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The Week That Was and That Will Be - August 5
What if your city council could make your streets safer while also tackling urgent housing issues? This week on "The Week that Was and the Week that Will Be," we unpack a whirlwind of local government actions and community events that are shaping Burbank's future. From the newly enacted no-fault eviction ordinance providing three months of rent assistance, to the passage of fair wage adjustments for fast food workers, we explore how these developments could impact you. Plus, we delve into the significance of union labor in city projects and the streamlined processes for developers that could bring growth and innovation to our city.
Also in this packed episode, we spotlight the recent media industry expo and job fair at Woodbury University, which attracted thousands and showcased a plethora of career opportunities in the media sector. We discuss the implications of school board member Steve Ferguson's unexpected resignation and what this means for the upcoming elections. As we anticipate the end of a tranquil summer, we look forward to the buzz of the new school year and the many activities it will bring.
Finally, we provide timely updates on the city council election nomination process, including the surprising re-election candidacy of Konstantine Anthony. Tune in for insights on local civic activities, from the new mural at McCambridge Park to seismic retrofitting discussions by the Landlord Tenant Commission. We also share heartfelt personal stories, from adopting a puppy to stressing the importance of school safety as the new academic year kicks off. This episode is brimming with valuable information and personal reflections, making it a must-listen for the Burbank community.
My Burbank Talks presents another edition of the Week that Was and the Week that Will Be a weekly podcast featuring highlights and commentary on local events and issues taking place right here in Burbank. Now let's see what's on today's agenda as we join our program.
Speaker 2:Hello Burbank. Craig Stewart, here with you once again for another edition of the Week that Was and the Week that Will Be. I'm coming to you once again from the Command Center here at my Burbank and let's hope we got some information you might enjoy this week. Of course, we always start off with last week's winner, and last week's winner was Dave Satom. And last week's winner was Dave Satom. Dave is the winner of a $25 gift certificate to Hill Street Cafe over on Glen Oaks, and, as we know, they make most of their own ingredients there. It's a great place to stop by. It's Burbank's hidden treasure. Take some time, stop by, grab a meal, great breakfast, great lunch, lunch. You have dinners on Thursday, friday and Saturday nights. So we're going to have that $25 gift certificate to Dave Sanum. We'll have another word of the week later in the show, so if you'd like to have a chance to win a gift card for next week, stay tuned. One announcement we also have is that we're going to have a. We are now officially taking requests for meet the candidate podcasts. So if you are a candidate for a Burbank office, the rule is if your name appears on a Burbank ballot, we would be more than happy to do a podcast with you and let the voters hear hear your stories. So give me an email at news at myburbankcom and let me know who you are and we will set up a uh a time to have a podcast with you. So, uh, we are now getting into election season. So, holy cow, you thought it was football season coming up. No, no, no, no, it's election season.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's get into last Tuesday and the city council meetings. So one of the things they did on the consent agenda was they passed the urgency ordinance for no-fault evictions, and that now includes three months of rent to help somebody out who was evicted. You can call the city. If you're in that situation and you're having a problem, you can call the city. You can call the city attorney's office, who will enforce it and make sure that your rights are taken care of. So that's a good thing. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Once again, that's a tough subject, because landlords and tenants both struggle at times. This is not a one-way thing. This is not good guy versus bad guy. This is two good guys. Occasionally, though, you get the bad guys. That might be the corporate guys who come in here and want to just take over a whole building and throw everybody out. Well, hopefully now things will be a little different if that's the case. So I don't think the big problem is with the ball and pop landlords. I think the problem is the corporations who come in here and think they can take things over. So, anyhow, let's move on.
Speaker 2:The council also talked about a workforce pay requirement. You know it's. We want to see people paid well, no doubt about it. As we all know, fast food workers are now making $20 an hour, and rightly so. I mean, for a long time they were the ones who really didn't get much of anything. I mean, for a long time they were the ones who really didn't get much of anything. So I'm happy for them. I think $20 an hour is a fair wage. Lord knows what it's like to have to deal with the public every day, so I think that's a good resolution for them. But when it comes down to when it comes down to building, that's a different thing. And, of course, we want to have union labor. We have projects in Burbank. We want to have union labor, we want to have people paid well and everything else. And so, while the city is going to look at that a little further.
