Strolling down the nostalgic avenues of Burbank, Dick Dornan joins Ross Benson and Craig Sherwood as we savor the memories of our city's beloved, bygone eateries an a new podcast series coming soon. We're mingling our cherished recollections with the buzz of today's local scene—debating everything from the fate of diseased trees to Chili John's spirited quest to serve alcohol. It's a blend of warm nostalgia and hot-off-the-press community updates that only true Burbankians can appreciate.
Our town's heartbeat is its people, and this episode shines a spotlight on those who enrich our daily lives behind the scenes. We're raising a toast to Burbank Unified's Teacher of the Year, Teri Vargas, and diving into the high-stakes world of sports broadcasting with our statistics guru, Dick. As we celebrate our unseen heroes, from airport first responders to the support staff of live shows, we're reminded that every cog in the Burbank wheel is indispensable.
We then pivot to the city's evolving canvas, scrutinizing everything from underutilized properties to the bustling small business scene that pumps vitality into our local economy. As we weave through talks of new hotel developments and public safety, we're offering a candid take on the not-so-polite dance of traffic etiquette. And, as we consider the leaps in women's basketball and the diverse voices contributing to our discourse, we're connecting the dots of Burbank's vibrant community tapestry. Join us on 'Burbank Talks' for these stories, woven with the personal threads that unite us all.
Strolling down the nostalgic avenues of Burbank, Dick Dornan joins Ross Benson and Craig Sherwood as we savor the memories of our city's beloved, bygone eateries an a new podcast series coming soon. We're mingling our cherished recollections with the buzz of today's local scene—debating everything from the fate of diseased trees to Chili John's spirited quest to serve alcohol. It's a blend of warm nostalgia and hot-off-the-press community updates that only true Burbankians can appreciate.
Our town's heartbeat is its people, and this episode shines a spotlight on those who enrich our daily lives behind the scenes. We're raising a toast to Burbank Unified's Teacher of the Year, Teri Vargas, and diving into the high-stakes world of sports broadcasting with our statistics guru, Dick. As we celebrate our unseen heroes, from airport first responders to the support staff of live shows, we're reminded that every cog in the Burbank wheel is indispensable.
We then pivot to the city's evolving canvas, scrutinizing everything from underutilized properties to the bustling small business scene that pumps vitality into our local economy. As we weave through talks of new hotel developments and public safety, we're offering a candid take on the not-so-polite dance of traffic etiquette. And, as we consider the leaps in women's basketball and the diverse voices contributing to our discourse, we're connecting the dots of Burbank's vibrant community tapestry. Join us on 'Burbank Talks' for these stories, woven with the personal threads that unite us all.
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, craig Sherwood here with you once again, along with Ross.
Speaker 3:Benson. Hello Malli Moe. What do we do? Let's go.
Speaker 2:And this week we have a special guest with Craig Jrling on assignment. We brought in our sports Ember Ennis, Nick Dornan.
Speaker 4:Well, I am so thrilled to be here, to be with you, craig and you Ross Thank you for having me and let's have a good, good podcast.
Speaker 2:We always plan on it. We never know where it's gonna go. Well, we start off with the best intentions and go sideways.
Speaker 4:AKA, let's ride.
Speaker 2:Yes, we go down. Hopefully we'll go down the rabbit hole. In fact, out there, if you're listening, we, ross 90 Tonight, did a new podcast called Down the Rabbit Hole, where we started talking about local Burbank restaurants that are no longer with us the Dilly Departed as you might say, and you know pretty good. We're gonna probably have that online for you by Thursday this week, and it's only part one, because there were a lot of letters in the alphabet, so we will get to it. Last week's winner the word was mixture, of course and our winner last week was Keith Wilkes. So, keith, congratulations. You get a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe. And please you did not send in your email. I mean your street address, so please send the street address in so we can mail your card out to you forthwith.
Speaker 3:That's right. He gets a real, real gift card, a real card for $25. You get to check out all that great food, hill Street Cafe. Now, dick, you've eaten at Hill Street Cafe once or twice.
Speaker 4:Yeah, over the years, periodically, probably once a year more so back in the day when I was working for Burbank and beyond. Oh yeah, we're going back in time here. But Hill Street Cafe awesome. And, matter of fact, I was just there this past Friday night with Craig and we enjoyed a great dinner and a really good dessert.
Speaker 3:And I bet Craig didn't even look on the menu to see if they had chicken dinners.
Speaker 2:You know what I didn't? They're absolutely right.
Speaker 3:But he did ask about the tomato bis soup.
Speaker 2:That is Monday.
Speaker 4:That's only on Mondays.
Speaker 2:Yes, we had the, we had the clam chowder. I had the clam chowder.
Speaker 4:I should say yes, this is good. Craig had the clam chowder. The dessert was off the charts. I had the peach clover, you had the cherry cobbler.
Speaker 2:And today we cobbled together. Let me tell you what it was amazing. Just so fresh and good. And anyhow, hill Street Cafe. We appreciate them sponsoring us and please send in that the word mixer and that email to contests at myburbankcom and make sure you put mixer in the subject line. Congratulations, keith. All righty Moving along Well. It was starting last Monday that the planning commission met. Now, we usually don't talk about Mondays that are week old, but because the planning commission did meet and they had a, somebody appealed the four I believe it's three or four trees that the city had to cut down in an emergency, saying not the 110 pine trees, just four trees that were pretty sick and they were just going to be in the middle of the city and there was an appeal and the appeal was denied by the planning board, the planning commission. They said it was actually four to one vote. I didn't see who voted for it. You know the appeal, but so I'm curious if a judge gave the city permission to cut those four trees, how could somebody appeal?
Speaker 2:a judge's order, Because you're allowed to appeal anything. You pay the money you can appeal.
Speaker 3:Oh, they lost that one. How they did? They rejected and appealed Well, those trees are better gone. They were appalled, and now they're appealed. If those trees didn't come down in last week's windstorm, I'd be mighty surprised. I'll tell you it was howling uptown Burbank.
Speaker 2:The best we got down here. I was looking at the my Burbank Weather Center. We had just about 19 miles an hour, but that's not what I hear. On the hill You're getting about 30 miles an hour.
Speaker 3:We were getting more. At one time I heard the airport tell planes coming in wind shear 50 to 60 miles. Right there it gets pretty windy. There was other decisions that the Planning Commission was dealing with Well.
Speaker 2:Chili Johns came up and Chili Johns had been applying for a beer, wine and distilled spirits permit and the Planning Commission said let them have their beers. And then you know again, I have a beer with Chili. I guess, right, I mean, I'm not a beer drinker, but I know it's a great drink for people who like beer and chili.
Speaker 3:Well, I happen to know the owners of Chili Johns they got bought a couple years ago and the family that owns it they have been trying to get a beer permit for and the city just kept denying it. They've opened up a beer room they want to do, you know, like a craft beer room next to where Chili Johns is and it's all part of the same building and they couldn't do it. So I'm glad to see the city I know the owner had to pay quite a bit of money to hire an attorney, go in and do the whole process, so it's nice to see that that got approved for Chili Johns. Yeah well, he's stolen a Burbank, one of the longest buildings here in Burbank.
Speaker 2:And we're glad they actually have new ownership now the old owners. They would sometimes leave for a month at a time.
Speaker 3:Well, I would put that sign on the door that said gone fishing, gone fishing. And they really did. Yeah well, but see, that's a problem People don't understand. When you own a restaurant, you're there 24 hours. You don't get to go on vacation. I know my brother owned a pizza place and when you own an owner of a restaurant, you got employees calling you 24 hours a day. Oh so, and so we're out of this. Oh, this machine broke. Gary Brickett said that many times to us, that you don't get to go away, you don't get to go on vacation. Where did he?
