you in a while, so it's nice to hear your voice and I understand the concern over the vacancies that are going on right now in our city.
Last, also, Jackie, you called in regards to council, maybe trying to silence.
People that come and speak before us and I will tell you over and over, you're always welcome to come and speak about any topic that on the agenda or off the agenda.
You have the right to speak, even if it's not on the agenda, that is you're right as a citizen and member of this community to address the council.
So, I'm sorry if you got the impression, I know I'm always welcoming everybody and not saying anything.
So, thank you for bringing that matter to our attention, so I just want to make sure that you know that you'll welcome to come and speak here.
That was it. Thank you. Thank you.
Council members, aye.
Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. Just want to say thank you to Mr. Hart for his leadership.
The Burbank baseball team. I see him in the community quite a bit and he's always there with his athletes.
So, I think he's a great role model, so I just want to thank him for that.
The speaker regarding the Chandler Bike Path.
I don't know, I lived on Chandler and Florence and I don't remember anyone changing themselves to the railroad tracks.
Having the train, not rattle your home twice a day, was welcome to have that lead Burbank.
So, Mr. Tamarian, thank you for the documents. I will probably request this to be on a future agenda item.
Thank you for the money-dollar donation to BRC. That's an awesome gift. We appreciate that.
And I think it'll be a fun day.
Mr. Lewis, you know, maybe we should have a workshop. We have two commissioners that constantly relate BRT in the bridge.
And over and over there, having the dedicated lane, even though council's will is mixed flow.
So, we may have to have a workshop for the transportation commission.
Mr. Bax, regarding my statement, my statement was referring to the tenants union and what I was hearing, what I experienced in my profession.
And then, at the end of the day, with the data was given back to us by the city manager. So, that's where my statement came from.
And those are all my comments. Thank you.
Thank you.
As always, thank you so much for coming out tonight, sitting through all the things that happened before public comment, making your public comment.
Thanks to those who called and to those who emailed and met during the week.
Several of you spoke on items that we'll address a little later in the agenda.
So, we'll get to that at that point. If you can't stay, you can watch later online and feel free to reach out to us afterwards if you want to follow up after the meeting.
Not tonight though tomorrow.
I'm excited about our new social worker at the library.
And they're new CSO. She looks, she looks great. So, I want to see your action.
Okay. Let's see. Let's see. Mr. Bax always love your data.
Bring more.
Mr. Scrogs. Thank you for your update about, always your updates about the entertainment industry.
I saw you at the, I don't know if you're still here, Mr. Scrogs.
Yeah, you are. I saw you at the fair. It's good to see you there.
And fair point about it being labeled as a job fair.
And I had talked to staff while we were at the event about that very thing.
So, they are aware of the community sentiment around that.
And if you have any thoughts on how to better market it to be accurate, please feel free to show to me.
And I will really.
Let's see. For those who spoke about housing, I just want to check with staff that our housing item is still coming back in October, correct?
Yes. Okay.
And then we had a comment about the Commission as well. Commission sizes.
That's coming back at the 26th, right?
Oh, sorry.
And the Commission size item is coming back on October 26th.
Sorry, it's over.
If I'm already in October, am I right?
Yeah.
August 26th.
Next reading. Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
Two weeks.
Great.
Let's see.
To the couple folks who mentioned about the speaking on items that are not on the agenda for public comment,
you're absolutely 100% right that you can speak on any item that's related to the city when during your three minutes.
And please feel free to do that as much as you like.
I, I, I, I similar sentiments to councilmember Mullins that free speech totally huge supporter of it.
Speak as much as you like.
If I had mentioned anything about it not being on the agenda.
My hope is that my intention, this would be my intention is that to just let you know that because it's not on the agenda, we can't reply back.
It's not something we'll be discussing later.
So sometimes folks bring out a large number of people to talk about an item that we can't discuss.
And that's just the, folks in the audience know who don't come to the meetings regularly that perhaps that we, we can't, we can't reply.
That's not that we're not listening, we just can't reply because that item's not on the agenda.
And then this is a termarian.
Thank you for this packet.
I'd love to set up a meeting to discuss further with you if you want to follow up.
Set up a meeting to discuss further with you to follow up.
And thank you for bringing up the pickle ball tournament for BCR.
And then that's great. Awesome.
Love those kinds of things.
Let's see.
Yeah.
And then lastly, up to Mr. Mercer, while we can't speak on the type item right now, you did mention something about your business.
And some struggles you're having around the Burbank Bridge.
So feel free to follow up with me if you like to discuss more if that's something that's concerning to you.
My information.
So everybody knows is 818-252-9014.
And I also have a link on the website to make a meeting with me right on the website.
So 818.
I see I'm writing it down.
252-9014.
Great.
And those are all of my comments.
Thank you again for coming tonight.
Okay.
Now is the consent calendar.
Maybe enacted in one motion.
Madam City Clerk, please read the consent calendar.
Thank you, Mayor.
Vice Mayor Togohashi.
We have five items on consent tonight.
Item one.
Approval of the City Council minutes of the regular meeting of July 29, 2025.
And the dark meeting of August 5, 2025.
Item two is approval of the parking authority minutes of the joint meeting of July 15, 2025.
Item three is adoption of a resolution of the parking authority of the city of Burbank,
a proving an entry and license agreement with nearby businesses to use a trash enclosure
at the 133 East Orange Grove Avenue Public Parking Structure, and delegating signature authority
to the executive director as the chairman's designate and adoption of a resolution of the parking authority
of the city of Burbank, establishing a purchasing procedure and authorizing the executive director
to procure, approve and execute certain agreements for professional services, and non-professional
goods and services in accordance with the purchasing procedure.
Item four is adoption of a resolution of proving contract documents, plans, and specifications, and authorizing
execution of a contract for bid schedule 1527, 2023 to 2024 annual residential pavement rehabilitation
project in city maintenance zones 15, 16, 17, and 18.
Founded by Amherst Drive, point of his district, Victory Boulevard, and the city limit at Scott Road
to Toro Enterprises Incorporated, finding of secret exemption.
An item five is adoption of a resolution approving a professional services agreement with Pacific Advanced Civil
Engineering Incorporated for Phase 1 Design Services for the seismic retrofit of water pipelines project.
Thank you.
Thank you for reading the consent calendar.
Is there a motion?
I'll move to make a motion to approve the consent as it was read.
Second.
All right.
We have a first and second motion by Council Member Mollon, second by Council Member Anthony.
Please take the roll.
Council Member Anthony.
Yes.
Council Member Mollons.
Yes.
Council Member Rosadi.
Yes.
And vice mayor talk.
Yes.
Thank you.
All right.
Okay.
Tonight we have three items for council.
So after staff's presentation, the city council will proceed with in person public comment for each of the individual items.
Speakers will be allowed to speak on each of the items at the conclusion of the presentation.
As long as the speaker is not spoken on the item during the general public comment.
Please be sure to submit your public comment card now.
As no additional public comment cards will be accepted once the comment period commences following staff's presentation.
So our first report tonight is the introduction of an ordinance amending title six chapter one of the Burbank Municipal Code to clarify the city's parking restrictions near intersections.
Please welcome Mr. Kyle Cramer associate transportation planner to please present the part welcome Mr. Cramer.
Thank you vice mayor.
Good evening.
Vice mayor talk.
How should you members of the city council.
As mentioned, my name is Kyle Cramer.
I'm an associate transportation planner with the community development department.
And I'm here to present an ordinance amending title six chapter one of the Burbank Municipal Code to clarify parking restrictions near intersections.
Please have the presentation.
All right. We are here today because of a new state law AB 413 which relates to parking near crosswalks.
This new law creates some potential conflicts with the Burbank Municipal Code and enforcement.
So staff and community development, public works and police looked at those conflicts and developed a proposed ordinance to address them.
So for some background on AB 413 focuses on what is often called day lighting which involves removing parking spaces near intersections and crosswalks to improve visibility.
As you can see in the diagram here parked cars near the intersection can block drivers and pedestrians sight lines increasing the risk of a collision.
I'm sure everyone here has had the experience of trying to cross the street and peek around a car that's part to see if there's on coming traffic.
By removing the parked cars drivers and pedestrians can see each other more clearly.
This practice has received a lot of attention for its street safety benefits groups like the National Association of City Transportation Officials or NACTO.
Recommended day lighting distance of 20 to 25 feet and this is the standard in many states already.
So the state drew on this guidance when creating the legislation that was AB 413.
If this sounds familiar it's because Burbank has applied and enforced its own local standards since 1979 prohibiting parking near intersections.
So as far as how AB 413 works it's pretty simple.
If prohibits parking within 20 feet of the approach to a crosswalk whether or not the crosswalk is marked.
So for instance a stop sign is an unmarked crosswalk and whether or not the distance is marked with red curve.
The distance is 15 feet for a crosswalk with curve extensions.
So this means no parking in the area directly in front of the crosswalk is your driving towards it.
However the new law also allows cities to set their own distance if that distance is set with a finding based on street safety and the distance is marked with red curve or signage.
So how is this different from the existing Burbank municipal code?
The Burbank municipal code requires red curve or signage while AB 413 does not.
The BMC refers to parking near intersections rather than crosswalks and it applies at every corner of an intersection rather than AB 413 only applies on the legs approaching the crosswalk.
And this is a little stuffy but there's different legal definitions for crosswalk and intersection as well.
The BMC also provides a longer distance of 25 feet of traffic control devices as opposed to 20 feet under AB 413.
Finally is previously mentioned the state law requires local alternatives to have a safety finding which the BMC does not currently have.
So as a quick visual guide the basic difference for motorists is that the BMC prohibits parking anywhere where there's red curve around an intersection.
While intersections without red curve AB 413 makes parking directly in front of the crosswalk on the approach side prohibited.
So in the picture here the crosswalks marked to be more visible by the crosswalk if it's unmarked is measured from the back of the sidewalk sort of an imaginary line.
So both standards provide safety benefits from day lighting in different situations whether it's marked or unmarked.
However the BMC generally provides a more robust day lighting standard and so staff determine the existing BMC standard should be preserved.
So therefore staff recommends moving forward with an implementation approach that preserves and then supplements the status quo by enforcing both the BMC and the CVC.
Where an intersection is marked with red curve the BMC applies where it is not marked the AB 413 default restriction of 20 feet applies.
This approach will maintain the existing red curve standards is defined in the BMC which as discussed are more robust in the state law.
The city can still expand red curve locations is needed both as part of ongoing routine maintenance and in response to any frequent complaints or enforcement issues with AB 413.
In practice the city's red curve parking restrictions remain essentially the same.
On paper the ordinance adds a safety finding to ensure the code is enforceable and clarify some definitions.
And since AB 413 is a statewide law.
A lot, something that residents will need to be familiar with, both in and outside of Burbank. So staff recommends providing community education to help explain AB413.
Staff have begun to prepare educational materials for social media and the city website, and will move forward with publishing those materials.
And police also plan to reach out to the community at events. So what this means for residents moving forward, is that parking in red curb areas remains prohibited.
Motorists should already not be parking in red curb, that does not change.
What's new, and has been an effect actually since January 1, is that state law says that parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk is also prohibited.
Even if there's no red curb and even if the crosswalk is unmarked.
20 feet, about the length of a car, so this basically means don't park up to the street corner or in front of a stop sign.
The areas without red curb are typically in lower volume, more residential areas with less safety concern.
So in conclusion, staff recommends that the council introduced an ordinance, a mending title six motor vehicles and traffic chapter one vehicles and traffic of the Burbank municipal code relating to parking near intersections.
That concludes my presentation, and I'm available for questions.
Great, thank you for the presentation. We'll move on to public comment for a minute and we'll come back to you.
Can you grab the thank you.
So the public comment period for this report to council is now beginning and no additional cards will be accepted.
We have one card. Great, so you get three minutes for our one speaker who will be Ron Bax.
Welcome Mr. Bax, you have another three minutes.
Thank you, council.
The next two senses were prepared before I realized or knew that the most baseball team would be here.
I apologize to not as a double header.
I spent many, many, many, many years writing requirements and design documentation.
Yet, I had to read this attachment or the attachments many times before I thought understood them.
I apologize to any lawyers within the sound of my voice.
Okay, maybe I should see an AB bill or an SB bill.
Okay, so is there a cliff note publication on this?
The may have been some clarification in the presentation, but as I have seen it, it applies to an intersection where you're approaching intersection.
The red curve, honor this red zone.
If there's no red zone, then the curve return back 15 feet is the restriction, although I saw 15 and 20 on the slide.
So I'm not sure.
If there's signage, which I don't think he covered, what I would think I read, then it's 25 feet back from any signage.
Okay, and then my question would be because it defined a curve return as with an alley.
Our alley curves affected too. I hope not.
You puzzled.
Okay.
The state also, because I read this a long time ago, was talking about five feet from a driveway.
I hope we don't do that here.
Most situations, we have a 40 foot space between driveways in the residential area in Burbank.
Cars are about 20 feet, so you can get two cars in there.
Okay, removing five feet from each side leaves 30 feet.
Only one car is possible.
Residential parking would be cut in half, basically.
Think carefully if that rabbit hole appears before you, before you go down it.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
That's all the public comment we have for this report.
Does staff have any responses to public comment?
I would just note that the current Burbank Municipal Code does not cover any red curve near driveways.
And this proposed ordinance doesn't do anything to change that.
Okay, thank you.
All right, council.
Let's, yeah, council member remont.
Thank you.
I just have a quick question before I ask my questions regarding Mr.
Max said five feet from the driveway.
That's not what we're proposing.
Are we currently ticketing people for parking five feet from the driveway?
Not good.
Not that I'm aware of, or, I mean, there's no ordinance that says anything to that effect.
So maybe that was discussed at some point historically, but it's not in our code.
So is one of the older people in the room.
Historically.
We have a separately a corner cutoff requirement for fences, hedges completely unrelated to parking of vehicles.
But it is marked from walls near alleys, driveways, but it's completely different.
It's to preserve sight lines for pedestrians entering and exiting driveways and alleys.
But it's unrelated to this and it doesn't affect motor vehicles.
Okay, thank you.
And Mr. Bax, that's why you saw the puzzle look on my face because of what the five feet that you had mentioned.
I was not aware that we had that.
So thank you.
Did you want to continue with questions?
I'll list somebody else.
Let's go.
So I know in the report that we have indicated that if we might be looking at painting.
The curves read if it's a high violation area.
So if I guess we notice this constant violation, then we're going to go out and paint those curves read.
Do you want to continue to eliminate people from parking in that area?
Is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
And is there any plan to paint more red curve or we're just going to kind of pause and wait and see which areas that we have maybe more complaints?
More tickets?
How are we going to make a decision and what priority are we going to put together to decide to go out and paint it?
Thank you for the question.
The public works department, paints red curve routinely as part of street maintenance.
So city policy is if re-paving a street, if there's existing red curve that's faded or particularly on the higher traffic,
our materials, corridors, where there's signals.
Those are definitely going to be priority locations for red curve re-painting around schools.
There's another common location and then definitely by request.
So the city has a standard curve painting program.
That's part of routine maintenance.
However, when looking at sort of the logistics of going out and painting every intersection in the city to comply,
with AB 413 or to comply with the BMC,
either one, staff determine that that would be a very large use of resources.
And maybe it would involve a trade-off in terms of resources versus the real safety benefit of doing so.
