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>> Good evening everyone. Please take your
[10:10] seats if you can find one available. I
call to order the January 13, 2026
[10:18] meeting of the Glendale City Council.
May we have roll call?
[10:24] » Yes. Council members Asatan Brotman
>> here.
[10:28] » Carpetan
>> here.
[10:29] » Kasakian
>> here.
[10:30] » Mayor Najarian
>> here. Will you all please rise and join
[10:34] me in the flag salute?
[clears throat]
[10:38] » Repeat after me. I pledge algiance to
the flag of the United States of America
[10:44] and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with
[10:51] liberty and justice for all.
>> Please remain standing. And this
[10:56] evening, we're honored to have Kelly
Kessinger, senior chaplain from
[11:01] Adventist Health, deliver our
invocation.
[11:04] Good evening.
[11:08] Gracious God, source of wisdom and hope,
we pause to give thanks for this
[11:13] community and for the opportunity to
serve it. We ask for guidance for our
[11:17] mayor, council members, city staff, and
all who lead that their decisions may be
[11:23] marked by integrity, compassion, and a
sincere desire for the common good.
[11:29] » [snorts]
>> We ask for patience when discussions are
[11:32] difficult, clarity when choices are
complex, and courage to do what is right
[11:38] even when it's hard. We remember our
neighbors who are struggling today,
[11:42] those facing uncertainty, illness, loss,
or financial strain. We ask that Glendel
[11:49] may be a place where people are seen,
valued, and supported.
[11:53] May this meeting be productive,
respectful, and guided by a spirit of
[11:57] cooperation. so that together we may
build a safer, stronger, and more
[12:02] hopeful community for all. Amen.
>> Thank you very much.
[12:11] » Madame Clerk, may we have your report?
>> Yes. The agenda for the January 13, 2026
[12:17] regular meeting of the Glendel City
Council was posted on January 7th, 2026
[12:21] on the bulletin board outside city hall.
>> Thank you. What's the next item? Next
[12:27] are presentations and appointments. The
first item is recognition of winter
[12:32] decorating contest winners.
[12:36] » Well, it's hard to believe that the
holiday season is over. Um, but we all
[12:42] have to get back to work. Uh, we are
pleased to recognize the winners of the
[12:48] city of Glendale's winter decorating
contest. This was our second year
[12:53] continuing this tradition and the
response from our community was
[12:57] tremendous.
And in a moment we have a short Glendale
[13:02] TV video highlighting the winning
displays and then we're going to invite
[13:06] the winners uh to come before us for a
group photo and for some commendations.
[13:12] So roll it please.
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[14:40] » [bell]
[14:44] [cheering and applause]
[14:49] » So, congratulations to all you
homeowners uh who
[14:55] submitted and decorated. We had a tight
competition so only a handful receiving
[15:02] the commenation. Uh I will call your
address and if you'll come forward and
[15:08] council will then join you for some
photos.
[15:12] 651 West Doran Street.
Please come forward if you're here.
[15:18] » See the picture again.
>> 15 uh 24. Can we run the video without
[15:24] the sound? Maybe. Um 1524 Hillrest
Avenue,
[15:33] [applause]
[15:36] 538 West California Avenue,
[15:44] 318
Roads End,
[15:53] 3060 North Verdugo code
[applause]
[16:00] » and 1420
[16:04] » for Keep it down. Please keep it down. I
know it's exciting. For 1420 West
[16:11] Kenneth Road.
[applause]
[16:16] Okay. And uh if my colleagues would join
me to uh distribute the commendations.
[16:23] [clears throat] All
[16:38] right.
[16:42] That's us.
>> Thank you very
[17:06] congratulations. Thank you for spicing
up our community.
[17:15] Well, thank you for doing this.
>> That's good. Why don't we all stand
[17:20] sideways?
>> Okay.
[17:22] » And that'll give us a little bit of
room.
[17:24] » Wait, should we do
[17:48] » [applause]
[17:52] » 53. So,
[18:05] » well, that was a lot of fun. And I uh
again thank all the residents whether
[18:09] you won or not uh for participating
decorating your homes. Maybe we'll the
[18:16] next mayor can consider including a
Halloween category of home decorating.
[18:21] But I'll leave that up to to whoever has
this seat next.
[18:26] » Yes, Mr. Bman. I want to make a special
shout out to one of the winners, Leslie
[18:31] uh Little Right. Lidle
>> Lidle
[18:34] » Lidle who actually brought this to our
attention. We almost dropped the ball
[18:38] and didn't do it the second year and she
wrote and said, "Why are you guys not
[18:41] doing a competition?" There she is.
Round of applause.
[18:47] [applause] Round of applause. So, I I
appreciate you keeping an eye out on and
[18:52] and uh keeping us on our toes. Thank you
very much.
[18:56] » May I address for one moment?
>> Can she?
[18:58] » Uh briefly.
>> Briefly, but come to the come to the
[19:01] podium. No, no, no. have to come to the
podium. It's our It's our rule. [snorts]
[19:08] » Just the fact that we've got so many
people in this room who are part of our
[19:13] community that have come together,
that's why we wanted to do this contest.
[19:16] So, thank you very much for continuing
it. I've met new friends. So, thank you.
[19:22] » Thank you very [applause] much.
[19:26] » Thank you. What is the next item,
please?
[19:30] Item B is presentation from the Glendel
Police Department on substance abuse.
[19:37] » Mr. Galania.
>> Yes. Uh Mayor N City Councelor, I'd like
[19:41] to invite Sona Opppian, our clinical
program director with uh police
[19:46] department for the presentation.
>> Thank you. And I I met you at the
[19:52] Glendel Health Fair.
>> Yes, you did. and you had a very uh
[19:55] informative booth and I felt that uh in
the current atmosphere and situation
[20:02] across the country that we need to uh
recognize your efforts and receive some
[20:08] of the very important information that
you have to give to our community
[20:11] members. So I turn it over to you Sona.
>> Thank you and good evening council
[20:17] members and I appreciate the opportunity
mayor Najarian. Um can we have our
[20:22] slides? Yes, please.
[20:30] So, um until we get the slides up, what
I can say is um our program called the
[20:38] substance abuse and uh wellness resource
program is nestled within the core
[20:45] bureau of the Glendel Police Department.
For those who are not familiar with the
[20:50] core bureau, um core stands for
community outreach resources and
[20:55] engagement bureau and core handles
um homeless outreach. We have the hope
[21:02] team. We have um crisis intervention
and um a lot of community outreach
[21:09] events that are handled within core. So
we are one arm of the core bureau.
[21:16] Thank you. Um, so let me go back. So
because of our time restriction, I'm
[21:24] just going to give you a broadstrokes
overview of our program. So we'll start
[21:30] by talking about our mission, our
vision, why this program was started or
[21:36] how it started, why we need the program,
um, what some of our program goals are,
[21:43] what we do. Um I'll share some of our
accomplishments
[21:48] um a success story hopefully time
permitting and then future projects that
[21:53] we have for this next year.
So, we started um with some grant
[22:01] funding that we received from the
honorable Senator Portantino's office.
[22:07] And um one of the main reasons um that
we got this funding was to address
[22:14] overdoses and substance abuse within our
city.
[22:18] This was back in April of 2023 when
Captain Alex Creoran reached out and we
[22:27] um collaborated to start a program
together. So, our mission really is to
[22:32] provide resources and supports to anyone
who needs mental health or substance
[22:39] abuse services. This can be somebody
who's arrested with a narcotics charge
[22:46] um to someone who's just seeking
services and is unable to find resources
[22:51] due to their socioeconomic status. Um
and our goal is really to help build a
[22:59] healthy community by working with our
families.
[23:02] So um just really quickly um I get asked
this question a lot. Why do we need this
[23:09] program? So, if you can see uh on the
slides um from the CDC, we know that
[23:16] from 1999 to 2023, we had over 86,000
people die from an opioid overdose. And
[23:27] this is just opioids. Um we saw a small
decrease from 2022 to 2023.
[23:35] Um but that was mainly due to the use of
Narcan or to the administration of
[23:41] Narcan and I'll talk a little bit about
that. So we all know that we have a
[23:46] national opioid epidemic and um there's
a huge stigma associated with substance
[23:53] abuse and mental health regardless of
all the efforts that we're still making
[23:57] in our community.
Um so some of our program goals include
[24:03] um raising awareness about substance
abuse, giving uh appropriate education
[24:10] to both students, parents, community
members,
[24:15] um
to decreasing stigma um like I said
[24:20] before and providing um services to
people who get arrested um with
[24:27] narcotics charges. is um in addition to
all of that, we try to establish
[24:33] community relationships with several of
our community organizations and I'll
[24:38] talk a little bit about that in a
minute.
[24:42] Our this is our team. Um we have um I
think most everyone from our team here
[24:49] except um Lieutenant Milligan, but the
rest of our team here is here in the
[24:54] audience. So I thank them for their
support and um being here.
[25:01] So what do we do? Um in a nutshell, if
you you can think of our program as a
[25:08] hub or as a
um static point uh of where people can
[25:14] go to regardless of where they're where
they are on their journey of getting
[25:20] help. So whether it's somebody who's
having trouble at school and we need to
[25:26] connect them to services outside of the
school or we need to work with their
[25:32] public defender regardless of where
they're where they are. We are that
[25:38] constant point that stays with them
throughout. So usually what that will
[25:43] look like is I will get a referral. I
will meet with the individual or the
[25:49] family, do an assessment and then
provide appropriate resources.
[25:54] But that can take two months, that can
take three months, things can change,
[26:00] they come back and then we work with
them throughout. So um in this slide,
[26:07] these are just some of the organizations
or some of the steps that we've taken
[26:13] with um some of the referrals that um
we've gotten into our program. Um this
[26:21] slide is uh an illustration of our
community partners. Um we utilize the
[26:27] Glendel Public Library um as a place
where I meet with families. They have
[26:34] been very generous with us to give us a
key and a room for when um we need to
[26:39] have our meetings because it's a pretty
neutral um location.
[26:45] Um the YWCA works closely with us. Um
the city of Glendel homeless services,
[26:52] we also work closely with them. Um, and
one more thing I want to mention on on
[26:59] that slide is Oh, sorry. Going
backwards.
[27:04] Uh,
sorry. Sorry.
[27:13] Can you make the slide bigger? Sorry,
it's
[27:18] going. Okay. Um, I just want to make a
point about our narcotics bureau. They
[27:24] are a big part of our program because
they attend several events with us and
[27:30] do presentations with us. Um, and we
just had one of our program um, the
[27:36] youth empowerment program graduation.
And a lot of the feedback we got from
[27:41] the students was that they really
enjoyed the collaborative effort that we
[27:46] had with the narcotics bureau and having
the officers be there and present with
[27:50] us. [snorts]
These are some of our community outreach
[27:55] and prevention efforts. Um so we've
partnered a lot with GUSD
[28:01] both in 2024 and 2025.
Um mainly in 2023
[28:07] um we worked to establish our program
mission, vision, our logo and um you
[28:15] know um the objectives for what our
program will look like. So that's why
[28:21] you don't see a lot of events for 2023.
This is again a um list, not a
[28:28] comprehensive list, but a list of some
of the events we participated in in
[28:33] 2025.
And um here are some photos.
[28:39] Um we have a photo of you, Mayor
Najarian, when you visited us.
[28:44] » Oh, that's me.
>> Yes. [laughter]
[28:46] And um
>> I was saying, who's that handsome guy?
[28:51] Um, one thing I will also mention here
is the DA National Drug Takeback Event
[28:58] was something that we did um last year
um or last year and we did it in April
[29:07] and October and each day we only did the
drug takeback for four for four hours
[29:15] and during that time we were able to
collect um 200 13 pounds of unused and
[29:21] expired medications. So, this is a, you
know, partnership with the DEA and our
[29:27] police officers where no questions asks,
you bring and you drop off your unused
[29:33] or expired medications.