Speaker 2:One of the things they did bring up at the meeting was maybe, instead of trying to while it may cost the developer more money to pay people with union wages, maybe the city council saved them money by making the process for permits, for inspections, for all those things to speed up, because sometimes these projects are taking years, years. Look at the project of Fry's Where's that at? I mean that's been brought to the city over a year ago, maybe two years ago. What's going on with it? It's just stuck, and a lot of that has to do with the city just not streamlining. It's really nobody's fault, but on the other hand, that's money. Every day a developer does not have a project open or available to rent or whatever, that's the day it costs that developer money Because they buy the land and they still got to make the payments to the bank or whatever the situation is. If they're not building, they're not making money. So hopefully that'll be a good something that the city can look at. Yeah, we can make sure the rates are good for your workers, but we can also streamline the process to make sure that the developers do things a lot quicker and we'll save actually probably more money the long run that way, so that could be a win-win if it's done right.
Speaker 2:Something else that came up was a report on what they call Vision Zero. Now I look at Vision Zero and I'm thinking Vision Zero, what is nearsighted or farsighted who knows what that is but it's basically the Stapher Streets plan for Burbank they had. They brought up some interesting things in the meeting which I thought were worth looking at, so I'm going to bring some up on the computer here and let you take a look at them. Okay, this is interesting in the fact that they put out a PowerPoint and in the PowerPoint it gave some stats, such as in the last four years 2018 to 2022, that there were 3,835 collisions in Burbank and of those, a little over 19, close to 2,000, actually a little over 2,000, maybe is 55% of the collisions resulted in an injury Not very good and 105 of those collisions resulted in a fatality or a serious injury. They call that a KSI Not sure what KSI actually stands for, but that's what they call a KSI and 15 of the 105 collisions that were serious were fatalities. So that's kind of a lot of things. So 2,123 collisions had some injury and that was basically their analysis. Based on that.
Speaker 2:This is also interesting. If you look at this graphic here vehicle injuries and vehicle accidents for 76%, pedestrian accidents for 10%, bikes 8% and motorcycles are 6%. I would have thought that the motorcycles would have been a higher, a higher number, but even so, you're looking at the fact that would have thought that the motorcycles would have been a higher number, but even so, you're looking at the fact that 10% of pedestrians involved in that. And, let's face it, how many of those pedestrians are looking at their phone? They're not watching what's going on. How many times have you walked across the street or driven down the street and a pedestrian walks across? They're looking down at their phone. I think you've got to be looking at cars in both directions the entire time. You can't just assume people are just looking for you. You've got to look for people also. But the fact that did come out on this was 29% of the serious collisions did involve motorcycles, so, and 26 involved pedestrians. So those are some high numbers there.
Speaker 2:Let's move on a little more here. They actually had a map of where every accident was, with the red dots being the serious ones, the green dots being the less serious ones. I also found this interesting that this shows where the schools are and let me see if I can blow this up a little bit. I can blow it up a whole lot, in fact Maybe too much. If you look at some of the streets in the darkest red kind of near Burbank High School, you have a few. But I found this near Providencia, I mean sorry, joaquin Miller Elementary School up here.
Speaker 2:A lot of accidents and that's a little bit concerning in itself. Up on Providencia, magnolia Park down in this area is rampant with accidents. So if you look at the map of the city where most of the heavy accidents are, yeah, it's a lot in the traffic areas, but some of these areas are very. Yeah, it's a lot in the traffic areas, but some of these areas are very surprised. Let's move on a little farther. That kind of gives you a little more of a close-up of downtown Burbank. It shows you the darker, the red, the worse the accident is and really the problem areas. Of course Glen Oaks is a bad area. I'm a little surprised that San Fernando is so bad, but there's probably a lot of pedestrian accidents with all of the shops and businesses down there.
Speaker 2:You look at what are we looking at here? We're looking at the middle of the city and once again Hollywood Way is probably the worst, but once again Hollywood Way has the traffic for the airport and that's about it. So you look at some of that stuff there and you have to wonder. I think you have to kind of wonder a little bit there. We'll get back with you here. I think you have to worry.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, there's a serious problem here with driving. I don't know what the solution is. They're going to try to come up with solutions. You know, of course, I think you know speed is also is the main concern. People are going too fast, people are in a hurry. You know, of course, I think you know speed is also is the main concern. People are going too fast, people are in a hurry. Do you really need to get there that fast? Do you really need to get there that fast?
