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good afternoon calling to order the um
city council meeting of August 29th at
4:05 p.m. may we have a roll call please
council member aadrian here dine here
kakin
narian and mayor bman here and may we
have your report uh close Session One
close session 18 conference with legal
council pending litigation sadari versus
city of glendel LC case number
20cv
34372 B would be conference with legal
councel pending litigation at Garian
versus the city of glendel at all lasc
case number 21 STC V
0756 and itmc has been moved to further
date thank you do we anticipate
reporting out on any of these items uh
Mr Mayor we anticipate reporting on item
1 a 1 a okay uh no public comments I
assume so we will com no calls we will
recess to close
session
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good evening and welcome to the August
29th meeting of the Glendale city
council being called to order at 6:04
pm. may we have roll call please yes
council members aadan Divine here kakan
here naaran mayor botman
here uh now uh would everybody please
rise for the Pledge of
Allegiance repeat after me I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all please remain standing for the
invocation I will read a modified
excerpt from an invocation by hila
rabi this land we dwell upon today is
the ancestral land of the Gabrielino
Tanga people we acknowledge their hisor
oral roots in this place and the many
generations who are stewards of this
land the Earth was here before us and
will endure after we are
gone let us walk gently upon this
precious Planet taking only what we need
leaving little waste nurturing the soil
revitalizing the land to sustain future
Generations thank you thank you you may
be
seated
okay uh Madame clerk may we have your
report please yes the agenda for the
August 29 2023 regular meeting of the
Glendale city council was posted on
August 24th 2023 on the bulletin board
outside City Hall thank you and what is
our next item next our presentations and
appointments the first one is um
regarding the agenda the regular meeting
for the city council on September 5th
2023 has have been cancelled the next
regular meeting will be held on
September 12th
2023 okay and before you read out the
next item
um is um is Talia hpan here in the
audience she's there okay I know council
member asatrian wanted to address you so
can we just move the order on the chance
that she will show up oh there she is
um well
in that case let's let's just go on then
she is here so let's go on with
that um uh Commendation for Talia hpan
California Bears Youth Hockey
Club thank you and I going to turn this
over to the just in time council member
asatrian to read the Commendation and um
and maybe as she does this could um
Talia and her family come up to the
podium
please um before uh I read the
Commendation I just want to give
everyone a little bit of a background uh
I have the honor of introducing and
recognizing a young Trail Blazer in
glendell uh Talia hpan is 11 years old
who is um here with her parents Anie and
shahnur uh she plays leftwing with
California Bears Youth Hockey Club and
coached by former National Hockey League
player Alexander
frolov uh Talia is the only female
player on the boys travel team and has
participated in tournaments throughout
the United States um she has a very long
resume um but I do want to note that um
in July 2023 three um she was uh one of
two of her achievements included uh
number one in tournament goals scored 14
and 18 points and she was named player
of the game
award um and then in the regular season
um she helped the team play second in
California um if we can give her a round
of
applause
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um and the commodation it's the mayor's
commodation and it reads presented to
Talia hpan in recognition of your
exceptional accomplishments and
unwavering dedication as the sole female
hockey player on a boy team your
commitment to the sport your teammates
and your community serves as an
inspiring example of perseverance
resilience and breaking down barriers on
behalf of the city of we wish you
continued success and assigned mayor Dan
brotman Right
congratulations congratulations you want
to go down and do a
picture we'll do a photo op
first are we all doing it yeah you want
to might as well let's
go
abuse discrimination The Voice were good
to you all
know hi are we we'll just the back want
to go over
here
that thank you thank you thank you very
much we might want to ask you a
question
so
Talia what is T Talia what is your
favorite team for professional hockey
valet Kings all right that was the right
answer good
[Laughter]
job uh we asked you to stay there for a
minute because we have a
former
um coach coach and
teacher um here who may have may have a
question well I I just well I did what
you know um back in the day when I was
coaching and Girls Athletic Director Etc
we had one girl that was on the soccer
team the boys soccer team and she had a
real problem with harassment and um uh
kind of abuse that we had to deal with
and so I was asking Tanya if she
experienced any of that and she said
no no and that's that speaks volumes uh
for today's um Sports Athletics and uh
uh boys and girls playing together and
so
congratulations uh you are Paving the
way for others and uh uh I wish you all
the best thank you you're welcome you
congratulations okay on that fun note um
what is
next next is the identification of
nominating panel for building and fire
board of appeals commission uh kakan and
divine thank you and there's no action
right
no and next is the appointment of ARA
hataman to the Civil Service Commission
uh by brotman and divine
82223
okay um yes uh Mr hatamian if you could
come forward and if you would like to
bring your lovely
family uh they can they can join
you we had the pleasure of Hosting them
here and they sat right in this chair
and hel a mock council meeting I do want
to thank Talia for going before
me you broke the ice get it hocky
both eyes that's a bad J okay so we'll
first take uh a motion and a second and
a vote do we
have I'll move our atamian for civil
service commissioner a second second
from council member asatrian very good
so let's have a roll call please council
members zadan yes Divine yes kakan yes
Naran mayor botman yes congrats uh
congratulations thank you
so
um as you know but the audience may not
know uh you were chosen through
initially well you were chosen here by
the vote that just took place but you
were nominated uh to this Council by um
uh council member Divine and myself
through a panel process which we have
just started so we had a panel of two we
interviewed a number of candidates a
number of very strong
candidates um but you clearly stood out
I would say um with your your experience
at work and also the fact that you have
done this before um and um I believe had
to step down from the commission because
uh of a family new child who's now which
which one two of them oh two of them
okay but now you're back with us and
we're very very excited to have you here
um so congratulations and if there's
something you would like to say uh
please uh feel fre thank you Mr bran
thank you glenell city council for uh
giving me this pleasure to serve the
city once again um it is a true honor to
be a commissioner I brought my family
along just as an example of you know
what glendel produces they are a product
of glendell Unified School District uh
my youngest one attends Mark keple uh my
oldest one is at toll and my middle one
is still at Mark keple also as a matter
of fact my old this one was the treasure
for marle and I just found out that we
also have additional toll students here
also uh so that's why I brought my
family along just as a representation of
glendell so I do want to thank you for
this opportunity and I look forward to
serving the city thank you very much
thank you very awesome thank you for
your willingness to serve
again of backgound oh before you before
you go Mr atamian could you just spend
one or two minutes telling us about your
backr ground oh absolutely so so we all
know yes who you are we talked about it
a little bit last last week when we
nominated you but absolutely it be my
pleasure so I work for LA County um I
started in LA county at the DA's office
when I was attending Law School uh I
worked in their PR prelim unit uh after
that point on I went into the
disciplinary section of the sheriff's
apartment uh where I worked for 14 years
uh administrating law enforcement
discipline
uh and now I'm with the Department of
Mental Health I am their manager over
their health and safety and employee
relations unit uh and right now we are
facing many different challenges uh at
the Department of Mental Health mainly
being homelessness the homelessness
crisis uh and so we are actively
involved with that and obviously prior
to that I was on the commission on the
Civil Service Commission uh outside of
the commission and working for LA County
I was also Al a teacher uh I've been
teaching as an adjunct faculty for
colleges in this area uh I've published
a book on employment law um so I have a
little bit of background on employment
law and the government sector my
beautiful wife she also works in the
government sector she works for County
Council she's an attorney for their
dependency unit that deals with the
foster care system of children uh so we
pride ourselves on serving the community
and um especially the you know the jeel
city as much as we can thank you thank
you thank you we're very very happy to
to have you and um you know free Talent
it's uh pretty
incredible we'll talk about that
later thank you so much appreciate it
thank you for your willingness to come
back and serve thank you thank you good
job okay and what is
next next our consent items including
minutes the following our routina may be
acted upon by one motion any member of
council or the audience requesting
separate consideration may do so by
making such requests before motion is
proposed uh do we have any uh public
comments we do not have any public
comments and do any I I'll move the
conent calendar we have a motion I'll
second second okay roll call
please council members aadrian yes
divine yes kakan yes Nan mayor botman
yes very good moving right along what is
next next our city council and staff
comments okay sure council member Divine
thank you thank you very much um as most
of you
know um we are currently working the
airport authority of which I am a member
along with council member narian
currently working on the replacement
Passenger Terminal project and um holder
panal Tech that it's a a joint venture
uh will be holding a sub subcontractor
Community information session they are
looking for local community uh
businesses uh to take part in the
building the construction of the new
airport they are holding this um
information session on September the
12th uh at the uh Courtyard by Marriott
um by the airport in Burbank from 10:00
a. until noon they will be um hosting
this regarding construction
opportunities for this replacement
terminal they are seriously looking for
local business women's businesses
minorities and local businesses
contractors and
dbe um we are going to be posting the uh
invitation the information on uh our
website they're going to provide
critical information for project
participation they will have schedule
and trade package information in-person
connection with jvt members and
in-person connection with possible trade
Partners they are also and this is
interesting they're also going to be
working with our high schools uh for
apprenticeships and Workforce
opportunities uh if you're interested in
this uh session if you are a contractor
a businesswoman uh a minority who was
interested in working on this airport
project again it will be on September
the 12th at Courtyard by Marriott at
2100 Empire Drive in Burbank from 10:00
a.m. until noon it's a terrific
opportunity so I hope uh uh many of you
will will um uh try to get information
on this and be there uh there is a
website the website is H PT standing for
holder panow Tech JV
team.com so if you're interested
otherwise you can check our our website
um I would also like to take this
opportunity as you know Council has been
uh working on Outreach for quite a while
regarding districting and a couple of us
advis uh us to wait until the Santa
Monica case against districting was
resolved well Santa Monica was
successful in their case so my question
now is should we keep moving and rushing
forward or should we pause the decision
by the courts bodess well for Glendale
not being forced into districting and an
elected mayor again I ask should we
pause on this action this is a
rhetorical question and I'm only telling
this so that our residents know the
outcome of that case thank you thank you
mayor thank you and when we're finish
this Council comments I will ask the
City attorney to say a word because um
depending depending on what you read
I've I've read that Santa Monica lost
I've read that Santa Monica won and I've
read things in between so I'm not sure
we know yet um but um let me turn to my
colleagues any comments council member
of Satan um I actually have a couple of
things um one is I noticed that we have
a counseling your neighborhood uh coming
up um I think one of the recommendations
I had made to staff uh after the last
one was for us to do um Outreach whether
it's flyers in that neighborhood or
using data that we have to reach our
residents within that neighborhood um to
get folks to actually come to these uh
counseling your neighborhoods I think
the one that we had in the Rancher was
very successful uh the one that we had
in um at the Pacific uh Park not so much
and so um I think it would be important
if we are doing these um for the
community to be made aware and that it's
not just an agenda item that's placed um
on Sunday U mayor bman and I uh attended
the grand reopening of the montro uh
Bowl um they have done a fantastic job
at uh uh keeping the 1940s theme and
Lanes uh got to throw some bowling balls
uh down that lane um and they've
Incorporated an all vegan and all kosher
kitchen uh I have to say they you know I
was skeptical as I always am um about
something being called chicken but it's
not um it was possibly the best hot
chicken sandwich I've had um I know that
they're going to be doing a community
event um uh as their part of their
opening and so I look forward to sharing
that um or have staff share that when we
get it um this last week I also had
scheduled a meeting with our staff and
La County's um Economic Development
Department and procurement uh office um
for us to take a look at um how we can
move forward with the locally owned
minority and and women-owned uh test
that we have as part of the work plan um
one of the things that we learned
through that process is that the LA
county is currently going through a
revamp of their own procurement process
and kind of building out um different
methods of communication and uh
databases and so forth one of the things
I did mention was the opportunity for us
to obtain the information that they have
um and for that data sharing to be uh
something that's automatic and it's not
something that we're requesting through
our different departments um I know that
they're putting together a task force
for some reason glendel is not part of
that so one of my requests was also to
uh invite glendell to the table and for
us to have input um in that process that
they have um and then lastly um last
week we um you know recognized women's
equality day and talked about
programming and this morning I saw that
we are having a webinar tomorrow
um uh and recognition of women's
equality day uh you can join this
webinar to learn uh how women owned
minority uh owned business certification
can help you gain government utility and
private sector contracts um uh you can
register uh at bitly backpac webinar uh
all this information is available at CH
glendel and the webinar is going to take
place tomorrow August 30th um 10 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. so I encourage all of our
small business owners um who own you
know local minority or women owned um to
join in I think that very well ties in
with um the opportunities that council
member Divine was talking
about thank you thank you thank you
council member
kakan um I don't have anything but I I
don't know I'm looking for the the an
article that would affirm what my
colleague council member dine derived
from the court case and I'm having
trouble finding including Santa Monica's
own City website which says City
statement on California Supreme Court
opinion on CV case says the city is
reviewing the Supreme Court's opinion
and working to assess the path forward
and there's a number of others as well
that uh here's another
headline um that
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says well I'll tell you none of them say
what I think a council member Divine so
strongly feels it said so um I would
also like to understand whether this
somehow puts Glendale in the clear or is
a uh sweeping decision that that is that
some are trying to make the public
believe it
is um other than that I honestly don't
have any other comments okay thank you
okay thank
you one I just I just want to make sure
we clarify on I know we passed a consent
but just on the agenda itself it's at
maruni in Armenia um and it needed to be
maruni in art just want to make sure
that in the docs it's all corrected that
the resolution was corrected to reflect
out okay thank you okay thank you um
okay so a couple things last Wednesday
um council member kasaki and I attended
a uh press conference confence uh in
front of the uh
aeri uh
consulate um in Los Angeles it was put
on by the panarmenian Council of the
western United States and the intention
was to um speak on the human
humanitarian crisis that's unfolding in
artso with the
blockade uh now going on for over seven
months preventing food medicine and
other uh urgently needed supplies uh
from entering the country um there were
a number of uh prominent uh people who
spoke including uh our congressman Adam
Schiff uh Congressman Brad
Sherman uh LA City Council president
Paul korian was there along with uh at
least two of his colleagues from the LA
City Council uh and a number of other uh
individuals um uh members of the clergy
and um council member kasaki and I both
uh both spoke uh he spoke a lot more
eloquently than me as is usually the
case um but we we did both speak and
um and you know I uh and many others
talked about uh the fact that there are
120,000 innocent people now trapped uh
without access to uh the basic needs uh
of of human beings um and that includes
30,000 children 20,000 elderly and
almost 10,000 disabled people on the
verge of
starvation um and uh at this press
conference uh we uh all jointly and
individually called on the US government
to take uh immediate and aggressive
steps to address this issue including
and I'll just name some of the things
that were um that were discussed uh one
introduce a un Security Council
resolution which would require azerbajan
to adhere to a February 2023 order by
the international court of justice to
open the Locking carridor which is how
uh materials can enter the Republic of
artak um halt all US military assistance
to azerbijan it is quite uh shocking
that the United States still is
providing military assistance to aeran
uh impose sanctions on members of the
alv regime under the magnitsky act for
war crimes crimes against humanity
deliver humanitarian assistance to artso
through the carer uh at the scale needed
to address the humanitarian catastrophe
and last but not least introduce a un
Security Council resolution establishing
a peacekeeping mission in artach to
protect the um the the safety of um the
population there over time um one thing
that was mentioned um which uh doesn't
necessarily uh do anything to resolve
the situation but um it does bring
attention to it the LA City Council uh
named the intersection in front of the
aeri consulate which is uh Wilshire and
Granville Avenue Republic of artso
square uh so signs will be going up
maybe they've already gone up
um at that location right in front of
the aeran consulate um and uh for what
it's worth I think that's uh that's
something that does uh does uh send a
strong symbolic message um so I just
wanted to share that um that we were
there and that we we support these
um
uh these actions that were calling on
the Biden admin Administration the US
state department to uh undertake okay so
that was one um changing subjects
entirely I attended um the first edible
food recovery stakeholder meeting um as
many of you may know um under Senate
Bill
1383 in addition to sorting organic
waste um there are requirements uh
involving recovery of edible food that
would otherwise get thrown away so um
uh this was a uh one of I think several
meetings uh that will be taking place
this one for um organizations that are
collecting edible food from the
generators of edible food um to
distribute either directly to people in