But certainly it's always an option to add more and curb in a specific location.
So it's over time that as we're out there doing the work and we recognize that we can possibly do it,
then we'll do it at that time.
You talked about notifying or making the community aware.
So of the new implementation and the change in the BMC.
Do we have a specific plan how we're doing this beside just social media?
Are we sending out flyers?
Did we print something that might have slide number six,
which is the great slide here that shows where to park?
Is that something we're planning on doing?
Or put in our front counters, perhaps?
So the public can be aware that we have the new BMC code?
Yes, thanks for the question.
As putting at the counter is a great idea.
I think that that should definitely be worked into the plan.
We prepared an FAQ page for the city website.
And PIO is developing slightly more sophisticated graphics than the ones in the presentation.
But those will be available on the city website and then also social media.
Hopefully developing some sort of a video or real.
And just as a clarification, nothing is really changing in the local ordinance.
So the BMC will continue to be effectively the same.
If you go to park in a red curb area, that's still prohibited.
What's different is actually the state law has changed.
So the city will be staff will be working to inform people about that change in the state law as well.
Thank you.
And if I may add, I think it's going to be very, very important to reach out to the high schools
and to work with our schools to notify them.
So the students are notified, the students who are driving.
I happen as I mentioned many times before, live next to school.
And if there is a space, they will take it all the way up to the stop sign.
So I can envision on the first day of school, squeezing until we, of course, approve the BMC adopted.
They're going to find a space they're going to park.
And then we're going to have an issue with why did I get a park in ticket?
I know we're not out there, just like going to be ticketing everyone at the same day.
But it's very important that we work with the schools to notify them.
So at least maybe a picture, a nicer picture, as you said, or something, but together by a PIO office,
that would be sent to the school so they can give it to the students.
And this would eliminate a lot of unnecessary phone calls or having to reach out to the police department.
So thank you.
I am in favor of this, absolutely.
I think it's good to do.
But I think we just need to do a lot of education for now.
Thank you.
Thank you, Councilmember.
Councilmember Zoddy?
I might thank you, Madam.
My Mayor.
My other question is regarding enforcement, and when we start to enforce our,
our office is going to carry tape measures or, you know,
how is it going to work if it's your two inches, three inches if it's not painted?
What will happen?
Right, that's an excellent question.
So typically the police department enforces these types of curb parking complaints,
mostly on a complaint base basis.
So there's not going to be necessarily an extremely strong effort to go out and catch every single person
from my understanding, speaking to police.
The other thing here is it's very much common sense focused.
So thinking about that, you know, one caroling rule of thumb of, you know,
are you parking basically a caroling back from from the intersection,
are you parking right up to the limit line of the stop sign?
And so I would hope that, you know, any enforcement officer would use some common sense in that situation.
And if someone's parked right up to the stop sign, that really is a safety concern
and that they would enforce in that situation.
But, you know, if it's 17, 18 feet, maybe, maybe slide.
But I think to fully comply with it, they probably would also measure just to be safe.
Yeah, it's just a little subjective, that's all.
Until things are actually marked off.
You know, if you drive a mini Cooper versus Ford F150, one caroling,
it's just a caroling.
And the other person is going to say, I'm a caroling.
Well, those are two different cars.
All right.
I'm in favor.
It's definitely a safety thing.
I was definitely in favor of the corner cutoffs when they did that.
So, yeah, I think we've got to use some common sense on how we're going to enforce this.
And like, council member Molin said, education is going to be key.
Maybe we get to videos of council member at our house trying to take parking spaces away or something.
But I think education is the key to really help our residents kind of understand what direction we're going with us.
Well, thank you.
Council member Anthony.
Thank you.
That's funny.
You could probably see somebody crossing in front of a mini Cooper, but probably not an F150.
So, something we've said with the size of cars these days is, you know.
So, AB 413, it was passed in 2023 and it took effect on January 1st of this year.
Yes.
Have we given out any tickets this year?
For this?
I'm not sure.
I would have to check with police on that.
I might understand. Oh, sorry.
All right. Good evening, council members.
Let's look at the Courriana senior assistant city attorney.
I just want to clarify.
The bill actually became effective January 1st, 2020.
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It was passed in 2023.
Because it was passed in 2023.
However, the state gave a one year grace period for citations.
So, beginning January 1st, 2025.
We could enforce the state law via citation.
But we were not mandated to enforce it.
Prior to that, we could not enforce it by citation only by warning.
Okay. So, we haven't given any tickets out.
We didn't give out tickets last year.
We haven't given any tickets this year.
Not that I'm aware of.
My question is I was going to be a very difficult question.
Yes. And so, especially without having.
The data, however, it's already been mentioned here, especially leading with education. And for the
most part, any type of violations that do occur are going to be, we're going to respond, that are
going to be, or it's going to be a complaint to a financial say. So I guess you've read
before one, three, are, is there some big push in Burbank? Are you seeing a need for us to go out
and start ticketing to the 20th foot like on the on the loop inch? Because we've had our own
ordinance since 1979, I hear all the time traffic issues come to this bias and from the community
members, then I have yet to hear any problems with our crosswalks. So just from your own personal
opinion, do you feel like there's a push for this in the city? So, excuse me Chief, this is state law, and the
purpose of the ordinance is to reconcile our ordinance with state law. Right. So, and that is yes.
The reason I'm asking this question is, what I see here is an opportunity for us if we create our own
findings and create a system for red curbing, we can basically bolster our own local ordinance,
rather than this amorphous, no red curb issue. So I guess my question is,
right now, A before, four, one, three is in effect and it affects every city that doesn't have an
ordinance with findings. If at some point in a future date, six months from now, a year from now,
two years from now, we create our own ordinance with findings and with red curb usage,
are we then allowed to implement that and become exempt from maybe four, one, three?
Good evening again, Lisa Curryhara, senior assistant city attorney. I will attempt to answer this question.
And staff discussed this. We talked about various options, including a program where we would basically
adopt a zero-foot restriction around intersections. Because right now, the default under existing
state law is what was adopted under A before, one, three, whether or not there's a red, red curve present.
Currently, under the cities existing daylighting ordinance, we red curve intersections where,
you know, it appears that daylighting is the best safety practice based on traffic, pedestrian usage,
and we do that intersection by intersection. Correct. So, theoretically, we could adopt a zero-foot
restriction. However, I think our transportation team in coordination with
our police department, as well as our public work department, determined that the best
approach here was to layer on state law on top of our existing red curve ordinance. Because we will
receive calls asking why we're not enforcing state law. You know, there may be intersections where it's
an issue, and it becomes communicated to us through this complaint-based system. You know, we don't
have folks who are out at every single intersection looking at traffic conditions every single day, and so
sometimes you don't know. So, I think moving forward with the option that staff's present at tonight
does give you the option to kind of sit back and observe, and if it becomes necessary to red curve
more intersections, our ordinance still gives us that ability to do so. The findings that are
in tonight's ordinance give the city the ability to adopt different distance requirements. It's
certain intersections and red curve of them so that it's very clear to the public. And it gives the public
work's director the discretion to determine whether, you know, certain intersections require
the distances set by ordinance, set by state law or a different setback. So, there's nothing to
discuss. Yes, yes, and the reason I ask that is because I am painfully aware that the process of red
curving, and the way we do it, intersection by intersection, it is costly, but I do believe it is a more
effective method than a blanket statewide. This is the number. And so, yeah, I will reserve my
comments for a section in the evening that we call additional agenda items and I'll leave it at that.
Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. My question is let's see. So, just really quick, I agree with
my colleagues that this is a safety thing that's absolutely not. I'm sorry. I can't, I can't let that rest.
If, if you're going to talk at length, this would be the time to talk about it. No, I later,
when you're limited to future agenda items, yes, I will save effort. There is a point during
the deliberation that I'm going to talk about, but I don't want to get into it because
I'm going to ask for an additional agenda. Okay. I just want you to force me to cut you off later,
because you should have talked about that. That's okay. That's okay. All right. Thank you for that
clarification. All right. So, anyway, I can get out of the way. Yes. I agree that this is definitely a
safety issue that happens all the time. Trying to make a right-hand turn and that cars right there and
can not see. You cannot see the cars coming and you have to inch out and when my, but I call our baby
car, it's a little bit easier because we have a short nose, but on our bigger van, it's like harder to
because you might stay way out to the intersection in order to see. So, it's very important to have that.
At the same time, it's going to have an impact on the community, so. All right. So, questions I have about
this are also with enforcement. So, for somebody who, let's say, let's say you've got somebody who repeatedly,
or let's just say the first time they're in that spot and somebody complains, I cannot see this person's
part here that I'm going to assume is going to be education at first to help them understand the law to move them
along. But then, what if they repeatedly do it? What is the fine pattern, or have you, I didn't
notice that in the materials, maybe it was there on a mistake, but what's the pattern for like finding after that?
For the parking there repeatedly? Sorry. So, the question is, what's the pattern for a repeated
violation of the law? Yeah. I think they would continue to be ticketed and then if the location tends
to be a problem, it might be something that would, you know, public works would look at it and see
whether it's worth adding additional red curve there. Okay. The first time, though, or maybe even second time,
it would be education first, or is it going to be straight to a fine or take it? I think it would depend on
the circumstances. Got it. Okay. I'm just thinking in my head, the scenario where somebody might complain
about that. There's two scenarios that come up in my mind. One is if it's like in a residential area,
but you're driving from a residential area onto a main street, and there's a car that parks there often,
or something, and people complain. Or if there's, actually, the other one is that if it's been
in front of a business, and somebody complains that person's parking there to work, or to shop at the business. So,
those are kind of two that I see commonly, so I'm just thinking ahead here to kind of enforce that,
or what the plan is for addressing if it happens. Because I don't, I guess, part of it for me is I'm worried
that there's going to be some sort of like contention around it, so I want to kind of get some clarity on how
that's going to be enforced. That's a great question, and that's what I mean by it would depend on the context I think
from what police is communicated in that kind of situation. If it's someone where it's the part,
it's the space on the curb right in front of their house. They run the plates. It's clearly the
person who lives right there, the business owner or something like that. That's a great opportunity for
education to go in and say, hey, there's this new state law. You can't park in this place anymore,
and versus just slapping a ticket down. But then once again, if it becomes a repeated issue,
I think that's where it might. Okay. And police might have more to say about that.
Vice Mayor Tucker Hashie. Chief police were a focus there. If you're asking for us to be compassionate,
especially with dealing with this law and the complexity of it, definitely that is something that we can do.
There are several laws that have come into place, I mean outside of parking, that normally can be a little
disruptive to the daily norm of the community. I can see or foresee this being one of them,
even though they had a great period of eight years. So taking that in a consideration, I think it's important
and it keeps on being stated here as far as the education via all our platforms. And then more
importantly, the communication that goes out to last because the breadth of the responsibilities
is going to fall on them. And so outside of operating normal operating hours, then we would get the
complaints. And as stated before, it is going to be for us to cite a card. It's going to be mainly
complaint driven. So we will do exactly what was said as far as going out, trying to do our best.
But it's going to be, I profess that by saying it's going to be very situation dependent.
So if the violation, we make a reasonable attempt to contact the registered owner, but in this
case, the registered owner lives out of the city at a state. And it's a violation of potential
safety hazard per se, especially at one of our busy intersections that even to add on top of that can be
considered high traffic corridors, resulting in collisions, then more than likely, then you're looking
at potentially either a to an vehicle, depending on the circumstances or definitely citing.
Right. You bring up a good point that you may not know even who the car belongs to, even though
it being front of a house, front of a business, you may still not know. And currently, I know I've only
been here short months, but I've heard of examples and seen it specifically, even on those instances
when we respond to complaints associated with driveways. Those are probably the most common or vehicle
is blocking a driveway. Try to do our best as far as locating the owner of that vehicle, getting
them to move it. So we don't have to, we don't ever want to put someone in that position and what
we're creating undue stress on them for this and especially, like I said, with a complexity of this law
and change. Great. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that clarification. I have a couple of technical questions
about how the law might be applied. Just a folks know. So with the crosswalks, and this came to
mind when you were describing it earlier in the presentation, some of our crosswalks are midblock.
So does it count on a midblock crosswalk too or just the crosswalks that are at the corner?
So like I'm thinking about, I can front of ugly mug, I'm Burbank, they have a crosswalk right there.
There's a parking spot right in front of the crosswalk. So would that be an example? That would count to
be not okay. Yes, that's a good example of. And I believe this day law was written this way because
crosswalks aren't even broader definition than in intersection. So it's in order to capture
those midblock crosswalk locations. Okay. So if we don't have that many midblock crosswalks but we have
a few of them in the city that could impact some folks. And then speaking of that particular business
and there's other ones that may be affected too, some of the business licenses ask and require that
there's certain number of parking spots around the business in order to be able to get their, you know,
business license. If that parking spot is taken away because of the law. Well, that if, I
know, this is totally random question that just came to mind when you're doing the presentation.
If that parking spot is taken away, well, that permitting for that business be affected. You may not be able to
answer that, but I think that's an interesting question in case that affects the parking requirements for
those businesses.
Yeah, I believe that at Pondsby parking would not count toward the businesses parking requirements. So that was
not a situation where that would really apply. Okay, because I have talked to other, a couple of
businesses that said that it did counts, so I'm learning it's not okay. Good. That's good to know.
And then do you happen to know if other cities like Glendale, LA, anybody nearby is already implemented
this and if, if how it's going for them or what challenges they face or how they're enforcing?
That's right. Good evening, Vice Mayor. Take out how she markets when this senior
transportation with the Community Development Department. So there are several cities throughout
the state that have already applied or have done some kind of outreach for AB 413, many of these cities
do this because they don't have their own ordinance like Burping does. And so they have to kind of get ahead
of the law to inform the public. More locally Pasadena and in our research we saw the
they've done some outreach for AB 413 similar to what we would be doing. And I believe a number of other
cities in LA County should. Great. So there's cities all of those state are doing this right now.
We're all in the process of doing this and all in the process of figuring out how to enforce it and
have it educate. So we're educating kind of simultaneously the whole state at one time kind of
okay. That's helpful. All right. Those are my questions. Now, if there are no more questions,
we can move on to the deliberation, comments, thoughts, councilmember Anthony.
So first of all I'm supportive of this obviously. Councilmember Resarge, you are absolutely
correct. It is a safety issue. And like I mentioned, some cars are bigger than other cars and by
having a uniform code, it does provide for safety. Alluding to my earlier statements, you know,
recent state laws more and more are allowing for cities to sort of opt out or become exempt
if they make certain requirements and thresholds. And so that's kind of why I was asking those questions.
Just for me personally, I'd like to know how much it would cost to be able to do all the red curves.
When you're out?
Not in your driving. I'm not even thinking about people from Burbank where a tourist destination, and so we have
people coming from out of state who may not know the California driving codes. For them, it's easier
to see a red curb and no not park there, right? So, you know, not knowing what the total cost is to cover
all those red curbs is tough. Not even knowing how much it would cost to do a study or have the findings
that the state has asked me for. That's tough. Those are money issues that we don't have right now.