Speaker 2:How many times I've been passed by a car when I'm going 35 down the street and by the time I get to the next signal, I caught right back up to that person who was going 50. You know it's, the signals are going to stop you and if you are that much of a disregard for the speed limit, then you may be a disregard for the signals, and that's where these accidents are coming from. So that's just a matter of slowing down. It's a matter of just, you know, common respect. I don't know how we teach common respect, though. I don't know. I would hope that we have some self-mechanisms. I would hope that our parents taught us well. I would hope that we have pride in our city and what we do here. But you know we can't have a cop on every street. You know, I mean, they'll be writing tickets all day long and they're going to enforce crime because they're writing tickets the entire time. You know we could hire 100 officers and they could write tickets all day long. Is that really the solution? I want the solution to take a little personal responsibility. That sometimes goes a long way.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's move on with the city council meeting a little bit City council. They approved $300,000 to entice gun owners to leave the business. There was a report that four gun owners, gun store owners, had expressed some interest. Two of them just have quit already on their own. A report that four gun owners, gun store owners, had expressed some interest. Two of them just have quit already on their own and two may take a $150,000 payout each to leave. So if that happens, you know we're down to about 10 gun stores, so it reduces the number and you know, in all honesty, probably money well spent. You know, once again, nobody's trying to take away your guns. Nobody's against the Second Amendment, it's just do we need that many gun stores in Burbank? Do we need to be the gun store capital of the world? I like the media capital of the world a whole lot better.
Speaker 2:Okay, on Thursday, the city of Burbank held a media industry expo and job fair. It was at Woodbury University and it turned out. Thousands of people were in attendance. Arlie Lipinski and Ross Benson were there to shoot some pictures. Let's see here if we can bring that up for you. There's our story we did on it and you can see there's a lot of people there, a lot of booths, a lot of different things. What the great aspect of it, though. Whoops, let's start again. The Rathbuss wasn't there.
Speaker 2:On Thursday, the city of Burbank held a job fair, but not just any kind of job fair. It was a media industry expo and job fair as Woodbury University easier for me to say. Thousands of people showed up at that, because media industry jobs are coveted. Arlen Lipinski was there and did a great story that we have on our site. Let's see if I can bring that up for you guys. There we go. As you can see, it was ice and spread out. There was all sorts of media people there, and not just media people.
Speaker 2:You know we're not looking for directors and producers and those type of people, but there's all types of jobs, all types of jobs there there are. Yes, there's the jobs on the set, of course, but you've also got your jobs that are behind the scenes, especially your jobs. If you're young and you can run a computer and you understand graphics CGI, computer generated graphics are amazing and they need people to put this stuff together. And if you look amazing and they need people to put this stuff together. And if you look at a movie with special effects you know sci-fi, movie, things like that you're going to see close to probably 500 people who worked on that movie doing effects and it takes a long time to get those effects done. So there's a huge demand. But look at the jobs in the studios, not only the on-set people, but you have the set construction people. You've got the carers, the editors.
Speaker 2:Lots of jobs are part of the media industry and those are all jobs that people are looking for. They're all coming to jobs. So it's something that I think it's something that people can look at and they get their foot in the door. Those are all high-paying jobs. There's no minimum wage jobs in the entertainment industry and you're taken care of very well, depending on where you wind up. You get on a set you're looking at not only working all day probably a 10, 12-hour day but you're looking at meals too. You're in a union probably good health benefits. So even if you're just a driver working with the Teamsters, too, good union, probably good health benefits. So even if you're just a driver working with the Teamsters, you're making good money. So a lot of jobs there. That was nice. The city put that on. I hope some people found some good jobs and everything else, or at least some leads, because our economy people need to get those jobs, those leads.
Speaker 2:Thursday night there was a school board meeting and the big item was that Steve Ferguson sent in a letter of resignation. We had commented in the past that he had missed seven meetings so far this year and the last meeting he just showed up for 10, 15 minutes as soon as the oral communication was over, he said I don't feel like he left. Well, he got his $500 paycheck for the month for doing that. And now he just sent a letter in, you know, of course, with school starting in about a week, and he sent a letter in just saying that's it, I'm done, school starting in about a week, and he sent a letter and just saying that's it, I'm done. You know, it was a nice heartfelt letter, but it didn't really never. It didn't really say why. And to me, you know what, when you run for office, you're not doing it. You know, hopefully not doing for the money, but you're not doing it for any other reason except until you want to serve. So why he couldn't last another three or four months is beyond me.