need or to other food banks um and they
got together they discussed the
challenges that that they have it it is
actually very
complex um and uh and the the the idea
was to identify resources share uh share
experiences and start the conversation
um future meetings uh will include some
of the large um producers of um edible
food that would otherwise go to waste
like supermarkets and and
restaurants uh
hotels uh conference facilities that
kind of thing um so they had there were
a number of people at this event um YWCA
Salvation Army Glend College Catholic
Charities uh The Armenian Relief Society
Porto uh Betty Porto was there uh the
City of Burbank was there the First
Baptist Church and a number of others uh
it was uh it was interesting and I look
forward to seeing us continue to um make
progress on this
front and um the Montrose Bowl my
colleague already mentioned uh we got to
throw uh a few um what do you call it
throw a few balls I guess you call it
uh what's that bowling balls yeah
bowling balls but um and uh I probably
got the gutter more often than I got
anything else but
um it was fun anyway and and I will say
I agree this this vegan food was really
pretty uh pretty incredible uh and they
also have a great collection of craft
beers some on top so if you if you like
that kind of thing are you rubbing your
hands like you want to get over there to
have some beer Orin disinfect okay as
soon as I said beer I saw you going like
that but anyway it's a they really did a
nice job so if you can get on over there
I think that was a soft opening and I
think they're probably open in the next
couple days so they going to send
something to everyone for the coming
they are and then they're going to have
an event I think at the end of the month
but I think they're actually going to be
open like you can go and I think if you
go and you order food the bowling is
free it's really focused on the food and
the bowling is kind of to bring you
there to eat the food I guess yes so
bowling is free um okay so just the last
thing I I um I know that we're now um
we've now established these um panels to
select members of our boards and
commissions and one thing we haven't
discussed and I was hoping we could try
to clarify is our process for um uh
notifying the public that there's an
opportunity on a border commission uh uh
soliciting applications and then doing
interviews and so I would I would
suggest that we look at some kind of a
system for example um once we notice uh
the public that this position is
available we have a 30-day period uh for
people to put in applications we wait
the 30 days we collect them we interview
the applicants um and we make our
selection and I would also ask us to
consider making the all all the
applications public they are public
record anyway but it would be good for
the public to understand who we've
selected and who we haven't selected um
The Only Exception I would say perhaps
is if we are extending or renominating
reappointing somebody I should say who
is already an incumbent on a border
commission for a second term I think if
we have somebody that we want to
renominate we probably don't need to go
through this 30-day period but anyway um
I don't want I'm being fairly
prescriptive about this but I know this
is something that we we can discuss and
and I'd like to put this on a future
agenda to to um just to clarify our
process council member kasaka I I I
don't know did you mention Alex Film
Society I did not okay okay and I I am
finished um do you want to mention that
yeah I I just want to mention uh thank
Alex Film Society and the glendel
Historical Society uh there was a
showing of the classic film noir mild
Mildred Pierce which for those of you
who may not know is was a novel set in
Glendale made into a um Hollywood movie
for which I believe it was Joan Crawford
who won an Academy Award uh I think her
only Academy Award I learned and then it
was recently remade um uh as a film
starring Kate Winslet but it's all about
a woman who rises from nothing to uh
become a very successful businesswoman
all right from here in Glendale in the
original black and white film um there
are scenes that were filmed here in
Glendale it was my first time seeing it
I thought it was great and more
importantly I thought that um lawn area
using the city's uh LED screen was a
great great um uh combination of
organizations working together um having
an outdoor movie night hopefully they'll
do more of those so mayor who does thank
you council member Divine and if I want
if I may I want to piggyback on what the
mayor was saying about the uh
commissions and there is an opening on
the historic preservation commission if
anyone out there is interested we didn't
we don't have any applications and so
I'd like to encourage anyone out there
that like is interested in uh historic
preservation to please please apply
thank you thank
you okay um staff comments would you Mr
Garcia would you care to if You' like me
to com elaborate too much uh because we
were analyzing the opinion but as you
noted the has been noted the California
Supreme Court did Issue its long awaited
a ruling in uh the case of Pico
neighborhood association versus city of
Santa Monica regarding the scope of the
California Voting Rights Act and whether
or not vote voter vote dilution which is
a a term of art meaning a process that
where an election system dilutes the
votes of pro protected class or minority
group and so one of the questions in
that case was whether or not that was a
required element uh in a voter uh
California Voting Rights Act case and
then if so what's the test well how do
you how do you prove vote vote dilution
so um the Supreme Court you know I I I
hesitate to say there was a Victor and a
loser because although it did reverse
the decision the court of appeal it did
remand it back to the court of appeal
for further analysis and uh essentially
what it said is you had to prove vote
dilution in in making such a claim and
that to show that uh vote Dil
established when under some lawful
alternative election system the minority
group would have the potential on its
own or with the help of crossover voters
to elect its preferred candidate and
that this can be shown through
evaluation of the facts and
circumstances of the jurisdiction
including the local agency circumstances
its election history and the design and
impact of the current system as well as
an alternative system so that's a that's
a lot there that's a mouthful um a lot
of lawyers are still looking at this and
seeing what it means we are going to
look at it our team is going to look at
at it and obviously because it involves
legal risk the assessment of legal risk
it will be a discussion for you know
close session uh but we will provide
that information to you you'll have it
before we get into the next round of
public hearings uh on our districting
process okay but would you say just just
I I always like to simplify things I
know you can't simplify things like this
but it was not a victory an outright
victory for either party for Santa
Monica or for
that's a fair assessment
correct okay and it's it's still then
the waters are still kind of murky as
far as yes what it takes to bring these
types of cases what it takes to defend
against these types of cases right what
it what it takes to prove that various
elements of a voting rights case
especially vote dilution and I'll note
you know uh the plaintiffs won in the
trial court Santa Monica won in the
court of appeal and you're right the
court of appeal although reversed the
the victory that Santa mon Santa Monica
got in the in the court of appeal
decision it it remanded it for further
analysis so there's no there's no
conclusion to that case they're still
either going to have to litigate that or
or decide to settle okay thank you uh
any other staff comments um mayor bman
if I may yes please um the city clerk's
uh social media web page does advertise
uh on the openings of boards and
commissions in fact we've created posts
in five different languages to um to be
accessible to the public so we have that
information also the boards and
commission's uh web page has a listing
of all the openings and how to apply um
for each
commission okay thank
you all right um if there no other
comments what is our next agenda item
our next item is commune event
announcements uh three minutes each we
have one um speaker
card okay uh is it Ida or or AA uh
anaran AA onaran
yes you have three minutes thank you so
much thank you Mr Mayor and members of
the
council I'm here to discuss um my name
is l andaran I'm from The Armenian bar
association's prono Clinic I'm an
attorney there and um on September 9th
we will be holding an expungement Clinic
I wanted to let everyone know and give
some information about how we can help
the Glendale Community and any members
of the nearby cities community members
um we will be uh basically anyone who
has a record that would like to have it
expunged have it would like to have it
cleared in order to start their life
over again um a lot of times records
that can prevent people from um seeking
employment or even apartment buildings
you know if they want to get rent an
apartment or rent a home or get a home
uh those can be prevented so what we're
doing is we're providing free
expungement clinics for members and it's
going to be on Saturday September
9th um it will be held at Maple Park
Community Center which is at 820 Maple
East Maple Drive and um we will have our
expungement Clinic attorneys there
helping people um apply for those
expungements and um reduction of
felonies and um probation
records okay thank you thank you for do
so much thank
you okay what is
next next are action items action item a
public works regarding San Fernando Road
beautification Project Alternatives one
motion accepting staff's recommendation
to proceed with the design and
implementation of alternative 2A for the
San Fernando r Road beautification
Project
thank you Mr gamia yes mayor bman member
city council um this this council's
direction U few months ago to improve
and beautify San Fernando Road Corridor
along the MTA railroad tracks and uh in
response to that direction staff applied
for and was successful in obtaining $5
million uh in in Grant monies from the
state of
California uh to to help uh in that
endeavor the project includes a number
of improvements including uh not only
enhanced Landscaping but also sidewalks
crosswalks as well as bicycle facilities
um staff and our consultant have uh
conducted a uh feasibility analysis and
took the recommendation to uh
transportation and parking commission
recently and that commission provided a
recommendation to city council as one of
the Alternatives that was in the staff
report with that I'll turn it to Mr
amrani our director of Public Works to
introduce our consultant Who present
this item for your
consideration good evening Mr Mayor
members of city council um as was
mentioned uh this is a uh long awaited
project for us to uh to help uh improve
the condition of San Fernando Road and
as such we've uh engaged the services of
Mark Thomas uh who's a consultant to uh
do this study for us and analyze all the
different
Alternatives uh and we have uh Mr Pat
Summerville of Mark Thomas who's going
to go through a short presentation thank
you yes good evening mayor council
members Pat sumerville project manager
for the Mark Thomas
team a little bit about the about the
project introduction uh first and
foremost this project is intended to
beautify and improve the public areas
along San Fernando Road through the
implementation of new raised landscape
meeting Islands Parkway and Parkway
planting to help mitigate the urban heat
island
effect it will also include multimodal
improvements for all users including new
and improved bus stops with shelters
where they don't exist today and high
visibility crosswalks to improve
safety the project is funded through
three different sources measure W from
the county state gas tax funds and the
grant that was mentioned previously from
calr the clean Calfornia Grant of nearly
$5
million the important item to to
understand regarding that Grant is it
has a deadline to have the project
constructed by June end of June 2024 so
that deadline plays into uh the
decisions being made in terms of being
able to have this project built and the
grant funds expended by that date
so a little bit about the existing
conditions along San Fernando Road this
is a major Arterial Highway four lanes
in each Direction along a commercial
Corridor with businesses and on street
parking on the east side and the metr
Link rail Corridor on the west side so
this constrains our Corridor we're
looking at a 62t width curb to curb to
fit the elements out there today and any
additional elements we want to add is
competing for that real estate within
the street so this is the constrained
canvas that we have to work with as we
develop the
project we're also looking at the
facilities that exist out there today
that were either planned or implemented
um starting with the 2012 bicycle master
plan uh this did include a class one
facility along San Fernando Road located
inside the railroad ride of way
unfortunately this Metro owned Corridor
with Metro Link and the future
High-Speed Rail that is no longer an
option to locate this inside the
railroad R of way there was also as part
of that plan a number of east west
connections to San Fernando Road from
Glendale since then there has been
improvements implemented through the
corridor uh primarily the Glend Del
Naros River Walk uh north of the
134 along Fairmont where the uh Phase 1
and phase two pathway in Confluence Park
has been
completed phase three is the bridge that
would extend from Flower Street over to
the LA side at zoo drive and that is
currently in the design phase that
project has been funded through another
Grant uh believe the prop 68 grant for
that so that item is moving
forward additionally LA Metro has
funding and is currently planning and
designing additional active transport
ation improvements in this vicinity that
include a new bridge that would span
over San Fernando Road and the metr link
Corridor at Dorn Street once that
Crossing is closed this would be the
measure to be able to get pedestrians
and cyclists over San Fernando Road and
the rail corridor from Dorne Street that
path would extend down to the end of the
uh Dorne Street at the culdesac then
continue North with a new bridge that
would span over the verdigo wash and
connect to your Glendale Narrows
Riverwalk project so that would provide
continuity to the north and south of the
134 in the Vero wash and it also opens
up the opportunity for future expansion
of the bike path along the east Bank of
the LA River it's a quter that would run
parallel to San Fernando
Road as we started the project with the
understanding of the importance of
community engagement uh the team
uh implemented a a robust outreach
program that included eblasts door
hangers postcards social media um all
notifications were in three languages
for the
community we also initiated the initial
survey and the this survey is a fact-f
finding survey finding out what the
community's challenges are through the
corridor but also what their desired
improvements are through the
corridor the top four challenges are all
traffic operations related not
surprisingly the top desired
improvements were also roadway and
traffic related followed by Corridor
beautification and pedestrian
improvements so from this feedback the
team developed three Alternatives that
were brought
forward in all of the Alternatives have
common features involved through each of
them uh this includes Parkway planting
both along the rail Corridor to help
beautify that side of the street as well
as the East Side along the
businesses pavment resurfacing
throughout from Elk Avenue up to Grand
View upgraded bus stops making them ADA
Compliant and installing bus shelters
where they don't exist
today creative crosswalks to improve
visibility and
safety curb extensions at almost every
intersection to help shorten the path of
travel for the pedestrians crossing the
street and the the raised landscaped
medians that will be
included regarding the
medians there are 11 medians planned
throughout the corridor it is not a
continuous median from in to in along
the corridor in part because we're
maintaining left turn at the cross
streets where it exists today as well as
the higher volume volume driveways for
the businesses along the
corridor so alternative one is
effectively the existing condition with
the addition of the planting and the
raised meiting Islands this would
function as a class three bike way
through the corridor with no change in
the roadway Lane configuration it
maintains all the on and it maintains
all of the on street
parking Alterna ative 2
implements striped class two bike
Lanes along San Fernando Road and in
order to fit the two bike Lanes one in
each Direction This alternative would
remove the on street parking which is a
loss of approximately 141 parking spaces
from Elk up to Grand View because of the
constraints of the roadway um there is
no buffer or protection for this bike
lane it would be just purely a class two
striped bike lane
alternative three is what's referred to
as a class 4 protected bike boy this is
one lane in each Direction with a buffer
and a vertical element separating the
bikes from the vehicles in order to
accomodate this in the width that that
class 4 needs this would remove one lane
of traffic in each Direction on San
Fernando Road it also reduces parking by
about 30% uh because of the road
configuration and the ability to restrip
for
parking there is a VMT reduction along
the corridor however because of the
reduction in the lanes it does nearly
double the travel time in the afternoon
peak hours both Northbound and
southbound and it also uh as we heard
from the Glendale Fire Department uh
because it Narrows the roadway it makes
it more difficult and challenging for
the fire apparatus to be able to
navigate around raise median and parked
or cars or the vertical elements within
the bike lane uh as they are going to a
call we also looked at the traffic
safety through the
corridor we collected all the Collision
data from 2012 to 2022 through the
corridor again from Elk Avenue up to
Grand View Avenue there were 18
incidents on file eight of which were
involved pedestrians 10 of which
involved bicycles so we're aware of
those incidents their locations uh
there's two locations in particular that
had a cluster of accidents one of
California the other
Colorado also with the implementation of
the project and the features through the
calr local roadway safety manual um they
document that installing raised medians
can reduce collisions by up to
25% providing bike Lanes can also reduce
bicycle related accidents by up to
35% we also evaluated the parking along
the
corridor uh there's currently 78 on
street parking stalls north of the
134 and 63 South of the
134 we did we twice went out to look at
the utilization during the day from 6:00
AM to 7 pm
uh the corridor is very highly utilized
throughout additionally we looked at
each of the cross streets at about 250
feet back from San Fernando Road to see
what the utilization is like on the side
streets to see in particular is if we
removed parking on San Fernando Road is
there sufficient parking on street on
the side streets to accommodate that uh
those side streets are also very highly
utilized so there is not sufficient on
street parking replacement parking if it
was removed on San Fernando
Road so we took the three options along
with the information gathered on the
traffic and the parking uh we held a
community uh Outreach meeting in March
at the glendell Fire Protection Bureau
we had 40 community members come through
able to walk them through each of the
boards the exhibits um and what is
planned in each of the three
Alternatives hear feedback provide input
as to concerns that they might have
had we also did an online
survey uh this was referred to a survey
number two where we were getting input
on the Alternatives and Concepts that
were presented at the Outreach
meeting we want to indicate that the the
participant profile 38% identified as an
active cyclist um there were 11% that
either worked along San Fernando or
owned a business along San Fernando Road
the result of this online survey uh
alternative three the class 4 cycle
track or or class 4 bike Lanes uh ranked
the highest at 42% followed by
alternative two and then alternative
one subsequent to that we did a
door-to-door canvasing of the corridor
both businesses and adjacent
residents the common theme through the
discussion with the businesses was the
parking they are heavily reliant on it
and in their eyes that was a non-starter
to remove it uh that resulted in the
clear 93% approval of alternative
one with the residents the key concern
for them was any cut through traffic
which should have been tied to
Alternative three and so again we're
seeing a a very heavy approval rating
for alternative one by the residents
