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The Week That Was and That Will Be - September 2
What’s the inside scoop on Burbank’s latest buzz? Find out as we celebrate Marcus Freeman's lucky win and lament the closure of Unincorporated Coffee. Despite this setback, there's a silver lining with the makeover of the once-weedy lot at Hollywood Way and Clark. We also highlight the importance of transparency as we grapple with the unreleased body camera footage from a recent incident at Parkside and Johnny Carson at Bob Booth Drive. Plus, don't miss our recap of Burbank High's thrilling last-second football victory!
Curious about the new downtown parking plan? We break down Thursday’s city meeting, covering everything from metered parking to usage-based pricing. The full presentation is up on our YouTube channel for those who want an in-depth look. This episode also features community updates, including the Heritage Commission's efforts to list historical sites like possibly Larry's Chili Dog, and a sneak peek at the Fall Festival hosted by the Burbank Park and Recreation Department in collaboration with the Valley Cultural Foundation and Burbank Culture Arts Commission.
Finally, discussions on a potential rent cap; it's a jam-packed weekend ahead. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to help sustain our content and stay tuned for more local highlights and commentary. Your support keeps us going!
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.
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Speaker 3:Welcome, jerry, thank you. Thank you very much, everybody, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, everybody, thank you. Thank you, hey, welcome to the September 2nd edition of the Week. That Was and that Will Be.
Speaker 3:For those listening on our podcast platforms, this is also a silo cast, as Vin Scully would used to say, and can be viewed also on our YouTube channel. And for those of you on YouTube, please do us a favor and subscribe to the channel. It's free. Turn on the notifications and you will be notified every time a new video pops up. Last week we put out six videos At least. Hit the like button for us, also free, and think about a channel membership Not free, but we would appreciate it if you would like to help support MyBurbank financially. So let's talk about last week's winner. Last week's winner of a $25 Hill Street Cafe gift card was Marcus Freeman. Pretty good, okay, marcus, you were the winner last week, absolutely. So you did not send an address in, so please send your address so we can mail out that card to you. So we appreciate that. Thank you very much for listening, and we will have another winner later in today's show, or another chance to what I should say. So let's uh, let's move on to a couple notes here. Um, this I found interesting unincorporated coffee, which is a coffee house that opened up on the corner of pass and riverside about a year and a half or so ago.
Speaker 3:I saw it's already bit the dust, barely been there for over a year, maybe a year and a half. The sign on the door actually says they closed on May 21st. Bad corner, bad history. When they first opened up there I said to myself another coffee shop. So you have a coffee shop right down the street from Historic Priscilla's, which is right across the street, from a Starbucks which is right down the street, from two more Starbucks in the Vons parking lot. How is a coffee house ever going to make it there? And especially with no parking, if you know the area of Pass and Riverside Drive, there is nowhere to park, there's nowhere to even stop your car and ring and get a cup of coffee and run out. So to me it's a terrible occasion to open a business, because a lot of people have opened businesses there over the the years and I've seen them come and go and come and go and it's a great visibility spot. But if you can't park there, then how are you going to get customers? And if you don't have customers, how are you going to make money and pay your rent? So another business bites the dust there. I remember the big fanfare when they came in about a year and a half ago. They got memberships to the Toothlake Chamber of Commerce, the Burbank Chamber of Commerce. They were all gung-ho but, as I predicted back then, not going to make it, and not because I didn't want them to, but because the history of that corner says nobody makes it there. So we're sorry to see them go. Here's some good news the lot at Holloway and Clark that I complained about a few weeks ago about the parkway just being covered in weeds and finally got cleaned up. Well, the whole lot there has now been cleaned up. The whole lot has been all the weeds been taken out, new fencing put around it. I'm not sure what the plans are for there, but at least it's not an ice or corner anymore. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 3:Kennedy podcasts I don't know if you're watching or listening to our podcast or watch our YouTube channel, but we've had, you know, two more Kennedy podcast school plastic, one from John Parr and one from Chris Fazzati. So we're telling all the candidates. You know, please sign up. All you have to do is send us an email at news at myberbinkcom, and we will sign you up for a podcast and you can come in and talk all about yourself and your. You know your history and you know we'll catch you to politics and what your platforms are so, and we'll ask you some tough questions, because you know we never take it easy on anybody. That's not who we are, but we're not going to also do ambushes either. So, anyhow, well, let's get back to last week.