Speaker 2:What I found interesting also was after the school board president read the letter he sent. She just read it as a matter of fact type thing. There was not one comment by one person there about it. Nobody said we wish him well or hey, that's too bad. Nothing, not a word. He was like okay, he resigned, what's next? And I was just thinking that that kind of shows the tension I think that's on the board right now with some people. I don't know what's going on there. It's a very tough board to deal with in many ways, but at least our superintendent and now our acting assistant superintendent have things under control and are doing a great job. So hopefully there is light somewhere at the end of that dark tunnel, hopefully. But elections are coming up so we'll see what happens there. And Steve Ferguson was up for re-election. Now he's not. So that's one seat gone and there's two more that are still up for election also. So hopefully we can put people on that board who are going to turn things around.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, that's kind of it for the week. That was Mostly good, a little bad, but mostly good. So once again in the summertime, not so much going on really, you know. So we kind of look for things. You know there's not as much as once you get going in the regular year. So a lot of people are on vacation and a lot of boards and commissions take the weeks off and the month off in July and sometimes in August. So hopefully we will have a little more news on a weekly basis for that. So, anyhow, let's take our first commercial break here, or our first, our only commercial break, and we'll be back in a second with the week that will be.
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Speaker 2:Okay, we are back with you and here it is Monday, it's August 5th and, let's say, we record the show. So what's going on this week with the week that it will be? To start with, we found out today that Burbank's Chief Information Officer, kevin Gray, has announced he's leaving the city of Burbank for a new opportunity in a similar position at Metrolink. He is actually one of the architects and the people behind Burbank's 311 app, which is an amazing app and does great things, and it's really streamlined. A lot of things you know with permits, graffiti removal, large item, bulky item pickup just a lot of things that you know make it easier to do. You don't have to call somebody, you can actually just get on the app and do things, and also it saves the city title that way Manpower as far as answering phones and all that stuff too. So it's kind of a win-win. So we wish him well. He's off to Metrolink. Metrolink's a lot bigger than the city of Burbank and I'm sure that has its challenges there. But they've got a good person there, so we wish him well. But they've got a good person there, so we wish him well.
Speaker 2:Also today, kim Clark, our city clerk, sent out a reminder today about the upcoming city council elections and I want to remind everybody that the nomination process which is, you know, you turn your papers in ends by this coming Friday the only exception is that if an incumbent does not file his papers, you have an extra week. Well, we already know that Nick Schultz, as an incumbent, is not going to file his papers because he's running for the assembly seat in Burbank. So we already know for a fact that it'll be next week. But what I did find out interesting in her note today was that one incumbent has taken out the papers. She didn't say filed them yet, but taken out the papers. That means Constantine Anthony, who is the other council member up for re-election or his seat comes to an end this December has taken out papers for re-election or his seat, you know, comes to end this December, has taken out papers for re-election. So he had said at one time in the council meeting that he was not going to run. Now I guess he is going to run. And you know what? Once again, what people decide to do, as long as he's doing it for the right reason, I have no problems. Everybody can change their mind. Maybe they change their situation, their living situation. Whatever it is to make things work, you can always make that decision. It's not something that's in stone in stone, so hopefully we will see once he files his papers and we get a list of all the candidates who have filed, I see five, six candidates who are going to be for those two seats.
Speaker 2:As in, the, school board has three seats. This year, city council has two seats With the school board, though they put themselves in the districts and I can't find the map anywhere on their website to know what district is what. There's nothing by the board members' names that says what district they represent. I have no idea. That's all just nonsense over there as far as trying to figure out what they're trying to do. But they did take Steve Ferguson's picture off their website, so they do respond to stuff pretty fast on that account. But the school board has put out no statements yet about who's running what districts are available, anything else.
Speaker 2:I think people will be a little surprised that two-fifths of the Burbank population will not be able to vote for one school board candidate While there's three seats up. Two-fifths of the city are going to be left out of the school board election entirely. I don't understand why they went to districts. I think everybody should be represented by every school board member or by every city council member. The Burbank City Council had that threat at one time. They called the bluff and all of a sudden that went away. We never found out whoever Nick Gutierrez ever was, who filed that complaint with the city. It seems to have been an empty threat, and hats off to the city council for recognizing that and standing up to the bully. School district Can't say that much. So if we find out anything about the school district elections we'll let you know, but so far it's the black hole.