followed by alternative
two so with this information and the
discussions with the community feedback
from both the online survey and the
community meetings the team went back
and looked at variations what else might
we be able to
do and this is where alternative
2A came about and what this does IT
addresses the business's concerns about
parking because we're maintaining it
along San Fernando
Road it may IT addresses the residential
community concerns because we've
maintained the four lanes of traffic on
the
road but what we what we have been able
to provide on this one is a single Class
2 southbound bike
lane along the west side of San Fernando
Road and we've accomplish that by
skinning up all of the lanes in the
median Island through here to 10-ft
Lanes 9ft median 7 foot parking
Lane that allows us to provide just
enough space to put that class to bike
lane
in now you also notice that there is no
protection or buffer for this bike lane
and question is what's the challenges
why can't we well the challenges the the
characteristics of the
corridor the need when
we to be able to provide a buffer we
have to narrow something else that
something else would be the the
median we have raised median but we also
have striped medians that Prov provides
two-way left turn access to driveways
along San Fernando
Road so to accomplish a buffer adjacent
to the bike lane we would need to narrow
the median which means we shift traffic
over 3 ft to shift traffic we need
distance to transition and taper them
over we also need transitions in and out
of of the uh left turn pockets all told
it takes about 300 feet of length to
make the transitions work on each end
plus the left turn
pocket you add all this up and
unfortunately through the corridor the
blocks are so
short that out of roughly 17 blocks
there's only four that would actually
have enough length to them that this we
could achieve any form of
buffer and within those four three of
them would also then prohibit left turn
access in and out of additional
driveways that was not intended
originally which leaves one remaining
opportunity to to do that and let me
give you a little bit of a look of how
that looks and what I'm referring to
here this is a block between Grange and
Highland
Avenue um this shows a the class 2 bike
lane along the railroad Corridor at the
intersections we need a 9ft median width
for the left turn Pockets it cannot be
any anything less than
that if you're heading southbound and
you cross Highland Avenue you would you
would start to transition over that's
the 100 foot transition that's the
minimum required by the
city at that point the median island is
now down to 6 feet which then would
prohibit the ability for left turn
movements because the car cannot move
into a two-way left turn lane in in the
raised median so that would effectively
eliminate left turn move ments in and
out of two driveways on this one
block and then you have to taper back
out ahead of the 60ft taper that goes
into the left turn pocket and then the
length of the left turn pocket which
varies throughout the corridor depending
on traffic volumes so there's very
limited ability to provide a buffer
along this
Corridor and lastly alternative
3A uh was a a look at a class 4
protected two-way cycle track and what
we did different on this one is we
combined the uh two directions of for
the class 4 bike lane along the west
side adjacent to the rail
Corridor we restored the parking on the
on for on Street on the east side of San
Fernando Road as well as two Northbound
Lanes so this addresses the parking
concern this addresses the traffic
concern for Northbound however the
southbound direction of travel still is
only one lane and it is a narrowed
section uh so we still would have a
southbound uh impact of traffic during
the PM peak hours as well as the
concerns from the glendell fire
department because of the narrowed
Street width this option also would
require traffic signal modifications
because of the two-way cycle track at
each of the crossings of the
railroad what this means is we now have
to engage the California Public
Utilities Commission LA Metro and
Metrolink for the modifications in the
process of this which
is um would not fit within the timeline
for this project to deliver and build it
by the end of June
2024 So based on the feedback uh staff
went to the TBC last week um
recommending alternative one
particularly because it did meet the
grant project
goals it also addressed the business and
residents concerns regarding parking and
traffic the configuration was consistent
with the the challenges and the
constraints of the corridor and the
characteristics of of the street but
also understanding the potential for
additional connectivity in the future
for for bicycles not only with the
metroactive transportation improvements
that are being uh designed right now by
LA Metro that connect to the Riverwalk
but but also through the city's own
updating of your bike transportation
plan that could explore the extension of
that bike path along the east Bank of
the LA River to provide a high higher
quality bicycle facility for all users
that parallel San Fernando Road so it's
an option that would be out
there so at the meeting alternative two
was recommended for the following
reasons in part because it also
addressed the business and residents
concerns but it also provided a bicycle
Improvement along the corridor by
providing that southbound Class 2 bike
lane um it is an alternative that could
be realized without impacting the
project budget and schedule and hence
the staff is recommending alternative 2A
for your consideration tonight and with
that that concludes my
presentation thank you very much um do
we have any quick questions or should um
because I could call up the speaker
unless you have just sure I I just have
a few question uh on when when in notes
on in the presentation you mentioned
that um with uh bike Lanes uh accidents
are reduced by 35% is there a specific
type of bike lane that uh constitutes
that percentage of a reduction that
would be for a striped Class 2 bike lane
of class two because the first ones
which are just sharrows along the road I
don't think would result if anything
they give I think bicyclists a false
sense of security um and how many left
left turns would be affected by uh the
implementation of 2A into uh businesses
do you did you mention that for in to
put a buffer be able to put a buffer
adjacent yeah
so I believe it's a total of six
driveways or five driveways add in three
different segments
ments five driveways in each
segment five driveways total five okay
all right thank
you
yes um on page
13 you note that uh uh alternative to um
would result in loss of 141
spaces uh parking spaces or
approximately do you have that number um
for south of the freeway yes there's 63
total parking stalls south of the 134
freeway and that's been uh that count
was conducted by Mark Thomas staff as
well as um our consultant that did the
parking
analysis so it's been confirmed okay
thank you so much have a question Divine
yes um my question is about off street
parking and uh we I suppose we all got
an email today and I don't know if the
the lady is here that was uh that sent
us the information but she mentioned
that there are hundreds of parking
spaces including a garage and lots off
Street in that area that could be used
and it wouldn't matter if we uh you know
got rid of the
144 on street parking or the 41 I think
it's 41 this in the
2A can you comment on that you said you
you looked at off street parking and we
we looked at the on street parking
demands the public
parking the offsite off street parking
was not considered as part of our
analysis uh particularly because it is
privately owned and it's it requires a
little more investigation as to its
needs um there's also businesses that
may still not from the time they were
built have off-site parking but it's
also takes additional analysis to
understand the on-site parking or
off-site parking needs of each of the
businesses is um and uses along the
corridor to determine if it is meeting
current zoning requirements or
grandfathered zoning
requirements um it's difficult to say
whether or not would still be adequate
to absorb the parking if it was removed
from San Fernando Road and council
member dine um I didn't see a copy of
the email but we do not own we don't
have a parking structure along San
Fernando public parking structure right
I don't think she mentioned it that they
were public she said um garages and then
she had buildings and lots and oh yeah
privately owned yeah yeah
yeah um yeah and we'll get a
presentation that's um yeah one of our
one of our speaker cards she'll be
giving a
presentation um yeah I just have two
questions um on let's see when you were
on page 10 let me just go back to
it uh was it page I'm sorry page 14
you uh mentioned um that this
alternative three would double the
travel time can you put that in in
seconds minutes and what from where to
where so the travel time is from Elk
Avenue on the south end to Grand View
Avenue on the North
End in today's conditions that's
estimated in either direction to be a
10-minute travel time both Northbound
and southbound during Peak hour PM peak
hour cuz that's that's the governing one
that's the higher has the higher volume
to
it with alternative three with the class
4 protected bike Lanes reducing the lane
of travel in each
Direction the number increases to 18
minutes and I believe the southbound
Direction 20 minutes in the Northbound
Direction so near it nearly doubled both
directions in the PM peak hour by
reducing and eliminating the one lane
okay um and then my other question is uh
see page 20 I think I know the answer to
this but I just want to make sure so uh
on page
20 I don't know if you want to pull it
up for now but anyway the here I'll I'll
back up for you yeah just that the the
the rightmost travel Lane there 11 ft I
assume that's because of the parked cars
but is that is that a requirement when
we have a travel Lane against Park cars
our minimum is 11 ft the the typical
minimum Lane is 11
and the typical parking Lane is also
eight um so we've reduced the parking
Lane to
seven um because of the having the
travel Lane adjacent to the parking Lane
um having 18 ft total was preferable
whether it was a 10-ft lane and an 8ft
parking lane or vice versa but but
having the 18 ft was preferable to have
a little bit of separation between the
two so so if you cut a foot off of that
you that would be a a safety issue I
would say it would be yes my
opinion because I'm just thinking if you
how much how how much uh uh space would
you need for to buffer that bike lane
would it be a foot or would it be less
than a foot the typical buffer for a
bike lane is 3 Fe oh 3 ft just for the
buffer that's the typical buffer for a
bike lane it it could be made less could
be yeah but the the preferred is 3
feet okay and the 10ft travel Lane is
our is our
minimum
yes did any jurisdictions go narrower
than that on through
Lanes not that I have seen I know the
city of La has been tightening things up
but they've been using 10ft throughs and
9ft left
turns okay all right
thanks oh yeah council member the
sidewalk uh with what's left is that
like sufficient for people with
disabilities absolutely the the quarter
will be ADA
Compliant and not like in some places on
like Central and brand right where it
almost feels like you have to around
things um council members saan
everywhere in the City by law we are
required to comply with ADA requirements
so sometimes what you see on Brand
Boulevard and we're dealing with uh code
enforcement is after dining spaces that
have taken over but even with that if
they have they have a permit from the
city it meets the minimum requirement
for
accessibility okay and and if I could
add the the parkway on that side it's
10t wide the intent of this is to remove
the front four feet for
planting maintain the back five or six
feet depending on segment but making it
a continuous without Meandering that
back and
forth okay thank you so much okay uh
we'll call up our speakers um do we have
anyone on the phone no we do not well we
just got one caller okay Okay so we've
got 1 two three four five six here yeah
give it um we can give five minutes and
then we'll we'll stop taking phone calls
if we get any more okay so we'll start
with uh lynen Alexander
deor and you have three minutes okay for
your
com uh do I start now yes all right uh
hello I am here to voice my support for
Alternatives 2 3 and SL
3A um I have a stti in the matter as I
have cycled through San Fernando Road
many times from Glenn Oaks Boulevard to
Chevy Chase um where I make a ride and
head to the LA River bike path at at
Water bellage um for a time this was the
first part of my commute to get to
downtown Los Angeles uh as I became more
familiar with the roads in
Glendale uh I stopped using San Fernando
as often mostly because due to the lack
of bike lanes and angry speeding
cars um the fact is that San Fernando
Road is a dangerous road for all users
on top of a few a handful of pedestrian
injuries there have been a handful of
bicycle collisions within the last
decade um I would also like to mention
one notable incident in on the San
Fernando Road during the open Community
open house event on March 23rd of this
year two cars jumped on a curb and
landed on a few tables of a restaurant
at the intersection of San Fernando and
Chevy Chase uh now I understand that
it's a little bit South beyond the
current project but that doesn't change
the fact that it happened you know um
think about think about this in an
alternative timeline or Universe where
the city council chose alternative run
one and was implemented and that crash
or worse crash occurred within that
scope of the project it would not look
good for the city of Glendale to say the
least this is why we have projects to
extend sidewalks to add bike lanes and
sometimes bus lanes uh it's to prevent
incidents like this from
occurring and you have the power to
prevent these such
incidents uh please support option 3 3A
or at the fair leas option two I yield
my time thank
you Mike bars
off
uh good evening council members my name
is Mike borisov uh again sorry I just
came from work at GD so forgive me for
the shorts um so I'm just here to say
alternative 2A is the best we can go
with right now um I was at the meeting
for the transportation parking
commission when this came up and really
what this project is all about is
compromise um when obviously I want
three um but that's not the reality that
we live in um I we had the fire chief or
sorry fire department staff come up and
say that if we only had one single Lane
that was 10 10 ft or even 12T that's not
good enough in case of an emergency
because cars can't like go to the right
or left side of the street which makes
sense and so to come up with a
compromise to allow a bike lane
southbound bike lane and still have uh
emergency vehicles go uh in event of
emergency uh we have two lanes that are
now 10 ft uh additionally now this
project will follow the timeline and
follow the costs with a clean uh air
Grand program I do want to mention that
I'm a bit bummed that there was no room
for a buffer for the bike lane so in my
understanding a protected bike lane is
about 3 to 5T but a buffer can be
whatever size you want although I don't
know if there's a legal minimum to
enforce like the safe of a buffer versus
a protected bike like Arrow not Lane
sorry a protected bike buffer like
there's buffer and there there's
protected bike lane those are two
different things um and you can see that
in the picture even so if you go back to
to Alternative 3A you can see there's a
green right there's red uh sorry there's
a stripes and then there's green poles
those are plastic ballards that's a
protected bike lane a buffer would just
be a thicker stripe I believe on the
lane and so I was confused why we
couldn't have like at least a foot um I
understand there's a minimum median
requirement especially for turning left
and the median will have dry Wells or
water collection facilities so that
might affect the actual buffer or how
wide meeting is and the buffer this that
you could add to the bike lane um but
all in all I support alternative 2A and
I hope we you know Al least got one bike
lane versus zero which is what we're
currently at right now thank you thank
you uh next speaker is Allen
Durham mayor brotman members of the
council I'm Alan Durham uh I agree with
Mike borisoff I'm here to support the
staff's
recommendation to uh go with alternative
2A it's not a perfect world
unfortunately compromise is needed uh 2A
manages to add at least one dedicated
bike lane on a street that has none in
addition to maintaining on street
parking and all four traffic
Lanes unfortunately adding two bank
Lanes would result in the loss of all
the on street parking or the loss of one
or two traffic Lanes this portion of San
Fernando Road is under I'm sorry it's
mostly older commercial buildings which
have no dedicated parking they rely on
the street
parking uh and any parking structures
that are in this portion of San Fernando
or private property they're not public
Lots where you can pay to
park um and I think having no street
parking would hurt these businesses
economically and also Force parking onto
residential streets rather than San
Fernando Road eliminating one or two
traffic Lanes to put two bike Lanes in
is extremely problematic it's a heavily
traveled
thoroughfare and it will at least double
the travel times during the rush hour
and it's already really congested during
those times traffic backs up there are a
bunch of railroad crossings the signals
last a very long
time and I think reducing it to three or
two lanes will
divert uh traffic from San Fernando onto
nearby residential streets will get that
effect of people cutting through
residential streets to avoid San
Fernando Road and even if the traffic
goes up to Glen Oaks Boulevard we're
going to be losing two lanes on Glen
Oaks in the future when the rapid
transit uh North Hollywood bus project
is implemented so Glen o is going to be
going from six Lanes down to four if San
Fernando goes from 4 to 3 or two it's
just
problematic uh for the neighborhoods
because I think traffic will go up into
the residential neighborhoods and the
Glendale Fire Department has stated that
this is going to be a threat to Public
Safety due to delays in response time so
I don't think you can really ignore that
so please don't delay approving
alternative
2A there's only 10 months to go to get
this project rolling completed in order
not to lose the grant money thank you
thank you uh next speaker is Kirsten
blad or blade I I hope you can correct
me
yes uh good evening council members
my name is Kirsten blot I'm a resident
of South
Glendale um I did have a
presentation um first I just want to say
I'm not sure why it matters that all of
the parking south of the 134 is private
when it's 100% private businesses uh
there's no Public Schools public parks
or
residences um if you go to the first
slide please thanks or the second
slide thanks
um so the staff report failed to look at
the bigger picture of glendale's bike
Network San Fernando intersects with
five bike Lanes one future bike lane and
the future Verdugo wash which is by far
the most of any roadway in Glendale next
slide that many connections to bike
Lanes guarantees that San Fernando will
be and is currently used by lots of
cyclists in the past 10 years there were
28 cyclist hit on the portion of San
Fernando within Glendale and two of
those crashes resulted in the highest
injury severity level other than death
next slide
over onethird of the crashes occurred
within the project study area next
slide my parking analysis shows that
unlike the northern portion there's very
little need for curb parking south of
the 134 which is also where bike Lan is
most needed next
slide so in this first portion there are
44 off street parking spaces um and
there's not a single curb parking
space next
slide uh this section is going to re be
redeveloped with a project that includes
a 385 space parking garage 121 surface
spaces and an off Street loading zone uh
there's no retail or any need for
customer parking uh and there's only 14
curb spaces anyways next
slide here we
have off street parking spaces and 12
curb spaces over two blocks uh and it's
mostly a junk lot if you couldn't tell
um so here you can see that these two
blocks for years now have just been used
as junk truck storage which they're not
customer parking next
slide um again here's another block
showing that this is just junk truck
storage not customer
parking so here we have 135 off street
parking spaces and 10 curb spaces 50% of
which are limited to 30 minutes uh so
the also I wanted to point out the
restaurant on the corner has 11 spaces
of their own and a 14 space parking lot
next door next
slide um so here in front of moonlight
rollerway we can see that this has been
used for junk truck storage since at
least 2015 next slide there's not a
single curb parking space available on