Speaker 3:So on Monday, tallyrand yes, that's right, tallyrand over on Olive Been, there for now 65 years, and Lynn Lipinski was there to capture the story and Ross Benson had some great photos. In fact, I think we can go to our website here. Okay, here's our story on Maya Burbank, and let's scroll down here. Nice story, once again. Nice story on my Burbank. And, um, let's scroll down here. Nice, now you say, once again. Nice story by Linda Lipinski.
Speaker 3:Let's take a look at some of these pictures here by Ross Benson. There's our mayor and they had a little uh, congratulations plaque. Uh, I guess the mayor is going to cook some fries for us. So always a pretty big fries. Well done please. Um, looks like we have a lot of customers, a lot of pictures Like that was Jamie Kieser from the Burbank Chamber of Commerce Glad to see her there. I'm not sure who that gentleman is, but he's very happy to be there. So some of the pictures that we have here are on the story and you can find the stories like this on myburbankcom.
Speaker 3:And once again, that's what we do. We try to cover local events. It was nice to have Lynn and Ross there to cover all these great pictures and write the story. Look at that. There's a lot of people there and I hear it was just kind of a rocking good time that night. So 65 years there. Hewlett-packard helped make them sandwich with the turkey sandwich they had. They even had a band there. It looks like Fantastic, fantastic. Anyhow, those are some of the pictures from the event. So we're glad everybody stopped by. Let's move on here. Uh, let's see here. So we're gonna move on to tuesday.
Speaker 3:Last week the city council met and they had a caller call about. I found interesting. They had a caller call about the condition of the fields at Providencia Elementary School because they have a shared use with the city of Burbank and it's a park but it's not a school on their grass area and the gentleman was upset because you play soccer there and the field is in terrible condition. There's holes and everything else. Anyone know who's responsible for the field is in terrible condition, there's holes and everything else. Anyone know who's responsible for the field the city or the schools? And who, could you know, actually want the city to do something? But the question is is it the city or the schools that's responsible? Even though Burbank's using it as a park, are the schools still solely responsible for the upkeep of the field? So I know we have the field there. We have the field over at Hurd. I think they use it as a field for practice football and stuff. So there are a couple fields. Now, memorial Field is also a city-owned. Actually, the city does own Memorial Field and the school district uses it, which I found interesting. Anyhow, city manager Justin Hess said it was a school issue, but I just find that interesting. If we're going to use it as a city park and have it open to the public, shouldn't the city of Burbank have some responsibility in keeping it up? Also Because we know how the zone names of the school district keeps up things, and not very well. Anyhow, let's move on to Wednesday.
Speaker 3:Wednesday there was a press release that was issued by the Burbank Police Department about the man who was dropped off in North Hollywood, and we remember that story on June 6th when Burbank Police Paul Krikorian's office released a video showing Burbank Police dropping off a gentleman in North Hollywood. He got out of the car and as soon as they got back in the car he fell to the ground and, according to Paul Kerkorian, he had a leg injury and Burbank dumped a homeless man in his city and so the investigation started. Well, the chief reported back to the city council on Tuesday and we actually have a uh, a YouTube video that is up about. We have his entire um explanation to the city on our YouTube video, so you should check that out. Um and said that there is no truth to that whatsoever. The man never was not homeless. He rents his apartment. He rents a room in in similar I think he said similar Um and room in in similar, I think he said similar um and that he his injury was a long ago injury to his leg it had it was not a recent injury, um and that his officers did no wrongdoing in any way, and it's pretty much what I thought, uh, but they are upset with the fact that, you know, the kukurian's office did not call the city of Burbank, did not call the city manager, did not call the mayor or did not call the police chief, who was an employee of the Los Angeles Police Department for 30 years and did a lot of great things for their city.
Speaker 3:So disappointing there. I'm still a little bit miffed on the fact that they would not release the body camera footage to us so we could review it. And also they would not talk about the same man who was found there two days later at Parkside and Johnny Carson at Bob Booth Drive in Parkside. The man was found there two days later and what happened to him? We couldn't get any answers about that. They wouldn't tell us if they took him somewhere or not.
Speaker 3:And once again, disappointing. But you know I'm not. I'm not saying there's any wrongdoing, but you know, if you're going to say use that word transparency, then you need to be transparent in all aspects, not just the points. You want to be transparent in all aspects, not just the points you want to be transparent in. At least that's my feelings on it. And of course, this is a show. You know you're going to hear my feelings, for better or for worse.