Um,
[29:38] this is um some data to um about Narcan.
you can see um how Glendel Fire
[29:48] Department and Glendel Police Department
administer Narcan or how many times they
[29:53] did it in 2024 and 2025 and these are
year to date. Um
[30:00] so we are making an effort to really um
encourage documentation and use of
[30:09] Narcan as much as possible because it
reverses the um opioid overdose and um
[30:17] it can save a life. So, we've done
several trainings with Narcan both in
[30:23] the community, in the schools, um, and
throughout several um, community events.
[30:30] Again, this is just another slide that
highlights our accomplishments.
[30:35] Um, we've done presentations at
Roosevelt Middle School. We've done
[30:42] presentations for parents and scouts at
Homemen at Men. Um, Red Ribbon Week is
[30:48] also a a week where we're pretty active
within our schools. Um,
[30:55] we've also um um completed three public
service announcements. I don't know if
[31:02] we'll get to see them, but they focus
all on fentanyl. So, um they're on our
[31:08] website. We have a website within
Glendel PD. It's it's a work in
[31:12] progress, but we have some really good
resources there, including resources for
[31:17] veterans. Um,
[31:22] I will briefly share a little bit about
this success story just to give you an
[31:27] idea of what that looks like.
Um, so I th this timeline is represents
[31:34] a two-year process. I started working
with this 17-year-old
[31:40] um from one of our high schools uh who
came from a family with um a low
[31:47] socioeconomic status had um problem with
substance abuse. Um we were able to
[31:54] coordinate a hospitalization because I
we work closely with our hope team, the
[31:59] school and our local hospitals.
Um
[32:03] after that hospitalization, we were able
to get treatment for him. Um after which
[32:10] um he relapsed again, but moving forward
because of a arrest he had and because
[32:18] of a court date that he had within the
Glendel courts, I was able to work with
[32:23] our public defenders and request a
mental health diversion or substance
[32:29] abuse diversion. and um really help him
get into treatment. So,
[32:36] you know, this he is now 19 years old
and um clean and sober for a few months
[32:43] now. So, um there's a long process, but
we we stay with the person, you know,
[32:51] regardless of what the need is or where
they are in their um journey of
[32:56] recovery.
our future projects. Um these are some
[33:01] of them. The one that I would like to
highlight um today is
[33:06] um documentary screening um of a movie
called Dirty Drugs. Um the focus is on
[33:14] fentanyl and um it is going to be on
February 26th at 6:00 p.m. at the Look
[33:21] Theater. We're going to have a panel
discussion um after the movie and we're
[33:27] going to have resources for the
community as well. So um this is one of
[33:32] the events, but we have um an event this
Friday as well at the Pacific Park for
[33:38] Teen Night Out and several other things
that are in the works.
[33:44] Um this is just some feedback that we
received from the community or um
[33:49] families that we've come across.
Um and for the community, what they you
[33:56] can do as a community member is if you
have anyone who's in need of our
[34:02] services, whether it's substance abuse
or mental health, um please feel free to
[34:07] refer them to our program and we will
work with them.
[34:13] This is our contact information, my
information, and Seline. Seline is our
[34:17] program assistant. We are both working
part-time for this program. So, um, just
[34:23] keep that in mind. And that is our
website.
[34:27] Um,
>> thank you.
[34:29] » Thank you. Should we Sorry, [applause]
[34:36] » we have a sorry, a flyer for the movie
screening for anyone. Okay. That's at
[34:42] the theater. Save the date.
>> There you go. February 26th and your
[34:47] information is on the Glendale PD
website.
[34:50] » Yes. Yes. Under substance abuse and
mental health.
[34:54] » And if someone calls in,
>> uh, they're not going to necessarily be
[34:58] arrested for substance abuse. The first
step is to help and right
[35:04] » resolve the issues.
>> I'm not a obviously I'm not a police
[35:07] officer. I'm a clinician. I work very
closely with our officers, but the goal
[35:12] of our program is really to provide
supports and services. So, um, and we
[35:17] are actually going to do a PSA on, um,
the good Samaritan law to help people
[35:23] know, you know, that they can reach out
or they can call for help without
[35:27] getting arrested.
>> Good. Well, thank you. Thank you very
[35:31] much. Do my colleagues have any
questions or comments?
[35:34] » No. Can we put the information
[clears throat] that information sheet
[35:37] one more time? the contact information.
[35:42] » Thank you.
>> No, the one before this.
[35:45] » There you go.
[35:49] » Okay. So, if you know someone that needs
[music] help,
[35:52] » substance abuse or mental health arena,
please
[35:56] » contact our police department.
>> And uh yeah, I just want to say thank
[36:00] you. It's a really big problem, not just
in Glendale, all over
[36:04] » everyone. and uh the sooner we can find
and identify the signs especially when
[36:10] they're young and offer the help
>> and support that individuals need then
[36:15] um I [clears throat] think you know if
we were to look at it from a very um
[36:19] » kind of a cold statistical issue if we
don't do things early on we all end up
[36:25] paying the price for it in a number of
ways not the least of which the lives uh
[36:30] that are destroyed um by chronic
substance abuse um untreated mental
[36:35] health issues and others. So, you know,
I encourage everyone if they know
[36:39] someone who's struggling, uh you've
heard it here, you have some resources
[36:43] here from the city now. Um there is no
reason for you to not reach out and
[36:47] maybe you're just curious, just call,
ask questions about uh what is the best
[36:52] uh help that you can provide to a loved
one, a friend, or someone that you know
[36:55] who's struggling. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Thank you.
[36:58] » Uh we have a speaker. Oh, Mr.
>> I was just going to say thank you, but
[37:02] also ask you a question. The screening
is that free?
[37:06] » Um, all the services are free. So, you
mean my assessment screening? No, the
[37:10] film screening I meant. Sorry. At the
Look Theater. Is that free of charge?
[37:14] » Yes, it's free of charge.
>> But people need to uh RSVP.
[37:17] » They are going to RSVP and the city
manager's office is going to have um
[37:22] more information on how to RSVP, but
space is limited [snorts] because we
[37:27] only have one theater. So, I would
encourage people to RSVP as soon as
[37:32] possible, but we will have more of these
screenings. This is the first one. Um,
[37:37] and hopefully all will go well and we
can disseminate it more in our community
[37:42] and have the panel discussions to start
talking.
[37:46] » Okay. So, anyone in the community can um
>> it's open to anyone for free.
[37:51] » Okay. Wonderful. Thank you again for
what you do.
[37:53] » Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
very much. [applause]
[38:02] » We do have a speaker. I'm going to
permit two minutes on this item.
[38:06] » Our speaker is Herbert Milano.
[38:16] » Mayor Nigarian members of the city
council. My name is Herbert Molano. I
[38:20] applaud the city council for the uh
funding and the support of programs like
[38:24] this. I've uh became aware of the
program uh early last year when I saw a
[38:30] message that appeared on the city's
website that fentinel overdoses had had
[38:35] quadrupled and I didn't know if they
quadrupled from two to eight or if it
[38:39] quadrupled from you know 20 to 80. The
uh it didn't really give me a number and
[38:44] I requested a meeting with the police
department and I with the doctor who
[38:48] just presented the information to you. I
met with her as well [snorts] and what
[38:52] it it brings to mind is the following
uh and I know Mr. because we talked
[38:57] about this many times for the better
part of 20 years is that the city needs
[39:02] to reconsider providing an annual
quality of life report where all of
[39:08] these measures concerning drug use, high
school graduation, the uh uh domestic
[39:14] violence, all of the issues that pertain
to society's problems be presented to
[39:20] you such that you can set a budget based
upon the situation that the community
[39:26] finds itself in.
I have made this presentation to the
[39:30] city council no fewer than 20 times
during the years and it is a shame
[39:35] because we had a fantastic report back
in 2001 2002 and I encourage for the
[39:41] city to put in the budget a process by
which you collect the information that
[39:46] is necessary for us to evaluate how we
are doing and what are the problems of
[39:50] the community.
She just mentioned basically that we had
[39:54] 60 uh opioids cases where Narcom was
used. Giving us national numbers doesn't
[40:02] really address the problem as to what
it's really for Glendale. And that's
[40:05] what we really should know yeartoear so
you could establish goals and programs
[40:10] to basically address them. I appeal to
you one more time. Thank you very much.
[40:16] » Thank you. [applause]
[40:20] What is the next item, please?
>> Mayor, the next item is item C,
[40:25] proclamation for KoreanAmerican Day.
>> Okay, before we get into the
[40:30] proclamations,
um I would like to mention and recognize
[40:36] some special guests and visitors that we
have from the sister city of Bowen. We
[40:43] have a cadre of students
from uh Bowen and many of them you can
[40:50] tell the young people in the room uh are
from there. So if they would all please
[40:55] like to stand up
and be recognized. [applause]
[41:04] And this is one of the purposes of our
sister city uh programs uh is a cultural
[41:11] exchange, not just a exchange of
dignitaries at the council level or
[41:17] government level, but but to have
students, actual
[41:22] young learners who have their whole
lives ahead of them, uh exchange their
[41:28] understanding of our cultures and our
manners and our systems of education and
[41:33] government. So these young people are
from the uh Bowen sister city. You've
[41:38] got a wonderful city. I visited there
just a few months ago and I think I
[41:44] explained a little bit in some of my
remarks earlier at that time. But I
[41:48] would like to invite one of the students
forward to make a few remarks to the
[41:52] city council um from the student
representing the students of Bowen. So
[42:00] please come forward.
[42:06] Thank you. And I didn't have your name.
I knew it before. I I we met earlier,
[42:11] but if you could please let everyone
know uh your name, your age, your
[42:17] schooling, and then you can have your
remarks, please.
[42:20] » My name is Tio Gim and I'm 16 years old.
My school is
[42:31] middle school.
[42:34] » Okay. Thank you very much. And if you
have some remarks, uh you're welcome to
[42:39] start.
>> Honorable mayor and distinguish me
[42:44] members of the city council. Good
evening.
[42:48] My name is Chi Gim and I'm truly honored
to stand here today as a student
[42:55] representative from Bone County, South
Korea.
[43:00] First and foremost, I would like to
express my deepest gratitude for
[43:05] inviting us to this prestigious chamber.
Standing here tonight, it finally feels
[43:13] real that I'm in the United States and
my heart is filled excitement and the
[43:20] for the experiences ahead.
Before arriving,
[43:26] I was both excited and nervous about
exploring a world I had never seen.
[43:34] However, thanks to warm your warm
welcome and hospitality,
[43:39] my fear had faded and I feel deeply at
home in Glendale.
[43:46] To me, America was always a country I
was I only saw in textbook. Today,
[43:54] standing here in person and addressing
you in this beautiful city, it feels
[44:00] like a dream come true. In particular, I
was deeply moved to learn about the
[44:07] KoreanAmerican Day proclamation
being held today. As a young Korean
[44:15] student, I feel immense pride and
gratitude toward the city of Glendale
[44:22] for honoring the history and
contributions of the Korean community.
[44:28] This be visit is a precious journey
where everything we see and feel becomes
[44:34] a lesson.
I'm confidence that our time here will
[44:39] open our eyes to wider world and serve
as a foundation for our future dreams.
[44:47] Although I am still a student, I will
cherish the kindness I have received
[44:54] here.
When I return home, I will share these
[44:59] memories with my community and strive to
grow into a global leader who can
[45:05] contribute to the friendship between our
two nations. Once again, I sinc
[45:12] sincerely appreciate the mayor and the
city council for your warm hospitality.
[45:20] I hope that our meeting tonight remains
a cherished memory for all of us. Thank
[45:26] you for your kind attention.
[clears throat]
[45:30] [applause]
[45:38] » Thank you students. It's wonderful to
have you with us for this week.
[45:44] Now, we have a proclamation, series of
proclamations to present for
[45:51] KoreanAmerican Day, which uh is today,
January 13th of 2026.
[45:58] I would like to invite
uh to the podium to receive these
[46:03] commendations
uh Yong Ku Kang from the uh consulate of
[46:09] the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles.