Speaker 2:What else happened today? Let's see Arts and Public Places. They met today at 6 o'clock and they talked about the mural public art project. They're working on a mural at McCambridge Park to replace, I guess, the one that was in there. I don't think they're going to fix it up, I think they're probably going to come up with a whole new one. I think that one that was in there is pretty old. I know one time I was watching the old emergency television show. It was Gage Minnesota and they had a first aid run at McCambridge Park and in the back wall you can see that mural in there. So that was easily 40 years ago probably. So it's been there for a while.
Speaker 2:The Landlord Tenant Commission. They met today at the Community Services Building. I'm not sure what they can really do. Burbank is working on a whole new commission and a whole new commission with teeth and an enforcement division. So you know, until that happens I don't know what they can really do. But they have to talk about the soft-story seismic retrofit ordinance. So I guess they're trying to do apartment buildings that they have, or two-story apartment buildings. They're trying to make sure they're retroactively trying to refit. You get them retroactively I'm sorry, not retroactively, you're trying to get them seismically fit. Because if you remember, back in the Northridge earthquake, a few of those apartment buildings, the first floor, all caved in on some buildings.
Speaker 2:So it's good to try to be proactive because we all know another earthquake's coming, it's coming and it's coming quickly. We just don't know when that's going to be. But if we did, it's funny when you look at all your disasters. You have a hurricane coming. You got like two, three days notice. Here comes a hurricane. You can batten down the hatches and prepare for things, even evacuate, even on a tornado. You have warning systems now and things on your. You can get warning devices that at least you know. Hey, warning, here comes a possible tornado coming.
Speaker 2:Even now we have that app for earthquakes. It's at the best, it's at the best. 30 seconds Now. 30 seconds is still, I'm not going to argue. 30 seconds is still a whole lot better than argue. 30 seconds is still a lot better than no time. If you're in an elevator and you get that alert, you just get off the next floor. You don't be in an elevator or an earthquake, but it's still. You don't know what. An earthquake can hit at any time.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, just because we're having some hot days, there's no truth to the fact that earthquakes only happen when it's hot. It doesn't you know. You're looking five, ten miles down to the ground. It couldn't care less what the temperature is on the surface. So don't let the heat be a. That means nothing, even though, yes, it is. It's not just hot, it's damn hot right now. So I got you. I found this interesting.
Speaker 2:Also, the landlord tenant commission is going to talk about making the flag salute a recurring agenda item. I have no idea what that means. Why do they want to put that as a recurring agenda item, unless they're talking about making the flag salute part of every meeting. I don't know. I have no problem with doing the flag salute and if they'd like to do it I'm all for it, but that's a whole other subject.
Speaker 2:Tuesday the city council is dark. God, they can save the power, but what tomorrow also is is National Night Out, and that's one of the great events every year in the city and it's not because of anybody spending a lot of money to put something on. The city puts on a nice little thing over at Johnny Carson Park and that starts at 530. And the police will be out there, the fire will be out there and the different city organizations will be out there Community groups. It'll be hot, but it'll be a good. It'll be a good. It's always good at Johnny Carson Park. But here's the great thing about it People in their own neighborhoods put together their own meetings Not meetings, you know get-togethers and they do potlucks and they invite all their neighbors and they all come out and they just talk and they just.
Speaker 2:You know, hey, what's going on. Hey, you heard about this. You seen that. And a lot of times that becomes more. You know, hey, what's going on. Hey, you heard about this. You seen that and a lot of times that becomes more. You know. You get to know your neighbors a lot better. It's you know, the city council, the police, the fire, they all go around to different neighborhoods and spend time at each gathering. So it's just a great event. It's a great way to get to know your neighbors. It's a great way to and, like I said, the police will be ask questions, ask questions, you know, get to know, get to know your officers, get to know your firefighters, get to know your city officials. They'll be out and around. It's just a. It's a great day for for everybody. So that's something that that's something that you can get involved in.
