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could meet the needs of others. We offer thanks for any lead us beyond community, who cause us to consider our neighborhood to be global in geography, encompassing women and men, children and youth who are different from us, including people whose traditions and beliefs, politics and opinions do not match those we hold and defend. Such a variety and liberates us from our too-small vision. How glad we are for the generations who have preceded our own, for ancestors who struggled to provide a sow the -- solid foundation upon which we know build, not for ourselves only but for all who will follow . Challenge us, o source of reconciliation, to come to know others, never as enemies but always as part of the human family, seeking to live well while doing good. May your creating spirit bless us so we might bless others and May we continue to give thanks, not in the season only, but always. We pray to the holy that is present with and in us all. Amen. >> May we have your report, please? >> the agenda for the November to -- fifth meeting was posted thursday, October 31, 2019 on the bulletin board outside city hall. >> thank you. What is the next item? >> preview for the meetings of tuesday, November 12, 2019. >> thank you. >> good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of city council. the housing authority on city council meetings for November 12, 2019 have been canceled. The next regular meetings are November 19, 2019. >> thank you. Next item? >> next item is mayor' s commendation to glendale police officers ryan ansa lock oh ---- ryan and another, accompanied by our chief. >> good evening. I have come before you many times. We aim to hire the best and the brightest, and that is exactly what we do. It is my privilege to introduce officer ryan, and he truly has a passion for police work and a passion for traffic. Ryan is one of those who averages about 30 traffic stops and get this, 13 drunk driving arrest every month. In 2018, he made 60 arrests for driving under the influence. For those of us who have been in police work, that is a lot. He was honored by mothers against drunk driving with one of their campaign ribbons for his work. This is one of the people who is tireless in his approach to protecting our community and getting drunk drivers off the road, because he has outdone 2018. He is already at 120 arrests for 2019. He is moving up into that next tier. We are lucky we stole him from san diego. The other part is, police work sometimes runs in families and in this case, he happens to be the son of a sergeant, a retired lendale officer. I couldn' t be prouder than to present officer ryan for a commendation in his hard work protecting the community of glendale. [Applause] >> officer, I am proud to read a commendation which I will ask Councilman Quintero to deliver to you. It is presented to you, officer ryan insalaco, in recognition of your dui enforcement efforts and in receiving the top dui enforcer award from madd. The over 100 dui arrests you made potential he saved hundreds of lives and kept our community safe. I commend your commitment in making sure drivers under the influence are kept up the road. -- off the road. On behalf of glendale we thank you for your admirable service and commitment to the betterment of our community. [Applause] >> I ask the mayor to let me shake your hand and present it to you. His father and it looks like his mother are in the audience. I have known his father for many years, and he served this community for so long in multiple roles, has unbelievable experiences working in law enforcement in glendale and throughout southern california. So it is an honor to present it to ron' s son. [Applause] >> would you like to address the city? >> mayor, city councilmembers, i want to thank you for recognizing our patrol team with this award. Chief, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, and the other sergeant have made it clear drunk driving enforcement is significant priority within our department. As a team, we will continue our proactive drunk driving enforcement efforts to keep the roads safe and keep the community safe. Thank you again. >> thank you. [Applause] Clicks don' t drink and drive in glendale, that' s for sure. >> anywhere. >> the appointment of board and commission member for the arts and culture commission. It is the appointment of jane. This was a nomination made by councilmember gharpetian. Councilmember gharpetian: I believe she is here in the audience. I nominated her because she has been involved in the community and I think she will do a great job in this commission. She is part of our glendale library foundation, the vice President And -- of the police foundation, committee for a clean and beautiful glendale, she has been very involved. I am going to move the item but before that I would like to, she also has, let me go over her education as well. Georgia state university, degree in spanish, degree in speech language pathology, the list goes on. I want to ask jane if she would like to say a few words. you don' t have to. But the floor is yours if you would like. [Applause] >> good evening, mayor najarian, out -- honorable councilmembers. I want to thank you, particularly councilmember gharpetian, for the nomination. I hope the rest of you are approving the appointment. I am enthusiastically applauding the idea of glendale as an arts destination and I am very much looking forward to working with the other commissioners and with Dr. Schaeffer and the capable library arts and culture staff members and you in pursuit of that objective. Again, thank you very much. I am honored. Councilmember gharpetian: I move the item. Mayor najarian: seconded by Mr. Agajanian. Councilmember agajanian: yes. Councilmember devine: yes. Mayor najarian: congratulations Mrs. Viar. We welcome you. [Applause] Our next item. >> a President -- a presentation by the chief of police. Mayor najarian: chief? Chief castro: you will see how technologically proficient I am. I thought I would take a moment to talk about traffic enforcement and, the glendale police department' s approach to traffic enforcement and how we deploy resources to address a variety of issues. I know that is an issue that is constant for community concerns and questions. And I know for all of you. what we do is, we do a data driven approach. We are looking at our traffic collisions, places where people get hurt driving vehicles, where we have cars get into crashes. We look at complaints in terms of quality of life, we look at the main corridors, we look at our schools. What we do is, we aim to most efficiently deploy the resources we have. Currently the traffic bureau consists of nine motors and three traffic cars, 12 people dedicated to their primary function being traffic. Something unique to glendale with the transition of parking enforcement to a vendor, one thing we have been able to do is, we have taken the remaining people that used a primarily due parking enforcement and we shifted their role significantly to assist us in the realm of traffic and parking. They have taken over some of the responsibility for the schools. What is cool about that is, they have taken ownership of this so some things that have been challenges and had scratchers for schools and administrators, some of our police services opposites -- officers have said we will make this better. We will do different traffic control. That has allowed us to