Jun Lee, the consular educational
[46:16] affairs officer of the consulate. Mr.
Chang Lee, president of the Korean
[46:23] Glendale Sister City Association.
Mr. Steve Park, president of the
[46:28] Korean-American Federation of North Los
Angeles. TC Kim, president of the
[46:34] Korean-American Foundation of Glendale
and the KoreanAmerican Memorial
[46:40] Foundation
representative and the Hwarang Youth
[46:44] Group.
>> So, if you'll all come forward,
[46:50] my proclamation
is designating
[46:55] January 13, 2026 as Koreanamean Day. Uh,
as you know, I'm going to summarize the
[47:03] proclamation. It's rather long, but uh,
Glendale and its adjacent cities are
[47:08] home to a significant Korean-American
population, representing one of the
[47:13] largest concentrations of Koreans
outside of the Korean Peninsula. And
[47:19] whereas Glendale is proud to be home to
a longstanding sister city partnership
[47:25] with South Korea, fostering cultural,
educational, and civic collaboration.
[47:32] And whereas the first Korean immigrants
fought for the freedom and independence
[47:36] of the motherland, and their children
grew up to be patriotic American
[47:40] citizens, served in the US armed forces
since World War I, and made other
[47:45] important significant contributions to
the vitality of the United States.
[47:51] Therefore, I are an Ajarian mayor joined
by the Glendale City Council proclaim
[47:58] January 13th, 2026 as Korean American
Day.
[48:05] Thank you. [applause]
[48:10] And if my colleagues would like to join
me,
[48:15] got some
[48:23] Okay.
Yeah. Everybody come out. Everybody from
[48:27] Greek community for them.
[48:41] Okay, I know we called your
>> I have one too. Okay.
[48:50] [snorts]
[49:11] » Hey.
Oh, the kids need to
[49:18] » take a knee, kneel down
[49:30] to win the game.
[49:38] » Okay,
>> weo
[49:45] Okay, everyone. A big smile.
[49:51] I love you.
[50:08] Thank you.
>> All right.
[50:12] [applause]
[50:19] » How are you?
>> How are you? my regards.
[50:22] Thank you.
[50:40] Mr. Kim,
>> thank you.
[50:44] » Good evening, everyone. Uh, happy
Korean-American Day. Um, today we're
[50:50] celebrating uh with about 2.5 million
other Korean-Americans throughout the
[50:54] nation, over 50 proclamations, and here
for Glendel, we have, as you can see,
[50:59] many representing from the Korean
community here today. um wanted to just
[51:04] say that the Korean-American day is not
just remembering the our ancestors and
[51:09] the uh remembering their arrival as a
Korean-American immigrants but it's to
[51:14] recognize the friendship between two
countries USA and and South Korea only
[51:19] to say that the Glendale city is very
unique because there are about 28
[51:25] California cities uh that has sister
city relationship with South Korea out
[51:29] of which Glenda has the most. We have
three sister city plus three uh
[51:35] friendship cities. So you can say
Glender is the friendless city to South
[51:39] Korea and we're celebrating our
friendship over the years and this is a
[51:45] time to say thank you for all your help
from the Gund city and the city
[51:50] government everyone to support the
Korean-American community and how we can
[51:54] continue to grow this relationship for
the future. We want to teach the next
[51:58] generation how important this friendship
is and for us to continue. And to do so,
[52:04] uh, we prepared a appreciation flag to
the leaders of the Glendere city. The
[52:09] last time I presented this, I've been
doing this for 13 years. Last time I
[52:13] presented this was about six years ago.
So I'd like to, if I can invite all of
[52:17] you back for the beautiful appreciation
plaque that we prepared for the Korean
[52:21] community, present it to you.
>> Okay.
[52:28] wear out this car
[52:37] » to to Mayor Ara.
>> Here we go.
[52:41] » Okay.
>> See,
[52:42] » thank you.
>> Oh, it's almost getting [applause]
[52:46] a fresh one.
[52:51] » Okay. [applause]
Sorry.
[52:57] Nice. All right. Let's another photo for
this.
[53:02] » Okay.
>> This is from uh us with community to
[53:06] you.
>> Thank you
[53:07] » for your support.
[53:19] [applause]
[53:22] » My god.
[53:32] Thank you. We'll pass it up. Yes, we'll
pass that. Thank you so much.
[53:37] » Thank you so much. Say hello to
[clears throat] the mayor.
[53:44] » Okay.
[53:55] Well, I want to thank everyone also for
coming and uh visiting, especially those
[53:58] who have traveled so far to visit our
country, our great state, and our
[54:03] wonderful city here in Glendale. Welcome
to Glendel. I hope the rest of uh their
[54:07] visit is uh exciting. Um you made it
just in time. Had you come a couple of
[54:11] weeks before, it would have been rain
and thunderstorm and you wouldn't have
[54:15] recognized California. But you're here
at a great time. the weather is turning
[54:18] and um you know we we're very proud of
the ties with our Korean-American
[54:23] community. Obviously, we have a school
where we have Korean language immersion
[54:26] uh and very active members of the
community um here. So, we're very
[54:31] grateful for that relationship and the
contributions our uh Korean-American
[54:34] residents make to us and have a enjoy
the rest of your stay. Thank you and
[54:39] thank you for the recognition.
[applause]
[54:44] » I would like to invite Angela from the
Warang. Did I pronounce that correctly?
[54:50] Youth. Youth group.
>> Thank you. Good evening, honorable mayor
[54:55] and city council members of Glendale. My
name is Angela Lee and I am the summit
[55:00] chairperson of the Huadang Youth
Foundation. Thank you for the
[55:04] opportunity to speak tonight. I am
honored to be here in recognition of
[55:08] KoreanAmerican Day. Korean-American Day
observed on January 13th commemorates
[55:14] the arrival of the first Korean
immigrants to the United States in 1903.
[55:19] With little more than hope and
determination, they laid the foundation
[55:23] for generations to come. Today,
Korean-Americans are proud contributors
[55:28] to every part of American life. Here in
Glendale, the Korean-American community
[55:34] plays a vital role in the city's
cultural and economic strength. From
[55:39] family, small family-owned businesses to
community organizations and youth
[55:43] groups, Korean-Americans help Glendel
make it a more vibrant and diverse and
[55:49] welcoming city. KoreanAmerican Day is
not only a celebration of heritage, but
[55:54] also a reminder of shared values, hard
work, service to others, and commitment
[55:59] to community. These values align closely
with the spirit of Glendel and the
[56:04] promise of our democracy. As a student,
Korean-American Day is meaningful to me
[56:10] because it reminds me that my identity
is something to be proud of. It also
[56:14] encourages young people like me to
become responsible leaders who
[56:18] contribute positively to our society. On
behalf of the Hadang Youth Foundation, I
[56:24] would like to sincerely thank the city
of Glendale for recognizing
[56:27] Korean-American Day and supporting our
community. Thank you.
[56:31] » Thank you very much. [applause]
[56:40] What's the next
item?
[56:44] » Next item is an announcement. The
nominating panel for vacancy on the arts
[56:48] and culture commission created by
resignation of Sue Bellank
[56:54] uh will be
will be Asatrian and Brotman. This
[56:58] starts the 60-day clock for the panel to
make a nomination subject to a 30-day
[57:04] extension.
>> Okay, we got the 60-day shot clock on
[57:08] that. Um, thank you. What is the next
item?
[57:13] » Next are consent items. The following
are routine and may be acted upon by one
[57:17] motion. Any member of council or the
audience requesting separate
[57:20] consideration may do so by making such
requests before motion is proposed.
[57:26] Thank you,
>> Mayor Narian. There are no public
[57:29] comments on this item.
>> Okay. Is there a motion?
[57:32] » I'll move the consent calendar.
>> Second.
[57:35] » Let's take roll call.
>> Council members Asatan Brotman.
[57:39] » Yes.
>> Carpetan.
[57:40] » Yes.
>> Kasakian.
[57:42] » Yes.
>> Mayor Najayan.
[57:43] » Yes. Next item.
>> Next are city council and staff comments
[57:48] including reports from conferences and
regional meetings.
[57:52] » Mr. Broman, I will start with you. Why
don't you start at that end?
[57:56] » Okay. Pass, Mr. Garbetta.
>> Yes. Um, not much for tonight. I just
[58:01] want to say it's great to be back. I
hope everyone had a nice Christmas and
[58:05] New Year holiday season and uh, we're
back to work. Um, um, I wish everyone to
[58:11] have a great 2026 and I'm sure it will
be a better year for all of us this
[58:17] year. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
>> Thank you, Mr. Kasakian.
[58:20] » Thank you. Um we uh I had the pleasure
of going to the I Glendelc chapter's
[58:25] holiday get together. There were a
number of other uh community events that
[58:29] were happening. Um and uh it was
wonderful to see a lot of folks uh that
[58:34] we hadn't seen uh over the holidays. Uh
I want to ask um for us to again staff
[58:40] is probably already working on this but
time is of the essence. Um over the
[58:44] weekend I had to come by city hall to
pick get something from my desk and
[58:48] there were about four or five of these
delivery robots parked and just sitting
[58:52] there on Isabel um doing nothing. Um and
I've I've mentioned this before, we
[58:58] worked very hard to maintain a certain
quality um on our streets and sidewalks
[59:03] in Glendale. We took pride when we were
able to eradicate the scourge of
[59:07] abandoned shopping carts only to be
beset by these random um uh robot
[59:12] delivery devices. Uh so I'd like us to
uh as hastily as possible, as quickly as
[59:18] possible, uh bring to the council and if
we need to pass an urgency ordinance to
[59:23] ban um their operation until we come up
with guidelines, rules or determine what
[59:28] we want to do with them, I'd like to ask
to consider that as as well because it
[59:33] is really getting out of hand. Um uh and
lastly, I want I saw over the holidays
[59:38] that there was a sobriety checkpoint
that was established on Glenn Oaks. I
[59:42] want to thank our police department um
for doing that. I think we need uh more
[59:46] of that as much as possible. And I'd
like to ask, and I don't need an answer
[59:50] here, but I was going to ask this of
staff afterwards, but I'll use this
[59:53] opportunity. I'd like to know when was
the last time I can't remember if
[59:56] someone can remind me when we received a
report of um the uh citations that we've
[1:00:02] issued uh through the police department,
moving violations. Um, so we can get a
[1:00:06] sense of what is uh the patterns out
there. What are we issuing more tickets
[1:00:12] for? What are we seeing that we're not
uh able to issue tickets for? And uh
[1:00:17] give us a better understanding so we can
make better policy decisions. Thank you.
[1:00:22] » Thank you.
>> That's all. Okay,
[1:00:23] » Mr. Brown.
>> Yes. Um I just have two things. one uh I
[1:00:28] want to give a brief report um
uh on uh the meeting of the Glendale I'm
[1:00:35] sorry the Burbank Glendale Pasadena
Regional Housing Trust which I'm
[1:00:39] currently chairing. Um this is a three
city trust that um manages money that
[1:00:44] was uh provided originally in a grant um
with the help of Senator Portantino
[1:00:50] uh and then continues to seek additional
funds. So, we we met recently and I
[1:00:55] realize sometimes the the the the news
on what we do doesn't really get shared
[1:01:00] with my colleagues and and the public.
So, we do have a few um uh
[1:01:06] accomplishments that uh I'm proud of.
One is that the the um the trust
[1:01:11] received a $5 million grant from
uh from the state from the um well, it's
[1:01:19] called the local housing trust fund uh
which is a fund set up by the state um
[1:01:25] HCD for affordable housing projects. So
the the trust received a $5 million
[1:01:31] grant. It was actually one of only four
trusts around the state to get the full
[1:01:36] amount that was available out of about
37 applicants. Uh Glendale receives uh
[1:01:42] or will receive 4 million out of that 5
million. Um complicated reasons for why
[1:01:48] we're getting 4 million uh and uh
Burbank is getting 1 million. Um but
[1:01:52] anyway, that is money that now we have
available for our next affordable
[1:01:56] housing project when that comes to us.