Speaker 4:own his pizza place.
Speaker 3:In Hawaii.
Speaker 4:Really, Yep had two of them Did he ever tell you what the worst pizza was.
Speaker 3:Nobody told me how hard it was to get employees.
Speaker 4:I bet Craig knows the answer to what's the worst pizza.
Speaker 2:The worst pizza was bitchin'.
Speaker 4:Bitchin' Even in Hawaii.
Speaker 3:Well, you know he, my brother, the hardest problem. He had two different restaurants and he'd pay his employees, you know, like weekly, and they said we've been paid, we're going to serve him for a month. It was so hard to keep employees In fact it drove my brother to get in diabetes from it but from stress Sold off. One restaurant next to Don, the Beachcomber's and my son just went there just got bought out by a family that is from California. My brother got rid of it many years ago. But you know you got to wake up early, you got to leave late. I'm sure you got to make you know everything, make sure it's good. You got to keep up your health.
Speaker 4:If we had known this, we could have referred him to, you know, to Hawaii 5-0 back in the day.
Speaker 3:Do you do Dan-O? No, dan-o, welcome to Dan-O.
Speaker 2:On Tuesday there was a. We got a report. Finally. We asked for information on Monday but we finally got the press release on Tuesday about a. You know police talk of 4-5-9, but it was the residential burglary that happened up on Viewcrest and evidently there were five suspects involved. Three went into the house, two were in the getaway vehicle and when police arrived on scene quickly once they were called, they nabbed the two in the car immediately with no incident. But I guess three came out of the house and decided to try to make a run for it. So you know, ross, you, you kind of listen to it.
Speaker 3:Well, I live right down the hill from it and heard it from the get-go. They rolled on a suspicious incident and, like you say, they nabbed two right away in a stolen, in a stolen Mercedes sitting out front, and the other three bailed and went down the hillside. Well, that hillside, if you know, if you know Burbank, it's above Joaquin and there's a lot of debris basins and these guys weren't going to come out, they. So they called in and this is where mutual aid comes in. Really well, burbank's helicopter was monitoring from the ground. La was busy, so they got Pasadena's PD-1 in and from where I live you could hear that chopper this is not a notar got a tail rotor, so it sounds totally different.
Speaker 3:They were, they were flying over for like an hour and a half at about 12.30, one at night. Everybody's going, what the hell's going on? And then they kept making announcements on the PA. Well, then they got a canine team and it's probably great that the sergeant that was in charge of the whole operation was Burbank's former canine handler. And like it was funny at one time the pilot said if you guys go this way, and canine had to say well, the scent of a person goes uphill, not downhill in colder weather. So in that brush, so they. They finally came out after. The dog greeted them and gave them a couple of extra puncture wounds.
Speaker 4:Fascinating. Yep, the moral of the story don't mess with the Burbank police.
Speaker 3:You know you are so correct. It's many years ago. I know an officer that said you come to Burbank and you know, be careful what you get. You might get a dog bite, you might just. You know you got caught and I know we ran all the names of the suspects. They're all from LA. You know they didn't get anything. It's the 18th burglary up on Viewcrest. Wow, I mean that area is getting hit. So the nabbed them 18 times of Viewcrest 18 times up on that block.
Speaker 4:Now let me guess that's probably a quarter of Empire Center, right, or maybe even less than half.
Speaker 3:Oh less. It's two blocks, three blocks, but it's all those nice homes above Brace Canyon Park. Yeah, Viewcrest, and you got a view of everywhere.
Speaker 2:Well, the dogs could bite out of crime.
Speaker 3:Literally.
Speaker 2:Yes, they did.
Speaker 3:Wait what? What theme was that? Take a bite out of crime, wasn't it that?
Speaker 2:was McGreff, the crime dog.
Speaker 3:And you want to know what's funny. I went up there to shoot a picture the next day and I shot the street sign for my Burbank article and I was right below it, or it's the Neighborhood Watch sign that said Neighborhood Watch done here.
Speaker 2:So they need to keep watching More of this. But how many did you say Robberies up there? 18. 18 Robberies.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, let's move on to Wednesday. We had some nice news out of the Burbank Unified School District. Terry Vargas, a teacher at the Lawrence Heard of Middle School, was named the Burbank Unified's Teacher of the Year. Each school site, I guess, nominated a teacher. Each school site had its own Teacher of the Year and they sent all their teachers to the district. The district's next one to be the district's Teacher of the Year, and it was um. It was Terry Vargas. Um Ross, you were there and I understand that you have shot her picture in the past.
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny to say that. Yeah, her maiden name was Peppy and when I walked in the room I did not know who Terry Vargas was and she was. I walked in and she said this is full circle. When she was three years old I started shooting her picture playing ball and stuff like that and I've shot her playing sports and everything. So it was rather uh, it was. It was kind of neat to have been shooting for a couple of years now. But she's a lifelong Burbank resident. Yeah, went to Burbank schools and lives here and loves uh. There is a great article that uh in my Burbank Talks About Her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we asked her a few questions about you know, and she was very uh she loves what she's doing. She likes she's involved in sports. It was a lot of sports game and she said that one of her former students, um, was playing in college volleyball.
Speaker 3:You can say USC.
Speaker 2:I couldn't remember what school it was. Okay.
Speaker 3:USC.
Speaker 2:And uh asked her to make sure she went to her first game. And she went to her first game Just to support her, which was nice.
Speaker 3:Okay Now Dick, when's the last time you covered a basketball? That's what you know it's. We didn't give a. You know that's what Dick does on his spare time now. Well, spare time, that's his full time job Is he kind of hangs out at those, those arenas with wooden courts.
Speaker 4:I was at USC probably two weeks ago for a men's game Alley or no, that would be Aylan Center, aylan. Then I was at UCLA two days later and I just got an assignment today to cover the uh UCLA women's basketball team this Saturday and maybe Monday.
Speaker 3:So tell me if I'm correct, you uh provide the on-air talent with stats.
Speaker 4:Very good, yes, I do. There's two positions that each game has, and one is talent stats, which is what you described. You provide the on-air talent with key stats throughout the game. You know, keep them up to speed on how many fouls there are and runs and any historical records. And then the other position is official stats, in which you basically are on the headset with truck, so you're with the uh, the bug operator and the graphics department and you're giving them information that they provide to the public on TV.
Speaker 3:So it's a quick move.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you, I call it the game within the game. You got to know what's going on within the game itself, so you know the sport rather well. I do Just a little bit, um, but that's, that's a side job I have.
Speaker 3:So people that enjoy watching, let's say, the Dodgers or basketball, those guys, those announcers, they don't know well, I don't want to say they don't know shit, but they're pretty sharp in their field. But there's people feeding them stats of how many basketball these people have thrown and and everything. And that's what your job was.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you want to make them look good because they're already great at what they do, but then you enhance their performance by giving them some really good information throughout the game. You don't want to overdo it with them, but at the same time you don't want to not give them anything.
Speaker 3:So you have a good working relationship with them and they you know how quick they need and and we could see, looking at your picture, why you're not TV talent. And they are, but here you go.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you get to know people and it's all about networking and fortunately, through the Pac-12 network, which will be disbanded come this June, from the LA area. But I was able to meet a gentleman who would eventually become the voice of that LA Rams. Because of that, he hired me to be his statistician for all Rams home games. So the small community, but yeah, it's a fun time.
Speaker 2:And you've been at the Rams three years now, right?