But maybe at a future time we might. So, for now, fully in support, and anything else that comes
down the line will take it as it goes. Yeah, councilmember Moons? Yeah, as I stated earlier, this is a safety issue,
and the state has already given us over a year to implement this. I often wonder why we're not
implementing it because at times as the vice mayor said, it is very difficult to make some time
a right turn or at the intersection, seeing a pedestrian. And I believe that it's not everything
the state that implements that we automatically agree with and I happen to agree with this one. You know,
it is a concern. And if you drive a lot and you walk around the city, you see that there's a lot of
people that park all the way at the end of the curb, all the way in front of the curb, and you cannot see the
pedestrian. And so I'm hoping with us supporting this and making it part of our BMC that it would reduce the
accidents. It would protect our pedestrians. And hopefully it is going to take time to educate the
community or guarantee there's going to be a couple of tickets and people are going to be upset, but they're
going to stop doing it. Just as we're noticing in our downtown area, once you get a ticket, you're going to
start being aware like I shouldn't be parking like this. I shouldn't be parking there. So, education, the the other
thing I wanted to ask staff, maybe in regards to signage, I know it costs money, nothing is cheaper free,
but putting maybe signage with versus no parking between this hour and this hour is like 20 feet,
no parking 20 feet in this area or some kind of signage over the years can we implement that
and I see Mr. Brickman coming up and just education. I'm not saying do it right away, but just over time.
So, through the vice mayor council member, thank you for the opportunity. I just wanted to come up and
say public work traffic engineers and police work hand in hand all the time to see where
this type of extra visual or physical education for the public signage and striving. We have
230 miles of streets, 50 miles of alleys. We have 11,000 signs. We have 160 miles of striping
and 16 miles of curb painting or markings and a staff of if it's two thirds of best fold to be
candid, it's been four people doing this. We would have to go back to two four cast, you know, if we're
looking at red curbing everything related to this or signing everything related to it's going to be
a lot of money and it's going to be something we'd probably come back to you with staff resource or
contract services needs. But from from PD's perspective we work hand in hand to say we have this
repeated issue let's say in this case of parking by this stop sign two close and the residents will tell
us this PD will go out there and enforce educate and then enforce and if necessary we work collaboratively
say you know what let's red curve this because people just aren't paying attention. That's basically
the process for any additional red just any striping or signing or marking. Okay thank you. I mean
it there is opportunities and if we see it necessary we definitely welcome that but I think our main goal
behind starting this is to really educate our community. I think people are going to become aware of it
either the painful way getting a ticket or just knowing and reading about it in the paper or
at our front counters schools are very very important that we need to work with the parents and the
school administration to educate the kids and the parents especially dropping off their children to schools.
And I think over time this would become the norm for for our residents and hopefully for our visitors
because it's consistent among other cities it's the state law so other cities are complying with
the same law. So I'm definitely in favor of it to keep our pedestrian to keep our community safe.
So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Madam Vice Mayor I'm just simply going to say this is just first step as we move forward we will start.
I think it's probably cheaper to paint than to sign hang signs but I think we start with the big
ticket. I'm just the Hollywood ways to make no way as the Glen Oaks Boulevard just those
intersections that are kind of problematic point of history and victory point of history and
burbank Boulevard point of history and make no way. So definitely for the safety aspect of this. Thank you.
Thank you. Yes. I'm on the same page as you all. I 100% agree this is needed for our safety
and for pedestrians for the cars everyone and I think what's new for folks is that this is
every single intersection every single crosswalk right and one's where we know that this is dangerous
we might say that makes sense but to understand it's every single one and that's new information but to
your point it's every city that's doing is not just us we're working together. Right curbs are easy to
understand so I'm an agreement that as much as we can right curbs are really commonly integrated like
I think you're point about the larger streets especially the smaller streets coming into the larger streets
having to turn there those are really important ones and then education absolutely 100% it's not it's
this is a safety thing that's obvious it should be done but it's also very different than what we have now and
I think just understanding that and being compassionate and understanding to our community as it is just
especially our businesses that lose parking in front of their business so and I'm curious I'm curious
how it will end up on the ground once we implement and I'm wondering if maybe you know if it's not if it's
ends up being kind of nothing and then people adapt to it pretty easily we don't really need feedback but
if maybe after six months or so you start to see some patterns it's just get a memo or a report back to us
we'll have to know how it's going we great and vice mayor I was going to say we probably get a ton of emails
for that would tell us immediately what's going on right we don't need a report because the emails will be the
report okay so do you want to make motion I make a motion to adopt or approve let me see the exact
wording that we need to do introduction of an ordinance a mending title six chapter title six chapter one
of the Burbank Municipal Code to clarify the city parking restriction near intersection second
first by councilmember Mullins second by Resotti could we please get the councilmember Anthony yes
councilmember Mullins yes councilmember Resotti yes and vice mayor taga hashi yes thank you
all right second report tonight to council is the approval of the safer streets action plan
and to present the report is senior transportation planner Chris Wilma Bonomo did I get it right
Bronoma okay welcome Mr. Bronoma
good evening Madam vice mayor and members of council my name is Chris Bonomo I am a senior
transportation planner with the community development department tonight the staff returns to city council
for to present for the adoption of the safer streets Burbank action plan and for direction to begin
implementing the plans elements first to refresher what is vision zero almost every city has
a general goal of improving safety the goal of vision zero's very specific eliminate traffic
fatalities and severe injuries in a specific time frame and with a vision zero plan the means of
achieving that goal are different from traditional planning and engineering methods in two main ways
first it recognizes that mistakes happen on our roadways and that the severity of those mistakes
can be minimized through safer street design second it streamlines the multi-disciplinary approach
necessary to address such complex problems the safer streets Burbank action plan builds on the
foundation sit by the Burbank 25 burbank 2035 general plan mobility element the bicycle master plan
and a complete our streets plan which all include policies to improve safety for the people
of for people of all ages abilities and modes who navigate the city's transportation network every day
notably the complete streets plan adopted in 2020 included the development of a local road safety plan
as a short term priority project the safer streets Burbank action plan qualifies as a local road safety plan
and fulfills that objective more broadly what this plan proposes aligns with federal and state
guidance from the federal highway administration and caltrans further federal and state governments
have encouraged cities to adopt these plans for example the caltrans highway safety improvement program
and federal safer streets for all grant programs require a local road safety plan to apply
these grant programs outline the specific criteria for a vision zero plan to qualify as a
local road safety plan and the safer streets Burbank action plan fulfills all of those criteria
therefore the safer streets Burbank action plan enables the city to apply for these funds
while the already adopted city documents focus on safety none commits to a specific goal and a specific
time period as directed during the previous city council update step change the name from vision zero to
safer streets Burbank to acknowledge the vital local context of this plan although the name is different
the goal remains the same safer streets Burbank commits to reducing the number of severe and fatal
crashes to zero by 2035 these guiding principles can help shape the policies goals and processes
that are the foundation of the city's roadway planning efforts
in order to pursue those goals we first need to understand the collision landscape between
2018 and 2022 3,835 collisions occurred on local roadways in Burbank of these 2123 or 55% resulted in
an injurious some kind 105 collisions resulted in somebody being killed or seriously injured
while pedestrians bicyclists and motorcyclists were involved in just 24% of all
entry collisions essentially the people outside of motor vehicles individual motor vehicles they
accounted for 64% of case eye collisions these overall trends are similar to those in local
pier cities statewide since the goal is to eliminate the most serious roadway collisions this subset of
data which accounts for the most serious roadway collisions was the basis for the data analysis
an integral part of the data analysis was to examine not just the number of collisions
but where they happened in order to understand these locations and where these collisions are occurring in
the city and to analyze the underlying contextual conditions of these corridors the city plotted all
collisions in a geospatial mapping software signing each collision a number of value based on the
severity and modes involved segments with the highest occurrence of injury collisions
essentially with the highest score are shown here in the lighter blue as the focus network
sorry the darker thinner blue lines of the focus network and those are 16% of the city's roadways
but account for 80% of the total fatal and serious injuries
then step-trial down even further to understand which of these corridors on the focus network accounted
for the most serious collisions so you're going down layer after layer to understand where the most
serious ones are happening the analysis identified nine roadway segments the ones here in lighter blue
that are wider and have the numbers on them plus the selection of additional intersections as the
priority corridors that the plan should address first the counter measured toolbox is part of
this plan and that outlines what can be done on these corridors it is the collection of possible project
components based on federal and state guidance they are cost effective quicker to install measures
many of which are already in place around the city today the difference here is that they will be planned
and a coordinated manner on on these corridors to maximize their potential layered state
benefits some counter measures have quicker implementation timelines while other will require additional
study Lawrence or procurement the next step of the process matches the data analysis and the underlying
conditions of each corridor with those proposed counter measures that can address the issues these
cut sheets shown here this is an example from the plan these cut sheets are actual our conceptual
plans at this point that lay out the initial idea for what each project can be these counter measures
of cut and cut sheets have been reviewed with other city departments and there's general
support for
Or these project corridors and countermeasures, but they still need to be fully designed and developed with our cooperating departments.
As for action items, the main action item is to implement the corridor projects, and that reflects the overall objective to install countermeasures and locations that provide the most safety benefit as soon as possible.
The other five action items are also very important. They focus on the processes, procedures, and policies that can help staff bring these projects to life.
Since roadway project design and implementation involves various city departments, updated internal policies can improve communication, collaboration, and understanding across groups.
Together, these policies seek to standardise the processes for project development in the Saver Street Burbank action plan, so that these projects can be implemented efficiently.
Staff presented to transportation commission and city council three times each providing a public forum where residents could provide their feedback or experience.
Other presentations included senior board and the Burbank Advisory Council and Disabilities.
Formal public engagement are on the plan occurred with a three-month long online virtual portal that included a survey and pinpoint mapping tool.
An in-person community workshop was also held at the point of Mr. Branch Library.
Engagement will continue if the plan is adopted as noted in action item four.
Staff will develop an education program around Saver Street's Burbank for both internal stakeholders and community members.
If approved, staff will immediately begin on the policy related action items and begin mobilizing with on-call consultants for design work.
Once projects are designed, they will be slated for installation.
As mentioned, public engagement will continue in adopting the Saver Street's Burbank action plan.
The city council is endorsing an advance of many of countermeasures that the city staff may use in various locations based on the crash patterns.
And it is allowing staff the permission to implement these measures along the priority project corridors using professional judgment and engineering practice.
The quick build materials used for the improvements, which include paint, signs, ballards, signal programming, allow for specific countermeasures to go down, be observed and then be tweaked or adjusted as necessary after installation.
Related to this plan, a little while ago, Vice Mayor Takahashi had previously requested a first step on the feasibility of painting all bike lanes.
This is an action item on the city manager tracking list and given that is a roadway safety countermeasure with the aim of improving safety.
Staff thought this is an appropriate venue to include this as a slide.
So green bike lanes in general serve to differentiate the space for bicycles.
Oftentimes, you'll see them at intersections, other times in other cities, you'll see them the full length of a bike lane.
Although not required, many of our neighboring jurisdictions have have used it.
One example here is on Sonora Avenue and Glendale, kind of on either side of the underpass.
And some cities use paint, some cities use thermal plastic, which is essentially just big melted mats that go down.
The city tends to use thermal plastic on on these projects.
It's more durable upkeep is less and it's not a slippery when it rains or gets wet, especially when bike lanes are near a gutter or some sort of slope.
And so for a good so the city tends to use those and those examples are on front street in Hollywood way.
However here on the Glendale example you can see there are two different colors green.
This I believe went down in 2017 first it was all the same color.
Since the advanced portion of it has been left to fade and the city just touched up the edge to make it a little more clear.
To develop the high level cost estimate of what converting all class two bikeways would be.
Those are the ones that are on street without any protection vertical delineation.
It would be an estimate of about $11 million for all of the lanes city wide to be converted.
About $1 million for just the intersection conflict points and important note is that that doesn't include mobilization efforts that is just for the materials and labor.
The mobilization of traffic control would be separate from that.
This is a significant amount.
And staff believes that funding might be better allocated pursuing other bikeway projects that are ready in the capital and project plan.
And as well as other already program projects.
As noted in the data analysis the vast majority of collisions happens at intersections whether it's bikes pedestrians or vehicles.
So green thermoplastic if it were to be used might be most beneficial at those conflict points at intersections.
We already have that as I mentioned in a couple of locations.
But also green conflict striping to skip boxes you see at the intersections is actually included in the countermeasure toolbox in the Saber streets burned by action plan.
And it's something that can be considered if one of the project corridors has an existing bikeway and if we're going in doing that it can be touched up along the way as part of one of these projects.
In conclusion.
The staff's recommendation is to adopt the resolution of proving the Saber streets burned by action plan and to accept to begin its implementation.
So with that I thank you for your time and attention and I open it up for questions and comments.
Great.
Thank you for the presentation.
We'll move to public comment and we'll get back to you in a minute.
So public comment period for this report to council is now beginning.
So no additional cards will be accepted.
Looks like we have three public comments.
Could you madam please click.
Okay, we have a total.
All right that means three minutes each.
First up we have Jason Lewis followed by Emilia de Oliveira.
I didn't get that right apologize for portraying your name.
Welcome Mr. Lewis.
You have three minutes.
Good evening again.
Vice Mayor council members.
Staff and audience.
I return to the podium again.
Private citizen.
Jason Lewis.
This time to ring my support for the adoption of the resolution.
For the safer streets.
Perfect action plan.
I want to commend staff.
They've put together a great report based on data research and collaborative feedback.
As you mentioned, council member Mullins school starts tomorrow.
And safety's paramount getting our kids to school every day.
I'll be out there walking.
One of my kids to school.
I'll be along all of Avenue at 9.30 a.m.
Like I'm every morning.
When I walk my kids to school, like I've done for years.
Other parents are going to bike their kids.
And by the way, that makes it easier for the parents who have to drive, who come from miles away.
I want it to work for every family.
And speaking of bikes, the summer riding bikes was my youngest favorite way to get to parks and recreation
teen days summer camp at Verdugo.
We were able to use the bike racks all summer.
And I was able to let my oldest who's an upcoming freshman at Burroughs.
Go Bears.
To bike over and get his brother.
I'm going to drive home tonight.
I landed Sunday at Burbank Airport from finishing a 50 mile race to Mount Hood.
I do my weekday training, weekday training, here in the streets of Burbank.
I'll be taking the Burbank bus to the Metro B line on Thursday to get to my downtown L.A. office.
I get around the city and believe it or not.
I love driving.
I'm a valley guy.
I was born here.
I went to see Sun.
I learned to drive in these streets 28 years ago.
But I hate commuting.
I hate traffic.
And I'd like to not contribute to it.
We all want to get to where we're going safely and as efficiently as possible.
The more we can do to keep traffic flowing for everybody,
the better our city will move for everyone.
This plan incorporates ideas from across city departments and encourage the adoption of this plan.
And then we continue to innovate safety for all forms of transportation and ensure that nobody
nobody dies in our streets.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
Next up is Amelia De Oliveira.
I followed by David Donahue.
Welcome you.
Three minutes and part of me for but showing your name.
Oh, you were close.
My name is Amelia De Oliveira.
I've lived in Burbank, my whole life.
I was born here, I grew up here.
And I went to John Barrow's high school.
And I just recently, so I used to bike to school when I was going there when I was a junior.
And I had to stop biking after one semester because
I couldn't bike on the streets because cars would go ration fast.
And I didn't feel safe riding on the streets.