Speaker 2:If you're hearing this on Tuesday morning and you don't know about your neighborhood, call the community, the community department of the police department, and say, hey, I live at so and so is there any national night out things going on in my neighborhood, and they have a list of where they all are. So you know why not, why not, it'll be in the evening, so hopefully it'll be cool. Johnny Carson Park will probably be a little warm over there. But you know, what do you? Do you go with it. I'd rather have it be a little too hot than have it be A cold or B raining, so we can live with the 90 degree evenings. What else is going on Tuesday? The Burbank Athletic Federation they're going to meet at 6 pm at the Community Services Building and they're going to get a report on the Civitan Jamboree that they had back in June. So they're going to report on that.
Speaker 2:Wednesday, the Civil Service Board is scheduled to meet at 4.30 at City Hall. The Domestic Violence Task Force is scheduled to meet at 5.30. I have not seen an agenda or location yet. The Youth Board meeting has been canceled. I guess there's no youth board meeting when there's no schools in session. I think if you're going to be on the youth board, why not serve an entire year and serve in the summertime? I think having a youth board meeting two weeks before school opens would be a good idea and be able to bring things to the school sites as school opens, you know. So I think the station can think about that.
Speaker 2:Moving on to Thursday, there's going to be a room cutting and for a grand opening of Reset Spot at 3816 Magnolia. Now I do not know what Reset Spot is, that's a mystery. So my advice is on Thursday, go over to 3816 Magnolia, find out what Reset Spot is and if you can't make it on Thursday, go the day after that. Check out a new business Interesting. Also, on Thursday the Park and Rec Board is going to meet at 6 pm at City Hall. They're going to get an update on the capital improvement projects and talking about the replacement of playground equipment at Brace, maple and McCambridge Playgrounds. So I guess that all three of those locations are getting new playground equipment, which is very good.
Speaker 2:We always wanted to have the best playground equipment. I do not know if they have sand in their playgrounds or if they have that new synthetic stuff they put on the ground. It's kind of rubbery, synthetic type of surface Kind of interesting. Let's hope they have on the ground. It's kind of rubbery, synthetic type of surface Kind of interesting. Let's hope they have better playground. I know from back in the day, back in a long time ago, back in the day, at Verdugo Park one of the pieces of playground equipment was a, was a, a capsule, a rocket capsule. They had it sitting in Verdugo Park and you know, I guess back then, because you know you had the Apollo moon landings and everything else, so they put a, you know, a toy capsule. It was kind of large, it was as big as a slide and you go inside it and slide out of it and all those things. That was the fun back then when we were kids Back in the day. Not a lot that you could really do to entertain us that we couldn't entertain ourselves, didn't need the video games, didn't need all that stuff, all we had was our spaceship to jump into.
Speaker 2:Friday Quiet day. Friday quiet day, it's a quiet day, so we will talk about Saturday. Well, look at this Saturday we have another kitten. Wait a second. Did I say kitten? Yes, I did say kitten. Of course I know what I said kitten. Yes, I did say kitten. Of course I know what I said. And with that word, kitten is our word of the week. Okay, johnny, tell us what we won. No, no, no, no, no. We haven't won anything yet. If you want to win, if you want to win, then send an email to contest at myburbankcom and put in the subject line Kitten and we will pick out a winner for next week's prize, which, of course, is a $25 gift card to Hill Street Cafe over on Glen Oaks, one of the great breakfast and lunch places there is in the city. So send off that email right away. So send off that email right away. So we have the Kitten Fair. It's going to take place once again. This is like the third or fourth time. They've done it now at the animal shelter. It's from 10 to 2 at the animal shelter, so stop by there and enjoy the kittens. Get a kitten.
Speaker 2:I'll give you a little personal story. When I had my dog, I got my new dog, two things in my life I've never had. One's a brand new car and the other was a puppy. Well, I got a puppy and I will tell you this I'm glad I've done it, but I won't do it again.
Speaker 2:Puppies are tough in the beginning. You gotta get them to. You have to get all your shots and all your vet visits and all that. And I got a Dodger. That's six weeks old and he's the greatest dog. No doubt about it. Isn't everybody's dog or cat the greatest in the world? Well, dodger is one of the greatest in the world, but you know it's a lot of shots you have to get and it's just. Or Cat the greatest in the world? Well, dodgers would be one of the greatest in the world. But you know it's a lot of shots you have to get and it's just the training you have to get him house trained. But now he's got three different doggy doors in the house he can get through anytime he wants to. Yeah, I haven't had to get him trained or just get dog walks and stuff just to teach them how to walk. A lot went into it. Glad I did it, but that was my puppy.
