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[1:13] good afternoon calling to order the um

[1:17] city council meeting of August 29th at

[1:20] 4:05 p.m. may we have a roll call please

[1:23] council member aadrian here dine here

[1:27] kakin

[1:28] narian and mayor bman here and may we

[1:33] have your report uh close Session One

[1:36] close session 18 conference with legal

[1:37] council pending litigation sadari versus

[1:40] city of glendel LC case number

[1:44] 20cv

[1:46] 34372 B would be conference with legal

[1:48] councel pending litigation at Garian

[1:50] versus the city of glendel at all lasc

[1:53] case number 21 STC V

[1:56] 0756 and itmc has been moved to further

[2:00] date thank you do we anticipate

[2:02] reporting out on any of these items uh

[2:04] Mr Mayor we anticipate reporting on item

[2:06] 1 a 1 a okay uh no public comments I

[2:11] assume so we will com no calls we will

[2:14] recess to close

[2:28] session

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[5:31] good evening and welcome to the August

[5:33] 29th meeting of the Glendale city

[5:35] council being called to order at 6:04

[5:37] pm. may we have roll call please yes

[5:40] council members aadan Divine here kakan

[5:44] here naaran mayor botman

[5:47] here uh now uh would everybody please

[5:51] rise for the Pledge of

[5:54] Allegiance repeat after me I pledge

[5:57] allegiance to the flag of the United

[6:00] States of America and to the Republic

[6:03] for which it stands one nation under God

[6:06] indivisible with liberty and justice for

[6:09] all please remain standing for the

[6:16] invocation I will read a modified

[6:18] excerpt from an invocation by hila

[6:20] rabi this land we dwell upon today is

[6:24] the ancestral land of the Gabrielino

[6:26] Tanga people we acknowledge their hisor

[6:29] oral roots in this place and the many

[6:31] generations who are stewards of this

[6:34] land the Earth was here before us and

[6:36] will endure after we are

[6:38] gone let us walk gently upon this

[6:41] precious Planet taking only what we need

[6:44] leaving little waste nurturing the soil

[6:47] revitalizing the land to sustain future

[6:50] Generations thank you thank you you may

[6:53] be

[6:55] seated

[6:58] okay uh Madame clerk may we have your

[7:01] report please yes the agenda for the

[7:04] August 29 2023 regular meeting of the

[7:07] Glendale city council was posted on

[7:08] August 24th 2023 on the bulletin board

[7:11] outside City Hall thank you and what is

[7:15] our next item next our presentations and

[7:18] appointments the first one is um

[7:20] regarding the agenda the regular meeting

[7:23] for the city council on September 5th

[7:25] 2023 has have been cancelled the next

[7:28] regular meeting will be held on

[7:30] September 12th

[7:32] 2023 okay and before you read out the

[7:35] next item

[7:38] um is um is Talia hpan here in the

[7:43] audience she's there okay I know council

[7:46] member asatrian wanted to address you so

[7:49] can we just move the order on the chance

[7:53] that she will show up oh there she is

[7:57] um well

[8:00] in that case let's let's just go on then

[8:02] she is here so let's go on with

[8:05] that um uh Commendation for Talia hpan

[8:09] California Bears Youth Hockey

[8:12] Club thank you and I going to turn this

[8:16] over to the just in time council member

[8:20] asatrian to read the Commendation and um

[8:26] and maybe as she does this could um

[8:28] Talia and her family come up to the

[8:30] podium

[8:37] please um before uh I read the

[8:40] Commendation I just want to give

[8:42] everyone a little bit of a background uh

[8:45] I have the honor of introducing and

[8:47] recognizing a young Trail Blazer in

[8:51] glendell uh Talia hpan is 11 years old

[8:56] who is um here with her parents Anie and

[9:01] shahnur uh she plays leftwing with

[9:04] California Bears Youth Hockey Club and

[9:07] coached by former National Hockey League

[9:10] player Alexander

[9:12] frolov uh Talia is the only female

[9:15] player on the boys travel team and has

[9:18] participated in tournaments throughout

[9:20] the United States um she has a very long

[9:24] resume um but I do want to note that um

[9:27] in July 2023 three um she was uh one of

[9:33] two of her achievements included uh

[9:35] number one in tournament goals scored 14

[9:39] and 18 points and she was named player

[9:42] of the game

[9:44] award um and then in the regular season

[9:49] um she helped the team play second in

[9:52] California um if we can give her a round

[9:55] of

[9:58] applause

[9:59] [Applause]

[10:02] um and the commodation it's the mayor's

[10:04] commodation and it reads presented to

[10:07] Talia hpan in recognition of your

[10:10] exceptional accomplishments and

[10:11] unwavering dedication as the sole female

[10:14] hockey player on a boy team your

[10:17] commitment to the sport your teammates

[10:19] and your community serves as an

[10:21] inspiring example of perseverance

[10:24] resilience and breaking down barriers on

[10:28] behalf of the city of we wish you

[10:30] continued success and assigned mayor Dan

[10:33] brotman Right

[10:35] congratulations congratulations you want

[10:38] to go down and do a

[10:40] picture we'll do a photo op

[10:43] first are we all doing it yeah you want

[10:47] to might as well let's

[10:58] go

[11:15] abuse discrimination The Voice were good

[11:17] to you all

[11:20] know hi are we we'll just the back want

[11:26] to go over

[11:27] here

[11:39] that thank you thank you thank you very

[11:49] much we might want to ask you a

[11:57] question

[12:09] so

[12:10] Talia what is T Talia what is your

[12:13] favorite team for professional hockey

[12:16] valet Kings all right that was the right

[12:18] answer good

[12:18] [Laughter]

[12:20] job uh we asked you to stay there for a

[12:22] minute because we have a

[12:25] former

[12:27] um coach coach and

[12:30] teacher um here who may have may have a

[12:33] question well I I just well I did what

[12:36] you know um back in the day when I was

[12:38] coaching and Girls Athletic Director Etc

[12:41] we had one girl that was on the soccer

[12:44] team the boys soccer team and she had a

[12:47] real problem with harassment and um uh

[12:51] kind of abuse that we had to deal with

[12:54] and so I was asking Tanya if she

[12:56] experienced any of that and she said

[12:59] no no and that's that speaks volumes uh

[13:04] for today's um Sports Athletics and uh

[13:08] uh boys and girls playing together and

[13:11] so

[13:12] congratulations uh you are Paving the

[13:15] way for others and uh uh I wish you all

[13:18] the best thank you you're welcome you

[13:26] congratulations okay on that fun note um

[13:31] what is

[13:34] next next is the identification of

[13:37] nominating panel for building and fire

[13:39] board of appeals commission uh kakan and

[13:43] divine thank you and there's no action

[13:47] right

[13:49] no and next is the appointment of ARA

[13:52] hataman to the Civil Service Commission

[13:54] uh by brotman and divine

[13:57] 82223

[13:59] okay um yes uh Mr hatamian if you could

[14:03] come forward and if you would like to

[14:05] bring your lovely

[14:07] family uh they can they can join

[14:13] you we had the pleasure of Hosting them

[14:16] here and they sat right in this chair

[14:19] and hel a mock council meeting I do want

[14:23] to thank Talia for going before

[14:25] me you broke the ice get it hocky

[14:29] both eyes that's a bad J okay so we'll

[14:33] first take uh a motion and a second and

[14:35] a vote do we

[14:37] have I'll move our atamian for civil

[14:40] service commissioner a second second

[14:42] from council member asatrian very good

[14:44] so let's have a roll call please council

[14:47] members zadan yes Divine yes kakan yes

[14:51] Naran mayor botman yes congrats uh

[14:57] congratulations thank you

[15:00] so

[15:01] um as you know but the audience may not

[15:04] know uh you were chosen through

[15:06] initially well you were chosen here by

[15:08] the vote that just took place but you

[15:10] were nominated uh to this Council by um

[15:14] uh council member Divine and myself

[15:16] through a panel process which we have

[15:19] just started so we had a panel of two we

[15:21] interviewed a number of candidates a

[15:23] number of very strong

[15:25] candidates um but you clearly stood out

[15:29] I would say um with your your experience

[15:32] at work and also the fact that you have

[15:34] done this before um and um I believe had

[15:39] to step down from the commission because

[15:42] uh of a family new child who's now which

[15:46] which one two of them oh two of them

[15:49] okay but now you're back with us and

[15:51] we're very very excited to have you here

[15:53] um so congratulations and if there's

[15:56] something you would like to say uh

[15:58] please uh feel fre thank you Mr bran

[16:01] thank you glenell city council for uh

[16:04] giving me this pleasure to serve the

[16:05] city once again um it is a true honor to

[16:09] be a commissioner I brought my family

[16:11] along just as an example of you know

[16:14] what glendel produces they are a product

[16:16] of glendell Unified School District uh

[16:19] my youngest one attends Mark keple uh my

[16:22] oldest one is at toll and my middle one

[16:25] is still at Mark keple also as a matter

[16:27] of fact my old this one was the treasure

[16:29] for marle and I just found out that we

[16:32] also have additional toll students here

[16:35] also uh so that's why I brought my

[16:37] family along just as a representation of

[16:39] glendell so I do want to thank you for

[16:42] this opportunity and I look forward to

[16:43] serving the city thank you very much

[16:45] thank you very awesome thank you for

[16:46] your willingness to serve

[16:49] again of backgound oh before you before

[16:52] you go Mr atamian could you just spend

[16:56] one or two minutes telling us about your

[16:58] backr ground oh absolutely so so we all

[17:00] know yes who you are we talked about it

[17:02] a little bit last last week when we

[17:04] nominated you but absolutely it be my

[17:06] pleasure so I work for LA County um I

[17:11] started in LA county at the DA's office

[17:13] when I was attending Law School uh I

[17:15] worked in their PR prelim unit uh after

[17:18] that point on I went into the

[17:20] disciplinary section of the sheriff's

[17:21] apartment uh where I worked for 14 years

[17:25] uh administrating law enforcement

[17:27] discipline

[17:29] uh and now I'm with the Department of

[17:30] Mental Health I am their manager over

[17:33] their health and safety and employee

[17:36] relations unit uh and right now we are

[17:39] facing many different challenges uh at

[17:41] the Department of Mental Health mainly

[17:43] being homelessness the homelessness

[17:45] crisis uh and so we are actively

[17:47] involved with that and obviously prior

[17:50] to that I was on the commission on the

[17:52] Civil Service Commission uh outside of

[17:54] the commission and working for LA County

[17:57] I was also Al a teacher uh I've been

[18:00] teaching as an adjunct faculty for

[18:04] colleges in this area uh I've published

[18:07] a book on employment law um so I have a

[18:10] little bit of background on employment

[18:11] law and the government sector my

[18:14] beautiful wife she also works in the

[18:16] government sector she works for County

[18:18] Council she's an attorney for their

[18:19] dependency unit that deals with the

[18:21] foster care system of children uh so we

[18:25] pride ourselves on serving the community

[18:28] and um especially the you know the jeel

[18:30] city as much as we can thank you thank

[18:33] you thank you we're very very happy to

[18:35] to have you and um you know free Talent

[18:40] it's uh pretty

[18:41] incredible we'll talk about that

[18:44] later thank you so much appreciate it

[18:47] thank you for your willingness to come

[18:48] back and serve thank you thank you good

[18:50] job okay and what is

[18:56] next next our consent items including

[18:59] minutes the following our routina may be

[19:01] acted upon by one motion any member of

[19:03] council or the audience requesting

[19:05] separate consideration may do so by

[19:07] making such requests before motion is

[19:09] proposed uh do we have any uh public

[19:13] comments we do not have any public

[19:16] comments and do any I I'll move the

[19:18] conent calendar we have a motion I'll

[19:21] second second okay roll call

[19:24] please council members aadrian yes

[19:27] divine yes kakan yes Nan mayor botman

[19:33] yes very good moving right along what is

[19:36] next next our city council and staff

[19:39] comments okay sure council member Divine

[19:43] thank you thank you very much um as most

[19:46] of you

[19:47] know um we are currently working the

[19:50] airport authority of which I am a member

[19:53] along with council member narian

[19:55] currently working on the replacement

[19:57] Passenger Terminal project and um holder

[20:01] panal Tech that it's a a joint venture

[20:05] uh will be holding a sub subcontractor

[20:09] Community information session they are

[20:12] looking for local community uh

[20:15] businesses uh to take part in the

[20:18] building the construction of the new

[20:21] airport they are holding this um

[20:23] information session on September the

[20:26] 12th uh at the uh Courtyard by Marriott

[20:30] um by the airport in Burbank from 10:00

[20:33] a. until noon they will be um hosting

[20:36] this regarding construction

[20:38] opportunities for this replacement

[20:40] terminal they are seriously looking for

[20:44] local business women's businesses

[20:48] minorities and local businesses

[20:51] contractors and

[20:53] dbe um we are going to be posting the uh

[20:57] invitation the information on uh our

[21:00] website they're going to provide

[21:02] critical information for project

[21:05] participation they will have schedule

[21:07] and trade package information in-person

[21:09] connection with jvt members and

[21:12] in-person connection with possible trade

[21:14] Partners they are also and this is

[21:16] interesting they're also going to be

[21:18] working with our high schools uh for

[21:21] apprenticeships and Workforce

[21:23] opportunities uh if you're interested in

[21:25] this uh session if you are a contractor

[21:28] a businesswoman uh a minority who was

[21:31] interested in working on this airport

[21:33] project again it will be on September

[21:35] the 12th at Courtyard by Marriott at

[21:39] 2100 Empire Drive in Burbank from 10:00

[21:43] a.m. until noon it's a terrific

[21:45] opportunity so I hope uh uh many of you

[21:49] will will um uh try to get information

[21:52] on this and be there uh there is a

[21:55] website the website is H PT standing for

[21:59] holder panow Tech JV

[22:03] team.com so if you're interested

[22:05] otherwise you can check our our website

[22:08] um I would also like to take this

[22:09] opportunity as you know Council has been

[22:12] uh working on Outreach for quite a while

[22:14] regarding districting and a couple of us

[22:17] advis uh us to wait until the Santa

[22:19] Monica case against districting was

[22:22] resolved well Santa Monica was

[22:25] successful in their case so my question

[22:28] now is should we keep moving and rushing

[22:30] forward or should we pause the decision

[22:33] by the courts bodess well for Glendale

[22:36] not being forced into districting and an

[22:38] elected mayor again I ask should we

[22:41] pause on this action this is a

[22:42] rhetorical question and I'm only telling

[22:45] this so that our residents know the

[22:46] outcome of that case thank you thank you

[22:49] mayor thank you and when we're finish

[22:52] this Council comments I will ask the

[22:54] City attorney to say a word because um

[22:57] depending depending on what you read

[22:58] I've I've read that Santa Monica lost

[23:01] I've read that Santa Monica won and I've

[23:03] read things in between so I'm not sure

[23:05] we know yet um but um let me turn to my

[23:11] colleagues any comments council member

[23:14] of Satan um I actually have a couple of

[23:16] things um one is I noticed that we have

[23:19] a counseling your neighborhood uh coming

[23:22] up um I think one of the recommendations

[23:24] I had made to staff uh after the last

[23:26] one was for us to do um Outreach whether

[23:30] it's flyers in that neighborhood or

[23:33] using data that we have to reach our

[23:35] residents within that neighborhood um to

[23:38] get folks to actually come to these uh

[23:41] counseling your neighborhoods I think

[23:42] the one that we had in the Rancher was

[23:44] very successful uh the one that we had

[23:47] in um at the Pacific uh Park not so much

[23:52] and so um I think it would be important

[23:54] if we are doing these um for the

[23:57] community to be made aware and that it's

[23:59] not just an agenda item that's placed um

[24:03] on Sunday U mayor bman and I uh attended

[24:07] the grand reopening of the montro uh

[24:10] Bowl um they have done a fantastic job

[24:14] at uh uh keeping the 1940s theme and

[24:18] Lanes uh got to throw some bowling balls

[24:23] uh down that lane um and they've

[24:25] Incorporated an all vegan and all kosher

[24:29] kitchen uh I have to say they you know I

[24:31] was skeptical as I always am um about

[24:34] something being called chicken but it's

[24:36] not um it was possibly the best hot

[24:38] chicken sandwich I've had um I know that

[24:41] they're going to be doing a community

[24:43] event um uh as their part of their

[24:46] opening and so I look forward to sharing

[24:49] that um or have staff share that when we

[24:51] get it um this last week I also had

[24:55] scheduled a meeting with our staff and

[24:58] La County's um Economic Development

[25:02] Department and procurement uh office um

[25:05] for us to take a look at um how we can

[25:08] move forward with the locally owned

[25:10] minority and and women-owned uh test

[25:13] that we have as part of the work plan um

[25:16] one of the things that we learned

[25:17] through that process is that the LA

[25:19] county is currently going through a

[25:22] revamp of their own procurement process

[25:25] and kind of building out um different

[25:28] methods of communication and uh

[25:31] databases and so forth one of the things

[25:33] I did mention was the opportunity for us

[25:36] to obtain the information that they have

[25:40] um and for that data sharing to be uh

[25:43] something that's automatic and it's not

[25:45] something that we're requesting through

[25:46] our different departments um I know that

[25:49] they're putting together a task force

[25:51] for some reason glendel is not part of

[25:52] that so one of my requests was also to

[25:56] uh invite glendell to the table and for

[25:58] us to have input um in that process that

[26:01] they have um and then lastly um last

[26:07] week we um you know recognized women's

[26:11] equality day and talked about

[26:13] programming and this morning I saw that

[26:16] we are having a webinar tomorrow

[26:19] um uh and recognition of women's

[26:22] equality day uh you can join this

[26:25] webinar to learn uh how women owned

[26:28] minority uh owned business certification

[26:31] can help you gain government utility and

[26:34] private sector contracts um uh you can

[26:38] register uh at bitly backpac webinar uh

[26:43] all this information is available at CH

[26:46] glendel and the webinar is going to take

[26:48] place tomorrow August 30th um 10 a.m. to

[26:52] 12:00 p.m. so I encourage all of our

[26:54] small business owners um who own you

[26:57] know local minority or women owned um to

[27:00] join in I think that very well ties in

[27:02] with um the opportunities that council

[27:05] member Divine was talking

[27:07] about thank you thank you thank you

[27:10] council member

[27:12] kakan um I don't have anything but I I

[27:15] don't know I'm looking for the the an

[27:19] article that would affirm what my

[27:21] colleague council member dine derived

[27:24] from the court case and I'm having

[27:26] trouble finding including Santa Monica's

[27:29] own City website which says City

[27:31] statement on California Supreme Court

[27:33] opinion on CV case says the city is

[27:36] reviewing the Supreme Court's opinion

[27:38] and working to assess the path forward

[27:41] and there's a number of others as well

[27:43] that uh here's another

[27:46] headline um that

[27:48] [Music]