So this is an issue that's been important to me for a long time,
making the streets safer especially for pedestrians and bicyclists.
And reading this plan made me feel really happy that people were thinking about this issue and
and hoping to change it.
I really liked what I was seeing with the plans.
I read the role of the plans for the individual streets for the priority projects.
I will say I was hoping that I would see a Magnolia Boulevard as one of the projects because I live on Magnolia Boulevard.
And I find that that is a street that really could use fixing.
There's really wide lanes.
I think there's five lanes.
So two in either direction and center lane.
And it's a center for where a lot of people are.
I mean, I love walking around and getting to just be a part of the community there.
But sometimes it becomes difficult because there are so many cars rushing past.
And there are so few crosswalks.
I actually used to work on Magnolia Boulevard in one of the pizza, pizza places.
And I would see probably an average of 15 to 20 people every day.
Jay walking across the street because they would have to go so far out of the way to get to an actual marked crosswalk.
From where I worked, you would have, if you were across the street, you would have to go across three crosswalks.
And two and a half blocks out of your way to get to the other side of the road.
And people don't want to do that. So people across the legally.
And then that opens them up to injury, which I've always found very concerning.
I, overall, just really, really liked what I was seeing here in this plan.
And I really hope you guys approve it.
And approve future plans that have somewhere, I guess, in a similar spirit of making the street safer.
I also would, I'd like to see in more protected by lanes included here.
But I do love, I do love that they're going to be painted. That makes me feel really safe.
That have the painted lines, but definitely boyards and including those things in the future, I think is important.
Okay.
Thank you for your comment.
Did it within three minutes? Congratulations.
Next up is David Donahue.
And that's my last card.
Welcome, Mr. Donahue.
We have another three minutes.
Good evening, Council David Donahue.
March 15th, Burbank Police Commission, 2023.
There was a report given about Vision Zero.
It was given by the Burbank Police Department to the Commission and it talked about what the city of Los Angeles had
seen with Vision Zero.
So again, March 15th, 2023, you can Google it.
AI, search it, you'll be able to get the link.
And what the officer presented was the number, the increase of vehicle and pedestrian vehicle and bicycle
multi-model, how it really went up.
This is the part of why things important for me to bring this to you.
It's all great and good.
The city are talking about zero deaths, zero lowering everything.
When if you do not look at the data that is out there, the information that's in front of you,
actual, after programs like this have been put in, you're doing your community of disservice.
It's very easy to look the information up to say that there was an increase.
And actually, I believe there increased in major injuries.
And then increase, if I remember it correctly, and death, is easy to find it out.
The computer streets, which is a short, small, easy to read, 278 pages.
Holy, that girl.
A lot of information.
I would encourage the city and staff to be able, and I know that the staff is fantastic,
and I think the problem of the work that they do.
And I don't know how we could actually make the outreach better and more effective.
How we could put some sort of information in front of every person in a burdening,
water, and power, and mail, or putting it out there.
Because we just know that people don't really react to it.
On San Fernando Valley is a great example.
I was on a city walking tour.
And just because a lot of people had those bright vests on, they were getting heckled.
The changes on San Fernando.
Now, this is right after it had happened.
I haven't heard how the police department has really had feedback on this, but I would encourage
that too.
I would love to understand that.
Collaborative work.
Again, I go back to, let's just find out what other communities have been doing.
I think it's been very important.
I think that there needs to be more enforcement.
I don't think we write enough tickets for people using the center turn lane as a passing lane
on Victory or Magnolia or on Burbank Boulevard.
And I understand that the police department is busy, but when you call and say at this time,
this vehicle was going 60 miles an hour in a middle turn lane.
I would hope it would get attention in the future.
There's a lot of things to do.
And I know there's a lot of consideration and deliberation that you're going to do on this.
Thank you for your time and your attention this matter. Have a good evening.
Thank you for your comment. That's the end of our public comment. We now complete a public comment for this report.
The staff have any responses to the public comment.
Thank you, Council. Chris Bonamos and your transportation planner.
To address the second speakers comment about Magnolia.
Essentially, when staff was developing this, it's looking at the collision data.
Where do the collisions happen, and then those are where staff focuses.
The way it worked out Magnolia's data didn't rise to the level to make it into those top 10, or nine, nine corridors in the 11 separate ones.
Having said that, the three major intersections on Magnolia are included. They just happen to be on the north-south corridors.
And the comment also about more protected bike lanes.
That is a project that staff and transportation also are working on, but it is a separate effort that continue in parallel with this.
For the third speaker, specifically about Los Angeles, there are visions of our plan was adopted 10 years ago.
Los Angeles is a very different municipality in how they plan and force and sort of implement projects.
In their jurisdiction, it is massive. They have a lot of people in a lot of very different contexts.
The benefit for Burbank is the Burbank is smaller, and our internal administrative connective tissue is really strong.
From the very beginning on this plan, staff worked with the Public Works Department, the Fire Department, the Police Department, Burbank Unified School District, the PIO office,
for everyone to understand where this plan would be going and to understand how any possible implementation could be bolstered by their groups.
So that infrastructure was already being laid. Before we got here, this plan lays out very specific corridors, where staff would be proposing the first projects to go.
As opposed to Los Angeles, the plan was vast.
I think the other one important thing is since that one was adopted 10 years ago, a lot of state policy and state law has changed.
That enables the city to do different things now from the very beginning.
As opposed to the last, you know, three, four years for Los Angeles, they're able to then look into different streamlining laws for types of roadway safety projects.
Also, for the AP-43, the speed limit setting, they didn't have that as a capability for them.
Burbank is a bit more nimble and has some more options at the ready to be able to tackle these sorts of projects.
Great. Thank you for those responses. Council questions. Yes. Council member Anthony.
I wanted to just follow up on Olivia's question about protected bike lanes.
For my understanding, Mr. Bruno.
This plan, this action plan we have in front of us is sort of a quick and easy first step.
It's paint, it's plastic, it's very simplified techniques that we can offer to the public works department and sort of quick fix.
A protected bike lane is going to be a level above that.
Am I not correct in that assumption? Correct. That's the right assumption.
And that's, I think, a useful way to distinguish between these types of projects, where as a protected bikeway is every inch of half mile to a couple miles, probably.
It's a ton of coordination. You're dealing with surveying utilities, all kinds of extra different pieces that won't necessarily need to be taken into account.
If you're just looking at a few intersections along a corridor with paint in plastic, in your staying within the confines of the existing curve and gutter.
Okay. All right. So to your point, Olivia, pay attention for the future. This may come back.
The protected bike lane issue. And then to Mr. Donnie, he's question about Los Angeles.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when they tried to implement vision zero, they have 15 different council districts.
I was, I was under the impression that not every council district adopted the same vision zero plan. So it's kind of, it was kind of piecemeal. Is that, is that right?
And then I believe they had a ballot measure last year for LA City to force the whole city to implement a safer streets plan.
And even that is being sued by their city attorney. So they're like, for my understanding, it wasn't a uniform adoption.
Is basically my understanding what happened with this is your own LA. Is any of that true or am I speculating on that? Have you heard anything like that?
I can't speak for Los Angeles staff on how that went. But there are a much more complex organization.
Right. Okay. But if we adopted it, it would be uniform city white is basically my point.
Okay. All right. Because I had heard that there was a lot of issues with them actually implementing it.
And then they had some districts, undid some of the vision zero programs after they'd been on the ground for a while.
If we, so you mentioned earlier, and you had it as a separate item, the green painted by claims, to fully paint everything you put a ticket, a dollar sign at 11 million.
And then there was a lower option for a million dollars if we just did sort of the conflict zone.
But if we did it case by case and only implemented it when we were either restriping an area or reserving an area, if we did it piecemeal like that, would the cost also come down more.
If we simply did it as we were improving the streets.
And I'm talking just the conflicts.
So, Vice Mayor, Council Member, thank you for the question. Yes, when you look, one of the, one of the facets of this program is to seek opportunities as part of our annual paving program to implement these strategies.
So, economy of scale, we bring these opportunities in and if there's opportunities where, again, similar to the previous item and the red curve, we see driveways or intersections where we know there's multimodal conflicts and we should paint these.
Paint these areas green, the bike lanes, maybe the dashed green also.
We'd certainly be looking with the transportation planners and PD to say this is a good spot to do it.
Let's get this into our plans and specs of our annual paving projects.
Okay. Well, so to that point, my colleagues, what I would prefer is to have a very low threshold for these.
So, a conflict striping for the bike lanes so that if we are improving an area.
It's easier and cheaper for us to do it rather than try to go back and reserve a or anything like that.
So, if that's, if you all agree, yeah. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Council Member Molens.
I have a question regarding Magnolia. You mentioned there's three different intersections on Magnolia. Could you share with us where those are because I'm looking at the report and I can't find the way.
Absolutely. It is a larger port. So, it is page 35.
I have a detachment too. Oh, sorry, sorry. It's page 35 of in of the attachment to yes. Okay. Sorry. The main plan.
We have two attachments plus the report.
Okay. Got it.
Yeah. So, this was the map that was up during the presentation. And so the lighter blue kind of thicker lines are the proposed project corridors.
And you'll see that Hollywood way.
Win of us to in victory. All of those intersections with Magnolia would be considered.
And this is where we are working on our this signal light or what are we doing there.
So, so for the, so these are the project corridors and then if you were to flip a few pages forward, you see what's called the cut sheet.
And that shows you individual, it's the concept plan for what staff thinks could work at these, at these corridors.
So, if you were to flip to 32.
Hollywood. Oh, page 44. Hollywood way. So, like you would see Hollywood way at Magnolia.
And it shows where the signalized intersections are 44.45.
It's signalized intersections. The possible improvements are high visibility crosswalks.
Looking at protected left turns if the infrastructure allows it.
Curb extensions leading pedestrian intervals. So, what what this does is it shows you the the menu of options at the signalized intersections.
What's on the table and what could work based on what is in the state and federal guidance for these sorts of treatments.
Thank you.
We wanted to go back to Chuck for his earlier comment because I'm still looking for, so you said five million dollars.
Billion. I wrote down Billion, but I said I could be wrong.
Can we.
I can certainly address that.
Yes, thank that is on that is the what the infrastructure in jobs act allocated for the safer streets for all.
The federal grant program. So, there's a federal grant program that cities can apply for to get funding for these sorts of plans and these sorts of projects.
And that was federally allocated funding for cities to go after that.
That was in June was the funding was the application deadline for that.
So, we're not applying for that currently. If money is left over for the next round, we would absolutely look into applying for those funds.
Those funds are just to follow up the infrastructure investment in jobs act of 2021 allocated five billion for the entire country to apply for correct.
We don't get five billion over five years for the whole.
So, a billion a year for five year.
Correct.
Yes, not locally.
But we we have not applied or we did not we needed a you need a plan in order to apply for that.
And then we're here tonight with this so hopefully next time around there's some funding left over that we can that we can look into.
Okay, since we're talking about money, can you perhaps let us know what has been allocated for this plan for the 11 points or 11 key points that we're looking at.
So there's an annual allocation of $700,000 and it is measure.
Or measure our funding and so that's allocated right now and that covers planning and implementation.
This is a new sort of plan in a new way of working in year one.
We can't say for certain.
How many projects we will be able to go after after year one will have a better understanding and then be able to forecast on kind of what we would be looking at for year two year three.
Thank you.
Also, when I address Olivia the speaker, thank you for first time I see you here tonight, so thank you for coming.
I do understand completely your concern, especially on Magnolia.
That is a street that I frequently walk and I see the the speed and I see the traffic.
It has traffic but it also has a lot of speed and I think I'm going to address this question to our chief of police.
And I was wondering, what can we do about maybe more enforcement on that street because especially around six o'clock in the evening or on a Saturday you see lots of people speeding.
It's wide street so it's just open for violations.
I know it's not going to be popular for a lot of people but I think I'll hear from you.
Councilmember Mullins, thank you for the question.
Exactly what you're doing now I think is appropriate specifically making me aware of it.
We have 17 square miles and we can't be everywhere at once so we rely on council, city staff.
Members from the community email or other avenues to get this information and at least have some sense of awareness.
Just because I'm not aware of it doesn't necessarily mean there's a problem so I'll take your concerns specifically that that came up public comment and address that with the traffic.
If we can't give it some extra love in a sense and address it accordingly.
Thank you. Appreciate that.
It has been noted, and I knew there would be the right time to bring it up and discuss it, so I appreciate that.
So my question is, how often will the city re-evaluate the focus network and update priority project locations?
We have it based on crashes, based on data. We haven't gathered any data since 2022, and these two years, there are there's a gap.
So we don't have that information, so we're making our own determination and recommendation based on data that has been previously gathered.
And we're looking also at the time where we have pandemic, people were not driving as much, and then they drove, and then they started, you know, we started noticing more accidents.
So when would be the next time, if you will, that you would come back and say, okay, we have more data and more information.
Perhaps some of the recommendations that you're making tonight, when even apply, because we either have more crashes or even less while we're hoping we have less crashes and less fatalities.
So when with that, when would that time be?
Thank you, that's a good question.
So to address, because the first part of it about data being 2018 to 2022, when this project started, that was the latest data we had, started the whole infrastructure of coding,
geocoding, all the analysis, and then once we were pretty far along, then we got 2023 data, and there is a bit of a lag on it in order to clean it up and kind of processing between police department, public works in ourselves.
So for the next time that we do update, we will incorporate multiple years that have since laughed into that data analysis.
And it typically, right now we didn't set an exact date, but it should be about three years before we go back and reanalyze all of the data, because it will then give us time to work on this first set of projects.
And then once once some of these projects are addressed, installed, we're observing them, then we're able to get more data in, do a whole another data analysis, and then make that list nine again, let's say we do a few of them, we'll backfill with additional ones after that.
And how long after the installation of some of the recommendations that you have, and I think page 32, 232, how long after are you going to wait before we start recognizing either our success or our concern about what we've done.
I think staff will start looking at it and observing immediately, it does take some time for anything that goes on the roadway for drivers and pedestrians to get used to what's there.
So typically, and I may, I don't know, when we work with our public works department on this, you let it settle and then see how it works, but even in those intervening few months while that's happening will be observing.
About six months, we might start understanding, once we can gather data in understand the difference in some of the traffic patterns and speeds if it has been successful.
And it also depends, I know, school starts very soon, it also depends on, we tend to do our traffic counts when schools are in session because that is considered the normal traffic pattern.
So it depends on that, but we'll be observing right away, but then really start thinking about it after four to six months.
Okay, and I know in the report you mentioned that we have done community outreach and that gives you the impression that our communities fully aware of what we're doing and my question is when was that.
What feedback did you receive from the community and the third question would be, what are they fully aware of what we're doing, we're all these different.
We have the priority pictures list of things that we were doing where they completely aware of this and what we're doing on each of the intersection and each one of these streets as in like starting with attachment to.
3837 all the way to the last street that you have here did they actually see this did they actually ask questions and I want to know what their feedback was.
So there was a three month period for the online portal that was open where people took surveys and this was us asking them information on their.
concerns sensitivities or desires for what they want to see on the roadways and burbing that also had the opportunity that was the survey component there was also a.
a map where they could drop pins and write a comment for what they see what they would like there those results are included in technical summary be.
In the appendix and at that point in time at the tip kind of at the tail end of that attachment is the appendix technical summary be if you flip to page 77.