this final stretch of San Fernando but
there are 539 off- street parking spaces
which means this whole section is
essentially just a giant parking lot
next
slide so all in all only 2% of the
available parking within one block is on
the curb and that's not even counting
the curb parking available on side
streets next
slide my alternative proposal is north
of 134 alternative 2A and south of 134
alternative 2 is that my time um okay
you could you could wrap it up need
another 30 seconds it's fine thank you
um so with this proposal cyclist would
be protected where it matters most which
is near the freeway interchanges less
than 2% parking loss and all parking
north of the 134 which is where the
residences and Retail uses are I know
they need parking up there and I don't
want to take that away from them and it
also that portion accounts for over % of
the curb parking in the total project
area despite being only a third of the
length um and almost 100% of the retail
parking okay and this would also connect
to the verduga wash Highland Bike Lane
and nearly to the rivil bike lane and uh
I believe the bridge that the um that
was talked about earlier okay thank you
thank you mayor bman yes if I um I oh
you want to ask a question do you yeah
you went really really fast through your
slides cuz you have I am interested
actually seeing the the rest of the info
that we just went past is there do you
do you have do we only have a electronic
version of it
um we got it you should have it on your
phone she sent she attached it to an
email I haven't seen okay I'll pull it
up thanks thank you okay thank you okay
uh next is Cole
basemore
good evening Council staff um very
excited about this project uh as I said
to the commission last week I think this
is a great opportunity to revitalize
this Corridor um I don't have much more
to say beyond the previous speaker I
think Kristen did a wonderful job of
summarizing uh the arguments in favor of
2A as well as um option two south of the
134 I think reducing a few um spots of
parking that's on this Corridor south of
of the 134 is really um not much when
you consider the uh safety that comes
with having that dedicated bike lane so
please consider that when you're
thinking about this um reducing like
they the staff presented you know the
reduction in 35% of uh uh I believe it
was 35% less bike accidents that might
result of this would be uh I think a
huge gain so again please please I
support 2A uh
for the portion uh north of 134 and two
South thank
you okay thank you
and uh Kate
anger hi everybody you said five minutes
right I have time to say good evening
mayor brotman members of city council
staff three minutes awesome um I can
talk to fast hey I have such Envy of
your presentations can we get
presentations like that the community we
would love to see those um I wanted to
start off by saying I am a member of the
community that's right they are impacted
by uh traffic on San Fernando Road um in
fact my house was just a little bit off
one of those slides that we saw earlier
um mostly speaking to north of the 134
and at the 134 which is the bane of my
existence right about there who else
knows about this uh council member
kassakian also knows about this
experience of driving on San Fernando at
the
134 so I wanted to say staff did a
really good job of reaching out to the
public I really appreciated that they
not only made sure that people had uh
visibility into what was happening when
I reached out to them they were very
responsive I really appreciated that uh
the consultant also was really good at
the open house and even beforehand there
were problems with the survey at first I
reached out to them to point out that it
was requiring people to give an answer
one two and three like minimum of three
answers so um I'm not sure if those
answers were taken away from the survey
results that you saw at the beginning
you couldn't say I have no problem with
this road the way it is you couldn't say
I don't want any of these um Solutions
so I let them know that and they changed
it I really appreciated that um I did
want to highlight the results of the
doorto door canvasing obviously not many
residents came out tonight but you saw
um in the staff report that um a large
majority of people like things the way
they are they recognize that there could
be a lot of impacts from reducing
traffic Lanes in particular also the off
Street the parking I think more of an
issue north of the
134 so
so I'm strongly opposed to any
alternatives that eliminate a traffic
lane it's just a nightmare there already
I really want to support 2A I want to
ask a question I know that staff doesn't
need to answer me I hope one of you will
ask this question what happens on
southbound San Fernando at the
134 where there are two tra excuse me
that go to the left
two traffic Lanes go through I was just
there I can't see how you fit a bicycle
lane there are they going to use sherrow
right in that spot and if not how are
they going to fit that bicycle lane
without reducing two lanes of traffic
plus those two lanes that turn left it
gets backed up really badly everybody
wants to turn left it's almost
impossible to go straight through there
you get backed
up last thing nobody's talking about the
Landscaping I'll talk about it really
fast really fast about the Landscaping
the last time they did landscaping they
let it die let's not do that this time
let's keep it alive the Rosemary is
still alive maybe keep it thanks so much
thank
you okay uh Eric
sonan hi everyone um first of all I'm
excited about this project as well I see
some family like on the other side of
Glendale so I'm always on that road and
it the traffic is horrible um I haven't
come here while they've presented before
so I just was wondering if um the I
don't know what it's called in the
middle the thing that is full of trees
but the median the median yeah is there
has that been talked about like if that
can be made like thinner cuz I it seems
like I don't know if that I haven't been
here so um but that could be saving some
space or cuz I know right now there's
nothing there at all so it's kind of
going to take up a lot of space and then
I know you mentioned some cross streets
as to like where it starts and ends but
uh is there a reason why like it doesn't
go the whole way through San Fernando
like from the beginning of South
Glendale all the way to the end I'd love
to know about that that's pretty much
it okay thank you oh and then um also
about the I know he said there's a like
one of the options had this southbound
uh southbound uh bike lane could there
be an option with like both bounds but
on that one side cuz I know some bike
lanes are like that where it's like both
ways but it's just like on one side of
the street and saves a lot more
space yeah okay thank you we'll try to
answer some of those questions um Mike
mohill
evening council members my name is Mike
mohill I was in the comfort of my home a
little while ago watching the council
meeting and uh this project came up what
what caught my eye was you did a survey
and x amount of people answered the
survey probably knowing history maybe
100 maybe
two but I doubt if a thousand people or
more answered the survey
how can you get a th people to answer
your survey when you require the public
to go to the city
website or for people will knock on
doors can I make a suggestion and it's
free to the
city your Glendo Community newsletter
goes out to thousands of Glendo
residents and
Beyond and it's free to the
public if you want to put an
announcement for a survey
put it in your glender community
newsletter and people could answer that
survey and send it into the city
manager then you'll have a survey how
people feel now the only people who are
impacted this right now are probably the
people who live live in the meded
area but you know I live over there by
uh sh
Canyon you know I feel sorry for the
people they want bike Lan that's fine
okay
but why don't you get an opinion from
the rest of the city not just for the
people who live around the
corridor now my wife right now is very
mad at I'm talking about this subject
matter by the
way she said what you should be talking
about Mike is the traffic by the advaned
hospital that's where you should talk
about slowing down
traffic but let's talk about
surveys let's let's do realistic surveys
not not just a couple hundred people get
a couple thousand
residents they will let you know the
people who live up in Mantra will let
you know the people who live up in
Whiting Woods will let you know Ros Mo
Glenn Oaks
Canyon South
Glendale Adams Hill will let you know
but not just the couple hundred people
who live along San Fernando Road thank
you like I said my Community newslet is
free to the public even the city can use
it as Announcement by
now we we have one caller Dennis W
Dennis you're on air you have three
minutes hi can everybody hear
me yes go ahead hello Council my name is
Dennis mwyn and I'm a resident of
Glendale and live a mile within a mile
from San Fernando Road I travel that
road often as a driver but never as a
cyclist was frankly due to the danger of
the proximity and the speed of the car
is traveling on that road I'm calling
today to voice my support for
alternative 2A while I believe that the
best option is alternative three and
it's alternative but with the concerns
of the First Responders I can understand
why I cannot be completed as currently
designed I believe that there are
options that can create a protected bik
Lane in both directions such as the
enforcement of parking rules reducing
the number of abandoned cars client cars
from adjacent body auto body shops junk
hauling trucks crashed vehicles Etc
maybe widen the media and put the bike
Lanes in the middle of that to protect
cyclist or road diet I'm positive that
design team can come up with an
alternative that promote Mobility safety
and
equality the installation of a bike lane
would create a bike network of bike
lanes that would promote a community of
Wellness Glendale is a great city with
the network of drivers being a dark
cloud hovering over the heads of its
citizens we have a wonderful opportunity
here to continue to separate ourselves
from Los Angeles city with a priori
prioritization well big word on the
citizens of the juel city we're a
society of people and the implementation
of 2A would be a step towards taking the
road back for pedestrians and cyclists
and reducing our dependency on cars
thank
you thank you and that's all of our
callers that's all okay wonderful Let's
uh go around and see what we have thank
you um let me ask
uh let's see Mr
Somerville could we do to the two
different options the uh 2A north of the
134 and um the two the two south of 134
I mean that sounds maybe like a good
idea Is it feasible yes right is it
impactful for the parking because there
are 63 parking stalls on Street on San
Fernando Road that's south of the 134
that would be eliminated by doing
alternative 2 South of the 134 freeway
how many 63
63 okay and the other question is um the
median is right now designed at 9 ft
correct correct is it possible to make
it narrower so that you know we were um
the mayor was asking about the buffer or
about a it would take three feet uh to
put um another bike path I get a bike
lane on the other side uh could you
decrease the median and then give us a
give us parking and a bike path bike
lane I'm sorry bike lane on the east
side the 9 ft is the absolute minimum
width for the left turn movements that
are required at each of the
intersections along sanfernando Road
it's also the minimum required if we
stripe it as a
two-way left turn
lane for um access in and out of
driveways along the corridor that's
currently been
designed into the project so anything
less than nine in all of the left term
movements would go away or again it's
it's the matter of having to transition
in and out as we go and the length it
takes to actually make those transitions
work with very short spacing
intersection to intersection to
intersection it's it's say the 14 out of
the 17 blocks you're unable to actually
Implement any form of buffer at 3T
because of the length you need to make
the transitions
work thank
you council member Satan any questions
um could you respond to Kate anger's
question about um the ability to put
bike Lanes um by the
134 yes it is she's not wrong it is very
tight underneath that freeway in order
to um provide the Dual left that that's
required in the southbound um we have
narrowed the lanes through there in
order to fit the one southbound bike
lane in there an alternative
2A um follow up on that one yeah of
course so so that so you've worked out
so is there is there a need for any
special signal there for because I I
can't picture it I'm sorry but but a
bike traversing cars getting onto the
freeway how does the signaling work
there
the um southbound the class 2 bike lane
in the southbound direction is running
along that Westerly curb so it's running
right along the railroad Corridor so the
bikes themselves are not in conflict
with those making the left turn to go
onto Dorne Street to go to the freeway
they're runting parallel to the
southbound movement of
cars okay okay did you have another
question
um no I just have comments so I'll
wait okay Council Riv kasak I asked all
my questions thanks okay um I don't have
much but
um I did want to see if you could
respond to two questions that uh one of
the speakers raised one was why couldn't
we do more of San Fernando and the other
was about uh two-way bike lane um if you
could just explain I know those were in
your pres well second one was in your
presentation but maybe you could just
run through it again for for everyone's
sake I'll let me take that one first and
I'll hand it to staff about the limit of
the project um on that side of it um but
yes the alternative 3A was effectively
that alternative that provided a two-way
cycle track on the west side of San
Fernando Road the space required for
that still necessitates the need to
remove one lane of traffic on the street
there's just not enough room curb to
curb to fit that facility in um
additionally um that alternative because
now we have two-way bike traffic on the
west side we have cyclists that are
going against traffic that requires
traffic signal modifications each one of
those
intersections and the those
intersections that include the rail
Corridor is what triggers the need to
involve the Public Utilities Commission
and metr Link and that's a 12 to 18month
process to get through that's what the
detriment to that
alternative okay and the first
question uh Mr Mayor the the limits of
the uh project were based on the
application you know the the Grant
application I believe that we had
submitted so that's those are that's the
extent that we have funding for okay all
right um may have one more question you
have another question I yes um the
images that were shown with the uh junk
trucks um along San Fernando I know this
is an issue that I've had conversations
with staff about previously um how do
they get to just park there cuz I know
we had that same issue that I had
brought up on col
where one of the mechanic shops was just
putting out all the cars um and not
allowing others to park there um it's
not just taking away parking um but it's
also uh just makes the street look
really ugly and you know I see San
Fernando also has a connector um Street
um when you're trying to go from Las VES
to the to glendell and then obviously
from glendell to Burbank so um what
rules do we have in place that can
help get rid of that um what are some
measures that we could put in place cuz
that seems to be an ongoing problem
council member saan I I believe the
pictures that the speaker was sharing
with you and showing were pictures of
trucks that haul away junk per se they
were not junk cars and I'm not sure if
there's a business on San Fernando or a
couple of businesses that are engaged in
that kind of business business and those
are the trucks they use for their
operation and and businesses as far as
the auto body shops that you're
referring to our code enforcement has
been out there our parking enforcement
been out there and they site them and uh
that's pretty much uh what we can
do so they remove them as we site
them okay and they they can keep them
there for like 3 days out of 10 72 hours
per the California vehicle code
and if it's even if it's the same
vehicle or they just rotate the cars
that they
have well
okay um and then if if we did go with 2A
um on the North side and then just two
on the south would this delay the
project
implementation if we moved forward with
2A to the north two to the South um the
removal of the parking would
our recommendation the staff would be to
it'd be another round of Outreach to
those businesses specifically to
understand what the impact is to them to
have lost the on street parking and we
have gone door too through the corridor
we've heard from many of those
businesses and the the uniform message
was don't touch the parking they need it
so there was going to if we move forward
with that
solution the engagement with the
businesses is going to be a critical
step actually if I may um council member
Satan uh we don't have the time to do
any additional Outreach we're looking at
10 months to get this project designed
and advertised and constructed so you
would have to rely on you know the
feedback that we got the first time
about the uh impact of removing
parking that's all the questions I have
I want to hear from my colleagues um
well I'll just wait when I make comments
so okay do you have comments we can I
think we can wrap it up okay well I
think the project is H is a good one um
revitalizing this Corridor is a good
idea and we've got the the funding for
it uh one thing I noticed uh in the uh
the staff report is the fact that if we
go with 2A there is still a possibility
in the future that we could add a bike
lane uh on the other side on the east
side so uh giving uh that inform given
that information um I think the median
the bump outs the C oh that reminds me
the crosswalks I don't see that maroon
and yellow do I on the oh good okay
great I just wanted to make sure that
wasn't going to happen down there um but
uh I think it's a again a good uh
compromise um I and U so I'm going to go
along with uh with that recommendation
that we use alternative 2A 2A okay
colleagues yeah so
um I I look very close to this
uh these proposed improvements and I can
tell you that I'm uh familiar with some
of the issues that um Miss hunger
pointed out and others have uh I I think
that there's not going to necessarily be
an ideal solution for anyone because
people are very used to um doing things
in in a certain way the business
businesses are accustomed to uh feeling
a sense some businesses not all but some
of the businesses have a sense of
entitlement to the parking of the public
parking that's available there um there
isn't necessarily um adherence to the
the rules of the road and to the speed
limit um at various times it does get
congested around um Rush Hour especially
as people are either trying to get onto
the 134 freeway or get off of it but do
believe that one of the things that we
continuously hear about and this is
being um presented in the in
the uh frame of we have to do this for
bicyclists or we have to do this for
pedestrians uh I'm not necessarily sure
if we build it they will come uh but the
ones who do use it I suppose will feel a
little bit safer if we have uh bike
Lanes I personally believe uh protected
bike lanes are the best but given a
number of considerations that we're
trying to balance including the access
um of uh first responder vehicles uh
whether it's police or fire I think that
um alternative 2A is the best compromise
we can come up with I would also I also
believe that whatever changes we make
may have present some challenges
initially but people will adapt they
will figure out ways around
it as far as San Fernando Road is
concerned and I've said before in these
Chambers and I'll say it again I have a
lot of Burbank Envy one of the few
things I envy about Burbank um is uh how
nice their section of San Fernando Road
looks in comparison to ours in
comparison to what we have in our
medians the the trees the shade um the
bus stops uh and I think we could do
better on our side now having said that
our section of San Fernando is not like
burbank's section of San Fernando theirs
leads immediately into into a very
vibrant downtown area it's more
commercial there's some residential
whereas ours goes through a much uh more
Industrial Area um it is a lot of
businesses a lot of shops um a lot of
mechanic uh shops and other other
different uses light industrial
nevertheless that shouldn't be an excuse
for it to look the way it does so I
think that we need to do some
improvements and I think 2A um hopefully
with some very creative
um Nice Landscaping with some more
mature trees will make it a more
inviting and nicer uh drive for people
to enjoy as they slow down with these
new changes thank you counc
verat um I think what we have in front