[27:50] says well I'll tell you none of them say

[27:53] what I think a council member Divine so

[27:56] strongly feels it said so um I would

[28:00] also like to understand whether this

[28:02] somehow puts Glendale in the clear or is

[28:05] a uh sweeping decision that that is that

[28:09] some are trying to make the public

[28:11] believe it

[28:13] is um other than that I honestly don't

[28:16] have any other comments okay thank you

[28:20] okay thank

[28:24] you one I just I just want to make sure

[28:27] we clarify on I know we passed a consent

[28:30] but just on the agenda itself it's at

[28:33] maruni in Armenia um and it needed to be

[28:36] maruni in art just want to make sure

[28:38] that in the docs it's all corrected that

[28:41] the resolution was corrected to reflect

[28:43] out okay thank you okay thank you um

[28:47] okay so a couple things last Wednesday

[28:52] um council member kasaki and I attended

[28:55] a uh press conference confence uh in

[28:58] front of the uh

[29:00] aeri uh

[29:02] consulate um in Los Angeles it was put

[29:06] on by the panarmenian Council of the

[29:08] western United States and the intention

[29:11] was to um speak on the human

[29:15] humanitarian crisis that's unfolding in

[29:17] artso with the

[29:19] blockade uh now going on for over seven

[29:22] months preventing food medicine and

[29:25] other uh urgently needed supplies uh

[29:28] from entering the country um there were

[29:32] a number of uh prominent uh people who

[29:35] spoke including uh our congressman Adam

[29:38] Schiff uh Congressman Brad

[29:41] Sherman uh LA City Council president

[29:43] Paul korian was there along with uh at

[29:46] least two of his colleagues from the LA

[29:48] City Council uh and a number of other uh

[29:51] individuals um uh members of the clergy

[29:55] and um council member kasaki and I both

[29:58] uh both spoke uh he spoke a lot more

[30:01] eloquently than me as is usually the

[30:03] case um but we we did both speak and

[30:07] um and you know I uh and many others

[30:10] talked about uh the fact that there are

[30:13] 120,000 innocent people now trapped uh

[30:17] without access to uh the basic needs uh

[30:22] of of human beings um and that includes

[30:25] 30,000 children 20,000 elderly and

[30:29] almost 10,000 disabled people on the

[30:33] verge of

[30:34] starvation um and uh at this press

[30:38] conference uh we uh all jointly and

[30:42] individually called on the US government

[30:45] to take uh immediate and aggressive

[30:48] steps to address this issue including

[30:51] and I'll just name some of the things

[30:53] that were um that were discussed uh one

[30:58] introduce a un Security Council

[31:00] resolution which would require azerbajan

[31:02] to adhere to a February 2023 order by

[31:06] the international court of justice to

[31:09] open the Locking carridor which is how

[31:12] uh materials can enter the Republic of

[31:14] artak um halt all US military assistance

[31:17] to azerbijan it is quite uh shocking

[31:22] that the United States still is

[31:24] providing military assistance to aeran

[31:27] uh impose sanctions on members of the

[31:30] alv regime under the magnitsky act for

[31:34] war crimes crimes against humanity

[31:37] deliver humanitarian assistance to artso

[31:39] through the carer uh at the scale needed

[31:42] to address the humanitarian catastrophe

[31:45] and last but not least introduce a un

[31:48] Security Council resolution establishing

[31:51] a peacekeeping mission in artach to

[31:54] protect the um the the safety of um the

[31:59] population there over time um one thing

[32:03] that was mentioned um which uh doesn't

[32:06] necessarily uh do anything to resolve

[32:09] the situation but um it does bring

[32:11] attention to it the LA City Council uh

[32:15] named the intersection in front of the

[32:17] aeri consulate which is uh Wilshire and

[32:19] Granville Avenue Republic of artso

[32:23] square uh so signs will be going up

[32:25] maybe they've already gone up

[32:28] um at that location right in front of

[32:30] the aeran consulate um and uh for what

[32:36] it's worth I think that's uh that's

[32:38] something that does uh does uh send a

[32:42] strong symbolic message um so I just

[32:45] wanted to share that um that we were

[32:47] there and that we we support these

[32:51] um

[32:53] uh these actions that were calling on

[32:56] the Biden admin Administration the US

[32:57] state department to uh undertake okay so

[33:01] that was one um changing subjects

[33:03] entirely I attended um the first edible

[33:07] food recovery stakeholder meeting um as

[33:12] many of you may know um under Senate

[33:14] Bill

[33:15] 1383 in addition to sorting organic

[33:18] waste um there are requirements uh

[33:21] involving recovery of edible food that

[33:24] would otherwise get thrown away so um

[33:27] uh this was a uh one of I think several

[33:30] meetings uh that will be taking place

[33:33] this one for um organizations that are

[33:37] collecting edible food from the

[33:39] generators of edible food um to

[33:42] distribute either directly to people in

[33:44] need or to other food banks um and they

[33:48] got together they discussed the

[33:49] challenges that that they have it it is

[33:51] actually very

[33:53] complex um and uh and the the the idea

[33:57] was to identify resources share uh share

[34:00] experiences and start the conversation

[34:03] um future meetings uh will include some

[34:06] of the large um producers of um edible

[34:11] food that would otherwise go to waste

[34:13] like supermarkets and and

[34:15] restaurants uh

[34:16] hotels uh conference facilities that

[34:19] kind of thing um so they had there were

[34:22] a number of people at this event um YWCA

[34:25] Salvation Army Glend College Catholic

[34:28] Charities uh The Armenian Relief Society

[34:31] Porto uh Betty Porto was there uh the

[34:33] City of Burbank was there the First

[34:35] Baptist Church and a number of others uh

[34:37] it was uh it was interesting and I look

[34:40] forward to seeing us continue to um make

[34:44] progress on this

[34:46] front and um the Montrose Bowl my

[34:49] colleague already mentioned uh we got to

[34:51] throw uh a few um what do you call it

[34:54] throw a few balls I guess you call it

[34:57] uh what's that bowling balls yeah

[34:59] bowling balls but um and uh I probably

[35:03] got the gutter more often than I got

[35:05] anything else but

[35:06] um it was fun anyway and and I will say

[35:10] I agree this this vegan food was really

[35:14] pretty uh pretty incredible uh and they

[35:16] also have a great collection of craft

[35:18] beers some on top so if you if you like

[35:21] that kind of thing are you rubbing your

[35:24] hands like you want to get over there to

[35:26] have some beer Orin disinfect okay as

[35:30] soon as I said beer I saw you going like

[35:32] that but anyway it's a they really did a

[35:34] nice job so if you can get on over there

[35:36] I think that was a soft opening and I

[35:38] think they're probably open in the next

[35:40] couple days so they going to send

[35:41] something to everyone for the coming

[35:43] they are and then they're going to have

[35:44] an event I think at the end of the month

[35:46] but I think they're actually going to be

[35:47] open like you can go and I think if you

[35:49] go and you order food the bowling is

[35:51] free it's really focused on the food and

[35:53] the bowling is kind of to bring you

[35:55] there to eat the food I guess yes so

[35:58] bowling is free um okay so just the last

[36:02] thing I I um I know that we're now um

[36:06] we've now established these um panels to

[36:09] select members of our boards and

[36:11] commissions and one thing we haven't

[36:13] discussed and I was hoping we could try

[36:15] to clarify is our process for um uh

[36:20] notifying the public that there's an

[36:22] opportunity on a border commission uh uh

[36:25] soliciting applications and then doing

[36:28] interviews and so I would I would

[36:31] suggest that we look at some kind of a

[36:34] system for example um once we notice uh

[36:39] the public that this position is

[36:40] available we have a 30-day period uh for

[36:43] people to put in applications we wait

[36:46] the 30 days we collect them we interview

[36:48] the applicants um and we make our

[36:51] selection and I would also ask us to

[36:54] consider making the all all the

[36:56] applications public they are public

[36:58] record anyway but it would be good for

[37:01] the public to understand who we've

[37:02] selected and who we haven't selected um

[37:06] The Only Exception I would say perhaps

[37:09] is if we are extending or renominating

[37:12] reappointing somebody I should say who

[37:14] is already an incumbent on a border

[37:16] commission for a second term I think if

[37:18] we have somebody that we want to

[37:20] renominate we probably don't need to go

[37:22] through this 30-day period but anyway um

[37:26] I don't want I'm being fairly

[37:27] prescriptive about this but I know this

[37:29] is something that we we can discuss and

[37:31] and I'd like to put this on a future

[37:34] agenda to to um just to clarify our

[37:37] process council member kasaka I I I

[37:39] don't know did you mention Alex Film

[37:41] Society I did not okay okay and I I am

[37:46] finished um do you want to mention that

[37:48] yeah I I just want to mention uh thank

[37:50] Alex Film Society and the glendel

[37:52] Historical Society uh there was a

[37:54] showing of the classic film noir mild

[37:57] Mildred Pierce which for those of you

[38:00] who may not know is was a novel set in

[38:03] Glendale made into a um Hollywood movie

[38:07] for which I believe it was Joan Crawford

[38:09] who won an Academy Award uh I think her

[38:11] only Academy Award I learned and then it

[38:13] was recently remade um uh as a film

[38:16] starring Kate Winslet but it's all about

[38:19] a woman who rises from nothing to uh

[38:22] become a very successful businesswoman

[38:25] all right from here in Glendale in the

[38:27] original black and white film um there

[38:30] are scenes that were filmed here in

[38:31] Glendale it was my first time seeing it

[38:33] I thought it was great and more

[38:34] importantly I thought that um lawn area

[38:37] using the city's uh LED screen was a

[38:40] great great um uh combination of

[38:44] organizations working together um having

[38:47] an outdoor movie night hopefully they'll

[38:48] do more of those so mayor who does thank

[38:52] you council member Divine and if I want

[38:54] if I may I want to piggyback on what the

[38:56] mayor was saying about the uh

[38:57] commissions and there is an opening on

[39:00] the historic preservation commission if

[39:03] anyone out there is interested we didn't

[39:05] we don't have any applications and so

[39:07] I'd like to encourage anyone out there

[39:09] that like is interested in uh historic

[39:12] preservation to please please apply

[39:14] thank you thank

[39:16] you okay um staff comments would you Mr

[39:21] Garcia would you care to if You' like me

[39:23] to com elaborate too much uh because we

[39:27] were analyzing the opinion but as you

[39:29] noted the has been noted the California

[39:32] Supreme Court did Issue its long awaited

[39:33] a ruling in uh the case of Pico

[39:36] neighborhood association versus city of

[39:37] Santa Monica regarding the scope of the

[39:40] California Voting Rights Act and whether

[39:42] or not vote voter vote dilution which is

[39:45] a a term of art meaning a process that

[39:48] where an election system dilutes the

[39:49] votes of pro protected class or minority

[39:52] group and so one of the questions in

[39:55] that case was whether or not that was a

[39:56] required element uh in a voter uh

[39:59] California Voting Rights Act case and

[40:01] then if so what's the test well how do

[40:02] you how do you prove vote vote dilution

[40:04] so um the Supreme Court you know I I I

[40:09] hesitate to say there was a Victor and a

[40:10] loser because although it did reverse

[40:12] the decision the court of appeal it did

[40:14] remand it back to the court of appeal

[40:16] for further analysis and uh essentially

[40:20] what it said is you had to prove vote

[40:21] dilution in in making such a claim and

[40:24] that to show that uh vote Dil

[40:26] established when under some lawful

[40:28] alternative election system the minority

[40:30] group would have the potential on its

[40:32] own or with the help of crossover voters

[40:34] to elect its preferred candidate and

[40:36] that this can be shown through

[40:37] evaluation of the facts and

[40:38] circumstances of the jurisdiction

[40:40] including the local agency circumstances

[40:42] its election history and the design and

[40:44] impact of the current system as well as

[40:47] an alternative system so that's a that's

[40:49] a lot there that's a mouthful um a lot

[40:51] of lawyers are still looking at this and

[40:53] seeing what it means we are going to

[40:54] look at it our team is going to look at

[40:56] at it and obviously because it involves

[40:58] legal risk the assessment of legal risk

[41:01] it will be a discussion for you know

[41:03] close session uh but we will provide

[41:05] that information to you you'll have it

[41:07] before we get into the next round of

[41:08] public hearings uh on our districting

[41:11] process okay but would you say just just

[41:15] I I always like to simplify things I

[41:17] know you can't simplify things like this

[41:19] but it was not a victory an outright

[41:22] victory for either party for Santa

[41:24] Monica or for

[41:26] that's a fair assessment

[41:28] correct okay and it's it's still then

[41:31] the waters are still kind of murky as

[41:33] far as yes what it takes to bring these

[41:37] types of cases what it takes to defend

[41:39] against these types of cases right what

[41:41] it what it takes to prove that various

[41:42] elements of a voting rights case

[41:43] especially vote dilution and I'll note

[41:45] you know uh the plaintiffs won in the

[41:48] trial court Santa Monica won in the

[41:50] court of appeal and you're right the

[41:52] court of appeal although reversed the

[41:54] the victory that Santa mon Santa Monica

[41:56] got in the in the court of appeal

[41:57] decision it it remanded it for further

[41:59] analysis so there's no there's no

[42:01] conclusion to that case they're still

[42:02] either going to have to litigate that or

[42:04] or decide to settle okay thank you uh

[42:08] any other staff comments um mayor bman

[42:10] if I may yes please um the city clerk's

[42:14] uh social media web page does advertise

[42:17] uh on the openings of boards and

[42:18] commissions in fact we've created posts

[42:20] in five different languages to um to be

[42:24] accessible to the public so we have that

[42:27] information also the boards and

[42:28] commission's uh web page has a listing

[42:30] of all the openings and how to apply um

[42:33] for each

[42:35] commission okay thank

[42:37] you all right um if there no other

[42:41] comments what is our next agenda item

[42:44] our next item is commune event

[42:46] announcements uh three minutes each we

[42:49] have one um speaker

[42:52] card okay uh is it Ida or or AA uh

[42:59] anaran AA onaran

[43:02] yes you have three minutes thank you so

[43:05] much thank you Mr Mayor and members of

[43:08] the

[43:09] council I'm here to discuss um my name

[43:12] is l andaran I'm from The Armenian bar

[43:15] association's prono Clinic I'm an

[43:18] attorney there and um on September 9th

[43:22] we will be holding an expungement Clinic

[43:24] I wanted to let everyone know and give

[43:26] some information about how we can help

[43:28] the Glendale Community and any members

[43:31] of the nearby cities community members

[43:35] um we will be uh basically anyone who

[43:39] has a record that would like to have it

[43:41] expunged have it would like to have it

[43:43] cleared in order to start their life

[43:45] over again um a lot of times records

[43:49] that can prevent people from um seeking

[43:52] employment or even apartment buildings

[43:54] you know if they want to get rent an

[43:56] apartment or rent a home or get a home

[43:59] uh those can be prevented so what we're

[44:01] doing is we're providing free

[44:02] expungement clinics for members and it's

[44:05] going to be on Saturday September

[44:08] 9th um it will be held at Maple Park

[44:11] Community Center which is at 820 Maple

[44:14] East Maple Drive and um we will have our

[44:18] expungement Clinic attorneys there

[44:19] helping people um apply for those

[44:22] expungements and um reduction of

[44:24] felonies and um probation

[44:28] records okay thank you thank you for do

[44:31] so much thank

[44:34] you okay what is

[44:38] next next are action items action item a

[44:42] public works regarding San Fernando Road

[44:44] beautification Project Alternatives one

[44:46] motion accepting staff's recommendation

[44:48] to proceed with the design and

[44:50] implementation of alternative 2A for the

[44:52] San Fernando r Road beautification

[44:55] Project

[44:56] thank you Mr gamia yes mayor bman member

[44:59] city council um this this council's

[45:02] direction U few months ago to improve

[45:05] and beautify San Fernando Road Corridor

[45:08] along the MTA railroad tracks and uh in

[45:12] response to that direction staff applied

[45:14] for and was successful in obtaining $5

[45:17] million uh in in Grant monies from the

[45:20] state of

[45:21] California uh to to help uh in that

[45:24] endeavor the project includes a number

[45:27] of improvements including uh not only

[45:30] enhanced Landscaping but also sidewalks

[45:33] crosswalks as well as bicycle facilities

[45:37] um staff and our consultant have uh

[45:39] conducted a uh feasibility analysis and

[45:43] took the recommendation to uh

[45:45] transportation and parking commission

[45:47] recently and that commission provided a

[45:50] recommendation to city council as one of

[45:53] the Alternatives that was in the staff

[45:55] report with that I'll turn it to Mr

[45:57] amrani our director of Public Works to

[45:59] introduce our consultant Who present

[46:01] this item for your

[46:03] consideration good evening Mr Mayor

[46:05] members of city council um as was

[46:08] mentioned uh this is a uh long awaited

[46:12] project for us to uh to help uh improve

[46:16] the condition of San Fernando Road and

[46:19] as such we've uh engaged the services of

[46:22] Mark Thomas uh who's a consultant to uh

[46:27] do this study for us and analyze all the

[46:29] different

[46:30] Alternatives uh and we have uh Mr Pat

[46:33] Summerville of Mark Thomas who's going

[46:35] to go through a short presentation thank

[46:38] you yes good evening mayor council

[46:40] members Pat sumerville project manager

[46:42] for the Mark Thomas

[46:46] team a little bit about the about the

[46:48] project introduction uh first and

[46:50] foremost this project is intended to

[46:53] beautify and improve the public areas

[46:56] along San Fernando Road through the

[46:58] implementation of new raised landscape

[47:00] meeting Islands Parkway and Parkway

[47:03] planting to help mitigate the urban heat

[47:05] island

[47:06] effect it will also include multimodal

[47:09] improvements for all users including new

[47:12] and improved bus stops with shelters

[47:14] where they don't exist today and high

[47:16] visibility crosswalks to improve

[47:23] safety the project is funded through

[47:25] three different sources measure W from

[47:27] the county state gas tax funds and the

[47:30] grant that was mentioned previously from

[47:32] calr the clean Calfornia Grant of nearly

[47:35] $5

[47:36] million the important item to to

[47:39] understand regarding that Grant is it

[47:41] has a deadline to have the project

[47:43] constructed by June end of June 2024 so

[47:47] that deadline plays into uh the

[47:49] decisions being made in terms of being

[47:51] able to have this project built and the

[47:53] grant funds expended by that date

[47:58] so a little bit about the existing

[47:59] conditions along San Fernando Road this

[48:02] is a major Arterial Highway four lanes

[48:04] in each Direction along a commercial

[48:07] Corridor with businesses and on street

[48:09] parking on the east side and the metr

[48:12] Link rail Corridor on the west side so

[48:15] this constrains our Corridor we're

[48:17] looking at a 62t width curb to curb to

[48:20] fit the elements out there today and any

[48:23] additional elements we want to add is

[48:26] competing for that real estate within

[48:28] the street so this is the constrained

[48:31] canvas that we have to work with as we

[48:32] develop the

[48:35] project we're also looking at the

[48:38] facilities that exist out there today

[48:40] that were either planned or implemented

[48:42] um starting with the 2012 bicycle master

[48:45] plan uh this did include a class one

[48:48] facility along San Fernando Road located

[48:52] inside the railroad ride of way

[48:55] unfortunately this Metro owned Corridor

[48:57] with Metro Link and the future

[48:58] High-Speed Rail that is no longer an

[49:00] option to locate this inside the

[49:02] railroad R of way there was also as part

[49:05] of that plan a number of east west

[49:07] connections to San Fernando Road from

[49:11] Glendale since then there has been

[49:13] improvements implemented through the

[49:15] corridor uh primarily the Glend Del

[49:18] Naros River Walk uh north of the

[49:20] 134 along Fairmont where the uh Phase 1

[49:24] and phase two pathway in Confluence Park

[49:27] has been

[49:28] completed phase three is the bridge that

[49:30] would extend from Flower Street over to

[49:33] the LA side at zoo drive and that is

[49:36] currently in the design phase that

[49:38] project has been funded through another

[49:40] Grant uh believe the prop 68 grant for

[49:43] that so that item is moving

[49:46] forward additionally LA Metro has

[49:50] funding and is currently planning and

[49:53] designing additional active transport

[49:55] ation improvements in this vicinity that

[49:58] include a new bridge that would span

[50:00] over San Fernando Road and the metr link

[50:02] Corridor at Dorn Street once that

[50:05] Crossing is closed this would be the

[50:08] measure to be able to get pedestrians

[50:09] and cyclists over San Fernando Road and

[50:11] the rail corridor from Dorne Street that

[50:14] path would extend down to the end of the

[50:17] uh Dorne Street at the culdesac then

[50:20] continue North with a new bridge that

[50:22] would span over the verdigo wash and

[50:25] connect to your Glendale Narrows

[50:27] Riverwalk project so that would provide

[50:30] continuity to the north and south of the

[50:33] 134 in the Vero wash and it also opens

[50:36] up the opportunity for future expansion

[50:39] of the bike path along the east Bank of

[50:41] the LA River it's a quter that would run

[50:43] parallel to San Fernando

[50:48] Road as we started the project with the

[50:51] understanding of the importance of

[50:52] community engagement uh the team

[50:56] uh implemented a a robust outreach

[50:58] program that included eblasts door

[51:01] hangers postcards social media um all

[51:05] notifications were in three languages

[51:08] for the

[51:10] community we also initiated the initial

[51:13] survey and the this survey is a fact-f

[51:15] finding survey finding out what the

[51:17] community's challenges are through the

[51:19] corridor but also what their desired

[51:21] improvements are through the

[51:24] corridor the top four challenges are all

[51:27] traffic operations related not

[51:30] surprisingly the top desired

[51:31] improvements were also roadway and

[51:33] traffic related followed by Corridor

[51:36] beautification and pedestrian

[51:39] improvements so from this feedback the

[51:42] team developed three Alternatives that

[51:44] were brought

[51:47] forward in all of the Alternatives have

[51:50] common features involved through each of

[51:53] them uh this includes Parkway planting

[51:56] both along the rail Corridor to help

[51:58] beautify that side of the street as well

[52:00] as the East Side along the

[52:03] businesses pavment resurfacing

[52:05] throughout from Elk Avenue up to Grand

[52:08] View upgraded bus stops making them ADA

[52:12] Compliant and installing bus shelters

[52:14] where they don't exist

[52:16] today creative crosswalks to improve

[52:19] visibility and

[52:21] safety curb extensions at almost every

[52:24] intersection to help shorten the path of

[52:26] travel for the pedestrians crossing the

[52:29] street and the the raised landscaped

[52:33] medians that will be

[52:35] included regarding the

[52:38] medians there are 11 medians planned

[52:41] throughout the corridor it is not a

[52:43] continuous median from in to in along

[52:46] the corridor in part because we're

[52:48] maintaining left turn at the cross

[52:51] streets where it exists today as well as

[52:54] the higher volume volume driveways for

[52:56] the businesses along the

[53:01] corridor so alternative one is

[53:05] effectively the existing condition with

[53:07] the addition of the planting and the

[53:09] raised meiting Islands this would

[53:11] function as a class three bike way

[53:13] through the corridor with no change in

[53:15] the roadway Lane configuration it

[53:17] maintains all the on and it maintains

[53:19] all of the on street

[53:23] parking Alterna ative 2

[53:26] implements striped class two bike

[53:29] Lanes along San Fernando Road and in

[53:32] order to fit the two bike Lanes one in

[53:35] each Direction This alternative would

[53:38] remove the on street parking which is a

[53:40] loss of approximately 141 parking spaces

[53:43] from Elk up to Grand View because of the

[53:46] constraints of the roadway um there is

[53:49] no buffer or protection for this bike

[53:51] lane it would be just purely a class two

[53:53] striped bike lane

[53:58] alternative three is what's referred to

[54:00] as a class 4 protected bike boy this is

[54:03] one lane in each Direction with a buffer

[54:05] and a vertical element separating the

[54:07] bikes from the vehicles in order to

[54:10] accomodate this in the width that that

[54:13] class 4 needs this would remove one lane

[54:16] of traffic in each Direction on San

[54:18] Fernando Road it also reduces parking by

[54:22] about 30% uh because of the road

[54:25] configuration and the ability to restrip

[54:28] for

[54:29] parking there is a VMT reduction along

[54:31] the corridor however because of the

[54:33] reduction in the lanes it does nearly

[54:37] double the travel time in the afternoon

[54:39] peak hours both Northbound and

[54:42] southbound and it also uh as we heard

[54:45] from the Glendale Fire Department uh

[54:48] because it Narrows the roadway it makes

[54:50] it more difficult and challenging for

[54:52] the fire apparatus to be able to

[54:55] navigate around raise median and parked

[54:58] or cars or the vertical elements within

[55:00] the bike lane uh as they are going to a

[55:06] call we also looked at the traffic

[55:09] safety through the

[55:11] corridor we collected all the Collision

[55:13] data from 2012 to 2022 through the

[55:16] corridor again from Elk Avenue up to

[55:19] Grand View Avenue there were 18

[55:22] incidents on file eight of which were

[55:25] involved pedestrians 10 of which

[55:27] involved bicycles so we're aware of

[55:30] those incidents their locations uh

[55:33] there's two locations in particular that

[55:35] had a cluster of accidents one of

[55:37] California the other

[55:39] Colorado also with the implementation of

[55:42] the project and the features through the

[55:44] calr local roadway safety manual um they

[55:49] document that installing raised medians

[55:51] can reduce collisions by up to

[55:54] 25% providing bike Lanes can also reduce

[55:57] bicycle related accidents by up to

[56:03] 35% we also evaluated the parking along

[56:06] the

[56:07] corridor uh there's currently 78 on

[56:10] street parking stalls north of the

[56:13] 134 and 63 South of the

[56:17] 134 we did we twice went out to look at

[56:20] the utilization during the day from 6:00

[56:23] AM to 7 pm

[56:25] uh the corridor is very highly utilized

[56:28] throughout additionally we looked at

[56:30] each of the cross streets at about 250

[56:33] feet back from San Fernando Road to see

[56:35] what the utilization is like on the side

[56:37] streets to see in particular is if we

[56:40] removed parking on San Fernando Road is

[56:42] there sufficient parking on street on

[56:45] the side streets to accommodate that uh

[56:48] those side streets are also very highly

[56:51] utilized so there is not sufficient on

[56:54] street parking replacement parking if it

[56:56] was removed on San Fernando

[57:00] Road so we took the three options along

[57:04] with the information gathered on the

[57:05] traffic and the parking uh we held a

[57:08] community uh Outreach meeting in March

[57:10] at the glendell Fire Protection Bureau

[57:12] we had 40 community members come through

[57:15] able to walk them through each of the

[57:17] boards the exhibits um and what is

[57:19] planned in each of the three

[57:20] Alternatives hear feedback provide input

[57:24] as to concerns that they might have

[57:28] had we also did an online

[57:31] survey uh this was referred to a survey

[57:34] number two where we were getting input

[57:36] on the Alternatives and Concepts that

[57:38] were presented at the Outreach

[57:41] meeting we want to indicate that the the

[57:44] participant profile 38% identified as an

[57:47] active cyclist um there were 11% that

[57:51] either worked along San Fernando or

[57:52] owned a business along San Fernando Road

[57:55] the result of this online survey uh

[57:58] alternative three the class 4 cycle

[58:01] track or or class 4 bike Lanes uh ranked

[58:04] the highest at 42% followed by

[58:06] alternative two and then alternative

[58:10] one subsequent to that we did a

[58:13] door-to-door canvasing of the corridor

[58:16] both businesses and adjacent

[58:19] residents the common theme through the

[58:22] discussion with the businesses was the

[58:25] parking they are heavily reliant on it

[58:28] and in their eyes that was a non-starter

[58:30] to remove it uh that resulted in the

[58:33] clear 93% approval of alternative

[58:38] one with the residents the key concern

[58:41] for them was any cut through traffic

[58:43] which should have been tied to

[58:43] Alternative three and so again we're

[58:47] seeing a a very heavy approval rating

[58:49] for alternative one by the residents

[58:51] followed by alternative

[58:53] two so with this information and the

[58:56] discussions with the community feedback

[58:59] from both the online survey and the

[59:00] community meetings the team went back