Um, we were also awarded in the trust
[1:02:02] $3.6 million to run a first-time home
buyer mortgage assistance program. Each
[1:02:08] city will get a third of that. So, each
city will get um what is that? Do I have
[1:02:14] this right? 1.8 million. Uh, no. 2
million.
[1:02:18] » No, no, no. I It's 1.8 million times
three, actually. So, the 3.6 million was
[1:02:22] the wrong number. So, what is that?
Three uh
[1:02:26] » 5.4. Okay. Um something like that. Okay.
But I know each city is getting 1.8
[1:02:32] million um to run this program. Pasadena
will actually administer the program for
[1:02:38] us. So we don't have to do that inhouse.
I know at one time we did have a
[1:02:42] program, but we've we've since
terminated that and um Pasadena has the
[1:02:47] staff and the capacity to do that for
us. So, it'll be very uh easy for us to
[1:02:50] just plug into that and um and I'm sure
information will be coming through staff
[1:02:55] as to uh how um how that will be um
communicated and who's eligible and that
[1:03:02] kind of thing. But it's it's exciting
that we can uh relaunch that program.
[1:03:07] And uh and then we are applying for an
additional $5 million grant under
[1:03:11] something called the regional early
action planning program uh for gap
[1:03:16] financing. These are for projects that
um we want to support that are falling
[1:03:20] short of their financing and we can
provide um uh loan financing or in some
[1:03:26] cases grant financing. Uh anyway, I
wanted to share that with everybody. So,
[1:03:32] the other thing I have is I want to give
uh kudos to David Eisenberg of the
[1:03:36] Sierra Club. Um he doesn't know I'm
saying this now, so I don't know if he's
[1:03:40] watching, but he organized something
called uh the Glendale Art Walk. Um and
[1:03:46] uh and I attended for part of it anyway.
It was a fourmile path that he figured
[1:03:51] out all around uh the downtown Glendale
taking in 50 public artworks including
[1:03:58] murals, statues, utility boxes and
creative crosswalks. He organized this
[1:04:03] thing himself. Uh and there was a a good
group and I was asking people where they
[1:04:07] were from and actually most of the
people were from were not from Glendale.
[1:04:10] They were from the east side. They were
from you know Pasadena. They were from
[1:04:14] different parts of LA coming to Glendale
to kind of see what we have to offer in
[1:04:19] terms of public art. It was really it
was really uh fun and and and amazing
[1:04:23] and and I just want to give him credit
for having spent his personal time to to
[1:04:28] put that together and to walk the entire
thing. I think I only made maybe two
[1:04:32] miles of it. So anyway, that's it for me
and uh happy new year to everyone.
[1:04:38] » Thank you. Uh I just have a few things.
Uh the first item
[1:04:44] um comes from from me there. This isn't
on the agenda, but January 9th was
[1:04:51] National Law Enforcement Appreciation
Day. And I deeply appreciate law
[1:04:57] enforcement at the local,
county, state, and federal levels. Um
[1:05:07] it's a it's a difficult job. I have a
son who's in law enforcement. I have a
[1:05:12] nephew who's in law enforcement.
[snorts] Um, and they tell me it's it's
[1:05:17] not an easy job that they do have um
challenges. So, that was January 9th. We
[1:05:24] missed it. We had a weird schedule, but
I wish I had a proclamation to hand out,
[1:05:28] but uh I do want to recognize uh law
enforcement officers and extend uh
[1:05:33] appreciation for their hard work.
Uh we have a few things. Yes, we can
[1:05:38] clap for that. Yes. Yes. [applause]
Uh so we we're back in action. The city
[1:05:47] council, as you can tell, is uh back in
action. The city activities are ramping
[1:05:53] up. Uh coming up this week on January
15th, which is Thursday, from 7 a.m. to
[1:06:01] 9:00 a.m., we are going to be
commemorating uh Martin Luther King Jr.
[1:06:07] with a breakfast. So, join us on
Thursday for a community breakfast
[1:06:12] honoring the life and work of Martin
Luther King Jr. and reflect on his
[1:06:19] contributions
to uh American society. That is going to
[1:06:25] be held at the Glendale Elks Lodge on
Colorado near the intersection of
[1:06:31] Colorado and brand. And there is an RSVP
that we're asking you to make to um
[1:06:37] daggerian at glendelca.gov.
And this will also be on the website.
[1:06:44] Our keynote speaker is Shannon Bradley,
the chief health, equity, inclusion, and
[1:06:50] community officer for KEK Medicine of
USC. So it'll be a wonderful uh morning.
[1:06:57] you can come down and uh mingle with
members of the local government, local
[1:07:04] community, and hear the remarks from our
keynote speaker. The next event is
[1:07:12] January 20th. It's next Tuesday, usually
the time for our regular city council
[1:07:18] meeting, but we are having city hall in
your neighborhood.
[1:07:24] And the neighborhood is going to be the
Fremont Park neighborhood in the newly
[1:07:29] renovated community room. Many of you
may have had a chance to see uh Fremont
[1:07:34] Park and perhaps the community room when
we did our grand opening a month or so
[1:07:39] ago. It will be at 6:00 p.m. Uh this
will not be livereamed,
[1:07:46] so don't fi don't think you can just,
you know, watch it on TV while it's
[1:07:50] going on. it. Uh will it be recorded for
for later broadcast?
[1:07:56] We'll see. But but come in person. It's
more fun in person. It's a very informal
[1:08:02] uh atmosphere. We are going to have
presentations from [snorts] different
[1:08:05] departments. No phone calls. So if you
want to make comments, you have to be
[1:08:10] there in person. Mr. Mohill
in person. I know you'll be there. Um so
[1:08:16] we encourage all of you to attend.
There'll be um similar to the last one
[1:08:20] we had which was in the Spar Heights
Community Center. Very informal time to
[1:08:24] ask questions. Council members will be
uh mingling and uh being able to speak
[1:08:30] to you and answer any questions or
issues that you may have. You can yell
[1:08:34] at us. Uh you can applaud our work, but
uh there will be some good information
[1:08:39] given out. So that's January 20th, city
hall in your neighborhood. And uh I wish
[1:08:46] everyone a great uh new year and
productive new year. We are going to be
[1:08:51] doing uh great business here at city
council.
[1:08:55] Mr. Golanian, anything from staff side?
>> No sir. Thank you.
[1:08:59] » Very good. We will uh conclude this part
of the agenda and move to the next item.
[1:09:06] » The next item is community event
announcements. Three minutes per
[1:09:09] speaker. Members of the public will be
permitted to announce upcoming events
[1:09:13] taking place in the community. Mayor
Nagan, we have two uh comments on this
[1:09:18] item.
>> Please call them up.
[1:09:20] » The first uh individual is Herbert
Milano.
[1:09:38] Good evening members of the city
council. U Mayor Nigerian and staff. My
[1:09:42] name is Herbert Milano. Uh since early
September I have been conducting a
[1:09:47] weekly television show uh on issues
having to do with Glendel similar to
[1:09:52] what uh the issues are in many cities
with regard to budgeting with regard to
[1:09:57] the emphasis on proper information that
the public needs to know. Uh starting
[1:10:02] tomorrow, we'll be doing three uh forums
for candidates for office for anybody
[1:10:08] who's already pulled form 501, meaning
that have the intent to run for office.
[1:10:14] Uh and the the forums are available from
four to six individuals. Uh we already
[1:10:20] have some individuals who have signed up
for it and will be there tomorrow uh at
[1:10:24] the uh the studios of Armenian American
Broadcasting Channel. there at TV on
[1:10:29] 1110 Sonora Avenue. Uh we will be
setting up the type of questions that
[1:10:37] are normally not covered in the uh uh
regional or uh the the different forums
[1:10:45] that normally fall under the purview of
the homeowners association and it's
[1:10:50] going to be different from the way that
the League of Women Voters presents it
[1:10:53] to you. What we like to do is to address
the same type of questions to potential
[1:10:59] candidates
uh based on the major decisions that you
[1:11:03] have made in the past four years. So we
will be presenting the decisions that
[1:11:08] you made oftentimes unanimously and then
ask the candidates for office how they
[1:11:13] would have voted and ask you basically
to give us a a fresh reason for the uh
[1:11:19] the manner in which you created your
vote. is a way of creating
[1:11:22] accountability for the incumbents and to
see how our uh uh proposed c new
[1:11:28] candidates will will answer uh the
similar type of questions that you
[1:11:32] faced. So, it's a little bit different
format. I have not given uh ahead of
[1:11:36] time any of the questions to anyone. So,
they all be the same. So, I'm inviting
[1:11:40] uh councilman member Don Brain since you
pulled the 501 already. uh and uh Miss
[1:11:47] Asatron if she pulls the form 501,
she'll also be invited to attend. So I
[1:11:52] look forward to it. We will be
broadcasting every Monday at 7:30 p.m.
[1:11:57] on that particular channel. Thank you
very much.
[1:12:00] » So Mr. Milano, just uh procedurally it
the filing period I don't even think has
[1:12:06] opened, has it? I mean, are people
pulling papers from the the city at this
[1:12:11] point? Madame Clerk,
>> the filing period is from February 9th
[1:12:16] to March 6th. However, uh individuals
can submit their 501 forms, which is the
[1:12:22] the FPPC form
>> Yeah. declaration for Okay. So, I don't
[1:12:26] want you to miss out any candidates who
may be joining the field after and let
[1:12:31] people not think that it's just this
group of I don't know how many you have
[1:12:35] in mind, but I hope that you'll uh
consider getting the viewpoints of
[1:12:42] others who may be joining the race.
>> Absolutely. Uh uh mayor, this is really
[1:12:47] really essential that we be as inclusive
as possible. The uh but I we didn't want
[1:12:51] to compete with established forms that
already are extent. So this gives us a
[1:12:56] chance to at least uh get a little bit
more information on those candidates or
[1:13:00] or those individuals who have a desire
to become candidates and then eventually
[1:13:04] file the the other forms necessary to to
be a proper candidate.
[1:13:07] » Okay. So are you excluding yourself from
that list of candidates, Mr.
[1:13:12] » No, I am not running for office. Sorry,
but I know it sounds like it. Yes.
[1:13:18] » Thank you. Next item. Next speaker.
>> Next speaker is Mike Mohill.
[1:13:33] Are you running for council, Mr. Mo?
Since that question is already out
[1:13:36] there.
>> I'll let you know.
[1:13:38] » You've got time.
>> I'll let you know.
[1:13:39] » You've got time.
>> Yeah.
[1:13:43] » Good evening, Glendor residents. My name
is Mike Mohill. Want to wish you all a
[1:13:47] happy New Year's.
>> Happy New Year.
[1:13:53] I'd like to make an announcement.
You know, our Glendo community
[1:13:56] newsletter reaches approximately 20,000
people when it goes out every time. It's
[1:14:02] the largest circulation in the city.
We want to expand that reach and we're
[1:14:09] now on Instagram
under the name of Mike Mohill.
[1:14:16] Also, Facebook,
Mohill News.
[1:14:23] In the future, we're working on a
website,
[1:14:28] which will again expand our influence in
the city. We're an allv volunteer
[1:14:33] organization.
People love to read us. City employees
[1:14:38] help us write this. We have
whistleblowers who contact us.
[1:14:44] We're all about making sure that
Glendale is run efficiently.
[1:14:50] We don't try and play favorites. You
know, I'm an equal opportunity offender
[1:14:54] and I'm also an equal opportunity
praiser.
[1:14:59] So again, I just want to bring up the
fact that we're on Instagram under the
[1:15:03] name Mike Mohill and Facebook Mohill
News.
[1:15:09] And in the near future, we have a
website. Thank you all and again, happy
[1:15:14] new year all.
>> Thank you. And I'm not running for city
[1:15:19] council, but if I did,
what would happen? What do you think?
[1:15:23] Think I'd have a good chance?
[laughter]
[1:15:27] » You always bring uh ideas to the table,
Mr. Mohal. I'll say that one.