of is a beautification project and I
think that's what we need to be
concentrating on with understanding that
it's also an opportunity for us to um
use it to enhance it um I'm in agreement
with the 2A um I do have a couple of
comments with respect to I think as
we're thinking down the road and the
opportunities that are there um for the
future um to be mindful of the type of
green um that we're installing on the
railroad side um and making sure that
we're actually on the opposite side
where the sidewalk is for us to actually
have a lot more shade um and shaded
trees that um allow for pedestrians to
have a better experience
um I do want to commend the staff um and
the consultant on your community
outreach um I was very impressed to see
the door knocking numbers um and the
different
languages um in which you communicated
in and keep it the good work
thanks thanks and um for me I um I think
2A is a good compromise I mean I would
you know if everything else were equal I
would just go for three or
too but um I just think this roadway
it's it's it's just too problematic um
not the right time but maybe something
we could come back to in the future uh
if uh Transportation patterns evolve so
I'm good with TOA I I I am intrigued by
this idea of two to the south of the 134
I think um I think the speaker made it
you know a very convincing case that the
businesses that are there have their own
parking and people are not pulling up
and parking on the street to engage with
those
businesses um and a lot of it is red
curbs we're not losing that much parking
in that area so um and I don't know you
say you'd have to go back out and do
more Outreach but we've done the
Outreach we know the opinions um it's a
matter of us making a policy decision so
um if my colleagues were were amable I
would certainly support to to the the
south of the 134 and 2 a to the north um
but I'll leave it I'll leave it to the
rest of them on that the only other
thing I I I do want to bring up kind of
a smaller point which is on slide
10 um this was brought to my attention
if you could pull up slide 10 there
um I think you're building in a slip
lane right is that that's not there now
right that where it says that slip lane
it says enhanced cross rock yeah current
currently it is a freeer turn movement
there this is the lane that heads on
Colorado to the freeway ramp um
the crosswalk today goes from Curb
return to curb return and there's a
painted Island out there today right um
this is looking we're looking at
alternatives for this um because we do
know the challenges of having the
interface of a free right turn movement
versus pedestrians and
cyclist um for Solutions this is one of
them that we're looking at with a raised
Island um it does shorten the the paths
of travel it moves The Pedestrian
crosswalk across that right turn linee
into an area more visible as opposed to
being further around the curb return
where it's at today um so there's
several Alternatives being evaluated
there is no final decision yet on what
this configuration is going to look like
yeah that that I mean we've talked about
slip Lanes before and how slip Lanes do
encourage uh speeding through an
intersection um obviously makes it
pretty easy and people are oriented
towards getting on the freeway so
they've got that that highspeed
mentality so they're going to be
whipping around that um anybody Crossing
that is probably um at some
risk uh and um you could you could just
have a a sharp turn radius there you
could just build it out right um where
you have it painted now you could build
it out uh I don't know what you would
put there but but I would personally I
would like to see us look at ways that
we can avoid uh creating um a a you know
a passageway there that's going to
really you know encourage people to
speed through it and potentially have
conflict with pedestrians so I would
just put that out but um I will um take
a motion in a second if unless anybody
has any more comments is there let me
just ask is there support for the no two
below the
134 I would be open to it no I would not
I think that parking is very important
to the business owners and um I think
that's what we have to take into
consideration as well but she the thing
was she showed how the business owners
don't use that parking because they have
large parking lots for their businesses
that's where I'm I'm kind of that's what
was intriguing about that is if they
have their own parking people visiting
those businesses are not parking on the
street I don't know who is parking on
the street if I may Mr Mayor I'd like to
ask Mr Somerville to kind of talk a
little bit more about that Outreach and
what they found south of the uh the
freeway yeah and it goes back to the
door-to-door canvasing of the businesses
through the corridor as a whole and I
say unilaterally each of the businesses
we're very concerned about losing
parking um not every business has
off-site parking for themselves um it
the parking that was shown offsite are
all private lots for
businesses it's not public parking as
was mentioned previously um so like one
can one user can use another parking lot
if parking is eliminated they don't have
the right to be using the parking lot if
it's not their business so it's a it's a
little bigger picture view that would
have to be looked at about is it is
there really sufficient parking out
there today but again what we've heard
throughout the Outreach efforts
was the businesses are relying on the
parking for whether it's employees
whether it's
customers okay may I'm gonna I'm I'm
thinking to a 2 a okay that that answer
okay well let's get a motion okay I'll
I'll move um agend the motion accepting
staff's recommendation to proceed with
the design
for the implmentation of alternative 2A
a
second okay call please council members
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mayor botman
yes thank you very much okay our next
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will be able to uh telephonically uh be
at the meeting mayor protm the next
meeting on city council will be on
September 12th on September 12th so if
we can um my colleagues would like to um
agree to postpone this till next week I
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that I'm sorry I I'm in
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finean if the mayor has already
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sure we can move it I would be in
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suggestions in a Redline version of the
ordinance at a subsequent Council meet
session two motion to approve rental
rights marketing strategy three motion
to provide Direction on the desire to
establish a dispute resolution mediation
program mayor bman and mayor protm dine
asked that uh because of the importance
of this item and the absence of council
member Naran we postponed this to the
next council meeting on September 12th
when we'll have a full Council and
you'll be able to call in as you had
noted uh and and your other two
colleagues uh agreed with that suggest I
I agreed on it based on the assumption
that that the mayor had said that
yeah we may have to postpone it till
till October in that
case
I mean had you not confirmed that no I
mean I'm on a trip to Europe you know um
to get up in the middle of the night to
make a vote on something that we talked
about is something I could do but to get
on for an important item like this
um is is you know that's not a
reasonable request council member Divine
did you have
information about the mayor's yeah I
understood that he would able to on yeah
B telephonically I did not agree to that
well staff's already gone so um well
then we're going to have to postpone it
till I'm I'm a little ped that I I was
led to believe that the mayor was going
to anyways I apologize mayor brotman
should have waited for you to return
into the chambers before we agreed to
move on to something that would have
been nice the mayor uh just for
clarification the mayor had indicated
that he is able to call in to vote but
as the mayor uh again uh indicated maybe
he can call in for uh to cast a vote but
to participate in deliberations maybe
that'll be difficult for
him oh I I think it would only be fair
that all parties that want to be here
are here in person and so I supported
that with the understanding that I was
under the impression that the mayor was
okay with the
okay so we'll wait until probably the
first meeting in October it will be
October 10th mayor pman all apologies to
anyone who my apologies to anyone who
came here expecting to have this
discussion this
evening okay it is what it
is
umman item 8C was already right to the
record
okay
so where are we now you want um mayor
bman mayor the city council at the last
council meeting last Tuesday you uh
received a report regarding the landlord
tenant ad hoc committee update on their
work plan um they had um primarily three
main tasks that included the rental
rights uh program
ordinance uh developing education and
marketing strategies and evaluating a
voluntary uh dispute resolution program
at the last meeting um uh Mr zadorian
presented the first item the first task
and received Direction and suggestions
from Council and Council decided to
continue the other two items to this
evening uh that will be related to
marketing strategies and again uh
voluntary dispe resolution program that
Mr zorian will walk you
through good afternoon mayor city
council uh as Mr Ganan said I'm going to
to be continuing the discussion on the
ad out committee's work plan we're going
to start with the marketing aspect and
then later on the mediation so the
council tasked with the committee with
uh looking into the marketing and
Outreach strategy of the uh rental
rights program uh staff took a couple of
reports to the committee the committee
discussed strategies and staff took
their insights and came up with this uh
report that we're presenting today um so
the committee had three goals in mind
when they discuss the strategy uh
including increasing awareness promoting
engagement and providing education and
resources uh so for the increased
awareness obviously we want to be uh we
want the community to know that we exist
uh they're aware of us want to get the
word out on the rental rights program so
tenants and landlords are aware of the
program and can utilize um the services
and the protections to promote
engagement we want the commune Community
to be able to come to us engage with our
content so we understand what their
needs are and we can better address
those needs and third uh provide
education and out uh resources obviously
we want to be able to have resources
available to provide to them when they
come to us when they visit our websites
when they see us on social media
and so the first part of
that well I have a slide missing here
but the first part of that was creating
a website uh that would serve as a hub
for the rental rights program our
current website is a little funky uh
it's hard to navigate so the goal was to
create a website that is user friendly
easy to navigate uh it serves as a
central hub for landlords and tenants to
access information uh guides find out
when events are coming up
uh frequently ask questions and an easy
place for for them to access have a
quick video here of the website what it
might look like uh so the main page
would include perent information uh easy
to
access guides contact information down
there and then up here you'd have uh
different links that lead to guides
again uh for fair housing ab1 1482 our
main brenal rights program just CA you
location ass distance and each of those
will have a detailed guide on what those
sections entail and then uh again more
guides and up there we go soon as events
you'll be able
to or resources I'm sorry so this page
will have a video guide in multiple
languages I forgot to mention that the
website will be available in multiple
languages including Armenian Spanish uh
tagalag and Korean at the very least uh
again events page you'll be able to go
and see what our future upcoming events
on FAQ for any question questions that
landlords or tenants have and a contact
page it just has our contact information
so the other aspect of our marketing is
social media something that we need to
improve on and the committee noticed
that and with as far as social media is
concerned um we're going to create new
content hopefully use the city's U
already existing social media platforms
to reach an a specific audience
considering social media we can Target
specific audiences that we want to get
the information that glendell residents
renters
homeowners um social media is going to
be targeting a younger audience versus
our traditional medium where we target
an older audience uh the good thing
about social media is that it's organic
sharing uh um the organic sharing allows
it to reach a wider audience so we might
create content for specific audience but
through the medium it gets shared with
but an audience that we weren't
expecting to share with so the reach is
much wider um we create again compelling
content
infograph um staff describing the
program so our traditional marketing
will continue uh with print material we
plan on sending targeted mailers uh
we've done this in the past where we
target uh majority of residents in
glendell and landlords in and outside of
glendell uh we will be uh sending flyers
and brur in the gwp mailers and uh we
also plan on sending BR to any new
properties that are purchased in
glendell so the landlords are aware of
our rules and reg regulations we also
plan on having inserts in what used to
be called the thirds day folders for
gusd I'm not sure what that process is
now but they do send out packets to
students so we plan on doing that as
well and another new part of of what the
committee uh recommended was creating
Partnerships in the community with
existing
organizations uh we want to build
relationships with management companies
tenant organizations landlord
organizations so we're aware of the
problems before they become much bigger
problems so we can address them quicker
uh so we can leverage resource resources
and expertise uh so we can train their
staff if they need training so we can
understand what their needs are as uh
landlords and
tenants
and then we will continue community
outreach uh our plan is to go into each
neighborhood of glendell have small
intimate meetings we used to have much
larger meetings but it U we found that
it wasn't effective not a lot of people
were showing up but our smaller intimate
meetings in specific neighborhoods we
were getting a lot of traction so we're
going to continue that uh we'll make
sure to cover uh all areas of glendell
multiple languages uh each month we will
be at a different neighborhood in GL
lendel just to make sure that we cover
cover our
bases and then yearly we will evaluate
the uh effectiveness of the Outreach So
based on how uh how how many people are
showing up at our meetings uh social
media analytics website reach um and we
will refine and optimize based on that
data to create a better program moving
forward create a better Outreach and see
where we're being effective and where
we're not uh this is the timeline of how
we plan on doing things so we'll
launched the website we'll conduct
surveys in the beginning so we can have
something to test against uh later on in
the months we'll develop print materials
in the second month launch the website
uh create
newsletters start booking venues for the
events and then on to the third and
fourth month start social media
advertising Distributing the print
materials five uh month five and six gwp
mailers uh Community workshops more
targeted social media advertising and
then the rest of it is basically repeat
until uh 910 where we analyze the
results and either come back to council
with a new plan or continue if it's an
effective uh marketing
strategy uh that concludes the first
part as far as
advertising um you want to just move on
and we'll do the second part and then
well why don't we just comment on this
have any comments well I just wanted to
say it seems like very comprehensive
marketing strategy uh you're hitting all
you know every neighborhood every trying
to get every person in the gwp mailing
list every language is being considered
you you've um simplified I think uh I'll
have to try it myself then I'll know uh
the uh the website so um thank you for
for all of this and uh um I hopefully
that uh you know we we can get the word
out using all of your your new
strategies thank
you do you have any questions or
comments or I I do okay okay well then
we'll go through this one first so um
currently how does one get a hold of a
live person I think that the website
that you showed has pretty good
information on there but if someone
wants to speak to an actual person and I
say this because I know that the city
went through an exercise of creating a
number of Phone trees and Pathways to
try and um create efficiencies I
personally am a little oldfashioned and
I like to actually speak to a living
human being right so uh our hotline we
have a hotline it's on all on on all our
brur it's
8185483280 and rent glendaleca.gov if
anyone wants to email
us both again myself and Andra need
respond and so this is a number through
which we received uh what was it about
600 or 800 calls or uh the 600 calls
would be this year but it's already 800
since uh I believe the report was
released but 800 calls that's the number
that uh people are calling that's how
how we're getting that figure so um
after someone calls that number and
we've spoken to them do we ask a
question how did you hear about this
number no we have not been asking that
question okay um I would like to see us
ask that question because that is going
to help us understand where and how
people are getting information they
obviously found the number it would be
good to know which of the methods of
getting the information out there is
most effective maybe people are using an
online search engine to come across it
or you know they're Meandering through
the Maze of a municipal website find it
um also a bus ads are we going to be
utilizing bus shelter ads or our own um
beine buses to promote this program that
has been a thought but we haven't really
looked into it we can look into doing
that we thought about it but nothing
serious but we
can well I I I would certainly support
the idea of using bus um our bus system
to get the information out there in fact
the more we can do the better but uh I
also would like us to know how people
are hearing about us and then also if
there is the possibility I don't want to
inundate folks um with information but
uh getting a survey answered uh or a few
questions that can ascertain what their
impression of of the service that they
received or the answers they received
was was it helpful was it not helpful
Etc thank
you um you went through the website
really quickly um I didn't catch um is
there an option um for translation of
the website materials yes uh we're going
to have it available in again Spanish
Armenian Korean talag and every other
language that we have access to with
through the translator okay um I think
the two other I mean this is really um
impressive and extensive um I would
definitely add um ethnic
media um to your list for outreach um I
think whether it's the um Latino
Community the Filipino and Korean or the
Armenian um the demographic tends to
also the most vulnerable tend to also
turn to you know even like the Army and
TV stations um for their information and
whether it's through interviews or
through an ad that we can we can place
and then I think with the Partnerships
um one of the names or one of the
categories that I think is missing is
the senior buildings and the senior
housing buildings I think you know
making sure that this information is
also reaching the
seniors would be critical that's
it thank you and yeah I I'll just say I
I think this is really strong uh
comprehensive plan and uh I'm excited to
see us execute it um on the on the
rotating workshops I I I like I like
that and and hope that um and I think
the intent is is to be reaching out to
both tenants and landlords and making
sure that um the community on you know
both both of these groups understand
what the rules of the road are um
because um as I've spoken to some people
about I think part of the problem is
people just don't necessarily know what
the obligations are of a landlord what
the what the obligations are of a tenant
and the rights and and all that so um so
it's great
yeah okay let's move on then to the next
piece
so no we're not done we're not done the
agenda yeah we'll move on to the second
part so the third U act action or the
third item that the committee was uh uh
signed to review was a mediation program
and the possibility of implementing one
in glendel um I'm going to present the
a PowerPoint similar to what was
presented to the committee and then we
can discuss their uh s suggestions on a
mediation program so as you all are
aware a mediation program is uh designed
to basically bring two parties together