Speaker 4:Actually just finished. Five years, Five years yeah.
Speaker 2:And you were there during the Super Bowl run.
Speaker 4:Started in 2019 and then, fortunately, was there for the Super Bowl run, which is very memorable and in fact, the Rams flew you back this last year to Detroit their playoff game.
Speaker 2:All expenses paid.
Speaker 4:It took me back there to Detroit to one degree weather and it was a phenomenal environment, you know, despite a loss, but it was just great to be there and I'm very thankful to the Rams for that great experience and looking forward to upcoming 2024 season come August.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I say that about my son, who's gaffer on America's Got Talent. You look at that show and you go wow. And then you look at the credits and there's 900 credits. That's what it takes to make those guys look perfect and to make a show go on. And my son has never wanted to be in front of the camera, loves doing everything behind. You know, and it's in the old showbiz, that song applause, applause. It's when you get awards and you know when the show is done you wrap that day. And there were no mistakes in the shows in the can.
Speaker 2:OK, let's move on here. There isn't much more to move on. There wasn't much that way. Now, friday night, b-tec, burbank, tipper AID Center why was I not thinking I was trying to go to the? C was OK, burbank Tipper AID Center Elder Gala at the cat, and now we were talking. You know last week before that a lot of these organizations are not having their galas and their fundraising events in Burbank. Well, b-tec did you know. So I give B-TEC credit for that because you know, if Burbank people are spending the money, then you should spend your money in Burbank. So they were at the castaway. Now you up there, ross didn't shoe and shot a couple of pictures and stuff and yeah, you know it was.
Speaker 3:I haven't been to the castaways in like a little pinsky.
Speaker 2:Our writer was up there too covering it and wrote a very nice story.
Speaker 3:Then, and their husband and I haven't been up to the castaways in months and months and the B-TEC has been around 50 years, I think longer, but this was their 50th celebration and they filled that room I mean, besides the politicians and the citizens and they raised quite a bit of money. They do a silent auction and some of that stuff. In fact, we have an article. Lynn did do a fantastic article. They honored Larry Stamper, the chamber and one of their volunteers and I know they raised a lot of funds money for B-TEC and it's funny listen to Barbara Howell, the CEO of B-TEC. Nowadays they're getting some, you know, with these strikes going on, the people that they're seeing come in, that need help.
Speaker 2:Well, let's hope that all this money being spent lately, some of that they start strickening down to them also. We just passed that state measure and there's other federal governments sending money and all these things. Let's make sure that Burbank has a way of getting left out of these things.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the sad part. I do hear that Burbank probably won't see much of that money, if anything.
Speaker 2:You know. So Well, that is kind of it for last week. It was not a very big eventful week, so let's take ourselves a short commercial and we will come back with the week that will be.
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Speaker 2:All right, everybody. Craig Sherwood here, along with our sports emirates, dick Dornan, here. I am there. You are Glad to be here. Look at it. I didn't even tell him to talk the first few weeks. He did this. Ross would give thumbs up and salutes and things like that. I go Ross people listening in their cars right now you learn on YouTube, don't know what you're doing, so you got to say hi. So of course we've got Ross Benson here.
Speaker 4:Ross Benson.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm supposed to talk too. Yes, here I'm, I'm. I stuck around for the second half of the show.
Speaker 2:How amazing. But then you are the show.
Speaker 3:I don't know about that. We got some good stuff I'll talk about in the yes you will.
Speaker 2:Well, let's start off with today. The airport commission today met at 9am at the airport, as they would do it at 9am. There wasn't much on the agenda worth talking about, but they met. We should acknowledge that.
Speaker 3:Well, they're moving along, you know that, but they will.
Speaker 2:They are going to. They did acknowledge to their, to their first responders, their their Burbank, hollywood, burbank, Pasadena Airport Authority officer of the year. That's a mouthful. Huh Was Sean Toth and Romero, oh you're going to eat this one. Oh, I'm going to eat this one.
Speaker 3:Romero. He apologizes before.
Speaker 2:I say yes, I do. Romero Argyi.
Speaker 3:I think that's pretty close.
Speaker 2:I'm giving that a try. Yeah, he was honored as the firefighter of the year. Ross, why don't you tell us a little about the, the Hollywood, burbank, Lindo, pasadena Airport Authority? Wow, yeah.
Speaker 4:Do you?
Speaker 2:do that again.
Speaker 4:That's a lot.
Speaker 2:You know it's funny People, you know they, they once you call it the Hollywood Burbank Airport. That's their branding, but officially and legally their name is the Bob Hope Airport. But they don't want people to use Bob Hope Airport anymore because nobody knows who Bob Hope was. They all, they've all forgotten so now. But the, the authority is the one that actually hires the personnel who work for the airport, so the police, the fire and the commissioners since Burbank, lindo, pasadena all jointly own the airport. Then they formed the authority, so it's the Burbank Lindo Pasadena Airport Authority.
Speaker 3:Well, I got some shocker there for you. They, the authority, doesn't hire these employees. There's an outside company that actually does. They work for an outside company. They don't hire the fire chief and the police chief and all that. Oh, the police chief, those two I'm not sure, but they. You get your check not from Hollywood Burbank Airport, you get it from an outside company and spend that way for years. That's how the contract has been. But Sean Toth used to be a Burbank police motor officer he retired last year and the chief of securities of security services. Ed Scavarn, a good friend of mine, has been the chief over there for years. He retired from Burbank.
Speaker 2:And a great guy, absolutely great guy.
Speaker 3:That is.
Speaker 2:That's why he's always helpful and always wants to help and always, you know, does what he can to be there for you. I mean, yeah, we've never, we've never gone asking and not been fulfilled with our request.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the thing, these guys. When he took over, you got to think about it. You know you don't deal with petty thefts, you don't. You know people aren't stealing hubcaps. They're there as a PR part of it. Most of these police officers are retired police officers that have put in their 20 years. They don't want to be running and chasing guys even now they can but they're PR plus and working for Ed is a dream come true for a lot of these officers. A lot of guys come from Burbank. I know they've had. They've have some retired CHP officers, glendale LAPD they had at one time and I don't know if he's still employed the officer Rick it took down the North Hollywood shooting suspect. He was on their SWAT team. But also Greg, who was the Burbank officer that you interviewed in front of Kmart. Yep, I know your mouth is open.
Speaker 2:He was the PIO at the time. It was Sergeant Joran.
Speaker 3:No, no, well, he's been there for the most.
Speaker 2:So you didn't know it either. Huh.
Speaker 3:I do, but Put me on the spot why don't you? But then also their fire service. People don't understand. There is a whole company. Faa requires that they have crash rigs, fire trucks or not fire trucks, fire engine and so forth. They, when they call, when you call for emergency services out there, if it's a first aid, they respond first and then, like I say, Emergency life doesn't help the crash units. Crash rigs and.
Speaker 2:And they're very fancy crash rigs.
Speaker 3:Oh, very, we're gonna do a story not too far because they got a new one. I'm told it's state of the art. But these guys get officer of the year and fireman of the year and it's nice to see them recognized for their diligence out there. And they just don't go out there and twiddle their thumbs. I mean they're the nicest guy. You always walk into the terminal and there's an officer at the entrance. If you have questions. A lot of people will lay their bag down or walk off with their cell phone on a chair and people turn it in and that's what they're there for. I mean PR plus. So nice to see Sean Toth get awarded and officer Romero of the fire department.
Speaker 2:Officer Romero who.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah huh. Well, we know he's probably very deserved. We just don't know. I don't know where he came from there's not really any kind of release about it, but we don't know where. I think you've maybe just hired right by the because I think in the fire department they kind of hire themselves, don't they? They don't really.