[1:15:32] » Yeah. Okay. Bye.
>> Thank you.
[1:15:36] » And that will conclude
this part, the community event
[1:15:40] announcements.
Next item, please.
[1:15:45] Next is the first period of oral
communications. Maximum three minutes
[1:15:49] per speaker, 30 minute aggregate
speaking time limit. Members of the
[1:15:52] public may address the council on agenda
items or non-aggenda items within the
[1:15:56] city council subject matter
jurisdiction. If a speaker addresses the
[1:16:00] council on an agenda item during the
first period of oral communications,
[1:16:04] they may not speak again when the agenda
item is called. A speaker who addresses
[1:16:09] the council on a non-aggenda item during
the first period of oral communications
[1:16:13] may not speak during the second period
of oral communications.
[1:16:18] Mayor Najarian, we have um seven cards
and two callers on this item.
[1:16:26] » Okay, let's go through it. You all have
three minutes.
[1:16:30] » Our first speaker is Tony Pasarella.
Following Tony is Mike Mohill and Chris
[1:16:35] Pratt.
[1:16:42] Good evening, council. Tony Pasarella.
The community health and safety watchdog
[1:16:48] strikes again. Enforcement failure. Gas
powered leaf blowers. Glendale pass
[1:16:54] ordinance 6068 in 2023
codified in GMC
[1:17:01] 8.50 banning gas powered leaf blowers
citywide. Enforcement was slated to
[1:17:07] begin September 1, 2024
with warnings and escalating fines for
[1:17:13] violations.
This ordinance was designed to protect
[1:17:16] public health, reduce harmful pollution,
and eliminate noise. But nearly 18
[1:17:24] months later, violations continue daily
citywide with virtually no consequences.
[1:17:31] The ordinance relies on comp
complaintbased enforcement,
[1:17:37] meaning residents must call in
violations to the city. Some laws make
[1:17:42] that reasonable. For example, smoking on
apartment balcony or night noise uh
[1:17:48] where violations are private
or intermittent and patrols are nearly
[1:17:53] impossible.
Like leaf, leaf blowers are not like
[1:17:58] that. They're loud, visible, and
predictable. A single code officer could
[1:18:04] drive through a neighborhood and
immediately identify violations.
[1:18:09] Yet, Glendale approach leaves
enforcement entirely to the residents.
[1:18:16] Ensuring compliance is rare and
inconsistent.
[1:18:20] My work takes me throughout Glendale,
and I witness this every day.
[1:18:25] Gas blowers are used openly all day, six
days a week with no regard for the law,
[1:18:33] no deterrent, no penalty. The public
health noise and environmental harms
[1:18:39] continue unchecked.
This is not enforcement gap due to
[1:18:44] hidden violations. This is policy
failure.
[1:18:48] Some bans are com are complaintbased
because enforcement is impractical. Leaf
[1:18:54] blowers are different and comp
compliantbased enforcement is guaranteed
[1:19:00] to fail.
A law that is violated citywide every
[1:19:06] day without consequences is not
environmental
[1:19:11] policy.
It's institutional failure. I
[1:19:17] respectfully request that council direct
staff to implement the enforcement
[1:19:22] mechanisms
and ensure code compliance follow
[1:19:27] through and publicly report enforcement
actions and outcomes
[1:19:34] because a law without enforcement is a
lie told to the public. Thank you.
[1:19:43] » Next speaker.
>> Our next speaker is Mike Mohill.
[1:19:45] Following Mike Mohill is Chris Pratt and
Herbert Milano.
[1:19:59] Evening Glendo uh Glendale City Council.
My name is Mike Mohill.
[1:20:05] You know, I've come before this council
many times and I've written on in my
[1:20:10] newsletter many times the finances of
the Americana at brand
[1:20:15] [clears throat] council members. Is
Glendo making money from the Americana?
[1:20:20] I don't think so. because it was making
money. You'd let this the taxpayers of
[1:20:26] Glendale know every year the city bought
the land,
[1:20:32] not leased the land to M to Mr. Rick
Caruso so that he can he can get money
[1:20:38] use the money to get a loan to build his
Americana at at brand.
[1:20:44] the city was supposed to share with the
uh income of the Americana and we have
[1:20:50] never seen a report
that
[1:20:55] Glendale taxpayers are getting money.
I think art you called Mr. Caruso
[1:21:04] the [clears throat] pope of Glendale
because nobody wants to touch him.
[1:21:10] I'd like to see this council agendaize
the American ad branch finances.
[1:21:17] It's about time because when you all ran
for city council, you all told me at one
[1:21:22] time you were going to agendaize it and
you never do.
[1:21:26] It's time.
It's over time to agendaize this item.
[1:21:33] Glendale taxpayers deserve an
accountability.
[1:21:37] We should also have an outside
consultant do a report on the American.
[1:21:42] I don't want the city to do the report,
the analysis because they're going to be
[1:21:46] biased,
you know, go to the what do they call
[1:21:49] some type of of within the city council,
a former uh city manager, uh what's her
[1:21:55] name? Forgot her name. Okay, you know
that you know the word the terminology.
[1:22:00] It's
Nonsense. The report was in the city
[1:22:05] website.
I want a outside consultant to do the
[1:22:10] forensic analysis of the and if and Mr.
Broman and Miss Ellen Satine running for
[1:22:17] city Rio for city council. I'm going to
ask again all the candidates who are
[1:22:21] running for city council.
If this council does not agendaize the
[1:22:26] American finances, let's do it. Well, I
I want this to be done before the
[1:22:31] election.
I want to have it on the record that can
[1:22:35] be it can be reported in all the local
newspapers that Glendale is making money
[1:22:40] from Americana or it is not.
Remember Glendo taxpayers spent millions
[1:22:47] of dollar and also by the way we're
paying uh money on the the interest on
[1:22:52] that loan.
You know other cities um they they
[1:22:58] leased the land to Mr. Carroso. But no,
Glenda was so wise. We gave him the
[1:23:03] land. We should thank Mr. Jim Starboard,
who was the city manager at the time.
[1:23:09] I haven't seen his head here in a long
time.
[1:23:12] You know, elections have consequences.
And I want to see an accounting this
[1:23:18] year in 2026. Let the taxpayers of
Glendo know how much money we're either
[1:23:24] making or losing. Thank you.
[1:23:29] Next speaker.
>> Our next speaker is Chris Pratt.
[1:23:32] Following Chris Pratt is Herbert Milano
and Not Haruchunyan.
[1:23:35] » Happy new year, mayor and members of the
council. I join my fellow citizens in
[1:23:40] asking for accountability. We're the
parents and the neighbors and the
[1:23:44] workers and the taxpayers of Glendale.
And we're the people who sit in these
[1:23:47] seats meeting after meeting because it
matters. This week we watched a
[1:23:50] horrifying video out of Minnesota. A
woman was murdered during a federal
[1:23:53] immigration enforcement action. Whether
you agree or disagree with the policy,
[1:23:58] the image shook people to their core,
and it could have been any one of us.
[1:24:01] Our family has a six-year-old, too. Here
in Glendale, we've seen what happens
[1:24:04] when people stand up and say no.
When residents showed up and demanded
[1:24:10] the city end its involvement in housing
and protecting ICE, that only happened
[1:24:14] because the watcher spoke up. And that's
why we're here tonight, to remind us of
[1:24:17] something uncomfortable. What happens
when power goes unchecked always starts
[1:24:23] small. It starts with process being
ignored, with rules being bent just this
[1:24:27] once, with voices dismissed because
they're inconvenient. We're growing
[1:24:32] tired of watching power protect itself
instead of the public.
[1:24:36] We are tired of council members forming
LLC's and accepting six-f figureure
[1:24:40] consulting fees routed through
international corporations while
[1:24:43] preaching transparency. We're tired of
wealthy donors receiving special
[1:24:47] dispensation for noise ordinances while
ordinary residents are told to endure
[1:24:51] it. And yes, we're tired of public park
contracts being steered away from the
[1:24:55] winner of of free and fair process
toward insiders with friends on this
[1:24:59] dis. That's not leadership. It's abuse
of discretion. At the last meeting in
[1:25:04] this very room, the council discussed a
$5 million traffic camera contract. And
[1:25:07] on this stage, the council cited the
city losing the Gloretta Park lawsuit as
[1:25:12] a reason not to put that contract out
for fair bidding. Let that sink in,
[1:25:16] Glendale. The takeaway wasn't, "Hey, we
broke the law and we must do better." It
[1:25:21] was that was uncomfortable. So, let's
avoid oversight next time. That's the
[1:25:26] opposite of accountability. A judge
didn't intervene to embarrass this city.
[1:25:30] A judge intervened because the law was
ignored. And the answer to that cannot
[1:25:33] be fine. Then we'll just stop asking.
You chose to serve this community. You
[1:25:38] were elected to represent its people,
not power, not insiders. And we're
[1:25:41] asking for accountability. You can pass
an urgency ordinance for robots at city
[1:25:45] hall, but you can't release a free and
fair public works RF RFP despite being
[1:25:51] compelled by a California state judge to
do so. So, we'll keep watching every
[1:25:55] meeting, every vote, every workaround.
We're finding each other. We're learning
[1:25:58] the rules. We're waking up to the power
and responsibility we carry as citizens.
[1:26:02] Glendale is going to get loud. We're
going to stay loud. We're going to keep
[1:26:04] watching. Thank you.
>> Our next speaker is Herbert Milano.
[1:26:10] Following Herbert Milano is not Harunan
and Edmond Hagopyan.
[1:26:19] Mayor Nigerian members of the city
council. My name is Herbert Milano. I
[1:26:23] have a couple of visuals if they can
actually produce them. The U I want to
[1:26:29] address the issue of the city's debt for
the past 20 years which kind of aligns
[1:26:36] pretty well with the number of years
you've been in city council. Mr. Narian
[1:26:41] back in um around 20 years ago uh the uh
the city's obligation or the city's
[1:26:49] obligation per dwelling
u was somewhere on the neighborhood of
[1:26:54] about $696
per dwelling for the purpose of
[1:26:59] addressing the pension system.
And that particular
[1:27:05] ordinance
that was passed by the city council in
[1:27:08] 2001
has had a huge impact on Glendale
[1:27:13] residents. Yet it was passed with less
than 60 seconds. No debate, no
[1:27:20] discussion, no present, no presentation
by the city treasurer, nothing. It was
[1:27:25] cryptic and it was just say 3% at 50.
Can we modify the patient system with
[1:27:30] that? But look at the numbers now. Every
family now has a burden of $9,510
[1:27:38] as a result of that without counting the
hundreds of millions of dollars that we
[1:27:42] have already paid Kalpers in order to
assist for that. Next slide, please.
[1:27:51] All right. So now we have the city's
bonds, the bonded obligation,
[1:27:57] which way back uh in the year 2005 was
around $3,000 per family. And now we are
[1:28:04] at $8,760
per family. But here's the kicker. If
[1:28:10] the city were to issue general
obligation bonds, you would be forced to
[1:28:14] go to the public and get the public to
vote on it. But the city didn't do that
[1:28:18] when he wanted to basically finance the
uh the police building. It went through
[1:28:22] a different gimmick where now you have a
a finance authority. The finance
[1:28:26] authority can get the bonds and then you
lease the property back to the city and
[1:28:30] the voters are out of the loop because
then you don't have to go to the voters.
[1:28:34] And it is the same thing with the rest
of the bonds. The rest of the
[1:28:37] obligations that primarily look at the
last five years since Mr. Broadman has
[1:28:42] been here in uh here with us. Look at
the significant increases that we have
[1:28:45] had and yet the voters are not involved.
zero money out of that obligation was
[1:28:52] voted was actually presented to the
voters for a vote. It completely
[1:28:57] bypassed and I think that the charter
review committee should be addressing
[1:29:01] this. We should not have measures by
which the city council can completely
[1:29:05] bypass the voter and get us to the tune
of billions of dollars in debt. Next
[1:29:11] item, please.