to come to a conclu uh or work things
out as simple as that uh two parties
that have an issue uh it's designed to
put them in a room together so they can
come to a conclusion that's beneficial
for both parties or find find some
common
ground um if the council decides that
they want to move forward with a
mediation program there are going to be
a few points decision points uh we'll
have to decide whether it's a voluntary
program or mediation or mandatory
program so that would mean whether the
landlords or tenants are required to
participate or their participation is
voluntary we would have to figure out
what type of disputes the program
addresses rent increases security
deposits evictions um what who operates
the program whether it's a professional
staff that we hire or outside uh
consultant or commission or board um
outcome type binding or non-binding uh
technically this would have to be
non-binding otherwise it would fall into
the CATE category of arbitration and
we're looking at mediation so this would
have to be non-binding and then
exemptions what type of properties are
exempt who's exempt is a duplex of
single fames in included in the program
uh hearing type is it a formal process
is it going to be be informal just a
phone call have people discuss it over
the phone on Zoom um and then is will
there be an ability to appeal the
decision if a decision is
made so when staff looked into programs
we looked at other municipalities that
had similar mediation programs we
focused on the City of Burbank County of
marine and Santa Monica city of Santa
Monica uh they all have varying programs
that's why we decided to go with these
three and they were the only ones that
respond to our emails uh City of Burbank
has a program U that's ran through its
commission the commission is similar to
our committee it's made up of landlords
and tenants that are U assigned by their
city council it's a non-mandatory
non-binding program uh they address rent
increases evictions relocations
basically all tenant and landlord
related issues in 2022 they had about 87
uh individuals or families in uh
ask for mediation from the committee is
submitted to the city for review so the
way their process works is uh if someone
calls into their City of Burbank they
say I'm having a problem with my landl
I'm having a problem with my tenant the
staff offers mediation through their
commission uh form is filled out it's
given to the commission the individual
either goes in front of the commission
or if it's a it's something that the
staff can handle they give them uh their
Solutions I have a little exerpt from
one of their meetings so someone um went
to the commission for mediation and
basically it's very basic all they did
was provide information to the tenant so
that their program is bare none it's
very informal it's just information they
don't really get in a room together with
a tenant and landlord and try to discuss
their issue so it's very B basic Just
for information I I have a question yeah
I thought the Burbank had a three-person
committee that handled these and it was
mostly education Outreach it wasn't I
didn't think it was the commission that
handled these cases so I believe the
commission assigns their members to
handle them so they might have signed
three individuals to handle these type
of cases but each time I think uh
commission members are assigned
depending on what type of problems the
public go I know they had they had at
least one resident on the on the on that
committee Susie Jacobs was one of them
and um she she resigned so um I don't
even know how what what they're doing
right now but uh it was mostly Outreach
and education like you said those are
really mediation yeah that's the uh
commissioner job is um education and
Outreach but they they also mediate or
what they call
mediation um so we spoke to the staff
regarding funding they said because it's
part of their bigger housing program
they couldn't identify exactly how much
it cost but they did say it's about
100,000 to administer program um they
have dedicated staff just for the
program or one mediator I should
say and then Marine county is a
mandatory non-binding program with
Marine County the only portion of it
that's mandatory is when the rent is
increased over 5% so if a landlord
increases ATT tenants rent over 5% and
that tenant wants mediation they can
request it and the landlord is required
to participate if they want the rents
increased uh tenant can agree with the
increase doesn't have to request
mediation uh but if they do landlord is
required to participate all other
disputes secure deposit evictions
they're not mandatory so the the
landlord does not have to
participate uh they had 118 cases were
mediated 287 were
requested
um the process I forgot to mention
Burbank it takes about a month to
mediate the process and for Marines
County case it's 8 to 12
weeks and their budget again it was part
of their bigger program they weren't
able to narrow anything down with Marine
County they actually work with uh a
couple of other cities to administer the
program and they also have dedicated
staff and last Santa Monica it's a n non
man uh non-mandatory non-binding program
it's part of their bigger rent control
program uh they cover all tenant
landlord disputes but again it's not
mandatory to participate they had 111
rent decrease cases 11 Construction
decrease cases and 16 excessive rent
cases um they take about 180 days to
respond but currently it takes much
longer according to staff and uh their
total budget is 5 million and they again
couldn't pinpoint how much of that is
spent on mediation 5 million is for
their entire rent control budget and
they have uh multiple staff that
administers one hearing officer uh oh
sorry three hearing officers one
mediator so they got a a big staff and
they cover all their run control units
so it's a much much bigger
program before we move on to potential
costs I do want to mention that glendell
had a program about in 2002 it lasted
all of six months I believe it was a
voluntary program uh no one participated
so it was discontinued um just wanted to
mention that we did attempt this about
20 years ago again it was
voluntary 6 months I believe it lasted
before it was discontinued
um so potential cost again we couldn't
get anything specific from the other
cities but staff was able to put
something together based on how much it
would cost to hire a mediator or
professionals that do mediation or an
agency that would perform those services
or something that's more formal uh for a
formal process is upwards of
300,000 uh for mediation with a
commission similar to burbank's we
estimated around 990,000 most uh for an
informal voluntary participation again
uh similar
to the one we had earlier we think if we
hire a professional it would be upwards
of 200,000 and then if we
Outsource uh could cost anywhere from 20
to 100,000 depending on how many cases
we're referring to them and uh how we
set up the
programs so the adoc committee discussed
everything uh they recommended that the
city at least try for a few months a
mediation program voluntary mediation
program a
non-binding uh to cover most every
Everything a tenant or landlord could
have a dispute about rent increases
secur deposit evictions habitability
relocation and other relevant issues uh
they uh suggested a hybrid model with a
board and commission similar to Burbank
and dedicated staff so a mediator plus a
board um again they discussed that the
mediate should mediator should have
uh the proper qualifications and
training to
mediate uh they felt that a formal
process would be best so nothing
informal they want both tenant and
landlord in a room together to discuss
their issues with a mediator prison
instead of maybe a staff member calling
the landlord and tenant trying to
mediate the situation for them they want
a formal process
um I have I think that concludes my
presentation so ultimately the med the
committee's suggestion was to have a
program um and a trial run and then
ultimately see how that works before we
commit to
anything okay thank you let's uh see if
we have questions before we go to the
callers are there
questions questions I just have one um
have we looked to see if LA county has
anything CU I'm looking you know one of
these options that you laid out in front
of us is
so LA county has a mediation program
through their consumer and business
Affairs Department I believe uhhuh um I
it works similar tenants landlords
request
mediation uh they con contact them
schedule a date it's it's voluntary so
neither party has to participate I'm not
100% sure I I contacted them to see how
many uh cases they've had within glendel
I haven't heard back uh but that is an
option but Marine counties is mandatory
Marine county is mandatory only when the
increas is above 5% a rent increases
above 5% the other issues they're not
mandatory so if the lieutenant and
landlord are having a problem with uh
the laundry facility not working that
they're not going to dispute that those
types of situations oh so Maring
counties is uh required if it's sorry
council member end it's required for
five more than 5% how does that um so
work with the state uh
rules caps so the state cap is
8.8% um I would assume that if an
increase is above
5% they require that mediation to take
place so their increase can't be above
8% at no any time um but if it's above
5% and the Tenant wants the mediation
the landlord is required to
participat div and uh also in Marine C
oh sorry that's Santa Monica they have
fees that are attached to their
mediation right their fees are I think
mostly related to their rent control
program that cuz it's a much different
animal of Santa Monica but we want to
include it just so there's a variety uh
because a lot of these mediation
programs are attached to rent control
programs throughout California at
least okay thank you more um do you need
anything about um us working with
neighborhood Legal Services right uh
neighbor Legal Services we do refer in
people there but they only handle
evictions and at the point of where
they're at unlawful detainers so if the
landlord issues an eviction they won't
take it on until that tenant has
officially been evicted through unlawful
detainer through the courts uh they
they're just inundated so they don't
have time to take on every case and do
we know of any other community resources
that are available that don't have that
load uh we refer to housing rights
Center as well Armenia Bar Association
but everybody's pretty pretty busy
okay okay let's um let's hear from our
speakers and do we have any callers we
do not have any callers don't okay well
we have three speakers we'll start with
Karen
qua hi I'm Karen Clark I watch most but
not all 11 meetings of the tenant
landlord committee I spoke once or twice
but mostly I listened with a lot of
Parental Pride as Mr Peter Zak noted the
medior was released after a couple of
meetings because they were not needed Mr
zovak and Mr zadorian did a fine job of
mediating the discussions themselves by
the way that's a genuine compliment from
me to the city I don't make them often
please enjoy it while it
lasts if the five of you have not
watched any of these committee meetings
I highly recommend that you do so
because they are unlike the discussions
held by any other City border commission
I suggest that you watch the meeting
from February 22 2023 where two tenants
came to talk about the serious
electrical problem they had for months
in an apartment they rented from one of
the landlord members of the tenant
landord committee that particular
landlord had spent months bragging about
what a great landlord he was and how his
tenants had no complaints about him well
after that more of his tenants came
forth to complain about the their
Apartments this is why it's critical to
hear from tants directly instead of
relying on the word of landlords if you
see any other landlords who come to City
Hall bragging about what great landlords
they are I suggest that you take their
claims with a bucket of salt and ask to
hear what their tenants think the
committee members staff and public
engaged in Lively discussions to reach
the recommendations that you're
considering today the gentleman in the
neutral seat on the committee is
actually a landlord so if anything the
committee's conclusions represent the
use of landlords more than that of
tenants Mr neutral landlord judge was
part of the legal team that wrote
glendale's just cause eviction ordinance
about 20 years ago and he was the first
to say that the ordinance needs to be
clarified and
updated I love it when committee members
in City staff cover all the points that
need to be covered so that I don't need
to say anything I have one suggestion
however from my unique Vantage Point
most of the committee members do not
watch City Council meetings and correct
me if I'm wrong but not none of you have
watched any tendent llord committee
meetings this makes it hard for the
committee to understand how they can
advise the council and it also makes it
hard for the council to know what the
committee can do this Gap can be bridged
by assigning a council of the aison to
each City commission or board like my
former City of Salem
Massachusetts Salem has over n over 40
City commissions and 11 council members
so that works out to about four
commissions per council member Glendo
has 13 City commissions so that would be
two or three commissions per council
member this would improve the flow of
information between commissions and the
City Council in both directions while
also lifting pressure from City staff
this is why I have no problem increasing
council member salaries because I plan
to make you all work for it also yes
committee should act as a body for
mediation or arbitration I spent many
many hours in this chamber listening to
design review board cases which mostly
boil down to private disputes between
homeowners tenant landlord issues
deserve at least as much a time
considering that we're the majority of
the city thank you thank you Herbert
Milano uh mayor bran members of the city
council and staff my name is Herbert
mulano I took the liberty of writing up
some of the topics that I wanted to
address today the
um the city has had a resource that is
quite valuable I think and that resource
is the Cog of all of the tenant and
landlord questions and complaints that
uh have been prevalent in the past few
years so apparently this year we've had
about 800 of these particular
calls
and I am concerned that that particular
log was not included as part of the
dialogue that was presented to the
committee if we are if we really want to
address the issues that are relevant and
present to a lot of people those call
logs should have been parsed categorized
presented in summary evaluated and say
here are the most Salient problems that
we have in glenvill these are the most
common questions that people have and
they become a guide for you to Define
how should you do the Outreach how
should you advertise it who really needs
the information who absolutely needs to
have
it so if there is a purchase of a new
building and the prior landlord wants to
increase
rents those tenants need to have that
information right away as to what are
their
rights if a new landlord thinks that the
law allows him to do certain things and
the law doesn't he needs to be clear on
what those questions are if a tenant is
being given an increase that is beyond
what the law allows they should have
that information so any type of Outreach
needs to address that
data how many are there what are the
number of problems that this other
services provide if Neighborhood Legal
Services is collecting the data and
servicing people shouldn't you have that
data as well so my point is that proper
data collection proper data analysis
gives you the guidelines as to what
policies to implement and how to
implement
them I'm of the belief that a periodic
evaluation of those results how many
calls you're
getting um how many compl do you have
relative to from one year to the next
gives you an evaluation of whether the
ordinance is working or not and whether
the Outreach is working or not and if it
is I'm assuming that the cost will be
reduced by the following year right the
fewer contentious problems you have and
any information that an utsman would
actually execute would also need to be
analyzed so my recommendation is that it
be brought back to the ARA committee for
evaluation as to how to establish proper
ways of evaluating the data and periodic
reviews thank you thank
you um Mr
mohill good evening council members my
name is Mike mohill I'd like to First
acknowledge Mr Herbert Milano and Karen
qua for the research and the time they
spent on this issue I know one person is
a landlord and the other person is a
tenant great
team I'm neither
okay but what caught my eye was when the
mayor says we need more Outreach there's
people don't have any knowledge what's
going on in the city on these
issues survey one survey said they had
600 people filled out the other one her
survey was 800 I think and you said wow
that's a lot of
people
really think about it in my last
Community newsletter I put an
announcement that keep our kids home on
August the
25th and it went to about
25,000 inboxes for people to read with
about 50% viewership
minimum now that's an
Outreach you saw on the TV thousands of
people were out there protesting keeping
their kids home and so
forth your uh Rock Haven sanitarium here
locally has put an ad in my newsletter
announcement I put it in no charge the
American Legion has put announcements in
my newsletter no
charge and fentel crisis
a woman contacted me about a meeting and
I put it in your Glendo Community
newsletter your Glenda Community
newsletter folks is free it cost the
residents of go and the city council
zero do it's a free
service why don't you take advantage of
it doesn't cost
anything we need to get input on these
different surveys when again when the
mayor says well we need more knowledge
of the
information well maybe if you gave it
out to more people they would respond to
your
surveys again look what happened last
week on the 25th of August when he had
thousands of people stay
home thank you very much oh by the way
MJ mohill gmail.com um is my email
address to sent and ask for yeah one
thing I I want to um caution you on is
that you should speak on the agenda item
and not give promotions for your
newsletter that's not what the agenda
item is
about okay do we have we have no callers
mayor please sit down your that's your
opinion um okay let's see let's hear
from you want colle I have a couple
questions um uh what are the most common
issues that we receive phone calls
concern
I actually have the numbers I'll put
them on screen
um
presentation well it depends on the year
so in 2019 when the program first
started MH most of our calls were about
the program what what is it what's going
to happen how is this going to impact my
property how is this going to impact my
rental um let's get there here we go
good so 2019 92% of those calls were
General general rental rights related
and and then towards the end ab1 1482
passed so we had a couple of questions
about that 1% and we had some eviction
calls about evictions moving into 2020
the pandemic hit and 85% of our calls
were just coid related so that's all we
were handling Co related and then here
and there ab-1482 evictions and then in
2021 again still pandemic 77 77% of the
calls were coid related but we started
getting more a148 2 as you know pandemic
rules were starting to expire 2022
finally when most of the rules expired
uh we still had a lot of calls related
to co about
28% uh and then uh there was a big jump
in ab1 1482 obviously because none of
the co protections were there anymore so
tenants were looking for ab-1482
protections landlord were asking how
much we can increase R uh there was a
little bit of a jump in eviction calls
and other types of calls most recently
ly and this is based on the 600 number
so a number from a couple weeks ago
we're receiving calls about general
rental rights program uh rent
increases banking relocation things like
that Co calls have almost disappeared
cuz all the protections are gone no
one's calling about that anymore a1482
we still get some calls on but I think
people understand the ordinance now so
they don't they don't call us as much
about that 18% of calls have been
eviction related so we've seen a bump
that and then 34% in another category
the other category basically covers
things like you call complain about mold
security
deposits
um my landlord doesn't let me have a dog
so all kinds of other subjects but these
are the types of calls we've been
getting
U there you and what's the last line the
last line is the last line is just uh
total so basically we've had 29% of
total calls have been uh general rental
rights related 47% of calls have been Co
related 10% AB 1482 this is total ohal
you averaged you averaged I I got you
total from uh for that topic so
basically 47% of all calls we've
received have been Co related which is a
