City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening and welcome to a joint meeting of the Burbank City Council with the Successor Agency, Housing Authority, and Parking Authority on Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. [clears throat] Before I begin, I would like to announce that Council Member Perez will be participating remotely in today's meeting. She is currently taking a break feeding her baby and as soon as she comes back she will report on her remote her remote remote participation. Please join me for a moment of reflection. [clears throat] This moment is intended to begin our meeting with a positive and collective support for our beloved community. The city council welcomes everyone joining us this evening. We encourage you to take a moment to reflect on our community and the work we will be doing tonight. Although each of us has our own reasons for being here, we are united in our passion for our wonderful city. As we pause, let us consider our individual contributions and what they mean to those around us. Let us find solace in knowing that by working together with a shared spirit of community and partnership, we will always act responsibly for the betterment of Burbank. Thank you. Please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. [clears throat] Madame city clerk, please conduct the roll call. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Council member Anthony present. Council member Perez is joining us remotely. Council member Rosati, I'm here. Vice Mayor Mullins here. And Mayor Tarahashi here. Thank you.

There will be three periods of public comment tonight. Members of the public may comment in person or by phone during the general public comment period and must submit cards or call before the general public comment period begins. The first public comment period is for general public comment on any matter concerning the city business and/or any agenda item. If you are here in person and wish to speak during general public comment, please submit a yellow public comment card to address the council to the city clerk. If you would like to participate in the general public comment over the phone, please call now at 8182383335. Callers will be placed in a queue until the general public comment period begins at which time no additional calls will be taken. Additional public comments will be available. Public comment period will be available following the reports to council this evening. Interpreters are also available for assistance with public comment. We have Spanish and Armenian interpreters here with us this evening sitting in the front row over here. Please connect with them if you are in need of services and feel free to walk on over and chat with them if you would like their assistance. We have five announcements this evening. And just like that, we've arrived at the announcements portion of the evening. Grab your popcorn and some candy because we've got some news for you. Come meet our amazing men and women in uniform on May 9th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Police and Fire headquarters hosted by the Burbank Fire and Police Departments. This free, yes you heard that right, freree event will include live demonstrations, station tours, lessons on CPR safety, and more. Reach the fire department for more info at 8182383473 or visit the website at burbankca.gov/fire.

In other news, please be aware that there will be a temporary water shut off for an irrigation project on May 6th from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the George Isa Park. You know, the park with the cool airplane. During this time, however, the Olive Recreation Center, the Betsy Lui Creative Arts Center, the Jocelyn Adult Center, and the tennis courts will be closed. The park will still remain open, but restrooms will not be available. Please plan your water-free fun accordingly. You can visit burbankca.gov/parksandre for any updates. Speaking of water, did you know that May is water safety month? As we head into warmer weather and spend more time around pools, lakes, and beaches, it's important to keep water safety top of mind. Here are some water safety tips to help keep you and your loved ones safe. Grab a cute suit and register for swim lessons. They help to build confidence and develop essential water safety skills. Parks and Recreation offers swim lessons in aquatic programs for all ages and skill levels right here in town. Visit burbankca.gov/aquatics to learn more. Also, always remember to swim near a lifeguard when possible and use properly fitted life jackets when participating in water activities. Learn basic CPR so you're prepared in the case of an emergency and always supervise children when they are in or near water. Help us to make water safety a priority this May. You're invited to room 104 in the Community Services Building located at 150 North 3rd Street where Creative Industry Task Force will host its next event at 6 p.m. on May 21st. Join in to hear about the program and their recommendations for the future of the creative industry in Burbank. Learn more about the process and provide your feedback through a workshop style roundt format. For more information and to RSVP, please email econ burbankca.gov.

and get out your stars and stripes as we prepare for the upcoming June 2nd, 2026 election. Voters began receiving their vote by mail ballots on April 30th. Please ensure your ballot is not mixed in with other mail. The city clerk's office would also like to remind residents that the last day to register to vote is in 2 weeks on May 18th. Voter registration forms are available in the city clerk's office and at Burbank libraries. You can also register to vote online at lavote.gov. gov. If you happen to miss any of those fun details, check out the Burbank City website for updates on all the happenings in our beloved Burbank. This concludes the announcement portion for our meeting. Thank you.

What do you guys think of the new announcement style? That's awesome, right? Whose bright idea is that? I need to give credit where credit's due. Over here, the new intern, a new new employee. Awesome. Yeah. Right. Yeah. [applause] That's great. I love it. All right. We have a number of um announcement or a number of presentations tonight. All very important. So, I hope those of you who are here not for the presentations that you can um enjoy and sit through these before we get to public comment. Um, our first presentation tonight, this evening is a presentation of a proclamation declaring April 13th through April 20 20th, 2026 is National Days of Remembrance in the City of Burbank. Please help me welcome Laura Strobble and uh I guess other folks as well. Okay. President of Burbank Human Relations Council to present the um proclamation. [applause] I'll let you do. Hi, my name is Laura Strobble and I am the president of Burbank Human Relations Council. And the Burbank Human Relations Council um has um would like to thank first and foremost the city of Burbank, the city of Burbank, Mayor Takahashi, um the members of the city council and the um staff for the opportunity to present Days of Remembrance Holocaust commemoration at the coun at this council meeting. The Burbank Human Relations Council has council has been honored to coordinate and present this annual commemoration at the city hall since 1989. Um, I would really like to acknowledge and to um bring up the members of the Burbank Human Relations Council Board and the Days of Remembrance Committee members who are here with me tonight. If you guys could please come up. [applause]

