Navigating the dynamics of a city is no small feat. In the latest episode of myBurbank Talks as Ross Benson, shares his valuable insights into the balancing act of maintaining city safety and preserving its green canopy. As a resident or enthusiast of Burbank, understanding these intricacies is essential. The discussion begins with the city's controversial decision to remove eight hazardous pine trees, sparking debate on the necessity of removing more. This environmental concern ties into the larger conversation about Burbank's commitment to safeguarding its residents while honoring its natural heritage.
Shifting gears, the podcast dives into the implications of the dramatic weather shift expected in Burbank. With a significant amount of rain and potential snow at low altitudes on the horizon, the city braces for what could be a transformative weather event. The Police Commission's recent agenda mishap is another topic of scrutiny, led to speculations about a possible Brown Act violation.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the beloved Burbank on Parade. Discussions of its potential revival stir up memories and spark hope for a rekindled community spirit. Budgeting, scheduling, and location considerations, such as favoring Magnolia Park for business benefits, are weighed carefully. New local developments, including eateries and the idea of expanding the event to include stages and carnivals, are also on the table. The episode highlights the need for better grand marshal representation and the evolving role of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce in city events.
The conversation takes a critical turn as the podcast addresses transportation and planning within the city. A special Transportation Commission meeting leaves more questions than answers, especially regarding pedestrian and bicycle counts. The hosts express confusion over the lack of bike count data and the dangers posed to cyclists at specific city crossings. They also discuss the notorious delays in infrastructure projects, such as bridge widening, with a humorous take on the predictability of extended timelines and budget issues.
The city's planning efforts are scrutinized, especially the one-way conversion of San Fernando Boulevard and the restriping of Olive Avenue, which, while reducing traffic speed, has led to concerns over the absence of bike lanes. The episode emphasizes the importance of staying informed about local developments and the challenges of bureaucracy in hiring for the many open city positions within the municipal machine.
Innovation within the Verdugo dispatch center is applauded, with an overview of the latest upgrades in emergency response technology. The hosts discuss the changes in dispatch numbering and the financial implications of dispatch services. They also delve into the upcoming modifications to animal ordinances and what these mean for Burbank's furry residents.
The podcast concludes with a reflection on the role of attorneys in the community, particularly in light of a dog bite incident. Local issues such as the rise in dog bite cases and the implications for dog parks are discussed. The episode wraps up with an analysis of the city council agenda, touching on development at the former site of the Bob Hope Museum, the friction between developers and city regulations, and the contentious topic of affordable housing units within these developments.
myBurbank Talks provides a comprehensive look into the week's events, including community dig events, updates on the Dick Clark dog park construction, and industry layoffs affecting the community. It wraps up with acknowledgments and advertisements, inviting listeners to stay engaged with the podcast for future discussions.
Navigating the dynamics of a city is no small feat. In the latest episode of myBurbank Talks as Ross Benson, shares his valuable insights into the balancing act of maintaining city safety and preserving its green canopy. As a resident or enthusiast of Burbank, understanding these intricacies is essential. The discussion begins with the city's controversial decision to remove eight hazardous pine trees, sparking debate on the necessity of removing more. This environmental concern ties into the larger conversation about Burbank's commitment to safeguarding its residents while honoring its natural heritage.
Shifting gears, the podcast dives into the implications of the dramatic weather shift expected in Burbank. With a significant amount of rain and potential snow at low altitudes on the horizon, the city braces for what could be a transformative weather event. The Police Commission's recent agenda mishap is another topic of scrutiny, led to speculations about a possible Brown Act violation.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the beloved Burbank on Parade. Discussions of its potential revival stir up memories and spark hope for a rekindled community spirit. Budgeting, scheduling, and location considerations, such as favoring Magnolia Park for business benefits, are weighed carefully. New local developments, including eateries and the idea of expanding the event to include stages and carnivals, are also on the table. The episode highlights the need for better grand marshal representation and the evolving role of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce in city events.
The conversation takes a critical turn as the podcast addresses transportation and planning within the city. A special Transportation Commission meeting leaves more questions than answers, especially regarding pedestrian and bicycle counts. The hosts express confusion over the lack of bike count data and the dangers posed to cyclists at specific city crossings. They also discuss the notorious delays in infrastructure projects, such as bridge widening, with a humorous take on the predictability of extended timelines and budget issues.
The city's planning efforts are scrutinized, especially the one-way conversion of San Fernando Boulevard and the restriping of Olive Avenue, which, while reducing traffic speed, has led to concerns over the absence of bike lanes. The episode emphasizes the importance of staying informed about local developments and the challenges of bureaucracy in hiring for the many open city positions within the municipal machine.
Innovation within the Verdugo dispatch center is applauded, with an overview of the latest upgrades in emergency response technology. The hosts discuss the changes in dispatch numbering and the financial implications of dispatch services. They also delve into the upcoming modifications to animal ordinances and what these mean for Burbank's furry residents.
The podcast concludes with a reflection on the role of attorneys in the community, particularly in light of a dog bite incident. Local issues such as the rise in dog bite cases and the implications for dog parks are discussed. The episode wraps up with an analysis of the city council agenda, touching on development at the former site of the Bob Hope Museum, the friction between developers and city regulations, and the contentious topic of affordable housing units within these developments.
myBurbank Talks provides a comprehensive look into the week's events, including community dig events, updates on the Dick Clark dog park construction, and industry layoffs affecting the community. It wraps up with acknowledgments and advertisements, inviting listeners to stay engaged with the podcast for future discussions.
From deep in the Burbank Media District. It's time for another edition of my Burbank Talks, presented by the staff of my Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda as we join our program.
Speaker 2:Hello Burbank, Frank Schruitt here with you once again, along with Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:How are you? My Burbank Talks. Oh, I can't put it on because I got these. Oh, forget it, but here Burbank Talks, my Burbank Talks.
Speaker 2:My Burbank does a lot of things we do Well. This week Craig Dirling is on assignment so we hope he's enjoying his assignment, whatever that might be. So he'll be hopefully back with us next week because we always enjoy his perspective. I wonder if he's listening. Might be, you'll find out. I'm sure he'll text you.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'll get a text.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure he will. He needs his humor.
Speaker 3:What should we do? And that Boston. You know that little Boston accent he gives us.
Speaker 2:Well, let's talk about last week's winner, to start with, andrew Taylor.
Speaker 3:Congratulations, you have one drum roll or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should do that, shouldn't we? Yeah, there we go. Andrew Taylor, there we are. You won a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe. Oh, boy. There are lots of great things you can buy with that gift card. A lot of great meals. I do recommend the soups. If you're a soup fan, you got to try the soups out. Yeah, they're all made right there and you're dressing too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you don't order dressing for as a meal, so we have a side of let me have a side of Dolls and Island and a Coke Anyhow. So congratulations. Please send us your address so I can get that gift card meals out to you ASAP.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I got to make sure my tooth is in here. Congratulations.
Speaker 2:Andrew. Well, let's move back to last Tuesday, the 20th. The city reported that a judge, I guess the city, had to go to court because they have the lawsuit against them about all the pine. You know the city wants to take all the pine trees out 120 pine trees and I guess they found that there was eight pine trees, like one on San Anita and seven on Niagara, that were in dire shape, which you know. I understand that, yeah, that's you know, and I agree with that. So a judge gave them the permission to take out those eight trees for safety reasons. You know, not sure why they need to take out the other 110 other ones.
Speaker 3:Well, I believe it was a restraining order to keep the city, you know, until they got to court. But the judge said yeah, this is a. Yeah, this is a this is an emergency.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's a safety situation and I get that, and we should take trees out when they're and I don't think the residents are upset when you take out trees that are damaged or going about fall or something I think it would be residents are upset with is why just take every tree out, just to do it, so you know they have a good point there.
Speaker 3:You know, and the last couple of days, I don't care what TV channel you turn on the news what's it showing? Trees that have fallen into houses and you look at how big Southern California is.