And so at the tail end of that there's an in person community workshop at going to Mr. Branch library and the focus network map was presented the options of what could be.
And so that's all the types of countermeasures in the countermeasure toolbox were included at that point in time because the community engagement hadn't hadn't fully finished.
staff hadn't developed these project cut sheets that kind of paired all of it together dancing components of it, but the countermeasure are the cut sheets were included as part of this plan.
Okay, so a lot of a lot of these projects and or recommendations would come as a surprise to some individuals because.
all of a sudden they'll see a change whether it's around about on six street or nearing if the street on Ben Owen or some additional signal.
I think I may be very clear to the reason I'm asking these questions having gone through the experience of olive above Glen Oaks and narrowing olive and waking up in the morning even though we did community outreach.
But we all knew the we all found out quickly the reaction of the residents or people that drove on all of it was a very negative reaction and we all heard about it.
including of course staff Mr. Kriske answered God 1000 emails plus.
And so I am trying to look at ways to prevent this from happening again in the future.
We may not be able to prevent it 100% but I think doing our outreach job and and knowing if there's some major.
alteration to the streets that we need somehow to find a way where either one is brought to counsel for discussion or to somehow an outreach would be done in that neighborhood or residential area.
I'm not talking about changing a sign for saying no you turn on board of a stop it's it's fine it's given but I'm talking about major alteration and one of the the streets that you have on here is van Owen which we're recommending from what I see in this list is to narrow the street.
We do traffic so I honestly don't know what narrowing the lanes will do whether it creates more traffic given that we're putting almost 800 units in that area where prices so I don't know the impact on then Owen that is going to have narrowing the lanes in the impact of traffic.
So how do we address that how do we educate the community how do we make sure that people are aware here's what we're doing again not minor things because I think we do need these things that you're recommending in here left turn right turn whatever we are going to get used to it but I'm talking about major change from a normal driving every day and all of a sudden you know what's going on here.
Absolutely so I think your thank you for the question I think the part of the question where you mentioned you know signage minor striping things that people really have too big of an issue with.
Many of those components are what really kind of the meat of what we're looking at the way that this would work is that they would then sort of be layered as you go to increase alertness.
Make sure that drivers know where the major conflict points are whether that's improving with a continental crosswalk instead of the standard crosswalk.
Or improving visibility with signage or the reflective back plates on a signal those sorts of things as you mentioned.
We shouldn't be too much of a disturbance for the traffic circles absolutely that is something new that is something that our city has in dealt with there would be education around those.
Those treatments and those specific locations that those are only proposed on projects that are further down on our on our prior list so that that is kind of in order of how we would prioritize these.
So it would give us time to then do the education with that neighborhood and really make clear how it works how it might affect travel what the goals are and kind of what the drawbacks are there are examples of other cities.
About our size that have done these sorts of things especially with around about some traffic circles in very specific locations where it's only it's only.
Two lane roads in each direction and not on major arterial so they're specifically proposed at those locations as to not be a major disturbance on an arterial but we totally understand that if you live near it it'll be it'll be different.
So by having those kind of assigned to the ones on a lower on the prior priority list that would give staff time to work on public engagement educate the neighborhood around how that would work.
Action item four is all about continued public engagement and that would be part of our public engagement plan for how we go forward and communicate these different sorts of treatments that people might not be used to.
And just to add on to what Mr. Ramos said David Criskey assistant community developer director so this is a good conversation for this item now because we do need input from the city council on the types of things you're concerned about versus the types of things that maybe you're okay with not to big part of kind of finding the line between.
The improvements that we can do quickly and nimbly and not do so much outreach versus the ones that maybe that's a little bit too much of a reach and so we want some outreach or a more measured approach when we implement it probably the traffic circle.
So that's what we would like to get input from tonight when you consider this plan is the parameters that were allowed to operate in because we do want to we understand the outreach is important.
But vision zero and safer streets it's a new way of thinking because we also want to be nimble and to be able to put this out much faster than your typical capital project and then evaluate the best evaluation will be the data that we get as a follow up to the council members earlier coming about how we measure success.
We will hamstring ourselves if we have to be bogged down in a lot of more traditional planning but if there are things that you need us to do traditional planning for you need to tell us so we can either pull it out of the plan or caveat it so we would like to get that input.
This also we believe strikes a balance between what we think we can as an organization do quickly and nimbly we have been very mindful of what we think community members might react to with different things there are treatments that are not in this plan because we thought you know that's just too far.
Lane reductions I don't think lane reductions are in the context of this type of plan because we want to be quick.
And if you're going to do a lane reduction, that's a whole other project. So lane reductions aren't in the plan.
There's some other things that are far farther reaching that are not in the plan because of those concerns. But please, yes, the council should, if they can, provide input on elements that you want to see more outreach on.
And then also give us idea about the things, you know what? You know, a left, you know, a left-turn arrow that shows up that was a protected permissive, and now it's a red arrow, we're okay to try that.
A painted curb extension with ballers in a commercial area, not in front of somebody's house, but in a commercial area, we're okay with that.
Traffic circle? No, that's a whole other ball of wax. What's pull that back? That's what the input we'd like to see from you before we consider adopting this.
Thank you. And this, for that reason, I'm asking staff, because we've all lived through what happened on all of, even though it was,
it was the city's way of, of course, slowing down traffic, making sure people are safe, but we saw how the reaction.
And, you know, it's very much appreciated that the action that was taken to monitor for six months, get feedback, and then provide, make a correction. And I think I haven't received any emails lately, unless any of you have.
So, I think we consider that to be, you know, a success. And, and those are the type, for me personally, the type of project that is going to alter the way, completely alter the way that people are driving now in all of a sudden, there's a circle in the middle of sixth street.
Where is this come from? The behavior and the thought of driving straight and all of a sudden, what am I supposed to do with this now?
Naring the lanes on Veno and again, that's, that's even though it might not have a huge impact, but again, it does mentally, because we've noticed a lot of people, if they're driving close, it's all of behavior as we know, driving, you know, people are distracted with many things, you know, their hands or phones or, you know, even though they're not supposed to do it, but they can stop all of a sudden, and there's no room to go on this on the left,
on the left or the right before they hit the car and front of them. So, how is that going to, the behavior is going to be altered?
And those are the type of projects that I, I'm looking for personally to make sure that we are notifying the public, that we do our due diligence to let them know, there's a change in behavior and we expect, you know, we want to let you know in advance.
So, that's another good conversation to have for Veno and, because it's another example of an iteration where we started at a higher bar and kind of brought ourselves back down to Earth.
So, there was a thought to actually do the Veno and project as a lane reduction.
The volumes are very low, speeds are very high, there is new development coming, we think a lane, a single lane, each direction could address that, but that's probably beyond the scope of what we're trying to do to be nimble.
So, we brought it back, we said, no, instead we could look at lane narrowing.
Number of travel lanes remains the same, it's just you're taking a foot or two from each one and then applying it to narrow the street.
And in this case, add bicycle lanes in the, in the remaining space. We've been doing that in Burbank for many years.
All of our bike lanes on our materials today, that's how we got there. We took wider lanes and we took nibbled a foot or two away and then did it.
Staff's opinion is that level of improvement is not going to be something that's going to be disruptive to the motorist, but we're just staff.
The council could provide input on that situation.
Maybe a long corridor like that, you want us to, or it's like a long stretch of striping for blocks and blocks and blocks.
Maybe you think that also should be kind of out of the category, where really the meat and potatoes of this is looking yes at corridors,
but specific intersections along corridors and groupings. I feel like maybe that's a little less intense than a full blasting of the striping.
So that's another thing the city council could provide input on, but it's an example of where we went. We started high.
We kind of tempered what pure analysis and engineering might say, but brought it back to be what's the practical realities of how the public and the council might react.
So we brought it back and maybe we need to bring it back some more. So that's another example of how this is working.
I'm going to hold back because I think I had enough questions, but I do have.
I mean, I can sit here and ask more, but I'm going to allow you guys to jump in.
Okay.
Councilmember Zaddy.
Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor.
Just a couple of cobbins and questions.
Mr. Donna Hughes point about.
It's actually a pet peeve of mine are the right shares and the delivery trucks and the hammers on guys that just stop.
They're vehicle. They don't pull over and there's a place to pull over.
They just stop and that's when all safety goes out the window because you got people trying to get around them.
Can't see pedestrians. Personally, I would like to see those fines doubled on people that double park like that.
I think that creates a very unsafe environment and I see it all the time throughout the city.
And then the speaker regarding megnolia, I'm not sure where you live on megnolia.
But the commercial corridor, especially the high frequent areas, California, the Hollywood way.
We added the council added a crosswalk in a signal not that long ago, five or eight years ago.
And that was clearly because there was just such a high volume of people and traffic.
I would ask my council members that we incorporate into this plan.
The question is safety.
It's not really mentioned in here much.
There's logos about bikes and pedestrians and wheelchairs, but not a question.
Legally, they can write a horse in the question community in Burbank.
So I think that has to be looked at.
This body voted year or two ago to put in the master plan of finishing the question in trail.
The bridal trail is right now.
There's a partial trail in Riverside Drive.
I think that should be finished to Riverside down to Mariposa.
And the reason why is there's certain segments of the question in people that say,
Well, we have a perimeter trail.
Yeah, you do have the perimeter trail if you live south of Riverside Drive.
But people on the east part of the Rancho and the west part of the Rancho, they're trying to get south.
That would connect their neighborhoods, almost like the Chandler Bike Bath connected neighborhoods.
So with the trail.
So there's no way to go from east to west safely.
So I think that needs to be implemented into this if council agrees.
And then I want to go through some of these cut sheets if you allow me to.
We've got time.
Do you do it?
Questions or you're going to.
Questions?
Yeah.
And then we can deliberate, right?
All right.
So on the one on Alameda Avenue, where says extend the median.
Give me an idea what exactly where that location is.
I'm looking at the map, but it's a little fuzzy.
It's hard to read.
It's on 2-43 on the cut sheet.
Oh.
Yes.
So the specific location for that is if you're coming from lake going under under the fire under the five.
Then you go under the tracks and you come up and.
You kind of the back set if I key is on your left and there's strip commercial on your right.
Got it.
There's a bunch of really.
Weird driveways that come out to a front to drone and it's not very clear clarifying that.
Got it.
Yes.
And then on 2-45 Hollywood way.
Close the right turn lane from Cordova street to restrict left turns on the Hollywood way to simplify.
Is that the little road near Dino's pizza exactly and.
It's like a little child or at least go right.
So it currently can go right.
Right.
Where it so it comes to a point at the intersection and it makes a multi-legged intersection there.
Right.
There's a bailout for a card to make a left alone and make a right on and access that.
So cut that off.
Yes.
And then just only go right.
Correct.
Got it.
Okay.
Perfect.
I just want to make sure.
Correct.
Sorry.
I mixed up what you were saying.
It would be closing the right only and having the cargo left so that.
It.
It makes that merge happen before the the intersection actually exists.
So it forces you on a Hollywood way.
On the Hollywood way first and then you would make the right there.
Making a left.
Going against traffic.
No, you basically merge into Hollywood way northbound.
Got it.
And then you have to make the turn at the signal.
Okay.
Two right.
Perfect.
Okay.
It avoids two lanes coming together right at the intersection.
Got it.
Okay.
Um.
Van, no one.
We talked about.
There.
Are you okay with.
No one.
I mean, I know.
But.
The direction to make sure.
Originally especially with seniors, you know, when you start crying lanes.
Mixed people nervous, you know, there's not everyone's a great driver.
And I think response times.
If you had a little bit of a room.
You can respond a lot better.
If you feel.
Crunch.
So I'm not sure where the data comes in.
that idea, but I also agree that we're going to add 800 homes there.
So I think we should at least wait and see what that's going to do before we do any implementation.
So for Van Owen, all of those are valid, and I totally understand that.
What we're trying to address is that the speed is posted at 40, so it's already high.
I remember the days in Burbank when it was nothing over 35, so that's a 40.
So prevailing speeds we've measured out there are 48 to 52, so we're trying to address
speeding and then coming into point of vista.
But also, you know, being mindful of the tools that we think we can do without too much
consternation.
So if we think we can narrow the lanes, look at speed limit of policy, which we didn't
touch on too much, but with AB 43 and some of the other tools, one of the implementation
actions items here is to use those tools in certain locations, and this is potentially
one of them.
We're trying to address the speeding, which here is really seem to be really high.
And I was going to ask the question, can we drop the speed limit from 40?
Can we make it 35, are we allowed to do that?
So we have if the plan, if this plan is adopted, there is a first kind of a first really action
that we'd like to do our already starting to work on it, is to look at AB 43 and all the
nuances of the speed limit reforms that have come out recently and look at how that applies
to Burbank and sort of again ask the community in the council, do you want it to use some
of those tools in targeted areas where we now have the legal right to adjust the speed limits
to look at certain places.
One of the ideas we're throwing out is looking at all the forties.
Just seeing, can we legally now through engineering and new tools that we have eliminate
that?
So we have a couple of high-level things we want to chat with you about, and then we have some
other targeted policies with AB 43 to discuss with you.
So again, we've started out a little bit.
This plan would give us the permission to do that more directly and specifically to bring
in our police colleagues because the speed limits only work when they can be enforced.
So we want to make sure we're not setting ourselves up for failure with that.
But yes, that would be part of this plan that we would like to do going forward.
Okay, and then we're going to cut you the last one.
Give me the visual on 2-53 on Monterey.
We're exactly, and just real quick, while you're pulling that up for following at home or
if you're new, if you go online to the Birmingham website and you look up meetings and agendas,
you can pull up the whole 150 page report and follow along.
Thank you.
Correct.
Monterey is the one of the access roads that goes around the perimeter at Fickroy Park.
Yeah.
Oh, so it's the triangle shape that come together and then it is a similar to the Dino's
pizza corner.
It's an auto lineman where you're coming into an arterial from Monterey to Victory.
It's a bit of a bit of a vice versa.
The opposite way.
In both directions, so let's say you're making a left in, you're making a left across three
lanes and then navigating a spot where two lanes are coming together or if you're coming
out of the park and you want to make a left across, you're in an odd angle.
And so what's that based on kind of the, based on what we're looking at there.
For people accessing the part, simplifying that movement to improve safety, though.
I think giving the idea of simplifying. What are we doing?
Sorry, thank you. We would be making it right out right in only so that you wouldn't be able to make that letter turn correct.
That's with the hard obstacle.
No, it would be with signage. We are limited based on our conversations with other departments.
Mr. Christky said, we sort of started up here and then as we talked and kind of understood every department's sensitivities around impediments in the roadway.
We decided that signage to make clear that you can't go in there would be the best. We could also touch up paint.
But there wouldn't be a hard barrier in the middle of the arterial there.
Okay, it wouldn't be a bad idea. Can I ask? I have seen sort of rounded bulbs that can be driven over, but are not easy to drive over.
And I know putting an actual barrier in the way is tough, but like when we're talking about public works or or police or fire and moving through the streets, is that an option?
We looked at that to sort of prevent those left turns that we're trying to, so it can be possible, but it's kind of difficult for the average car, but we can do it. Like I don't know if that's the option.
So yet we've done some medium physical barriers and I agree with you that the signs and pain are good, but the physical barriers are always better.