Speaker 3:Well, they also hire retired like Burbank. The chief out there is Tom Linley.
Speaker 2:Right, but I think that the firefighters they don't read laterals. I think they're kind of hired.
Speaker 3:Right, right right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think this was a direct hire, probably.
Speaker 3:But Ed is over. In fact Ed just signed a new contract. They'll be there for the new terminal excuse me, replacement terminal when it gets built. But you know all that people don't understand. Behind the scenes, when everybody sees those Ospreys or those Navy helicopters coming in, ed is in charge of all that, of where they park, where they. You know he, all his guys know when the president's coming into town, when VIPs are here. Last month the mayor went out there to meet First lady.
Speaker 3:First lady, the vice president's been here, I mean. So Ed's in charge of all that Great guy. And our airport if you think about it, burbank is a city within the city Airport has all their own. Warner Brothers has their own security fire Disney.
Speaker 2:But it's part of Burbank.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, and now Craig's favorite committee. Oh, the Suspendable Burbank Commission. They met at five o'clock and he believed this. It was the only meeting tonight, on a Monday night, for a change, so they got everybody's full attention there wasn't 14.
Speaker 3:Were there any sports games that they should be watching?
Speaker 2:There wasn't 14 other commissions meeting at six o'clock tonight.
Speaker 4:Well, maybe they're listening to this podcast and getting the message.
Speaker 2:Well, you kind of wonder, you kind of hope Now we have talked about that with the mayor before Saying why do you have four different meetings at the same time on the same day and then, out of weeks, there's nothing going on? It didn't make a lot of sense to me, but Well, you know what, dick?
Speaker 3:It's funny? You say that because one of the planning board commissioners she does follow our podcast, because she's told me she listens to my rant and one day she tweeted a picture wearing my Burbank swag.
Speaker 2:She bought some of our swag.
Speaker 4:Yes, Very impressive, so Great to hear.
Speaker 3:Always good to give a shout out to our so the Suspendable Commission.
Speaker 2:In fact, there is an opening.
Speaker 3:I believe we ran that there's an opening on the planning board If the yeah well, we're talking about a sustainable board right now. Oh, that's right, oh, I'm lost.
Speaker 2:Somebody's already planned. Somebody's already planned for that vacancy. Anyhow, they're going to look into awarding somebody with their the green spotlight award, which they're trying to find somebody deserving, I guess, to win that.
Speaker 3:Well, don't they? I thought they did that every meeting.
Speaker 2:No, I think this is a yearly award. Oh Do? Their ad hoc committees gave reports. They have a lot of ad hoc committees and they're also looking at what the upcoming city council agenda items are. This is a commission that actually interacts with the city council, advises the city council and is not just there just to say give me a report, file that report. So we always like what the state of commission does.
Speaker 4:So they have a vested interest into the city? Yes, more than any other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they actually. They have agendas that they want. They're just trying to talk now about gas powered leaf floors. They just they got to help get a sustainable plastic Santa approved.
Speaker 3:We believe, dick, come July Burbank you can't bring plastic water bottles or styrofoam you can't buy a city function. Right, and then, in two years, the city's involved.
Speaker 2:I think by January of 2025, no restaurant can can give out non sustainable, non reusable silverware. So you're going to Donald's. We've got to use silverware, They've got to use all comes down to that sustainable commission. They're the one no plastic containers anymore, anything and all the rest of the Burbank, and that includes the fast food and the food trucks.
Speaker 4:Was it fair to say this could be the future in a lot of cities.
Speaker 2:It will be.
Speaker 3:It will be.
Speaker 2:The law is being passed, yeah the state hasn't got there yet, but I think Burbank is one of two or three cities in the states that now adopted that. Let's move on to Tuesday. Tuesday morning, you should wake up early, if you.
Speaker 3:It's tomorrow.
Speaker 2:It is. Are you going to wake up for this?
Speaker 3:I better go home, go to bed.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow morning to our Tuesday and if you actually, if you're watching this on YouTube, we're sorry later because it's already passed, but if you're listening to this in your car right now on Tuesday morning, because we get our audio up on Monday nights, this morning is coffee with a cup and that's a FA Grano. I'm saying right, grano. I've never heard of this place. Yes, it's a 100 North Safgar Boulevard and it's from 8 to 11 am and I guess the coffee is free. The PD has provided the coffee, your tax money at work.
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 2:The Burbank Police Foundation money at work.
Speaker 3:I believe the police foundation supplies the coffee. That way the store isn't out of their coffee.
Speaker 2:Hopefully buy it from the store at least.
Speaker 3:You know well, usually they do.
Speaker 2:Hopefully they don't bring a Starbucks container in.
Speaker 3:But what's nice about that event? You have a question for the chief If you had something happen on your street chief, the captains I know Renee is out there from the neighborhood watch and so forth there's. You can talk to them one on one and it's a great social place to get to know your police department. Without them, you know usually a lot of people. The only time you talk to a police officer when you have a crime or something in your neighborhood, you dial 911 and you deal with the police. Well, this is a social type event that you can meet and talk Real nice.
Speaker 2:So you can get there at 8am, have your cup of coffee and then off you go if you want to and head over to St Providence St Joseph Medical Center where they have a ribbon cutting of their new urgent care, and that's at 830. And I know I know somebody who is going to be there too, who's going to set his alarm early tomorrow.
Speaker 3:I am. Am I even going to go to bed? I'm not sure, but 838,.
Speaker 2:I can't even say yeah, well, yeah, this is the wrong time because we all watched the Dodger game last night at three in the morning. I don't know why we all did that, but we're just so, stu I know I did.
Speaker 4:We're starting for baseball, right now, I don't know why, because the big one's coming up here.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:But this new urgent care, it is actually FACI. You know there's different divisions of Providence and we think of St Joseph's Hospital. The new urgent care is run by FACI, providence, faci. So they're going to do a ribbon cutting some speeches and then I'm told that they are going to have tours, the new urgent care and after the tours there's going to be probably some good stuff from the commissary, from the cafeteria.
Speaker 2:Notion Antigones OK, good.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Well, that brings us to our council meeting, and we're finally having a council meeting after having a dark week, few things going on there. They're going to be in first and closed session, and they're going to talk about the city attorney's contract and the evaluation of the city manager. These are very routine things. They do it Several times a year, it'd be. I would like to see what they're going to do for the city attorney's contract, though, how long they give him a contract for.
Speaker 4:So year to year.
Speaker 2:We don't know. And the thing is, you know, funny about that is after they make a decision closed. If the decision is made, they are supposed to report that at the meeting and of course the city attorney will come and say the council took no reportable action. So what that means you don't have a job anymore, you don't have a contract anymore. What does that mean? No reportable action? They didn't approve your contract. So it's interesting that what they say and what they do and you know, if you don't, if you're not careful and you don't can watch the city will hold a lot of things back. And that's just the way they are. They just don't. They don't do it to be mean, they just do it because they just want to be Self-contained, I guess.
Speaker 3:Well, I think what it comes down to is what they need to report out. They report out the minimum.
Speaker 2:Right, but shouldn't that be how many years Well a contract they gave him, they renewed his contract, or shouldn't?
Speaker 3:they what they should do and what they do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, two different things, I mean and the city attorney wants to report it out, so he probably doesn't want to report out of himself.
Speaker 3:Well, but it's also Look at, when they talk about Brown Act stuff, I mean that changed and we weren't. We weren't told of how the Brown Act has changed and it has. So it's like you said, it's standard procedure. Every company goes, you get evaluated by, you know a superior, and what are they going to tell him?