[59:03] and looked at variations what else might

[59:05] we be able to

[59:07] do and this is where alternative

[59:10] 2A came about and what this does IT

[59:14] addresses the business's concerns about

[59:17] parking because we're maintaining it

[59:19] along San Fernando

[59:20] Road it may IT addresses the residential

[59:24] community concerns because we've

[59:26] maintained the four lanes of traffic on

[59:28] the

[59:29] road but what we what we have been able

[59:31] to provide on this one is a single Class

[59:33] 2 southbound bike

[59:35] lane along the west side of San Fernando

[59:39] Road and we've accomplish that by

[59:41] skinning up all of the lanes in the

[59:44] median Island through here to 10-ft

[59:46] Lanes 9ft median 7 foot parking

[59:50] Lane that allows us to provide just

[59:52] enough space to put that class to bike

[59:55] lane

[59:56] in now you also notice that there is no

[59:58] protection or buffer for this bike lane

[1:00:01] and question is what's the challenges

[1:00:03] why can't we well the challenges the the

[1:00:08] characteristics of the

[1:00:09] corridor the need when

[1:00:13] we to be able to provide a buffer we

[1:00:15] have to narrow something else that

[1:00:17] something else would be the the

[1:00:19] median we have raised median but we also

[1:00:22] have striped medians that Prov provides

[1:00:24] two-way left turn access to driveways

[1:00:27] along San Fernando

[1:00:28] Road so to accomplish a buffer adjacent

[1:00:32] to the bike lane we would need to narrow

[1:00:34] the median which means we shift traffic

[1:00:36] over 3 ft to shift traffic we need

[1:00:40] distance to transition and taper them

[1:00:42] over we also need transitions in and out

[1:00:45] of of the uh left turn pockets all told

[1:00:50] it takes about 300 feet of length to

[1:00:53] make the transitions work on each end

[1:00:56] plus the left turn

[1:00:59] pocket you add all this up and

[1:01:02] unfortunately through the corridor the

[1:01:05] blocks are so

[1:01:07] short that out of roughly 17 blocks

[1:01:11] there's only four that would actually

[1:01:14] have enough length to them that this we

[1:01:17] could achieve any form of

[1:01:19] buffer and within those four three of

[1:01:22] them would also then prohibit left turn

[1:01:25] access in and out of additional

[1:01:27] driveways that was not intended

[1:01:28] originally which leaves one remaining

[1:01:32] opportunity to to do that and let me

[1:01:34] give you a little bit of a look of how

[1:01:36] that looks and what I'm referring to

[1:01:39] here this is a block between Grange and

[1:01:41] Highland

[1:01:43] Avenue um this shows a the class 2 bike

[1:01:46] lane along the railroad Corridor at the

[1:01:50] intersections we need a 9ft median width

[1:01:52] for the left turn Pockets it cannot be

[1:01:54] any anything less than

[1:01:56] that if you're heading southbound and

[1:01:58] you cross Highland Avenue you would you

[1:02:01] would start to transition over that's

[1:02:03] the 100 foot transition that's the

[1:02:04] minimum required by the

[1:02:07] city at that point the median island is

[1:02:11] now down to 6 feet which then would

[1:02:14] prohibit the ability for left turn

[1:02:16] movements because the car cannot move

[1:02:18] into a two-way left turn lane in in the

[1:02:20] raised median so that would effectively

[1:02:23] eliminate left turn move ments in and

[1:02:24] out of two driveways on this one

[1:02:27] block and then you have to taper back

[1:02:30] out ahead of the 60ft taper that goes

[1:02:33] into the left turn pocket and then the

[1:02:35] length of the left turn pocket which

[1:02:36] varies throughout the corridor depending

[1:02:38] on traffic volumes so there's very

[1:02:41] limited ability to provide a buffer

[1:02:44] along this

[1:02:47] Corridor and lastly alternative

[1:02:51] 3A uh was a a look at a class 4

[1:02:55] protected two-way cycle track and what

[1:02:57] we did different on this one is we

[1:02:59] combined the uh two directions of for

[1:03:03] the class 4 bike lane along the west

[1:03:05] side adjacent to the rail

[1:03:09] Corridor we restored the parking on the

[1:03:12] on for on Street on the east side of San

[1:03:14] Fernando Road as well as two Northbound

[1:03:16] Lanes so this addresses the parking

[1:03:19] concern this addresses the traffic

[1:03:21] concern for Northbound however the

[1:03:24] southbound direction of travel still is

[1:03:26] only one lane and it is a narrowed

[1:03:28] section uh so we still would have a

[1:03:31] southbound uh impact of traffic during

[1:03:34] the PM peak hours as well as the

[1:03:37] concerns from the glendell fire

[1:03:38] department because of the narrowed

[1:03:41] Street width this option also would

[1:03:43] require traffic signal modifications

[1:03:46] because of the two-way cycle track at

[1:03:48] each of the crossings of the

[1:03:51] railroad what this means is we now have

[1:03:53] to engage the California Public

[1:03:55] Utilities Commission LA Metro and

[1:03:57] Metrolink for the modifications in the

[1:03:59] process of this which

[1:04:01] is um would not fit within the timeline

[1:04:05] for this project to deliver and build it

[1:04:07] by the end of June

[1:04:14] 2024 So based on the feedback uh staff

[1:04:17] went to the TBC last week um

[1:04:20] recommending alternative one

[1:04:22] particularly because it did meet the

[1:04:23] grant project

[1:04:25] goals it also addressed the business and

[1:04:28] residents concerns regarding parking and

[1:04:29] traffic the configuration was consistent

[1:04:32] with the the challenges and the

[1:04:34] constraints of the corridor and the

[1:04:35] characteristics of of the street but

[1:04:38] also understanding the potential for

[1:04:41] additional connectivity in the future

[1:04:43] for for bicycles not only with the

[1:04:46] metroactive transportation improvements

[1:04:48] that are being uh designed right now by

[1:04:51] LA Metro that connect to the Riverwalk

[1:04:53] but but also through the city's own

[1:04:55] updating of your bike transportation

[1:04:58] plan that could explore the extension of

[1:05:02] that bike path along the east Bank of

[1:05:03] the LA River to provide a high higher

[1:05:06] quality bicycle facility for all users

[1:05:09] that parallel San Fernando Road so it's

[1:05:11] an option that would be out

[1:05:14] there so at the meeting alternative two

[1:05:16] was recommended for the following

[1:05:19] reasons in part because it also

[1:05:21] addressed the business and residents

[1:05:24] concerns but it also provided a bicycle

[1:05:27] Improvement along the corridor by

[1:05:28] providing that southbound Class 2 bike

[1:05:31] lane um it is an alternative that could

[1:05:33] be realized without impacting the

[1:05:34] project budget and schedule and hence

[1:05:37] the staff is recommending alternative 2A

[1:05:40] for your consideration tonight and with

[1:05:42] that that concludes my

[1:05:45] presentation thank you very much um do

[1:05:49] we have any quick questions or should um

[1:05:52] because I could call up the speaker

[1:05:54] unless you have just sure I I just have

[1:05:56] a few question uh on when when in notes

[1:06:00] on in the presentation you mentioned

[1:06:01] that um with uh bike Lanes uh accidents

[1:06:07] are reduced by 35% is there a specific

[1:06:10] type of bike lane that uh constitutes

[1:06:13] that percentage of a reduction that

[1:06:16] would be for a striped Class 2 bike lane

[1:06:18] of class two because the first ones

[1:06:21] which are just sharrows along the road I

[1:06:24] don't think would result if anything

[1:06:26] they give I think bicyclists a false

[1:06:29] sense of security um and how many left

[1:06:33] left turns would be affected by uh the

[1:06:35] implementation of 2A into uh businesses

[1:06:39] do you did you mention that for in to

[1:06:43] put a buffer be able to put a buffer

[1:06:45] adjacent yeah

[1:06:47] so I believe it's a total of six

[1:06:50] driveways or five driveways add in three

[1:06:53] different segments

[1:06:54] ments five driveways in each

[1:06:57] segment five driveways total five okay

[1:07:00] all right thank

[1:07:03] you

[1:07:05] yes um on page

[1:07:09] 13 you note that uh uh alternative to um

[1:07:15] would result in loss of 141

[1:07:19] spaces uh parking spaces or

[1:07:21] approximately do you have that number um

[1:07:24] for south of the freeway yes there's 63

[1:07:28] total parking stalls south of the 134

[1:07:30] freeway and that's been uh that count

[1:07:33] was conducted by Mark Thomas staff as

[1:07:36] well as um our consultant that did the

[1:07:38] parking

[1:07:39] analysis so it's been confirmed okay

[1:07:43] thank you so much have a question Divine

[1:07:45] yes um my question is about off street

[1:07:48] parking and uh we I suppose we all got

[1:07:51] an email today and I don't know if the

[1:07:53] the lady is here that was uh that sent

[1:07:55] us the information but she mentioned

[1:07:58] that there are hundreds of parking

[1:07:59] spaces including a garage and lots off

[1:08:03] Street in that area that could be used

[1:08:06] and it wouldn't matter if we uh you know

[1:08:08] got rid of the

[1:08:10] 144 on street parking or the 41 I think

[1:08:13] it's 41 this in the

[1:08:16] 2A can you comment on that you said you

[1:08:19] you looked at off street parking and we

[1:08:23] we looked at the on street parking

[1:08:24] demands the public

[1:08:26] parking the offsite off street parking

[1:08:29] was not considered as part of our

[1:08:32] analysis uh particularly because it is

[1:08:34] privately owned and it's it requires a

[1:08:37] little more investigation as to its

[1:08:38] needs um there's also businesses that

[1:08:41] may still not from the time they were

[1:08:43] built have off-site parking but it's

[1:08:46] also takes additional analysis to

[1:08:49] understand the on-site parking or

[1:08:51] off-site parking needs of each of the

[1:08:53] businesses is um and uses along the

[1:08:56] corridor to determine if it is meeting

[1:09:00] current zoning requirements or

[1:09:01] grandfathered zoning

[1:09:03] requirements um it's difficult to say

[1:09:07] whether or not would still be adequate

[1:09:09] to absorb the parking if it was removed

[1:09:11] from San Fernando Road and council

[1:09:13] member dine um I didn't see a copy of

[1:09:17] the email but we do not own we don't

[1:09:19] have a parking structure along San

[1:09:21] Fernando public parking structure right

[1:09:23] I don't think she mentioned it that they

[1:09:25] were public she said um garages and then

[1:09:28] she had buildings and lots and oh yeah

[1:09:30] privately owned yeah yeah

[1:09:33] yeah um yeah and we'll get a

[1:09:36] presentation that's um yeah one of our

[1:09:39] one of our speaker cards she'll be

[1:09:40] giving a

[1:09:41] presentation um yeah I just have two

[1:09:44] questions um on let's see when you were

[1:09:47] on page 10 let me just go back to

[1:09:50] it uh was it page I'm sorry page 14

[1:09:55] you uh mentioned um that this

[1:09:59] alternative three would double the

[1:10:00] travel time can you put that in in

[1:10:02] seconds minutes and what from where to

[1:10:05] where so the travel time is from Elk

[1:10:09] Avenue on the south end to Grand View

[1:10:11] Avenue on the North

[1:10:13] End in today's conditions that's

[1:10:15] estimated in either direction to be a

[1:10:19] 10-minute travel time both Northbound

[1:10:21] and southbound during Peak hour PM peak

[1:10:24] hour cuz that's that's the governing one

[1:10:26] that's the higher has the higher volume

[1:10:28] to

[1:10:28] it with alternative three with the class

[1:10:32] 4 protected bike Lanes reducing the lane

[1:10:35] of travel in each

[1:10:38] Direction the number increases to 18

[1:10:41] minutes and I believe the southbound

[1:10:43] Direction 20 minutes in the Northbound

[1:10:45] Direction so near it nearly doubled both

[1:10:49] directions in the PM peak hour by

[1:10:51] reducing and eliminating the one lane

[1:10:55] okay um and then my other question is uh

[1:11:00] see page 20 I think I know the answer to

[1:11:03] this but I just want to make sure so uh

[1:11:06] on page

[1:11:08] 20 I don't know if you want to pull it

[1:11:10] up for now but anyway the here I'll I'll

[1:11:12] back up for you yeah just that the the

[1:11:16] the rightmost travel Lane there 11 ft I

[1:11:19] assume that's because of the parked cars

[1:11:21] but is that is that a requirement when

[1:11:23] we have a travel Lane against Park cars

[1:11:25] our minimum is 11 ft the the typical

[1:11:29] minimum Lane is 11

[1:11:32] and the typical parking Lane is also

[1:11:35] eight um so we've reduced the parking

[1:11:38] Lane to

[1:11:39] seven um because of the having the

[1:11:43] travel Lane adjacent to the parking Lane

[1:11:46] um having 18 ft total was preferable

[1:11:49] whether it was a 10-ft lane and an 8ft

[1:11:51] parking lane or vice versa but but

[1:11:53] having the 18 ft was preferable to have

[1:11:55] a little bit of separation between the

[1:11:58] two so so if you cut a foot off of that

[1:12:01] you that would be a a safety issue I

[1:12:05] would say it would be yes my

[1:12:08] opinion because I'm just thinking if you

[1:12:11] how much how how much uh uh space would

[1:12:15] you need for to buffer that bike lane

[1:12:18] would it be a foot or would it be less

[1:12:19] than a foot the typical buffer for a

[1:12:22] bike lane is 3 Fe oh 3 ft just for the

[1:12:25] buffer that's the typical buffer for a

[1:12:28] bike lane it it could be made less could

[1:12:30] be yeah but the the preferred is 3

[1:12:35] feet okay and the 10ft travel Lane is

[1:12:38] our is our

[1:12:40] minimum

[1:12:42] yes did any jurisdictions go narrower

[1:12:45] than that on through

[1:12:47] Lanes not that I have seen I know the

[1:12:50] city of La has been tightening things up

[1:12:53] but they've been using 10ft throughs and

[1:12:55] 9ft left

[1:12:57] turns okay all right

[1:13:00] thanks oh yeah council member the

[1:13:04] sidewalk uh with what's left is that

[1:13:08] like sufficient for people with

[1:13:11] disabilities absolutely the the quarter

[1:13:14] will be ADA

[1:13:16] Compliant and not like in some places on

[1:13:19] like Central and brand right where it

[1:13:21] almost feels like you have to around

[1:13:24] things um council members saan

[1:13:27] everywhere in the City by law we are

[1:13:29] required to comply with ADA requirements

[1:13:31] so sometimes what you see on Brand

[1:13:34] Boulevard and we're dealing with uh code

[1:13:37] enforcement is after dining spaces that

[1:13:40] have taken over but even with that if

[1:13:43] they have they have a permit from the

[1:13:45] city it meets the minimum requirement

[1:13:48] for

[1:13:50] accessibility okay and and if I could

[1:13:53] add the the parkway on that side it's

[1:13:55] 10t wide the intent of this is to remove

[1:13:58] the front four feet for

[1:14:00] planting maintain the back five or six

[1:14:04] feet depending on segment but making it

[1:14:06] a continuous without Meandering that

[1:14:08] back and

[1:14:10] forth okay thank you so much okay uh

[1:14:14] we'll call up our speakers um do we have

[1:14:17] anyone on the phone no we do not well we

[1:14:20] just got one caller okay Okay so we've

[1:14:24] got 1 two three four five six here yeah

[1:14:28] give it um we can give five minutes and

[1:14:31] then we'll we'll stop taking phone calls

[1:14:33] if we get any more okay so we'll start

[1:14:35] with uh lynen Alexander

[1:14:40] deor and you have three minutes okay for

[1:14:43] your

[1:14:47] com uh do I start now yes all right uh

[1:14:51] hello I am here to voice my support for

[1:14:54] Alternatives 2 3 and SL

[1:14:58] 3A um I have a stti in the matter as I

[1:15:02] have cycled through San Fernando Road

[1:15:05] many times from Glenn Oaks Boulevard to

[1:15:08] Chevy Chase um where I make a ride and

[1:15:12] head to the LA River bike path at at

[1:15:14] Water bellage um for a time this was the

[1:15:19] first part of my commute to get to

[1:15:20] downtown Los Angeles uh as I became more

[1:15:24] familiar with the roads in

[1:15:25] Glendale uh I stopped using San Fernando

[1:15:29] as often mostly because due to the lack

[1:15:33] of bike lanes and angry speeding

[1:15:35] cars um the fact is that San Fernando

[1:15:39] Road is a dangerous road for all users

[1:15:43] on top of a few a handful of pedestrian

[1:15:47] injuries there have been a handful of

[1:15:50] bicycle collisions within the last

[1:15:52] decade um I would also like to mention

[1:15:56] one notable incident in on the San

[1:15:59] Fernando Road during the open Community

[1:16:02] open house event on March 23rd of this

[1:16:06] year two cars jumped on a curb and

[1:16:09] landed on a few tables of a restaurant

[1:16:12] at the intersection of San Fernando and

[1:16:14] Chevy Chase uh now I understand that

[1:16:18] it's a little bit South beyond the

[1:16:21] current project but that doesn't change

[1:16:24] the fact that it happened you know um

[1:16:27] think about think about this in an

[1:16:30] alternative timeline or Universe where

[1:16:33] the city council chose alternative run

[1:16:36] one and was implemented and that crash

[1:16:39] or worse crash occurred within that

[1:16:42] scope of the project it would not look

[1:16:45] good for the city of Glendale to say the

[1:16:49] least this is why we have projects to

[1:16:51] extend sidewalks to add bike lanes and

[1:16:54] sometimes bus lanes uh it's to prevent

[1:16:57] incidents like this from

[1:16:59] occurring and you have the power to

[1:17:02] prevent these such

[1:17:06] incidents uh please support option 3 3A

[1:17:10] or at the fair leas option two I yield

[1:17:13] my time thank

[1:17:15] you Mike bars

[1:17:22] off

[1:17:23] uh good evening council members my name

[1:17:25] is Mike borisov uh again sorry I just

[1:17:27] came from work at GD so forgive me for

[1:17:29] the shorts um so I'm just here to say

[1:17:31] alternative 2A is the best we can go

[1:17:33] with right now um I was at the meeting

[1:17:35] for the transportation parking

[1:17:36] commission when this came up and really

[1:17:38] what this project is all about is

[1:17:40] compromise um when obviously I want

[1:17:43] three um but that's not the reality that

[1:17:45] we live in um I we had the fire chief or

[1:17:48] sorry fire department staff come up and

[1:17:50] say that if we only had one single Lane

[1:17:52] that was 10 10 ft or even 12T that's not

[1:17:55] good enough in case of an emergency

[1:17:56] because cars can't like go to the right

[1:17:58] or left side of the street which makes

[1:18:00] sense and so to come up with a

[1:18:02] compromise to allow a bike lane

[1:18:03] southbound bike lane and still have uh

[1:18:05] emergency vehicles go uh in event of

[1:18:08] emergency uh we have two lanes that are

[1:18:10] now 10 ft uh additionally now this

[1:18:13] project will follow the timeline and

[1:18:15] follow the costs with a clean uh air

[1:18:17] Grand program I do want to mention that

[1:18:19] I'm a bit bummed that there was no room

[1:18:22] for a buffer for the bike lane so in my

[1:18:26] understanding a protected bike lane is

[1:18:28] about 3 to 5T but a buffer can be

[1:18:30] whatever size you want although I don't

[1:18:33] know if there's a legal minimum to

[1:18:36] enforce like the safe of a buffer versus

[1:18:40] a protected bike like Arrow not Lane

[1:18:43] sorry a protected bike buffer like

[1:18:46] there's buffer and there there's

[1:18:47] protected bike lane those are two

[1:18:48] different things um and you can see that

[1:18:50] in the picture even so if you go back to

[1:18:52] to Alternative 3A you can see there's a

[1:18:55] green right there's red uh sorry there's

[1:18:58] a stripes and then there's green poles

[1:19:00] those are plastic ballards that's a

[1:19:02] protected bike lane a buffer would just

[1:19:04] be a thicker stripe I believe on the

[1:19:07] lane and so I was confused why we

[1:19:09] couldn't have like at least a foot um I

[1:19:11] understand there's a minimum median

[1:19:12] requirement especially for turning left

[1:19:14] and the median will have dry Wells or

[1:19:17] water collection facilities so that

[1:19:19] might affect the actual buffer or how

[1:19:22] wide meeting is and the buffer this that

[1:19:24] you could add to the bike lane um but

[1:19:27] all in all I support alternative 2A and

[1:19:29] I hope we you know Al least got one bike

[1:19:32] lane versus zero which is what we're

[1:19:34] currently at right now thank you thank

[1:19:37] you uh next speaker is Allen

[1:19:45] Durham mayor brotman members of the

[1:19:48] council I'm Alan Durham uh I agree with

[1:19:51] Mike borisoff I'm here to support the

[1:19:54] staff's

[1:19:55] recommendation to uh go with alternative

[1:19:58] 2A it's not a perfect world

[1:20:00] unfortunately compromise is needed uh 2A

[1:20:04] manages to add at least one dedicated

[1:20:07] bike lane on a street that has none in

[1:20:10] addition to maintaining on street

[1:20:12] parking and all four traffic

[1:20:15] Lanes unfortunately adding two bank

[1:20:17] Lanes would result in the loss of all

[1:20:21] the on street parking or the loss of one

[1:20:23] or two traffic Lanes this portion of San

[1:20:27] Fernando Road is under I'm sorry it's

[1:20:29] mostly older commercial buildings which

[1:20:32] have no dedicated parking they rely on

[1:20:35] the street

[1:20:36] parking uh and any parking structures

[1:20:40] that are in this portion of San Fernando

[1:20:43] or private property they're not public

[1:20:45] Lots where you can pay to

[1:20:47] park um and I think having no street

[1:20:51] parking would hurt these businesses

[1:20:54] economically and also Force parking onto

[1:20:57] residential streets rather than San

[1:20:59] Fernando Road eliminating one or two

[1:21:02] traffic Lanes to put two bike Lanes in

[1:21:06] is extremely problematic it's a heavily

[1:21:09] traveled

[1:21:11] thoroughfare and it will at least double

[1:21:14] the travel times during the rush hour

[1:21:16] and it's already really congested during

[1:21:18] those times traffic backs up there are a

[1:21:21] bunch of railroad crossings the signals

[1:21:23] last a very long

[1:21:25] time and I think reducing it to three or

[1:21:30] two lanes will

[1:21:32] divert uh traffic from San Fernando onto

[1:21:35] nearby residential streets will get that

[1:21:37] effect of people cutting through

[1:21:39] residential streets to avoid San

[1:21:41] Fernando Road and even if the traffic

[1:21:44] goes up to Glen Oaks Boulevard we're

[1:21:47] going to be losing two lanes on Glen

[1:21:49] Oaks in the future when the rapid

[1:21:51] transit uh North Hollywood bus project

[1:21:55] is implemented so Glen o is going to be

[1:21:58] going from six Lanes down to four if San

[1:22:01] Fernando goes from 4 to 3 or two it's

[1:22:05] just

[1:22:06] problematic uh for the neighborhoods

[1:22:08] because I think traffic will go up into

[1:22:10] the residential neighborhoods and the

[1:22:13] Glendale Fire Department has stated that

[1:22:17] this is going to be a threat to Public

[1:22:19] Safety due to delays in response time so

[1:22:23] I don't think you can really ignore that

[1:22:25] so please don't delay approving

[1:22:28] alternative

[1:22:29] 2A there's only 10 months to go to get

[1:22:33] this project rolling completed in order

[1:22:35] not to lose the grant money thank you

[1:22:39] thank you uh next speaker is Kirsten

[1:22:44] blad or blade I I hope you can correct

[1:22:48] me

[1:22:50] yes uh good evening council members

[1:22:53] my name is Kirsten blot I'm a resident

[1:22:54] of South

[1:22:55] Glendale um I did have a

[1:23:00] presentation um first I just want to say

[1:23:03] I'm not sure why it matters that all of

[1:23:04] the parking south of the 134 is private

[1:23:06] when it's 100% private businesses uh

[1:23:09] there's no Public Schools public parks

[1:23:11] or

[1:23:15] residences um if you go to the first

[1:23:17] slide please thanks or the second

[1:23:21] slide thanks

[1:23:23] um so the staff report failed to look at

[1:23:24] the bigger picture of glendale's bike

[1:23:26] Network San Fernando intersects with

[1:23:28] five bike Lanes one future bike lane and

[1:23:30] the future Verdugo wash which is by far

[1:23:32] the most of any roadway in Glendale next

[1:23:35] slide that many connections to bike

[1:23:38] Lanes guarantees that San Fernando will

[1:23:40] be and is currently used by lots of

[1:23:41] cyclists in the past 10 years there were

[1:23:43] 28 cyclist hit on the portion of San

[1:23:45] Fernando within Glendale and two of

[1:23:47] those crashes resulted in the highest

[1:23:49] injury severity level other than death

[1:23:51] next slide

[1:23:53] over onethird of the crashes occurred

[1:23:55] within the project study area next

[1:23:58] slide my parking analysis shows that

[1:24:00] unlike the northern portion there's very

[1:24:02] little need for curb parking south of

[1:24:03] the 134 which is also where bike Lan is

[1:24:05] most needed next

[1:24:08] slide so in this first portion there are

[1:24:11] 44 off street parking spaces um and

[1:24:13] there's not a single curb parking

[1:24:16] space next

[1:24:19] slide uh this section is going to re be

[1:24:21] redeveloped with a project that includes

[1:24:23] a 385 space parking garage 121 surface

[1:24:26] spaces and an off Street loading zone uh

[1:24:29] there's no retail or any need for

[1:24:31] customer parking uh and there's only 14

[1:24:33] curb spaces anyways next

[1:24:35] slide here we

[1:24:37] have off street parking spaces and 12

[1:24:40] curb spaces over two blocks uh and it's

[1:24:43] mostly a junk lot if you couldn't tell

[1:24:45] um so here you can see that these two

[1:24:49] blocks for years now have just been used

[1:24:51] as junk truck storage which they're not

[1:24:52] customer parking next

[1:24:57] slide um again here's another block

[1:25:00] showing that this is just junk truck

[1:25:01] storage not customer

[1:25:05] parking so here we have 135 off street

[1:25:08] parking spaces and 10 curb spaces 50% of

[1:25:11] which are limited to 30 minutes uh so

[1:25:13] the also I wanted to point out the

[1:25:14] restaurant on the corner has 11 spaces

[1:25:16] of their own and a 14 space parking lot

[1:25:18] next door next

[1:25:20] slide um so here in front of moonlight

[1:25:22] rollerway we can see that this has been

[1:25:24] used for junk truck storage since at

[1:25:26] least 2015 next slide there's not a

[1:25:29] single curb parking space available on

[1:25:31] this final stretch of San Fernando but

[1:25:32] there are 539 off- street parking spaces

[1:25:36] which means this whole section is

[1:25:37] essentially just a giant parking lot

[1:25:38] next

[1:25:39] slide so all in all only 2% of the

[1:25:42] available parking within one block is on

[1:25:44] the curb and that's not even counting

[1:25:46] the curb parking available on side

[1:25:47] streets next

[1:25:49] slide my alternative proposal is north

[1:25:52] of 134 alternative 2A and south of 134

[1:25:54] alternative 2 is that my time um okay

[1:25:58] you could you could wrap it up need

[1:26:01] another 30 seconds it's fine thank you

[1:26:03] um so with this proposal cyclist would

[1:26:06] be protected where it matters most which

[1:26:07] is near the freeway interchanges less

[1:26:09] than 2% parking loss and all parking

[1:26:12] north of the 134 which is where the

[1:26:13] residences and Retail uses are I know

[1:26:16] they need parking up there and I don't

[1:26:18] want to take that away from them and it

[1:26:20] also that portion accounts for over % of

[1:26:22] the curb parking in the total project

[1:26:24] area despite being only a third of the

[1:26:26] length um and almost 100% of the retail

[1:26:28] parking okay and this would also connect

[1:26:30] to the verduga wash Highland Bike Lane

[1:26:32] and nearly to the rivil bike lane and uh

[1:26:34] I believe the bridge that the um that

[1:26:37] was talked about earlier okay thank you

[1:26:39] thank you mayor bman yes if I um I oh

[1:26:43] you want to ask a question do you yeah

[1:26:45] you went really really fast through your

[1:26:47] slides cuz you have I am interested

[1:26:50] actually seeing the the rest of the info

[1:26:52] that we just went past is there do you

[1:26:55] do you have do we only have a electronic

[1:26:58] version of it

[1:27:01] um we got it you should have it on your

[1:27:03] phone she sent she attached it to an

[1:27:06] email I haven't seen okay I'll pull it

[1:27:08] up thanks thank you okay thank you okay

[1:27:13] uh next is Cole

[1:27:21] basemore

[1:27:24] good evening Council staff um very

[1:27:27] excited about this project uh as I said

[1:27:29] to the commission last week I think this

[1:27:31] is a great opportunity to revitalize

[1:27:33] this Corridor um I don't have much more

[1:27:35] to say beyond the previous speaker I

[1:27:37] think Kristen did a wonderful job of

[1:27:39] summarizing uh the arguments in favor of

[1:27:42] 2A as well as um option two south of the

[1:27:46] 134 I think reducing a few um spots of

[1:27:50] parking that's on this Corridor south of

[1:27:52] of the 134 is really um not much when

[1:27:56] you consider the uh safety that comes

[1:27:59] with having that dedicated bike lane so

[1:28:02] please consider that when you're

[1:28:03] thinking about this um reducing like

[1:28:06] they the staff presented you know the

[1:28:08] reduction in 35% of uh uh I believe it

[1:28:12] was 35% less bike accidents that might

[1:28:15] result of this would be uh I think a

[1:28:17] huge gain so again please please I

[1:28:20] support 2A uh

[1:28:22] for the portion uh north of 134 and two

[1:28:26] South thank

[1:28:28] you okay thank you

[1:28:31] and uh Kate

[1:28:40] anger hi everybody you said five minutes

[1:28:43] right I have time to say good evening

[1:28:46] mayor brotman members of city council

[1:28:48] staff three minutes awesome um I can

[1:28:51] talk to fast hey I have such Envy of

[1:28:54] your presentations can we get

[1:28:56] presentations like that the community we

[1:28:58] would love to see those um I wanted to

[1:29:01] start off by saying I am a member of the

[1:29:05] community that's right they are impacted

[1:29:07] by uh traffic on San Fernando Road um in

[1:29:12] fact my house was just a little bit off

[1:29:14] one of those slides that we saw earlier

[1:29:16] um mostly speaking to north of the 134

[1:29:19] and at the 134 which is the bane of my

[1:29:23] existence right about there who else

[1:29:26] knows about this uh council member

[1:29:28] kassakian also knows about this

[1:29:30] experience of driving on San Fernando at

[1:29:33] the

[1:29:34] 134 so I wanted to say staff did a