relieve pressure or workload on remaining traffic officers so they can work within the city. I want to emphasize one thing, starting in 2018, traffic enforcement has become a department-wide effort. It is not just the responsibility of the traffic bureau and the officers assigned there to address traffic related issues. It is also the responsibility of every patrol officer and field enforcement officer out there to work on that. Part of what we look at, what we want to do is be in the places we need to be in and there is a balance between what I call a preventive presence based on quality of life information, but looking at our traffic collisions. If you look at the city, this is one of the heat maps we look at. The darker colors are where collisions tend to concentrate. You will get a sense of where it is and primarily into the downtown area, the area around the freeways is where we will move some of our resources area I' m giving you a five-year look at our traffic collisions so you can see we have been hovering in the 2014-20 15, 500 collisions per year. That dropped into 2016-2017 2018 and we are on track for 2200 or so collisions this year. Part of wanting to make things better is trying to reduce and eliminate traffic collisions. This is not a static thing. We don' t only look at this annually. One thing the traffic lieutenant looks on regularly is traffic collisions, so to give you a look at a 14 day timeframe, we look at this, this goes into the mix on how we deploy our resources. The next thing we look at is the phone calls we get where people have issues or concerns in the community. Request for service we get. On average we get about five of these per day from various people and it could be a stop sign, speed, bicycle related, any one of those issues. Those come in to the traffic the euro. We add that to the mix and look at that. That is about 1300 requests per your that we get for directed enforcement. Part of what the bureau will do is look at the data, look at those complaints and they will start to develop a deployment matrix so we know where to send people and when to send people. One of the other pieces we added to that is we look at our more heavily trafficked corridors in terms of vehicle counts and that sometimes lines up with where the traffic collisions are. I haven' t giving -- given you a complete list of them in glendale but some of the places we look on a regular basis is looking at the glendale corridor, the verdugo corridor, chevy chase and chevy chase canon corridor, and glenoaks and kenneth cole' s -- those generate complaints and lots of cars move there. Some of these are set up for directed enforcement where we put people out and assign them a specific timeframe to work that. We also ask especially for traffic cars that if they aren' assigned to a different area, if based on the mix of collisions, quality-of-life complaints, if they are not specifically assigned to something, they spend some time on these particular areas. Again, we will also assign them out as a directed enforcement to work a few hours or a day in a particular area to make an impact with traffic. In order to get a sense of where the traffic collisions are and the complaints are some a we take a look at our traffic stops and see how they are lining up against what we ask folks to do. You can get a sense for a 14 day timeframe, some of it is in south lyndale and west glendale and up in the canyon, up in the montrose area. They grouped into that. We are analyzing this data with the goal of being efficient and effective with the deployment of resources. We are where we needed -- we are needed to be and not where we aren' t needed, not being somewhere if we were, we would be more effective going forward. For those who don' t think the -- we write traffic citations, we do. Back in 2014 we wrote 19,000 per year. It dropped off a little, and 2017 and 2018 the emphasis on traffic enforcement has come back. Last year just under 19,000 people received traffic citations from glendale police and the 2019 number is just through September so looks like we are on track for about 20,000 citations. That is compared against, we make about 26,000 traffic stops per year. when all is said and done. So we are out working on those. Part of it is getting enforcement into the right areas. To give you a sense of a couple operations, this is not all-inclusive but to give you an idea, on November 1 we had a couple folks working in the evening hours in chevy chase canyon. They wrote 14 speeding tickets, stop sign tickets, impeding traffic, one for being under the influence of marijuana. This is one of the rotation of operations we do through the year. We have been out on the northwest side working on amish village. You can get a sense of the citation that officers were writing in the kenneth village. North of glenoaks, in that area, some of the places where we have had quality of life issues. We also work areas like adams hill, the brand, central corridors. This is not meant to be exclusive. This is to give you an example of how we deploy our resources to be effective with them. As we go on, we are looking for ways to work smarter. One of the commitments the organization has is to continual improvement. Every time we rotate a manager, every time something comes out, we ask they build on what came before and we ask for better ways to do things. Some of the things we do to make sure we are in the right place at the right time, when we get complaints that there is speed and we can' t narrow it down, we have volunteers will out and take a radar gun and run a log and they will write down the speeds. There was when I was looking in on at the top of chevy chase canyon where there were some complaints of speed, we set them up, speed limit was posted at already, average speed was just under 30. There was one that was over 30 and that was a look at 50 cars going through. One of the more exciting things for us is the speed radar signs that public works put in, the new ones capture the data. Some of the old ones capture the data, but the new ones will wirelessly transmit that to us so we can look at day of week, time of day and the speeds. Having been a traffic bureau commander, I know it is like looking at chevy chase canyon, I' m used to getting the phone calls and we sent people out during morning and afternoon. When we looked at the data, morning and afternoon, everybody slowed down. The speeds were higher in the afternoon, so we shifted deployment to be there when the speeds would pick up on the cut through traffic. I think that will be some exciting things that we will be looking forward. The last thing as a comment, I run a study every now and then just to see where the people we site, where they come from. We will dry border around the neighborhood come around the city, plus or minus five points. half the people we cite are from the city of glendale. Looking at the enforcement operations, lots of people we issued warnings to live in the same neighborhood from where we are getting the complaints. When I look at traffic conditions and tragedies, I' m going, look. This is our community. The police department is here to do part of it but this is our community, us driving in our community, us walking in our community, our citizens, grandkids, relatives driving the cars. I will ask everybody when we look at these things, it is like, take that time if you have kids, do you know how your kids are driving? Make sure we are watching out for each other. We can argue legalities until the cows come home and we believe it to attorneys as to who is at fault but lots of collisions are preventable if we are watching out for each other. With that, I will answer any questions. Mayor najarian: questions you can -- questions? Councilmember agajanian: on citations, 2014-2019, citywide. >> citations? Councilmember agajanian: I' m sorry. 