Speaker 2:Now I don't know about kittens. I do not think kittens are probably as high maintenance as dogs are. I would think kittens are probably. I'm sure they have their moments. I'm sure they like to go and scratch things and claw at things, like dogs like to go and eat at things all the time when they're young. And I think cats probably or kittens probably like to scratch things. So every dog and cat has their thing and it's funny sometimes how that's inherent in the animal.
Speaker 2:I'll give you an example when I got Dodger Dodger's the only dog that I have here and once in a while I would give him a bone and he takes the bone in the backyard and he buries it. Now I never taught him that. Nobody's ever taught him to bury a bone, but yet dogs have that instinct that they want to go bury bones. I don't know where that comes from. Nobody's taught them. He hasn't gone to doggy school to learn how to bury bones. So I think that's. An interesting trait that dogs have is that they have an instinct to go bury a bone. I don't know what instincts cats have, but I gotta figure they've got instincts and there's things that cats probably do, that people who are cat people probably know.
Speaker 2:But anyhow, why not pick up a kitten? Why not? If you don't have a dog or you have a, you know, if you're a cat person, there are kittens out there who need you. You know we have a no-kill shelter here in Burbank and that means a lot of animals are waiting to go somewhere and hopefully you're the person who wants to take. If it's not a kitten, then grab a dog. I think they've got all sorts of animals. They've got rabbits there, they've got all sorts of things at the animal shelter. Stop by and check it out Also.
Speaker 2:Finally, we'll get more into it next week, but a week from Monday it's the return of school, school's back, and so, with school coming back, a couple things. Number one is I feel sorry for the kids when it's 110 degrees out there. It's always tough going back in 110 degreedegree weather, but hopefully it'll be nicer by next week, the week after, I mean. But that you know, and we talked about safer streets earlier. Well, you know, we need to make sure that we're on the lookout for kids when you're driving. You know they're in a bike lane. You know you can't look down at your cell phone because your car drifts over to the right a little bit and you take out a bicyclist in a bike lane. You know, yeah, you didn't mean to do it and yes, it's an accident, but the fact is you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2:And look at the result these kids are going. You know, and you know young kids, especially around elementary schools, they're going to run out on the street. You know the speed limit is 25 around schools, so go 25. Look, get your head in a swivel, see what you can find out there. You know, I mean kids. They're going to school because they're not educated. You are, if you're a driver, you're an older person, you have education, you understand what's right and wrong, but kids don't really know that yet. Especially, you get your kids under. You know, first, second grade, kindergarten. Kids know, you know parents are looking out for them, but still, you know, if a kid runs out, a ball runs out on the street and a kid chases it, anticipate those things.
Speaker 2:And also, if you're a parent, stop double parking in front of the schools. Come on now. That's what ties everything up. That's what gets people upset. All of a sudden they're trying to get to school and the cars aren't moving ahead of them because people decided they're going to double park, not how it's supposed to be. I know that in a recent police commission meeting the police talked about they're going to start to work on drop-off and pickup access inside the school grounds where cars can drive in, pick somebody up, drop somebody off and then drive out another gate. Great idea Needs to be done Because I've seen too many times at the schools that parents just want to double park and once again you double park or you let your kid off.
Speaker 2:You know buses, school buses cannot let off students across the street from a school. Okay, they can't make. They don't want kids crossing the street because the bus blocks out the view. So they always make sure they pull up to the same side of the street, the school's on Also. Remember if you see that the bus has those flashing red lights on, you can't pass the bus. Okay, you cannot pass a bus that has the lights on and the stop and all that you know going on with the bus. So you know, once again, take that into account. That has the lights on and the stop and all that going on with the bus. So you know, once again, take that into account.
Speaker 2:And if you live near a school and you have to go in the morning or something else and you don't have kids, think about, okay, you know what, for a while, I need to show you the different route. I'm not going to go down that street with all the traffic and all the kids and all the things going on. Find a different route, go block over, go two blocks, go block up and block to the right and then go down if the hill or down, wherever you are, but you don't need to go and be part of that problem. Okay, that's kind of my final thought on this. Anyhow, I think that's it again for the week. That was the week that will be.
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