[1:29:38] really good job of reaching out to the

[1:29:40] public I really appreciated that they

[1:29:43] not only made sure that people had uh

[1:29:46] visibility into what was happening when

[1:29:48] I reached out to them they were very

[1:29:50] responsive I really appreciated that uh

[1:29:53] the consultant also was really good at

[1:29:55] the open house and even beforehand there

[1:29:57] were problems with the survey at first I

[1:29:59] reached out to them to point out that it

[1:30:01] was requiring people to give an answer

[1:30:04] one two and three like minimum of three

[1:30:06] answers so um I'm not sure if those

[1:30:09] answers were taken away from the survey

[1:30:11] results that you saw at the beginning

[1:30:13] you couldn't say I have no problem with

[1:30:15] this road the way it is you couldn't say

[1:30:18] I don't want any of these um Solutions

[1:30:22] so I let them know that and they changed

[1:30:24] it I really appreciated that um I did

[1:30:27] want to highlight the results of the

[1:30:29] doorto door canvasing obviously not many

[1:30:32] residents came out tonight but you saw

[1:30:34] um in the staff report that um a large

[1:30:37] majority of people like things the way

[1:30:39] they are they recognize that there could

[1:30:42] be a lot of impacts from reducing

[1:30:44] traffic Lanes in particular also the off

[1:30:46] Street the parking I think more of an

[1:30:48] issue north of the

[1:30:50] 134 so

[1:30:54] so I'm strongly opposed to any

[1:30:57] alternatives that eliminate a traffic

[1:30:59] lane it's just a nightmare there already

[1:31:02] I really want to support 2A I want to

[1:31:05] ask a question I know that staff doesn't

[1:31:08] need to answer me I hope one of you will

[1:31:10] ask this question what happens on

[1:31:13] southbound San Fernando at the

[1:31:16] 134 where there are two tra excuse me

[1:31:20] that go to the left

[1:31:22] two traffic Lanes go through I was just

[1:31:24] there I can't see how you fit a bicycle

[1:31:26] lane there are they going to use sherrow

[1:31:28] right in that spot and if not how are

[1:31:30] they going to fit that bicycle lane

[1:31:32] without reducing two lanes of traffic

[1:31:34] plus those two lanes that turn left it

[1:31:37] gets backed up really badly everybody

[1:31:39] wants to turn left it's almost

[1:31:41] impossible to go straight through there

[1:31:42] you get backed

[1:31:44] up last thing nobody's talking about the

[1:31:47] Landscaping I'll talk about it really

[1:31:49] fast really fast about the Landscaping

[1:31:52] the last time they did landscaping they

[1:31:54] let it die let's not do that this time

[1:31:56] let's keep it alive the Rosemary is

[1:31:58] still alive maybe keep it thanks so much

[1:32:01] thank

[1:32:01] you okay uh Eric

[1:32:11] sonan hi everyone um first of all I'm

[1:32:15] excited about this project as well I see

[1:32:17] some family like on the other side of

[1:32:19] Glendale so I'm always on that road and

[1:32:21] it the traffic is horrible um I haven't

[1:32:24] come here while they've presented before

[1:32:27] so I just was wondering if um the I

[1:32:30] don't know what it's called in the

[1:32:31] middle the thing that is full of trees

[1:32:35] but the median the median yeah is there

[1:32:37] has that been talked about like if that

[1:32:39] can be made like thinner cuz I it seems

[1:32:42] like I don't know if that I haven't been

[1:32:45] here so um but that could be saving some

[1:32:49] space or cuz I know right now there's

[1:32:51] nothing there at all so it's kind of

[1:32:54] going to take up a lot of space and then

[1:32:56] I know you mentioned some cross streets

[1:32:57] as to like where it starts and ends but

[1:33:00] uh is there a reason why like it doesn't

[1:33:02] go the whole way through San Fernando

[1:33:04] like from the beginning of South

[1:33:06] Glendale all the way to the end I'd love

[1:33:09] to know about that that's pretty much

[1:33:13] it okay thank you oh and then um also

[1:33:17] about the I know he said there's a like

[1:33:20] one of the options had this southbound

[1:33:22] uh southbound uh bike lane could there

[1:33:25] be an option with like both bounds but

[1:33:28] on that one side cuz I know some bike

[1:33:30] lanes are like that where it's like both

[1:33:33] ways but it's just like on one side of

[1:33:35] the street and saves a lot more

[1:33:38] space yeah okay thank you we'll try to

[1:33:41] answer some of those questions um Mike

[1:33:50] mohill

[1:33:52] evening council members my name is Mike

[1:33:54] mohill I was in the comfort of my home a

[1:33:57] little while ago watching the council

[1:34:00] meeting and uh this project came up what

[1:34:04] what caught my eye was you did a survey

[1:34:07] and x amount of people answered the

[1:34:10] survey probably knowing history maybe

[1:34:15] 100 maybe

[1:34:17] two but I doubt if a thousand people or

[1:34:20] more answered the survey

[1:34:22] how can you get a th people to answer

[1:34:25] your survey when you require the public

[1:34:27] to go to the city

[1:34:29] website or for people will knock on

[1:34:33] doors can I make a suggestion and it's

[1:34:35] free to the

[1:34:37] city your Glendo Community newsletter

[1:34:39] goes out to thousands of Glendo

[1:34:41] residents and

[1:34:44] Beyond and it's free to the

[1:34:46] public if you want to put an

[1:34:49] announcement for a survey

[1:34:52] put it in your glender community

[1:34:56] newsletter and people could answer that

[1:34:58] survey and send it into the city

[1:35:02] manager then you'll have a survey how

[1:35:05] people feel now the only people who are

[1:35:08] impacted this right now are probably the

[1:35:09] people who live live in the meded

[1:35:12] area but you know I live over there by

[1:35:14] uh sh

[1:35:16] Canyon you know I feel sorry for the

[1:35:18] people they want bike Lan that's fine

[1:35:21] okay

[1:35:22] but why don't you get an opinion from

[1:35:23] the rest of the city not just for the

[1:35:26] people who live around the

[1:35:29] corridor now my wife right now is very

[1:35:31] mad at I'm talking about this subject

[1:35:32] matter by the

[1:35:33] way she said what you should be talking

[1:35:36] about Mike is the traffic by the advaned

[1:35:39] hospital that's where you should talk

[1:35:41] about slowing down

[1:35:44] traffic but let's talk about

[1:35:46] surveys let's let's do realistic surveys

[1:35:51] not not just a couple hundred people get

[1:35:54] a couple thousand

[1:35:56] residents they will let you know the

[1:35:59] people who live up in Mantra will let

[1:36:01] you know the people who live up in

[1:36:03] Whiting Woods will let you know Ros Mo

[1:36:06] Glenn Oaks

[1:36:07] Canyon South

[1:36:10] Glendale Adams Hill will let you know

[1:36:13] but not just the couple hundred people

[1:36:15] who live along San Fernando Road thank

[1:36:19] you like I said my Community newslet is

[1:36:22] free to the public even the city can use

[1:36:25] it as Announcement by

[1:36:30] now we we have one caller Dennis W

[1:36:34] Dennis you're on air you have three

[1:36:37] minutes hi can everybody hear

[1:36:39] me yes go ahead hello Council my name is

[1:36:43] Dennis mwyn and I'm a resident of

[1:36:44] Glendale and live a mile within a mile

[1:36:46] from San Fernando Road I travel that

[1:36:48] road often as a driver but never as a

[1:36:50] cyclist was frankly due to the danger of

[1:36:53] the proximity and the speed of the car

[1:36:54] is traveling on that road I'm calling

[1:36:57] today to voice my support for

[1:36:58] alternative 2A while I believe that the

[1:37:01] best option is alternative three and

[1:37:02] it's alternative but with the concerns

[1:37:05] of the First Responders I can understand

[1:37:06] why I cannot be completed as currently

[1:37:08] designed I believe that there are

[1:37:10] options that can create a protected bik

[1:37:11] Lane in both directions such as the

[1:37:13] enforcement of parking rules reducing

[1:37:15] the number of abandoned cars client cars

[1:37:17] from adjacent body auto body shops junk

[1:37:19] hauling trucks crashed vehicles Etc

[1:37:22] maybe widen the media and put the bike

[1:37:23] Lanes in the middle of that to protect

[1:37:24] cyclist or road diet I'm positive that

[1:37:27] design team can come up with an

[1:37:28] alternative that promote Mobility safety

[1:37:31] and

[1:37:32] equality the installation of a bike lane

[1:37:34] would create a bike network of bike

[1:37:35] lanes that would promote a community of

[1:37:37] Wellness Glendale is a great city with

[1:37:39] the network of drivers being a dark

[1:37:41] cloud hovering over the heads of its

[1:37:42] citizens we have a wonderful opportunity

[1:37:44] here to continue to separate ourselves

[1:37:46] from Los Angeles city with a priori

[1:37:49] prioritization well big word on the

[1:37:51] citizens of the juel city we're a

[1:37:53] society of people and the implementation

[1:37:55] of 2A would be a step towards taking the

[1:37:56] road back for pedestrians and cyclists

[1:37:58] and reducing our dependency on cars

[1:38:00] thank

[1:38:01] you thank you and that's all of our

[1:38:06] callers that's all okay wonderful Let's

[1:38:09] uh go around and see what we have thank

[1:38:13] you um let me ask

[1:38:16] uh let's see Mr

[1:38:20] Somerville could we do to the two

[1:38:23] different options the uh 2A north of the

[1:38:25] 134 and um the two the two south of 134

[1:38:31] I mean that sounds maybe like a good

[1:38:34] idea Is it feasible yes right is it

[1:38:37] impactful for the parking because there

[1:38:39] are 63 parking stalls on Street on San

[1:38:41] Fernando Road that's south of the 134

[1:38:44] that would be eliminated by doing

[1:38:46] alternative 2 South of the 134 freeway

[1:38:49] how many 63

[1:38:52] 63 okay and the other question is um the

[1:38:57] median is right now designed at 9 ft

[1:39:00] correct correct is it possible to make

[1:39:03] it narrower so that you know we were um

[1:39:06] the mayor was asking about the buffer or

[1:39:09] about a it would take three feet uh to

[1:39:12] put um another bike path I get a bike

[1:39:15] lane on the other side uh could you

[1:39:18] decrease the median and then give us a

[1:39:22] give us parking and a bike path bike

[1:39:24] lane I'm sorry bike lane on the east

[1:39:28] side the 9 ft is the absolute minimum

[1:39:32] width for the left turn movements that

[1:39:34] are required at each of the

[1:39:35] intersections along sanfernando Road

[1:39:38] it's also the minimum required if we

[1:39:40] stripe it as a

[1:39:42] two-way left turn

[1:39:44] lane for um access in and out of

[1:39:48] driveways along the corridor that's

[1:39:50] currently been

[1:39:51] designed into the project so anything

[1:39:54] less than nine in all of the left term

[1:39:57] movements would go away or again it's

[1:40:00] it's the matter of having to transition

[1:40:01] in and out as we go and the length it

[1:40:04] takes to actually make those transitions

[1:40:07] work with very short spacing

[1:40:11] intersection to intersection to

[1:40:12] intersection it's it's say the 14 out of

[1:40:17] the 17 blocks you're unable to actually

[1:40:19] Implement any form of buffer at 3T

[1:40:22] because of the length you need to make

[1:40:23] the transitions

[1:40:25] work thank

[1:40:28] you council member Satan any questions

[1:40:32] um could you respond to Kate anger's

[1:40:35] question about um the ability to put

[1:40:38] bike Lanes um by the

[1:40:42] 134 yes it is she's not wrong it is very

[1:40:46] tight underneath that freeway in order

[1:40:48] to um provide the Dual left that that's

[1:40:51] required in the southbound um we have

[1:40:53] narrowed the lanes through there in

[1:40:55] order to fit the one southbound bike

[1:40:58] lane in there an alternative

[1:41:04] 2A um follow up on that one yeah of

[1:41:06] course so so that so you've worked out

[1:41:09] so is there is there a need for any

[1:41:11] special signal there for because I I

[1:41:14] can't picture it I'm sorry but but a

[1:41:16] bike traversing cars getting onto the

[1:41:18] freeway how does the signaling work

[1:41:20] there

[1:41:21] the um southbound the class 2 bike lane

[1:41:24] in the southbound direction is running

[1:41:26] along that Westerly curb so it's running

[1:41:28] right along the railroad Corridor so the

[1:41:31] bikes themselves are not in conflict

[1:41:34] with those making the left turn to go

[1:41:36] onto Dorne Street to go to the freeway

[1:41:38] they're runting parallel to the

[1:41:39] southbound movement of

[1:41:41] cars okay okay did you have another

[1:41:46] question

[1:41:48] um no I just have comments so I'll

[1:41:52] wait okay Council Riv kasak I asked all

[1:41:55] my questions thanks okay um I don't have

[1:41:59] much but

[1:42:01] um I did want to see if you could

[1:42:05] respond to two questions that uh one of

[1:42:08] the speakers raised one was why couldn't

[1:42:10] we do more of San Fernando and the other

[1:42:13] was about uh two-way bike lane um if you

[1:42:18] could just explain I know those were in

[1:42:19] your pres well second one was in your

[1:42:21] presentation but maybe you could just

[1:42:23] run through it again for for everyone's

[1:42:25] sake I'll let me take that one first and

[1:42:27] I'll hand it to staff about the limit of

[1:42:30] the project um on that side of it um but

[1:42:33] yes the alternative 3A was effectively

[1:42:36] that alternative that provided a two-way

[1:42:40] cycle track on the west side of San

[1:42:44] Fernando Road the space required for

[1:42:48] that still necessitates the need to

[1:42:52] remove one lane of traffic on the street

[1:42:55] there's just not enough room curb to

[1:42:56] curb to fit that facility in um

[1:43:00] additionally um that alternative because

[1:43:04] now we have two-way bike traffic on the

[1:43:07] west side we have cyclists that are

[1:43:09] going against traffic that requires

[1:43:13] traffic signal modifications each one of

[1:43:15] those

[1:43:16] intersections and the those

[1:43:17] intersections that include the rail

[1:43:19] Corridor is what triggers the need to

[1:43:21] involve the Public Utilities Commission

[1:43:24] and metr Link and that's a 12 to 18month

[1:43:26] process to get through that's what the

[1:43:29] detriment to that

[1:43:31] alternative okay and the first

[1:43:36] question uh Mr Mayor the the limits of

[1:43:39] the uh project were based on the

[1:43:42] application you know the the Grant

[1:43:44] application I believe that we had

[1:43:45] submitted so that's those are that's the

[1:43:48] extent that we have funding for okay all

[1:43:52] right um may have one more question you

[1:43:55] have another question I yes um the

[1:43:59] images that were shown with the uh junk

[1:44:04] trucks um along San Fernando I know this

[1:44:08] is an issue that I've had conversations

[1:44:11] with staff about previously um how do

[1:44:15] they get to just park there cuz I know

[1:44:17] we had that same issue that I had

[1:44:19] brought up on col

[1:44:21] where one of the mechanic shops was just

[1:44:23] putting out all the cars um and not

[1:44:27] allowing others to park there um it's

[1:44:30] not just taking away parking um but it's

[1:44:33] also uh just makes the street look

[1:44:35] really ugly and you know I see San

[1:44:37] Fernando also has a connector um Street

[1:44:41] um when you're trying to go from Las VES

[1:44:43] to the to glendell and then obviously

[1:44:45] from glendell to Burbank so um what

[1:44:48] rules do we have in place that can

[1:44:53] help get rid of that um what are some

[1:44:56] measures that we could put in place cuz

[1:44:59] that seems to be an ongoing problem

[1:45:01] council member saan I I believe the

[1:45:04] pictures that the speaker was sharing

[1:45:06] with you and showing were pictures of

[1:45:08] trucks that haul away junk per se they

[1:45:12] were not junk cars and I'm not sure if

[1:45:16] there's a business on San Fernando or a

[1:45:17] couple of businesses that are engaged in

[1:45:19] that kind of business business and those

[1:45:21] are the trucks they use for their

[1:45:23] operation and and businesses as far as

[1:45:26] the auto body shops that you're

[1:45:27] referring to our code enforcement has

[1:45:30] been out there our parking enforcement

[1:45:32] been out there and they site them and uh

[1:45:35] that's pretty much uh what we can

[1:45:38] do so they remove them as we site

[1:45:43] them okay and they they can keep them

[1:45:46] there for like 3 days out of 10 72 hours

[1:45:48] per the California vehicle code

[1:45:51] and if it's even if it's the same

[1:45:52] vehicle or they just rotate the cars

[1:45:54] that they

[1:45:56] have well

[1:45:58] okay um and then if if we did go with 2A

[1:46:04] um on the North side and then just two

[1:46:07] on the south would this delay the

[1:46:09] project

[1:46:12] implementation if we moved forward with

[1:46:15] 2A to the north two to the South um the

[1:46:18] removal of the parking would

[1:46:21] our recommendation the staff would be to

[1:46:24] it'd be another round of Outreach to

[1:46:25] those businesses specifically to

[1:46:27] understand what the impact is to them to

[1:46:30] have lost the on street parking and we

[1:46:32] have gone door too through the corridor

[1:46:35] we've heard from many of those

[1:46:36] businesses and the the uniform message

[1:46:41] was don't touch the parking they need it

[1:46:44] so there was going to if we move forward

[1:46:47] with that

[1:46:49] solution the engagement with the

[1:46:51] businesses is going to be a critical

[1:46:53] step actually if I may um council member

[1:46:56] Satan uh we don't have the time to do

[1:46:59] any additional Outreach we're looking at

[1:47:02] 10 months to get this project designed

[1:47:04] and advertised and constructed so you

[1:47:06] would have to rely on you know the

[1:47:08] feedback that we got the first time

[1:47:11] about the uh impact of removing

[1:47:15] parking that's all the questions I have

[1:47:17] I want to hear from my colleagues um

[1:47:21] well I'll just wait when I make comments

[1:47:23] so okay do you have comments we can I

[1:47:26] think we can wrap it up okay well I

[1:47:30] think the project is H is a good one um

[1:47:32] revitalizing this Corridor is a good

[1:47:34] idea and we've got the the funding for

[1:47:36] it uh one thing I noticed uh in the uh

[1:47:40] the staff report is the fact that if we

[1:47:41] go with 2A there is still a possibility

[1:47:44] in the future that we could add a bike

[1:47:46] lane uh on the other side on the east

[1:47:49] side so uh giving uh that inform given

[1:47:53] that information um I think the median

[1:47:55] the bump outs the C oh that reminds me

[1:47:58] the crosswalks I don't see that maroon

[1:48:00] and yellow do I on the oh good okay

[1:48:03] great I just wanted to make sure that

[1:48:05] wasn't going to happen down there um but

[1:48:08] uh I think it's a again a good uh

[1:48:11] compromise um I and U so I'm going to go

[1:48:14] along with uh with that recommendation

[1:48:17] that we use alternative 2A 2A okay

[1:48:23] colleagues yeah so

[1:48:25] um I I look very close to this

[1:48:29] uh these proposed improvements and I can

[1:48:32] tell you that I'm uh familiar with some

[1:48:35] of the issues that um Miss hunger

[1:48:37] pointed out and others have uh I I think

[1:48:41] that there's not going to necessarily be

[1:48:43] an ideal solution for anyone because

[1:48:46] people are very used to um doing things

[1:48:48] in in a certain way the business

[1:48:50] businesses are accustomed to uh feeling

[1:48:53] a sense some businesses not all but some

[1:48:55] of the businesses have a sense of

[1:48:56] entitlement to the parking of the public

[1:48:58] parking that's available there um there

[1:49:01] isn't necessarily um adherence to the

[1:49:06] the rules of the road and to the speed

[1:49:09] limit um at various times it does get

[1:49:11] congested around um Rush Hour especially

[1:49:14] as people are either trying to get onto

[1:49:16] the 134 freeway or get off of it but do

[1:49:20] believe that one of the things that we

[1:49:22] continuously hear about and this is

[1:49:25] being um presented in the in

[1:49:28] the uh frame of we have to do this for

[1:49:32] bicyclists or we have to do this for

[1:49:35] pedestrians uh I'm not necessarily sure

[1:49:38] if we build it they will come uh but the

[1:49:40] ones who do use it I suppose will feel a

[1:49:42] little bit safer if we have uh bike

[1:49:45] Lanes I personally believe uh protected

[1:49:47] bike lanes are the best but given a

[1:49:50] number of considerations that we're

[1:49:51] trying to balance including the access

[1:49:54] um of uh first responder vehicles uh

[1:49:57] whether it's police or fire I think that

[1:50:00] um alternative 2A is the best compromise

[1:50:03] we can come up with I would also I also

[1:50:07] believe that whatever changes we make

[1:50:09] may have present some challenges

[1:50:11] initially but people will adapt they

[1:50:14] will figure out ways around

[1:50:16] it as far as San Fernando Road is

[1:50:19] concerned and I've said before in these

[1:50:21] Chambers and I'll say it again I have a

[1:50:22] lot of Burbank Envy one of the few

[1:50:25] things I envy about Burbank um is uh how

[1:50:28] nice their section of San Fernando Road

[1:50:30] looks in comparison to ours in

[1:50:33] comparison to what we have in our

[1:50:34] medians the the trees the shade um the

[1:50:38] bus stops uh and I think we could do

[1:50:41] better on our side now having said that

[1:50:44] our section of San Fernando is not like

[1:50:46] burbank's section of San Fernando theirs

[1:50:48] leads immediately into into a very

[1:50:50] vibrant downtown area it's more

[1:50:52] commercial there's some residential

[1:50:53] whereas ours goes through a much uh more

[1:50:57] Industrial Area um it is a lot of

[1:51:00] businesses a lot of shops um a lot of

[1:51:03] mechanic uh shops and other other

[1:51:06] different uses light industrial

[1:51:09] nevertheless that shouldn't be an excuse

[1:51:10] for it to look the way it does so I

[1:51:13] think that we need to do some

[1:51:15] improvements and I think 2A um hopefully

[1:51:18] with some very creative

[1:51:21] um Nice Landscaping with some more

[1:51:23] mature trees will make it a more

[1:51:25] inviting and nicer uh drive for people

[1:51:28] to enjoy as they slow down with these

[1:51:31] new changes thank you counc

[1:51:35] verat um I think what we have in front

[1:51:37] of is a beautification project and I

[1:51:39] think that's what we need to be

[1:51:41] concentrating on with understanding that

[1:51:43] it's also an opportunity for us to um

[1:51:47] use it to enhance it um I'm in agreement

[1:51:50] with the 2A um I do have a couple of

[1:51:52] comments with respect to I think as

[1:51:54] we're thinking down the road and the

[1:51:56] opportunities that are there um for the

[1:51:59] future um to be mindful of the type of

[1:52:02] green um that we're installing on the

[1:52:04] railroad side um and making sure that

[1:52:08] we're actually on the opposite side

[1:52:10] where the sidewalk is for us to actually

[1:52:12] have a lot more shade um and shaded

[1:52:15] trees that um allow for pedestrians to

[1:52:18] have a better experience

[1:52:20] um I do want to commend the staff um and

[1:52:23] the consultant on your community

[1:52:26] outreach um I was very impressed to see

[1:52:28] the door knocking numbers um and the

[1:52:32] different

[1:52:33] languages um in which you communicated

[1:52:35] in and keep it the good work

[1:52:38] thanks thanks and um for me I um I think

[1:52:43] 2A is a good compromise I mean I would

[1:52:46] you know if everything else were equal I

[1:52:48] would just go for three or

[1:52:50] too but um I just think this roadway

[1:52:53] it's it's it's just too problematic um

[1:52:56] not the right time but maybe something

[1:52:59] we could come back to in the future uh

[1:53:01] if uh Transportation patterns evolve so

[1:53:05] I'm good with TOA I I I am intrigued by

[1:53:08] this idea of two to the south of the 134

[1:53:10] I think um I think the speaker made it

[1:53:14] you know a very convincing case that the

[1:53:16] businesses that are there have their own

[1:53:19] parking and people are not pulling up

[1:53:21] and parking on the street to engage with

[1:53:24] those

[1:53:25] businesses um and a lot of it is red

[1:53:28] curbs we're not losing that much parking

[1:53:30] in that area so um and I don't know you

[1:53:33] say you'd have to go back out and do

[1:53:35] more Outreach but we've done the

[1:53:37] Outreach we know the opinions um it's a

[1:53:39] matter of us making a policy decision so

[1:53:43] um if my colleagues were were amable I

[1:53:46] would certainly support to to the the

[1:53:50] south of the 134 and 2 a to the north um

[1:53:54] but I'll leave it I'll leave it to the

[1:53:55] rest of them on that the only other

[1:53:57] thing I I I do want to bring up kind of

[1:53:59] a smaller point which is on slide

[1:54:02] 10 um this was brought to my attention

[1:54:06] if you could pull up slide 10 there

[1:54:09] um I think you're building in a slip

[1:54:13] lane right is that that's not there now

[1:54:16] right that where it says that slip lane

[1:54:19] it says enhanced cross rock yeah current

[1:54:22] currently it is a freeer turn movement

[1:54:25] there this is the lane that heads on

[1:54:27] Colorado to the freeway ramp um

[1:54:32] the crosswalk today goes from Curb

[1:54:36] return to curb return and there's a

[1:54:37] painted Island out there today right um

[1:54:41] this is looking we're looking at

[1:54:43] alternatives for this um because we do

[1:54:45] know the challenges of having the

[1:54:47] interface of a free right turn movement

[1:54:49] versus pedestrians and

[1:54:50] cyclist um for Solutions this is one of

[1:54:54] them that we're looking at with a raised

[1:54:56] Island um it does shorten the the paths

[1:54:59] of travel it moves The Pedestrian

[1:55:02] crosswalk across that right turn linee

[1:55:05] into an area more visible as opposed to

[1:55:08] being further around the curb return

[1:55:09] where it's at today um so there's

[1:55:13] several Alternatives being evaluated

[1:55:15] there is no final decision yet on what

[1:55:18] this configuration is going to look like

[1:55:20] yeah that that I mean we've talked about

[1:55:22] slip Lanes before and how slip Lanes do

[1:55:24] encourage uh speeding through an

[1:55:27] intersection um obviously makes it

[1:55:29] pretty easy and people are oriented

[1:55:31] towards getting on the freeway so

[1:55:32] they've got that that highspeed

[1:55:34] mentality so they're going to be

[1:55:35] whipping around that um anybody Crossing

[1:55:38] that is probably um at some

[1:55:41] risk uh and um you could you could just

[1:55:46] have a a sharp turn radius there you

[1:55:48] could just build it out right um where

[1:55:50] you have it painted now you could build

[1:55:52] it out uh I don't know what you would

[1:55:54] put there but but I would personally I

[1:55:57] would like to see us look at ways that

[1:55:59] we can avoid uh creating um a a you know

[1:56:04] a passageway there that's going to

[1:56:05] really you know encourage people to

[1:56:08] speed through it and potentially have

[1:56:09] conflict with pedestrians so I would

[1:56:11] just put that out but um I will um take

[1:56:15] a motion in a second if unless anybody

[1:56:17] has any more comments is there let me

[1:56:20] just ask is there support for the no two

[1:56:23] below the

[1:56:25] 134 I would be open to it no I would not

[1:56:29] I think that parking is very important

[1:56:30] to the business owners and um I think

[1:56:33] that's what we have to take into

[1:56:35] consideration as well but she the thing

[1:56:37] was she showed how the business owners

[1:56:39] don't use that parking because they have

[1:56:42] large parking lots for their businesses

[1:56:44] that's where I'm I'm kind of that's what

[1:56:47] was intriguing about that is if they

[1:56:48] have their own parking people visiting

[1:56:51] those businesses are not parking on the

[1:56:53] street I don't know who is parking on

[1:56:55] the street if I may Mr Mayor I'd like to

[1:56:57] ask Mr Somerville to kind of talk a

[1:56:59] little bit more about that Outreach and

[1:57:01] what they found south of the uh the

[1:57:03] freeway yeah and it goes back to the

[1:57:06] door-to-door canvasing of the businesses

[1:57:08] through the corridor as a whole and I

[1:57:10] say unilaterally each of the businesses

[1:57:13] we're very concerned about losing

[1:57:15] parking um not every business has

[1:57:19] off-site parking for themselves um it

[1:57:24] the parking that was shown offsite are

[1:57:27] all private lots for

[1:57:29] businesses it's not public parking as

[1:57:31] was mentioned previously um so like one

[1:57:35] can one user can use another parking lot

[1:57:38] if parking is eliminated they don't have

[1:57:40] the right to be using the parking lot if

[1:57:42] it's not their business so it's a it's a

[1:57:45] little bigger picture view that would

[1:57:48] have to be looked at about is it is

[1:57:50] there really sufficient parking out

[1:57:52] there today but again what we've heard

[1:57:56] throughout the Outreach efforts

[1:57:58] was the businesses are relying on the

[1:58:00] parking for whether it's employees

[1:58:02] whether it's

[1:58:05] customers okay may I'm gonna I'm I'm

[1:58:08] thinking to a 2 a okay that that answer

[1:58:12] okay well let's get a motion okay I'll

[1:58:14] I'll move um agend the motion accepting

[1:58:17] staff's recommendation to proceed with

[1:58:18] the design

[1:58:19] for the implmentation of alternative 2A

[1:58:22] a

[1:58:24] second okay call please council members

[1:58:28] asan yes Divine yes kakan yes Naran

[1:58:33] mayor botman

[1:58:34] yes thank you very much okay our next

[1:58:38] item next is action item B glendel Water

[1:58:41] and Power regarding Professional

[1:58:42] Services agreement with energy and

[1:58:44] environmental economics Inc E3 to assist

[1:58:47] glendel water Empower with with the

[1:58:49] development of a plan to increase solar

[1:58:51] penetration and develop additional

[1:58:53] distributed energy resources continued

[1:58:56] from

[1:58:57] a2223 CC

[1:58:59] meeting uh one motion authorizing the

[1:59:02] city manager or his designed to execute

[1:59:04] a Professional Services agreement with

[1:59:06] energy and environmental economics Inc

[1:59:09] to assist with gwp with the development

[1:59:11] of a plan to increase solar penetration

[1:59:14] and develop additional distributed

[1:59:15] energy resources in the not to exceed

[1:59:18] amount of

[1:59:26] [Laughter]