[1:29:16] All right. This is the combined debt of
both of those obligations, just those
[1:29:21] two. And of course, I I used smoothing
to basically get this. Um, but
[1:29:26] basically, the debt went from roughly
$4,000 per family now to around $17,400
[1:29:32] per family without the vote of the
public whatsoever. We need to change the
[1:29:37] charter so that whatever the city
council wants to put us into such a
[1:29:42] significant debt that we at least have
the choice of determining what it should
[1:29:45] be. Thank you very much.
>> Our next speaker is Norunyan. Following
[1:29:52] Nor is Edmond Hagopian and Liz Radley.
[1:29:57] » Good evening. This is Maj and City
Council member.
[1:30:01] » Just a moment.
Let's get you a microphone.
[1:30:08] » So, good good evening everybody and uh
happy new year. And uh as you know I'm
[1:30:13] an ex firefighter and uh I got injured
at work when it disaster came and uh uh
[1:30:20] it was uh in 1989
and uh I don't know how you uh I was so
[1:30:28] very hope I got injured at work you know
and I got uh spinal cord injury and uh
[1:30:35] so first day when the doctor came to my
room and said you you have to leave in a
[1:30:41] wheelchair and I I lost my hope because
I was so hope to get to work again. So
[1:30:50] and uh I suicide myself by electricity
but unfor unfortunately
[1:30:57] fortunately I didn't die. So but and
then I start my career as I was in a
[1:31:03] musician and I start working on a wood
and a metal. I'm carving a wood and uh I
[1:31:10] I have been living in United States uh
since 2000 December and uh so I see
[1:31:17] Glendel how gross Glendel and getting
bigger and uh safe and a nice uh and I
[1:31:24] had a chance to get one of the
affordable housing that's art uh is in
[1:31:30] it artists and I I showed my artworks
and uh Mr. Mike Fort and I selected and
[1:31:38] Mr. Guano. So it was uh there and uh it
was very good and uh so I was uh so here
[1:31:47] I'm here to declare that I was wrongly
accused and uh become criminal and
[1:31:54] punished by the judge and uh so I I
choose wrong things to marry wrong lady
[1:32:01] in a church and I never will someone who
is amputated but I that uh it it was
[1:32:10] wrong and uh it I I got that recognized
last day but and then she wants to live
[1:32:17] in that house where I lived for eight
years and she convicted me because and
[1:32:24] said many wrong things and maybe uh you
know about that and kick out from the
[1:32:31] house and I don't want to this
occurs for two another house then I I
[1:32:40] will go and uh will be selected to go uh
these places because I cannot find
[1:32:46] wheelchair places to live and uh so one
years I live in a in a car and in
[1:32:53] hospitals in some places now I have
witness that uh every time with me and
[1:33:00] she's my fiance and she's with with me
and so And as as well I want to Glendel
[1:33:09] to grow wheelchair wheelchair sport
because I'm a sportsman and I need to
[1:33:16] wheelchair basketball wheelchair grow in
Glendel.
[1:33:21] » Thank you.
>> Okay,
[1:33:22] » your three minutes are up. Thank you for
speaking to us.
[1:33:26] » Our next speaker is Edmin Hagopian.
Following Edmond is Riz Red Radley.
[1:33:32] » Hello. Good evening council members. My
name is Edmin Hakobian. Happy new year
[1:33:37] and I'm hoping we can have a productive
year this year. I will be persistently
[1:33:42] and continuously advocating for more
information from the city on the boss
[1:33:46] rapid transit project and also on the
financials of the city. Uh the boss
[1:33:54] rapid uh transit uh project has the
potential to uproot the uh uproot the
[1:34:00] entire community and I'm not
exaggerating.
[1:34:03] Um I have repeatedly asked for a fact
sheet to be published by the city and
[1:34:08] the response that I got from uh from the
city management and from mayor Najarian
[1:34:14] was uh the uh the count uh the metro is
working on a on on on something that we
[1:34:21] should wait for and the city declined to
provide the fact sheet because it's a
[1:34:25] county project. This county project is
not just a overpass that goes over the
[1:34:30] city of Glendel with no impact. It has
an enormous uh it's going to change the
[1:34:36] entire city, the density, the number of
population, the services that we need
[1:34:40] and I think it's uh irresponsible not to
educate the people about what's going to
[1:34:46] happen. I I I'm just asking for
information and and the reason I'm I can
[1:34:51] go look it up myself, but the reason I'm
emphasizing that that comes from the
[1:34:56] city because the residents deserve to
know from our uh elected officials and
[1:35:01] our city expert as to what's going to
happen. Please, I I would really
[1:35:07] appreciate it if you can uh take that
seriously. It's it's a big concern. Uh a
[1:35:13] lot of people don't know about it. that
also has to do with the outreach. So
[1:35:17] with you providing information, a fact
sheet of what's going to happen when the
[1:35:22] BRT comes in, that's going to allow
people to decide what to do. And uh we
[1:35:28] are in an I was we are in an election
season, so that would also allow them to
[1:35:33] ask their candidate and future council
members as to what they are planning to
[1:35:38] do. Pasadena
uh they had a they have a memor
[1:35:42] memorandum of understanding that the BRT
is not going to have a dedicated uh bus
[1:35:47] lane in their city and the other cities
are working towards that and why not why
[1:35:53] are we not exercising that as an option
in our city or at least having a
[1:35:58] discussion having having a pros and cons
as to what's going to happen if we have
[1:36:02] that option. Um uh my next uh uh remark
is u uh in regards to the financials. Um
[1:36:12] Mr. Golanian, you mentioned that you
wanted to bring the revenue
[1:36:16] opportunities to the council and I
understand you skipped one meeting
[1:36:20] because council member Asadrian was not
here but then I I was really hoping to
[1:36:25] see that revenue options the following
uh session but it was not there. Could
[1:36:30] you please provide that in advance?
Thank you.
[1:36:35] Next is Liz Redley.
[1:36:46] » Good evening, mayor, city council
members, and staff. Um, I want to
[1:36:51] amplify again the Glendale Medic
program, which as you all know is a
[1:36:56] membership program. um so that if you
are taken to the hospital or if you
[1:37:01] receive paramedic services and you go by
ambulance that it will cover your co-pay
[1:37:06] from your insurance. Um there's a couple
things I really want to make note on.
[1:37:11] One is that you have to mail to GWP to
join and then you have to redo that
[1:37:18] every year. I'd love to see a way to be
able to just click a link on the
[1:37:22] website, sign up there, click a box that
says automatic renewal, and never have
[1:37:26] to think about it again because I've
realized that mine has expired and I
[1:37:30] need to mail in again. So, it'd be
terrific if you could do that. I'm sure
[1:37:35] Fire Chief Brooks would appreciate uh
the greater income that would come in if
[1:37:40] it was automatic and easy because a lot
of people are going to go, "Oh, that's a
[1:37:44] great idea." but never actually do the
part where they have to put something in
[1:37:48] the mail in order to enroll and then do
it every year. Um, and secondly,
[1:37:53] obviously, I would like to uh hope that
you would speedily be able to follow the
[1:37:59] protocols that u uh would approve the
new interim police chief, Robert
[1:38:05] William. Get rid of the interim, make
him police chief. Thank you very much.
[1:38:12] Uh we have two callers. Our first caller
is Elise Kayan. You're on air. You have
[1:38:17] three minutes.
>> Thank you. Good evening. Uh Mayor
[1:38:22] Najarian and city council. Uh I missed
the consent items. They went by so fast.
[1:38:28] Um and I just want to thank uh GWP for
moni monitoring its facilities and
[1:38:34] equipment and making um needed repairs
and upgrades which you just approved. We
[1:38:39] have a utility system that serves our
whole city and it needs a lot of
[1:38:43] equipment, facilities, expertise, and
programs to run. And although utility
[1:38:49] costs have skyrocketed across the
country and across the state, um some in
[1:38:54] Glendale are trying to pin this
nationwide problem on Glendale City
[1:38:59] Council decisions. Um, I note that
Glendel Water and Power and Glendel City
[1:39:04] Council have created programs that help
lower costs for everyone. Off- peak
[1:39:10] charging credits for electric vehicles,
uh, is one of those programs. It
[1:39:14] actually reduces the utilities costs. If
EV owners commit to charging car
[1:39:20] batteries during off- peak hours, GWP's
business costs are lower because it will
[1:39:25] then mean less infrastructure, less
energy purchases, less polluting gas to
[1:39:31] burn. It's a win for everybody,
lowincome customers as well as EB
[1:39:36] owners, which this program's critics
don't seem to understand. So, thank you
[1:39:41] for the off- peak charging program and
thank you for the upgrades you approved
[1:39:46] tonight. and to Glendale Water and
Power, please bring the same focus and
[1:39:51] concern to speed up a lot more
city-sighted solar and battery storage
[1:39:55] projects. Thank you.
>> Thank you. And our final caller is
[1:40:01] anonymous. You're on air. You have three
minutes.
[1:40:04] » Hi. Uh good evening. Um I would just
real quick is the Glendale police chief
[1:40:09] here tonight because I have a question
for him.
[1:40:13] the interim chief. You've been promoted.
Uh uh interim chief Williams. Yes. Yes.
[1:40:20] The Glendo police chief is. He can't
answer your questions though, so it'll
[1:40:23] be a one-way conversation.
>> I see. I see. Okay. Well, um first thing
[1:40:30] I want to say, surprise, surprise. Um, I
don't know if the city council is
[1:40:34] following this or not, but I just
recently saw a video on Instagram
[1:40:40] um channel called Only in Glendale. And
um, surprisingly, we have young people
[1:40:46] um, doing donuts at the DMV parking lot,
which is really interesting. And I hope
[1:40:51] the city of Glendel is aware of that.
That's been going on um, at this DME
[1:40:56] parking lot.
So, um, the question that I like to ask
[1:41:02] the police chief is, um, has this, have
you
[1:41:09] thought about considering creating a
small counterterrorism unit at the
[1:41:14] Glendel Police Department? That's my
question. Thank you.
[1:41:19] » We have one.
>> Um, thank you very much. Uh we can
[1:41:25] address it at some later time perhaps.
Next speaker.
[1:41:29] » Uh that is all.
>> That is all. Okay. Uh that closes this
[1:41:35] period of oral communications. What is
the next item?
[1:41:39] » Next are action items. Um the only
action item is my item, city clerk,
[1:41:45] regarding calling for and giving notice
of the general municipal election to be
[1:41:48] held on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026.
One, a resolution calling on giving
[1:41:54] notice of a general municipal election
to be held on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 in
[1:41:59] the city of Glendel for the election of
certain officer officers as required by
[1:42:04] the provisions of the laws of the of the
state of California relating to charter
[1:42:08] cities. to a resolution requesting the
board of supervisors of the county of
[1:42:13] Los Angeles to direct the registar
recorder county clerk to render full
[1:42:17] consolidated election services with the
exception of candidate filing to said
[1:42:22] city relating relating to the conduct of
a general municipal election to be held
[1:42:26] on June 2nd 2026.
Three, a resolution setting forth
[1:42:31] regulations relating to candidate
statements for the June 2nd, 2026
[1:42:36] general municipal election. and four, a
resolution of appropriation in the
[1:42:41] amount of $669,882
[1:42:45] for the June 2nd, 2026 election.
[1:42:50] » Are there any cards on this item?
>> There are no cards on this item.
[1:42:56] » Would you like to just explain what this
all means before?
[1:43:02] » Yes. Uh
the recommendation is that the city
[1:43:06] council approve a resolution calling for
a general municipal election to be held
[1:43:10] on June 2nd, 2026 for the election of
three city council seats, one city clerk
[1:43:16] seat and one city treasurer seat each
for for a four-year term and to adopt a
[1:43:22] resolution requesting consolidated
election services with the exception of
[1:43:26] candidate filing from the county of Los
Angeles the registar recorder county
[1:43:30] clerk's office and to adopt a resolution
setting forth regulations relating to
[1:43:35] candidate statements and a and of course
the resolution of appropriation for to
[1:43:41] cover the election costs.