Speaker 2:You know you know, we know he's going to get rehired or continue. He does a great job. It should be nice to know what his contract is, because it is a public contract paid with public money and it is on the agenda.
Speaker 3:Well, I do recall when they brought him on, it was on the agenda what his salary was going to be. Yeah, but we don't know how many reasons.
Speaker 2:I don't care about his salary I'm sure they pay him a good salary and I have no problem with that because he does a good job but just like know how long he's been renewed for yeah, two years, five years, one year. Oh yeah, the council can report An addiction of an ordinance amending Title Two and Title Six Of more frequent traffic of the bring this code to transition parking management, the community development director and oversight to the Transportation Commission. So I guess it's just more, less more of a paperwork thing. It's on the consent, the center calendar. So the Transportation Commission will now start overseeing parking. And now we have a private parking service instead of Burbank employees doing the parking. Now Then I guess that's a they're going to oversee that. That what? What's our company, you know? Does the Park enforcement Flags right? Is that who it is?
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, you know, when I read that report they disbanded one of the other committees and this is again paperwork to correct the Burbank municipal code. For what the jobs that one committee did? That now shifted it to a different committee. So it's basically paperwork and I think this is all part of the consent agenda, so it'll probably be all approved.
Speaker 2:And then they're having a report and it's an Approval of a Five-Year Economic Development Strategic Plan for 24 through 28, and they've engaged a company called Stratoscope, their consulting firm. It just seems that we have so many consulting firms in this city. Everything we do we're paying a consulting firm. I just I kind of wonder how much money in a single year that we pay the consulting firms that don't do anything except consult, and it just seems like wouldn't it be cheaper maybe to have an expert in that category who could run that for us?
Speaker 3:And I'm sure a year I think you just said it A year we have to have an expert on Okay so we're paying a company $300,000 a year for consulting and we pay a city employee instead of $125,000 a year $125,000, plus benefits, plus his retirement.
Speaker 2:They're less than $300,000 a year. You don't know that.
Speaker 3:And anyway, if you read that report there's some quite a bit of research.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, and we'll talk about that right now. One of my also thinks is they're going to do a five-year. It's going to be a five-year strategic plan. I'm all for that. What I'm not for is the Burbank 2035 plan.
Speaker 3:But I don't see anything.
Speaker 2:No, no, let me finish. The Burbank 2035 plan, which was made 15 years ago and lasts for another 10 years, does not cover so much stuff that has now come through the Burbank system. I mean electric vehicles and charging stations. There's a lot of things that was not in that plan and that plan 25-year plan. It was way too long. I like a five-year plan Because I think in a five-year plan you can kind of foresee what's going to happen in the next four to five years. I get that A 25-year plan by the time that thing's up it's going to be our cake, but Craig they heard you.
Speaker 3:They're doing what you wanted. You don't want a 35-year plan, so they're doing a five-year plan. To keep Craig true, the Burbank 2035 is still in place, oh it is but this report.
Speaker 2:And they always refer to it, this report. All right, so Well, here's some things. In last year, the city actually received $61 million in sales tax money back.
Speaker 3:Where's that little ding dong on the cash register?
Speaker 2:$61 million we don't have that tonight $61 million and they also received $69 million in property tax revenues, both of which are property tax revenues, which are projected to increase this year, of course, because they've raised our taxes In 2020, 2023,. The city also added 150 new hotel rooms, with an additional 307 hotel rooms under construction, and, of course, we get a bed tax. Every time you put your butt in a bed in Burbank, you're paying a tax to the city. So thank you for thank you for visiting. You also said that the AMC theaters in Burbank ranked in the top three theaters globally. I've heard there that AMC in Burbank is the number one theater and AMC this side of the Mississippi I think it is, but it ranked top three globally. And the Empire Center is the sixth most visited shopping center in the nation. I was surprised about that also.
Speaker 3:Well, I know the police are out there at least 10 times a day. Are they counting trips? Um, but go back a second and you think about that. You want Class One police, class One fire. You want your trash to be picked up on Christmas Day. All those things cost and that's why these, these figures help our city. People think, oh, we pay for police and fire. Well, no, having a Class One fire department comes from goes into the general fund and that's where these monies go to. So when you're out at the Empire Center, yeah, you're paying a tax, but also paying, you know, other stuff out there that they have to go there and arrest all the people from other cities to come do crime in Burbank.
Speaker 3:Well, that's true.
Speaker 2:Um three of the goals they have, and I like these goals. One is streamlining the permitting process to enhance opening of new businesses and expansion of existing businesses. And, ross, how many times have you heard that a restaurant or something is just bogged down and waiting, and waiting and waiting for permits and everything else? Oh, you hear that all the time.
Speaker 3:Don't hear it at least two, three times a week. The red tape for business to open in this city is mind boggling when you talk to an owner or a good example good old tin horn flats how long they go Did they close and got sold. The guy wants to open up Magnolia restaurant there a new restaurant.
Speaker 2:And still can, because he's waiting for city red tape.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that's a darn problem, it's the, you know to get through that process and they got to do something to correct that you know, and not just the larger businesses either.
Speaker 2:We're talking about, you know, like that restaurant. I mean that's a smaller business, but to that business owner it's important, you know, and he's invested into the city of Burbank, he's bought a business, he bought the property I think he did also and he's sitting there. And you don't make money when your business is not open.
Speaker 3:But I also hear that you know people love to open their business in Burbank. We don't have an occupancy tax like they do in LA. And the square foot tax here is less than everywhere. So I'm told that people would love to open up here and once they get through the process oh, the city was so helpful, but boy, until you're through that.
Speaker 4:I have a question why do they call it the red tape?
Speaker 3:Because black tape you can't see, Okay.
Speaker 2:That's a good question. Yeah, that's a good question. You know why is it? Why don't we, why don't we call it red tape?
Speaker 4:Right, yeah, I'm just curious. It's a common phrase.
Speaker 2:Tune in next week We'll have an answer for you. That's the. We'll try to find out. There must be some reason that it's called red tape, not just your cotton tape.
Speaker 3:Our Greg is on vacation. The other, craig Dirling, is out of town. I don't know if he's working on vacation, so that seat will be vacant next week. That's your homework. Assignment is to find out where the word I'll be on it. I'll bring you some red tape if you want. There you go.
Speaker 2:The second thing they want to talk about is um, where am I at here? Okay, goal two optimize occupancy, a vacant and underutilized spaces to maximize city revenues and opportunities. That's a good idea. Now I know, I think there's a. Isn't the building over on I want to say 10 West Magnolia, the one that we are three alarm firing about two three years ago? Isn't that that's city on building? And I'm pretty sure it's still sitting there vacant. Why aren't we either a selling that to somebody to develop it? Why aren't we doing something with it?
Speaker 2:I mean those are buildings like that, you know.
Speaker 3:I'm told that's uh, if I recall right, I saw it that the guy that wants the from golden road wants to develop all that but the reason the city is not demoing that building. I'm told it'll cost millions because the walls that was a freezer, cold storage, right the walls are six and eight foot thick concrete.
Speaker 2:Hey, here's a suggestion Sell the property. We don't need that property. Why are we having it on our reserves? So I think that's maybe what what they're talking about here. You know it says here I can be vacant or underutilized spaces and that's. If that doesn't qualify for that, I don't know what does another goal increase the resources to support diverse independent small businesses? Now, once again, we agree upon that. I know you're on the Magnolia Park merchants board and you're always trying to get you know different small businesses in here and diverse businesses. So hopefully that'll there'll be some, you know, incentives to come into Burbank. You know, and you know hopefully they're talking about they say small businesses, they're not talking about the big corporations. So let's see if they can explain where their mouth is.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I read in that report and I thought I saw in there where they said Magnolia Park, it doesn't turn over that much. Even now there are blocks. There's one business that owns eight businesses on that block and they're all Halloween stores.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's who they're owned by.