Speaker 2:they find three or four trees every time. It's not like they find 40, 50, 60 trees, you know so we don't have the wind and it's show Hillside's too. I mean, you know Hillside's and Burbank haven't come down with thank goodness. But you know we're not going to take a while all the homes away from the hillside's because they may get.
Speaker 3:Falling on. But I will say you know this monitoring the city channels are city. You know they're on it. They got forestry crews working. They got water and power crews, you know, standing by If anything happens. So good thing, absolutely. How much rain did we get? Did you say Well?
Speaker 2:today we got 11,000, seven inch.
Speaker 3:Not a lot, but the next couple of days we might see we got a big one coming Friday and Saturday said. Oh boy.
Speaker 2:That's going to also be a, an arctic one, which means they said snow maybe as low as 2500 feet.
Speaker 3:That would mean in my backyard.
Speaker 2:Maybe on top of your head, where that hat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my Burbank hat definitely.
Speaker 2:You might bring snow hat.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you. I look out my back door and you know I'm right up against the mountain so you could see those towers real easy.
Speaker 2:Well, you'll find out probably by Sunday morning, probably at the latest.
Speaker 3:So I don't know if I'll be up by morning.
Speaker 2:Before you go to bed, then Then you probably the same thing for you. What is the police commission, which we couldn't tell you about last week because they never put the agenda online for us? I guess you watched the meeting.
Speaker 3:I caught part of it and then I watched the rerun.
Speaker 2:I just wanted if anybody mentioned the fact they violated the Brown Act by not bringing their agenda online.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Well, I got a copy of it, I think Tuesday and supposed to be out Monday, but Monday was a holiday. It should be on Friday, then Well, you would think so. Yeah, I did watch the meeting and the recap and I'll tell you we had two commissioners not there, so it was a. I think we only had five commissioners Meeting went. I mean, if you blink.
Speaker 2:I actually turned it on around eight o'clock and it was done at seven. I looked at my phone yeah, it was over.
Speaker 3:It was gone 6.59,. Now that our ACE TIO's office has the time on the bottom yes, who did that?
Speaker 2:Who did that? That was the oh. That was legend.
Speaker 1:Legend Daniel.
Speaker 3:Daniel, it's really nice that you could see, because when Mike Elman said see you at the next meeting, it was 6.59, I go. This is a first. Maybe those two commissioners, those other two commissioners talk too much. But I don't want to say that.
Speaker 2:I'll say something that will go on and arrow to me, especially the council meetings. Every council member has to make a comment on everything you know. They just can't say you know what I agree, or you know, but they've got to. They've got to say the same exact thing. The other person said for two minutes and nothing new came out of that conversation. Nothing new came out of the mouth, but it's just another agreement and thanking people and I just we really need to have every council member. We know you're there, okay, it's your vote to counts, not the fact you say what you're, that you know, that you agree, we understand that. So back to the police commission meeting. So what?
Speaker 3:happened as a meeting. There were a couple of things One of the commission had asked for and I don't know if I have it down in the order that their agenda did, but they wanted to report on from the chief on how do they choose a captain. Recently, jj Picheles, he retired, and so there's an opening oh, captain, my captain, captain, my captain. And so the chief got up and he basically broke down. He's the one that makes a decision. There are, I believe, four divisions and each one has a captain, and he was asked by some of the commission members how do you choose you know, how do you go through that which one's captain's?
Speaker 2:right now.
Speaker 3:Administrative. I believe JJ was in charge of the jail communications, if I recall right Services kind of, and so the chief went on to say how he chooses police. The department also doesn't have currently a deputy chief. The whole department's being run by chief Albanese.
Speaker 2:Now can he go outside the department and get a deputy chief or a captain, or does he have to do it in the department, or he goes outside the department. Does he have to go through a protocol or something?
Speaker 3:I believe they did. I think he said he did, but he said I don't know if I wrote it in my notes there are only so many lieutenants that's who you choose from and a couple of them don't have the required to be a captain. There's some schooling and so forth, so that was kind of interesting to hear him say how he does that. The other thing that they reported on was and it's been on their agenda they created a safety program kind of for drivers and they're putting on a program at the schools. Well, commissioner Coombs and Romick Habegan took and created a flyer and a brochure that will be distributed. The Burbank Armenian Association backed them up and helped them out and apparently they created for new drivers. And, like the chief said at the podium, our cars nowadays are pretty, you know, have so many different buttons and Earl hot rods.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's pretty much what he said. But this brochure is gonna go the dealers every car dealer is in with them. They're gonna be handed out to new car owners, maybe some kids and so forth, and it's just the warnings After the fatal accident up on Glen Oaks. You know these kids have their CD player, their music going and everything else going in a car. You gotta concentrate on driving.
Speaker 2:It'd be nice if we could also share it with Glendale.
Speaker 3:Well, I know there's some relationship between a couple of them and you're right. So that's something that and it was too bad both commissioners were out on last Wednesday so they couldn't speak about it. So the chief kind of pinched it and they even had their administrative clerk come in and tell a couple of commissioners what the purpose was. And that was the two reports that they talked about. I know the chief talked about some upcoming events that are coming up, but that was about it and that's why they got out of there at 6.59.
Speaker 2:Well, good for them. But one of the Thursdays Thursday you were a busy guy. This week the conversation has started about the Burbank on parade in the future and you were part of that conversation. So you don't really have to say who was involved, because I think it's very preliminary right now and very it's early. But you said you had a lot of very interested people and very enthusiastic people who really want to see things like the parade come back again. So why don't you kind of give us a little bit of a you know kind of what went on in that closed door meeting?
Speaker 3:Well it was. You know a lot of people. I see comments all the time. I'd love to see Burbank on parade come back. It takes we have found with Holiday in the Park. It's a big sense of community. People like to get out and Burbank is a great community and so it's very preliminary. We just kind of talked to a couple of us. There were a couple involved and everybody is for it and but the big thing is it might take a good year because we're thinking of budgets and getting on people's calendars.
Speaker 2:It might try to get on Magnolia instead of we might all over Yep Third Street where they were talking about. You might put it where it's gonna help the businesses also.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly On all of your helping out McDonald's, you know, and yes, tally ran in the morning, but in Magnolia Park there's a lot more.
Speaker 2:And we don't need to pray for raising canes.
Speaker 3:True, and I don't know how you would get to raising canes if you think about it if you did it back down all of it, because oh, what a shame.
Speaker 2:You can only get it by the way speaking of raising canes, and now let's get back on the second. I just saw that they're putting a raising canes where the firestone used to be in North Hollywood, at the corner of what is it Lancashire and Queen.
Speaker 3:Lancashire and Queen.
Speaker 2:Yeah all right there. Used to be a firestone.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And that's gone and they're really they're building a raising canes there now. So I'll say it's probably pre-forced away done and then, as I, they used to have a fish and chips place.
Speaker 3:Right, they used to have fish and chips.
Speaker 2:That's now gonna be Randy's donuts, really. So if you took Lake People, there's a little bit of what's going on in the Tukulek area, but anyway, just come back to pray it again.
Speaker 3:That's gonna be a busy intersection.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they don't know what they're. La doesn't care. They don't really care. Neighbors think, or anybody else.
Speaker 3:But the best pizza around is still Little Tony's.
Speaker 2:Little Tony's always good and they're open late, yep, which is always nice. You know, find some more open late in Burbank, good luck.
Speaker 3:All right, so back to the parade. There's a lot of things that we have to do some homework on. The biggest thing is to pay for it.
Speaker 2:Well, I think you also were kind of talking about not just do a parade, but let's do an entire day on Magnolia. Let's do a stage show, after maybe set up a carnival on a different day somewhere else in the city there are a lot of ideas going around, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of things going out that we could do besides just the parade by itself, making a. We want to show off Burbank, but, yeah, it needs to be done. I'm so sick and tired of watching all the news that we, you know, we can sing. Well, here's the Fourth of July priority here. Here's the Memorial Day party there. There's the you know, the black history parade here, and Burbank has Zip. Yeah, all Burbank really has is Good timing there.