Our annual presentation to council and the public this evening includes a universal sign of remembrance, the lighting of candles. In years past, we have been privileged to stand in the presence of Holocaust survivors as they lit these candles. As this generation grows smaller, the responsibility of remembrance is lovingly carried forward as we bridge generations. Today, we are honored to welcome Leon Tal, granddaughter of a survivor. Lauron is a Burbank business owner and community leader. Luron is a bridgebuilder, ensuring that future generations will carry her family's history and their story will continue to be told. Lauron. [applause] [applause] Um, so I'm in a writing class and I uh we had a a prompt to bring in something that's of a treasure and I wrote this piece based on a bracelet that I have uh that Laura was in the class and so I was asked to read the story. Uh, my 92year-old grandmother, Judy Brimmer, who I call Sassy, grew up in Budapest, Hungary, in a loving home with her mother and father, sandwiched between her two brothers, all three a year apart. Their summers were spent vacationing on the Danube River with their huge family filled with aunts and uncles and so many cousins. As a Jewish family in a Christian neighborhood, they had friends that loved coming over for my great-grandmother Ella's Jewish foods like kishas and kougals. And my grandmother loved spending Christmas with her friends at their homes. When Judy was about 7 years old, she recalls friends starting to say, "My parents won't let me play with you anymore." She had no idea why. Once the Nazi regime started appeal appearing, her parents understood what anti-semitism looks like, and they had to explain to their

little girl it was because she was Jewish. Shortly after, they started seeing families being forced out of their homes or killed and their belongings stolen. Her mother, Ella, took her precious jewelry, including her favorite gold bracelet with tiny diamonds, to their Christian neighbor for safekeeping. And they buried it, the box of jewelry in their backyard. Years after the Holocaust, my grandmother returned to Budapest and retrieved this box of treasures. And that is the bracelet I wore on my wedding day that I'm wearing today. Um, it was my something borrowed, borrowed from our family's history and our roots. Um, as a Jewish mother in Burbank, I think it's really important that these stories are continued to be shared. Um, I have my son here tonight and um, uh, yeah, thank you for letting me share this tonight and thank you to BHRC for the work you're doing and I'm honored to light these candles in honor of my grandmother and um, everyone else and the Holocaust survivors and the ones we lost. [applause] And I want to invite my son up to help me light these.

And her son is a student at John Burough High School. What?

Already. [laughter] Thank you so much for the seventh candle. We expand our circle of remembrance. We honor not only the million of Jews and other victims murdered during the Holocaust, but we also reflect on our shared responsibility to recognize human suffering wherever it exists. Today we welcome Ever Werta. Ever is a junior at Sea Sun and a member of Burbank Community Defense. Ever will light the seventh candle in memory of the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, including the righteous Christians who lost their lives protecting Jews, the Poles, Slavs, Roma's LGBTQ people, the resistance fighters, political dissident, the mentally and physical dis physically disabled, and others who the Nazis persecuted and murdered. Additionally, we light the seventh candle in memory of all who have been victims of hatred and for the millions of innocent victims tormented by violent conflict and war throughout the world. We also remember the lives lost in ICE detention centers and the victims who continue to experience inhumane conditions at these centers. Ever lights this candle, reminding us of the dignity and humanity owed to all people.

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Thank you. I light this candle honoring the responsibility of my generation to be the bridgeuers carrying forward the lessons of the past to stand for dignity and the humanity for all. As Martin New Mueller, a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany, so powerfully warned shortly after World War II, and unfortunately this expert still resides today, even more. First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. Thank you so much ever. These seven candles are lit as expression of remembrance and hope for peace in the world. Thank you for your time and attention. Burbank Human Relations Council will continue to commemorate the days of remembrance by hosting a community interfaith gathering next Tuesday, May 12th at 700 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier Church of Burbank located at 3801 Scott Road. This program will include an educational perform presentation followed by some words from Holocaust survivor and soughtafter speaker Gabriella Karen who is 97 years old. All people of goodwill are invited to attend and hear stories of hope and courage, words of inspiration and music. And we hope that you all will join us. For more information, you can go to our website, burbankhuman relations.org, or on Instagram at burbankhuman relations council. Thank you so much for your time and attention. Thank you. And [applause] thank you. Thank you for that presentation and

lighting the candles and all the words. Before we do the pictures, I do have a proclamation. Um, it's National Days of Remembrance. Whereas we the people of the city of Burbank should always remember the terrible events of the Holocaust and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and tyranny so as to never repeat the atrocities of the past. And whereas we, the people of City of Burbank, must actively rededicate ourselves to the principles of individual freedom, human dignity, and rights in a just society. This year's theme, Bridging Generations, emphasizes the responsibility of younger generations to carry forward the testimonies and lessons of survivors as fewer survivors are available to share their stories. We must engage with history to build a future based on the lessons learned from the Holocaust, especially today when we see our communities both in the US and in other countries under daily attack. The Holocaust shows what happens when hatred, dehumanization, and apathy win. And whereas the days of remembrance have have been set aside for the people of the city of Burbank to remember the victims of the Holocaust as well as to reflect on the need for respect and compassion for all peoples. Now therefore, I, Tamila Takahashi, mayor of the city of Burbank, do hereby recognize Monday, April 13th through Monday, April 20th, 2026 as local days of remembrance in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, as well as the rescuers and liberators, and further proclaim that we, as people in the city of Burbank, must continually work to promote human dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs. Let us remember that hate has no home in Burbank and to choose kindness and love over hate. [applause] [applause] Stickers. [snorts]

All right. Over here, please. two again. Two. [applause]

Okay. Can I get a record?

Thank you. Our second presentation this evening is the presentation of a proclamation declaring May 2026 as Older Americans Month in the city of Burbank. Please join me in welcoming our senior board to the podium. [applause] So, I have a proclamation which I will read. Would anyone like to say a few words before I do that or we go right into the proclamation?