[1:59:48] $335,500 going to be out of town but he

[1:59:50] will be able to uh telephonically uh be

[1:59:54] at the meeting mayor protm the next

[1:59:56] meeting on city council will be on

[1:59:58] September 12th on September 12th so if

[2:00:00] we can um my colleagues would like to um

[2:00:04] agree to postpone this till next week I

[2:00:07] am in agreement with

[2:00:10] that I'm sorry I I'm in

[2:00:13] agreement understand

[2:00:16] finean if the mayor has already

[2:00:18] indicated his willingness to connect to

[2:00:21] the meeting um remotely who I to argue

[2:00:24] sure we can move it I would be in

[2:00:26] agreement with my colleagues thank you

[2:00:28] very much appreciate that okay next item

[2:00:32] please next item is action item C

[2:00:35] Community Development regarding landlord

[2:00:37] tenant ad hoc committee update on work

[2:00:39] plan continued from 822 2023 city

[2:00:43] council meeting one motion to approve

[2:00:44] landlord tenant ad hoc committee

[2:00:46] suggestions on the rental rights program

[2:00:49] with the intention of revisiting these

[2:00:50] suggestions in a Redline version of the

[2:00:52] ordinance at a subsequent Council meet

[2:00:55] session two motion to approve rental

[2:00:58] rights marketing strategy three motion

[2:01:00] to provide Direction on the desire to

[2:01:02] establish a dispute resolution mediation

[2:01:08] program mayor bman and mayor protm dine

[2:01:11] asked that uh because of the importance

[2:01:14] of this item and the absence of council

[2:01:17] member Naran we postponed this to the

[2:01:19] next council meeting on September 12th

[2:01:22] when we'll have a full Council and

[2:01:24] you'll be able to call in as you had

[2:01:28] noted uh and and your other two

[2:01:31] colleagues uh agreed with that suggest I

[2:01:35] I agreed on it based on the assumption

[2:01:36] that that the mayor had said that

[2:01:40] yeah we may have to postpone it till

[2:01:43] till October in that

[2:01:48] case

[2:01:50] I mean had you not confirmed that no I

[2:01:52] mean I'm on a trip to Europe you know um

[2:01:55] to get up in the middle of the night to

[2:01:57] make a vote on something that we talked

[2:01:59] about is something I could do but to get

[2:02:02] on for an important item like this

[2:02:05] um is is you know that's not a

[2:02:09] reasonable request council member Divine

[2:02:11] did you have

[2:02:14] information about the mayor's yeah I

[2:02:17] understood that he would able to on yeah

[2:02:20] B telephonically I did not agree to that

[2:02:24] well staff's already gone so um well

[2:02:27] then we're going to have to postpone it

[2:02:29] till I'm I'm a little ped that I I was

[2:02:32] led to believe that the mayor was going

[2:02:34] to anyways I apologize mayor brotman

[2:02:38] should have waited for you to return

[2:02:39] into the chambers before we agreed to

[2:02:42] move on to something that would have

[2:02:43] been nice the mayor uh just for

[2:02:46] clarification the mayor had indicated

[2:02:48] that he is able to call in to vote but

[2:02:52] as the mayor uh again uh indicated maybe

[2:02:56] he can call in for uh to cast a vote but

[2:03:00] to participate in deliberations maybe

[2:03:02] that'll be difficult for

[2:03:04] him oh I I think it would only be fair

[2:03:07] that all parties that want to be here

[2:03:10] are here in person and so I supported

[2:03:13] that with the understanding that I was

[2:03:17] under the impression that the mayor was

[2:03:18] okay with the

[2:03:21] okay so we'll wait until probably the

[2:03:23] first meeting in October it will be

[2:03:25] October 10th mayor pman all apologies to

[2:03:27] anyone who my apologies to anyone who

[2:03:29] came here expecting to have this

[2:03:31] discussion this

[2:03:35] evening okay it is what it

[2:03:38] is

[2:03:42] umman item 8C was already right to the

[2:03:46] record

[2:03:47] okay

[2:03:50] so where are we now you want um mayor

[2:03:52] bman mayor the city council at the last

[2:03:55] council meeting last Tuesday you uh

[2:03:58] received a report regarding the landlord

[2:04:00] tenant ad hoc committee update on their

[2:04:03] work plan um they had um primarily three

[2:04:06] main tasks that included the rental

[2:04:09] rights uh program

[2:04:11] ordinance uh developing education and

[2:04:13] marketing strategies and evaluating a

[2:04:16] voluntary uh dispute resolution program

[2:04:19] at the last meeting um uh Mr zadorian

[2:04:23] presented the first item the first task

[2:04:26] and received Direction and suggestions

[2:04:29] from Council and Council decided to

[2:04:31] continue the other two items to this

[2:04:33] evening uh that will be related to

[2:04:36] marketing strategies and again uh

[2:04:38] voluntary dispe resolution program that

[2:04:41] Mr zorian will walk you

[2:04:43] through good afternoon mayor city

[2:04:45] council uh as Mr Ganan said I'm going to

[2:04:48] to be continuing the discussion on the

[2:04:51] ad out committee's work plan we're going

[2:04:53] to start with the marketing aspect and

[2:04:54] then later on the mediation so the

[2:04:58] council tasked with the committee with

[2:05:00] uh looking into the marketing and

[2:05:02] Outreach strategy of the uh rental

[2:05:04] rights program uh staff took a couple of

[2:05:07] reports to the committee the committee

[2:05:09] discussed strategies and staff took

[2:05:12] their insights and came up with this uh

[2:05:14] report that we're presenting today um so

[2:05:20] the committee had three goals in mind

[2:05:22] when they discuss the strategy uh

[2:05:25] including increasing awareness promoting

[2:05:27] engagement and providing education and

[2:05:29] resources uh so for the increased

[2:05:32] awareness obviously we want to be uh we

[2:05:34] want the community to know that we exist

[2:05:36] uh they're aware of us want to get the

[2:05:38] word out on the rental rights program so

[2:05:39] tenants and landlords are aware of the

[2:05:41] program and can utilize um the services

[2:05:44] and the protections to promote

[2:05:46] engagement we want the commune Community

[2:05:49] to be able to come to us engage with our

[2:05:52] content so we understand what their

[2:05:54] needs are and we can better address

[2:05:56] those needs and third uh provide

[2:05:58] education and out uh resources obviously

[2:06:00] we want to be able to have resources

[2:06:02] available to provide to them when they

[2:06:04] come to us when they visit our websites

[2:06:06] when they see us on social media

[2:06:11] and so the first part of

[2:06:15] that well I have a slide missing here

[2:06:17] but the first part of that was creating

[2:06:19] a website uh that would serve as a hub

[2:06:22] for the rental rights program our

[2:06:24] current website is a little funky uh

[2:06:26] it's hard to navigate so the goal was to

[2:06:28] create a website that is user friendly

[2:06:31] easy to navigate uh it serves as a

[2:06:33] central hub for landlords and tenants to

[2:06:35] access information uh guides find out

[2:06:38] when events are coming up

[2:06:41] uh frequently ask questions and an easy

[2:06:44] place for for them to access have a

[2:06:47] quick video here of the website what it

[2:06:49] might look like uh so the main page

[2:06:51] would include perent information uh easy

[2:06:54] to

[2:06:56] access guides contact information down

[2:06:59] there and then up here you'd have uh

[2:07:02] different links that lead to guides

[2:07:04] again uh for fair housing ab1 1482 our

[2:07:08] main brenal rights program just CA you

[2:07:11] location ass distance and each of those

[2:07:13] will have a detailed guide on what those

[2:07:17] sections entail and then uh again more

[2:07:22] guides and up there we go soon as events

[2:07:26] you'll be able

[2:07:27] to or resources I'm sorry so this page

[2:07:31] will have a video guide in multiple

[2:07:34] languages I forgot to mention that the

[2:07:36] website will be available in multiple

[2:07:37] languages including Armenian Spanish uh

[2:07:40] tagalag and Korean at the very least uh

[2:07:43] again events page you'll be able to go

[2:07:45] and see what our future upcoming events

[2:07:47] on FAQ for any question questions that

[2:07:49] landlords or tenants have and a contact

[2:07:52] page it just has our contact information

[2:07:56] so the other aspect of our marketing is

[2:07:58] social media something that we need to

[2:08:00] improve on and the committee noticed

[2:08:02] that and with as far as social media is

[2:08:05] concerned um we're going to create new

[2:08:08] content hopefully use the city's U

[2:08:11] already existing social media platforms

[2:08:14] to reach an a specific audience

[2:08:16] considering social media we can Target

[2:08:17] specific audiences that we want to get

[2:08:20] the information that glendell residents

[2:08:22] renters

[2:08:23] homeowners um social media is going to

[2:08:27] be targeting a younger audience versus

[2:08:29] our traditional medium where we target

[2:08:32] an older audience uh the good thing

[2:08:34] about social media is that it's organic

[2:08:37] sharing uh um the organic sharing allows

[2:08:40] it to reach a wider audience so we might

[2:08:43] create content for specific audience but

[2:08:45] through the medium it gets shared with

[2:08:48] but an audience that we weren't

[2:08:49] expecting to share with so the reach is

[2:08:52] much wider um we create again compelling

[2:08:56] content

[2:08:57] infograph um staff describing the

[2:09:03] program so our traditional marketing

[2:09:05] will continue uh with print material we

[2:09:08] plan on sending targeted mailers uh

[2:09:10] we've done this in the past where we

[2:09:12] target uh majority of residents in

[2:09:14] glendell and landlords in and outside of

[2:09:17] glendell uh we will be uh sending flyers

[2:09:20] and brur in the gwp mailers and uh we

[2:09:25] also plan on sending BR to any new

[2:09:27] properties that are purchased in

[2:09:28] glendell so the landlords are aware of

[2:09:29] our rules and reg regulations we also

[2:09:33] plan on having inserts in what used to

[2:09:35] be called the thirds day folders for

[2:09:36] gusd I'm not sure what that process is

[2:09:39] now but they do send out packets to

[2:09:41] students so we plan on doing that as

[2:09:45] well and another new part of of what the

[2:09:49] committee uh recommended was creating

[2:09:51] Partnerships in the community with

[2:09:53] existing

[2:09:54] organizations uh we want to build

[2:09:56] relationships with management companies

[2:09:58] tenant organizations landlord

[2:09:59] organizations so we're aware of the

[2:10:01] problems before they become much bigger

[2:10:03] problems so we can address them quicker

[2:10:05] uh so we can leverage resource resources

[2:10:08] and expertise uh so we can train their

[2:10:10] staff if they need training so we can

[2:10:12] understand what their needs are as uh

[2:10:14] landlords and

[2:10:17] tenants

[2:10:19] and then we will continue community

[2:10:21] outreach uh our plan is to go into each

[2:10:24] neighborhood of glendell have small

[2:10:26] intimate meetings we used to have much

[2:10:28] larger meetings but it U we found that

[2:10:30] it wasn't effective not a lot of people

[2:10:32] were showing up but our smaller intimate

[2:10:34] meetings in specific neighborhoods we

[2:10:37] were getting a lot of traction so we're

[2:10:38] going to continue that uh we'll make

[2:10:40] sure to cover uh all areas of glendell

[2:10:43] multiple languages uh each month we will

[2:10:46] be at a different neighborhood in GL

[2:10:48] lendel just to make sure that we cover

[2:10:49] cover our

[2:10:52] bases and then yearly we will evaluate

[2:10:54] the uh effectiveness of the Outreach So

[2:10:59] based on how uh how how many people are

[2:11:02] showing up at our meetings uh social

[2:11:05] media analytics website reach um and we

[2:11:09] will refine and optimize based on that

[2:11:11] data to create a better program moving

[2:11:13] forward create a better Outreach and see

[2:11:15] where we're being effective and where

[2:11:16] we're not uh this is the timeline of how

[2:11:20] we plan on doing things so we'll

[2:11:21] launched the website we'll conduct

[2:11:23] surveys in the beginning so we can have

[2:11:25] something to test against uh later on in

[2:11:28] the months we'll develop print materials

[2:11:30] in the second month launch the website

[2:11:33] uh create

[2:11:35] newsletters start booking venues for the

[2:11:38] events and then on to the third and

[2:11:41] fourth month start social media

[2:11:43] advertising Distributing the print

[2:11:46] materials five uh month five and six gwp

[2:11:50] mailers uh Community workshops more

[2:11:53] targeted social media advertising and

[2:11:56] then the rest of it is basically repeat

[2:11:58] until uh 910 where we analyze the

[2:12:02] results and either come back to council

[2:12:05] with a new plan or continue if it's an

[2:12:07] effective uh marketing

[2:12:09] strategy uh that concludes the first

[2:12:11] part as far as

[2:12:16] advertising um you want to just move on

[2:12:19] and we'll do the second part and then

[2:12:20] well why don't we just comment on this

[2:12:22] have any comments well I just wanted to

[2:12:23] say it seems like very comprehensive

[2:12:25] marketing strategy uh you're hitting all

[2:12:28] you know every neighborhood every trying

[2:12:31] to get every person in the gwp mailing

[2:12:34] list every language is being considered

[2:12:37] you you've um simplified I think uh I'll

[2:12:40] have to try it myself then I'll know uh

[2:12:43] the uh the website so um thank you for

[2:12:46] for all of this and uh um I hopefully

[2:12:49] that uh you know we we can get the word

[2:12:51] out using all of your your new

[2:12:53] strategies thank

[2:12:55] you do you have any questions or

[2:12:57] comments or I I do okay okay well then

[2:13:01] we'll go through this one first so um

[2:13:04] currently how does one get a hold of a

[2:13:06] live person I think that the website

[2:13:09] that you showed has pretty good

[2:13:11] information on there but if someone

[2:13:13] wants to speak to an actual person and I

[2:13:16] say this because I know that the city

[2:13:18] went through an exercise of creating a

[2:13:20] number of Phone trees and Pathways to

[2:13:23] try and um create efficiencies I

[2:13:27] personally am a little oldfashioned and

[2:13:29] I like to actually speak to a living

[2:13:31] human being right so uh our hotline we

[2:13:34] have a hotline it's on all on on all our

[2:13:36] brur it's

[2:13:46] 8185483280 and rent glendaleca.gov if

[2:13:50] anyone wants to email

[2:13:52] us both again myself and Andra need

[2:13:55] respond and so this is a number through

[2:13:57] which we received uh what was it about

[2:14:00] 600 or 800 calls or uh the 600 calls

[2:14:04] would be this year but it's already 800

[2:14:06] since uh I believe the report was

[2:14:08] released but 800 calls that's the number

[2:14:10] that uh people are calling that's how

[2:14:14] how we're getting that figure so um

[2:14:16] after someone calls that number and

[2:14:18] we've spoken to them do we ask a

[2:14:21] question how did you hear about this

[2:14:22] number no we have not been asking that

[2:14:24] question okay um I would like to see us

[2:14:27] ask that question because that is going

[2:14:29] to help us understand where and how

[2:14:31] people are getting information they

[2:14:33] obviously found the number it would be

[2:14:34] good to know which of the methods of

[2:14:36] getting the information out there is

[2:14:37] most effective maybe people are using an

[2:14:40] online search engine to come across it

[2:14:41] or you know they're Meandering through

[2:14:44] the Maze of a municipal website find it

[2:14:46] um also a bus ads are we going to be

[2:14:49] utilizing bus shelter ads or our own um

[2:14:52] beine buses to promote this program that

[2:14:55] has been a thought but we haven't really

[2:14:57] looked into it we can look into doing

[2:14:59] that we thought about it but nothing

[2:15:01] serious but we

[2:15:03] can well I I I would certainly support

[2:15:06] the idea of using bus um our bus system

[2:15:09] to get the information out there in fact

[2:15:11] the more we can do the better but uh I

[2:15:14] also would like us to know how people

[2:15:15] are hearing about us and then also if

[2:15:18] there is the possibility I don't want to

[2:15:20] inundate folks um with information but

[2:15:24] uh getting a survey answered uh or a few

[2:15:28] questions that can ascertain what their

[2:15:31] impression of of the service that they

[2:15:34] received or the answers they received

[2:15:35] was was it helpful was it not helpful

[2:15:38] Etc thank

[2:15:41] you um you went through the website

[2:15:44] really quickly um I didn't catch um is

[2:15:48] there an option um for translation of

[2:15:51] the website materials yes uh we're going

[2:15:53] to have it available in again Spanish

[2:15:56] Armenian Korean talag and every other

[2:15:59] language that we have access to with

[2:16:01] through the translator okay um I think

[2:16:04] the two other I mean this is really um

[2:16:07] impressive and extensive um I would

[2:16:10] definitely add um ethnic

[2:16:14] media um to your list for outreach um I

[2:16:17] think whether it's the um Latino

[2:16:20] Community the Filipino and Korean or the

[2:16:24] Armenian um the demographic tends to

[2:16:27] also the most vulnerable tend to also

[2:16:29] turn to you know even like the Army and

[2:16:32] TV stations um for their information and

[2:16:36] whether it's through interviews or

[2:16:38] through an ad that we can we can place

[2:16:42] and then I think with the Partnerships

[2:16:45] um one of the names or one of the

[2:16:47] categories that I think is missing is

[2:16:48] the senior buildings and the senior

[2:16:51] housing buildings I think you know

[2:16:53] making sure that this information is

[2:16:55] also reaching the

[2:16:57] seniors would be critical that's

[2:17:00] it thank you and yeah I I'll just say I

[2:17:04] I think this is really strong uh

[2:17:07] comprehensive plan and uh I'm excited to

[2:17:10] see us execute it um on the on the

[2:17:15] rotating workshops I I I like I like

[2:17:18] that and and hope that um and I think

[2:17:20] the intent is is to be reaching out to

[2:17:22] both tenants and landlords and making

[2:17:24] sure that um the community on you know

[2:17:27] both both of these groups understand

[2:17:29] what the rules of the road are um

[2:17:32] because um as I've spoken to some people

[2:17:36] about I think part of the problem is

[2:17:37] people just don't necessarily know what

[2:17:40] the obligations are of a landlord what

[2:17:42] the what the obligations are of a tenant

[2:17:43] and the rights and and all that so um so

[2:17:47] it's great

[2:17:48] yeah okay let's move on then to the next

[2:17:53] piece

[2:17:58] so no we're not done we're not done the

[2:18:01] agenda yeah we'll move on to the second

[2:18:03] part so the third U act action or the

[2:18:08] third item that the committee was uh uh

[2:18:11] signed to review was a mediation program

[2:18:13] and the possibility of implementing one

[2:18:16] in glendel um I'm going to present the

[2:18:19] a PowerPoint similar to what was

[2:18:22] presented to the committee and then we

[2:18:24] can discuss their uh s suggestions on a

[2:18:27] mediation program so as you all are

[2:18:30] aware a mediation program is uh designed

[2:18:32] to basically bring two parties together

[2:18:34] to come to a conclu uh or work things

[2:18:37] out as simple as that uh two parties

[2:18:40] that have an issue uh it's designed to

[2:18:42] put them in a room together so they can

[2:18:44] come to a conclusion that's beneficial

[2:18:46] for both parties or find find some

[2:18:47] common

[2:18:48] ground um if the council decides that

[2:18:51] they want to move forward with a

[2:18:53] mediation program there are going to be

[2:18:54] a few points decision points uh we'll

[2:18:58] have to decide whether it's a voluntary

[2:18:59] program or mediation or mandatory

[2:19:01] program so that would mean whether the

[2:19:04] landlords or tenants are required to

[2:19:06] participate or their participation is

[2:19:09] voluntary we would have to figure out

[2:19:11] what type of disputes the program

[2:19:12] addresses rent increases security

[2:19:14] deposits evictions um what who operates

[2:19:17] the program whether it's a professional

[2:19:19] staff that we hire or outside uh

[2:19:23] consultant or commission or board um

[2:19:26] outcome type binding or non-binding uh

[2:19:28] technically this would have to be

[2:19:30] non-binding otherwise it would fall into

[2:19:32] the CATE category of arbitration and

[2:19:34] we're looking at mediation so this would

[2:19:36] have to be non-binding and then

[2:19:38] exemptions what type of properties are

[2:19:39] exempt who's exempt is a duplex of

[2:19:41] single fames in included in the program

[2:19:44] uh hearing type is it a formal process

[2:19:46] is it going to be be informal just a

[2:19:48] phone call have people discuss it over

[2:19:50] the phone on Zoom um and then is will

[2:19:54] there be an ability to appeal the

[2:19:55] decision if a decision is

[2:19:58] made so when staff looked into programs

[2:20:01] we looked at other municipalities that

[2:20:03] had similar mediation programs we

[2:20:06] focused on the City of Burbank County of

[2:20:08] marine and Santa Monica city of Santa

[2:20:11] Monica uh they all have varying programs

[2:20:13] that's why we decided to go with these

[2:20:15] three and they were the only ones that

[2:20:17] respond to our emails uh City of Burbank

[2:20:20] has a program U that's ran through its

[2:20:23] commission the commission is similar to

[2:20:25] our committee it's made up of landlords

[2:20:27] and tenants that are U assigned by their

[2:20:30] city council it's a non-mandatory

[2:20:32] non-binding program uh they address rent

[2:20:36] increases evictions relocations

[2:20:37] basically all tenant and landlord

[2:20:39] related issues in 2022 they had about 87

[2:20:44] uh individuals or families in uh

[2:20:47] ask for mediation from the committee is

[2:20:50] submitted to the city for review so the

[2:20:52] way their process works is uh if someone

[2:20:55] calls into their City of Burbank they

[2:20:57] say I'm having a problem with my landl

[2:20:59] I'm having a problem with my tenant the

[2:21:01] staff offers mediation through their

[2:21:03] commission uh form is filled out it's

[2:21:06] given to the commission the individual

[2:21:08] either goes in front of the commission

[2:21:10] or if it's a it's something that the

[2:21:11] staff can handle they give them uh their

[2:21:14] Solutions I have a little exerpt from

[2:21:15] one of their meetings so someone um went

[2:21:18] to the commission for mediation and

[2:21:21] basically it's very basic all they did

[2:21:23] was provide information to the tenant so

[2:21:26] that their program is bare none it's

[2:21:29] very informal it's just information they

[2:21:31] don't really get in a room together with

[2:21:34] a tenant and landlord and try to discuss

[2:21:36] their issue so it's very B basic Just

[2:21:38] for information I I have a question yeah

[2:21:40] I thought the Burbank had a three-person

[2:21:42] committee that handled these and it was

[2:21:44] mostly education Outreach it wasn't I

[2:21:47] didn't think it was the commission that

[2:21:49] handled these cases so I believe the

[2:21:52] commission assigns their members to

[2:21:54] handle them so they might have signed

[2:21:57] three individuals to handle these type

[2:21:59] of cases but each time I think uh

[2:22:01] commission members are assigned

[2:22:03] depending on what type of problems the

[2:22:06] public go I know they had they had at

[2:22:07] least one resident on the on the on that

[2:22:10] committee Susie Jacobs was one of them

[2:22:13] and um she she resigned so um I don't

[2:22:16] even know how what what they're doing

[2:22:18] right now but uh it was mostly Outreach

[2:22:20] and education like you said those are

[2:22:22] really mediation yeah that's the uh

[2:22:25] commissioner job is um education and

[2:22:27] Outreach but they they also mediate or

[2:22:30] what they call

[2:22:31] mediation um so we spoke to the staff

[2:22:34] regarding funding they said because it's

[2:22:37] part of their bigger housing program

[2:22:38] they couldn't identify exactly how much

[2:22:40] it cost but they did say it's about

[2:22:42] 100,000 to administer program um they

[2:22:45] have dedicated staff just for the

[2:22:47] program or one mediator I should

[2:22:50] say and then Marine county is a

[2:22:53] mandatory non-binding program with

[2:22:55] Marine County the only portion of it

[2:22:56] that's mandatory is when the rent is

[2:22:58] increased over 5% so if a landlord

[2:23:00] increases ATT tenants rent over 5% and

[2:23:03] that tenant wants mediation they can