Speaker 3:So you know the conversation started. We're going to get back together in about a month or so and see what some of the you know people found out information wise. But everybody's for it. Burbank on parade will be back somewhere or another and you know every year that they used to do it. You know you got to think, take into consideration the heat time of the year. You know everything bothering the neighbors or you know that you set up on their streets. So there's a lot to think about.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, whatever you know, they can make a sacrificial one. I'm sorry, I you know some neighbors going to complain. Oh my goodness, you put a horse trailer on my street. That's it. The property values are going, you know, get over it, get over it.
Speaker 3:That's what we have found.
Speaker 2:It's a good of the city, it's a good of the community that for one day, you know would get out of your house. Take your easy chair, go to the corner and enjoy the parade.
Speaker 3:Well, it so happens, I know some people that live a block off of Magnolia and they have told me they loved years and years and years ago, when the parade was on Magnolia, they did exactly that Take their lawn chair, walk to the end of the block and you love it, you know, and then that day you can do other stuff. So there's a lot in the works that would get it done. And why am I going to say this? You're for it.
Speaker 2:You know I'm totally for it. But the thing I'm totally against is years ago we had Ronald McDonald as the grand marshal. Oh, this is a burn my side that the best we could do in the media capital, the media capital of the world, is get Ronald McDonald's as the grand marshal. So I'm going to say this to our studios Disney, the Warner Brothers, to all the rest of them Step up, help us out with a good grand marshal. Find somebody you know that represents. You know, you usually find somebody who has a movie coming out that month and they have to be the grand marshal. They leave the walk of fame. You know, somebody gets a star and all of a sudden their album drops or their new movie comes out that next month, or fine, but it's all part of promotion. Oh, that's right, you know it can be a grand marshal. So, in a car, go down to parade route for 45 minutes, get back in your helicopter and go back to where you were, you know. But you know, help celebrate Burbank a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those will all be things taken into consideration. You know, and every time we've done a Burbank on parade, you know it might rain the day before but it's always a Chamber of Commerce day. But the Chamber of Commerce you know that came up in the conversation too They've never done the parade. You know, used to be the real leaders and they've kind of.
Speaker 2:I think that the Chamber of Commerce is kind of doing a new, is kind of getting more in tune with the city than they used to be. I think there it was a very I don't want to say stuffy, but it was, you know, kind of an old guard and they were just kind of talked about. You know, businesses with money and that kind of thing, the big businesses. I think now the Chamber is kind of looking smaller businesses and the health of the whole business community in Burbank and what will we do to help? I know your park, that's right, that's you know. Hats off to them, you know, to Jamie and her staff. I think she's trying a good job with that.
Speaker 3:So we'll keep everybody posted. You know, like I said, we're our next meeting, I think, is April, so you might not hear me talk about it for a little while.
Speaker 2:Well, when it's starting to get a little closer and you start needing people to help volunteering, such as you know set things up and, because that's an eight month process, you know, let people know and how they can get involved, because you might, you know, if you get five or six people who says you know what, I want to be part of the solution.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, it's funny that you say that because I'm a member of the Magnolia Park Merchant Association and they just last week put out for this year's Holiday in the Park. We need some volunteers and if you love the event, it doesn't mean that night you're going to be sitting at a table or directing traffic.
Speaker 2:That's my problem.
Speaker 3:But we there's positions we want. We're going to change up a Holiday in the Park a little. We could use some volunteers for that. So you guys most people know how to get a hold of me 30,000 people show up to that.
Speaker 2:That's what we had. You're doing it for Burbank, Yep. Well, let's move on to the weekend. A couple of things. One was kind of a little bit of tragedy there was, I guess there was a hidden run accident in the Castaway's parking lot and it was put out as a felony hidden run, which means there's hidden runs but once somebody's injured and you leave the scene, now it becomes a felony. So I'm not sure what the injuries were, but it was a felony hidden run that happened in the parking lot. Hopefully they have cameras somewhere up there so they can at least get the vehicle or something.
Speaker 3:If I heard right, somebody that had a Tesla got it all on their car camera, not only the color of the car, the person, everything. I've put in a request from the PD's PIO, because we've gotten some emails from people that thought it was a lot more serious. We'll have an answer next week. We're gonna find out.
Speaker 2:We'll find out and we'll get back to you. In the meantime, I'm sure we'll have a story in my Burbank when we do find out.
Speaker 3:Yep, that's not the first time. We hear the police go up there. Quite a bit, yeah, and that's a pretty long trip going up that road, even Code 3.
Speaker 2:Well, something else pretend good on the weekend also. And Burroughs VMA, the Vocal Music Association, held their pop show 45 on this weekend and their fire shows on Saturday. Oh, and it was Sunday, wasn't it? Sunday too, yeah, Sunday yeah, you went to one of the showings. I was. You loved it. I know you love that.
Speaker 3:I really do.
Speaker 2:You know, I went to, I had a little bit of an issue at the show you were at, but besides that you had a little rundown.
Speaker 3:You know, I'll tell you, the people at Burroughs put on a great show. It's one, it was a sellout. They sold everything out. I mean, that's how popular and they advertised with us. I know that yeah.
Speaker 2:But these kids, they were like what no.
Speaker 3:Well, we did have a cover article.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think people love the show though. Yeah, I think people want to go every year just to see how much talent there is.
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny, I said and I go, and there's a lot of people that don't have kids in Burbank schools that go to it, right? But yeah, I was sitting in the back shooting pictures there's a photo gallery up on my Burbank and there were some hooligans that chose to sit in the back row and, you know, make some cat calls, and they didn't realize. I don't think that they were sitting right behind some administrators. Well, they got escorted out and I heard on my earpiece that I was listen. Burbank PD got called 15 minutes later.
Speaker 2:Well, I heard of 15 minutes later, exactly.
Speaker 3:But it's funny because I was sitting shooting these kids were. They were bugging me too. I mean, it was uncalled for. You know, you don't go to a Broadway show and you hear people in the back row heckling and making noise and it kind of just frustrates me that these kids can walk in. These kids put on so many hours to rehearse and sing and then have somebody yell something in the audience. So they got escorted out and I don't believe Burbank took them in. But I guarantee Burbank got their names and will remember who they were.
Speaker 2:Well, let's hope the school if there are students there, let's hope the school calls them in and says you know, yeah, I can't do anything to at least talk to me. Who knows we're talking to these kids that are hanging out nowadays? You know that there's no consequences.
Speaker 1:Well, exactly.
Speaker 3:You know.
Speaker 2:I think that's why the DA has all the problems. Now there's no consequence for doing crimes anymore.
Speaker 3:Yep Well, and you know what I thought about that while sitting there. I wonder if there'll be a consequence. Do these parents even know where their kids are? Oh, I'm gonna go out with Jimmy or Johnny.
Speaker 2:Well, I can get that, but maybe the parents should be called afterward, you know, and said hey, you know, your son came in and was disruptive during our you know and knowing some of these parents will say yeah, what about it? Seriously, that's I worry. I worry about some of the attitudes at home. Yep, but besides that great show though I mean Fantastic show I know you're a picture I look today. You put them up a day ago and they've already had like 1200 views already.
Speaker 3:Yeah, quite a few people took a look at them. I love shooting it and I tell you they're just. These kids get in front of you know a thousand people in there and perform and entertain. They do it so well, so great show. I would look for it. I think there's another play coming up or something, so there's always something going up.
Speaker 2:That's what they do, yep, well, okay, that's it for the week that was, and before we get to the week that will be, we are going to have a quick commercial break, so we'll be right back after this.
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Speaker 2:Okay, we're back with you and Craig Sherwood once again was Ross Benson, heidi Ho.
Speaker 3:Oh, I got to push up on Heidi Ho.
Speaker 2:Craig Jordan's on assignment.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:And we'll get back to him next time, hopefully, hopefully next week he'll return to the country.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about today, today being Monday, the 26th the transportation now, this I didn't understand. The Transportation Commission met today at five o'clock at the Community Services Building for a special meeting. Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. It was a special meeting. I looked at it and I said oh wow, what's going on? They need to call a special meeting for and on the agenda was evaluation of bike and pedestrian counts. I'm going how important is that you have to call? Oh, there's something else on the agenda. Oh yeah, there is, it's the business card policy. So why we need a special meeting for those two items? I'm confused, but that's, you know a lot of things that these questions do sometimes Kind of confused me. Well, how many numbers?