2014 it says 19,411. Then 2015-2016, came to 15,000, then started going up. Did you study, or somebody in your department study how this can happen, going from 2014 to 2016 where it has been written less ticket or people, there were drivers that were behaving themselves or you didn' t have enough officers to give tickets? Now we are going back to where we were in 2014. What should be the reason? Chief castro: we have put an emphasis on traffic enforcement and we are putting that emphasis departmentwide. We have looked at, we do look at the data. Generally, rough numbers, half the citations written in the police department department will be written by the traffic bureau. That is about half because that is their primary job. The other half is written by patrol officers because patrol officers are pulled in a bunch of different directions, handling all the 911 calls and other calls for service that are non-traffic related. There was a point where our staffing levels dropped a little , and calls for service had gone up so traffic enforcement went down. Starting in 2018, traffic came a departmentwide priority. It is one of our top priorities for the department. It is not just a responsibility of the traffic in europe to do enforcement, it is the responsibility for all patrol officers in addition to what they normally do. >> if I could add to that, when the chief was hired in April 2018, one of the things we talked about, and his goal, was good old-fashioned police work and good old-fashioned police work has to do with the basics that include traffic enforcement. That is one of his four pillars, to make sure the department' s overall focusing on this issue that we all see on a daily basis and feel in terms of what happens on our streets. Mayor najarian: thank you. Councilmember devine: I appreciate everything you are doing and the data you are accumulating and the way the matrix you are using for putting patrol officers and motorcyclists out there. Still, the perception remains in our community that there is not enough, not saying there isn' t any, but there is not enough enforcement. People are complaining about trucks going on our cut through streets like mountain in the morning. There is speeding. That we can think of. There is that perception. I hear it all the time. I' m sure my fellow council members, I would imagine they would agree with me that we hear that. My question to you is, how can we, what suggestions would you have for him more focused enforcement? We are the ninth safest city in the state and in the country. That is because we put an emphasis on crime enforcement. The breaking and entering, the 911 calls, and the mantra is, that these don' t come or those that are going to be breaking into our homes don' t come to glendale because they know they are going to get arrested. I would like to see that become the mantra for enforcement. But people aren' t owing to run through a straw -- a stop sign because there will be somebody they' re giving them a ticket. They won' t speed because someone will be there to enforce. It seems like we have reached the point now, 2014 we had almost 20,000 citations. Right now we are at 15,000. I don' t know if we will reach 20,000. At this stage of the game, we should be reaching 25,000, the way it seems to be going out there. We have more speeding, more violations, more people running through stop signs. I was a most killed on stocker, a woman ran the stop sign. I was practically in the middle of the intersection. It seems like we have done education, we honor the three e' s, education, engineering, enforcement. Education, isn' t working. We will spend a fortune on engineering, on our streets. That is not working. It is the enforcement part of this three e that doesn' t seem to be working. I would like, I' m just looking for ideas. Can we do a special traffic enforcement detail, like a special mother at rome' s around -- that -- like a special, that roams around day today, not necessarily these particular, central, brand, glenoaks but on kenneth and some of the smaller streets that have stop signs, and I don' t know what the answer is. That is why I am asking, maybe we need a staff report or some kind of, maybe my colleagues would agree, a report on what can be done to increase enforcement. Do we need more officers, more patrol officers on bikes, motorcycles, in cars? What do we need? How can we solve this problem before it gets, right now, I feel like we are at a critical stage where there is just so much going on. And it seems like, I know you are trying to do the best you can with what you are dealing with, the number of officers you have, I know that. I tell people all the time that you are doing the best that you can but I think we have to do better. What I would like is some sort of report or a suggestion on how we can improve and get a really focused traffic enforcement detail of some sort. >> I can tell we do focus on it. Although I haven' t put everything appear, we do rotate around the city and those 1300 complaints that coming every year, we actually pay attention to them. They go on the matrix or us to go, sometimes we find that there is nothing there, that an officer can spend three or four hours at a particular place and not have a violation that has been reported. We mixed the data together to focus in what -- where traffic collisions are because that is where people get hurt. Then we focus there. We take our ots money and focus goes into various areas, then we said, we do move it around the city in order to be effective with what we have. The citation numbers for 2019 are actually through September, so that is the first three quarters. It has not caught up with October and November and that should track us at about 20,000 citations per year. I don' t want to remove all discretion from a police officer because I think most people who get stopped, it is like, we get stopped, at some point there is sometimes the point where you want to give someone the opportunity to have a break, maybe a citation is not the most important. Most of the times when I stop somebody they get a break. But somebody got a citation the other day. When you cut me off and run a red light you get a citation. Councilmember devine: I think you should give citations for everybody that deserves it, but I think this is the economy, or inflation. We should be giving far more tickets now than we did in 2018 or 2014. We have more cars, more people driving, more kids. everything, our population is increasing. Younger people are driving. We see a change in this, so I just feel like the citations should be much more than this. Much more than 15,000 or 20,000. I am just looking for, like I say, if one of my colleagues would agree with me and ask for some sort of report with suggestions or, some sort of implementation idea for a focused police enforcement. People need to know that you are out there and right now they don' t know that. I hear it all the time. >> if I could chime in, fully understanding the frustrations of folks in different neighborhoods who experience traffic