big chunk So Co had a big impact on the
program as it did the rest of the world
but but these numbers are are um the
program that we have right now in place
the Ral rights program right it's based
on our call log so originally call log
was just designed to for internal use
for staff to be able to track calls and
make sure that we returned calls if
somebody calls back and says I called a
week ago we can see that we responded to
them whatnot uh as time went on and as
more and more people wanted access to
the data we started collecting more
information just to be able to extract
something from it and I think this year
is where we have the most information
information previous years we weren't
collecting detailed information so
eviction says 18% and you're just seeing
evictions but we're also collecting
information on evictions that are
related to Major rehab evictions that
are related to um owner moveing and we
just started so we don't have a lot of
numbers on that but as the year
continues we will uh we actually our it
Guy created a new program uh to log
everything in we were using Excel before
and so we weren't able to collect a lot
of information and how often does the
city attorney's office get involved in
these phone calls and questions um I'd
say we go to Lucy maybe once a week Lucy
varigon the City attorney and then I go
to her once a week no I'm
kidding that's just a clarify our
understanding of things or if there's a
we get some complex situations sometimes
and we just want a professional attorney
opinion before we tell anyone anything
okay thank you that's um let me
see are the calls have the calls
lessened since uh I guess 2019 Les calls
so the number of calls these are the
number of calls again pandemic obviously
we had a lot of calls the calls haven't
exactly lessened I'd say the pandemic
was just uh more in for 2020 than we've
ever had but I'd say
we're um we're set to hit about 1,200
we're at 800 right now so a couple of
months we should probably be at 1,200 if
not more and we're able and we're able
to handle all those calls we're you're
you seem to be yeah and I'm sorry these
aren't just calls they're emails as well
oh emails and okay thank you that's okay
any general comments on Direction on on
on the mediation on yeah um well let's
see uh let me but you know this there's
see seems to be with all of the
different um cities being mentioned
there's plethora of challenges that go
along with this more bureaucracy more
staff more
funding um landlords you know if it's
voluntary you know you get a you have an
issue if it's involuntary some landlords
won't want to come they don't want to
engage and um you know and I I
interesting it says the success depends
on the cooperation and good faith of
landlords and tenants and that's that
sometimes I think can be um you know uh
uh an issue um the landlords seem to
hold the power tenants may feel
intimidated and then of course you have
the fairness is compromised so um I have
my feeling is and I I'll just make this
very brief um I also like the um the
proposition The Proposal of increased
penalties except for the one about legal
support because that's just way too
expensive but increase penalties um so
that if a landlord is called on the car
carpet for doing so that's a pun but um
for you know not complying um or in have
inspections so that those folks that
that have problems in their in their
Apartments um uh those are taken care of
that we have um you know uh the ability
to conduct inspections and then if
nothing happens then impose penalties um
but uh I think staff is handling this
beautifully the rental rights program
you're providing assistance you're
providing counseling you're providing
legal um Aid and I I just think that
that's the way to go I know that Burbank
is strictly Outreach and education so
they're not very effective um the other
ones uh you know Santa Monica is just
like way out of way out of you know our
financial um category and it's just uh
spending a lot of money um so um I I
just feel like we really don't need a
Medi a mediation a commission a
committee you know you get all involved
in that bureaucracy and and uh then
we're in we get into more trouble so I I
would be uh against the mediation I
think i' go with staff's uh um
continuing this program I think it's
very effective I think you're doing a
great job I know whenever um I have get
an email from a resident with a question
with a problem I immediately
emailed staff and the problem is taken
care of almost immediately so um I think
that this is uh the best way for us to
handle it okay thank you counc
batra so um my understanding is from
from the last meeting that you are going
to go back to the
committee um with the items that we
discussed from last meeting right I
believe the plan was to come back with a
Redline version uh we were going to go
back to stakeholders um see what their
opinions are and then bring it back to
the committee I mean I'm sorry the
council okay cuz I I my understanding
from last meeting was that we had an
opportunity for there to be one meet and
for us to get a better sense of where
the committee stood because there was no
like there wasn't closing that Gap with
the committee members when I look at
this list it it kind of feels the same
where like the recommendations are kind
of all over the place where it's
recommending a hybrid and it's
recommending non-mandatory and the whole
nine yards so I would like to get a
little more clarity from from the
committee on that um I would note that
um I know you mentioned that we had a
program that didn't work for a couple of
months I I have an issue with any
program that operates for a couple of
months because that's not sufficient
time for the public to to learn about
the programs um availability so if
you're going to say you know we'll open
this up for six months and see if it's
working you know by the time like people
actually find out about it it's probably
more than six months and so um from the
GetGo I feel like that kind of a
shortlived um pilot is just setting up
the program to fail um I would like to
for us to see if we can explore some
options with with the county um for a
more for formal program I know that uh
while our staff has done an incredible
job in guiding uh residents um I know
that there's been so many occasions
where we provide the information and um
a lot of these times there's been people
with language barriers where I myself
feel like I'm just giving you know being
given the runaround because the services
are just not available for the um
renters um and so I I actually hate
giving that those phone numbers out
knowing that at their probably most
stressful time
I'm adding additional stress because
it's it's hope with possibly no no
resolution and support and that's
usually for renters right that um also
have an issue with getting resources to
begin with and so I would be interested
in something a little more formal um
that helps with that portion um not just
the education and the guidance that
we're providing now and then just a
better feedback from um from the
committee members and the stakeholders
ERS well I think uh one of the benefits
of what we did through the ad hoc
committee exercise was bringing
landlords and um residents tenants uh
together to be able to have these
discussions um I didn't watch all the
meetings I did watch um a couple of them
just parts of it because of time
allowances but um I Echo what was said
in terms of uh how they were run uh how
people interacted and I think that
there's something to be said about that
process that I think we need to
encourage further um I would like to see
uh the committee um whether it's the
current committee or different
iterations of it continue to meet um I
don't know if my colleagues have any
interest in in making it a more formal
committee but I I think that one of the
things that's come from it is as you've
mentioned that people have a place that
they can go to to petition to raise
issues to bring ideas forth and for
those to be flushed out and discussed um
hearing from all
sides I think that within this report uh
I would have liked to have seen some of
the more specifics like the percentages
that you gave was good in terms of
inquiries I would like to know like how
many of those were calls how many of
them were emails and you may have that
and you can provide that but
um there is something to be said for
what someone uh who spoke this evening
from the audience uh raised which is uh
that the information as to what people
are bringing up is the issues that we
should be addressing now there may be
some things that fall through the cracks
and hopefully with better advertising
people are aware that there is a
resource available to them that they can
get answers and they'll be able to um
contact uh whatever group agency City
official to get
answers in addition to that there has
been uh talk from at least one of the uh
committee members and something that
I've I've really liked I've I've talked
about before the idea of someone who is
an ombudsman type role someone who can
troubleshoot who can point people to the
right resources be they whether in our
city can point them to the right
sections of the law and uh direct
whether it's the landlord or the tenant
to where they can get um the best
information and looking at the costs of
what uh different committees do I think
that if you were to just pay one person
even if it was someone who could do it
part-time um even if they were an hourly
if it wasn't a fully loaded full-time
employee of the city at first to see how
it would work I think that we would reap
the benefits of it as well as the
residents and the business owners and uh
landlords and tenants so um those are my
general thoughts on it um I would like
us to see more advertising multilingual
advertising using all the um methods
that were already stated available to us
and also there is uh something I think
to be said to see if glendel can adopt
uh and modify um ab1
1482 uh with special features I think
that's important the more we can
simplify things I think the better it is
for all parties involved so those are my
general thought thank you thank you
thank you so um I'll start off with uh
you know thanking the landlord tenant
commission and I see there's one member
of the landlord tenant commission there
in the back te Marshon who I understand
was one of the most active and and uh
productive members of the commission so
um so thank you and thanks to all the
members of the commission um if they're
listening or not and to staff because
this has been this is complicated and um
you've done a great job I think in
summarizing the work that came out of
that so hats off to you um on this
particular topic um I'm also not in
favor of setting up a formal mediation
body um I think it it is kind of
unnecessary bureaucracy and I think it
could just lead to um uh overly lengthy
resolution times um when when issues
come forward I would much rather rather
see us uh and I'm and I'm glad to see
that Mr Milano had it on the sheet that
he handed out I think he's right um beef
up the um the hotline um maybe we need
um
uh maybe we need some some help there
and maybe we we we link it to this idea
of an ombudsman because that's another
idea that I really think is great so I
think the idea is like instead of having
you know this formal commission uh that
that kind of mediates disputes have um a
connection between the hotline and
somebody an ombudsman or maybe we have a
panel of ombudsmen that that can handle
cases depending on when they're
available but have them go and um and
make calls just an informal process but
um as Mr Milano explained to me in a
meeting yesterday um you know lots of
times they're just misunderstandings you
know the um and and um if you could just
talk to both sides you know you can if
you have the right person doing it you
could talk sense and resolve some of
these issues maybe about something
that's needs to be repaired or what
whatever it might be right so I I I
would like to see something like that
the other thing I would like to see us
do is um consider funding some more
dedicated legal services for both
tenants and landlords because we know
you know Neighborhood Legal Services is
backed up housing rights Center is
backed up Armenian Bar Association I
don't know as much about how their you
know what their workload looks like but
especially if you're going to be doing
all this marketing and people are going
to learn more about the program they're
going to learn more about the hotline
and they're going to start calling in we
want to be able to send them somewhere
you know we've got an if we have like an
ombudsman that's great but I think that
udman also needs um to be able to refer
something to you know somebody who can
provide more serious legal advice so
I've heard of cities doing this I forget
the city but they've basically financed
you know like a like a dedicated person
or a certain number of hours from one of
these legal service organizations to be
like even sitting at a city facility
like available to come in and and get
those services so that we can make sure
that anybody that needs you know free or
lowcost legal service gets it right so
that's that's kind of where where I'd
like to see us end up um and before I
conclude I I I do want to go back um
because we've probably all been getting
these emails but I know I've gotten a
bunch of emails about you know why is
Council doing this why is Council doing
that and I and or why is Staff
recommending XYZ and I I just kind of
want to clear it um staff and is not
recommending a vacancy tax and Council
does not seem as far as I can tell
interested in pursuing a vacancy tax
staff is not recommending a rent
registry and although yes I brought it
up years ago um but at the moment I mean
I don't think there's anybody here on
this Das that's recommending a rent
registry uh and I've also heard people
say well we don't need more rent control
I don't think anybody here is talking
about more rent control what we're
talking about is streamlining the
program that we have in light of what
we've learned over the years and in
light of ab1
1482 which has its own provisions and we
when we should do a better job of
um you know dovetailing our rental
rights program with ab-1482 and just
simplifying things as um council member
kasak I think said and I heard it
elsewhere just simplify simplify
simplify so um you know especially on
that to you know um the formula that we
have for relocation assistance if
somebody raises rent more than 7% you
know really simplify that maybe just a
flat amount irregardless of the type of
property the income of the person the
length of the just just keep it really
simple so that people understand what
this program is about that's really what
what we want to do and and uh I just
want to kind of make sure people
understand that that's our intent um so
that's basically what I have to say I
actually like you know based on your
comments um and council member kakin
um i' I felt like the uh the city staff
already kind of Tak takes that role on
of both guiding and providing resources
so if if I'm misunderstanding what the
role of that additional person would be
if you if you may explain it to so I
think that there are issues that are
sometimes more complicated outside the
scope of what the housing staff alone
can do you'll have um landlords who you
know are longtime landlords have had a
property for a while all of a sudden
they have to um do something that uh
state law mandates or something that the
city requires or just provide something
for a tenant they don't know where to go
right they don't know which department
in the city to apply to I'm not a
landlord but I can tell you uh when we
had to replace our dishwasher I learned
that in the city of Glendale if you want
to replace a dishwasher you need a
permit and there's a whole permit
process that requires you to go online
and if you're not computer savvy you're
an older senior person or perhaps
challenged in the tech world you know
good luck uh navigating It For the First
Time The Answer Ombudsman you can have a
tenant as uh I've had who has a special
needs uh child um all of a sudden they
are uh falling behind on either rent or
they're in between jobs or something
happens in regards to a child whose
special needs they may not need a tenant
landlord mediation or questions that the
housing staff can provide but an nsman
can connect them to different different
Social Service organizations and
nonprofits that can help them uh make it
from point A to point B from one month
to the next with minimal impact on on
their lives and stress answer is
Ombudsman so I think that when we say an
ombudsman it's I think of it a little
bit like the I've always said the James
Garner character in that movie The Great
Escape the guy who could get you
anything the guy who could get you
chocolate or could get you a whiskey in
a in a World War II p camp someone who
knows where to go to get the answers um
because a lot of times when you're
stressed as you stated and you're
looking for answers um you're confused
as to where to go but someone who's
trained or understands the city and the
different organizations can help point
you in the right direction yeah and I
would I would just like to add to that
that you know this idea of an ombudsman
it is similar to what staff is doing
right now but I think that
um I think I think we need more and
especially if we're going to be
promoting this program we're going to be
getting more people calling into the
hotline I don't think we're going to
have the resources to do it you know I
also know it's it's a special skill and
not taking you know wanting to take away
from from seon and his group but it's a
special skill I had a a situation and uh
teal in the back knows all about it
because she helped me out with it but
somebody that came to my coffees a
couple times with a problem with rats in
her unit and she had to move out and she
was in a hotel and she you know or she
was at whatever she was anyway and I
know she called in and um she did get
some help but I think she was referred
to you know you know I don't know LA
County sanitation or she was referred
here and there but her English was not
good she didn't have the wherewithal to
figure this out she really needs
somebody who can do more than what staff
can do can really hold her hand and take
office yeah but they're not going to do
that they don't have the resources to
really hold somebody's hand through all
the phone calls that have to be made all
the followup that has to be made so I I
do think having somebody from the
outside just enhances that service and I
don't think it's that expensive to do so
that's I think that's what that's at
least what's on my mind so I would well
my question is what kind of training
would they need what do we have to train
them or do they have to learn our yeah
there's I mean
what's probably yeah well isn't that
what kind of what Lucy does I mean
she staff those that you're working with
so staff does their best to connect any
caller to the resources they need and if
it's within the city I think we do a
pretty good job of it if it's outside of
the city we might refer to the
organization we're not going to go hunt
down an individual that they need to
speak to we'll refer them to the or
organization but if it needs to be that
detailed where you're holding the hand
walking them to that agency making sure
they get the need the help they need I I
we don't do that at the moment but we do
the best within the city yeah that's
good
idea say something more yeah uh so I
would be open to that um I would also
like to see kind of the structure we
could work with the city attorney's
office uh on this where there is a
specific
designated attorney um that the public
knows about it's not that they're
calling you and then you're internally
or we're rerouting that um I think
looking at the city attorney's office
and like how we've kind of built up
capacity over the years uh there might
be room for that as well in there yeah
if I could I could address that I think
so one of the challenges uh with our
office is we we cannot provide legal
advice to third parties we we can we
obviously provide um interpret you know
we will interpret our own code for
public when when there's a dispute for
example um we also obviously were
involved in the enforcement of the law
but a lot of these disputes are a a
private dispute between a landlord and
tenant so we cannot be we can't advise
them on landlord tenant law um and and
that's really not the even the goal of
the rental rights program is to provide
the resources explain how our rental
rights program works to the public how
the what the interaction is with 1482
because there is so much interaction but
at the end of the day we we always have
to advise them to to seek another
resource if they still have questions so
that's sort of the challenge with um I
mean we certainly work with the staff if
there's if there's a desire to have this
un buds un buds person to kind of work
with the staff on figure out how