Speaker 3:did they have?
Speaker 2:Well, it was interesting that they talked about. They did a count of bike and pedestrians and I guess they only used first and all of us as an example and then a 12 hour period between 7 am and 7 pm. 350 pedestrians were in that intersection at one time or another using the crosswalks there. That's pretty, but you got to the metallic stations right after the bridge there. If people are willing to go up to the suicide elevator and take that down to the metro link, well that's pretty good. They're pretty good at counting and they really didn't have anything for bikes. They have a lot of graphs and things like that and sometimes the technology gets me so, um, so overwhelming that you can't even read what the technology gives you. You know you got to be a have a specialist just to read what it is.
Speaker 3:but I sure hope they don't plan on making. I just wonder how many?
Speaker 2:I wonder how many. How many bikes Use that all over the past? That's that's what I gotta be one of the most dangerous. I crossings in the city that make no your bridge are dangerous Because you know you go on the sidewalk. It's not very wide and the guard rails are three feet tall, I mean. Those car, those are whizzing and there's not enough room on the lanes or bikes.
Speaker 3:Well, that's why, down the road, someday Hopefully in our lifetime they're gonna widen that bridge and add that, because how are you, how are you gonna get to?
Speaker 2:we'll see when that happens.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:It'll be like the brick bridge. It'll take, uh, two and a half years after they promise in 18 months. Yeah, you know how our Love to spend our tax money over and, over and over again.
Speaker 3:But you know what? We can all look back. I remember just telemontist. We attended a ribbon cutting of the 170 and the five and they gave a timeline of when that intersects I think. I think eight years went by the carpool lane. Yeah, yeah, and him and I kept looking at each other. Same thing with the burbank. You know the um, that whole Engine of the train tracks and everything, and I recall everybody going. Will it ever get done? Will it ever?
Speaker 2:And really it hasn't been finished, really because the there's still time for the bike lane in and put the landscaping in. Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ran out of money. How many times? Yeah, so we'll see your tax dollars at work.
Speaker 2:Isn't that what one of the signs say your tax dollars at work, exactly? Um, the planning commission was scheduled today, but they didn't meet. They had nothing to talk about.
Speaker 3:There's no planning going on, it's just I did notice that we had put in On my burbank Um, they're looking for.
Speaker 2:Yes, uh, they need, uh, I have to plan, commissioner, quit or left the planning commission. So there's an opening. So I think you have another two weeks to get your application into the city clerk's office. You go to my burbank, you'll see a little story and where you can Put your application.
Speaker 3:I believe there's a link. You can do it all yeah you do right through the city. Clerk's office and that could be one of the reasons why, maybe, if somebody is sick, well, I mean you need to have three for quorum, right?
Speaker 2:So you know you still go with four, yeah. I guess, if a vote ties two to two, then you have to wait till you get a fifth member.
Speaker 3:Then it was so much going on In the city you would think that they would have a full agenda. But yeah no, we'll see.
Speaker 2:Well, tuesday now. Once again my confusion of how the city works. We're gonna have two meetings at the exact same time, one being the granddaddy of them all, the city council meeting, but at 6 pm. Also, arts and public places is going to meet at 6 pm at the community services building. So they're going to meet exactly the same time as the city council and they're going to talk about a final art design for the ritzy, which is, of course, the regional intermodal Transportation center by the airport has been there for 10 years that there are only 10 years behind on the artwork now. So I guess it's time to finally figure something out, for that, by the time they get the artwork put in, the terminal is gonna be gone.
Speaker 3:How true?
Speaker 2:that rizzi's gonna be. There was no way to get to it, but the terminal is gonna be a long way away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we haven't been assured that yet, how that's working.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3:It'll be interesting, but you brought up the. The council meeting is. Yes, it's six o'clock now. I have a funny feeling you look at that agenda.
Speaker 2:I did look at the agenda but I thought I know you put on here. We had our asked the mayor show last week, which a lot of people give us great remarks on, and and then, you know, nick Schultz, our mayor, was here for his, you know, february asked the mayor podcast and he, um, I thought it was a great podcast. It went about An hour and a half, which is kind of long for our those usual podcasts, but every minute of it was informational and you know he, every question put to him he came up with something.
Speaker 3:What did you?
Speaker 2:notice, he's gonna be watching you see this week.
Speaker 3:That's right, he is. Uh, he'll be out of town and he will participate. Now I wonder you know you got to remember if we go up to 11 and midnight. Did you bring a gavel with him? Oh no, I don't think you know. Run the meeting from up.
Speaker 2:Wow, I couldn't he. I don't know that would be. I don't know why he couldn't. I'm sure he'll have Mickey Prez do it, but right, he could do it, you know, and uh.
Speaker 3:But think of the time difference. It'll be three in the morning if they go past midnight.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So he's earning and guess what, anticipate of going past midnight.
Speaker 3:You see how many things are. Yeah, the agenda is pretty full not only pretty full I hear there's gonna. A lot of people are gonna speak on a couple of items that are on the agenda.
Speaker 2:So, and Honestly, how many people I better gonna show up to speak on non agenda items such as the olive restriping, which everybody's complaining about and wants to know why they did it. Listen to the ask the mayor podcast. He explains it all right there.
Speaker 3:Well, after he he explained it our city's pio office put out a very informational piece that was brought out what months ago Of why they did it and how it's working and what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:So and soon that's Daner Boulevard. Next week first, second and third. We're closing that baby down for a while to make it one way.
Speaker 3:Yep. So you know what? How many people are gonna go? They never talked about this. How did we know about it? Why didn't we know about it?
Speaker 2:Oh, and that's what our show is about they want to complain about things, but they don't want to take the time to. You know the information's there. That's all I have to do is like listen to one of our shows and they will find out. You know what, if there's something you don't know, then send us an email and we'll find out the answer on the air for you.
Speaker 3:That's right, you know, especially on the downtown and that olive restriping, you know I get it. I've gotten notes. People have emailed me personally about um the olive between Glen Oaks and up on the hill. Yeah that's been talked about. I lived on that block for over 10 years. The people that live there Are loving it. It slowed down traffic. But I will also say, coming here tonight I took a look up there and, yeah, putting stop signs every six, seventh, ninth, you know.
Speaker 2:The only thing that we you can't have mentioned when our in our pre show meeting was um, there's no place for bike lanes. You know, I have all that road up there and know where for bikes to Safely traverse.
Speaker 3:Yeah, unless they ride in that center.
Speaker 2:You know spot which is now where you want to be if you're on a bicycle.
Speaker 3:You know, yeah, so I'm not sure, but you know.
Speaker 2:Once again, somebody just didn't. I don't know it. It can. It confounds me how City doesn't talk with each other.
Speaker 3:You know they will have the complete bike strategies and all these things that yet we don't even think about bikes on a well, I think further along in the agenda you had on here I thought I saw in here Is they're gonna be paying a consultant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, so we'll get to the. Yeah, let's get to the meeting, we'll get to that. So there's gonna be a closed session and one of the things they're gonna talk about um Is they're gonna negotiate with the um, the, the city employees. Yeah, the negotiator says the employment agreement with the, with the city Uh, union. Hello, easy to get that out, isn't it? I'm trying to read ahead before I read what I was trying to read. So they're gonna be talking to the negotiator for the city's employees union. So I'm sure they all want to raise and Hopefully they can get a raise. Hopefully we can keep employees in the city, because it seems like every time we look left and right, there's a new person in that position.
Speaker 3:Uh, mid management seems to change On a daily basis sometimes you know I took a look at the list of open positions. There's over a hundred Different positions. That people kind of it just gets me.