issues related to speeding, going through stop signs, etc., as we often ourselves May be driving, I have heard my parents say at different times when somebody cuts them off, where is the cop when you need him? We can' t have a cop at every corner, as you can imagine. It would be nice for us to have that opportunity and ability to have enough staffing and resources to have more folks out there, but in terms of the directed enforcement piece, and again, this was just a snapshot. . Snapshot -- that snapshot of directed enforcement, whether it is dui saturation, traffic enforcement, patrol officers going out the routine work they do on a daily basis, traffic enforcement is the chief -- as the chief said he is an area of focus for the department. the department is focusing on it. Are there other possible ideas out there? By all means, if there are we are open to hearing those ideas. But to say we don' t have a directed enforcement strategy in place today is inaccurate. We actually do. It May not be enough for certain areas or May not be the exact time when an infraction is occurring, but that is in place today. Councilmember gharpetian: a couple quick questions. How many people do we have the number as to how many people in the city drive? Our population is 200,000. 200-6000. If half of them drive, or 80%, I think about 60,000, 70,000, I don' t think everybody, if it is 60,000, 70,000 people driving in our city, 15,000 is about, what, 25% of it pretty much? 20%? Am I correct? >> 25%. Councilmember gharpetian: the number of citations, do we have a breakdown of what kind of citations? With a reckless drivers? Were they speeding, red lights? Is it broken down or is it more like in general, we have come drag racing we hear a lot about, people racing on the streets or what have you. >> probably the three top complaints I hear is speed, and speed sometimes unfortunately can be a little deceptive because he -- if you are on the narrow street, cards on both sides, somebody comes up and the car seems to be moving fast but when I look at it, it is going 25 or less. Sometimes we will take time to sit with somebody and what time is -- how fast is the car going? 30, 40, we pull it up and it is 25. When we go into an area is, we work several things. We work speed, we get a lot of complaints about modified exhaust so we will work modified exhaust. That has become more challenging because you actually have to cut the muffler out and put in a glass back or something else, but now the newer cars have a button that allows you to go into what they call a track mode, which will move a couple baffles and bypass the muffler, which adds to the frustration for police officers when you try to work on that. We focus on some of the equipment violations like tinted windows. As we look at pedestrian violations, we talk about being able to make eye contact with the pedestrian and this is one of those things where it is like, don' t step off the road until the driver sees you. Looking at drivers, look at the pedestrian, you have to be able to see in and out of the window. We focus on all of those so you will see a mix of what I call well-rounded enforcement. It is not just speed, it is the equipment violations, turning violations, red light violations. >> thank you for coming forward. I' ve seen what' s going on in the community and I think that the police department has been unfairly criticized in certain neighborhood publications and certain neighborhood media posts . You come to us every year for your budget. There is no doubt in my mind that you would budget permitting ask for us to double your police force. The harsh reality of a municipal government is, we can' t do that. We ask you to do more with less. We have less officers per thousand residents than our neighbors, burbank, pasadena, way less than los angeles does. I certainly appreciate the work that you do. I don' t want there to be a quota system. I think saying you have to hit 15,000 or 20,000 citations is wrong. That is not what we are about. I do want the officers to have discretion. The ultimate goal is to provide a safer roadway for all of us and for people to learn, and if that means in certain circumstances for an officer to give a warning, perhaps a strict warning nonetheless, I am ok with that. And we don' t have a quota system . For advancement, for promotion. Ryan' s award had nothing to do with his promotion, it had to do with hard work and training and arresting those overcome I think he is up to 120 duis. I feel for you. We are asking you to do many things, but we have one of your hands tied behind your back. We do have to balance our needs in the city. I know that you do have the targeted enforcement, you' ve got divisions and data crunchers that will show where to go, and find these scofflaws. It is not just traffic issues we have. I wish our only issue in glendale were speeders, but we do have other issues. We have gangs around the city, we have burglaries going down, we have the diabolical combination of A.D. 107 and prop 47, 57. We have drug use on the increase with the marijuana being legalized. Come to us, I' m not sure what Ms. Devine was asking for but I think it is a long these lines. Come back to us, let us know what we can do for you, whether it is in terms of grant funding, in terms of education, it really bothered me, I have to say this, I won' t name the neighborhood association but rather than criticize the police department saying we are not fully staffed with motor officers or we feel unsafe, there should have been a paragraph saying we are the residents of this community, we are the enemy, and I have met the enemy and it is us, so let us know what we can do to make your officers, and not just in traffic, traffic is important, that is what everyone sees. we don' t see the break-ins, we see the crazy kid zipping down the street in the charger. A lot of it has to do with money obviously. But if there is anything we can do, if it is including money, please let us know and if that is the request, I would, if you don' t mind, coming back to us with some thoughts on how we can better assist you and your department to better police are city in all aspects. Councilmember devine: first of all come I want to make the point I am not criticizing the police department, and neither do have any of the people I talked to criticize the police department. They are saying, do we need more police officers? We more -- we need more enforcement, we need to see more of them out there. It is not a criticism against you. It is exactly what the mayor is saying and ims and, come to us. Can you give us suggestions on how we can do this, how we can bring about this enforcement, how we can bring about this perception to the community that you are out there? Let us help you with that. Thank you, mayor, for reiterating that. >> we will keep you apprised. Mayor najarian: help us help you. >> we are looking at a couple different things. I neglected to mention in the first part, we are looking at what I will call off-peak enforcement am in times you might not normally seek enforcement so with the resources we have, we are looking at going ok, do we need to cover some of the evening hours? If you look carefully at those slides it was an evening enforcement. That is something we are looking at. We are committed to continually improvement as one of the pillars of the organization in addition to the old-fashioned hard-working police work because I will tell you, some of the issues we have, being able to be proactive and doing traffic enforcement is the way we start finding the folks coming in who mean to do harm to people more than just in the driving. We are looking at some of those things. We are committed to that process and committed to this community. The men and women who work for glendale police work very hard and they are constantly looking for ways to improve the way we do things. We will keep that commitment. Mayor najarian: thank you, chief. Next item. >> consent item including routine May be acted upon by one motion, requesting separate consideration [Indiscernible] Motion is proposed. Mayor najarian: I would like to pull 4c and d. >> I will move the content items. Mayor najarian: roll call, please. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. mayor najarian: yes. I don' t need a report on 4c, that is great news for the folks who live in the la crescenta far north glendale portion of glendale. We are finally entering into a contract and construction agreement to build sound walls along the 210 freeway between lowell and pennsylvania. It is something you have been asking for for quite a long time . It is a construction item that doesn' t have usually the highest priority in metro. Much of the money is coming from metro, but it is finally going to get done, and they should have a party in la crescenta. We will be there, and we will certainly be there when we cut the ribbon for the sound wall. Yes, they cut ribbons for sound walls, believe it or not. It is good news for all those who have advocated for sound walls. Can I move into 4d and have them both voted on? >> they have to be read into the record. >> director of public works regarding interstate 2010 freeway sound wall construction project authorizing the execution of cooperative agreement between city of glendale and state of california caltrans. D is acceptance of sub regional funds for transit capital to the b line maintenance facility project. D1 is measures of regional fund for transit capital in the amount of $4 million for the b line maintenance project, and the documents necessary to implement the funding. Mayor najarian: I will address 4d, the b line maintenance facility. There is approximately $4.5 million of funding coming from metro. I wanted to highlight this not just because I am on the metro board but in previous counsel iterations there was a lot of criticism towards metro, the idea we are paying so much money into metro and not getting anything back. Here is actually both of these items are metro funded projects, back to the city of glendale, that will make our quality of life better in terms of the sound as well as providing much better bus transit for our beeline system and their repair and maintenance. That is all I need to say. Councilmember quintero: I will move both items. Mayor najarian: roll call, please. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. Mayor najarian: yes. Him. >> city council and staff comments. Mayor najarian: I will start with Mr. Gharpetian. Councilmember gharpetian: last week was a very busy week as well, like every other week. The dia de los muertos celebration was a great event. Attendance was I think twice as much as last year. It was well attended, very fun event. also, 10th annual glendale health festival was another great success for our city. We had I believe over 800 members of the community who came and received some sort of medical treatment. Joint meeting with the glendale community college was a successful meeting. I want to thank Mr. Mayor for I think it was the first time we met as a joint meeting, both entities met. It was a great, great meeting. I think it is going to, we will have so many positive things come from those meetings because we understand each other as two different entities for the future. I was at the glendale court and its counsel -- coordinators council meeting. A couple items I wanted to ask the city manager about to make a clarification, one was ice-skating rink we are going to have this year. There was a question and a complaint about why we are doing this, we are throwing away $500,000. There is misinformation floating around, and they didn' t have this concept of what was being done. I told them, look. I set, this is something that the community wanted for so many years, and every year I was getting a call, why don' t we have an ice rink when burbank has one? The fact that there would be a charge and it would be some sort of pay off, maybe one third or half of the cost of the rink as well as hopefully, it would be self-sufficient in the future in upcoming years. I want to get some answers on that, but before we go there, also, there is, I was floating the idea around, I don' t know how we can do it. Having a community master calendar. How can we manage this? So many people are having events at the same time not knowing that there are another three events at the same time, same night, same date basically end it is getting really hard for people to attend the events. They are all good events, our hospitals and nonprofits have different events, especially holiday times, and some of the things, the questions, the issues brought up about ice-skating rink, they agreed it is a fun thing for kids especially during christmas time and holiday time. Why not have something that, we are a fun city and we want to add to it. I want to see if we can get some information about this. >> the community service and park decoration -- we have a citywide master calendar in place and there are certain organizations who still remember to utilize it. They are good about letting us know that they are going to have an event or a meeting and place it on the master calendar. Sometimes they even check with the city to see if something is going on that you are aware of that is on a particular night. So maybe we can do a little bit of a media splash regarding the fact that we do have a master calendar, and for those who feel comfortable, to utilize it and let us know that they May be having certain community events so there are no conflicting, or as many conflicting events that you see in a weekly basis because there are a number of conflicting events that occur. >> the hospitals, the nonprofits, if we approach them, the rotary kemal of them, I think they would participate and put their evidence -- there events on the master calendar. >> if you have responses on the ice rink? >> thank you, mayor, members of counsel. The company will be starting on monday setting up the rink and bringing in the generators. Admission fee is about $17, $12 for admission, five dollars for the skate rental. Total cost through measure s funds is 5700 -- 50 700,000 -- it will run their January 6 and on November 22, we will have a grand opening event. I believe that is around 3:00, 3:30. >> that is one third of the cost the first year, hopefully from the second year on be more self-sufficient. >> thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mayor najarian: I have a few questions -- councilmember devine: I have a few questions. Campbell center had a b owl-a-thon on sunday. This is a foundation that offers educational and vocational training for developmentally disabled clients, and I just want to thank the jewel city bowling alley for offering their facility, kiwanis, rotary participated, the chamber participated, we had a lot of community bowlers. It was a great time and the winners are always the clients of the campbell center so