Speaker 3:Okay, let's move on to Thursday. Thursday there, the city had a meeting at the Community Services Building for the downtown parking plan. Staff members there talked about the proposed parking meters and future considerations. So they talked about how many parking places were there. They talked about what their goals were, which is they call 80% capacity, which means they always want to have about 20% of the spots open on San Fernando Boulevard at all times. They do this by having metered parking, and when there's a high usage, the price goes up to get people to get in and out faster, and when the uh, um, the usage is not much, the price goes way down. Um, yeah, I think it's time has come. I think you're going to see parking meters in Burbank in many ways. We're going to talk about this later, though on my comment, because I was a little bit miffed on this whole time about an aspect of it, but it was a great presentation. Once again, we taped the entire presentation and it's on our YouTube channel. So if you want to see what the City of Burbank's presentation was, go to our YouTube channel and you'll see the complete, unedited presentation there, along with the questions from the people who were there. So we're going to talk more about that, though, in my comments down the line. But it's interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 3:Let's move on to Friday. We had Friday Night, lights was back and we saw Burbank High on the road for their second game and they defeated St Genevieve 29-26 on a 26-yard field goal by Ryan Mendoza while time expired. How exciting is that? So it came right down to the last play and Burbank High kicked a field goal and so I guess they evened their record down 1-1. Burbank they unfortunately lost their home opener to Hart 38-19.
Speaker 3:Once again, jim Reggio, our sports editor, was there and I think we have sports coverage for you here. So once again we have Jim Regio. Let's see what else we have here. A couple more pictures Our story was written by our sports reporter, rick Assad and a couple more pictures. There. That's the we always call the obligatory shot of them running through the banner to start a game, and this was the first time I did for the season. So it's a little more memorable than others, because it's for a lot of these players probably the first time ever playing in a varsity game at this level. But unfortunately they lost to Hart, so we were sorry to see that. Anyhow, let's move on back here to. It looks like that's kind of it for last week. So, as always, we are going to pause for a commercial and we will talk to you again in a second. For the week that will be.
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Speaker 3:Now back to our Okay, we're back with you again. Once again, craig Sherwood, here, with the week that will be, and the week that will be starts today. And what's today? Today's Labor Day, fantastic Labor Day, fantastic Labor Day. It's kind of the unofficial end of the summer, although it's not officially the end of summer, but everybody considers it to be the unofficial end of the summer. A lot of people are taking those three-day vacations. As you can see, I'm not one of them, but that's okay.
Speaker 3:I do remember back in the day, though, though, that this was always like the final weekend before school would start, but about 10 years ago or so, they moved the calendar up in schools so that it starts now in mid-August instead of in the first week of September, and if you're wondering why they did that, it's actually a very good reason. When school started in September 1st, you must have X amount of days a semester, and the only way you could do that and fit in, of course, christmas vacation was you had to. It would overlap to get those days in into January. Well, at the end of a semester, what's the end of a semester usually known for? It's for taking finals, and so what would happen is you would have kids, would have two weeks off. You know, when students have two weeks off, I guarantee you as much as you know, the parents want them to. They're not studying, okay. They're enjoying their Christmas vacation. So they come back to school, and all of a sudden, they try to cram all that relearning, that review, in a two-weeks-and-a-half while they're finals, and by doing it the way they do it now, the finals are held in December, before vacation, and the finals are over, and the school is over for the first semester, and everybody goes on Christmas vacation, and they come back in January. Brand new semester. So that's the reason school starts mid-August instead of the old days, the first week of September. Probably a good idea, okay. So, anyhow.
Speaker 3:Also, today being Labor Day, now all the city offices are closed and everything else. Verdugo Pool is reopening today, okay, and they just had a two-week summer maintenance shutdown, and they're going to hold a pool party today, so from 10 to 4. And, as hot as it is outside, probably a good day for it. So the only thing is, though, you have to register on the city's website to go. So jump over to the city's website real fast and register, and then head over to Verdugo today and jump in the pool why not?
Speaker 3:And of course, there are no other meetings scheduled today, which is a good thing. Usually on Monday, of course, there's 15 meetings, usually about three or four meetings, they're all the same time. But because of the holiday, there are no meetings. And in celebration, of course, of Labor Day and a three-day holiday on Tuesday, the city council is dark, so there's no city council meeting on Tuesday. But what there is. But what there is on Tuesday is a coffee and conversation with a new Burbank Water and Power general manager, mandip Semra, from 9 am to 11 am at Three Sisters Coffee.