Go right.

Go right into it. Okay. All right. So, Older Americans Month, the power of belonging. I love that. Whereas older Americans month provides an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the vital role older adults play in enriching our families, neighborhoods, and society. And whereas the theme power of belonging highlights the importance of ensuring that older adults feel connected, valued, and included in all aspects of community life. And whereas strengthening intergenerational relationships and encouraging active participation helps create a culture of respect, dignity, and shared purpose. Now therefore, I, Tamila Takahashi, mayor of the city of Burbank, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Older Americans Month and call upon all residents to join me in recognizing the contributions of our older citizens and promoting programs and activities that foster connection, inclusion, and support of older adults. [applause]

Are you the president? Are you there? Yeah. Represent.

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And I think I think officially I get to join that group in August because I turned 55. Okay. And I can Yeah. And then I'm going to the first day on my birthday I'm going to Joson Center. I have it planned. I think it's a Tuesday. Are you open on Tuesdays? Okay, good. All right. Sure. All right. [laughter] All right. All right. Next up, our third presentation this evening is the presentation of certificates of recognition for the Peter McGrath Older Americans Volunteer Service Award. Please join me in welcoming Parks and Recreation staff Kim Freed and Derek Baker to announce the recipients. How very exciting. [applause] [applause] Sorry. Uh good evening, Mayor Hakahashi and council members. Uh like she said, my name is Kim Freed, recreation supervisor at the Joslyn Adult Center. I'm here with my colleague Derek Baker, recreation coordinator over the Burbank Volunteer Program. May is Older Americans Month and we are honored to be here this evening to announce this year's Peter McGrath Older Americans Volunteer Service Awardees. Mr. McGrath was a respected community member who dedicated his time to volunteering on various city boards, committees, and commissions. This award is designed to honor and encourage Burbank residents who are at at least 60 years of age and continue to be actively involved in the betterment of our community. These deserving individuals were nominated by members of our community and selected amongst all submissions based on the strength and merit of their application. The following awardees truly reflect the National Older Americans Month theme for 2026, the power of belonging. I'm pleased to announce awardees for Burbank's city of Burbank's 2026 Peter McGrath outstanding service volunteer. Our first awardee is Carol Briggs. [applause]

Come on down. [applause] When many of us think of Girl Scouts, we picture schoolage girls and their parents. But Carol is still leading troops. In doing so, she models something powerful, a commitment that extends beyond personal benefit. She mentors not only the girls, but also their parents, showing what long-term dedication to an organization can look like, and reminding us that anyone at any stage of life can invest in their invest time and talent in young people. As both the past and current leader of parent organizations, Carol brings invaluable generational knowledge to newer volunteers through her close connections with families in the Burbank Unified School District. She prov she shares perspective and storydriven wisdom that helps today's parents understand what the meaning of truly being engaged in their children's community. Carol also has a remarkable way of bringing people in. She makes it a priority to create opportunities for others to get involved. Many of us have felt her encouragement and sometimes her gentle persistence to step forward and volunteer, not just but not just for Girl Scouts, but for local efforts like Guide Dogs of America and the Burbank Rose Parade float. Through her invitation and example, she helps others discover their sense of belonging. Her impact reminds us that belonging doesn't fade with time, it deepens. Carol shows us how to remain active, engaged, and connected throughout our lives. Her longevity in our community is not just admirable, it's inspiring. And even now, with her children grown and out in the world, Carol sums up it best. I've always said, "I'm not a stay-at-home mom. I'm a full-time volunteer." Carol Carol definitely defines the power of belonging. [applause]

We're both more. Congratulations. [applause]

Our next awardee this evening is Connie Trumbull. [applause] [applause]

Come stand next to

Connie Baron Trimble has a remarkable gift. She makes people feel like they belong. Whether she's at a church social, supporting Burbank arts organizations, organizing alumni events for John Burroughs and Burbank high schools, especially the Burough's Vocal Music Association, catering empty bowl for home again LA, flipping pancakes for the Burbank Humane I mean human relations council's MLK events or serving the philanthropic educational organization gatherings. Um, Connie greets everyone with warmth and if you've met her, you've probably been in a photo with her, too. She tells you she just flips pancakes. But in Burbank, these pancakes and the person behind the griddle are legendary. Conniey's commitments to the Let me finish first and you going to have all this time to talk. You going to be able to talk all you want when I get through with this. Okay. Let us let us blow you up real quick. Let us blow you up. Conniey's commitment to the community spans decades. From her early days at the Burbank YMCA's Camp Earl Anna, where she became Indian Maiden Nation Chief to her long her lifelong involvement across countless organizations, she has built a legacy of service that continues to grow. The truth is the power of belonging could easily be Conniey's personal motto. Wherever she goes, she connects people. If you're standing nearby, she'll introduce you, find common ground, and make sure you feel included before moving on to the next person who needs that same connection. Connie can host an event, cater it, and champion it because all at once and does so with genuine joy. Her impact is especially felt through her work with Relay for Life. Through events like Wine in the Garden, she brings neighbors and friends together, not only to raise funds for cancer research, but to build awareness, offer support, and create space for connection among those facing and surviving illness. Conniey's spirit of service was shaped early on. Her parents owned Baron's Restaurant, a local gathering place where community

came first. Her father made sure that anyone in need received a plate of pancakes and something to drink. something to drink. [laughter]