kudos to all of those folks. The dia de los muertos celebration, I wanted to give kudos to Dr. Schaper, because it was the director of libraries, arts and culture and the city clerk' s office that put it on. I want to give a shout out to all the staff because it really was a great event and there were lots of people. It went from like 4:00 P.M. Until a must and:00 at night. It was just great. Thank you all for that. Last night I went to a very extraordinary event at the ywca, where the glendale, I' m sorry, the ymca. The glendale ymca signed in mou to be like a sister y to a ymca in artsakh. It was a great way to bring communities together, countries together, for help and for guidance. I want to congratulate the ymca board President Steve bullock, another staff member, a lot of people worked very hard to bring about this collaboration. It was quite impressive and I congratulate everybody that had anything to do with that because now, we have I keep saying why w, ymca and hartsock and one in glendale that will be helping each other out. So congratulations. Glendale is on the map once again. thank you. Mayor najarian: thank you. Councilmember agajanian: we were talking about citation, I asked the police chief, in 2014, the police department issued 19,400 tickets. 2015 1600 tickets, 2016 15,000 tickets, now in 2019 in nine months, 15,000. So it means by the end of the year, we are going to have 20,000 tickets issued to the drivers. I just personally myself, I don' t want to see just writing the ticket. If more tickets is more safer is better, it has to be an element of education. I agree, there are young kids driving very fast on glenoaks where my office is, my studio is , by glenoaks boulevard. That' s right. The police should stop them and give them a ticket, but give them a ticket is ok but however, there should be some sort of education. This police power that writing tickets, write more tickets would be better and safe, is not going to work. So we have to have education element with this. Maybe we have to have classes in the schools, to go and talk to those who are starting to drive at 16. I don' t know why they have to drive at 16 years old. I didn' t let my kids to drive before 18 years old. I think that is safer. But however, the point I am trying to make, just by writing tickets, nothing will change. So we have to have an element of education with tickets, otherwise this will continue forever. Thank you. Mayor najarian: thank you. >> if you get a ticket, you go to drivers education school, so it doesn' t go on your record. There is education component of the tickets. We also have education programs around the city. But I agree wholeheartedly. Councilmember agajanian: they get ticket and they go to traffic school is not enough. Traffic school now became a joke. They sit down, by computer, and they answer the question. There was time, I was in the state, in this city, that there was traffic schools which police officers were teaching in those traffic schools, tickets, when you would get a ticket, you would go to a school and a police officer would educate you, would ask you what happened and try to educate you. Traffic school now is, the kids, they do by computer, they look at the paperwork and just do it. I don' t think that traffic school helps anybody. Education is different issue in the schools. Police May go and visit them in a school and try to teach them how to drive in the city. Thank you. Mayor najarian: thank you. Obviously it is an interesting discussion that I think, we will wait for that report to come back and we can talk about different ways to deal with that. One thing that wasn' t mentioned briefly that the chief, during the chief' s comments is that the fines for those tickets don' t go to the city of glendale. Just a very small fraction, I think it is like 5% or less than 10%, go to the city of glendale. The rest goes to the county, to the state and to different jurisdictions. I want to let everyone know, glendale is hopping. When I say it is hopping, we have so many events that go on. Not just on the weekends, I am talking about mondays, tuesdays, and I don' t just mean in the evenings, I mean at breakfast time, noontime, mid afternoon, evening. It is really, more events than I have seen in the 14 or 15 years I have been appear. I think Mr. Quintero would probably agree, things are just, pick a year where it has been better. If we can' t come to your event, please, I have said this before, don' t take it personally. If you see one of us at your event, that councilmember or mayor' s representing the entire city council and we try our best to get to these events to give you the due recognition you have , that you need. I had an interesting meeting yesterday with the council general of kuwait, and I was confused on my way to beverly hills, why does the council general of kuwait want to meet with me or anyone from glendale? As it turns out, the tech efforts that we have in glendale, our tech weekend are checking to vader and tech accelerator discussions, came to his attention and we wanted to know if there is any way we could assist kuwait. Now, kuwait is of course one of the c1 kuwait is one of the most wealthy nation states out there. They have all the energy and oil money they want. But does not mean they want to throw it down rabbit holes and do the wrong thing. They wanted to know what it was that glendale was doing that was attracting tech companies to the city of glendale and in what manner, if any, that could be extrapolated to kuwait. So, we discussed briefly ways to cooperate and their office will be contacting our economic development office and we' ll be talking to them hopefully about what we are looking for in a tech accelerator. Wyatt is tech companies are coming to glendale? Why should they come to glendale -why is it that tech companies are coming to glendale? The point being our efforts at tech week that some of us, let' s be honest, some of us are not sure how much value it really have, but it has come to the attention of foreign countries on the other side of the world who are also pursuing tech and are of like mind with glendale. And that is all I have to say. Are there any comments by staff? All right. Let' s move to the next item. >> the next portion of this agenda as a community event announcements which are limited to three minutes, along with a public comments for individuals who wish to eshew the five minute portion to speak for three minutes at this point. >> ok. I have a request from robin lee hansen and karen cook ryan of the glendale quilt guild. You each have three minutes but I suppose you can have six minutes together. You can have six minutes together. >> good evening. I would like to thank the mayor and council members. My name is karen. I' m here with robin hanson. We are representing the glendale quilt guild. I have been a member since 1982. And robin' s been a member for four months. The word glendale to me is equal to quilting. I have never lived in glendale. So, when I' m here tonight in hearing about glendale, police, you community, I have been here summary times throughout the years and it is an honor to be here and hear that there is so much more to glendale than quilting, even though it is hard to believe. So, we' re here tonight to share the news about our glendale quilt show which will be held March 28 and 29, 2020 at the glendale civic auditorium. That was our first show in 1982. And we continue to have shows there