We've done a few barriers with the case 71 flex posts around the target on Hollywood Way. We did it for raising canes, so we are open to that.
And we could get some feedback from you on to whether you think that's something to pursue.
The reason why it wasn't directly in the immediate we're just going to go out and do it is because the fire department does want to make sure that if we put too many of these in strategic locations where they are responding a lot that they want to look at it.
The Hollywood Way one by the target really works for traffic. It's really kind of helped reduce that those lefts and would actually be great to fortify it even more.
But fire on that one specifically said that during peak hour when the traffic is backed up at Magnolia and they have a response because they have to either use the turn lane to get around traffic or kind of they want to use the turn lane to get around the traffic.
If there's a median they have to go into the wrong way, which they can, but it just introduced a little more risk. So they wanted us to pull back on the median treatments because they would want to look at that.
So by the only comment is I'm open to it.
So if it makes sense and everyone's happy with it.
I mean, I've even seen sort of like tiny little speed bumps in certain areas.
Like stuff that a fire engine can handle at a moderate speed that the average driver is not going to jump out and still what concern of theirs.
Okay.
All right, fair enough.
And then last I miss miss missed on my list here for the Rancho of this part of the engagement.
I was at one of those meetings and through quite a few question people there.
I wouldn't even mention in the engagement section. So I think, again, just recognizing that the Equestrian community showed up and they had some concerns about just a question for your safety.
We can certainly add that language. I just would like to note that there is a whole separate Rancho neighborhood specific plan.
Which I'm sure you're very well aware of that absolutely.
We city understands the unique transportation needs and the intersection of different modes in the neighborhood.
Then that plan is specifically looking into that.
This plan just went based off of the data and where the hotspots were and then suggested off of that.
And unfortunately or rather luckily.
There were in any major hotspots in the Rancho that were in our top nine project list.
Understood. Thank you.
Madam Vice Mayor, thank you.
Great. Thank you for these questions.
A few more questions for you.
Going back to the topic of funding and the purpose of this plan.
So what I heard you say when we make sure I got that correct is that this plan is a lot of it is to give direction and a plan for being able to do these quick builds.
But it also is essential for future funding opportunities.
So it's kind of a two purpose plan for the future, too, right?
Correct. Yes. It opens the city up to be able to apply for those funds.
However, understanding how funding changes from time to time.
Staff is looking at a variety of funding opportunities.
But yes, to the short answer is yes, this opens up to be able to apply for additional state and federal funding.
Okay. And kind of following up with that and also previous comment about the bike paths.
How does this integrate with our complete streets and bike master plan both for implementing all these projects and work on the project and also for funding?
Thank you for the question.
So those plans laid the policies that this plan has built on top of.
If you notice on the cut sheets for if you flip to any number of them, there's a long term vision improvements white box on the right side.
And it notes where a corridor overlaps with a complete streets plan project.
So what that can do is a couple of things.
It can give staff the opportunity to possibly do a quicker build version of that to demonstrate effectiveness and then go after funding to fortify it.
Or what it can do is if it's coming along sooner, these other components for the rest of the corridor could be folded into it.
Great. It really like how they're all integrating together.
And they're multiple stages of the different projects.
And they're potentially all pieces of getting funding for different levels of projects.
So that's great to hear what they're all integrated.
And for the quick builds for this plan, they're quick to build in the sense that they're not as big of a project.
But that also means to that if for whatever reason they don't work out or that there's an issue that they can be adjusted or taken down pretty quickly as well, right?
It could be removed pretty much by getting that right.
Correct. Yes.
And then there was a community email that received and I think this is an example of where this can be.
I think the community can understand how this can be important is that yeah at the.
Recently there was an accident at Riverside and Rose, right?
And that's part of the area of focus that streets in one of our lines here.
So what would be an example of something that could apply to that particular intersection?
Do you happen to have that? I mean, I think Riverside and Rose is on.
The bottom left over by.
The shopping area and Riverside over on that side.
So what would be an example for the community to hear how that kind of thing could when there's an accident like that.
It could it be this plan be applied to that kind of.
Situation.
So the focus network is kind of the broader.
Top 15% of corridors and yes, as you mentioned, that segment of Riverside is on it.
But it wasn't didn't meet the threshold to be included as one of the specific project corridors.
Having said that as we see in the in the plan.
Intersections are a major focus left turns are a major focus and pretty much on most of these corridors.
The intersection to where those left turns or broadsides are happening is something that stuff be focusing on.
Good. And I think I think the kind of the question I'm asking is that.
When folks see accidents in the community like this intersection dangerous.
I think the question that might happen their head is how does this wonder what how do we get improvements.
What's a plan like this or how do we ask for improvements when we see an intersection dangerous this way.
So if there is an intersection or situation like this.
Does this plan help us improve those intersections in the community use those.
Accidents as an example of how to advocate for safer intersections.
Is that right.
So the nuance on this a little bit further.
I'm not quite sure I'm going to go with this, but first of all we don't know the circumstances of that accident.
So I don't know we can't prognosticate what could be used as solutions in here because I have no idea.
What cause and I just saw the picture in the car was what.
As Mr. Noah said, yeah, we had an accident there and it's concerning and it's on our network.
But if you think about it, there's nine other corridors where you have even more stuff happening.
So while we would like to focus our efforts immediately when we see something in the news to address it and we may have to just because of future circumstances.
Just know that we're one big goal of this was to really be the data is the arbiter and so we are looking at the brass tax of where the crash is happening.
We are waiting the vulnerable road users as a higher weight.
So we may have three auto versus auto in one place, but if we have maybe one auto versus auto in one pet that will rise higher because of pedestrian we're waiting further.
So that's where the 10 corridors come and that's where we want to focus.
But I will say that circumstances that we see with those types of accidents are speed or or conflicts at intersection.
And those are the two kind of north star things we're trying to fix because that's where most of the safety problems happen.
And so then the counter measures talked to that it's what can we do to reduce speeds and what can we do to eliminate or reduce conflicts.
Great, okay, thank you for elaborating that.
And then so speaking of speeds, one other item that came up is specifically street racing speeds.
So there's the general like just fast or driving like on Bano and because it's open or open road or whatever but there's the specific street racing speeds.
Would this plan help us at all with those types of situations or our streets that are used for street racing.
Let me first say that street racing is a violation of the law.
So if people are willing to break the law, that really goes beyond our ability to control it if they wish to run red lights if they wish to speed down the middle of narrow lanes, which are designed to slow traffic.
Staff would be limited and their ability for people who wish to disobey our traffic control devices.
Okay, so the answer is no that this plan does.
Well, I would just caution the council from making statements that it believes it can control illegal conduct with safe road design because illegal conduct by its nature is violating safe roadways safe intersection.
So the fact that an accident happens, the fact that a race happens doesn't mean that the design is not safe.
It means they broke the law.
Right.
You should talk to the people making the new fast or furious movie and see if they want to change some of their attitudes.
Well, and then I think this is also someone important.
Someone obscures to any of the data that we received with the crash data.
If it has if these data are speed racing data in crashes, then it I don't know if it is impacting it all of our interpretation of whether that is a safety or our.
Generally speeding or generally dangerous road versus a road where people are breaking the law in which he doesn't outlier, so I'm just wondering.
So I would discourage you from using the phrase generally dangerous road.
I don't believe we have any of those.
Okay, thank you.
And clarify.
And I will say maybe not necessarily for speed racing, although.
I guess it would apply to but in general, there are another action item is enforcement and some tools that we are proposing to look into to use police resources a little bit differently to address.
So that is an action item, so we have we have speeding motor officers, we have patrol officers, we have pretty good crime low crime member, luckily.
And so there may be opportunities to use resources a little bit differently to direct.
Say patrol in certain times in circumstances to speeding enforcement.
So enforcement is not a infrastructure measure, it is a it is a but it is another part of it.
Okay, so that's a totally separate thing so folks who have questions or comments about that is a completely separate.
Well, it's included in the plan and I think the corridors and the locations will now help us enforce where we know things are happening because we will see that with all these corridors or many of them speed is a factor in many of the crashes and so one measure.
We can do speed feedback signs, we can do lane narrowing, we can do signal timing to break up the platoons, but then we can also direct speed enforcement resources.
It's certain times to also affect that I will say also and please have much more information to provide on this.
We also are limited in our police resources, so there's only so much we can do but this helps direct the their work also.
Okay, great, thanks.
Shifting gears a bit for the green bike lane, so just wanted to kind of clarify.
I think what Council Member Anthony was asking about was for the green bike lanes in the high conflict areas that are being redone and putting those as a priority for if you're going to do the
the street anyway, miles will put in the conflict green painting. Is there also potentially a focus for the highest conflict bike areas that maybe there's not going to be doing any street work there, but there's still particularly conflict areas that we could add the green bike lanes. And if so, where would we get that information to figure out which one those are?
So for the the project corridors, if there is an existing bikeway, or if there is a small gap, that is absolutely something that we staff would be looking at implementing to improve the visibility for where those conflict points conflict points are, but that would be aligned with the priority projects outlined in the plan.
Okay, all right. And then going back to traffic circles, I know we're in questions, but since we talked about traffic circles earlier, my question to you is, can I be at the ribbon cutting for the first traffic circle that you play?
I think that's great. I'm big fan of traffic circles and would love to be there to see the first one implemented.
Yeah, but also I understand the concern about implementing something new like that. I have complete confidence that our community can quickly figure it out and they will it will take some adjusting. Yes, they will.
Yes, they will other communities have done it many times that where I have faith in you. Councilmember Rosati, I faith in you.
But yeah, so there's that and then the leading pedestrian intervals. Yes, thank you so much for those. I've already talked about those before and curb extensions. Yes, big fan.
A couple more things that I'm done. Van Owen. So I have a little bit of a different perspective. Do you remember the walking walking.
I don't know what it was called like an audit or something where we did had two or three groups we walked all through the tour through that area.
In my group that we did that walking tour every one in that group was like, please slow down, Van Owen, please please please do something. So I have a feeling that that that community will really appreciate something being done there in narrowing lanes.
Whatever it takes a slow folks down.
And when you're considering like that stretch or when you're considering these things are is there going to be outreach to the community again to see whether they would like to have those more potentially extreme measures.
I think that's an area is an example that that would be actually pretty welcome to have something to go on there.
So this is again, it's a little bit lower level. We're having a discussion about kind of where we want to go with quick build limited outreach and so we'll take that feedback but also for additional context in the longer range planning area.
The Golden State specific plan has a whole mobility component and we are looking at Van Owen to actually do a lane reduction, but that's not coming out of this like which is do it.
It's kind of out of okay this is the specific plan.
Let's weigh in on all the different ideas we want to look at to address transportation in this area for the next 15 years.
That is a corridor of discussion.
Okay great good that they'll be happy to hear that and then just in general with the all the elements on.
232 and 233 with the suggestions can we please add the green by lanes.
Little picture there's a space right there for the green by lanes right on that page.
And I like them all they're great thank you for including all these.
All right those are all my questions deliberation we're already I think 45 minutes behind schedule but if we would like to deliver it yes count member moments.
Now I have one request to see if we can add that.
For the pavement marking through intersection those white lines for the intersections.
I don't believe unless I miss it we have the flashing lights when somebody's crossing in an intersection especially a busy street I'll give an example on.
I believe it's central in Glendale central brand across the street there is a church on the corner there they have the flashing lights if somebody wants to cross.
Can we you're saying an intersection that doesn't have a street light.
Yeah or in the middle of the intersection in the middle of the street where the lights as far.
Can we do we have any of those lights here in the city I've never seen one.
It's kind of a cautious light to let the pedestrian the vehicles know that there is somebody crossing the street.
So she's asking about crosswalks without a signal.
So I don't think we have any of I've never so.
So this so those sorts of improvements step one those sorts of improvements are a little bit out of the quick build right.
You need power and you got to build it into the street and yes and there's some there's a category some of these improvements with public works that we kind of put in a side bucket of.
Potential but with a little more stuff because there are certain parameters we want to look at when we're looking at mid block crossings and doing controls like that.
To make sure we're putting the appropriate treatment there that being said we will be getting some of these from separate projects we're going to get one on front street as part of the seven seven seven front street projects to get folks crossing front street it's only two lanes in each direction of a little fast.
All but I think it's going to be slower with the new development but so we're going to get one there and then the empire housing development project 20.
This we empire between point of vista and Ontario with the housing development affordable housing project they will be putting one in right near them and by the park to help with that.
So we're we're very our engineering colleagues and ourselves are very cognizant about letting people cross mid block to only do it when they have the appropriate treatment which is why it's not a quick build.
But it is included for further study in some of these areas.
I was just one further note that my colleague from traffic engineering just let me know so that you were talking about the overhead is the hawk signal that tends to happen on the faster more main streets.
RRFB the flashing beacon ones where the lights are on the side is exclusively on a quieter slower sad street so they're even though they both have flashing lights they're two different use cases so I just wanted to clarify that that the ones that would like the one that would be on him on.
by seven seven seven front street is the overhead hawk one.
Okay I mean I've seen him I've used them and I think it's helpful for you know cars who are coming not expecting that somebody's crossing it alerts the vehicles to slow down so if it's something that we can have in the future as you're.
Moving on to second phase or the projects are done so is something maybe to look at in the future.
Yes, okay.
Just one last final question.
The high visibility crosswalks are those only going to be implemented where we already currently have strike crosswalks.
Correct, there's a separate crosswalk policy that addresses new ones.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, ready for deliberation yes.
Councilmember Anthony.
Yeah, so.
I'm fine with the plan.
I like all of the designs.
I don't want to limit our public works on what they can do.
However, to Councilmember Mullins point, there are a couple that I think might be a little.
Newfangled for folks and because you know our our city doubles in size during the day, especially in the commercial areas I think trying to do outreach and commercial areas would just not really get the result we want.
So for me personally I think doing the outreach specifically to any improvements in residential zones is really where we should concentrate on specifically the three items that I'm looking at.
The traffic circles, the lane narrowing and the curve extensions for me those three.
Vis visually.
If you're in the neighborhood if you live in the area, it looks like there's a big improvement and change to the roadway.
I know going through these that yes, it takes a minute and you get it but.
To Councilmember Mullins point I don't want to get a flood 200 emails coming in why is this in so if we could do some more traditional outreach on the three the curve extensions the lane narrowing and the traffic circles just in the residential neighborhoods that they're implementing that I think that would really hit off at the past a lot of the stuff we saw with all of north of.
So curve extensions on our material a commercial area, are you more okay with that because this is a kind of a bread and butter item.
Resonance like totally get it because you don't want one of these things in front of your house.
Well, not that I don't want it, but if we we need to let we need to have a more discussion about that, but if it wants it to warrant it, but doing the outreach and talk to the people and yeah so that's I think kind of the point of what yeah.
I'm going to go back to just ask that we that we consider implementing the question safety into the plan.
With the trail and signage and just.
If I could because one of the things we're talking about is how it's not really affecting it what I'd like to do.
Instead of trying to implement it here is hold off on any implementation in the Rancho area for this until we're done with the master plan if that's.
I think she just least mentioned it.
Just mentioned it you have you not even mentioned in here that there should be a question for safety in there.
Okay.
I'm okay with that.
We're not asking for an implement implementation of anything we're just asking to mention it.
And then.
Just do we get data was there any data at all of a question involved accidents or course injury or course writer injury.