Speaker 3:But they're all taped off. You know, the windows are all painted, whatever. But the downtown between Magnolia Park and downtown we have less stuff that's available in Magnolia Park. There's still stuff there. Yes, sir, you know, we got a ride aid.
Speaker 2:You know, you look at the meeting between Burbank. Yeah, ride aids can be the open and remember they built that ride aid and, by the way, we talked about it on a show and we have to correct ourselves. That was not a store, that was on that corner.
Speaker 3:It was Yonans.
Speaker 2:It was yeah, yeah, and then Victor's Deli.
Speaker 3:Well, victor's Deli, yeah, yeah. So, that's on our list. We didn't get to the Vs yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know. But we said there's a market on that corner and I said, well, I don't know what a market.
Speaker 3:And well, when we get there, you were right about Albans.
Speaker 2:I got a nice picture of it on our show. So people, you see our restaurant first restaurant show. You'll see some great old pictures on there.
Speaker 4:Well, we get hungry.
Speaker 2:We did talking about it.
Speaker 3:Well, you know what, dick? You would have loved Victor's Deli, long counter, homemade soups, pastrami on rye. They had the best lentil soup In fact that's one of Ross's big complaints.
Speaker 2:right now there's not a good Deli in the area.
Speaker 3:It's funny. On Instagram I follow Brent's Deli and every time there's a picture up there I go boy, it would be convenient to get that your new Brent's Burbank. I keep saying Brent's Burbank. Didn't that have got a ring to it? Where's Brent's Deli at Out Northridge? There's a couple there's one out West. Westlake, but you're talking shop liver and schmaltz and the trombone.
Speaker 3:You know shop liver but nothing East. When the Deli and Glendale close, burbank has no. Well we do. I can't say we don't have any Right here on Pass Avenue. Is that in the media district?
Speaker 2:Yes, pass Avenue is in the Well. Yes, that's in the media district. There's King's.
Speaker 3:Deli Now. It's a little tiny, pretty small place. We'll go there some weekend. You're in town. The owners are part of the young professionals and they opened it up a couple of years ago. It's several years ago. They just got awarded by.
Speaker 2:It's actually one block from here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, literally.
Speaker 2:Literally one block from here and I've actually never been there before because no parking.
Speaker 4:What's the name of the Deli King's?
Speaker 2:Deli, king's Deli.
Speaker 4:There's another Deli the Ops direction from here. I think it's in Toluca Anx.
Speaker 2:That's in Burbank, that's on Riverside Drive.
Speaker 4:I noticed that. Thanks, bagel, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2:Bagel Yep. People say it's great, but that's a place that closes by two o'clock every day and by the time I'm hungry they're closing. The rule is never go to a restaurant the last hour it's open.
Speaker 3:And guess what Things happen.
Speaker 2:Bad things will happen, bagel boss.
Speaker 3:They're the first time they're coming out to the West Coast from New York on Magnolia. Bagel boss Can't wait. It's supposed to open this month.
Speaker 2:By the way, we drove by Caramel Cookies again the other night.
Speaker 3:Line.
Speaker 2:No line. No, we could have parked right next to it again and walked right in. So I'm not sure why we're the crowds of good, but we saw across the street a line of Portos coming here tonight.
Speaker 3:I drive it down Hollywood Way. I looked over 720 line out the door and halfway down the street for Portos Caramel Cookies. Nope, I didn't even look. Yeah, it's opened.
Speaker 2:Last thing on the council is they're going to discuss their legislative platform, which is always a good thing. You know what they're supporting, what they aren't supporting, and and getting reports of what's in the pipeline coming down so they're not blindsided by SB 35s, sb 9s down the future, hopefully.
Speaker 3:Hey Dick, I got another one for you. Down the pipeline, Put that in your notes Red tape and down the pipeline. You're going to be busy.
Speaker 2:You know, sometimes, sometimes you actually send things up the pipeline. Oh, you know that, don't you? Oh, pipeline is a multi directional piece of tubing.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:OK, let's move on to Wednesday. Once again, the animal shelter is going to have another low cost vaccine and micro shipping for your pets, dogs and cats. Only Vaccines, and I bring my cleaning light. Vaccines offer include the rabies, the border Tella, the DHLPP, fvrcp and the flu. So call you 1-8238-3340 to secure an appointment.
Speaker 3:I don't have an appointment to get in this thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, you do so once again it's another, it's a. You know. I'll tell you what I think when I take Dodger over to the vet. I think Dodgers knocked out right now.
Speaker 3:I don't see him on the camera.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's on the camera, oh, dodge.
Speaker 4:He sees until 3am.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there he is. Oh, he just put his head on my foot. There we go, ok, but that is it. It's expensive to get rabies shots and shots like that. Now, that's not really cheap to go to a vet.
Speaker 3:And the sad thing is most of those. Some vets Will do clinics on a certain day of the week. Instead of having a vet Give a shot, I'll have one of their technicians, so you don't have to charge as much. You know the vet hospital I go to. That's how they do it.
Speaker 2:So Now later on Wednesday and here's something I didn't know about. I didn't know about this and, and I guess it's moving along pretty good right now they are planning a new hotel on Right by the, the Marriott Marriott Airport Hotel on Holloway. It's dual, called dual brand hotel and it's gonna be called a loft, I guess, and it's gonna be basically 262,000 square feet, a detached four-story parking garage and it's gonna be seven stories. Now, this is not going to replace the airport Marriott or the convention center. It's gonna be added in addition to it.
Speaker 3:If you recall, they have talked about this and I saw it, saw this.
Speaker 2:I haven't. I really know much what was going on, but suddenly it sounds like it's moving ahead fast than 11.76 acres. It's bounded by Thornton Holloway and Avon Street, and so this is a meeting, that it's a public scoping meeting and, by the way, it's gonna be held virtually on March 20th.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we haven't been out by the Marriott lately. This is where they normally do some car storage the back part of their parking lot, and this has been they've wanted. They wanted to do this years ago and there was a kibosh on it because of finances, everything. But now they. Now they want to put more bedrooms in and they don't have to. They got a convention center right there. They need more rooms for the conventions that they have going on.
Speaker 2:What are more rooms mean. What means more beds? What are more beds mean? More bed tax more bed tax, more butts in the bed. We like that. Hey, let me tell you what. They can't have enough hotel rooms.
Speaker 3:We accept that the Olympics coming up in four years, every, every hotel room is gonna be full and I think, if you think about that, from that, the Olympics, and then there's some soccer stuff and there's some other big sporting events going on and and people don't want to stay in LA anymore.
Speaker 2:The crime in Hollywood and the crime in parts of LA well, but these people from Brussels are gonna know about the crime in how they would. You know what they think? All the movies are made in Hollywood. They don't really. All the movies are made here.
Speaker 3:I have been told by somebody that works at one of the hotels that is a very big thing. They do look up the crime and they read about it and they hear about it and they will don't want to be well, book your hotel room Burbank right, it'd be a safe place to go.
Speaker 2:Well, it looks like later, later on. Um, on Thursday night, I'm sorry, wednesday night our police, did I say please, the police commission is gonna meet. I Ross was, what is that? I? Mean Wow police, that's a word of the week. Where is police, our word? We just police this week.