I wanted you to clear that up. Clear that up. All right. Connie carries the same spirit for today. A belief that everyone deserves a seat at the table. Her longest standing service has been with the Burbank Unified Schools. When her daughter Katie joined the choir at Burroughs, Connie stepped in to help and never left from [laughter] I didn't mean it that way. I just meant Yeah, I didn't mean it that way. Just I didn't mean it that way. From chap from chaperoning to organizing pancake breakfast, her support has evolved into beloved traditions like the pancake serenade where she continues to cater year after year. At her church, she fosters a sense of belonging in a simple but powerful way. By bringing people together over food, she her weekly hospitality goes far beyond coffee and juice. She creates thoughtful spreads of fruit, pastries, pancakes, and themed treats. She understands something fundamental. When people gather to eat, they begin to talk. When they talk, they build friendships. When f I mean, I'm sorry, they build fellowships. And fellowships creates belonging. Organizations across Burbank from Home Alone LA to philanthropic educational organization PEO benefits her benefits from her generosity and she lends her culinary talents to fundraisers that nourish body and spirit. In recent years, Relay for Life has been especially close to her heart. Inspired by personal loss and the health battles of loved ones. Whether through painted rocks, tomato plants, or shared meals, Conniey's goal is always the same. To bring people together, to uplift them, and to remind them they are not alone. So, how does Connie embody the power of belonging? She shows us that belonging is something you create. She makes sure you know you matter. She helps you find your place at a table, in a conversation, within a community. And along the way, she reminds us of

something extraordinary. Sometimes something as simple as a pancake can bring people together and change a community for the better. It is my honor to announce that Connie will also represent the city of Burbank as the 2026 nominee for the Los Angeles County Commission for Older Adults Volunteer Service Award as well. [applause] Um, oh, sorry. This is a photo opportunity right now. Do a photo right now if that's okay.

Just read so much. I'm sweating. It's reading so long. Got a long list. Very, very well. two. That's what you get when an English teacher writes about you. [applause]

Thank you, Mayor Takarashi and council members for celebrating Older Americans Month and honoring these two wonderful community volunteers. Would you like to say something, Mayor? First of all, I'm like I'm a slacker, you guys. I mean so impressed and um gosh I can just I want to be you when I grow up. So [laughter] you can thank you to all that you do. Thank you for all the the efforts and volunteers that the two of you have put together um to have done in the community. So appreciate you. Um well chosen. Is it a panel of people who choose? Is it a blind choice that they don't know who it is or

Ah okay. All right. So well done. Well done indeed. Yeah. Congratulations. [applause] I know what I'm going to aspire to now. All right. All right. Next up is Municipal Clerk's Week. Wait, hold on. Our fourth presentation this evening is a presentation of a proclamation declaring May 3rd to 9th, 2026 as Municipal Clerk's Week in the city of Burbank. Please join me in welcoming our city clerk, Miss Kimberly Clark. [applause] All right. Would you like to Yes. Thank you, Mayor Tagashi.

Would you like to say a few words? Yes. I have I have a little script. I'll try to make it fast because I know we have a lot tonight. So, thank you very much, Mayor Tagahashi. Um, as the department head, I have a few brags about the city clerk's office and my outstanding team. As I call your name, please step forward. First, I would like to recognize Assistant City Clerk Linda Tai. [applause] Okay. Fun fact, because everybody knows me knows I love trivia. Since the city's incorporation in 1911, how many city clerks has the city had? 45 15 40 16

16. Right. It's it's pretty small amount, right? Right. It's kind of surprising since 1911. Anyway, all right. Here are some of our department accomplishments for this fiscal year. We filled 35 board, commission, and committee vacancies. I would like to recognize Yaslyn Robinson, intermediate clerk, who stepped up this year and took on the main work involved with our BCC's in addition to our other duties. And just a friendly reminder for the public that on May 1st, we opened the annual BCC recruitment and there are 28 vacancies at the moment. So, if anyone's interested in serving, we encourage you to apply at

uh I said at board commission and committees. Yes, we encourage you to apply at burbankca.gov/bcc application. Okay. Over on the record side, we process 92 internal public records requests and 2,261 external public records requests. I would like to thank Eric Mess and Jessica Viato in our records division. [applause] who have both done outstanding work. Sadly, Eric will be leaving the city. Tomorrow is his last day, but on a positive note, he is leaving to start his own tax business. And as a former small business owner, I can't argue with that. So, yes.

Okay. And then third, we transition to eile for electronic filing of fair political practices commission forms, form 700, statements of economic interest, and campaign filings. filers report that they find the new software more userfriendly. We also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the passport acceptance facility. Since the program's inception, we have processed more than 135,000 passport applications, taken 86,000 passport photos, and collected more than 5 million in general fund revenue. And I need to thank Vice Mayor Mullins for having the vision to start the program when she was clerk. and our longtime [applause] and our longtime passport manager Ziamara Gamz who puts in long hours to manage this work [applause] and who oversees our passport team which is comprised of Jasmine Davis and Steven Revena [applause] two the city clerk's office also launched the Granicus Peak agenda management software a digital platform for creating and publishing meeting agendas and package which has resulted in increased efficiencies across city departments and enhanced accessibility for the public. I would like to recognize our administrative analyst, Maria Sanchez, who does a fantastic job [applause] with our city council agenda packets each week. If it weren't for Maria, we none of us would be here. None of us, right? And finally, we initiated the work of reanexing 17 properties on Rosselli Street. Rosselli Street is a little street between Burbank and Glendale. They had erroneously been redistricted to the city of Glendale for tax and voting purposes, even though they are Burbank residents and receive Burbank services. After this process is completed, these residents will once again receive ballots to enable them to vote in Burbank elections. Thank you

very much for having this ceremony tonight. Appreciate it. [applause] Definitely definitely applaud the city clerk's office. you work, every single one of your staff, you and your staff work hard and so appreciate you. I do have a proclamation for you here. Um, municipal clerk's week. Whereas the office of the professional municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants. And whereas the office of the professional municipal clerk clerk provides the professional link between citizens, the local governing bodies and agencies of government at other levels. And whereas professional municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and partiality, rendering equal service to all. And whereas it is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the office of the professional municipal clerk. Now therefore, I, Tamila Takahashi, mayor of the city of Burbank, do hereby proclaim the week of May 3rd through May 9th, 2026 as Municipal Clerk's Week, and further extend appreciation to our city clerk, Kimberly Clark, and to all of our professional municipal clerks for their vital services they perform and their exemplary dedication to the community of Burbank they represent. So, a round of applause for sure. [applause] You get to hold this one. Bunch up for me, please. All together again. Congratulations. [applause] Thank you for all you do. Thank you for all you do. Thank you.