[2:23:06] request it and the landlord is required

[2:23:08] to participate if they want the rents

[2:23:10] increased uh tenant can agree with the

[2:23:13] increase doesn't have to request

[2:23:15] mediation uh but if they do landlord is

[2:23:17] required to participate all other

[2:23:20] disputes secure deposit evictions

[2:23:22] they're not mandatory so the the

[2:23:24] landlord does not have to

[2:23:26] participate uh they had 118 cases were

[2:23:30] mediated 287 were

[2:23:32] requested

[2:23:34] um the process I forgot to mention

[2:23:36] Burbank it takes about a month to

[2:23:38] mediate the process and for Marines

[2:23:40] County case it's 8 to 12

[2:23:42] weeks and their budget again it was part

[2:23:45] of their bigger program they weren't

[2:23:48] able to narrow anything down with Marine

[2:23:50] County they actually work with uh a

[2:23:52] couple of other cities to administer the

[2:23:54] program and they also have dedicated

[2:23:58] staff and last Santa Monica it's a n non

[2:24:02] man uh non-mandatory non-binding program

[2:24:05] it's part of their bigger rent control

[2:24:06] program uh they cover all tenant

[2:24:09] landlord disputes but again it's not

[2:24:11] mandatory to participate they had 111

[2:24:14] rent decrease cases 11 Construction

[2:24:17] decrease cases and 16 excessive rent

[2:24:20] cases um they take about 180 days to

[2:24:24] respond but currently it takes much

[2:24:26] longer according to staff and uh their

[2:24:29] total budget is 5 million and they again

[2:24:31] couldn't pinpoint how much of that is

[2:24:33] spent on mediation 5 million is for

[2:24:35] their entire rent control budget and

[2:24:37] they have uh multiple staff that

[2:24:39] administers one hearing officer uh oh

[2:24:42] sorry three hearing officers one

[2:24:44] mediator so they got a a big staff and

[2:24:47] they cover all their run control units

[2:24:48] so it's a much much bigger

[2:24:51] program before we move on to potential

[2:24:54] costs I do want to mention that glendell

[2:24:56] had a program about in 2002 it lasted

[2:25:00] all of six months I believe it was a

[2:25:02] voluntary program uh no one participated

[2:25:04] so it was discontinued um just wanted to

[2:25:08] mention that we did attempt this about

[2:25:10] 20 years ago again it was

[2:25:13] voluntary 6 months I believe it lasted

[2:25:15] before it was discontinued

[2:25:17] um so potential cost again we couldn't

[2:25:19] get anything specific from the other

[2:25:21] cities but staff was able to put

[2:25:23] something together based on how much it

[2:25:24] would cost to hire a mediator or

[2:25:27] professionals that do mediation or an

[2:25:29] agency that would perform those services

[2:25:31] or something that's more formal uh for a

[2:25:34] formal process is upwards of

[2:25:36] 300,000 uh for mediation with a

[2:25:39] commission similar to burbank's we

[2:25:41] estimated around 990,000 most uh for an

[2:25:44] informal voluntary participation again

[2:25:47] uh similar

[2:25:49] to the one we had earlier we think if we

[2:25:52] hire a professional it would be upwards

[2:25:54] of 200,000 and then if we

[2:25:57] Outsource uh could cost anywhere from 20

[2:25:59] to 100,000 depending on how many cases

[2:26:01] we're referring to them and uh how we

[2:26:04] set up the

[2:26:06] programs so the adoc committee discussed

[2:26:09] everything uh they recommended that the

[2:26:12] city at least try for a few months a

[2:26:15] mediation program voluntary mediation

[2:26:18] program a

[2:26:19] non-binding uh to cover most every

[2:26:22] Everything a tenant or landlord could

[2:26:24] have a dispute about rent increases

[2:26:26] secur deposit evictions habitability

[2:26:28] relocation and other relevant issues uh

[2:26:32] they uh suggested a hybrid model with a

[2:26:35] board and commission similar to Burbank

[2:26:37] and dedicated staff so a mediator plus a

[2:26:41] board um again they discussed that the

[2:26:44] mediate should mediator should have

[2:26:48] uh the proper qualifications and

[2:26:50] training to

[2:26:52] mediate uh they felt that a formal

[2:26:55] process would be best so nothing

[2:26:57] informal they want both tenant and

[2:26:59] landlord in a room together to discuss

[2:27:01] their issues with a mediator prison

[2:27:03] instead of maybe a staff member calling

[2:27:05] the landlord and tenant trying to

[2:27:07] mediate the situation for them they want

[2:27:09] a formal process

[2:27:12] um I have I think that concludes my

[2:27:15] presentation so ultimately the med the

[2:27:18] committee's suggestion was to have a

[2:27:20] program um and a trial run and then

[2:27:24] ultimately see how that works before we

[2:27:27] commit to

[2:27:28] anything okay thank you let's uh see if

[2:27:31] we have questions before we go to the

[2:27:33] callers are there

[2:27:35] questions questions I just have one um

[2:27:39] have we looked to see if LA county has

[2:27:42] anything CU I'm looking you know one of

[2:27:44] these options that you laid out in front

[2:27:46] of us is

[2:27:47] so LA county has a mediation program

[2:27:50] through their consumer and business

[2:27:52] Affairs Department I believe uhhuh um I

[2:27:56] it works similar tenants landlords

[2:27:58] request

[2:27:59] mediation uh they con contact them

[2:28:02] schedule a date it's it's voluntary so

[2:28:04] neither party has to participate I'm not

[2:28:08] 100% sure I I contacted them to see how

[2:28:10] many uh cases they've had within glendel

[2:28:13] I haven't heard back uh but that is an

[2:28:16] option but Marine counties is mandatory

[2:28:19] Marine county is mandatory only when the

[2:28:21] increas is above 5% a rent increases

[2:28:23] above 5% the other issues they're not

[2:28:26] mandatory so if the lieutenant and

[2:28:28] landlord are having a problem with uh

[2:28:31] the laundry facility not working that

[2:28:34] they're not going to dispute that those

[2:28:35] types of situations oh so Maring

[2:28:37] counties is uh required if it's sorry

[2:28:40] council member end it's required for

[2:28:42] five more than 5% how does that um so

[2:28:46] work with the state uh

[2:28:49] rules caps so the state cap is

[2:28:53] 8.8% um I would assume that if an

[2:28:56] increase is above

[2:28:58] 5% they require that mediation to take

[2:29:01] place so their increase can't be above

[2:29:03] 8% at no any time um but if it's above

[2:29:06] 5% and the Tenant wants the mediation

[2:29:09] the landlord is required to

[2:29:12] participat div and uh also in Marine C

[2:29:16] oh sorry that's Santa Monica they have

[2:29:18] fees that are attached to their

[2:29:20] mediation right their fees are I think

[2:29:23] mostly related to their rent control

[2:29:25] program that cuz it's a much different

[2:29:27] animal of Santa Monica but we want to

[2:29:29] include it just so there's a variety uh

[2:29:32] because a lot of these mediation

[2:29:34] programs are attached to rent control

[2:29:36] programs throughout California at

[2:29:39] least okay thank you more um do you need

[2:29:44] anything about um us working with

[2:29:46] neighborhood Legal Services right uh

[2:29:48] neighbor Legal Services we do refer in

[2:29:51] people there but they only handle

[2:29:53] evictions and at the point of where

[2:29:55] they're at unlawful detainers so if the

[2:29:58] landlord issues an eviction they won't

[2:30:00] take it on until that tenant has

[2:30:02] officially been evicted through unlawful

[2:30:04] detainer through the courts uh they

[2:30:07] they're just inundated so they don't

[2:30:09] have time to take on every case and do

[2:30:12] we know of any other community resources

[2:30:15] that are available that don't have that

[2:30:17] load uh we refer to housing rights

[2:30:20] Center as well Armenia Bar Association

[2:30:23] but everybody's pretty pretty busy

[2:30:27] okay okay let's um let's hear from our

[2:30:31] speakers and do we have any callers we

[2:30:33] do not have any callers don't okay well

[2:30:35] we have three speakers we'll start with

[2:30:37] Karen

[2:30:43] qua hi I'm Karen Clark I watch most but

[2:30:47] not all 11 meetings of the tenant

[2:30:49] landlord committee I spoke once or twice

[2:30:51] but mostly I listened with a lot of

[2:30:52] Parental Pride as Mr Peter Zak noted the

[2:30:55] medior was released after a couple of

[2:30:57] meetings because they were not needed Mr

[2:31:00] zovak and Mr zadorian did a fine job of

[2:31:03] mediating the discussions themselves by

[2:31:05] the way that's a genuine compliment from

[2:31:06] me to the city I don't make them often

[2:31:08] please enjoy it while it

[2:31:10] lasts if the five of you have not

[2:31:12] watched any of these committee meetings

[2:31:14] I highly recommend that you do so

[2:31:16] because they are unlike the discussions

[2:31:18] held by any other City border commission

[2:31:21] I suggest that you watch the meeting

[2:31:22] from February 22 2023 where two tenants

[2:31:26] came to talk about the serious

[2:31:27] electrical problem they had for months

[2:31:29] in an apartment they rented from one of

[2:31:31] the landlord members of the tenant

[2:31:33] landord committee that particular

[2:31:35] landlord had spent months bragging about

[2:31:38] what a great landlord he was and how his

[2:31:40] tenants had no complaints about him well

[2:31:43] after that more of his tenants came

[2:31:45] forth to complain about the their

[2:31:46] Apartments this is why it's critical to

[2:31:48] hear from tants directly instead of

[2:31:51] relying on the word of landlords if you

[2:31:53] see any other landlords who come to City

[2:31:55] Hall bragging about what great landlords

[2:31:57] they are I suggest that you take their

[2:31:59] claims with a bucket of salt and ask to

[2:32:01] hear what their tenants think the

[2:32:03] committee members staff and public

[2:32:05] engaged in Lively discussions to reach

[2:32:07] the recommendations that you're

[2:32:08] considering today the gentleman in the

[2:32:10] neutral seat on the committee is

[2:32:12] actually a landlord so if anything the

[2:32:14] committee's conclusions represent the

[2:32:16] use of landlords more than that of

[2:32:18] tenants Mr neutral landlord judge was

[2:32:21] part of the legal team that wrote

[2:32:22] glendale's just cause eviction ordinance

[2:32:24] about 20 years ago and he was the first

[2:32:27] to say that the ordinance needs to be

[2:32:28] clarified and

[2:32:29] updated I love it when committee members

[2:32:32] in City staff cover all the points that

[2:32:33] need to be covered so that I don't need

[2:32:35] to say anything I have one suggestion

[2:32:38] however from my unique Vantage Point

[2:32:40] most of the committee members do not

[2:32:42] watch City Council meetings and correct

[2:32:44] me if I'm wrong but not none of you have

[2:32:46] watched any tendent llord committee

[2:32:48] meetings this makes it hard for the

[2:32:50] committee to understand how they can

[2:32:52] advise the council and it also makes it

[2:32:54] hard for the council to know what the

[2:32:55] committee can do this Gap can be bridged

[2:32:58] by assigning a council of the aison to

[2:33:00] each City commission or board like my

[2:33:02] former City of Salem

[2:33:04] Massachusetts Salem has over n over 40

[2:33:07] City commissions and 11 council members

[2:33:09] so that works out to about four

[2:33:11] commissions per council member Glendo

[2:33:13] has 13 City commissions so that would be

[2:33:15] two or three commissions per council

[2:33:17] member this would improve the flow of

[2:33:19] information between commissions and the

[2:33:20] City Council in both directions while

[2:33:22] also lifting pressure from City staff

[2:33:25] this is why I have no problem increasing

[2:33:26] council member salaries because I plan

[2:33:28] to make you all work for it also yes

[2:33:31] committee should act as a body for

[2:33:33] mediation or arbitration I spent many

[2:33:35] many hours in this chamber listening to

[2:33:37] design review board cases which mostly

[2:33:40] boil down to private disputes between

[2:33:42] homeowners tenant landlord issues

[2:33:44] deserve at least as much a time

[2:33:46] considering that we're the majority of

[2:33:48] the city thank you thank you Herbert

[2:34:01] Milano uh mayor bran members of the city

[2:34:04] council and staff my name is Herbert

[2:34:06] mulano I took the liberty of writing up

[2:34:09] some of the topics that I wanted to

[2:34:10] address today the

[2:34:13] um the city has had a resource that is

[2:34:17] quite valuable I think and that resource

[2:34:20] is the Cog of all of the tenant and

[2:34:25] landlord questions and complaints that

[2:34:28] uh have been prevalent in the past few

[2:34:31] years so apparently this year we've had

[2:34:33] about 800 of these particular

[2:34:35] calls

[2:34:37] and I am concerned that that particular

[2:34:41] log was not included as part of the

[2:34:43] dialogue that was presented to the

[2:34:46] committee if we are if we really want to

[2:34:49] address the issues that are relevant and

[2:34:52] present to a lot of people those call

[2:34:54] logs should have been parsed categorized

[2:34:58] presented in summary evaluated and say

[2:35:01] here are the most Salient problems that

[2:35:03] we have in glenvill these are the most

[2:35:06] common questions that people have and

[2:35:08] they become a guide for you to Define

[2:35:11] how should you do the Outreach how

[2:35:13] should you advertise it who really needs

[2:35:16] the information who absolutely needs to

[2:35:18] have

[2:35:19] it so if there is a purchase of a new

[2:35:23] building and the prior landlord wants to

[2:35:26] increase

[2:35:28] rents those tenants need to have that

[2:35:30] information right away as to what are

[2:35:32] their

[2:35:34] rights if a new landlord thinks that the

[2:35:37] law allows him to do certain things and

[2:35:40] the law doesn't he needs to be clear on

[2:35:42] what those questions are if a tenant is

[2:35:45] being given an increase that is beyond

[2:35:47] what the law allows they should have

[2:35:49] that information so any type of Outreach

[2:35:51] needs to address that

[2:35:54] data how many are there what are the

[2:35:57] number of problems that this other

[2:35:59] services provide if Neighborhood Legal

[2:36:02] Services is collecting the data and

[2:36:04] servicing people shouldn't you have that

[2:36:06] data as well so my point is that proper

[2:36:10] data collection proper data analysis

[2:36:12] gives you the guidelines as to what

[2:36:16] policies to implement and how to

[2:36:17] implement

[2:36:19] them I'm of the belief that a periodic

[2:36:23] evaluation of those results how many

[2:36:26] calls you're

[2:36:27] getting um how many compl do you have

[2:36:30] relative to from one year to the next

[2:36:32] gives you an evaluation of whether the

[2:36:34] ordinance is working or not and whether

[2:36:36] the Outreach is working or not and if it

[2:36:38] is I'm assuming that the cost will be

[2:36:41] reduced by the following year right the

[2:36:43] fewer contentious problems you have and

[2:36:45] any information that an utsman would

[2:36:47] actually execute would also need to be

[2:36:49] analyzed so my recommendation is that it

[2:36:51] be brought back to the ARA committee for

[2:36:54] evaluation as to how to establish proper

[2:36:57] ways of evaluating the data and periodic

[2:36:59] reviews thank you thank

[2:37:03] you um Mr

[2:37:14] mohill good evening council members my

[2:37:17] name is Mike mohill I'd like to First

[2:37:19] acknowledge Mr Herbert Milano and Karen

[2:37:22] qua for the research and the time they

[2:37:24] spent on this issue I know one person is

[2:37:27] a landlord and the other person is a

[2:37:29] tenant great

[2:37:31] team I'm neither

[2:37:35] okay but what caught my eye was when the

[2:37:37] mayor says we need more Outreach there's

[2:37:40] people don't have any knowledge what's

[2:37:41] going on in the city on these

[2:37:44] issues survey one survey said they had

[2:37:47] 600 people filled out the other one her

[2:37:49] survey was 800 I think and you said wow

[2:37:52] that's a lot of

[2:37:53] people

[2:37:55] really think about it in my last

[2:37:59] Community newsletter I put an

[2:38:01] announcement that keep our kids home on

[2:38:03] August the

[2:38:04] 25th and it went to about

[2:38:07] 25,000 inboxes for people to read with

[2:38:11] about 50% viewership

[2:38:14] minimum now that's an

[2:38:18] Outreach you saw on the TV thousands of

[2:38:21] people were out there protesting keeping

[2:38:24] their kids home and so

[2:38:27] forth your uh Rock Haven sanitarium here

[2:38:31] locally has put an ad in my newsletter

[2:38:33] announcement I put it in no charge the

[2:38:37] American Legion has put announcements in

[2:38:39] my newsletter no

[2:38:43] charge and fentel crisis

[2:38:47] a woman contacted me about a meeting and

[2:38:49] I put it in your Glendo Community

[2:38:53] newsletter your Glenda Community

[2:38:55] newsletter folks is free it cost the

[2:38:59] residents of go and the city council

[2:39:02] zero do it's a free

[2:39:06] service why don't you take advantage of

[2:39:10] it doesn't cost

[2:39:13] anything we need to get input on these

[2:39:16] different surveys when again when the

[2:39:18] mayor says well we need more knowledge

[2:39:19] of the

[2:39:21] information well maybe if you gave it

[2:39:23] out to more people they would respond to

[2:39:25] your

[2:39:26] surveys again look what happened last

[2:39:29] week on the 25th of August when he had

[2:39:31] thousands of people stay

[2:39:34] home thank you very much oh by the way

[2:39:38] MJ mohill gmail.com um is my email

[2:39:41] address to sent and ask for yeah one

[2:39:43] thing I I want to um caution you on is

[2:39:46] that you should speak on the agenda item

[2:39:48] and not give promotions for your

[2:39:50] newsletter that's not what the agenda

[2:39:52] item is

[2:39:54] about okay do we have we have no callers

[2:39:58] mayor please sit down your that's your

[2:40:01] opinion um okay let's see let's hear

[2:40:05] from you want colle I have a couple

[2:40:08] questions um uh what are the most common

[2:40:12] issues that we receive phone calls

[2:40:15] concern

[2:40:16] I actually have the numbers I'll put

[2:40:17] them on screen

[2:40:20] um

[2:40:22] presentation well it depends on the year

[2:40:25] so in 2019 when the program first

[2:40:27] started MH most of our calls were about

[2:40:30] the program what what is it what's going

[2:40:32] to happen how is this going to impact my

[2:40:34] property how is this going to impact my

[2:40:36] rental um let's get there here we go

[2:40:40] good so 2019 92% of those calls were

[2:40:43] General general rental rights related

[2:40:45] and and then towards the end ab1 1482

[2:40:47] passed so we had a couple of questions

[2:40:49] about that 1% and we had some eviction

[2:40:51] calls about evictions moving into 2020

[2:40:55] the pandemic hit and 85% of our calls

[2:40:58] were just coid related so that's all we

[2:41:00] were handling Co related and then here

[2:41:02] and there ab-1482 evictions and then in

[2:41:07] 2021 again still pandemic 77 77% of the

[2:41:11] calls were coid related but we started

[2:41:14] getting more a148 2 as you know pandemic

[2:41:17] rules were starting to expire 2022

[2:41:19] finally when most of the rules expired

[2:41:23] uh we still had a lot of calls related

[2:41:24] to co about

[2:41:26] 28% uh and then uh there was a big jump

[2:41:29] in ab1 1482 obviously because none of

[2:41:32] the co protections were there anymore so

[2:41:34] tenants were looking for ab-1482

[2:41:36] protections landlord were asking how

[2:41:38] much we can increase R uh there was a

[2:41:40] little bit of a jump in eviction calls

[2:41:43] and other types of calls most recently

[2:41:45] ly and this is based on the 600 number

[2:41:48] so a number from a couple weeks ago

[2:41:50] we're receiving calls about general

[2:41:52] rental rights program uh rent

[2:41:54] increases banking relocation things like

[2:41:57] that Co calls have almost disappeared

[2:42:00] cuz all the protections are gone no

[2:42:02] one's calling about that anymore a1482

[2:42:05] we still get some calls on but I think

[2:42:07] people understand the ordinance now so

[2:42:09] they don't they don't call us as much

[2:42:11] about that 18% of calls have been

[2:42:13] eviction related so we've seen a bump

[2:42:15] that and then 34% in another category

[2:42:19] the other category basically covers

[2:42:21] things like you call complain about mold

[2:42:23] security

[2:42:25] deposits

[2:42:26] um my landlord doesn't let me have a dog

[2:42:30] so all kinds of other subjects but these

[2:42:33] are the types of calls we've been

[2:42:35] getting

[2:42:37] U there you and what's the last line the

[2:42:39] last line is the last line is just uh

[2:42:41] total so basically we've had 29% of

[2:42:44] total calls have been uh general rental

[2:42:47] rights related 47% of calls have been Co

[2:42:50] related 10% AB 1482 this is total ohal

[2:42:53] you averaged you averaged I I got you

[2:42:55] total from uh for that topic so

[2:42:58] basically 47% of all calls we've

[2:43:01] received have been Co related which is a

[2:43:03] big chunk So Co had a big impact on the

[2:43:05] program as it did the rest of the world

[2:43:09] but but these numbers are are um the

[2:43:12] program that we have right now in place

[2:43:15] the Ral rights program right it's based

[2:43:17] on our call log so originally call log

[2:43:19] was just designed to for internal use

[2:43:22] for staff to be able to track calls and

[2:43:24] make sure that we returned calls if

[2:43:27] somebody calls back and says I called a

[2:43:28] week ago we can see that we responded to

[2:43:31] them whatnot uh as time went on and as

[2:43:34] more and more people wanted access to

[2:43:36] the data we started collecting more

[2:43:38] information just to be able to extract

[2:43:41] something from it and I think this year

[2:43:43] is where we have the most information

[2:43:45] information previous years we weren't

[2:43:47] collecting detailed information so

[2:43:49] eviction says 18% and you're just seeing

[2:43:52] evictions but we're also collecting

[2:43:54] information on evictions that are

[2:43:55] related to Major rehab evictions that

[2:43:57] are related to um owner moveing and we

[2:44:00] just started so we don't have a lot of

[2:44:01] numbers on that but as the year

[2:44:03] continues we will uh we actually our it

[2:44:07] Guy created a new program uh to log

[2:44:11] everything in we were using Excel before

[2:44:13] and so we weren't able to collect a lot

[2:44:15] of information and how often does the

[2:44:17] city attorney's office get involved in

[2:44:19] these phone calls and questions um I'd

[2:44:22] say we go to Lucy maybe once a week Lucy

[2:44:24] varigon the City attorney and then I go

[2:44:26] to her once a week no I'm

[2:44:29] kidding that's just a clarify our

[2:44:32] understanding of things or if there's a

[2:44:33] we get some complex situations sometimes

[2:44:36] and we just want a professional attorney

[2:44:38] opinion before we tell anyone anything

[2:44:41] okay thank you that's um let me

[2:44:44] see are the calls have the calls

[2:44:46] lessened since uh I guess 2019 Les calls

[2:44:50] so the number of calls these are the

[2:44:52] number of calls again pandemic obviously

[2:44:55] we had a lot of calls the calls haven't

[2:44:58] exactly lessened I'd say the pandemic

[2:45:00] was just uh more in for 2020 than we've

[2:45:05] ever had but I'd say

[2:45:08] we're um we're set to hit about 1,200

[2:45:12] we're at 800 right now so a couple of

[2:45:15] months we should probably be at 1,200 if

[2:45:18] not more and we're able and we're able

[2:45:21] to handle all those calls we're you're

[2:45:23] you seem to be yeah and I'm sorry these

[2:45:25] aren't just calls they're emails as well

[2:45:27] oh emails and okay thank you that's okay

[2:45:31] any general comments on Direction on on

[2:45:33] on the mediation on yeah um well let's

[2:45:36] see uh let me but you know this there's

[2:45:39] see seems to be with all of the

[2:45:41] different um cities being mentioned

[2:45:44] there's plethora of challenges that go

[2:45:46] along with this more bureaucracy more

[2:45:49] staff more

[2:45:50] funding um landlords you know if it's

[2:45:54] voluntary you know you get a you have an

[2:45:56] issue if it's involuntary some landlords

[2:45:59] won't want to come they don't want to

[2:46:00] engage and um you know and I I

[2:46:04] interesting it says the success depends

[2:46:07] on the cooperation and good faith of

[2:46:09] landlords and tenants and that's that

[2:46:12] sometimes I think can be um you know uh

[2:46:14] uh an issue um the landlords seem to

[2:46:18] hold the power tenants may feel

[2:46:21] intimidated and then of course you have

[2:46:23] the fairness is compromised so um I have