Speaker 3:Have you ever been to Three Sisters Coffee? It's over at 1706 Magnolia. It's a newer coffee place and, once again, a coffee place where you can park near it, and that's why you're going to be in business and be successful for a long time. It's successful for a long time because you need parking for coffee, absolutely. People need to come in and out and they need to be able to park close to it. So if you're going to open a coffee store, make sure you have a parking.
Speaker 3:Let's move on to Wednesday, the civil Service Board. They're going to meet at 430 City Hall and it's pretty much all just routine agenda items, nothing special on that. But this is interesting and something that probably not for all of you, but I keep you out of the loop. On Wednesday, staff is going to hold a meeting for property and business owners. It's going to be a meeting for property and business owners. It's going to be a workshop for a possible P-Bid in Magnolia Park from 6 to 7 pm at Romancing the Bean at 3413 Magnolia.
Speaker 3:So if you're asking, you know what's a P-Bid? Okay, the P-Bids are basically our nonprofit organizations where the area property owners assess themselves a tax to pay for services and programs such as maintenance, security and unified branding. Okay, and they can also be, you know, pay for community events to improve their business district. So money collecting can go into a wide variety of projects in the Magnolia Park area. Currently the city has hired an urban place consultant to conduct the feasibility study of establishing a P-Bid. So there is a P-Bid already in Bourbon and Magnolia Park used to have a P-Bid but it was voted out.
Speaker 3:The property owners who didn't want to pay the extra tax. And the problem was is that the business, the people running the businesses in Magnolia Park, didn't have much of a say in it. So the property owners who they just paid to a tax anyway. Well, they said we don't want to pay that tax, instead of saying you know to the renter, hey, we're not going to pay this tax, but if you want to keep doing it, you're going to charge you extra on your rent. And I'm sure a lot of people have done that back then. But they didn't give him a choice and they voted it out. Now there is a P bid in downtown Burbank. That's why you have all this stuff for downtown Burbank all the time, all these events going on and everything else, because they have a P-Bid and all the businesses pay into it every month and they use all that money for events.
Speaker 3:Well, magnolia Park needs the P-Bid. They used to have one. They do need a P-Bid because what that basically does? It's going to help them with Holiday in the Park, which is a very expensive undertaking. Every year it probably costs between $80,000 and $100,000 to put that on every year, which is a free event for the Burbank public. I'm sure that they'd like to eventually look into more parking and even, you know, make use of it for a parking structure if it was saved up. There's other events they could put on down there too, and they can use it for cleaning sidewalks and for grooming trees and for anything that's in the Magnolia Park area that needs to be done and the city of Burbank does want to spend tax money on. So it's a way of taxing themselves.
Speaker 3:And then they vote on the ways of using the money themselves too. They don't, you know, nobody tells them how to use it. They have their own little board and they decide what to do and how to use it. It's a good idea. So they're going to they're going to have a meeting on that on Wednesday and start talking about it. So if you're a business owner or a property owner in Magnolia Park, you need to get involved with that. The youth board meeting on Wednesday is also canceled.
Speaker 3:Now. On Thursday there's going to be another P-Bid meeting for Magnolia Park for people who couldn't make the one on Wednesday, and this one's scheduled from 9 to 10 am at the New Deal restaurant. Okay, so if you couldn't make it on Wednesday night, then go to the New Deal on Thursday and you can see from 9 to 10 am to have the same presentation, and that way you can get caught up on speed. So now we have two options to do it. Let's see. Also, the Water and Power Board is going to meet at 5pm at the Water and Power building.
Speaker 3:One of the things they're going to be doing is getting a report on Burbank's Water and Power's Electric Services team. Let's see. Yeah, they're going to get a report by Burbank Water and Power's Electric Services team and Water and Systems team Both those teams I guess you need to have two teams to have a game right. They're going to provide an update to a specific plan for the media district that media district specific plan. It's everywhere. It'd be very interesting to see what that final plan looks like. They're also going to get an update on the 2024 street lighting master plan to give the city council recommendation. Fun fact Did you know there were, there are, 9,451 light locations in Burbank? That is a lot of light locations. So you know, when you report a streetlight out, you need to give them exactly where it's at, because they're not going to look around for 9,000 different lights to try to figure out which one you're talking about. But it was also interesting how many different types of streetlights there are. There's not one type of streetlight, there's all kinds of poles and different things too. It was interesting. So, anyhow, they're going to have a report on that.