They got to get back. They got to get back to work, so they're heading out. All right, we have a couple more. We're almost done. So, our fifth presentation this evening is a presentation of a proclamation declaring May 3rd through 9th, 2026 as National Correctional Officers Week in the city of Burbank. Please join me in welcoming jail manager Tanya Cooper and jailers Austin Krauss and Jasmine Valdez. Where are they at? [applause] There they are. So, I have a proclamation for you, but would any of you like to speak a little bit before I give the proclamation? Absolutely.

I want to thank you everybody for being here tonight as we celebrate National Corrections Week. Uh, I also want to take a moment to recognize the jailers who could not be here tonight because they're either working or they're prepping for their shift tomorrow. It's Myra Robles, uh, Nathan Gutierrez, Jessica Kusher, Sela Selva, and Mark Reynolds. Uh we all do an amazing job, we're afforded a great privilege in this city to be able to be there for people at their lowest because although people might do bad things, they need an inspiration. People make mistakes, you know, people break the law, but they have rights that they're protected and afforded. So, and that's our responsibility here. So, we work behind the scenes. You might not see us on the streets, but we work very, very hard to make sure that whether it's your loved one or a friend or a family member or someone who just made a had a bad day, we're there to make sure that they're protected, that they're okay, they get to court, and hopefully on a better path into the future. So again, want to thank you for coming out for us today and recognize this. [applause] Thank you. You know, I've been down in the jail before. I was there as part of the citizens police academy. Um it's a really great program if you haven't done it. And one of the things that you get to do is to take a tour of the jail. So that was a really informative um day. All right. Nationals Correctional Officers Week, May 3rd through 9th, 2026. Whereas in 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated the first full full week of May as National Correctional Offers Officers Week. And whereas in 1996, the name was officially changed to National Correctional Officers and Employees Week to recognize all employees who work in the nation's jails, prisons, and community corrections programs. And

whereas the jail personnel of the Burbank Police Department exhibit compassion, professionalism, and dedication in the performance of their duties. Now therefore, I, Tamila Takahashi, mayor of the city of Burbank, do hereby proclaim the week of May 3rd through 9th, 2026 as National Correctional Officers Week in the city of Burbank. The Council of the City of Burbank recognizes the outstanding service of the city's jail personnel that you provide for the safety and welfare of our community. Thank you. [applause] Three, two, one. Two. One. [applause]

Thank you, council members. I just I just found out we have four more after this. Sorry. I'm just kidding. Now, this is the last one, I promise. All right, the last one is National Police Week. Our final presentation this evening is a presentation of proclamation declaring May 10th to 16th, 2026 is National Police Week in the city of Burbank. Please join me in welcoming police chief Q and police sergeant John Embleton uh to present this proclamation. And I'm sure you would like to say a few words knowing you. John, John, do Okay. Okay. [applause]

Thank you, mayor, and thank you everyone for being here. National Police Week is a time to remember the men and women who gave their lives in the line of duty in service to others. It's also a time to remember and recognize the sacrifices that come with this profession, not only for the police officers, but also the families that stand behind be behind them. Um, this coming week, I think it's important because it's a reminder that policing isn't just a job. It really isn't. It's a commitment to serve. And more than that, in uncertain or difficult times. And I'm proud of Sergeant Embleton along with five others who will be riding from New Jersey to Washington DC next week. Next week. hundreds of miles uh to honor the fallen and also support the families. So on behalf of myself, the command staff and the men and women of this department, thank you for the proclamation. [applause] So the city of Burbank uh proclaims national police week May 10th through 16th, 2026. Whereas in 1962, President John Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which it falls as National Police Week. And whereas National Police Week is dedicated to honoring America's law enforcement community and giving recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others. And whereas law enforcement officers strive to maintain a safe environment for all, often while facing significant challenges and dangers. and our community recognizes the important work and sacrifice sacrifices officers make each day to protect the city of Burbank. And whereas all members of our police department recognize their duty to serve the

community by safeguarding life and property by protecting community members against violence or disorder. Whereas and whereas the personnel of the city of Burbank Police Department perform their duties with compassion, professionalism, and dedication, providing a vital public service to our community, safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the members of our community. Now therefore, I, Tamila Takahashi, mayor of the city of Burbank, do hereby proclaim the week of May 10th through May 16th, 2026 as National Police Week in the city of Burbank. The council of the city of Burbank recognizes and honors the invaluable contributions of our law enforcement personnel whose unwavering commitment ensures the safety and well-being of our community. Thank you. [applause]

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Everyone, two more. [applause]

one one big round of applause for everybody and all the proclamations. That was amazing. And for yourselves, for the patients. Um we're going to take a second for those who want to kind of um leave while we're doing our transitions and then we'll move on to the next part of our meeting in a minute. Oops. Sorry. I'm talking See you next Tuesday. All right, we will move on now to the next portion of our meeting. But before we do, find my script here. Um, before we begin, I'd like to remind folks that Council Member Perez will be participating remotely in today's meeting. Council Member Perez, please provide your notice of your need to participate remotely.