mechanically it works but our our role
has to be limited we are limited by the
charter to not providing advice to to
members of the public or providing them
legal assistance on private disputes
which in large regard that's what
landlord tenant is right it's it's a
dispute between two parties in in a
business transaction I I I I would say
that I'm not looking for the the private
disputes um I think if more folks in our
community knew that they could turn to
the city to to get clarification on the
law and that the city attorney's office
is available I want them to know that
that that is actually available and that
is part of the role right absolutely
okay okay um do you have enough
Direction I think we have enough
Direction okay just I think the staff
needs the approval of the the marketing
strategy that's a motion approval of the
marketing strategy so oh okay I'll
second okay so we'll have a roll call on
that thank you council members do other
yes Divine yes kakan yes Naran mayor
botman yes thank you what's next please
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okay okay and I'm going to start and
then I'm going to run to the bathroom
and
hopefully something drastic won't happen
okay I tried to stop ARX an
onion you are first for oral
Communications
hello everyone um I just wanted to hit a
couple points um I submitted I took my
time over the weekend it was actually
pretty fun working on the maps um it was
almost like a puzzle uh especially with
the colors and all that stuff so I came
up with map 1125 I think it was uploaded
yesterday or something um and I just
wanted to it was pretty I mean I didn't
see any Maps out there currently that
included like a separate region um for
well I saw a couple that included a
separate region for Central Glendale um
I think they have they're going to be
growing obviously over time and then
they have their they're going to have
their own very unique needs um in the
downtown area um and then yeah so that
and then um I was walking on AR Avenue
and I think there might be a project
about this I was looking it up on the
website but definitely those like tables
and chairs do not seem comfortable and
then my friend was telling me that
apparently they get chained up at night
which is so unsightly and not really
like the vibe for downtown glendel but
I'm assuming that's going to be included
in the I think it's called activate art
I don't know if that's still happening
but um and then my third point was just
about uh apparently there's a dog park
being proposed for for brand park I got
an email from The Tea House at that
they're not interested in that and I
completely agree I think that's not is
that is that happening is that
stud huh no I don't want to speak on
something that is has already been
addressed in previous meetings but
anyways yeah I don't think a dog park
belongs in brand Park it's just also
like not the vibe of that area but
anyway those are my thoughts for today
thank
you thank you uh vah
Moran hello council members I was here
in this room at the last council meeting
because I had gone through all the
possible departments I could regarding
some false accusations in court filed by
the city attorney's office one of those
departments even being the police
department where I made a police report
thinking I had rights because it does
involve a crime police closed it without
ever reaching out and ignored the entire
probably half an hour report I made and
all the documents I submitted so my only
other option was to come here and bring
it to your attention for it to be looked
into
respectfully I don't think I did a good
enough job last time because it never
was since August 8th so I'm here to try
again you have an employee named mahik
safarian who decided to call the police
making false accusations against me when
I came to the city towards the end of
2022 about a fraudulent lease issue
since 2005 for the property I live on he
then somehow convinced the city
attorney's office with those same
accusations into filing a restraining
order on on his behalf for free i'
assume one which was denied for lack of
evidence the restraining order does
actually mention how mahik is possibly
applying for it behalf of other
employees as well but none are mentioned
I would have absolutely no problem and I
really do mean this no problem with his
poor lies even his restraining order
that was denied resulting in my favor if
it didn't lead to the third lawsuit for
my family one day after that is not the
first time law I
was that's not the first time I was
served with a lawsuit because of a city
employee I'm not making any specific
accusations here but with respectfully
asking the city to once again look into
this matter because it is all being used
against me in courts it doesn't matter
if I don't have it doesn't matter if I
have a lawyer or not I ask the words
filed in court by the city attorney's
office to be discussed was but was
turned away there's no shame in the
applying for something and having it the
night there's no resolution for me on
his lies so I made a police report about
a possible felony charge under the
penalty of perjury and how that
unfortunately has to do with the third
lawsuit I was served in 8 months I was
turned away again last time I said 9
months but I was wrong it's actually
three lawsuits I've been served in 8
months and 9 days that is actually
prohibited prohibited according to
chapter 9 of the municipal code I
wouldn't be here today if the city and
the appropriate departments did their
jobs and this is coming from a former
employee of almost 7 years please look
into this
matter thank
you um obviously I don't know anything
about this issue but um I will ask for a
offline uh briefing so I can learn more
about it all right thank Youk you have a
great
night okay um
Milano mayor brodman members of the city
council my name is Herbert
Milano I want to bring up some comments
that I brought in the past uh but I'll
start it with a um with a comment that
is very common at least in the circles
that I'm in and is that people tend to
see the world from the steeple of their
Village Church
and when I look at the problems that I'm
generally facing Glendale or the issues
that have come aware of I see it from
the point of view of a systems analyst
and my Decades of work in dealing with
providing information to organizations
organizations that often times were over
a billion dollars a
year and for many years I have been
promoting the idea that the city should
collect information analyze the
information
create strategic plans and work towards
a strategic
plan and today was in some of the issues
that we had earlier it's precisely the
type of issues that would be much easier
to solve if you had the data analyz
collected and
evaluated with a continual recurrence of
an evaluation that takes place on an
annual
basis every time you get a software
update what you're really getting is the
series of problems that have been
corrected through
experience and you know at the local
level county level state level often
times ordinances are passed and then
they just left to basically have an
impact for a very long time until the
problems get to be so severe that you
begin to have the protest and the people
complaining and you get the impact of
that but if the ordinances and the laws
that are being considered are evaluated
and the data collected and updated and
adjusted to meet what the data is
telling you I would imagine that we
would have a much easier time with
running a city and living in a city the
data that I usually brought back in the
past that is really really simple has to
do with road
conditions a road on average in the
United
States has about a 20-year
life so if you take the 360 miles of
roadway of London divided by 20 you have
already an idea of how much you should
be re reconstructing on a yearly basis
simple and then you count basically how
many miles of roads were actually
reconstructed every
year the other issues that I find that
need data collection if the city were to
collect it in a systematic way and if
the city council were to have some type
of retreat where you consider where is
it that we're going where are we now
what did we accomplish allows you to
gauge the efficacy of the city manager
or the efficacy of the City attorney the
efficacy of the rest of the commissions
that you have before you it's an appeal
for this that I think that the problems
that we generally face are solvable
they're not that
insurmountable especially when we have
the data that is telling us not
anecdotes not the Impressions not the
hearsay not the rumors
because we as humans are very faulty in
regard to the way we think about issues
if we put somebody in a committee and
all they come to you are The Impressions
that they have from Friends the things
that they can remember we have a
significant list of biases that prevent
us from thinking
clearly and the one thing we can depend
on is the data if I tell someone you
know that the data tells us that if you
smoke on a regular basis or two packs a
day your chances of dying is X by the
age of 60 but if he tells me well my
grandmother lived into 102 and she was
this two pack smoker and gives you an
anecdote and that's what carries the day
an anecdote carries a significant amount
of weight when it comes to all kinds of
decision making but then we have to rely
on the data to basically set us straight
and that's what I'm asking the city
council to do collect the dat
analyze it set policy on it because when
people come to you with their
Impressions and their feelings and their
emotions and what they can recall and
they're here say you may wind up
creating bad policy and that's really
really bad for all of us I would
appreciate that thanks thank you Mike
barsov good evening council members uh
I'm going to be talking uh talking on
the topic of housing um I believe I
emailed all of you about a few weeks ago
on this issue but I'm just here to talk
about it in person today some of these
policies do need environmental review
some of them don't some have been
instituted by cities like San Diego or
uh some cities in the east coast um but
this is just a rundown of our Arena
goals uh we have still thousands more
housing units to accomplish uh to
complete by the end of the decade and at
current Pace we're kind of decent but
we're not very and we could also make
extra money uh with a new housing policy
so these are just some policy positions
that you could advocate for to City
staff or just research so the first one
is reducing or Banning parking minimums
the second one is increasing the far
which is floor area ratio of
construction allow our greater lot size
usage allow greater discretionary
density bonus units reone glendle to
allow to Transit oriented development
specifically along Transit corridors of
bus lines with a frequency of 50 minutes
or better and around train stations
upzone Glen corridors and regions to
r1250 and
r2250 which is medium to high density
and just high density and allow more
mixed huse development on residential
only zones and allow residential zones
and Commercial only zones so essentially
when cities Implement these policies you
increase social cohesion walkability all
that good stuff that we need to reduce
our vehicle miles traveled to reduce our
emissions but we also increase the
housing stock we cool the housing market
we also create good money for the city
uh there's a lot of research on this uh
when we build trans oriented development
when we build mixed use development when
we build high with density more people
come into the city they provide
businesses provide more uh services and
vice versa sales tax goes up more people
spending money in the city is just good
for everyone and so if you want to get
ahead of our Arena goals and even
surpass them to be known as a city that
pass its housing goals with affordable
housing especially we could achieve that
in the city of glendle cuz we're already
kind of walkable I don't own a car I
take the bus usually I wish I could buy
every I don't know how to bike yet but
when we build more housing on corridors
we promote things like walkability and
having more Transit oriented development
and having more businesses be on the
first floor so people can see their
businesses and walk into the businesses
rather than zooming past them 50 mil per
hour so those are just some options on
how we can solve the housing crisis that
we currently have and I'll forward this
email to you guys again so you have like
the list of policies thank you thank you
and and by the way the email you sent I
did share with M with Mr Calbert and I
did respond to you right yes you and
Paul Divine did thank you okay but I
mean the point is that we are thinking
about all of these
things those things are already in the
works in the works and Mike you and I
are going to learn how to ride a bike
together thank you hopefully I see a
tandem bike in your future we're doing
this thank you Mr Cal for
Council okay uh Linda
new
mayor and council members thank you I'm
here today just to remind you that a lot
of the work that you are doing is just
um tacking around the edges of a problem
and the problem that we have in Glendale
among the residents is that rents are
too high and that people believe and
that it's their right to um treat
tenants like little um little toys or
dots to be moved around in other words
if you look at the grace the grace and
management company that is in charge of
the onx you will see that they have
raised the rents a lot this year um only
up to the amount of course that they
were legally um able to do that but they
are forcing those tenants in the onx to
move out just like Mom and Pops in
Glendale are forcing people to move out
it's people want to stay in Glendale
they want to keep their home and they
can't
so that's an ongoing
problem
um here uh I do I wanted to say thank
you very much for working um and
considering the um ad hoc um tenant
landord committee the idea of an udman
is a good one I think um we need a
community leas on who uh somebody who
can have boots on the ground and really
get out and um be one with the people
and and help people I know that because
those are some of the things that I do
in the Glendale tenis Union I know we we
spend hundreds of Y hours working with
people
you know um getting um every imagin
imaginary thing you can think of that a
tenant has to go through when they are
being forced to move or when they want
to fight the move they do call the city
sometimes sometimes they don't sometimes
they just call us but they call the city
and a and and a phone call isn't going
to get them where they need to be so
they need more than that we know that
that's why we end up spending hundreds
of hours working with them um one idea
that I that Mr Milano had that I
appreciate and is that he said you know
um get the facts whatever but um I say
on top of that is go to the city um
agencies who are dealing with those
people who are having hardships and meet
with them regularly or have them report
to you regularly when I call the
Armenian Relief Society they tell me the
same thing I'm telling them r are too
high our people are struggling it's
crazy so this isn't new this is and you
are not new this is not new to Glendale
every Community around the US is dealing
with this so I this is going to stay on
the burner you're going to keep thinking
about it but hopefully you know we'll be
able to make some
progress these little steps we're taking
are important but they're not the whole
answer thank you thank you and we have
somebody on the
phone yes we have one
caller I didn't get
okay did you put I didn't get one not
for oral communication I didn't get
one yeah take the phone
yeah our one caller is
nures uh tatin Sayan n say you're on air
you have uh five minutes go
ahead hi everyone my name is merus
penan and I was calling I was very
concerned about um the coyotes there's a
lot of like
coyotes in and around the kenet Village
area and then also I've noticed they're
coming down almost all the way to Glenn
Glen Oak like between Glenwood and GL
and um you know last night I was like
walking someone to their car and it was
literally like right there and then a
couple of times this month and then
three or four times while walking at
night so it's um it's pretty concerning
and I don't understand like what the
issue is I've always seen coyotes but
I've never seen them imp pass and all
the way down to like almost where glenox
is like by gleno and Western like almost
all the way down to like that
area and also in the Island area like by
between Glen uh
W and alen and gleno and
alen yeah okay yeah um I think we're all
seeing a
sharp uptick in in
coyotes um it's a bigger question what
we can do about it but that chase one
yesterday at night Road runers feed them
don't feed them anvils yeah
okay um Mr
mohill good evening council members my
name is Mike
mohill mayor Dan bran at the June 6 2023
council meeting you charged you changed
a three minute portion of oral
communication on purpose back to to the
end of council business so you don't
have to hear early in the evening your
Council
critics as a result throughout the city
you are nicknamed the dictator of
Glendale in the old days the liberal
Democratic party cherish freedom of
speech but today you and your so-called
Progressive liberal Democrats throughout
the nation do not cherish freedom of
speech you moved to gleno about 7 years
ago and you are turning glendel upside
down with your woke
agenda you are polarizing the
city is it true mayor Dan bman that you
have two biological Sons today are
transgender
women is it
true that your former wife from China
became a transgender
man wow mayor Dan brotman you have been
all over social media and any criticism
you receive your three minions Mike
Allen Bert culer and car sgio Sergio who
has transgender children
herself are there to defend your woke
ideas is it true Mar Brockman that you
are in communication with queer nation
and other so-called Progressive liberal
organizations do not put in the same
basket and assume that all gays and
lesbian support the transgender drag
queen
agenda mayor brotman for the record are
you proud that the transgender drag
queen have hijacked the gay and lesbian
movement setting it back 100
years are you
proud mared Dan Brockman do you support
transgender women competing in with
biological women's in bi excuse me and
sports mayor Brockman is it true you
meet with the Glendo School Board
officials at least once or twice a month
to discuss the transgender drag queen
agenda mayor Dan bman do you and your
so-called Progressive liberal Democrat
support the following ass family and
state bills that want to reduce parental
rights state senator Anthony portino
Senate Bill 596 silencing parental Free
Speech assembly Bill 95 cender
957 gender affirmation in child custody
disputes assembly Bill
1078 State control over local school
boards assembly Bill five Training
teachers to profile non
lgbtq plus affirming
parents the so-called Progressive
liberal Democrat State Assembly woman La
Freeman and state and state senator
Anthony
portino both support the transgender
drag queen
agendas council members do you support
transgender activist mayor Dan Brockman
and his
agenda it is clear the left hates the
right more than they love America thank
you you okay we have another card Alan
Durham mayor Brockman members of the
council I had not planned to speak
um during oral Communications but uh I
had to say you know we all know what's
going on with the Glend Del school board
and the Unified School District and all
the
political activism that's been stirred
up and the emotions that have been
stirred up but I really don't like you
know this is the city council that's the
school board I really don't like to
see the people the activist who are
protesting the school board's actions
and decisions I hate to see that creep
into city council city council meeting
City Council Members I mean I may be
wrong it just doesn't seem appropriate
to me it's two different bodies and I
don't really care what the views of an
individual council member are
and to me it's just you know it's not
relevant to me what I look for is their
judgment and their decision-making
ability so this is just my reaction to
what was said before thank you thank you
okay so next is new business yes new
business and I believe that we do
have
two one one yes so I move that uh the
City attorney being and hereby is
authorized to resolve the lawsuit
entitled Helen sedi versus city of
Glendale Los Angeles Superior Court case
number 20 STC V
34372 in exchange for a full release of
all claims in the amount of
$75,000 the settlement is not an
admission of any liability whatsoever
for any wrongdoing with respect to the
plane if by defendant or by any person
or department but is the com compromise
of a dis Beed
claim a second second can roll call
please council members Zan yes Divine
yes kakan yes Naran mayor bman yes and
adjournment move to adjourn second we
are adjourned at 9:32 p.m. thank
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