[2:46:26] my feeling is and I I'll just make this

[2:46:29] very brief um I also like the um the

[2:46:32] proposition The Proposal of increased

[2:46:35] penalties except for the one about legal

[2:46:37] support because that's just way too

[2:46:40] expensive but increase penalties um so

[2:46:43] that if a landlord is called on the car

[2:46:45] carpet for doing so that's a pun but um

[2:46:48] for you know not complying um or in have

[2:46:53] inspections so that those folks that

[2:46:55] that have problems in their in their

[2:46:57] Apartments um uh those are taken care of

[2:47:01] that we have um you know uh the ability

[2:47:04] to conduct inspections and then if

[2:47:07] nothing happens then impose penalties um

[2:47:10] but uh I think staff is handling this

[2:47:13] beautifully the rental rights program

[2:47:15] you're providing assistance you're

[2:47:17] providing counseling you're providing

[2:47:19] legal um Aid and I I just think that

[2:47:23] that's the way to go I know that Burbank

[2:47:25] is strictly Outreach and education so

[2:47:28] they're not very effective um the other

[2:47:31] ones uh you know Santa Monica is just

[2:47:33] like way out of way out of you know our

[2:47:37] financial um category and it's just uh

[2:47:41] spending a lot of money um so um I I

[2:47:45] just feel like we really don't need a

[2:47:47] Medi a mediation a commission a

[2:47:50] committee you know you get all involved

[2:47:52] in that bureaucracy and and uh then

[2:47:54] we're in we get into more trouble so I I

[2:47:57] would be uh against the mediation I

[2:47:59] think i' go with staff's uh um

[2:48:02] continuing this program I think it's

[2:48:05] very effective I think you're doing a

[2:48:06] great job I know whenever um I have get

[2:48:09] an email from a resident with a question

[2:48:12] with a problem I immediately

[2:48:15] emailed staff and the problem is taken

[2:48:18] care of almost immediately so um I think

[2:48:21] that this is uh the best way for us to

[2:48:23] handle it okay thank you counc

[2:48:31] batra so um my understanding is from

[2:48:34] from the last meeting that you are going

[2:48:35] to go back to the

[2:48:37] committee um with the items that we

[2:48:39] discussed from last meeting right I

[2:48:43] believe the plan was to come back with a

[2:48:45] Redline version uh we were going to go

[2:48:47] back to stakeholders um see what their

[2:48:49] opinions are and then bring it back to

[2:48:51] the committee I mean I'm sorry the

[2:48:52] council okay cuz I I my understanding

[2:48:55] from last meeting was that we had an

[2:48:58] opportunity for there to be one meet and

[2:49:00] for us to get a better sense of where

[2:49:02] the committee stood because there was no

[2:49:04] like there wasn't closing that Gap with

[2:49:06] the committee members when I look at

[2:49:08] this list it it kind of feels the same

[2:49:10] where like the recommendations are kind

[2:49:13] of all over the place where it's

[2:49:15] recommending a hybrid and it's

[2:49:16] recommending non-mandatory and the whole

[2:49:19] nine yards so I would like to get a

[2:49:21] little more clarity from from the

[2:49:23] committee on that um I would note that

[2:49:27] um I know you mentioned that we had a

[2:49:29] program that didn't work for a couple of

[2:49:31] months I I have an issue with any

[2:49:34] program that operates for a couple of

[2:49:36] months because that's not sufficient

[2:49:37] time for the public to to learn about

[2:49:41] the programs um availability so if

[2:49:43] you're going to say you know we'll open

[2:49:45] this up for six months and see if it's

[2:49:47] working you know by the time like people

[2:49:50] actually find out about it it's probably

[2:49:51] more than six months and so um from the

[2:49:54] GetGo I feel like that kind of a

[2:49:57] shortlived um pilot is just setting up

[2:50:01] the program to fail um I would like to

[2:50:05] for us to see if we can explore some

[2:50:07] options with with the county um for a

[2:50:10] more for formal program I know that uh

[2:50:14] while our staff has done an incredible

[2:50:16] job in guiding uh residents um I know

[2:50:19] that there's been so many occasions

[2:50:21] where we provide the information and um

[2:50:25] a lot of these times there's been people

[2:50:27] with language barriers where I myself

[2:50:30] feel like I'm just giving you know being

[2:50:31] given the runaround because the services

[2:50:33] are just not available for the um

[2:50:37] renters um and so I I actually hate

[2:50:39] giving that those phone numbers out

[2:50:41] knowing that at their probably most

[2:50:43] stressful time

[2:50:45] I'm adding additional stress because

[2:50:47] it's it's hope with possibly no no

[2:50:50] resolution and support and that's

[2:50:52] usually for renters right that um also

[2:50:55] have an issue with getting resources to

[2:50:57] begin with and so I would be interested

[2:51:00] in something a little more formal um

[2:51:03] that helps with that portion um not just

[2:51:06] the education and the guidance that

[2:51:09] we're providing now and then just a

[2:51:11] better feedback from um from the

[2:51:13] committee members and the stakeholders

[2:51:18] ERS well I think uh one of the benefits

[2:51:21] of what we did through the ad hoc

[2:51:23] committee exercise was bringing

[2:51:25] landlords and um residents tenants uh

[2:51:29] together to be able to have these

[2:51:31] discussions um I didn't watch all the

[2:51:33] meetings I did watch um a couple of them

[2:51:36] just parts of it because of time

[2:51:38] allowances but um I Echo what was said

[2:51:42] in terms of uh how they were run uh how

[2:51:46] people interacted and I think that

[2:51:48] there's something to be said about that

[2:51:50] process that I think we need to

[2:51:53] encourage further um I would like to see

[2:51:58] uh the committee um whether it's the

[2:52:01] current committee or different

[2:52:03] iterations of it continue to meet um I

[2:52:06] don't know if my colleagues have any

[2:52:07] interest in in making it a more formal

[2:52:10] committee but I I think that one of the

[2:52:12] things that's come from it is as you've

[2:52:14] mentioned that people have a place that

[2:52:16] they can go to to petition to raise

[2:52:19] issues to bring ideas forth and for

[2:52:23] those to be flushed out and discussed um

[2:52:25] hearing from all

[2:52:28] sides I think that within this report uh

[2:52:32] I would have liked to have seen some of

[2:52:34] the more specifics like the percentages

[2:52:36] that you gave was good in terms of

[2:52:38] inquiries I would like to know like how

[2:52:40] many of those were calls how many of

[2:52:41] them were emails and you may have that

[2:52:43] and you can provide that but

[2:52:45] um there is something to be said for

[2:52:47] what someone uh who spoke this evening

[2:52:49] from the audience uh raised which is uh

[2:52:53] that the information as to what people

[2:52:55] are bringing up is the issues that we

[2:52:58] should be addressing now there may be

[2:52:59] some things that fall through the cracks

[2:53:01] and hopefully with better advertising

[2:53:03] people are aware that there is a

[2:53:05] resource available to them that they can

[2:53:06] get answers and they'll be able to um

[2:53:10] contact uh whatever group agency City

[2:53:14] official to get

[2:53:16] answers in addition to that there has

[2:53:18] been uh talk from at least one of the uh

[2:53:22] committee members and something that

[2:53:25] I've I've really liked I've I've talked

[2:53:27] about before the idea of someone who is

[2:53:29] an ombudsman type role someone who can

[2:53:31] troubleshoot who can point people to the

[2:53:33] right resources be they whether in our

[2:53:36] city can point them to the right

[2:53:38] sections of the law and uh direct

[2:53:42] whether it's the landlord or the tenant

[2:53:43] to where they can get um the best

[2:53:46] information and looking at the costs of

[2:53:49] what uh different committees do I think

[2:53:52] that if you were to just pay one person

[2:53:54] even if it was someone who could do it

[2:53:56] part-time um even if they were an hourly

[2:53:58] if it wasn't a fully loaded full-time

[2:54:00] employee of the city at first to see how

[2:54:02] it would work I think that we would reap

[2:54:05] the benefits of it as well as the

[2:54:07] residents and the business owners and uh

[2:54:10] landlords and tenants so um those are my

[2:54:13] general thoughts on it um I would like

[2:54:17] us to see more advertising multilingual

[2:54:20] advertising using all the um methods

[2:54:23] that were already stated available to us

[2:54:26] and also there is uh something I think

[2:54:28] to be said to see if glendel can adopt

[2:54:31] uh and modify um ab1

[2:54:34] 1482 uh with special features I think

[2:54:37] that's important the more we can

[2:54:38] simplify things I think the better it is

[2:54:40] for all parties involved so those are my

[2:54:43] general thought thank you thank you

[2:54:45] thank you so um I'll start off with uh

[2:54:48] you know thanking the landlord tenant

[2:54:50] commission and I see there's one member

[2:54:52] of the landlord tenant commission there

[2:54:53] in the back te Marshon who I understand

[2:54:56] was one of the most active and and uh

[2:54:59] productive members of the commission so

[2:55:02] um so thank you and thanks to all the

[2:55:05] members of the commission um if they're

[2:55:07] listening or not and to staff because

[2:55:10] this has been this is complicated and um

[2:55:14] you've done a great job I think in

[2:55:15] summarizing the work that came out of

[2:55:17] that so hats off to you um on this

[2:55:21] particular topic um I'm also not in

[2:55:25] favor of setting up a formal mediation

[2:55:30] body um I think it it is kind of

[2:55:33] unnecessary bureaucracy and I think it

[2:55:35] could just lead to um uh overly lengthy

[2:55:40] resolution times um when when issues

[2:55:43] come forward I would much rather rather

[2:55:44] see us uh and I'm and I'm glad to see

[2:55:47] that Mr Milano had it on the sheet that

[2:55:48] he handed out I think he's right um beef

[2:55:52] up the um the hotline um maybe we need

[2:55:57] um

[2:55:59] uh maybe we need some some help there

[2:56:02] and maybe we we we link it to this idea

[2:56:05] of an ombudsman because that's another

[2:56:07] idea that I really think is great so I

[2:56:08] think the idea is like instead of having

[2:56:11] you know this formal commission uh that

[2:56:13] that kind of mediates disputes have um a

[2:56:18] connection between the hotline and

[2:56:21] somebody an ombudsman or maybe we have a

[2:56:24] panel of ombudsmen that that can handle

[2:56:27] cases depending on when they're

[2:56:28] available but have them go and um and

[2:56:32] make calls just an informal process but

[2:56:35] um as Mr Milano explained to me in a

[2:56:37] meeting yesterday um you know lots of

[2:56:40] times they're just misunderstandings you

[2:56:42] know the um and and um if you could just

[2:56:46] talk to both sides you know you can if

[2:56:49] you have the right person doing it you

[2:56:50] could talk sense and resolve some of

[2:56:52] these issues maybe about something

[2:56:53] that's needs to be repaired or what

[2:56:56] whatever it might be right so I I I

[2:56:59] would like to see something like that

[2:57:01] the other thing I would like to see us

[2:57:02] do is um consider funding some more

[2:57:08] dedicated legal services for both

[2:57:10] tenants and landlords because we know

[2:57:12] you know Neighborhood Legal Services is

[2:57:14] backed up housing rights Center is

[2:57:15] backed up Armenian Bar Association I

[2:57:18] don't know as much about how their you

[2:57:20] know what their workload looks like but

[2:57:22] especially if you're going to be doing

[2:57:23] all this marketing and people are going

[2:57:25] to learn more about the program they're

[2:57:26] going to learn more about the hotline

[2:57:28] and they're going to start calling in we

[2:57:29] want to be able to send them somewhere

[2:57:31] you know we've got an if we have like an

[2:57:34] ombudsman that's great but I think that

[2:57:37] udman also needs um to be able to refer

[2:57:41] something to you know somebody who can

[2:57:43] provide more serious legal advice so

[2:57:45] I've heard of cities doing this I forget

[2:57:47] the city but they've basically financed

[2:57:50] you know like a like a dedicated person

[2:57:52] or a certain number of hours from one of

[2:57:54] these legal service organizations to be

[2:57:57] like even sitting at a city facility

[2:58:00] like available to come in and and get

[2:58:03] those services so that we can make sure

[2:58:05] that anybody that needs you know free or

[2:58:08] lowcost legal service gets it right so

[2:58:12] that's that's kind of where where I'd

[2:58:14] like to see us end up um and before I

[2:58:17] conclude I I I do want to go back um

[2:58:19] because we've probably all been getting

[2:58:21] these emails but I know I've gotten a

[2:58:22] bunch of emails about you know why is

[2:58:25] Council doing this why is Council doing

[2:58:27] that and I and or why is Staff

[2:58:29] recommending XYZ and I I just kind of

[2:58:31] want to clear it um staff and is not

[2:58:35] recommending a vacancy tax and Council

[2:58:39] does not seem as far as I can tell

[2:58:41] interested in pursuing a vacancy tax

[2:58:44] staff is not recommending a rent

[2:58:46] registry and although yes I brought it

[2:58:48] up years ago um but at the moment I mean

[2:58:52] I don't think there's anybody here on

[2:58:53] this Das that's recommending a rent

[2:58:55] registry uh and I've also heard people

[2:58:57] say well we don't need more rent control

[2:58:58] I don't think anybody here is talking

[2:59:00] about more rent control what we're

[2:59:02] talking about is streamlining the

[2:59:04] program that we have in light of what

[2:59:06] we've learned over the years and in

[2:59:08] light of ab1

[2:59:09] 1482 which has its own provisions and we

[2:59:12] when we should do a better job of

[2:59:14] um you know dovetailing our rental

[2:59:17] rights program with ab-1482 and just

[2:59:19] simplifying things as um council member

[2:59:21] kasak I think said and I heard it

[2:59:23] elsewhere just simplify simplify

[2:59:25] simplify so um you know especially on

[2:59:29] that to you know um the formula that we

[2:59:32] have for relocation assistance if

[2:59:33] somebody raises rent more than 7% you

[2:59:36] know really simplify that maybe just a

[2:59:38] flat amount irregardless of the type of

[2:59:41] property the income of the person the

[2:59:43] length of the just just keep it really

[2:59:45] simple so that people understand what

[2:59:48] this program is about that's really what

[2:59:51] what we want to do and and uh I just

[2:59:53] want to kind of make sure people

[2:59:55] understand that that's our intent um so

[2:59:58] that's basically what I have to say I

[3:00:01] actually like you know based on your

[3:00:03] comments um and council member kakin

[3:00:08] um i' I felt like the uh the city staff

[3:00:12] already kind of Tak takes that role on

[3:00:15] of both guiding and providing resources

[3:00:19] so if if I'm misunderstanding what the

[3:00:22] role of that additional person would be

[3:00:24] if you if you may explain it to so I

[3:00:26] think that there are issues that are

[3:00:28] sometimes more complicated outside the

[3:00:30] scope of what the housing staff alone

[3:00:32] can do you'll have um landlords who you

[3:00:36] know are longtime landlords have had a

[3:00:38] property for a while all of a sudden

[3:00:41] they have to um do something that uh

[3:00:45] state law mandates or something that the

[3:00:48] city requires or just provide something

[3:00:50] for a tenant they don't know where to go

[3:00:53] right they don't know which department

[3:00:55] in the city to apply to I'm not a

[3:00:57] landlord but I can tell you uh when we

[3:00:59] had to replace our dishwasher I learned

[3:01:02] that in the city of Glendale if you want

[3:01:03] to replace a dishwasher you need a

[3:01:05] permit and there's a whole permit

[3:01:07] process that requires you to go online

[3:01:09] and if you're not computer savvy you're

[3:01:11] an older senior person or perhaps

[3:01:14] challenged in the tech world you know

[3:01:16] good luck uh navigating It For the First

[3:01:18] Time The Answer Ombudsman you can have a

[3:01:21] tenant as uh I've had who has a special

[3:01:24] needs uh child um all of a sudden they

[3:01:28] are uh falling behind on either rent or

[3:01:31] they're in between jobs or something

[3:01:33] happens in regards to a child whose

[3:01:35] special needs they may not need a tenant

[3:01:38] landlord mediation or questions that the

[3:01:40] housing staff can provide but an nsman

[3:01:42] can connect them to different different

[3:01:43] Social Service organizations and

[3:01:46] nonprofits that can help them uh make it

[3:01:49] from point A to point B from one month

[3:01:51] to the next with minimal impact on on

[3:01:53] their lives and stress answer is

[3:01:55] Ombudsman so I think that when we say an

[3:01:58] ombudsman it's I think of it a little

[3:02:00] bit like the I've always said the James

[3:02:01] Garner character in that movie The Great

[3:02:03] Escape the guy who could get you

[3:02:05] anything the guy who could get you

[3:02:07] chocolate or could get you a whiskey in

[3:02:09] a in a World War II p camp someone who

[3:02:11] knows where to go to get the answers um

[3:02:15] because a lot of times when you're

[3:02:17] stressed as you stated and you're

[3:02:19] looking for answers um you're confused

[3:02:21] as to where to go but someone who's

[3:02:23] trained or understands the city and the

[3:02:25] different organizations can help point

[3:02:27] you in the right direction yeah and I

[3:02:29] would I would just like to add to that

[3:02:31] that you know this idea of an ombudsman

[3:02:33] it is similar to what staff is doing

[3:02:35] right now but I think that

[3:02:37] um I think I think we need more and

[3:02:41] especially if we're going to be

[3:02:42] promoting this program we're going to be

[3:02:43] getting more people calling into the

[3:02:45] hotline I don't think we're going to

[3:02:46] have the resources to do it you know I

[3:02:48] also know it's it's a special skill and

[3:02:51] not taking you know wanting to take away

[3:02:54] from from seon and his group but it's a

[3:02:56] special skill I had a a situation and uh

[3:02:59] teal in the back knows all about it

[3:03:01] because she helped me out with it but

[3:03:03] somebody that came to my coffees a

[3:03:04] couple times with a problem with rats in

[3:03:07] her unit and she had to move out and she

[3:03:10] was in a hotel and she you know or she

[3:03:12] was at whatever she was anyway and I

[3:03:14] know she called in and um she did get

[3:03:17] some help but I think she was referred

[3:03:19] to you know you know I don't know LA

[3:03:22] County sanitation or she was referred

[3:03:25] here and there but her English was not

[3:03:27] good she didn't have the wherewithal to

[3:03:29] figure this out she really needs

[3:03:30] somebody who can do more than what staff

[3:03:32] can do can really hold her hand and take

[3:03:35] office yeah but they're not going to do

[3:03:36] that they don't have the resources to

[3:03:38] really hold somebody's hand through all

[3:03:41] the phone calls that have to be made all

[3:03:42] the followup that has to be made so I I

[3:03:44] do think having somebody from the

[3:03:46] outside just enhances that service and I

[3:03:49] don't think it's that expensive to do so

[3:03:52] that's I think that's what that's at

[3:03:54] least what's on my mind so I would well

[3:03:56] my question is what kind of training

[3:03:58] would they need what do we have to train

[3:04:00] them or do they have to learn our yeah

[3:04:02] there's I mean

[3:04:03] what's probably yeah well isn't that

[3:04:07] what kind of what Lucy does I mean

[3:04:09] she staff those that you're working with

[3:04:12] so staff does their best to connect any

[3:04:15] caller to the resources they need and if

[3:04:17] it's within the city I think we do a

[3:04:18] pretty good job of it if it's outside of

[3:04:20] the city we might refer to the

[3:04:22] organization we're not going to go hunt

[3:04:24] down an individual that they need to

[3:04:25] speak to we'll refer them to the or

[3:04:27] organization but if it needs to be that

[3:04:29] detailed where you're holding the hand

[3:04:31] walking them to that agency making sure

[3:04:33] they get the need the help they need I I

[3:04:35] we don't do that at the moment but we do

[3:04:38] the best within the city yeah that's

[3:04:40] good

[3:04:41] idea say something more yeah uh so I

[3:04:44] would be open to that um I would also

[3:04:48] like to see kind of the structure we

[3:04:51] could work with the city attorney's

[3:04:53] office uh on this where there is a

[3:04:57] specific

[3:04:58] designated attorney um that the public

[3:05:01] knows about it's not that they're

[3:05:03] calling you and then you're internally

[3:05:05] or we're rerouting that um I think

[3:05:08] looking at the city attorney's office

[3:05:10] and like how we've kind of built up

[3:05:12] capacity over the years uh there might

[3:05:14] be room for that as well in there yeah

[3:05:16] if I could I could address that I think

[3:05:18] so one of the challenges uh with our

[3:05:21] office is we we cannot provide legal

[3:05:23] advice to third parties we we can we

[3:05:25] obviously provide um interpret you know

[3:05:28] we will interpret our own code for

[3:05:30] public when when there's a dispute for

[3:05:32] example um we also obviously were

[3:05:35] involved in the enforcement of the law

[3:05:36] but a lot of these disputes are a a

[3:05:38] private dispute between a landlord and

[3:05:40] tenant so we cannot be we can't advise

[3:05:42] them on landlord tenant law um and and

[3:05:45] that's really not the even the goal of

[3:05:46] the rental rights program is to provide

[3:05:48] the resources explain how our rental

[3:05:50] rights program works to the public how

[3:05:52] the what the interaction is with 1482

[3:05:54] because there is so much interaction but

[3:05:56] at the end of the day we we always have

[3:05:58] to advise them to to seek another

[3:06:00] resource if they still have questions so

[3:06:02] that's sort of the challenge with um I

[3:06:04] mean we certainly work with the staff if

[3:06:06] there's if there's a desire to have this

[3:06:07] un buds un buds person to kind of work

[3:06:10] with the staff on figure out how

[3:06:11] mechanically it works but our our role

[3:06:13] has to be limited we are limited by the

[3:06:15] charter to not providing advice to to

[3:06:17] members of the public or providing them

[3:06:18] legal assistance on private disputes

[3:06:21] which in large regard that's what

[3:06:23] landlord tenant is right it's it's a

[3:06:25] dispute between two parties in in a

[3:06:27] business transaction I I I I would say

[3:06:29] that I'm not looking for the the private

[3:06:32] disputes um I think if more folks in our

[3:06:36] community knew that they could turn to

[3:06:38] the city to to get clarification on the

[3:06:41] law and that the city attorney's office

[3:06:43] is available I want them to know that

[3:06:45] that that is actually available and that

[3:06:47] is part of the role right absolutely

[3:06:50] okay okay um do you have enough

[3:06:55] Direction I think we have enough

[3:06:57] Direction okay just I think the staff

[3:07:00] needs the approval of the the marketing

[3:07:02] strategy that's a motion approval of the

[3:07:04] marketing strategy so oh okay I'll

[3:07:08] second okay so we'll have a roll call on

[3:07:10] that thank you council members do other

[3:07:14] yes Divine yes kakan yes Naran mayor

[3:07:19] botman yes thank you what's next please

[3:07:22] next is oral Communications discussion

[3:07:25] is limited to items not a part of this

[3:07:26] agenda each speaker is allowed five

[3:07:29] minutes Council May question or respond

[3:07:31] to the speaker but there will be no

[3:07:33] debate or decision the city manager May

[3:07:35] refer the matter to the appropriate

[3:07:37] department for investigation and report

[3:07:41] we have uh five speak speaker cards for

[3:07:44] oral communication okay anybody on the

[3:07:48] phones

[3:07:52] okay okay and I'm going to start and

[3:07:55] then I'm going to run to the bathroom

[3:07:57] and

[3:07:58] hopefully something drastic won't happen

[3:08:01] okay I tried to stop ARX an

[3:08:05] onion you are first for oral

[3:08:12] Communications

[3:08:20] hello everyone um I just wanted to hit a

[3:08:23] couple points um I submitted I took my

[3:08:26] time over the weekend it was actually

[3:08:28] pretty fun working on the maps um it was

[3:08:31] almost like a puzzle uh especially with