Hi everybody. I am participating remotely today in accordance with state law allowing me a child care exemption um when necessary uh [clears throat] I think it's twice throughout the year. And as I shared with my colleagues earlier, both baby and I are sick. So, you probably don't want me in person anyways. Don't want to share the germs. Um, yeah, and I'll be participating remotely. Those were wonderful proclamations. Thank you. And I hope you feel better soon, Council Member Perez. Uh, Mr. City Manager, do you have anything to report?

U, Madame Mayor, yes, I do. I actually have two items. Uh, the first item, I'd like to call up our fire chief. Uh I'd like him to report out on a recent uh woman's fire workshop uh that uh the Tri Cities uh participated in uh recently. Good evening, Mayor Takahashi, Vice Mayor Mullins, Council, Danny Alvarez, Fire Chief. And uh as um city manager mentioned, um on April 11th, the Burbank Fire Department participated in the first Tri City Women's Academy in collaboration with Glendale and Pasadena Fire Departments. More than 60 women took part in the academy. The program was designed to recruit, educate, and empower women to pursue careers in the fire service. With women representing only about 5% of career firefighters nationwide, initiatives like this play a critical role in introducing prospective candidates to the profession. Um, I have a uh a few pictures here that I'd like to share as I go along here. Um, this is the uh introduction. Thank you very much, Mayor Takahashi, for um being there Saturday morning and um sharing some thoughts with the uh the members that the uh participants that were there. Um Oops. Um prior to uh doing any of the exercises, uh they were getting ready to work on with some power tools. They were taught how to operate this equipment safely. um throughout the academy. Um it was held over 2 days on Saturday and Sunday uh from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The academy provided participants uh with hands-on um introduction to the fire service. Activities included operating hose lines, um rooftop ventilation techniques, auto extrication, forcible entry, search and rescue techniques, and participants also dawned personal protective equipment and completed fitness exercises similar to what they would expect in a fire academy. So you can see here they got to work with ladders. Um on the left there

they're doing their physical fitness that they would do in an academy. Um they uh did some extrication cutting cars apart working with auto extrication tools. Um this was a uh actual ventilation prop that they uh cut holes on. On the right they learned how to use some wildland uh hand tools. Um they operated host streams. They learned forcible entry techniques and um here's just a a few more pictures of our participants and um and pictures of the the class. And so this uh could not have happened without the participation of some of the members of our department who I'd like to bring up and uh express my gratitude to. So first um uh Battalion Chief Pete Garcia, Chief Garcia um come on up. uh coordinated this along with the training chiefs from Glendale and Pasadena. [applause] Uh uh [applause] engineer Jennifer Hoffman. Uh engineer Hoffman was there two days as as an instructor. [applause] our fire administrator, Christine Ellis. [applause] Um, you know, I I mentioned a lot uh about what what they did on the operations side. What one of the neat things about the program was that um it really introduced the participants to every aspect of different different career paths you can take in the fire service, including fire prevention and fire administration. And Christine was there two of the days sharing uh her experience as well. Um, firefighter Haley Maine could not be here tonight because she's currently attending paramedic school, but she was also there as well. Um, and I'll just close with one thing. Um, this is a thank you card I got from uh two teachers that participated in the program. And while they were appreciative of of the program as a whole, they sent me this um specifically to acknowledge and thank Engineer Hoffman and firefighter Maine.

Um, and I'll just read just two quick sentences. Um, as teachers, we appreciated their patience, outgoing personalities, and imparting their expertise with all the participants. The ventilation station was our favorite and most memorable because of engineer Hoffman and engineer um, Haley Maine. So, or firefighter Haley Mine. So, um, huge thank you to everyone that made it happen. Um, thank you to council and the city manager's office for supporting us in this endeavor and we look forward to future opportunities uh, to continue that. So, thank you. [applause]

Thank you. Do you have any questions or any council? Any questions? Quick comments? Just like this is a great program. I was so impressed when I heard about it from the city manager. So, I'd like to see this go on year after year. So, thank you for putting that together. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh, [applause] I have one last but not least, I do have another item. I'd like to introduce our new business development concierge. She has only been here for a week. This is our first Burbank City Council meeting. So, without further ado, I'd like to introduce Cynthia Alba. [applause]

Those are some very tough acts to follow. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Cynthia Alba. I am honored to serve as Burbank's business development concierge. I am a proud San San Franando Valley resident. Grew up born and raised in the San Frernando Valley and my entire career has been rooted in public service. I that's just a hobby of mine. Public service, it's just what I do at any given point. I hold a dual bachelor degrees in public administration um in political science and organizational communication and a master of public administration and certificate of public policy from USC. My municipal background includes serving as a deputy city clerk and management analyst for San Fernando, working for the county of Los Angeles, and most recently as senior management analyst for the city of Malibu. I wore many many hats in Malibu, but the one that I energized me the most and I was most passionate about was helping and serving our businesses. Especially after the Palisades fire, I was there to hold their hand, walk them through resources through the multi- agencies. It's a very complicated process, rebuilding processes. So, I was there to kind of help them throughout the entire step by step. And it was something that just energized me and I had a deep passion for. So, I am very excited to serve as Burbank's business development concierge and really continue taking that forward. Um, I am very excited to join team Burbank and I look forward to working with the community and city staff. Thank you. [applause] And real quick, uh, so, uh, Cynthia will actually be in our in the city manager's office reporting to the assistant city manager, but working very closely with economic development. Welcome to the team.

All right. Is that it, Mr. City Manager? All right. Mr. City Attorney, will you please report on close session?