>> Hey, does council have any questions or
[1:43:47] I do a motion?
>> Mr. Kra.
[1:43:49] » Yeah, just just one thing I noticed when
I read the staff report was the fact
[1:43:52] that there's an appropriation requested
that this is not a budgeted item and it
[1:43:57] surprises me. I guess uh apparently
that's how we've always done it. But we
[1:44:01] know an election is coming. We know
roughly how much it's going to cost, you
[1:44:04] know, give or take. Um this is a large
ticket. What is it? 700 give or
[1:44:10] take,000, you know. Um why is it why
don't we budget these things so that we
[1:44:17] don't you don't come to us now and have
to make a special appropriation out of
[1:44:20] our reserves or or what have you.
>> Sure. Maybe I can give that a shot if uh
[1:44:27] the city clerk's okay with that. Um
there was a time where we used to do it
[1:44:31] this way and we did change it several
years ago where we would budget half of
[1:44:35] what we anticipated uh the cost to be in
one year and then we would end up
[1:44:39] carrying over funds that we didn't use
to the following year. So essentially we
[1:44:43] were locking up several hundreds of
thousands of dollars uh every other year
[1:44:47] when we knew we weren't going to use
them. So really it was a matter of it's
[1:44:50] it's six in one half dozen in the other.
it's a fixed cost um that we're going to
[1:44:55] have to pay one way or another. One of
the challenges I think we have is and
[1:44:59] the city clerk I think can attest to
this is we don't exactly know what that
[1:45:02] election cost is going to be uh in any
given election year. Um it really is
[1:45:07] dependent on what the county ends up
coming back uh to us with based on what
[1:45:11] their overall uh cost for running the
elections actually is. It could vary w
[1:45:16] uh pretty vastly depending on how many
propositions there are on the ballot uh
[1:45:21] in other agencies which ultimately
affects our total cost.
[1:45:25] » Okay. I don't know how my colleagues
feel, but I it does make sense to me
[1:45:28] that we would we would budget even if we
air on the on the low side. Um, we know
[1:45:33] this is coming and the purpose of a
budget is to look at all the ins and
[1:45:37] outs and make a holistic decision about
where we want to put our money and to
[1:45:41] then now have to come up with $700,000 I
don't think is appropriate.
[1:45:48] » Just a comment, but I mean I no issue
with the
[1:45:51] » we're hoping that no one runs in the
elections and the incumbents just walts
[1:45:55] into a reelection. So is is a issue here
that we haven't we didn't anticipate and
[1:46:02] we anticipate it right. Do you how do
you earmark it or how do you prepare for
[1:46:05] this expense
>> uh either clerk or uh the assistant city
[1:46:10] manager Mr.
>> Techn ultimately it's an expense we know
[1:46:13] that we're going to bear every other
year uh and ultimately it it becomes
[1:46:18] part of your budgeting process. We have
always even in years where we have
[1:46:22] budgeted it and I'm going to look over
to my right here to our assistant city
[1:46:25] clerk. Um, I can't remember a time where
we didn't come back to the city council
[1:46:30] and ask for an additional appropriation
because we were off by a couple of
[1:46:33] hundred,000.
>> Mhm.
[1:46:36] » So, but now but point being at least
then there was some amount that was
[1:46:41] locked up. Is the issue now that nothing
is locked up? No, that can't be
[1:46:46] » the case. Is that it? So,
>> that's there. We we did not budget for
[1:46:50] the election as part of the annual
budgeting process because we anticipated
[1:46:54] we consciously anticipated that we would
essentially ask for the the
[1:46:57] appropriation when we knew what the
total cost of the election would be.
[1:47:01] » I understand seems I I agree with Mr.
Broman and perhaps it's a
[1:47:06] condition of the fact that you know we
did it a little differently for a number
[1:47:09] of years when uh I was in that office. I
would like to see us at least have some
[1:47:13] of that placed in that uh department
budget at least when you present us with
[1:47:18] that. We know we're going to have an
election every few years. You're right
[1:47:20] that there is factors like for instance
one of one of the other agencies um and
[1:47:25] do they still do they pay their share?
Do the school and the college board
[1:47:30] still pay for theirs? So ultimately it's
mostly our share or whatever it is. we
[1:47:34] should still have something even if it's
going to be 700,000. You know, we can
[1:47:39] base we can base in the future the next
election on what the last one was and if
[1:47:43] we have money left over then we have
money left over. If it's a little bit
[1:47:46] more then we are where we are right now
again. So that would be my preference at
[1:47:51] least. I don't know if staff feels
strongly I understand your reasoning. I
[1:47:56] just think that um this gives us a
better picture.
[1:47:59] » No, we don't feel strongly one way or
another. Again, it was just a matter of
[1:48:02] not tying up several hundreds of
thousands of dollars in one year and
[1:48:05] carrying it over. But in years where we
do have an election coming up, so it'll
[1:48:09] be in 2028 uh in the 2728 budget, we can
certainly put in a placeholder of
[1:48:15] $700,000 or so. Uh and if we need to
come back and ask for $100,000 to make,
[1:48:21] we will.
>> I' I'd hate for us to go to the public
[1:48:23] and say, "Well, we're not going to have
an election because we don't have
[1:48:25] money." So, um I think it's better to
tell folks that we have the money saved
[1:48:29] up to pay for the next election to elect
the officials that run the city.
[1:48:33] » Yeah, we don't disagree, council
members. Um and by the way, that would
[1:48:37] not happen. Although I I don't want to
give anyone ideas, right? As a matter of
[1:48:42] fact, I asked the same questions of Mr.
Dtalion, but point taken.
[1:48:48] » Okay. Well, with that, I'll move the
item.
[1:48:49] » I'll second.
>> Roll call, please.
[1:48:53] Council members Assad Broman,
>> yes.
[1:48:57] » Carpetan,
>> yes.
[1:48:58] » Kasakian,
>> yes.
[1:48:59] » Mayor Najarian,
>> yes.
[1:49:02] » Next item, please.
>> Next item is discussion of council
[1:49:05] member future agenda requests. A request
by Mayor Najarian to agendaize the
[1:49:10] discussion to consider reordering agenda
for future agenda requests to the
[1:49:15] afternoon portion of council agendas.
Um, Mayor Narian, we do have one speaker
[1:49:20] card on this item.
Well, the the title of the item is
[1:49:26] pretty self-explanatory. These are the
uh items that we wish to a as as we're
[1:49:31] doing now uh discussing as to whether we
want to agendaize this and the only
[1:49:37] thing that uh is in play is the time uh
at which we have that discussion.
[1:49:46] Uh would we have to have a special
meeting if there was well I guess
[1:49:55] imagine a situation where there's no
close session
[1:49:59] » would be a special meeting because this
is the regular meeting is always at 6
[1:50:03] pm. So you would schedule a special
meeting for purposes of
[1:50:06] » we do that all the time. So I don't
think that's a big deal. Anyway, that's
[1:50:09] that's the the crux of this uh idea.
Let's hear from the public for three
[1:50:16] minutes.
>> Uh, we have one speaker, Beth Brooks.
[1:50:26] » Hi. Thank you. So I'm trying to
understand this just for new business
[1:50:30] you would call a special meeting in the
afternoon because if you're going to
[1:50:34] call a special meeting for this and
sometimes these meetings go till 11:00
[1:50:39] they're you know 5 hours and people are
not watching and you know falling asleep
[1:50:44] when they're watching or screaming at
the TV. Uh why not then just divide up
[1:50:49] the meetings uh and have two shorter
meetings. I've always thought about
[1:50:53] that. I've always thought that you
should do shorter meetings like on a
[1:50:56] Tuesday and then a Wednesday and that
you do proclamations and you do you know
[1:51:01] cert you do some things you sort of have
a bis more business and then you have a
[1:51:05] more you know community-based uh and you
just cut it at two hours or three hours
[1:51:11] you do something like that because if
you are proposing this that's
[1:51:14] essentially what you're proposing you're
proposing let's take something off the
[1:51:17] agenda and give it a that's normally on
the agenda and give it a special
[1:51:21] meeting. Why just this thing should have
a should have a special meeting. I know
[1:51:26] you usually meet in the afternoon
because you do have closed sessions but
[1:51:29] like you just said if you have one if
you have some days where you don't have
[1:51:33] a closed session you are meeting just to
do this. I mean unless you're assuming
[1:51:37] that these will take hours as you
discuss new business then I understand
[1:51:41] it. But if you're going to entertain
this, it might be a good idea to just
[1:51:46] entertain having, you know, changing the
charter to have two shorter meetings,
[1:51:51] you know, on a Tuesday and a Wednesday
if this is something you're actually
[1:51:54] talking about. Thank you.
[1:51:59] » Any thoughts, Mr. Kasakin? So, I think I
I was part of the impetus for for having
[1:52:05] this come forward because we've seen how
we sit here at at the end of the meeting
[1:52:10] after we're all exhausted after we've
all um you know, buted heads or you know
[1:52:15] uh hugged each other, hugged it out and
then the meeting goes on for another
[1:52:19] hour. Um for items which are important,
which are items that we hear from the
[1:52:23] public that deserve to have
consideration. In the past, any council
[1:52:27] member could request an item, it would
be, I think, put on directly, and then
[1:52:31] that got too much. So, we said, okay,
then another council member has to
[1:52:35] second it. Well, that allowed for, you
know, uh uh the continuation of these uh
[1:52:40] items to be added. And then in order to
check ourselves, we said we will put it
[1:52:44] on the end, then we'll have this
discussion, and then we'll have a vote
[1:52:47] on the item to have it agendaized for it
to then come back and actually be
[1:52:52] studied. So, we just keep making more
work for ourselves. Uh, and if we're and
[1:52:58] and I don't think that there's anything
wrong with that pro uh process because I
[1:53:01] think there is something to be said
about the majority of us have to agree
[1:53:04] on what we want to have heard,
discussed, and voted on. But that
[1:53:08] process we can do that's kind of our
agenda planning. It's our, you know, the
[1:53:12] huddle that we're in before we um go to
the scrimmage.
[1:53:17] Um, sorry, it's playoff season, so I'm
using some football analogies. Like,
[1:53:21] let's do that in the afternoon. It's for
us basically. It's for the council to do
[1:53:25] that and it'll still be done openly and
publicly, but it's not something that
[1:53:28] necessarily warrants everyone's input
because the time for that input is when
[1:53:33] something passes that it gets over the
hurdle and then is actually open for
[1:53:37] discussion for everyone to come and have
their input. The planning of it, the
[1:53:40] pre-planning of it should happen between
the city manager and staff um and us in
[1:53:45] the afternoon in that session. I don't
think it'll take much time, but if it's
[1:53:49] taking an hour at the end of the e-me
when most of us would like to be home
[1:53:52] with our families, let's do it in the
afternoon.
[1:53:56] » Mr. Brain,
>> I agree and I'll make the motion.
[1:54:00] » I'll second.
>> Is this is this just to agendaize for
[1:54:04] » it to discuss all the
>> the details of the
[1:54:07] » short and sweet.
>> Okay. Uh roll call.
[1:54:12] » Council members Assad Broman.
>> Yes.
[1:54:15] » Carpetan. Yes. Kasakian. Yes. Mayor
>> Najarian.
[1:54:18] » Yes.
>> Do we have any new business? Oh, I'm
[1:54:23] sorry. There is a second period of oral
communications.
[1:54:26] » Is there anyone signed up for that?
>> Yes. The second period of oral
[1:54:30] communications discussion is limited to
items not a part of this agenda. Each
[1:54:34] speaker is allowed five minutes. Council
may question or respond to the speaker,
[1:54:37] but there will be no there will be no
debate or decision. The city manager may
[1:54:42] refer the matter to the appropriate
department for investigation and report.
[1:54:46] We do have one speaker, Beth Brooks.
[1:54:52] And we also have a caller.
Okay.