Speaker 2:I had a lot of red tape trying to get a position though, so yep. Uh, they're also going to talk about their employment agreement with the city attorney. Now, of course, city attorney and the city manager are the only two employees that work for the city council, so that's up to them to talk to them about their job and their raise and all those kinds of things. So that's on the. That's on the closed session.
Speaker 3:I wonder if that's where the city attorney can say I need another dozen attorneys.
Speaker 2:No, I probably not. No, that's budget time. That's the budget time. Okay, they are on the consent agenda. What they want to do is award $414,000 to accompany the program management of the Metro Transit Quarter project and other projects like the San Fernando Bikeway. Here we go, bikeway again, the Chandler Bikeway, the First Street Protected Bikeway, the Front Street Protected Cycle Track and the Bonnewitz Street closure. And, of course, they still want to configure the Olive Sparks Vertigo Intersection, which means they want to make it the way they want to do to that what they did to what you should call five points at Victory and Burbank, and they want to make the intersection come out.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, if you think about it, I drive in here, you know I come down Scott Road. And if you think about it, Scott and Glen Oaks, they did that. Yeah, they turned it right here at Alameda and Pass. Yeah, they did that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did that.
Speaker 3:So there's a reason why they want to eliminate that weird interest. And how many times have you sat at Olive and Sparks and somebody is sitting in the middle of the street going? I think I goofed up here, you know they look all.
Speaker 2:Well, lord knows how many times they reconfigured the Alameda and Olive signals because they didn't figure out which cars should go at which time to which, you know. And we had accident after accident. But it's funny how a lot of this stuff is for bikeways, but yet they don't think about the bikeway when they come up with a project like the Olive East Olive project.
Speaker 3:You know the one thing I will say Olive and Alameda in front of the old NBC. I sat there so long the night. I took a look to the right and all the cars closed. They've closed for apparently a long time. It has really See, I think they changed to configure that intersection. But you know, you sit there long enough, you start looking around and go. A&o was there for before Julius. Oh yeah, it was yeah, so I was kind of surprised to see that.
Speaker 2:But the, the. This is going to be a $414,000 contract they want to give them on a yearly basis.
Speaker 3:Right. So you notice the gentleman or the company that they want to go with. He's the one that did most of the work up on the five projects, so he's quite familiar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's 20 years to get it done. Then, if we go by that time, taylor.
Speaker 3:Well, apparently, of all the people that applied, he is the one consulting company that has good relationship with quite a few of the different companies that the city uses Government agencies like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they all love each other, don't they?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, mcgregor, so that was his name 114,000 dollars every year.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to tell you right now, when we come up with that metro transit corridor project, that's going to become a huge situation. I don't care. You know we're talking earlier. Right now Magnolia is Magnolia is on the plans to go to phase two, which means put a center medium in down Magnolia and have traffic go one way in each direction. We're do go traffic going one way in each direction. They want to do that now to all of one track and their each direction. Where are the car? You know they're going to go Clark Oak. All the residential neighborhoods are going to start all going because there's just too many cars and they're all going to be one lane traffic on three major streets between between Burbank and Riverside Drive. In fact, riverside Drive is one lane of traffic.
Speaker 3:But if you recall, they're a big thing when they talked about green streets and safe streets plans, all to slow everybody down.
Speaker 2:Well, guess what? It's good, Stop, they're going to be there. They're going to take 40 minutes to get to one side of city, the other.
Speaker 3:Well, I will say I live above the freeway now but to come down to the flatlands at certain hours, to come down Vertigo to get to Hollywood Way, it's backed up past California and I have made calls to the traffic department and I know they've redone the signals and everything.
Speaker 2:You know it's interesting, when I go up, probably northbound from you know, from Alameda, up to you know Victory, or up toward the airport or whatever, I'm usually stopping every signal. I'm stopping. Yet Vertigo. I'm stopping at Magnolia, I'm stopping at Brubank, I'm stopping at Victory. But if I'm up the other way and I start coming back southbound, usually I don't stop at all, at all. All the way down to Vertigo to make my right hand turn, I don't stop. So somehow they figured that out southbound at the price of northbound.
Speaker 3:But do you remember? Here, this one is going to make you look back a couple of years. Think of all the employees that used to leave Lockheed at 3 and 4 pm, and they would be.
Speaker 2:Oinovista was hammered.
Speaker 3:Oinovista, hollywood Way. I remember motor officers sitting at Wittin'all for cars sneaking through that Clark light and they'd ride them tickets. I think it was Warren, hess and Paysinger and all. They just love sitting there. You know years ago but yeah, we have a lot more cars in town.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I just thought you know what I look at these buses and nobody's on these buses.
Speaker 3:You mean not the metro, you mean the Burbank bus.
Speaker 2:I look at the metro too sometimes and they're not very well-ridden and okay. So they want to make this quarter from North Hollywood to Pasadena. How many people want to go from Pasadena to North Hollywood? How many people want to go from North Hollywood to Pasadena? They're acting as though it's with thousands of people.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, let's start to get 100 people in a day to use the bus right now and you're going to take away. We'll get into this when it comes up, because I'm you know I might get all fired up for these things.
Speaker 2:Well, that's next month, if I recall yeah it's next month, but I know that there's going to be a protest Right Before the council meeting about this. Now I'm sure it'll come in and they'll talk about it, but the council cannot talk to them because it's not on the agenda. But you know that's funny because All those consulting companies if they have it on the thing for talking about that and technically it is on the agenda.
Speaker 3:That's what I was thinking when I read the agenda. And they planned on being there to protest tomorrow in front of City Hall. All those people are going to go in and write. Can't they consider that agenda item? I think they should. Yeah, Just say you know, Because it is on the agenda.
Speaker 2:You're hiring a contractor to deal with this, so we're going to talk about it.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm kind of wondering. So that's why I said Well.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Mr Madougal is going to say, well, that's not exactly the way the agenda was supposed to be. But you know what those three words are on there? The three words that say Metro.
Speaker 3:Transit Corridor. So that makes me wonder Tomorrow's meeting might be because people are going to talk about the lining up on all of Glen Oaks. They can't talk about that, Right, but then people are going to talk about this Also Now. Did you say that was on the consent agenda? It's on the consent agenda, but still, they can talk about that. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:They can still talk about that, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 2:I thought it was something that was certainly too, if they wanted to. Okay. So something I thought was interesting in our world of listening to radios and everything else Burbank, lindale and Pasadena I should Wait a minute. You heard that started Verdugo just dispatched. Do you remember what you heard? That started offhand. Okay, I'll let you look at it. Look it up if you can.
Speaker 2:For a second Back, I want to say close to 20 years ago, burbank, lindale and Pasadena all got together and put their fire dispatch centers together. They called it Verdugo Fire Dispatch. So they used to have a Burbank person sitting next to the Burbank police dispatchers and they would dispatch Burbank fire engines and then go down Pasadena and they also got together and said let's have it out at one location. So they did that and as time's gone on, other cities have joined also. So right now Verdugo Fire Dispatch has the cities of Alhambra, arcadia, monrovia, montabello, monterey Park, san Gabriel, san Marino, sierra Madre, south Pasadena and the Hollywood Burbank Airport are all part of right now Verdugo Fire Communications and they dispatch all the engines and everything else.
Speaker 2:So in a news media way, it's interesting that we can hear what's going on in other cities all the time. In fact I know that a year or so ago they had that mass shooting in Monterey Park and I was listening to that whole thing live as it happened and the tragedy of all that. But it was interesting to be able to listen to that and listen to the professionalism of all those paramedics and firemen that were at the scene that night. Now they're going to add now the city of West Covina and they're going to be for you to listen to the radios. They're going to be the 120 units, so like 121 engine 122, engine 123, and they give an example. You see, every city has its own number system. So Burbank used to be an engine one and engine two and all that and they became the 10. So now we have engine 11, engine 12 and so on.