Yes, Madame Mayor, vice mayor, members of the city council, and for the benefit of the public, the city council uh convened at 4 p.m. this afternoon for close session discussion of five items. The first three items are items of existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D1 in the matters of friends of the equestrian bridge versus city of Burbank which is a housing uh development case concerning 910 South Mariposa. Uh Alec Alman versus City of Burbank which is a trip and fall case. Marissa O'Brien versus City of Burbank which is a labor unemployment case. In these three matters city council took no reportable action. The fourth item uh city council discussed in closed session was a matter uh concerning real property negotiations. City council uh pursuant to government code section 54956.9 I'm point8 sorry uh city council met with the city's real property negotiator miss Simone McFarland, assistant community development director concerning the Burbank Historic Society lease at 115 North Lumita Street uh to discuss a ground lease renewal. Uh, city council took no reportable action on that item. And finally, city council met on one matter of anticipated litigation. Uh, pursuant to government code section 54956.9D4 with the city as a potential pliff. In one case, uh, the city council took no reportable action on that item.

Thank you. Now is the time for joint p general public comment. I will be calling out the speaker's name as well as the person who is next in line to speak. In order to keep public comment moving in a timely fashion, we have a designated seat in the front row for speakers who are up up next the podium. A timer is available on the podium. This is also the last call for anyone who needs an interpreter or those staff will be released for the evening. Persons may choose to use the first period of public comment to address an agenda report but will not be able to speak on that item following this segment. And when you speak, please state your name for the record. Have our interpreters had any requests for assistance? No. All right. Well, you are free to go home and enjoy your evening. Thank you for being here and being available. The general public comment period. Yes. General public comment period is now beginning and no additional cards or calls will be accepted. Madam city clerk, how many public comment cards do we have for general public comment and how many callers do we have?

We have 27 in-person speakers and four people on the phone. So 30 31 31. So 31 speakers means a maximum of two minutes. So each speaker will get two minutes. Our first speaker is Vanessa Bednar and after that is Ron Bax. And as a reminder to folks, when you come up to the lectern, pull the microphone to whatever height you're at so that the folks at home can hear you. Welcome, Miss Spitnar. Hello. Thank you for having me. One second. I printed out uh some documents I'd like the city council to have.

Yes, please. Uh how many com uh packages should I was told? Six. 10. Okay. Well, there's nine. [laughter] Here we go.

Joe, Nikki's not here. She's nine. I can't distribute without 10. So, we just need to make a call. Nikki's not here. Uh, council member Perez is not here. You like the package? Yes. Yeah, if it's if it's okay. Sorry, I was told six. So, sorry about that. Distribute the rest of the morning. Okay. Thank you. Just give her a second to pass out.

Yeah. All right. Thank you. You have two minutes.

Okay. Thank you. I'm calling about the situation that's been going on uh for years at 437 South Fairview Street. This is my neighbor. Uh, her dogs do not come in the house. She will not bring them in the house and they bark and cry almost daily. Uh, [gasps] you'll see their conditions. One lives in that cage. I call it a cage, so might call it a pen. Uh, it never leaves there. The other one roams around the yard. I don't know what shelter it has. Burbank animal control has not been able to get into the backyard. The woman that resides at the property does not answer her door or she is not there when they uh come uh during hours. I deal with this every day and it is uh traumatic. You'll see it on the Excel has my notes that I take every day of barking and whatnot and it's I've taken over 7 70 videos of what I hear in my house. Um and it's it's loud. I can hear it in my entire house. Uh we've called the police recently and they've always said to call animal control. I just want to play something really quick. This happened on Friday.

[screaming] Something's really wrong.

It went on for 5 minutes, so [laughter] I don't think we need to play that anymore. Sorry. Um, it's upsetting. And, uh, I'm sorry. It just gets me really upset. Uh, we have done barking surveys. According to Burbank Animal Control, I'm only allowed to complain once a week and then she has six days to comply. Uh, but then she'll let the dogs bark for six days and on the seventh day it'll be quiet and then it resets again. And then I was told that 20 neighbors could call and it doesn't matter because they only take the one complaint cuz again she has six days to comply. So it just turns into this wheel over and over and over. And I guess I just want to end on this. I've talked to her and she has quoted se and I relayed it back to her. She knows that the animals bark and cry. They're just animals. So it doesn't matter. She will not bring them into the house.

Thank you for your comment. Thank you. Next up is Ron Bax, followed by Roy Simson.

Good evening, council. I guess I'll start before it's distributed. Let's do a high runbacks. Let's do a high level comparison. What's the value of a three-bedroom, one bath, or two bath house in Burbank? It's 1.1 to $1.2 million. Let's use 1.2 million to make the math easy. You can get rates of approximately 4%. There are more lucrative investments available, but I will present a conservative comparison. So, bank equivalent return would be 48,000 a year, which is 4,000 a month, but the rents can only be 35. Well, my rents are about 3500. And this doesn't take into account all the other expenses, which is taxes, insurance, etc., which last time I calculated came to about $1,000 a month. So that's a net of 2.5K or 2.5%. 4% 4,000 2.5% 2500. So I want you to take your life savings down to the bank, demand 2 and a.5% because 4% would be greedy. When you have done that and supply a sworn affidavit declaring that you will never seek improving a return on your funds, we can discuss that I and many other housing providers need to do more to support Burbank housing. I also understand there was an incident at 2 2006 West Magnolia last Tuesday. I assume there's a investigation going on. on. I wonder if the police captain can lay um captain police chief can brief us on that. And from what I understand, maybe the city attorney wants to comment, too. So, thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Roy Simson, followed by Eric Connor.

Welcome. You have two minutes.