Speaker 3:There was one of the best yes you Word of the week. All you got to do is email us at contest at my burbank calm the police, the subject line and you will win a a fully paid $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe. You can use it anytime breakfast, lunch or dinner only serving dinner, I think, on Wednesday, thursday, friday and Saturday is Thursday, friday and Saturday only but we will be glad.
Speaker 3:So send your what's the word again? Police, did you say police? That is our word of the week, now that we have woken dick up, I mean, he is totally, totally awoken from the sound effects in our one out.
Speaker 2:The commission's gonna be at six o'clock at City Hall. They're going to discuss have a discussion of how the public records act process works. You know how exciting. Yeah, you know what. Every time I have to do one of those, I go to. Let me tell you what people. Here's how commission. Here's how easy it is. You go to the city clerk's website. You click on submit a public records request. You fill it out and it emails to the city clerk's office and within a week they send you back what you asked for. That's how it works. So I just hope we saved a commission a 20-minute report on how the public Act works.
Speaker 3:But well, I'm kind of wondering you know you and I've watched, well I do you wonder why they want to, what the commission is gonna learn.
Speaker 2:I'm getting that report what, what and what you do, the information exactly. Hey, you know what's gonna happen. I'm sure Kim Kim Clark, our city clerk, who does a fantastic job a Great, I mean always responsive I'm sure she is gonna her staff has had to spend an hour or two working on a report, maybe a PowerPoint, and I'll just to give them this report that they're gonna say, oh well, thank you very much. Moving on, and that's what bothers me about that yeah, there's no reason they need this report. There's nothing that they will see. You know once again, you can watch it and let me know next week what they, what they discussed about this report, about what? What action you're gonna take about it?
Speaker 3:Well, the next item that they're talking about Every department. Who did I just turn?
Speaker 2:Well, currently, yeah, they're currently recruiting programs.
Speaker 3:They're working their butt off. Try to get officers every department is yeah, I mean, and they're all trying to get the same.
Speaker 2:I heard LAPD is down a tremendous amount of officers right now.
Speaker 3:I was in, I think.
Speaker 2:You see how we want to add. We want to add a thousand officers. Yeah, what about just either thousand officers that you already a budget right now?
Speaker 3:No, that's the sad thing is, people don't want to be police officers.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't blame because you know what everybody. Everybody's got a camera now called your phone and everything you do is gonna get. And it still comes down to the fact that I never understand why officers sometimes do what they do when people have cameras. And I mean seen officers Reading. People put down that phone, don't you video tape? You know, if you're not doing wrong, why does it matter?
Speaker 3:Well, but what they have learned and we've heard this when the office of independent review comes in, now that the every officer wears a body cam, Well she's going to every officer.
Speaker 2:In Burbank they do, but not in a lot of cities.
Speaker 3:I don't know, most cities do, but not all yeah, I'm talking Burbank.
Speaker 4:That's where we are. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3:I'm Burbank and they have found that somebody will put in a claim. Yes, I complain, they will listen to their recorder. They're listening to their body camera on them in their car in the jail. Everywhere you go, that officer will be your word against them and that story changes. Yeah, quite a bit. And people will drop their inquire when they find out. Oh, maybe I Added a little to that, you know. So it's great that we know. And how many years did we fight to get cameras? Oh, absolutely you know, but um.
Speaker 2:Now what I wonder. If they are, our commission knows that you can get the footage of those cameras. The public Recreation quest now see.
Speaker 3:That would be the question. We'll see if any of our commissioners listen to the podcast before Wednesday, because that would be the good question. That's how you can get that. Footage is making a record.
Speaker 2:Record to question.
Speaker 4:Yep exactly any member of the public can do that.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's public information. Yeah, you know it. You have to live in Burbank. Anybody can make that request. Now, That'll always Redact something if it's got personal information or or something you know or shows the person who's not involved and say They'll redact that. It's like in shootings Um, they'll don't show you the footage right up until the triggers pulled, but they're not gonna show the person being shot and falling to the ground and stuff. You know, I understand that. That's not, that's not a need to know basis, you know.
Speaker 3:But you know, years ago they didn't have cameras. Now there's a whole group of officers that's part of their job is looking at the footage, editing the footage that gets requested for. You know, um Record, somebody requests from footage. They just don't pull that out of the air. They have to um, an officer goes through that and there's paperwork and everything that they know. So, yeah, there's quite a bit of work and years ago they didn't have that it's not got what.
Speaker 2:You know. I could watch the FBI show and the guy shoots somebody and kills somebody and the next scene he's out investigating something. Though he would be in their office doing a lot of paperwork and talking to a lot of people for a Long time before we got back on the street and worked again. But you got to love television talking about recruitment.
Speaker 3:I do know the Burbank. In fact they have put it out on Instagram and X and all these Platforms. There's some great and set of twenty thousand dollars. There's you get extra vacation lateral transfers and all that all, yeah, they want everybody.
Speaker 2:Um well, they're also gonna talk about radio encryption. I guess they're just finding out about that six months after it happened, you know, and and now they're gonna report, you know, and I actually did write a letter to the Commission and sent it off and said why were you not consulted before this happened? Why, if you are a policy board, why would a policy like that Eludes you? And you didn't? You had to find out it from the public and not from the police department. So we're gonna see what they have to talk about about radio encryption. I gave them a lot of points and a lot of. You know my point of view on things, though we will see what I. You know what we'll see, if anybody even reads it I've got, because I had to actually send the letter To the police department. You cannot send it to the Commission, and to me that already doesn't, doesn't seem right, you know boards and commissions.
Speaker 3:That's who they I.
Speaker 2:Understand that, but I don't send. You know, I send a letter to the council. It goes to each council member who you're talking.
Speaker 3:Board versus the city.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying yeah.
Speaker 3:Sustainable Commission, but the goes through public works.
Speaker 2:Okay, but I'm just saying is that the person that's supervising them you know they're supposed to be working with is the person that's gonna See? I'm hoping for the best. There's nothing nasty in it, well, I guess what, though? The rest of weeks, pretty empty, I Guess is that you know, enjoy the nice Southern California weather and All the good things that come with it. And we get to the weekend. We got some activities for you. Saturday morning from 9 am To noon at McCambridge Park. I'm sit on an egg, I'm sitting up. Yeah, there you go. Hopefully they're hard boiled, hopefully they're hard boiled. Enjoy fact to be for and after the egg hunt. It's I'm sorry, I mean, it's an Easter egg hunt. Yeah, you have egg hunts for Easter. You don't have egg hunts or any are hot in the air, so it's the Easter egg hunt. They won't call it Easter, though that's a dirty word now in vocabulary.
Speaker 3:Wait a minute. There's an Easter bunny at the event. You can take your picture.
Speaker 2:Well, there's a bunny, not an Easter bunny, he's a bunny.
Speaker 3:But how do you know? It's a he, that's true.
Speaker 4:That's true. Don't go down the rabbits hole.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4:Dick, you just pretty soon You'll see these two rabbits on a video with I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:It's cats and dogs living together, so it's not even a new McCambridge Park. The egg hunts are divided into different age groups so your little ones won't get Trampled. Advanced registration is required to participate the egg hunt, so you got to know in advance. I guess they have enough eggs. You can learn essential bunny care tips from the animal shelter, so oh well you remember, the animal shelter is part of the park and wreck department and who puts this event on? Park and wreck.
Speaker 3:So there you go.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm gonna just have a picture with our special bunny guest. I used to bunny guest there bunny guest and, and so you learn essential bunny care. So guess what kids ask your parents to give you a bunny.
Speaker 3:This is the holiday, you know, I think you know what?