Speaker 3:Also, let's see oh, the heritage. Wait, did I say heritage? Yes, I did say heritage. And what does that sound mean? That sound means, there it is again, that heritage is this week's word of the week. That's right, heritage. Just send that in on the email and send it to news. Or actually the contest at myberbankcom and put heritage in the. That's right. Send it again, news. Or actually the contest at my Burbankcom and put heritage in the. No, that's right. Send it again, heritage. I know it's.
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Speaker 3:Anyhow, the Heritage Commission will meet at 5.30 pm at the Community Services Building and they'll be training the commissioners on an overview of the submittal, review and approval process involved in the processing of an application for a designation of historical resources on the city's register of historic resources. Yeah, that's a lot of historic resources. It's a lot of historic stuff. I did look for a list of the historical sites on the website and couldn't find anything. So I'm going to look into that a little bit and maybe by next week I can come up with a list for you of all the locations that are considered historical sites on the city. I was talking to the owners of Larry's Chili Dog a few weeks ago and they were very interested in finding out how they could become making Larry's Chili Dog on the historical list. They said it's been 72 years and, of course, all of the sign out front is just iconic in itself and they spent a lot of money lately to not only fix the place up but get that site completely fixed with new neon, even the little tail wagons again now the side, everything. So we'd like to see that become an historical site. You know, I think it really helped them out.
Speaker 3:Let's see here Friday Friday Friday absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing. But on Saturday, the weekend, we got a lot going on. This weekend. Digg is going to return, of course, digg standing for absolutely nothing besides Digg. But they always capitalize it. I never understood why, but they're going to be having Digg at the the Jostens Center from 8 to 10am. So basically, you know Volunteers there, they pull weeds, they mulch, they plant, they pick up trash. I say, don't forget your hose, don't forget those hose Anyhow, but you can always help out there. Now there's all. It's going to be a busy morning At, actually, the Jocelyn Center.
Speaker 3:Okay, because from 9 to 10 30am there's going to be a busy morning at the Jocelyn Center Because from 9 to 10.30am there's going to be the first of five meetings for a potential rent cap, okay, in Burbank. So they're having a potential rent cap study community meeting and I say once again, it's the Johnson Center from 9 to 10, 30 am. This is not just for the arts here, citizens, it's for anybody in Burbank who wants to go. There's going to be a total of five meetings but each meeting is going to provide the exact same information to give residents multiple scheduling options to attend a meeting. Okay, at the meetings you're going to get a chance for input on a potential rent cap within the city of Burbank, and I know the city of Burbank is actually really really looking into this in a lot of ways. It's going to come back to the council later this year. But they want the input of all the residents and we've talked about it before. We've talked about it on our county podcast also no winner, no loser, because everybody has their own points that they need to make on this. The renters have their side and the landlords have their side, and they come up with something that's fair for everybody. Good luck, city council. But this is why they're having these county meetings. So this is going to be the first one they're going to have on this coming Saturday morning and we'll let you know when future ones are coming also.
Speaker 3:Also on Saturday, the Burbank Park and Recreation Department, in partnership with the Valley Cultural Foundation and the Burbank Culture Arts Commission, is going to present their fall festival on Saturday at Johnny Carson Park. It's a free festival and they're going to have a live concert, food trucks, art vendors and a showing of a classic movie, tim Burton's, the Nightmare Before Christmas. Now, if you remember, they tried to have this twice last year and both times they tried to have it. It was rained out, so very frustrating, but they had it in the fall and I think they're having it now, just before the fall starts in the summer.
Speaker 3:We've got good weather. It's going to be very hot actually this week. Actually, heat advisory has already been called in Burbank from the 4th to the 6th, and this is on the 7th, so at least it's a day after the heat advisory and hopefully it'll cool down a little bit. But you're going to have a nice day out there and once again you're going to have a movie set up out there free for anybody in Burbank. What a great thing to do. So that's on Saturday, so please go and enjoy that.
Speaker 3:And I guess that kind of leaves us with one thing, and one thing only left, and that is Craig's comment. And my comment this week is about the meeting at the community services building that was held last Thursday about parking downtown. Now, I get it. We're having, it's a. We've gotten so much success downtown that parking has become an issue. We have a lot of parking structures and everything else. Let's look back a little bit at the history, back to when they had the Golden Mall. Well, we had the Golden Mall, but there was no parking structures and it deteriorated a lot and the city did not do a good job upkeeping the mall. The drinking fountains, the gazebos, even the trash cans were always full. There were a lot of transients in the area and people and businesses didn't go there and business started closing. So they reopened San Fernando Road and now we're looking 20, 30 years later and now they've become a victim of their own success. A lot of businesses are in there now corporate businesses and it's become very successful.