Speaker 3:Pat, we got a 20s 19.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Glenn Dell has a 20s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, passing has a 30s and so on and so on. So the West Covina is going to be the 120s. So we've heard them dispatched already. I thought it was interesting was the contract is just needs a, is a approval, that the city council's kind of formality, but expect to make about eight hundred and forty one thousand dollars per year on this contract. But here here's what I found was interesting. What they do is they charge for dispatch and the charge is eighty four dollars and thirteen cents every time to dispatch an engine or a parametric unit for the city of West Covina. Eighty four dollars every time they get that magazine say engine to one twenty one go to a heart attack at you know some place at eighty four dollars and the last couple of days, a lot of calls.
Speaker 3:They've been busy. You had asked a minute ago. The Verdugo dispatch center started in nineteen seventy nine seventy nine.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're talking about seventy nine Are you? Sure Took it right off their webpage. Wow, so it's forty five years ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I remember their thirtieth.
Speaker 2:You know, I remember, before we had Verdugo, it was, you know, burbank engine one, and, oh yeah, and Burbank eleven. A, they had all those strange little numbers and wow, so forty five. Yeah, we've been through ages that long too, haven't we?
Speaker 3:Yep, because I remember they gave away for their thirtieth anniversary a coin right. Little coin which I still have some that were, and it was a thirtieth anniversary, so so five more years we're gonna have that big fifty coming up. And the technology they put out calls.
Speaker 2:We've been lucky enough to go to the Verdugo oh many. Communication center and it's a. I mean they've got the screens are Into the art. Yeah, it's like an aircraft control room in there.
Speaker 3:you know Well they, you know they never go to sleep.
Speaker 2:Can't look like my office out here at my my control center.
Speaker 3:That's how you you kind of made your office look like. Yes, you know, they have all these consoles, everything that they do there. They talk to all these agencies. If you can go online on this, put in Verdugo fire dispatch and you the whole story.
Speaker 2:It's all on there. It's very interesting. So anyhow that's on the agenda. They're gonna welcome West Covina and it's kind of a done deal. But but I remember you know what. Once again, you know the advantage of that. It's called area C, where they all work out of and area C can all work together. So there's a huge brush fire in Burbank, you know. Lord knows, hopefully never, but we get an aircraft go down in Burbank or stuff. Area season can respond to that. That means engines from everywhere are. It's called mutual aid.
Speaker 3:And we'll get everybody here with the police department if there's ever a major incident. Right, they are involved with area C and they get called. But yeah, it's kind of interesting them the state of the art now with cell phones. Okay, you take your cell phone and you dial 911 and you're in the middle of who knows where. See, they're coming now and you don't know where you are. They can plot to you where you are by cell towers. That's technology. If you're driving down the freeway your call will go into usually CHP. Now they'll go into the local agency. Let's say you're at Angelina on the 5, it'll rock your call right to Burbank. And if they have to transfer you to Vertigo, the technology, like I said, I remember when it all started many years ago good friend Rich Kaufman was and Don Weiss were the first supervisors.
Speaker 2:Rich Kaufman. What a great guy. Rip for Rich.
Speaker 3:So that's kind of interesting. 8413 a call. You know what I think I'm going to start tallying every day.
Speaker 2:It's going to be about $841,000 a year on this. So I can imagine in all the other cities you know Burbank, Lendale and Pasadena they're not paying that money because they're collecting probably other cities.
Speaker 3:But the three chiefs of Burbank, lendale and Pasadena are the chiefs that oversee the whole thing. Because you also didn't mention Bob Hope Airport. I did, oh, did you?
Speaker 2:And also actually we call it all the Burbank Airport. Now Bob Hope is the terminal, but with their new radio system, actually Bob Hope, it actually is officially at Bob Hope Airport still.
Speaker 3:There's a post office, bob Hope.
Speaker 2:It just branded it Hollywood Burbank, but the official legal name is still Bob Hope Airport.
Speaker 3:I wonder if they're going to keep that busts of him as you walk in.
Speaker 2:I think they kind of you're going to have the family. I think it still says inside the terminal.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, as you walk in, yeah.
Speaker 2:We always had to wonder does Bob Hope Anyhow? But I have a oh wait, wrong one. There we go, holy cow.
Speaker 3:Thanks for the memories.
Speaker 2:Oh, let's see what on Councilor Jenner, to be a public hearing Interesting, they're going to change the municipal code to have a ordinance on dangerous and vicious animals. Now the animal shelter is being run by the park and rec department and they need to have something on the book. So if a dog attacks somebody, then they have a way of, you know, prosecuting through the city attorney's office. I don't think a lot of people know this either, that when a dog you know and nobody knows if their dog is going to go after somebody or not, but if your dog goes after somebody and they bite somebody, you get a freebie. You get one free bite. First bite is free and as long as it doesn't have to be again for 36 months you're off the hook. But if somebody else is not 36 months, you are financially and legal, legally you're on the hook, because now you have a dog that is known to bite people.
Speaker 2:But once he does it, once now, you know he'll bite people. Now you're going to be on your best behavior with the dog.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm going to share a little secret with our followers. I had a dog, a cocker spaniel. Cocker spaniels like to snip. I did not know this dog. I rescued it from a friend. I was about to take it to the vet to be looked at and I put him on one of those leashes that pull out Right. You know that extend.
Speaker 3:And I walk out the back of my house and my dog sees a man walking by the sidewalk. He started. He didn't do that. He walked up to smell the guy and the gentleman put his hand out. My dog greeted him with a snip Yikes. Well, I went in and got some. Is he drawing blood? Oh, he drew blood. Well, the gentleman. I started talking to him and I got the dog put in the house and the gentleman said I wrote his name down and his name was Gorlick. I'm scratching my head. Samuel Gorlick, samuel Gorlick, sir, were you the city attorney for the city of Burbank? Oh, and retired several years? Yes, I am. Well, I got a call that night and he asked me do you own the house that you live in? Did he really call and ask you that? Oh, he sure did.
Speaker 2:Oh, why do people hate attorneys?
Speaker 3:Well, with that. Why do people hate attorneys? Well, you talk about a little pucker power With that. I called an attorney, I called other people. One I called to make sure that he was okay. You know, I followed up.
Speaker 2:Well, because you were concerned, you weren't just.
Speaker 3:You know, I mean you didn't know, I had no clue. This dog was a biter and I learned that. Well, finding out that law, burbank law that I did not know because I had just gotten the dog a day before I'm sure he looked in to see if there was another complaint against that dog.
Speaker 2:He was sure disappointed. He couldn't come get money out of you.
Speaker 3:Talk about it. I was just scared to death and you know I followed up. You know he said well, yeah, my hand got real black and blue, blah, blah and I'm going.
Speaker 2:Oh great, this case is getting thicker and I got whiplash and you know.
Speaker 3:I need a wheelchair to get around now. Thank goodness I did not get sued.
Speaker 2:But I guarantee you would have if he had a way of doing it.
Speaker 3:That's too bad because that's you know, but that's where, when I saw this on the agenda, I flashed back to that. I remember, oh, I got a magic, but there's a reason. Also, with the dog park being put in now and they are more bites. You and I hear them all the time they get dispatched for a place.
Speaker 2:It says there's been 18 potentially dangerous dog cases and 8 vicious dog cases in the last 4 years. So yeah, it does happen. You know, I mean and they're dogs. So I mean dogs, do what dogs do, don't don't dogs? Of course they do.
Speaker 3:I brought Dodger a new toy. Yes, you did.
Speaker 2:Dodger is absolutely he is laying.
Speaker 3:We didn't have the Dodger came on tonight, so he is laying next to me with his toy that I brought him. He is in love with that toy, oh.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy because now he has, he's out. Yes, also on the council agenda here comes a. I don't know if this will be a large, long item or not. It may not be, but there's that possibility. They need to approve an SB 35 request for 32 and one olive. Now, casey don't know where that is. That is where formerly Bob Hope Museum was supposed to go, and before that it was, of course, a shell station on the corner of California and Alameda and olive and that whole little area right there.
Speaker 3:The reason I'm scratching here. I'll make it look good. Scratch on my head. I don't know if that includes the where the shell is.
Speaker 2:We call it a triangle, yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, and there was a pumpkin patch here.