So in the in the police report data that staff received there.
Many many columns of of the data fields including if an animal was involved in a collision.
So it didn't specifically say horses sit in also looking at the collision characteristics and where it happened seeing if it was in the Rancho.
If it was on Riverside or one of the side streets with something staff looked into.
And there wasn't a.
A collision involving an animal in those areas that was a.
An injury collision so the collisions that staff used for the mapping and the waiting.
There were none that met those criteria.
Maybe even just including that information in the report so that it shows it was looked at considered.
Yeah.
I agree I think.
I agree with both of you we should have and I think you said the same we should.
At least we know that this part of the community was not overlooked.
And there was some either we didn't have enough data or is this this is something we're going to look at in a future in our master plan.
Or even face to of the ongoing improvement that we're doing.
And then just to finish up I just think the round about is just not a great idea and.
There are an intent quantum consequences you know people doing donuts in there.
I might be for it if it was a high quality one and I've seen high quality ones where there's landscape being an infrastructure and but I don't think we're talking about that I think we're just talking about.
Just subsurbing right.
It didn't look like anything high quality.
If we're going to do it.
I want to do it right.
Yes.
A little bit of terminology traffic circle is more akin to what we be looking at here which is really slowing down at intersections.
A full roundabout where you're actually like pulling out the stop signs and doing the full treatment is kind of beyond the scope so I do want to make that different.
And again I would what I'm encouraging them is to do the outreach first.
Get the communities to support it if we have if we have huge pushback.
So one of the reasons why I think the outreach is important.
If you get a neighborhood and you're like hey we'd like to implement a neighborhood traffic server and do the outreach and nobody's for it.
I think at that point we have an informed decision where we can make that choice at that point.
Give me.
Give me a better idea what a traffic server was.
I mean if you look at the picture page 33 it's very small.
That's what I'm saying I just.
Yeah, but but like so what I don't want to do is limit public works and their ability to give that option to the community if people in the neighborhood are asking for some sort of calming measure.
And nothing else is working and public works comes to them as his hey folks in this neighborhood.
Is this something you'd like and they're all for it.
I mean who are we to say not all you can't do it because traffic circle it's around about you have to go around it.
Can't go straight.
You have to go around it.
The person has come around it.
So it's.
I think it's a little funky and not an engineer but there's.
There's two round about one where you just go around and the other one is just I've seen this circle in some neighborhood.
It's not a full round about but so maybe what are we.
So you have to go around, right? You got to keep going around and then the guy on the other side has to go, wait, oh, should I go, should I go, should I go? No, and then yeah, because the clusters, that's around about. So if I may through the advice, right, east coast of here, log around about, it's just full disclosure.
So typically to replace traffic signals, there are larger intersections. There are to continuously have traffic go around and this would think of a larger intersection, there's opportunities for bikes and peds on the sides.
The traffic circle is really a residential traffic calming measure, and there could be a simple as, you know, followed in a curve, you can make it a planter, but the bottom line for us, transportation planter traffic engineers, we wouldn't look to implement this in an area that doesn't warrant it.
So that's from studies and again, working with PD and understanding that people will want this because they've seen a lot of issues there, and it's a way, it's not a merge in yields in area, there is a circle to it's a weave around and both directions you do have to pay more attention, that's the benefit of a versus just open intersection or even a stop sign, you have to make contact, that's what's safe for traffic circles and roundabouts, but not the rabbit hole, that's basically the difference of roundabouts for just traffic circles.
The traffic circles being smaller and more residential applications.
I think that we could build one quick build and let you try it out and see what things.
I'm not worried about me, there are so many people that are courteous and they're in a rush and I just, I don't know.
You guys get the emails, I don't want you guys to get the emails, I'll see, I'll just put, again, because it's quick build, right? We try it.
Yeah, if we don't like it, pull it up.
Well, and you're going to limit us.
Like you said earlier, let's find out if that neighborhood wants it, and if they do and they know how to drive around there, great for them, but if they don't, let's rethink about what else can we do.
Yeah, it's good to have it in the arsenal as a possibility, doesn't mean it necessarily has to be implemented, but it's good to have is in the pocket.
And to be clear, if we were to consider these, it's again, it's way down the list.
We were looking at six street in the dense part of the hill, where we have a lot of stop sign conflicts.
I go down six street, I'll be there tomorrow morning.
I know I know.
Head into mirror and dealing with all the other parents.
So yes, I think I personally think a drivers are going to help.
I want to see a camera, I want a camera, I want to see everyone going through there and see how it works.
I'm not opposed to that, so.
Any more deliberation?
I'm good.
Okay.
Great.
This is such a great work.
The thoroughness, the visibility of the projects, clarity, the thoughtfulness has gone into this, and so impressed with the plan.
Thank you so much for putting it together.
I already shared my thoughts about the different elements.
Put them all in the toolbox to be used potentially.
And I'm looking forward to seeing how, you know, assuming we have passed it just now.
Looking forward to seeing how things pop up.
So would anyone like to make a motion?
I'm here.
Okay.
All right.
I'd like to move that we adopt a resolution of the Council of the City of Burbank adopting the
Labour Street's Burbank Action Plan and declaring categorical exemption under
Sequo with the recommendations on including language that we have studied the Rancho
Master Plan.
Oh, sorry.
The Rancho.
A question in safety.
And the additional outreach for curb extensions, laying narrowing and traffic circles in residential
Neighbors.
Second.
five also known as the Novigilani's Act. This bill introduced by Senators Perez and Winner
would require all law enforcement officers operating California, federal, state, and local
to visibly display their agency and their name or badge number during enforcement duties.
The only exception being those that are in undercover capacity and a violation of this
statute would be a misdemeanor. The bill authorizes law enforcement to do the following, ID,
provide identification from suspected impersonators, restricts immigration enforcement by private
actors such as bounty hunters and bail agents, requires confidentiality of a defendant's
immigration status within bail operations, expands the crime of impersonating a public official
beyond electronic means such as the internet. In Burbank our officers are already in compliance
with the bill's primary provisions through state law, our department policy, and current
uniform manual standards. Because of this, we do not anticipate any change in the day-to-day
operations as it currently meets all statutes under California codes. Now, I believe it's important to
mention a few considerations that regarding this bill. First, it may raise legal questions regarding
the supremacy clause if applied to federal officers who operate under federal authorities since they
are not bound by state law. Second, the bill codifies practices that are already in place
via statutes and policies. And then some provisions could introduce conflict with federal law
without a clear local benefit. For these reasons, my position and that both of the Los Angeles
County police chiefs and Los Angeles, the California police chiefs is neutral. I am in support
of the overall philosophy, transparency, accountability of what the bill is intended to achieve.
My concern at the end of the day is the potential conflicts or the unintended consequences
that I mentioned specifically when you have a state law that is in direct conflict of a federal law.
And specifically we're talking about operational challenges in challenging a government entity
and what that means for us. And then also, fiscally, we're already seeing it across the region as far
as local municipalities being impacted when we're challenging the federal government. So for those
specific reasons, choosing along with the other agencies to remain neutral, SB 805 reinforces protocols
that are already in place. And as mentioned before, some of those provisions could be in conflict.
So staffs recommendation tonight is to note and file the report. However, if counsel directs and still wants
to support the document, a letter of support has been drafted on your behalf. And that is the
end of the report. If you have any questions here. Thank you for your report. Do we have the
comment? Okay. Well, we'll do the public comment first. And then we'll come back to ask you some questions.
All right. Our first or an only public comment tonight is Mr. Jason Lewis. If three minutes.
Good evening. And for the last time tonight, Vice Mayor, council member staff,
an audience, private citizen Jason Lewis, this time to bring my support for council two send a letter to
Sacramento, supporting SB 805, the Nova Jelani's Act. I'm actually really glad this on the agenda because I
wanted to speak my mind on this and hey, I'm already here. So I didn't find yourself as a member of law enforcement.
It's a tired trope as old as Hollywood, flashing your badge like Boulder and Scully, detective Joe Friday
of Dragnet. It's a part of the job. Badges with an ID number, name tag, not just a part of the
uniform. They're the identification that this isn't someone criminally impersonating a member of
law enforcement to kidnap them. This is a no-brainer. If you're in favor of citizens trusting
a law enforcement or building that trust, it is important. Our city publicly stands with the kind of
laws that bolster that. The recognition for the Burbank High Bulldog baseball team's charity,
they performed during the fires and amazing sportsmanship in generosity by those young men by the way.
They reminded me that during the fires folks might not know this, our Burbank police officers were also
out there like our fire department, helping our neighbors in the city's affected. They were keeping
homes safe from looters as they evacuated and impossers trying to look like out of town fire departments
were caught along with common criminals. So it's not just about Burbankers trusting our police.
These masks, thugs, destroy, trust and all authority because I know I didn't get the quarterback
wristband to know who's with the real law enforcement. Did you? Again, this is about trust. We should not
accept mask bounty hunters kidnapping people based on where they are hanging out. What they're
wearing or what kind of jobs they're seeking. It isn't normal. The reason is giving for wearing black
socks in their faces is nonsense. They're ashamed. They don't want to be outed. If you're wearing a
badge and serving honorably, you're not ashamed. I don't see ashamed in the office in my city.
On the contrary, I see pride in the service they give to our citizens in our community every day. I stay
with all law enforcement being identifiable on masks like I see our Burbank officers do today
and have every day. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. The staff have any response to public
comment. The only thing that I will reiterate is, as mentioned before, the statutes or the
concerns that were brought up by the comment specifically already exist. So there are strong laws
associated with impersonating a public official, whether that's police, fire, or some other official,
and also as far as the display of insignia is clear within the statute as far as name or serial number
badge and patches. So that currently already exists. What we are discussing specifically with 805,
what we're looking the kind of cast the wider net, specifically associated with the federal government
to address the concerns that are being brought up with the community. Thank you. All right,
council questions? Yeah. Based on what Mr. Lewis said, chief, will you or your staff,
any of the officers have any authority over an outside agent who may not be displaying
the badge or showing their face? Would you be able to go and arrest them because they were not
displaying the proper requirement of what we have here in the city, which I know you are in compliance
with, you know, badge showing your identity identifying the officers when they go on site. Do we have any
authority over them? Can we arrest them? Can we do anything? Because they're in violation.
Councilmember Moles, I want to make sure to understand your question correctly. So to clarify,
are we talking about ace state, a local municipality? Are we talking about federal? Have no authority
over federal entity at all? Because that's what we're talking about. I mean, the issue was brought
to our attention, and I think that's where SB 805 started from regarding the ICE agents,
going into communities, you know, arresting people or, you know, taking them, and there's a lot of
different scenarios that we can talk about in specifically federal, because again, we're in compliance
here. Would we have any authority over them? So the short answer is no, we technically do not have any
authority over the federal government. The other response, the longer response specifically, is up until
the point that we know they are federal government. So what I'm saying is we have the right to investigate
or determine if they actually are a legitimate law enforcement agency. And specifically, I think everybody
across the region has seen it televised, media, otherwise, as far as there have been instances where
people are trying to impersonate the federal government. That's why it's within our right to investigate
further. At the point that we determine they identify themselves, even though they are not
displaying the appropriate insignia, we have no authority over the federal government as far as we can't
compel them to ACs activity, be display insignia, or do other things that is the norm of a state or a
local municipality. Thank you. My other question is, if we have other Asians from other cities,
let's talk about local government, and I do we have state police that come into our city for
arrest, or they do any type of warrant, or arrest here in the city of Burbank, is that happening?
So the state municipality for California is a California highway patrol. Okay.
And they fall under the same sections that we would fall under as far as, well, identity correct.
That is codified within the penal code. So when we have somebody, let's
city of Glendale, our neighbor in city. When they come to our city, they are mistooming.
They're complying with the same laws you're complying with, which mean identify yourself, your badge,
and you don't have face covers, unless, again, you mentioned, they report their under cover,
and they have to be protected.
Correct? Correct. Under state codified specifically, as far as the insignia, there is nothing specific
as far as mass, but from a professionalism standpoint, a normal state of practice, as far as kind
of what was already mentioned by the public comment. Mr. Lewis, we are not ashamed or afraid to
hide our faces and would only hide them in the capacity that we needed to probably need an undercover
capacity. As far as full uniform representing public safety for purposes of transparency, accountability
and trust, that would be outside the scope of what we have we would interact with the community.
Thank you. I would also point that there are fairly broad exemptions in this bill.
The most obvious one is the one that the chief touched upon undercover operations.
There's another exemption for officers wearing personal protective equipment that prevents
display. Number four is exigent circumstances involving an imminent danger to persons or property
or the escape of a perpetrator or destruction of evidence. And finally, when there is a specific
articulable and particularized reason to believe identification would pose significant danger
to the physical safety of the peace officer. Whether you like them or not, those are very broad
exemptions, which would mean a person not identifying themselves would not be violating this.
The law or at least could find a very easy excuse not to follow it.
Well, the burden for actually filing the cases that a prosecutor believes they can prove the case beyond
a reasonable doubt. And there's a lot of doubt in these exceptions.
Councilmember Rosadi. Thank you. Madam Vice Mayor.
The Assembly member and the Council member talked about facial coverings, but I looked up the bill and I read
this a couple times. Is this just talk about facial coverings or just ID?
This bill is specifically to address idea, believe Congresswoman Laura Friedman is in trying to
introduce a bill that specifically would then address risks.
I think it's a different bill. Correct. Yeah, the House bill 44. Yeah, because I
Assembly member mentioned 805 and facial coverings, why I was just questioning it.
And then what is a bail fugitive? A bail agent or a bail fugitive? So bail fugitive, the actual definition,
I'll do my best as far as explaining it. It's someone who is currently awaiting trial is out on bail.
So there's an associated bond for being released and out on their own reconnaissance.
So should they, what's the word I'm looking for, not forfeit the bill, but fail to appear?
Fail to appear. The should they fail to appear? Thank you.
Then at that point. Don't ask me how they would be considered a bail fugitive,
where they did not show up to court, or would be issued for their arrest, or failed to show up,
and in essence also forfeiture of the bail associated with being out on their own reconnaissance.
So they've committed a crime. Correct. And that crime could be,
there are alleged to have committed a crime and prior to sentencing, they've been released on bail
with a promise to return for further court proceedings. And then they're fugitive because they
didn't return. They failed to appear, which is a separate charge.
Okay, thank you. Any other questions? No? No questions for me. So deliberation? Okay,
that's my Anthony. So, just moved through the State Senate already.
Carellumenge of our voted in favor on the Senate floor. It's moving through the assembly committees.
It was in Assembly Member Schultz's public safety, which he shares. We saw the video.
He obviously voted in favor of it. He, my guess is, will likely vote for it on the assembly floor.
So, both of our reps are going to vote for this. The governor has signified that he's going to
support it. A letter is not going to do anything. It's not going to change any hearts and minds.
Whether we support it or not. At the end of the day, what we have here is this symbolic gesture.
I personally have looked at all the conflicting evidence. We have a number of state and local
statutes that we already work on. For me, unless a federal law is passing Congress,
it's not really going to do much. From my understanding what this would do at the end of the day
is simply give standing for our State Attorney General to file the lawsuits that we're talking about,
which are hard to prove, hard to substantiate, but it gives him standing to move something forward.