[3:08:33] the colors and all that stuff so I came

[3:08:36] up with map 1125 I think it was uploaded

[3:08:39] yesterday or something um and I just

[3:08:41] wanted to it was pretty I mean I didn't

[3:08:44] see any Maps out there currently that

[3:08:46] included like a separate region um for

[3:08:50] well I saw a couple that included a

[3:08:52] separate region for Central Glendale um

[3:08:55] I think they have they're going to be

[3:08:56] growing obviously over time and then

[3:08:58] they have their they're going to have

[3:09:00] their own very unique needs um in the

[3:09:03] downtown area um and then yeah so that

[3:09:06] and then um I was walking on AR Avenue

[3:09:10] and I think there might be a project

[3:09:12] about this I was looking it up on the

[3:09:14] website but definitely those like tables

[3:09:17] and chairs do not seem comfortable and

[3:09:19] then my friend was telling me that

[3:09:21] apparently they get chained up at night

[3:09:24] which is so unsightly and not really

[3:09:27] like the vibe for downtown glendel but

[3:09:30] I'm assuming that's going to be included

[3:09:31] in the I think it's called activate art

[3:09:34] I don't know if that's still happening

[3:09:36] but um and then my third point was just

[3:09:39] about uh apparently there's a dog park

[3:09:41] being proposed for for brand park I got

[3:09:44] an email from The Tea House at that

[3:09:47] they're not interested in that and I

[3:09:50] completely agree I think that's not is

[3:09:53] that is that happening is that

[3:09:56] stud huh no I don't want to speak on

[3:09:59] something that is has already been

[3:10:01] addressed in previous meetings but

[3:10:04] anyways yeah I don't think a dog park

[3:10:06] belongs in brand Park it's just also

[3:10:09] like not the vibe of that area but

[3:10:11] anyway those are my thoughts for today

[3:10:13] thank

[3:10:14] you thank you uh vah

[3:10:34] Moran hello council members I was here

[3:10:37] in this room at the last council meeting

[3:10:40] because I had gone through all the

[3:10:41] possible departments I could regarding

[3:10:44] some false accusations in court filed by

[3:10:47] the city attorney's office one of those

[3:10:49] departments even being the police

[3:10:51] department where I made a police report

[3:10:53] thinking I had rights because it does

[3:10:55] involve a crime police closed it without

[3:10:58] ever reaching out and ignored the entire

[3:11:00] probably half an hour report I made and

[3:11:02] all the documents I submitted so my only

[3:11:05] other option was to come here and bring

[3:11:07] it to your attention for it to be looked

[3:11:09] into

[3:11:11] respectfully I don't think I did a good

[3:11:13] enough job last time because it never

[3:11:16] was since August 8th so I'm here to try

[3:11:19] again you have an employee named mahik

[3:11:22] safarian who decided to call the police

[3:11:25] making false accusations against me when

[3:11:27] I came to the city towards the end of

[3:11:29] 2022 about a fraudulent lease issue

[3:11:32] since 2005 for the property I live on he

[3:11:36] then somehow convinced the city

[3:11:37] attorney's office with those same

[3:11:39] accusations into filing a restraining

[3:11:42] order on on his behalf for free i'

[3:11:44] assume one which was denied for lack of

[3:11:47] evidence the restraining order does

[3:11:49] actually mention how mahik is possibly

[3:11:52] applying for it behalf of other

[3:11:54] employees as well but none are mentioned

[3:11:57] I would have absolutely no problem and I

[3:11:59] really do mean this no problem with his

[3:12:02] poor lies even his restraining order

[3:12:05] that was denied resulting in my favor if

[3:12:07] it didn't lead to the third lawsuit for

[3:12:10] my family one day after that is not the

[3:12:12] first time law I

[3:12:14] was that's not the first time I was

[3:12:16] served with a lawsuit because of a city

[3:12:18] employee I'm not making any specific

[3:12:21] accusations here but with respectfully

[3:12:23] asking the city to once again look into

[3:12:27] this matter because it is all being used

[3:12:29] against me in courts it doesn't matter

[3:12:31] if I don't have it doesn't matter if I

[3:12:33] have a lawyer or not I ask the words

[3:12:35] filed in court by the city attorney's

[3:12:37] office to be discussed was but was

[3:12:40] turned away there's no shame in the

[3:12:42] applying for something and having it the

[3:12:44] night there's no resolution for me on

[3:12:46] his lies so I made a police report about

[3:12:49] a possible felony charge under the

[3:12:51] penalty of perjury and how that

[3:12:53] unfortunately has to do with the third

[3:12:55] lawsuit I was served in 8 months I was

[3:12:57] turned away again last time I said 9

[3:13:00] months but I was wrong it's actually

[3:13:02] three lawsuits I've been served in 8

[3:13:04] months and 9 days that is actually

[3:13:06] prohibited prohibited according to

[3:13:08] chapter 9 of the municipal code I

[3:13:11] wouldn't be here today if the city and

[3:13:13] the appropriate departments did their

[3:13:15] jobs and this is coming from a former

[3:13:17] employee of almost 7 years please look

[3:13:20] into this

[3:13:22] matter thank

[3:13:25] you um obviously I don't know anything

[3:13:28] about this issue but um I will ask for a

[3:13:32] offline uh briefing so I can learn more

[3:13:35] about it all right thank Youk you have a

[3:13:37] great

[3:13:40] night okay um

[3:13:51] Milano mayor brodman members of the city

[3:13:54] council my name is Herbert

[3:13:56] Milano I want to bring up some comments

[3:13:58] that I brought in the past uh but I'll

[3:14:00] start it with a um with a comment that

[3:14:04] is very common at least in the circles

[3:14:06] that I'm in and is that people tend to

[3:14:09] see the world from the steeple of their

[3:14:11] Village Church

[3:14:14] and when I look at the problems that I'm

[3:14:16] generally facing Glendale or the issues

[3:14:18] that have come aware of I see it from

[3:14:21] the point of view of a systems analyst

[3:14:23] and my Decades of work in dealing with

[3:14:27] providing information to organizations

[3:14:30] organizations that often times were over

[3:14:32] a billion dollars a

[3:14:34] year and for many years I have been

[3:14:37] promoting the idea that the city should

[3:14:40] collect information analyze the

[3:14:42] information

[3:14:43] create strategic plans and work towards

[3:14:45] a strategic

[3:14:46] plan and today was in some of the issues

[3:14:49] that we had earlier it's precisely the

[3:14:52] type of issues that would be much easier

[3:14:54] to solve if you had the data analyz

[3:14:59] collected and

[3:15:01] evaluated with a continual recurrence of

[3:15:04] an evaluation that takes place on an

[3:15:06] annual

[3:15:08] basis every time you get a software

[3:15:10] update what you're really getting is the

[3:15:13] series of problems that have been

[3:15:14] corrected through

[3:15:17] experience and you know at the local

[3:15:20] level county level state level often

[3:15:22] times ordinances are passed and then

[3:15:25] they just left to basically have an

[3:15:28] impact for a very long time until the

[3:15:30] problems get to be so severe that you

[3:15:32] begin to have the protest and the people

[3:15:34] complaining and you get the impact of

[3:15:36] that but if the ordinances and the laws

[3:15:40] that are being considered are evaluated

[3:15:42] and the data collected and updated and

[3:15:45] adjusted to meet what the data is

[3:15:47] telling you I would imagine that we

[3:15:50] would have a much easier time with

[3:15:52] running a city and living in a city the

[3:15:55] data that I usually brought back in the

[3:15:56] past that is really really simple has to

[3:15:59] do with road

[3:16:01] conditions a road on average in the

[3:16:04] United

[3:16:06] States has about a 20-year

[3:16:09] life so if you take the 360 miles of

[3:16:12] roadway of London divided by 20 you have

[3:16:15] already an idea of how much you should

[3:16:16] be re reconstructing on a yearly basis

[3:16:20] simple and then you count basically how

[3:16:22] many miles of roads were actually

[3:16:24] reconstructed every

[3:16:27] year the other issues that I find that

[3:16:30] need data collection if the city were to

[3:16:33] collect it in a systematic way and if

[3:16:35] the city council were to have some type

[3:16:38] of retreat where you consider where is

[3:16:40] it that we're going where are we now

[3:16:43] what did we accomplish allows you to

[3:16:45] gauge the efficacy of the city manager

[3:16:48] or the efficacy of the City attorney the

[3:16:50] efficacy of the rest of the commissions

[3:16:52] that you have before you it's an appeal

[3:16:55] for this that I think that the problems

[3:16:58] that we generally face are solvable

[3:17:00] they're not that

[3:17:02] insurmountable especially when we have

[3:17:04] the data that is telling us not

[3:17:07] anecdotes not the Impressions not the

[3:17:10] hearsay not the rumors

[3:17:12] because we as humans are very faulty in

[3:17:16] regard to the way we think about issues

[3:17:18] if we put somebody in a committee and

[3:17:21] all they come to you are The Impressions

[3:17:23] that they have from Friends the things

[3:17:25] that they can remember we have a

[3:17:27] significant list of biases that prevent

[3:17:31] us from thinking

[3:17:32] clearly and the one thing we can depend

[3:17:35] on is the data if I tell someone you

[3:17:38] know that the data tells us that if you

[3:17:40] smoke on a regular basis or two packs a

[3:17:43] day your chances of dying is X by the

[3:17:45] age of 60 but if he tells me well my

[3:17:49] grandmother lived into 102 and she was

[3:17:52] this two pack smoker and gives you an

[3:17:55] anecdote and that's what carries the day

[3:17:58] an anecdote carries a significant amount

[3:18:00] of weight when it comes to all kinds of

[3:18:03] decision making but then we have to rely

[3:18:05] on the data to basically set us straight

[3:18:08] and that's what I'm asking the city

[3:18:09] council to do collect the dat

[3:18:12] analyze it set policy on it because when

[3:18:16] people come to you with their

[3:18:17] Impressions and their feelings and their

[3:18:19] emotions and what they can recall and

[3:18:21] they're here say you may wind up

[3:18:24] creating bad policy and that's really

[3:18:27] really bad for all of us I would

[3:18:29] appreciate that thanks thank you Mike

[3:18:36] barsov good evening council members uh

[3:18:38] I'm going to be talking uh talking on

[3:18:40] the topic of housing um I believe I

[3:18:42] emailed all of you about a few weeks ago

[3:18:44] on this issue but I'm just here to talk

[3:18:46] about it in person today some of these

[3:18:48] policies do need environmental review

[3:18:50] some of them don't some have been

[3:18:52] instituted by cities like San Diego or

[3:18:55] uh some cities in the east coast um but

[3:18:59] this is just a rundown of our Arena

[3:19:01] goals uh we have still thousands more

[3:19:04] housing units to accomplish uh to

[3:19:06] complete by the end of the decade and at

[3:19:09] current Pace we're kind of decent but

[3:19:11] we're not very and we could also make

[3:19:13] extra money uh with a new housing policy

[3:19:16] so these are just some policy positions

[3:19:18] that you could advocate for to City

[3:19:19] staff or just research so the first one

[3:19:21] is reducing or Banning parking minimums

[3:19:24] the second one is increasing the far

[3:19:25] which is floor area ratio of

[3:19:27] construction allow our greater lot size

[3:19:29] usage allow greater discretionary

[3:19:31] density bonus units reone glendle to

[3:19:34] allow to Transit oriented development

[3:19:36] specifically along Transit corridors of

[3:19:38] bus lines with a frequency of 50 minutes

[3:19:39] or better and around train stations

[3:19:42] upzone Glen corridors and regions to

[3:19:44] r1250 and

[3:19:45] r2250 which is medium to high density

[3:19:48] and just high density and allow more

[3:19:50] mixed huse development on residential

[3:19:52] only zones and allow residential zones

[3:19:54] and Commercial only zones so essentially

[3:19:56] when cities Implement these policies you

[3:19:58] increase social cohesion walkability all

[3:20:00] that good stuff that we need to reduce

[3:20:01] our vehicle miles traveled to reduce our

[3:20:03] emissions but we also increase the

[3:20:05] housing stock we cool the housing market

[3:20:07] we also create good money for the city

[3:20:09] uh there's a lot of research on this uh

[3:20:11] when we build trans oriented development

[3:20:12] when we build mixed use development when

[3:20:14] we build high with density more people

[3:20:16] come into the city they provide

[3:20:18] businesses provide more uh services and

[3:20:21] vice versa sales tax goes up more people

[3:20:23] spending money in the city is just good

[3:20:25] for everyone and so if you want to get

[3:20:26] ahead of our Arena goals and even

[3:20:28] surpass them to be known as a city that

[3:20:31] pass its housing goals with affordable

[3:20:33] housing especially we could achieve that

[3:20:36] in the city of glendle cuz we're already

[3:20:37] kind of walkable I don't own a car I

[3:20:40] take the bus usually I wish I could buy

[3:20:42] every I don't know how to bike yet but

[3:20:43] when we build more housing on corridors

[3:20:46] we promote things like walkability and

[3:20:49] having more Transit oriented development

[3:20:51] and having more businesses be on the

[3:20:53] first floor so people can see their

[3:20:55] businesses and walk into the businesses

[3:20:56] rather than zooming past them 50 mil per

[3:20:58] hour so those are just some options on

[3:21:01] how we can solve the housing crisis that

[3:21:02] we currently have and I'll forward this

[3:21:04] email to you guys again so you have like

[3:21:05] the list of policies thank you thank you

[3:21:08] and and by the way the email you sent I

[3:21:11] did share with M with Mr Calbert and I

[3:21:14] did respond to you right yes you and

[3:21:17] Paul Divine did thank you okay but I

[3:21:19] mean the point is that we are thinking

[3:21:20] about all of these

[3:21:22] things those things are already in the

[3:21:25] works in the works and Mike you and I

[3:21:27] are going to learn how to ride a bike

[3:21:28] together thank you hopefully I see a

[3:21:31] tandem bike in your future we're doing

[3:21:33] this thank you Mr Cal for

[3:21:36] Council okay uh Linda

[3:21:40] new

[3:21:47] mayor and council members thank you I'm

[3:21:50] here today just to remind you that a lot

[3:21:53] of the work that you are doing is just

[3:21:58] um tacking around the edges of a problem

[3:22:02] and the problem that we have in Glendale

[3:22:05] among the residents is that rents are

[3:22:07] too high and that people believe and

[3:22:11] that it's their right to um treat

[3:22:14] tenants like little um little toys or

[3:22:19] dots to be moved around in other words

[3:22:22] if you look at the grace the grace and

[3:22:24] management company that is in charge of

[3:22:27] the onx you will see that they have

[3:22:30] raised the rents a lot this year um only

[3:22:35] up to the amount of course that they

[3:22:37] were legally um able to do that but they

[3:22:40] are forcing those tenants in the onx to

[3:22:43] move out just like Mom and Pops in

[3:22:47] Glendale are forcing people to move out

[3:22:50] it's people want to stay in Glendale

[3:22:53] they want to keep their home and they

[3:22:56] can't

[3:22:58] so that's an ongoing

[3:23:01] problem

[3:23:03] um here uh I do I wanted to say thank

[3:23:07] you very much for working um and

[3:23:10] considering the um ad hoc um tenant

[3:23:13] landord committee the idea of an udman

[3:23:15] is a good one I think um we need a

[3:23:18] community leas on who uh somebody who

[3:23:22] can have boots on the ground and really

[3:23:26] get out and um be one with the people

[3:23:30] and and help people I know that because

[3:23:33] those are some of the things that I do

[3:23:35] in the Glendale tenis Union I know we we

[3:23:38] spend hundreds of Y hours working with

[3:23:40] people

[3:23:42] you know um getting um every imagin

[3:23:46] imaginary thing you can think of that a

[3:23:49] tenant has to go through when they are

[3:23:51] being forced to move or when they want

[3:23:53] to fight the move they do call the city

[3:23:56] sometimes sometimes they don't sometimes

[3:23:58] they just call us but they call the city

[3:24:00] and a and and a phone call isn't going

[3:24:03] to get them where they need to be so

[3:24:05] they need more than that we know that

[3:24:07] that's why we end up spending hundreds

[3:24:09] of hours working with them um one idea

[3:24:13] that I that Mr Milano had that I

[3:24:16] appreciate and is that he said you know

[3:24:20] um get the facts whatever but um I say

[3:24:24] on top of that is go to the city um

[3:24:27] agencies who are dealing with those

[3:24:29] people who are having hardships and meet

[3:24:32] with them regularly or have them report

[3:24:34] to you regularly when I call the

[3:24:36] Armenian Relief Society they tell me the

[3:24:39] same thing I'm telling them r are too

[3:24:42] high our people are struggling it's

[3:24:44] crazy so this isn't new this is and you

[3:24:48] are not new this is not new to Glendale

[3:24:51] every Community around the US is dealing

[3:24:53] with this so I this is going to stay on

[3:24:58] the burner you're going to keep thinking

[3:25:00] about it but hopefully you know we'll be

[3:25:03] able to make some

[3:25:04] progress these little steps we're taking

[3:25:07] are important but they're not the whole

[3:25:10] answer thank you thank you and we have

[3:25:13] somebody on the

[3:25:14] phone yes we have one

[3:25:18] caller I didn't get

[3:25:23] okay did you put I didn't get one not

[3:25:26] for oral communication I didn't get

[3:25:32] one yeah take the phone

[3:25:35] yeah our one caller is

[3:25:38] nures uh tatin Sayan n say you're on air

[3:25:42] you have uh five minutes go

[3:25:46] ahead hi everyone my name is merus

[3:25:50] penan and I was calling I was very

[3:25:52] concerned about um the coyotes there's a

[3:25:55] lot of like

[3:25:56] coyotes in and around the kenet Village

[3:25:59] area and then also I've noticed they're

[3:26:01] coming down almost all the way to Glenn

[3:26:03] Glen Oak like between Glenwood and GL

[3:26:07] and um you know last night I was like

[3:26:09] walking someone to their car and it was

[3:26:12] literally like right there and then a

[3:26:13] couple of times this month and then

[3:26:16] three or four times while walking at

[3:26:19] night so it's um it's pretty concerning

[3:26:21] and I don't understand like what the

[3:26:23] issue is I've always seen coyotes but

[3:26:24] I've never seen them imp pass and all

[3:26:27] the way down to like almost where glenox

[3:26:30] is like by gleno and Western like almost

[3:26:32] all the way down to like that

[3:26:37] area and also in the Island area like by

[3:26:40] between Glen uh

[3:26:42] W and alen and gleno and

[3:26:48] alen yeah okay yeah um I think we're all

[3:26:53] seeing a

[3:26:55] sharp uptick in in

[3:27:00] coyotes um it's a bigger question what

[3:27:03] we can do about it but that chase one

[3:27:06] yesterday at night Road runers feed them

[3:27:08] don't feed them anvils yeah

[3:27:11] okay um Mr

[3:27:25] mohill good evening council members my

[3:27:27] name is Mike

[3:27:29] mohill mayor Dan bran at the June 6 2023

[3:27:34] council meeting you charged you changed

[3:27:37] a three minute portion of oral

[3:27:38] communication on purpose back to to the

[3:27:41] end of council business so you don't

[3:27:44] have to hear early in the evening your

[3:27:46] Council

[3:27:47] critics as a result throughout the city

[3:27:51] you are nicknamed the dictator of

[3:27:54] Glendale in the old days the liberal

[3:27:56] Democratic party cherish freedom of

[3:27:59] speech but today you and your so-called

[3:28:02] Progressive liberal Democrats throughout

[3:28:05] the nation do not cherish freedom of

[3:28:08] speech you moved to gleno about 7 years

[3:28:11] ago and you are turning glendel upside

[3:28:14] down with your woke

[3:28:17] agenda you are polarizing the

[3:28:20] city is it true mayor Dan bman that you

[3:28:25] have two biological Sons today are

[3:28:29] transgender

[3:28:31] women is it

[3:28:33] true that your former wife from China

[3:28:37] became a transgender

[3:28:39] man wow mayor Dan brotman you have been

[3:28:43] all over social media and any criticism

[3:28:47] you receive your three minions Mike

[3:28:50] Allen Bert culer and car sgio Sergio who

[3:28:56] has transgender children

[3:28:59] herself are there to defend your woke

[3:29:03] ideas is it true Mar Brockman that you

[3:29:06] are in communication with queer nation

[3:29:09] and other so-called Progressive liberal

[3:29:13] organizations do not put in the same

[3:29:16] basket and assume that all gays and

[3:29:18] lesbian support the transgender drag

[3:29:21] queen

[3:29:23] agenda mayor brotman for the record are

[3:29:28] you proud that the transgender drag

[3:29:30] queen have hijacked the gay and lesbian

[3:29:33] movement setting it back 100

[3:29:37] years are you

[3:29:39] proud mared Dan Brockman do you support

[3:29:43] transgender women competing in with

[3:29:46] biological women's in bi excuse me and

[3:29:51] sports mayor Brockman is it true you

[3:29:54] meet with the Glendo School Board

[3:29:57] officials at least once or twice a month

[3:30:00] to discuss the transgender drag queen

[3:30:04] agenda mayor Dan bman do you and your

[3:30:07] so-called Progressive liberal Democrat

[3:30:09] support the following ass family and

[3:30:11] state bills that want to reduce parental

[3:30:16] rights state senator Anthony portino

[3:30:19] Senate Bill 596 silencing parental Free

[3:30:25] Speech assembly Bill 95 cender

[3:30:29] 957 gender affirmation in child custody

[3:30:35] disputes assembly Bill

[3:30:38] 1078 State control over local school

[3:30:43] boards assembly Bill five Training

[3:30:46] teachers to profile non

[3:30:50] lgbtq plus affirming

[3:30:54] parents the so-called Progressive

[3:30:56] liberal Democrat State Assembly woman La

[3:30:59] Freeman and state and state senator

[3:31:02] Anthony

[3:31:03] portino both support the transgender

[3:31:06] drag queen

[3:31:08] agendas council members do you support

[3:31:11] transgender activist mayor Dan Brockman

[3:31:14] and his

[3:31:16] agenda it is clear the left hates the

[3:31:21] right more than they love America thank

[3:31:26] you you okay we have another card Alan

[3:31:36] Durham mayor Brockman members of the

[3:31:39] council I had not planned to speak

[3:31:42] um during oral Communications but uh I

[3:31:47] had to say you know we all know what's

[3:31:51] going on with the Glend Del school board

[3:31:53] and the Unified School District and all

[3:31:56] the

[3:31:58] political activism that's been stirred

[3:32:01] up and the emotions that have been

[3:32:03] stirred up but I really don't like you

[3:32:06] know this is the city council that's the

[3:32:09] school board I really don't like to

[3:32:14] see the people the activist who are

[3:32:20] protesting the school board's actions

[3:32:22] and decisions I hate to see that creep

[3:32:25] into city council city council meeting

[3:32:28] City Council Members I mean I may be

[3:32:31] wrong it just doesn't seem appropriate

[3:32:32] to me it's two different bodies and I

[3:32:35] don't really care what the views of an

[3:32:38] individual council member are

[3:32:41] and to me it's just you know it's not

[3:32:45] relevant to me what I look for is their

[3:32:48] judgment and their decision-making

[3:32:50] ability so this is just my reaction to

[3:32:54] what was said before thank you thank you

[3:32:58] okay so next is new business yes new

[3:33:02] business and I believe that we do

[3:33:05] have

[3:33:06] two one one yes so I move that uh the

[3:33:11] City attorney being and hereby is

[3:33:13] authorized to resolve the lawsuit

[3:33:15] entitled Helen sedi versus city of

[3:33:18] Glendale Los Angeles Superior Court case

[3:33:20] number 20 STC V

[3:33:24] 34372 in exchange for a full release of

[3:33:26] all claims in the amount of

[3:33:28] $75,000 the settlement is not an

[3:33:31] admission of any liability whatsoever

[3:33:33] for any wrongdoing with respect to the

[3:33:35] plane if by defendant or by any person

[3:33:37] or department but is the com compromise

[3:33:39] of a dis Beed

[3:33:42] claim a second second can roll call

[3:33:46] please council members Zan yes Divine

[3:33:50] yes kakan yes Naran mayor bman yes and

[3:33:55] adjournment move to adjourn second we

[3:33:57] are adjourned at 9:32 p.m. thank

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[3:34:09] you

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City Council - 8/29/23

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