Speaker 2:Right, the lot next to it Right, right, right, right right between that and whole foods.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know, I thought I had written stuff on our show notes. This was brought up oh, it's been brought up I don't know how many times. And when Jeff Worth wanted to do this, the council was all over him About the height of the building and blah, blah, blah, and then, mr Worth being the business man, he is, and I don't blame him.
Speaker 2:He said fine, we'll make it SB 35. And guess what? You just? You lost your right to work with me now because you wanted to pull your regulations in and cost me a lot of money in your architecture and everything else he was trying to do in planning. I'm going to get SB 35. And now your hands are tied. That's right. You can't tell me what to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But I want to say on that but he's not, he's not here to screw people, but he's got property sitting there. He wants to develop and he's sick and tired of waiting. Now this is going to be a proposed 144 residential units. You have five story mixed use building, 1058 square feet on ground level retail space, and here's always the thing that cracks me up. So it says it says 35 because it has affordable housing and that's going to have 1515 affordable units. So 15 out of 144. So that means basically 129 units. Get the as much you want. If this people who made SB 35 and SB out of these SB's they said you make half your units low cost, would all these be developers be doing this?
Speaker 3:No way. But you know I will say down around the media district.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, the low income, housing is only deed restricted for 55 years. After 55 years, it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 3:But you know how many think about it. We're not going to be here 55 years. But you know that piece of property. I drove by it coming here tonight. I looked it over. I remember when it was a dirt lot with tumbleweeds on it, you know, and people complained that it needs to be landscaped. So Mr Worth went in and put in drought tolerant plants yeah, a little walkway, so you walk through there. If you look at any of his projects he makes adults is a good example. That's the one I always say. You know, I think I shared a couple weeks ago. One of the buildings that he has taken over for Warner Brothers was across from the smokehouse and I dropped off a friend over there one night near the smokehouse. The grass during the day and the grass around the building was real high and I called somebody with Jeff Worth's office. I got a picture back two hours later the grass was cut. That's how fast he responds. You don't find any graffiti or dirt. He loves this city. He's built 19 projects.
Speaker 2:You know, I would say people like him, the Cusumanos. They do care about Burbank.
Speaker 3:His goal is not to make money. He's got all these high rates.
Speaker 2:But he has got money tied up in his property for it. It's tight. You know what I say Shoulder get off the pot, right?
Speaker 3:Well that's why my dad at Forest Lawn would say all the time that's why he built the Diamond Buildings for Warner Brothers for their 21st century. He's building the park building that was on the agenda a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2:The sign went up. 16th down stages at Warner Brothers Ranch. I mean, he's halfway done with those things.
Speaker 3:How quick is that going? The sign went up on that property the other day. Required by law that you got to put a sign up.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, they did put one up finally.
Speaker 3:You know how many people are on Facebook saying, oh, you know what that's going to do for traffic, you know what that's going to do for the neighborhood. How much did they pay for that on ramp, yeah, hollywood Way in Alameda.
Speaker 2:With this in mind, I remember when they built the Armoretto Hotel Hotel.
Speaker 3:Armoretto yeah.
Speaker 2:And and everybody's. Oh, you can, it's going to ruin the traffic. It's going to be everybody's, with Jay walking. And then they want to put the pool and they put the bar. Oh, my goodness, you can't. You know what? It's everybody. They're all the doomsayers. The world's going to end until we do it. And oh, I guess that's okay now.
Speaker 3:You know it's funny. I have been in Hotel Armoretto many times. I've done showers in there, I've done business meetings in there. One day I'm sitting after you.
Speaker 2:You went to people's shower. You didn't actually take a shower there.
Speaker 3:You know A wedding show. You have bridal shower.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:And standing at the counter who goes BAM, what, what? A famous chef always says BAM when he's cooking away.
Speaker 2:Emeril Lagos he's standing at the counter. I have a Gordon Ramsay fan myself.
Speaker 3:Well, only place he will stay when he comes into Burbank. The celebrities that people that book at Hotel Amherst are, and they, they, close the studio.
Speaker 2:So it's good for them and it's expensive, but it's a they're taking care of well there.
Speaker 3:They sure are. So hopefully the council will approve of that project.
Speaker 2:And it's what they're going to have to?
Speaker 3:I don't think they really have a choice SB 35.
Speaker 2:The last thing is kind of a note worthy is that the Charter Review Committee is going to make their final recommendations and the change of charter they have to have, as it be, a vote to the people and all those things. It was interesting. The only thing they want to really change is the city's commitment to social equity and anti-discrimination, the way it's read in the charter. They want to change the wording of it, but they decided they don't want to take any action regarding term limits and that's kind of been a hot issue for a while now that should Burbank council people have two terms the way they do, and other other elected areas. I think the state is 12 years between Senate and Assembly. So they said no, burbank really doesn't need that now. Yeah, two ways to look at that.
Speaker 2:You know, I actually made the mistake years ago. We would start to go into a little bit of depression and Dave Golonski had been on the council for forever and he said in a public reelection you know I've been through, I know how to deal with it. I kind of trusted him that yeah, he's been through that in his experience and what he do he helps sell us out with pensions and everything else that were unfunded and the whole thing. And now he moved on and I don't think he was in Burbank anymore, does he? Yeah, so he's. He did his thing and he left the city, and so I'm kind of wondering if term limits are the way to go. You know, because our last council started a little static, and you know, not static, what's the word I'm looking for, it's on the tip of my tongue, yeah, it's on mine too. Well, I know, I thought they were in there for a little too long and they kind of lost touch with what was going on and what.
Speaker 2:How Burbank is, and I think we have the new blood. The council's good, but I just think, you know, eight years might be long enough. But yeah, I'm yeah. So that the charter computer remittee. That was it for their only recommendations in the council. If they want to change something, they're gonna have to put it on the ballot. Doesn't let people vote for it, because you can't change my ordinance. You can only change a charter by vote.
Speaker 3:You know, I think that word was stagnant.
Speaker 2:You were looking at that, there you go you know, from Alabama or Georgia. I thought the old council got. The old council got a little stagnant at times.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:I'm out of touch and stagnant.
Speaker 3:I think that's where Mr Dirling would have been able to pipe in. He would yeah Well, so forth. So, but now how to review committee? They're appointed.
Speaker 2:Each council member reappointed their own person. It wasn't by vote, it was. Each council member said, okay, who wants to be on the, you know? And they appointed somebody themselves under that committee and and it's over.
Speaker 3:Do they have a term? No, no.
Speaker 2:And now the committee just say do a final report. They're now disbanded for five years.
Speaker 3:Yeah that's.
Speaker 2:it's just kind of weird, it's just yeah, but at least it's something they talked about. I tried to watch the meetings, but they didn't record the meetings. It was kind of frustrating. Well, let's move on to Wednesday. Our senior citizens board is going to meet at 1 pm with the Josh the adult center. So if you're a senior citizen senior citizen and you want to go you know, what just don't fall asleep during the meeting. I can imagine to ring a bell to and wake people up, or something.
Speaker 3:Wait a minute. You know what you and I qualify.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true. I guess what? I'm sure half the people listening to this are probably falling asleep already, right now too. So Thursday, thursday, thursday, everybody, thursday you know what.
Speaker 2:You know what Thursday? Well, it's, it's. And I feel bad for the people who are born because they only get a birthday every four years. And why is that, ross? What is Thursday? Leap year, oh my god. Oh, there it is. That's our word of the week, word of the week and, in fact, word it's actually two words, but you know what we cheat around in. So word of the week is leap year.
Speaker 3:And what? What do you win if you, you know, if you?
Speaker 2:well, send us. Send us an email and an email to to the contest at myberrinkcom and put in the subject line leap year. And I said leap year. Right, there you go, we set that thing and you will win. You'll win a gift card for 25 dollars for Hill Street Cafe, if yummy, yummy, yummy winner is who are old?
Speaker 3:Alexa picks How's that go? Yummy, yummy chicken dinner. They do that and everything else they do a chicken dinner, don't they? Oh, they do.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, please send that in and be our latest winner. So I don't know if you raise the. We also give out a gift cards at our our weekly newsletter also that's right.