at the burbank marriott. Our show became huge with approximately 8000 to 10,000 attendees at the marriott. I was the President. I was the chair. I' ve been every job except the treasure. I love quilting. And I love it every day and there is something different that happens all the time. So, now we have 501c3 status, and our quilt show has been compromised by private shows. Private companies were looking and seeing, glendale was the first one. We really were. We were bigger than ontario is. And so, now we are returning and having our show a glendale. We' re very excited to be there. And I brought some quilts for you to see, just a show you kind of come it is not a blanket. It is not crochet. It is not knitting. This is an artform. Quilting, just you' d be surprised when you come to our show to see what quilting looks like. Robin is going to be in charge of a boutique. And at the boutique we' ll have handmade items. We have vendors better selling fabric, jewelry, vintage items and other interesting vendors. The funds raised will be used to hire speakers for our meetings, pay rent on our space at the athletic club, and purchase supplies for charity quilts that our members make for hospitals, veterans, hospice, and other similar sources. I' m happy to hear glendale is interested in the arts as per the appointment to the arts commission. Our glendale quilt guild is a harmonious blend of charity work, art, education, and volunteerism. And I thank you for listening to our announcement. Robin? >> because I belong to several 501c3' s, we' re going to be working with the glendale historical society in putting on a mini quilt show there. So, sometime next year we are not exactly sure what slot we' re going to do, we will be having all of our really skilled quilters showing in teaching how, showing, demonstrating and teaching how we do quilts. To begin with, quilts were a recycling project. So, you know, all things, you -- in the old days run out to the quilt store and buy new fabric. You would use what you had in you would use scraps to make it, the victorians were huge recyclers. They were the original recyclers. They used everything until the end of it. But look for us on our, the historical society page and I' m sure that we' ll get on the master calendar and we' ll really forward to teaching you more. Please come to our show. It is not just for quilters. It is a very vibrant thing. I will be running the boutique as karen said and we will have lots of items. I kind of wish it were before christmas. But there are things that are very useful. They are not just quilts. We do a ton of things. You cannot imagine what we do. And we are busy at it. We work hours and hours at th women' s athletic clube. And we' re, a lot of us are members there as well. Thank you so much for letting us speak and have a wonderful evening. >> oh, the website, what is it >> our website is www. Glendalequiltguild.Org. Thank you so much. Mayor najarian: thank you. Tony passerella? >> good evening. This is a very serious topic I' m talking about, week three in my campaign to create awareness about the 5g deployment/small cell site. So, if you won' t believe me then maybe your believe the expert. If you roll the video it will come back up. It is just two minutes. >> I' m shareon. -- I' ve practice medicine for 21 years. In my background is hospital-based and clinical research and medical education. >> I am a certified microsoft small business specialist I' ve worked on the space station designing that cabling station, which is responsible for larger magnetic compatibility. >> I' m a professor in the department of epidemiology and statistics and occupational health and I teach their both toxicology and health effects of a lecture magnetic radiation. >> I am founder of the organization called we are the evidence. We represent them many adults and children that have become very sick from radiation. >> the effects of wireless on health scientifically are very, very clear. >> it is always pushed back to the definition of an acceptable level of radiation and that is what this is, by the way. This is about radiation. >> radiation has biological effects. Period. >> I' ve been reviewing the study showing the impact of wireless radiation on our health and there are now thousands of studies showing the following adverse health impacts to wireless radiation. Cancer. Oxidative damage. Dna damaged. Dna failure. >> things like memory. Design is, anxiety. Brain fog. >> headaches, nose bleeds, cognitive problems, exhaustion. >> we have evidence of dna damage, cardio myopathy. The precursor to congestive health failure. >> you' re presenting on the hill in washington, D.C. I am not here to scare people. I not a fearmonger. I' m a truth seeker. I' m just trying to alert the people of glendale, council members and staff and anybody within the sound of my voice, please do your research. This is going to affect all of us at some point in time. They want to roll out more and more of these as the time passes. They are going to be on every city block in every neighborhood near schools, and so it is a very, very serious issue. Please, glendalians, do your research. You can start at eh trust.Org. Thanks a lot. Mayor najarian: thank you. Jean kagan? >> good evening, Mr. Mayor, city officials. I' m the program vice President For -- international glendale. With me is our President Martha wilson and our President-elect diane. And we are here tonight because getting a college education shouldn' t mean going hungry or being food insecure. but that' s what it does mean for half of the 2.1 million students in our community colleges. In fact, 40% of these students reported skipping meals last year because they could not afford to buy food. Now, when students are worried about where their next meal is coming from or even if it is coming, their ability to learn and attend class suffers. And when talented students are forced to delay their studies or drop out because of this food insecurity, this hunger, it is a loss to our entire community. And quite frankly, if you are not a student on campus or you don' t know students on campus, you' re probably not aware that there is food insecurity and hunger on our community college campuses. But there is. Hunger is the hidden crisis on our college campuses. We at optimist international of glendale have become aware of this and what we want to do is stimulate community awareness, because with awareness comes action. So, we have put together a forum which will take place on thursday, November 14, from 7:00 to 8:5 P.M. In the downtown library. We have a distinguished faculty who will address this issue. Senator anthony -- has joined our faculty. We also have ellen, who is the outreach coordinator for the food for thought pantry at glendale community college. Mr. Albert hernandez, executive director of family promises. And a student panel of three to four students who have experienced food insecurity, hunger, right here on our campus here in glendale. We sincerely hope that you and the rest of the community will attend our forum, will hear more about the facts of this very real crisis on our campus, and find out what you can do to make an impact to try and help these students. Thank you. Mayor najarian: thank you very much. >> quick question. >> I have a quick question. Do you, based on your research, do you know what -- glendale community college? >> the closest I can come right now is a number that Dr. Villar gave out. We