Speaker 2:I think they have bunnies at the animal shelter. Yes they do so go the animal shelter and get your kid a bunny, and then you can learn how to take care of them. Okay, before we start the ranch tonight, I I'm gonna I have a little thing I'm gonna bring up that it's kind of bottoming this week.
Speaker 3:I was out trying though this is a craigs rant.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I guess. So I'm gonna the craigs comment. I don't know.
Speaker 3:You're gonna get a column.
Speaker 2:I'm my opinion Well you could leave on to it says your opinion Driving around it. I don't understand. You know you're, I'm driving and I was something. We walked into the crosswalk and they're walking across the street and I'm on point of this door or bourbon or some street and I'm waiting to make a right hand turn or left hand turn or whatever, and the person walking across the street it's just dawdling, no sense of urgency, just as slow as they can be looking down their phone. What's up with people?
Speaker 2:You know, I've always felt If I was walking across the street, especially when I had good legs I saw somebody waiting to make a turn, I would do what I could be a little quicker to make sure, you know, not to convince them so much, but nowadays people are just in a fog and If you're not paying attention to that Now, you're paying attention. Anything else, if somebody, why these pedestrians get hit so much? Lately a lot of pedestrians get hit and I say why weren't they anticipating what could have happened? Because they weren't watching. So that is kind of it. I don't know what else to say about it. But I just think that you know, if you're a pedestrian and you know, stop looking your phone across the street and Get across the street please. So that's it. So now.
Speaker 4:I'm just getting hot in here. Yeah, it is it.
Speaker 2:You feel it. Yeah, I feel the flames coming. It's now time, and it can only be time for that one and only.
Speaker 5:Rosses rant.
Speaker 3:Rosses rant. Rosses rant.
Speaker 5:I take a frame through into this place.
Speaker 3:Okay, rosses rant, I got a couple. I'll tell you the number of people honking horns at other drivers. Like nobody has patience anymore. I'm sitting somewhere yesterday I think I counted five times, not at me, but for just the dumbest Things people jump on their horn. What the hell? You know? I was gonna turn around and say the horn works, how about the driver? Or the horn blows, but there's a driver, you know it just. And Lately I find people looking at their phone. I was arriving, if it's for maps or whatever, most phones have speaker speakers on them. They can get that verbal, but they're looking at their phone. That in in parking lots Nobody has patience anymore. If you're waiting for a spot, there's somebody gonna drive around you and flip you off because you want the spot next to the door. It just really gets me. People have no patience anymore, you know, especially in cars and other things. But I tell you it just.
Speaker 2:So you and I both had traffic related things tonight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kind of. You know. It's just. I know I'm getting older and you know I used to drive 65 and 70 down for do go at one time, but Even doing the speed limit. Now you kind of wonder how much did we hear complaints the last couple of weeks about safe streets? Yeah, whoa. I wonder where that came from, because how many dead bodies are they picking up in LA in that pass when they're gonna be putting in chokers and bike? Yeah, you know, and and and bus lanes and bus lanes.
Speaker 3:You know well that brings up a good point us lanes. People think the the Bart, the Bart, not Bart. You know, bart was Stan's brother.
Speaker 2:No, bart's in San Francisco right the BRT right.
Speaker 3:Is gonna go above all of up in the hills. There's no bus going up there. It stops. Is it San Fernando? Glen Oaks? I think it makes right on Glen Oaks. Okay, people are just jumping all over that Because of how they changed the lines. You know, one of our council members went out on San Fernando the other day and and videotaped so she could do her own show and tell, like our cities PIO office didn't do a good enough job. And then I see Friday night where they made it for these pickup and delivery guys. Everybody's parking them. These pickup guys don't have anywhere to stop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I said all time, in fact, you know I. I was stopping by McDonald's just to get some food and I like to go to the Curbside pickup. You park in a spot and they put the number in and they bring the food out to you and there were four. There were five spots for car and four I could. There's only one spot open, a parking. I looked in the other four there's nobody in the cars. Of all those people went inside probably need yeah and no respect for what the sign says. You know it. There's a reason for those signs and I don't, I don't get it. I agree with you that people do not respect, you know on a city street, but you know lads now. But why aren't we enforcing that?
Speaker 2:Exactly I would like to know why lads is not on foot.
Speaker 3:Okay, maybe the first week when they put a new stop sign up around town. They put red flags on it. Right, they put a sign, new sign to warn you. I want to. Why aren't we having lads till midnight Working downtown?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you this you go to LA in some places and you park somewhere, they have meter guys on bikes, they have meter guys walk and they're what I mean. They're like one guy per block. It seems like oh and that, and that goes one minute past the time. He's riding you up right there on the spine. I mean, there's no, they give you no leeway there.
Speaker 3:I used to work at a church in Hollywood off a gower. There was a club in one of those you know vacant buildings nearby. Parking was no parking at 10, at 10. Oh one, there were six tow trucks and three. Three traffic officers are waiting. But it turned to 10. Oh one, and they start boom, boom, boom. People would come out and go. Where's my car? It's at the OPG official police garage. You know what? Why don't we do? And I know Burbank wants to be so good. Why don't we do? And I know Burbank wants to be sweet and nice, but you know what? I think? A couple of tow trucks From GMP sitting up on Glen.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't think it's, I don't you know, toying with one person here and there's gonna Will stop everybody else. I think you need to start siding.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because you and I both know that that so many people isn't coming from other cities here and don't respect our city.
Speaker 3:Well, they're gonna be stuck pretty soon with parking pain for parking everywhere. Yeah, maybe, people, but last what? Why doesn't last out? You know, working San Fernando. Like I say, maybe it's because they one week they're giving people of this one week is a good example, just gonna continue. There are drivers out there that not only run stop signs but parking legally they go. Oh, I won't get a ticket. This is my dad's car, he'll get the ticket. I remember getting a ticket once in my mom's car. She yelled, my insurance went up. Who the hell? And I didn't realize that it was because the ticket that I got. You know, when I was mighty young, you menace, yeah, oh, he was not a happy camber gal. That does our show. Hey dick, what do you think you coming back next week with a couple of our you have?
Speaker 2:some homework assignments.
Speaker 4:Depends if I have a game next Monday for women's basketball now.
Speaker 3:Would that be now? Who's that start SC? Did you walk in? Oh, she amazing, and she's just so cool about it. Yeah, very very, very.
Speaker 4:I don't want to say laid back, but um great composure for but 18 years old. Yeah, but she is the next great Wmba star.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now do you know I? And because in the nba, of course with men, uh, a man, or I guess a man, I guess is has to go one year of college and then he can Declare for the draft after one year of college. Can women do that too?
Speaker 4:I don't believe so. More homework, sure more homework Yep.
Speaker 2:I will. I just wondering. I mean, are the rules the same for women? Is there for men? If not, why?
Speaker 3:Well, dick dornan, I want to say editor meritus, you uh kicked us off when we were burbanking beyond, when we were in the infant Infant stages, and covered a hell of a lot for us. Oh, have a nice time to have you. Yeah, it's good no you even got to sneak in a pre-show dinner.
Speaker 4:Yes, you know that was great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got to eat heather, oh, and heather is fantastic heather, and so hopefully you can come back if you're not traveling or in one of these basketball courts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was nice having you always have a chair open here, yeah.
Speaker 4:Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:I think it's. Uh, it's good to get a different point of view in here. That's right. Well, I think that's it for another week For dick dornan and ross benzin. This is craig shrewd signing off and saying that we will talk to you. And, by the way, don't forget our restaurant special coming out later this week. So we'll talk to you later, take care.
Speaker 4:Looking forward to it.
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