Speaker 3:And you know what I noticed today on Monday, our, the person that throws that together is actually, yes, eric Sin, and it's guaranteed on a Monday, and she picks out a winner of a gift card for, I believe also it's too bad.
Speaker 2:I give out one every three or four weeks. Somebody actually does, you know, send in for the gift card, and they should be reading our newsletter every Monday when it comes out. What's the word? It's leap year. Okay, that's that. Thursday is the extra day of the year, enjoy it. Moving on to the weekend, we are up to one of your favorite events. Yeah, it is the dig event. Can you dig it?
Speaker 3:The force is with him.
Speaker 2:We have our dig events. We have a Cambridge Park at 8 am and they're gonna pick weeds and do whatever they do. They're gonna bring their hose with them and no, it says bring gloves.
Speaker 3:Uh what? It gives you a couple of real shoes. Yeah, and I think weeding material or weeding, they supply the hose. Oh, okay, I guess the Cambridge Park is pretty big, so you got a lot to.
Speaker 2:It didn't say where at the park they're gonna meet, but they just said the Cambridge Park and I just look for a lot of people with buckets. It's probably gonna be raining, so I would check before you go to make sure that you know, because you want. One thing you don't want to get is the wet hoe.
Speaker 3:Wow, wait, where did that come? I didn't see that in the show notes.
Speaker 2:Well, that was a little humor for those who left this far in the show. Um Saturday I was gonna have a meeting at um. I found this interesting A meeting at 10 am in the community services building, but it says the capacity is only 20 people, so hopefully not a lot of people are interested, but I got things. They are. They're gonna have an update on the progress of the Dickhawk dog park construction.
Speaker 3:Now, where's your dog barking?
Speaker 2:Where's my dog barking? He's a oh, that's the wrong dog.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:Um, the park will always you for an informational meeting and you'll be on the first to learn about the latest updates. And I think if you were listening to our podcast a couple weeks ago, you'd actually be the first to learn what's going on there and their decision that the park and the rec board made on on the plans with the parking inside and now.
Speaker 3:I hope these people don't go and say here I have $600,000 for you to finish that park.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't that be nice, because right now they're anticipating fall. They have it done by fall. We'll see we'll see.
Speaker 3:You know what? Dick Clark. It's great that it'll be named Dick Clark, it's you know. I remember they've talked about Starlight Bowl, brace Canyon. They talked about it's the grounds of Wheaton.
Speaker 2:Yep, they're gonna have a parking on the middle and one side's big dogs a little one side little dogs, that's right. Then the food truck will be there to serve you hot dogs.
Speaker 3:Oh, I wonder if they put that into consideration.
Speaker 2:I'm sure some smart food truck will be there. Yeah, exactly One of those, uh those um things. They have my my home depot or whatever the hot dog thing. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3:you know, you know, dogs love hot dogs.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, they do.
Speaker 3:Great training aid if you want a dog's response to food, and a lot of trainers will use your dogs to sleep under them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's he's got his new toy and he's not letting you notice. It's two inches from his nose. Yes, it is. You touch that toy now you might lose a finger. Amazing, because it looks like a hot dog, but I learned a long time ago from a good friend that's a trainer take a hot dog, cut it up into little tiny pieces. You can get your dog to do somersaults, flips and everything else.
Speaker 2:Right, you have me to do the same thing.
Speaker 3:Do you like those kosher big dogs?
Speaker 2:Yes, I do. Okay, well, I guess that's you know. We've gotten to the uh the part of the show we're a little over an hour in, so it's time to uh come up with the one and the only that would be.
Speaker 1:Ross's rant Ross's. Rant Ross's rant.
Speaker 3:I take a flame through into this place. What's up, dog? And like I said, well, boys, get ready. Mine aren't as hot as the flames under me tonight if you're watching the video, but I have a couple of rants or things that I want to bring up, and one of them was I recently heard that Nickelodeon employees. They did a pretty big layoff and almost everybody out of our local Nickelodeon studios got laid off. I guess it's the mother company. It off 8 to 900 people.
Speaker 2:Is that a Paramount company?
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Outright be sold.
Speaker 3:CBS, paramount, yeah yeah. Well, the sad part about that is that that's a result of the strikes. You know. In the long run Animation is getting hit and I'm told all the animation studios. But it's sad to see Nickelodeon. They do so much for in our community that they probably will have to cut some of that back. So I was, you know. I know restaurant owners during COVID were helping people out. Maybe they can also still do the same thing for Nickelodeon employees. And also I heard Friday crumble cookies. Now we've seen that building at the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood. Way I had. I can't. I've lost count how many people.
Speaker 2:We had the old pizza place Well that's next door. Oh, that's next door. That's next door. That used to be an old pizza place before that, and before that Was uh a Quiznos, I think. Is that what it was? Yeah?
Speaker 3:It just blows me away.
Speaker 2:But no, it wasn't Bethanus, it was um.
Speaker 3:Oh, what was it?
Speaker 2:Bethanus was up on Glen Oaks. What was that? It was Barz TV Barz. It was a place I bought my first ever VCR for my parents.
Speaker 3:Really yeah.
Speaker 2:And do you still have it? No, I don't have my parents either.
Speaker 3:Well it's um. I noticed that the uh line out the door for crumble cookie was longer than the line for portos. Really, two days in a row. People said it was down around the block.
Speaker 2:Now, where are those people parking, I wonder?
Speaker 3:Well, I was gonna give a little secret.
Speaker 2:You're gonna give them a roof secret, aren't you? Yeah?
Speaker 3:Okay, let them have it. You're going to crumble cookies all around the back of the building and that building has roof parking. You can go up there and there's a stairwell down and you can. You don't have to hunt for parking.
Speaker 2:How many people know that there's actually a parking lot on top of the building?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Not, I bet not a lot, but that's the secret for you. But I'm told that the crumble cookies I guess I have one in North Hollywood everybody's been going to. Um, somebody did tell me that Weight Watchers is opening up up the block. So when you've done it, crumble cookies, you can go to Weight Watchers. But cookies portos, new pizza place. What do you need to leave Magnolia Park for?
Speaker 2:Good luck parking though.
Speaker 3:So, uh, things are changing in Burbank, don't blink.
Speaker 2:In fact, uh, I think you'd are talking about very soon now doing our first of our where have they gone? Restaurants. We're gonna do a little uh I call podcast on all the restaurants that have come and gone in Burbank over the years and we'll have some great memories for you. So, in fact, a little people you know we talk about it once in a while on the show and people say when they start talking, when I said, yeah, that's a good podcast to do. So we're gonna do a couple podcasts on all the restaurants. Ross had been compiling a list, checking it twice.
Speaker 3:You know I've gotten so I'm looking at my notes here on my phone and I noticed the camera was on me for so long. I hope people don't mind seeing the bald heads, for I guess editing might have to help some jumping around there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't. You are the b-roll right now.
Speaker 3:It's funny, you know trying to do camera operation and I gotta commend you know, when Craig is here, dirlene, he's usually operating the camera.
Speaker 2:He's pretty good at it too, and you do the, I'm doing the sound, and the uh, the hosting. Yeah, and I just have to sit here, and keep the monitor, not the hosting, but we're all hosting. We're moderating you know.
Speaker 3:So, um, I just noticed that it was oops, but what a show.
Speaker 2:What a show. Another, another week.
Speaker 3:And what did you say in our show notes? Well, we're. Oh, we got 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we're about an hour and 13 minutes into this.
Speaker 3:Holy smokeums, and we talked about everything from Dodgers, new Toy, to hot dogs and crumble cookies.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Well, that was the week. It was the week there was for last week, the week that will be for this week, which was February 26th.
Speaker 3:That's right, and the big word of the week was leap year. Well, you know what I'm not. I'm gonna say it now for Craig Sherwood and for Ross Benson, for Mr Dirlene, who is on special assignment, but I'm thankful that he knows how to get a hold of me 24 hours a day via this phone. Have a good week, folks. See you next week.
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