[1:55:03] I'm waiting for it to reset
>> to five.
[1:55:06] » It's at three.
>> Yeah, I know it's [clears throat] at
[1:55:08] three. Can we set the speaker's timer?
Yeah.
[1:55:13] Thank you. Uh given that you've weighed
[clears throat] in on international, you
[1:55:18] know, affairs before, I would love if
you actually
[1:55:22] uh put out a formal letter to the White
House and the Secretary of Defense to
[1:55:27] urgently do something
uh against the massacre in Iran against
[1:55:31] innocent people. This is this is
horrific. Uh especially given the the
[1:55:36] ethnic, you know, ethnic makeup of this
city. I'm sure that there are people and
[1:55:40] I hope that any of your family I hope
they're not involved in anything. I hope
[1:55:43] they're all safe, but there are, you
know, many Armenians who who have ties
[1:55:48] in Iran and I think that this would be
very important for you to do. I think
[1:55:52] every city council should be doing this.
This is an absolute atrocity. Uh and and
[1:55:57] we're just sitting, you know, he's just
sitting on his hands uh doing nothing
[1:56:01] and putting out uh you know, tweets. Uh
so I would really urge you to please do
[1:56:05] that because you this is a precedent
you've taken before. you have you have
[1:56:09] uh sent proclamations and things such as
that nature. Um
[1:56:15] uh I know you can't do anything about
anonymous callers, but that's you know
[1:56:19] just I just that's a pet peeve of mine.
It's just really just ridiculous. People
[1:56:23] can call in and say whatever crazy thing
they want to. Not saying he's crazy,
[1:56:26] just you know it just you know the ins
just
[1:56:31] uh I have a pet peeve about that. Um, I
would like to present because I've
[1:56:36] actually thought so much about this and
it's not just this council. It's really
[1:56:39] the way that that the public feels about
government in every kind of way and why
[1:56:44] they're apathetic and why they're fed up
and why we come here because the public
[1:56:48] because what we don't see or what I
don't see I've tried to analyze it and
[1:56:52] the analysis is you don't use objective
criteria to make decisions. That's what
[1:56:58] I'm seeing and it's not just you. So
every side, left or right or whoever you
[1:57:02] want to say it is, thinks of government
like Santa Claus. And if their Santa
[1:57:05] Claus gets in, they get everything on
their wish list. And if their Santa
[1:57:09] Claus doesn't get in, they don't get
anything on their wish list. That's what
[1:57:12] I'm seeing now with the city council.
Wow. If he gets in, they're going to get
[1:57:15] that. And if you get in and I'm going to
get in and you know, you're going to get
[1:57:18] that. But there if you utilized
objective criteria, you would also
[1:57:23] diffuse the arguments on both sides uh
to say look, you're not taking our our
[1:57:29] input into consideration. And there are
a lot of things. Is it necessary? Do you
[1:57:33] have the funding? Should you fund it? Do
you have the legal authority? Is there a
[1:57:38] clearly defined public purpose? Does it
benefit the the general public? not a
[1:57:42] narrow political or uh you know uh your
pet pet group that you tend to agree
[1:57:49] with. These are all questions you should
be answering. Is it supported by data
[1:57:53] and studies and measurable indicators?
Is there a co costbenefit analysis? Are
[1:57:59] the costs completely disclosed to the
public? What is the funding source? What
[1:58:02] are the long-term costs? You really
literally have to have a matrix with
[1:58:07] criteria the same way that you request
an RFP and whoever is responding to your
[1:58:12] proposal, there are points just like
when Chris Pratt talked about the uh the
[1:58:18] uh tennis vendor, there are points and
that you actually look at that and you
[1:58:23] you apply those criteria and then at
least you could tell the public we
[1:58:27] looked at this and we looked at that
because I will say, you know, I will
[1:58:30] argue against the bike lanes till I'm
blew in the base because if you apply
[1:58:36] any objective criteria to that it is not
to be funded at all. There is no way
[1:58:42] that should receive two cents. Okay?
Because you also have to consider
[1:58:48] is it harming the majority for the
minority and what benefit does the
[1:58:52] minority get out of it? Is it something
people are you know that it's it's
[1:58:56] they're dying and it's something that
you're going to save their lives. you
[1:59:00] you're you're basically not you're
hurting 80% of the population to help
[1:59:03] 1%. That doesn't make sense in any
world. That's a political decision. And
[1:59:07] you will be relieved of people arguing
that you're corrupt and you're, you
[1:59:13] know, taking this from donors and you're
doing that from donors. You will you
[1:59:17] will eliminate those conversations if
you present to people some objective
[1:59:22] criteria that you have used for that.
Because if people do hear things like,
[1:59:26] "Well, this hurts 80% and helps 1%,"
they go, "Whoa, what what are you
[1:59:30] benefiting from that?" And just because
that's your political ideology, you
[1:59:33] should impose that on people. That
mothers who have to pick their kids up
[1:59:36] at daycare should spend another 20
minutes in the car. I mean, you know, it
[1:59:39] does none of this makes sense to people.
So I'm imploring you uh to do that
[1:59:44] because if you have disproportionate
harm, there are so many ways that you
[1:59:48] can
apply criteria and also to think about
[1:59:52] what kind of decision-m you're doing. Is
it tactical? Is it strategic? Is it
[1:59:56] short-term? Is it long-term? Because you
can't, you know, have art installations
[2:00:00] if people are homeless. I'm sorry that
money. I'm sorry. You're going to have
[2:00:03] to live without the art installations if
people are are homeless. Priorities. You
[2:00:07] have to set priorities and have
objective criteria and that will help
[2:00:10] you. and we could be a we could show
every single city council how things
[2:00:15] should be run if we do that. Thank you.
>> Our next speaker is on on air. Fernando
[2:00:23] Raldon, you have five minutes to speak.
>> Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the
[2:00:29] council, and uh members of uh the
public. Happy New Year to everybody, and
[2:00:34] uh happy MLK. And of course um we should
also remember the memory of uh the great
[2:00:41] Ed Roberts who was also a disabled
advocate and also the founder of the
[2:00:46] independent living centers in California
and around the United States. Um my New
[2:00:51] Year's resolution is simple. Um and I'm
still going to ask this from uh from
[2:00:56] city council. Please create a disability
advisory group. I've already you've
[2:01:01] already heard what uh what Mr. Small
Hill said and he said it clearly, we got
[2:01:06] to stop we got to make sure that our
finances are in check. I want to make
[2:01:10] sure that some of some of our budget
here in in Glendel can be used for the
[2:01:16] uh creation of a disability advisory
council made up of volunteers such as
[2:01:21] myself or any other disabil disabled
person who lives in the city of Glendo
[2:01:26] for the purpose of making sure that our
we have more accessible housing which is
[2:01:31] what we need right now. um better
transportation. I'd like to see beline
[2:01:36] expand a little bit more in their
horizons and especially the dial ride
[2:01:40] program and making sure that uh we have
better connections with metro to make
[2:01:46] sure that the bus routes are being met
here at the city and around our
[2:01:51] neighborhoods. The point is uh Mr. May
me members of the council and I still
[2:01:56] continue to ask this. We need more of
the disabled input here in in Glendale.
[2:02:02] I've lived all my life in in here in
Glendel. I plan to live my retirement
[2:02:07] here in Glendel as a person with a
disability. So my hope is that uh the
[2:02:12] that our voice with the disabled
committee
[2:02:16] um be heard especially in this upcoming
election year. And as usual, that's my
[2:02:21] two cents on that. Thank you.
>> Thank you. And that is all.
[2:02:26] » All right. And I believe that concludes
our business our
[2:02:29] » Yeah, I agenda.
>> I'll I'll make a motion to adjourn. But
[2:02:32] before we do, I do want to say that I
think all of us, especially those who
[2:02:35] have family in Iran, I I do not, but I
have many friends um and uh close
[2:02:41] friends who do. Um I'm have been in
communication with them. I've been
[2:02:44] following the news. My heart is
breaking. I'm hoping that um those who
[2:02:49] are uh protesting and speaking out for
their rights and for freedom and for
[2:02:52] better living conditions um are
successful. Um and uh but I I would
[2:03:00] pause before we make a public
declaration unless there's consensus to
[2:03:04] do so uh until I've had a chance to um
talk to individuals and find out what it
[2:03:10] is that we should say or be asking for.
But I do stand in solidarity with the
[2:03:14] people of Iran, with freedom loving
people all over the world and with our
[2:03:18] Iranian neighbors who hail from Iran
here in the city of Glendale. Thank you.
[2:03:22] And I move to adjourn.
>> Before we adjourn, Mr. Mayor, I I kind
[2:03:27] of agree with uh Miss Brooks. I think uh
the European nation and most of the
[2:03:34] world is very silent on this issue. I
think they're turning the the blind eye.
[2:03:39] Uh massive demonstrations all over the
world. Uh and 99.9% peaceful. No
[2:03:48] buildings were damaged. Uh no injuries
to public. No police officer has been
[2:03:54] assaulted.
they don't flip the the police cars and
[2:03:57] burn them down. Um but again I don't
know for some strange reason everyone is
[2:04:04] silent. Even the coverage that we they
get uh by news media is almost nothing.
[2:04:10] It's very similar to what was happening
in Arts. 9 months of blockades and you
[2:04:16] couldn't you couldn't even see it
anywhere. And 120,000 people were
[2:04:20] forcefully moved from their motherland.
No coverage. I think um I'm really
[2:04:26] shocked that human rights activists,
women's rights activists, none of them
[2:04:31] are out there speaking out about this
what's going on in Iran. And uh the
[2:04:36] people are fighting for their freedom.
Um I think they will free themselves
[2:04:41] eventually from what's going on from the
uh the very vicious government that's
[2:04:47] ruling for over 40 years. And I I I just
I'm I'm really shocked that nothing is
[2:04:54] happening. Nobody's saying anything.
Nobody's taking a step to put a put a
[2:04:58] stop to what's going on. Uh Iran is the
only country that over 75% of their
[2:05:03] population is between the age of I
believe 20 25 to 40 and they're very
[2:05:10] intelligent. They would they will free
themselves up because they care about
[2:05:14] what's going on and their rights
especially the women's rights. We know
[2:05:16] what happened in last 40 years. Uh maybe
probably the the the issue they have is
[2:05:21] they don't want to uh give into special
interest groups. That's why maybe
[2:05:26] nobody's talking about it. I I don't
know. I don't have the magic answer. As
[2:05:28] far as resolutions, I'm willing to look
at it as well, but empty resolutions to
[2:05:33] me it's uh we we issued resolutions as
well. Of course, it's it's important to
[2:05:37] do so, but I don't think it's going to
make a difference in what's going on. I
[2:05:41] think our uh government has to step in
and [clears throat] do whatever it's
[2:05:45] right. And many not only only United
States, the entire world is watching and
[2:05:51] not doing anything especially the
European nations that they um pretended
[2:05:56] to be the friends of the people of Iran,
not the government, but the people of
[2:06:01] Iran. But uh I stopped there, Mr. Mayor,
and um
[2:06:05] » yeah.
>> Well, it's yeah, it's the death of any
[2:06:09] person uh wherever located is tragic.
Um, I think there's a lot of moving
[2:06:15] pieces in the events in Iran. I think
from what I've I've looked at both both
[2:06:23] in uh Farsy and translations, this
started as an economic protest due to
[2:06:29] the collapsing economy due to the United
States sanctions on the country. We know
[2:06:37] that there are other uh governments
involved in this with different uh
[2:06:42] motives and I think before we decide to
make a comment and uh encourage Trump to
[2:06:51] bomb Iran or whatever he's been talking
about, we need to just see what the true
[2:06:57] facts are on the ground and then if if
council decides to bring it up for uh a
[2:07:03] further discussion, that's certainly
something we can do. at that time. I
[2:07:06] just don't know exactly what's
happening. I'm hearing a lot of
[2:07:09] different facts out there. Uh is there a
motion to adjurnn?
[2:07:14] » So moved.
>> We are adjourned.