Speaker 3:But now the problem is there's really nowhere to park on San Fernando and the people who are parking there a lot of times are the employees who are taking a valuable spot. So they're talking now about putting in parking meters and the parking meters can go maybe for one hour parking meters, 90 minute parking meters, two hour parking meters, but they're not looking for more than two hours. But here's the thing parking meters are coming. I know people say, well, it's not a certainty. Well, it pretty much is, because our parking structures are now 30 years old and, as we know, the elevators are all breaking those things and they're just so. My question to you is this Do you want to spend money out of general tax fund, then raise your taxes to pay for parking structure repair and all that repair, or would you rather see parking meters put in that can offset the cost of those things? Now, they're only talking about a very small area right now for the parking meters. They're not talking about the parking structures. But here's what really bothers me. What's the meaning?
Speaker 3:And there was a total of three members of the public there. That's it, three members of the public there. That's it, three members of the public. One man had been there for a presentation the day before and just came back to the second presentation here the same day over again. So we had three city staff members there, a full presentation, in fact. Once again, you go to our YouTube channel. You can see the full presentation there if you wanted to see it. But here's the thing Nobody came and nobody talked about it, and the city wants people's input. But yet in one day our video had over 200 views. So 200 views of the video about parking. But the chance to give city staff information and comments and feedback.
Speaker 3:Three people Hockey means you're coming and everybody's going to sit there and complain and complain and complain. Well, you have a chance to talk about them with city officials and you don't show up. So don't wait until after the fact. Okay, the gate holding the horses in is loose right now and before the horses all run away, you say what happened. You need to figure out. You know what you want.
Speaker 3:I got to tell you parking meters. You know they first were going to experiment with them in the Metrolink lot before the pandemic hit, but since the pandemic the lots are filled up again. There's no really need for them there. So the guinea pig is going to be downtown Burbank and I'm going to tell you right now if they work. You're going to also see them in the parking structures down the line too. To help pay for those expenses, to help pay for the maintenance. Yeah, I know you assume cities like Pasadena, you spend $6 to go park in their parking lot. I don't think Burbankers are going to charge that kind of money, but they have to have some kind of money to offset the costs. You're going to see parking meters down the line in Magnolia Park With that money going toward the Merchants Association. Hopefully you might see them on Glen Oaks. There might be a lot of areas of the city. You might see parking meters pop up, maybe not everywhere, but you will see them.
Speaker 3:So before you start complaining about them, give your ideas, hear their side of the story. Maybe you can't or can't do, but when three people show up to a meeting, that's then don't sit there and complain about it. It's like voting. If you don't vote, don't complain about the politicians, don't complain about the policies. If you vote and your guy doesn't win, no problem. At least you tried, you made an effort but to not swoop to a meeting and then complain about the results after the fact. I think you know not right. And they have the meeting in the evening. They didn't have the meeting in the middle of the day. They had it when people were off work. You just don't want to take the time to go watch the meeting, to go and pay attention and help how your city, you know, comes alive. You have to help make decisions. This is your city. These are the policies that you want to see in place. Help them, give them your opinion, give them your feedback. They're going to bring it all to the city council. They're not going to tell you no, we're not doing it that way. They just want to hear from you. That's all they want to do. So please take a look at our YouTube channel, look at the meeting. There's ways on there. You can actually get a hold of them. Go to the city website. You can still submit your ideas.
Speaker 3:I think it's important that people get involved a little more and find out what's going on. Like I said, have a meeting and there's as many staff people as there are members of the public. I don't know, I don't know. You know, I hope I do this show. I give you information every week about what's going on in the city. But if you don't, you know, if you don't want to do anything about it and stick your head in the sand, then don't complain about the result.
Speaker 3:I talked last week a little about some of our younger leaders coming up and some of the things they're trying to do, and I'm all for it, but I don't know, I don't know what to tell you. Anyhow, that's my comment and, once again, take it for what it's worth. Probably not worth a shiny nickel. You never know, anyhow, okay. Well, once again, I'm going to ask you please subscribe to our channel, our YouTube channel. Please subscribe, we really need subscribers. Please hit that like button so YouTube will recommend this channel. Please subscribe to our channel, our YouTube channel. Please subscribe, we really need subscribers. Please hit that like button so YouTube will recommend this channel to more people like you who are watching it. It just helps. Those are free things you can do to help the channel. Please remember if you'd like to. And that's about it for another week. So, once again, I appreciate you listening or watching.
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