were at a special forum held by adam schiff with members of four different community colleges and he said that annually they give out 70,000 to 100,000 units of food in the food pantry. Remember those items come as donations into the food pantry and the students who cannot afford to buy food have a point system where they can pull food from the pantry to meet their basic needs. But that sounds pretty significant to me. >> 70,000 units in one year? >> per year. That is what he said. And I remember writing it down because I was rather astounded by the number. >> sure. >> I think we can add that a lot of her efforts this year is donated to the food pantry, both in terms of items and financially. >> we just had a recent event where our members collected over $2000 in cash that will be donated to the food pantry. We filled three 50 gallon containers of food. This is our first effort. Next week will be our second effort. And we do hope that you can help us bring the awareness of this to our local communities. >> 75% of the people that stand in line at the food pantry are women. >> I just wanted to thank you for bringing this to our attention. I did attend the event where we donated. We don' ated the food to the food pantry and I think a lot of complements have to go to glendale college and I guess I t' s Dr. Oppenberg for putting this program together for the students at the college. And for everybody out there to know if you ever want to donate food, you can always just take a bag of food up to college and donate any day, any time. >> at the forum, we will provide instructions on what you can do. Again, you do not have to do something big. A lot of people think I have to go in with a busload. I mean, believe it or not, simple flat of ramen noodles is about $4.00, and that can mean the difference whether somebody is really hungry tonight or has something in their stomach. >> sure. >> so, we sincerely hope that the community will come and join us at the library, second-floor auditorium. And all are welcome. And thank you. Mayor najarian: it is a noble thing you' re doing. Great job. Thank you. I don' t have any other cards. I' ll close this portion of all communications. -- oral communications. And ask for the next item. >> 8a, as director of public works, regarding the conference of parking analysis. A motion approving the recommended parking management strategies outlined in the parking analysis. The resolution adopting change in hours of operation from enough street parking meters and downtown glendale and increasing in at a certain fees in the citywide fee schedule and three is the ordinance for the introduction related to parking meter zones. >> Mr. Mayor, members of the city council the much awaited montrose and downtown parking analysis that we have been waiting for for some time. I' m going to go directly -- who will kick us off, before going to our consultant who did the actual analysis. >> good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of city council. We are pretty excited to be presenting the results of the montrose and downtown parking study. we have a very short presentation that is going to be done by our consultant who did the study. And we would be happy to answer any questions. I am going to turn it over to Mr. Dan mckinney. Mr. Mckinney: hi. Good evening, mayor and council members and city staff. I' m with the transpo group. I have been the owner there for 20 years and have a lot of experience dealing with transportation and parking issues. We were brought on board by the city to address parking conditions throughout the city in both downtown and mantras. We have two separate reports for that. I have got a slideshow that will walk through quickly as we can. What I want to impress upon you is that parking is a valuable asset to her just like any other asset the city has and manages the parking can be utilized to kind of support citywide goals and objectives. Everything from economic development to reducing congestion and providing neighborhood livability. It also provides a first and last impression within the city. For many patrons that are coming in. If you are visitor and you park your car, and then you were leaving, it adds to that first and last impression. This really making that a positive experience is important and ties into the city' s goal of providing a positive, exceptional customer service experience. And then in terms of our scope of work, we collaborate within the city and city staff to do a comprehensive evaluation of both downtown and montrose. We did two separate studies evaluating 4000 parking spaces, collected hourly data on weekdays and weekends and from that we did an evaluation of different occupancies, durations of state, and other statistics that we looked at to look at trends, patterns and so forth. As an life that we ended up looking atw what csan an -- can we do to move forward? We also do some public outreach and with regards to the public outreach, we had some public meetings. The first of which was a presentation we did to the transportation and parking commission. And secondly, we had separate meetings and downtown and in montrose. Talking about each of those supports. We had some stakeholder collaboration as well. In the downtown area, we interacted and had good conversations with greater downtown glendale association for the downtown. In montrose, the montrose shopping park association and glendale community college. What was interesting and great to see out of the montrose is a parking task force was collaborate -- was created. You kind of talk about things on a week the basis to really dive into an address concerns of each party. From that I' ll quickly get into some of the key findings we had in each of the reports. The downtown key findings which incorporates, encompassed a study area of almost 3400 parking spaces, that really is bound by the 134 freeway, to the north, colorado to the south and central and luis to the east and the west. From that, we really were identifying there is enough parking within the city as a whole to address the needs. However there was significant congestion at hotspots in certain areas. That really included brand boulevard, having the most congestion and the highest demand for parking throughout all of the day. And as well as some of the service lots were we were finding longer-term employee parking was provided. We did find that the public arriveds did have -- the public rogers did have lower occupancies. In downtown we notice the peak conditions occur during the weekday which kind of represented the supporting the local business communities at lunchtime activities that would occur downtown. But on the weekends it was peaking in the evening reflecting nighttime and evening activities happening there. We also looked at the pricing of &-pthe garages. Public garages. We did notice the public garages are providing a lower cost than your privately available garages. That is not necessarily a bad thing but it means you are providing a better value for that. Looking at montrose, some of the key findings there. There is around 800 spaces we looked at in the montrose community and that was study areas that was bounded by flor acita and broadview and las palmas and vernugo. The highest occupancy was found along honolulu avenue, similar to brand where that is your most desired parking and right in front on the street were all the activity is occurring. We also found that the high long-term occupancy was