If both of our State reps are voting for it, I'm inclined to simply support the bill on its face
because of what it stands for and what it means. It may not end up doing anything. It may get thrown out
in court. The moment the lawsuit goes through. But at the end of the day, what we're seeing on the streets,
it's tough to watch. I saw just last week there's an actor who's been in the news recently,
Dean Ken, he used to play Superman on TV and he joined ICE. He said, I'm going to do my
due diligence of supporting the president and his administration and he's doing it without a mask and he's
showing up with his name and his face and he says, I'm going to join as me. And to me, I may not
agree with his choices, but I respect his honorable choice to not hide his identification. He's doing
the job of law enforcement as we in this country see what law enforcement should be doing. Your
your name and your face and your badge number or your identification because you're doing the honorable thing
or at least what you believe to be the honorable thing. So I'll reiterate what we're talking about
here is just a letter of support. We're not actually enforcing it. I don't think it could be enforced
anyways. It's a symbolic gesture. I'm inclined to support it. I know our state legislators are going
to vote for it anyways. On its face, do we think at the end of the day? Anyone involved in law
enforcement at any level? Should they follow the standard protocols that we've set forth in this
country of proper identification, name, badge number? So that's what I see this has.
Okay. Any other comments? Or during deliberation, would you like to? Yes, we are.
I'm happy to deliberate. I understand, and I see it exactly the same way. This is all symbolic.
Really nothing we do here is going to have an effect on federal what they're doing. The outcome
I appreciate the congresswoman tonight coming in and looking for bigger and better things.
And I take what the chief said and what our staff's recommendation and great heart. We do ask
questions as we did with all the other reports. We ask where they're coming from. Why are they saying that?
And at the end of the day, I am responsible for our own police and fire, local police and fire.
If the chief had come up and said, well, you know, at times we don't identify beside being
undercover and the exemptions they have. You know, we don't do it all the time but we'll try to do a
better job. I'll be the first one to say, now starting tomorrow. You are going to display your badge.
You are going to do it. Why? Because we are responsible for our local safety law enforcement
in the city of Burbank. I am not responsible for federal. It's something that
bigger, better legislators are working on it. And I hope they're successful in getting it through.
And I hope this will all go away because I like you. Seeing things on social media,
we see it on TV. And it's something you don't want to look at and you want to see. But I know there's
nothing in my capacity. A letter is not going to do anything. It really gives false expectation.
Hope that we actually did something. But we do need to do anything. The other concern and the chief
mentioned it is bringing attention to herself. And we've all seen the reaction that have come to
some cities because bringing attention to yourself. I'm not afraid to bring attention to herself fighting
the state because of housing issues, because of transportation issues. But when I start looking at
what's been happening to other cities and funding that's been taken away from them, including
universities, including a lot of, I mean, we see it on TV every morning, who lost how many millions
of dollars in funding? Again, a congresswoman Friedman is giving us money for things that we desperately
need in the city. I don't want that to be taken away because city of Burbank signed a letter that
has no meaning whatsoever. That is not going to make a change or a difference in what's happening
today. And it's not because I don't feel bad and it's not because I want transparency. It's because
I'm responsible for my local government and our chief has come to me and said, we want to stay neutral.
It's in our best interest because we already do this. So for that reason, I cannot continue supporting
because I don't want to lose funding and I know my voice is not going to have an impact on anybody.
So with that, I think I am declining to sign that letter or even send it on behalf of the city.
I think we need to keep our focus on local issues in this matter because nothing we're going to do
is going to make any difference. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. It's real simple. If I'm
going to side with our residents and bail fugitives, I'm going to go on the side of our residents.
I do think that there would be unintended consequences.
You know, I'm kind of an impact guy. I do things that make impacts. When do addressing
in virtual signaling, with all due respect to the people involved in this bill, I don't think that
this bill does anything meaningful. If it did, I might think differently, but I think it's just
draws more spotlight to us than we need. So I'm in note and file.
All right. Thank you for your comments. So that was my agenda item.
And I asked to agenda this item, let us support for SB 805 because one of our charges as a counsel is to do
what is within our power to protect our residents and those in our permanent community.
SB 805 is a state-level bill that among other things attempts to help us protect our community
members from ICE and other authority impersonators. These impersonators are bad actor,
opportunists using this unique time in our history to take advantage of the gray cloud of confusion around
ICE rates, who act with plain clothes, masks, unmarked cars and most importantly not showing
badges or having personal identification. In particular, unidentified ICE impersonators targeting women
of color. Our two representatives, Caroline Menjavar and Nick Schultz and the Assembly,
are two of the co-signors of SB 805. They are showing in locked arms of solidarity and collaboration
across state bodies to do what they can to let us know that our community members safety is matter
that we are not okay with these bad actors taking advantage. While the points made that it may not
have an significant impact on our police departments, procedures are valid and it will have challenges
at the state level of implementation. It may not even do anything as you have said. It is also true
that this is the best attempt that we can make to address this issue at this time. The state level is where
it makes sense to have this conversation. This is where we can support our state representatives to help
them help us figure out how to protect our community. They are willing to put this up for a vote in the
assembly and to go to bat for us in the state. We can thank them for fighting for us for working
together and being willing to have this hard conversation at this difficult time by sending this letter
support. And some say that our city is not being affected by ICE impersonators like other cities are
and we may be not be seeing as many ICE rates here as other cities are seeing and that may be true
and then we may be drawing attention to ourselves. It is definitely happening in our region.
And it can happen in our city at any time. And even if it doesn't happen here,
we cannot sit idly by while we watch our neighbors deal with it and we sit back and we say nothing while
they are dealing with it. So we don't want to have attention on ourselves so the attention will be on the
other cities not us. I don't think that's a fair or very righteous or very proud stance to take.
So we must remember that the many of the people...
In our city, come here to work. They live in the cities and areas that are affected by this behavior. We're all connected.
So, staff reports says that other cities have already sent support, moderate park, paramount, Pasadena, and Hawthorne.
And I personally would be proud to add our city to that list and show our state representatives that we thank them for their support to help us.
And I also wanted to be known when our children look back at this video at this meeting, our future Burbank residents read our minutes of our decisions during this unique time that they see that the council did not stay silent.
They're proud of their past leaders of the city seeing leaders who understood the time we're in and we saw what is happening around us and we said something.
So I wanted to say something. And that's why I brought it up.
So, clearly, I support signing the letter because I did a jad dieset and I have these reasons, but I wanted to make the statement so the community knows why I brought it to us.
With that being said, I'd like to go on the record here, so if it's okay.
Just to put it to a vote.
I'd like to move that we forgo the customary second step in the additional agenda item process and send the enclosed letter of support for Senate Bill 805, the no vigilante exact.
To the original co-sponsors, a senator's session were in a Perez and senator Scott Weiner and to our state representatives senator Caroline Menjabar and assembly member Nick Schult.
I'll in second.
So first by council member Anthony second by vice mayor Takahashi, please call the vote.
Council member Anthony.
Yes.
Council member Molens.
No.
Council member Rosati.
No.
Vice Mayor Tagaashi.
Yes.
So the vote fails.
It is a note and file then, I guess, because of the vote feeling.
Okay.
All right.
Now we are near the end of the meeting.
We're almost there.
You think, well, not quite on time, but we haven't reached 11 yet.
We're 50 minutes behind.
Yeah.
All right.
So now we will hear council comments, including reporting on council committee assignments, attendance at conferences, regional meetings and community events.
Who would like to go first?
Council member Molens.
We'll go first.
Why not?
Okay.
July 30th.
I had a meeting at.
I can't even talk.
Sorry.
I had a meeting at mythical headquarters.
I didn't know which one I should read first.
Which it's a great, great place to visit.
You would never think it's there.
It's on victory.
All brick building, but they do a lot of YouTube filming.
And they have a whole set up, 150 employees.
It was a good tour to learn about their success.
And also showing us a part of where they do their filming.
So I was very pleased to have a conversation with them and understand about their operation.
The same day I had.
I went to the ribbon cutting and this is what I thought it was.
I did that first.
For the Ritzi.
I was there with council member Anthony in the vice mayor.
The solar project, which we're very excited about.
And we had the ribbon cutting that day.
Followed by a luncheon with the circus from the ANCA.
Had some updates about the Armenian community and some of the things they're working on.
And then.
Expo and I attended on Friday August 1st.
The expo.
I'm not going to call it job fair because I know that is not the right words to say.
But at the time when I went, there were about 800 to 1000 people in present.
So everyone was excited.
It was really a wonderful event of connection.
So I know that they're looking at looking changing the name maybe in the future.
So there's not that anticipation of I'm going to get hired.
Bring my resume to the fair.
Then I attended National Night Out.
And that again met with neighborhoods and a great success.
Congratulations to the police department.
As usual, all the departments that really involve.
And I went shout out to all the executives in the city manager.
Everyone was there this year.
I think all of you guys showed up, which I think is the first year and many years that I've seen everyone there.
So thank you.
Participation was very well noticed among the community there.
And then I attended yesterday.
The Burbank Lendale Pasadena Regional Housing Trust.
I attended that as the alternate on behalf of the mayor.
And I wanted to report that we awarded.
I have the amount here.
I think two million dollars per construction.
To a project for the city of Pasadena.
And it's called as for the transition age youth.
Which is very interesting because this is youth target.
You have to be between the age of 18 to 24.
And low income.
To qualify to be in the in this housing project.
57 units.
And you have just to prove that you're low income.
They're all studios and they allow you to live there.
And the good news is that they once you qualify and you get in.
They don't just kick you out because you know, you started working or making money.
So they just reevaluate and allow them to move on on their own.
So Pasadena started that and we did allocate the two million dollars for their project.
And that was it?
Thank you.
Okay.
Councilmember Anthony.
Thank you.
Yeah.
The 31st attended the Ritzzi.
That is a huge solar project.
That's going to be generating a lot of power.
Really great.
I attended the expo.
I got to introduce one of the panels.
That was talking about bringing jobs back, not just with tax credits.
But what different jurisdictions are doing.
I got a little bit of.
I got to put a little precursor at that panel about what we're doing.
So people were excited about all the changes we're making and what we're working on.
So that was great.
I also did take a moment to go upstairs.
We had a lot of workshops this year.
And it was packed.
Standing around the people were filing in twice as many people were there.
Then there were seats in all of those workshops.
So it was more than just a job fair.
It was an expo.
And I think that is exactly what it needs to be expanded upon in the future.
I went to the nonprofit coalition.
Back to school fair on August 2nd.
It was very well attended.
It was packed a lot of.
Our local nonprofits were there helping kids getting backpacks and school supplies and signing them up for.
Boys and girls club and scouts and all that other stuff.
So very well attended.
On August 7th went to a ribbon cutting for new path wellness center.
They've been around for a couple years, but they just joined the chamber of commerce.
And they're excited to get a larger interaction with local economy.
And then lastly, on August 9th.
I saw Constable Rosati and our city manager at the Starlight on tour.
That was a huge concert in the park in the Cambridge.
And I'm very excited to say that I caught a t-shirt that was shot from the t-shirt canon.
It was very cool because the air caught it and that doesn't fit me at all.
It was a youth medium.
Were they aiming at you?
No.
They were not.
No, they were launching that at random.
And I had to like step over.
Yeah.
It was a Western.
No, I stepped over our picnic.
Anyway, I almost fell.
But I caught it.
Thank you.
Council member Rosati.
On Thursday, August 7th, I attended the Royal Virgil Community GPA meeting.
On Saturday, the ninth.
I attended the Burbank Rancho Neighborhood's specific plan pop up in over by.
To the millions.
Very well attended.
And there were three horses there.
They walked them.
They walked them over to the to the millions.
So.
A lot of good comments.
And good, you know, good comments and very staff and took input well.
And there was a lot of good synergy.
So I like what I saw there.
And then.
I also attended the Starlight on tour Centennial Bash.
And there were a lot of department.
Staff there that participated.
That.
Parks and Rec just did such a great job of setting up the booths.
Taking down the booths.
And of course moving on to the concert portion of that.
All I saw were.
Burbank Park and Rec shirts everywhere.
So I don't know how many people we had there.
But everyone was working hard to make sure he was having a good time.
So just could those to that department for putting on a great.
Bash.
And it was free.
By the way.
All right.
Thank you.
Let's see.
On the 31st.
I was at the Britsy as well.
And all to highlight the that particular.
Project is the first large scale solar project in Burbank.
It's our own only locally sourced.
Project of solar.
And also all of the material was made in America.
So that's pretty cool.
And then later that afternoon after several meetings.
I came back to my office.
And I went downstairs to CSB went to the employee ice cream social.
And I had.
I'll use right you right there.
That's right.
Had ice cream at the ice cream social.
And then on the first went to the media expo.
And by the way, I got awesome feedback about the workshops.
And about your panel.
Lots of folks enjoyed that.
Also the line for the headshots.
And for the resume writing was very long.
People were appreciative of that.
Headshots can be expensive.
So you know having those headshots for free.
August 4th.
I was at the San Fernando Valley cog transportation committee where the cog voted to support our all of bridge request for funding.
So hopefully that'll go to the main cog and hopefully that will get approved for support too.
On the fifth national line out.
I got to ride with the chief Quintaro, which is fun.
Yeah.
And then on the six.
I went to the.
Wait, hold on.
You got to ride.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
She drove around to all the different.
That's cool.
Uh-huh.
It's fun.
We went to three.
How many did you guys go to?
How much of three?
We only went to two.
Because we had a lot longer conversations going on there.
Yeah.
And I.
I.
I rode with captain Reese.
So you go with the friend captain or the chief.
Yeah.
If you go with the chief.
Everyone wants to talk to the chief.
And then on the six.
I went to the Valley Economic Alliance environment subcommittee.
I talked about the regional kind of environment plan for businesses and roadbap.
Then on the 12.
That's today earlier today.
I had a meeting with representative from Nick Schultz office about SB 79.
And about the details about that.
By the way, August 29th is a key date for SB 29th.
That's when we're going to know whether it comes out of the appropriations or not.
So that's it's an August 29th.
Well, it'll either stay in appropriations for another year.
Or it'll be released in the next assembly of a vote on it.
And then so many meetings this past two weeks.
My calendar was full.
I think my zoom was smoking.
And then I also drank a lot of coffee with all the meetings.
I have this past couple weeks.
I love talking to people.
But it can be a lot.
All right.
That's all I got.
And see.
Now's the time for introduction of additional agenda items.
Do you.
Yes.
Council member.
Thank you.
The report on the potential cost of fully painting our red curves at crosswalks.
And the funding of a study for findings with the expressed intent of a long-term plan to create an exemption for the city of a bank with regards to AB 413.
And apply for possible state grants to fund that.
Got it.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Council member.
Want?
Yes.
I'd also like to ask for a first step report regarding the letter that was submitted from the Burbank Association of Realtor in the one Mr. Tomarian spoke about today.
And I have a copy.
Sure.
To specifically do what?
It addresses the terminology and policy relating to housing providers.
Got it.
And I don't.
Not sure if you see.
Okay.
We got a copy.
It's the same copy that I have right here.
You guys got copies, right?
Okay.
That's members on him.
You neither.
All right.
So now we adjourn the meeting to Tuesday.
August 26.
25.
For a joint meeting in the council chamber.
275 East Olive Avenue.
Second floor.
Thank you.
And we made it right before 11.
Okay.
Yes.