Thank you. I'm here to speak about the Rancho and Burbank, how they are intertwined. Burbank is a special unique place and so is the rancho. As a matter of fact, Burbank was born in the rancho with Dr. David Burbank built his ranch behind while what is now born brother's back lot. He aled Burbank and he changed the face of this valley in here and [clears throat] it I think it's very important we hang on to that identity of the horse connection because that's also what brought the early movie industry in all those westerns. We even had our share of gangsters with Mickey Cohen. There's there's a lot of history there. There's ecology there. And there's something that is very unique these days. All the people that love horses down there come from all over the world. every nationality, many different religions, but we all have that common horse culture and we would do anything to help one another. That's very rare and I think we need to preserve that. So in your decisions I I urge you to give it a lot of thought because we are connected. The health of this city is also reflected in the health of the rancho. So thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next [applause] up this evening, if there's a number of speakers that you are feeling enthusiastic about, please do your jazz hands instead of clapping between each one. Thank you. Next up is Eric Connor, followed by Mark Scrogs. Welcome.

Good evening. Uh my name is Eric Connor and I have served on the Burbank Cultural Arts Commission since 2019. and wish Mayor Takahashi, our city council members and staff a good evening as well as Councilwoman Perez's infant or I'm sorry, toddler now, a little bit bigger. Um, I'm here to gently encourage, kindly encourage you to approve the commission's proposed $100,000 budget, which funds the community arts grant program, grant administration support, and commission sponsored arts events. Over its first few years, this grant program has helped support the A to Z of our cultural arts community. With an additional minute, I'd list more. We'll just get to the highlights here. Animation, modern dance, theater, video game music, the Burbank International Film Festival, uh, Celite Conservatory, original plays, staged readings, the list goes on, longer than I can speak. Um, and after three years, the list of grant recipients has gotten incredibly long and diverse. As a culture arts commissioner, a Burbank resident, and a parent who truly does love Burbank, it's not just a sticker to me, it's a truth. It means so much to me to see art created by and supported by our community. Part of the proposed $100,000 budget is also used for our own events, including the recent free educational events on marketing, on finding talent, and our musicfilled fall festivals at Johnny Carson Park. It's not a hot take to call Burbank the media capital of California. Please continue proving this by supporting our creative community and encouraging our residents to art locally. And with my last 20 seconds, a reminder to all burbankarts.com/calendar for all your Burbankarts needs as well as follow us on social media at Burbankarts. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Next up, jazz hands. Jazz hands is so Burbank. Next up is Mark Scrogs, followed by Craig Hample. Welcome.

Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone. No one's mentioned that yet. I'm Mark Scrogs. Um, as of today, I want to share that there's been almost 5,000 signatures and is still growing on the block the merger petition with Warner Brothers and Paramount. Um, you can still sign it at blockthe merger.com. Um, the more names the better because it keeps bringing attention to the issue. Um, now there's lawsuits and different things going on and a merger could further damage, you know, our local econ economy. So, so I want to share that. Um, I do want to recommend everybody in the entertainment industry and everybody else to to research the opinions of candidates on this and other entertainment issues. There's a lot of times where people just do these things just to get attention and headlines and then they don't follow through. So, um, and on that I I've been researching candidates and I just want to say I'm supporting Tom Styer. I s saw him in March um where he talked a lot about the entertainment industry and it was very enlightening for someone who's does who's not from here to talk about it had a lot of good ideas um and a and took a lot of information from people um he also discussed health care costs and the cost of living in California which is a big effect on you know the entertainment industry because no matter how many tax incentives you have if you can't afford to live here and you see these gas prices out of every day they show here's California. It doesn't really help. Um he's also into different entertainment issues like public arts in initiatives to keep artists and crafts people here. Um aiding live performance venues, stages, and cracking down on ticket price gouging. Um live performances and events are the one growing area, the growing areas in entertainment, you know. Um, I also said I told Tom because we're so close that um the commercials just don't do him justice. I do recommend everybody research him and every other candidate you vote for this year. I know it's tough. I know there's a lot of

candidates, but um you just can't just say, "Okay, whatever." Thank you for your comment. Next up is Craig Hample, followed by Diana Fang. Welcome.

Good evening, council. Um, I'd just like to show my support tonight for the BRT and some dedicated lanes. And uh, in very round numbers, only uh, there about a third of our residents don't drive. And that means they depend on others to take them around or drive them or they depend on transit. Um, I just want to give you a story of why it's so important to put a dedicated lane in. Uh recently I planned uh to hop on the 501 bus to Glendale. It's an express bus, so it jumps from um uh St. Joe's, gets on the freeway, goes over to Glendale, and it only takes a few minutes to get there, but it was 45 minutes late. And I had my bicycle and I thought, well, all right, forget it. I'm just going to ride. So, it took me 27 minutes to ride to Glendale to go to a film. And um I thought, well, you know, if I can out if I can outrun uh a a an express bus. I'm almost 72 and it's like I just feel like, you know, we really need to look at the way that this service works and to make sure that these things are punctual and dependable. I was standing at with someone at the stop. They said, "Oh god, this thing's always late." And um so that's part of it, you know, that we need we need real service for our public transportation that works so that people can leave their cars behind. Um the last thing I want to say is I want to make a comment about empty seats on buses. Um there was a day that I was driving down the 405 and it was going at basically 14 miles an hour and I looked around to see how many empty seats there were in cars. When I got to the intersection of the 101 and the 405, I I actually looked up the numbers when I got home, and there's about 500 550,000

cars going through there with four empty seats each. That's 2 million empty seats in that one interview. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Diana Fang, followed by Bridget Underwood. Welcome.

My name is Diana Fang. I'm here to speak about the response from Burbank Association of Realtors and their statement on the protest about Moms for Liberty and the use of the Burbank Association of Realtors facility. Uh BA O Moms for Liberty is a known hate group that built their reputation on the worst and the most dangerous form of homophobia. They target children. They have called queer identity as a mental illness. To this group, every gay teacher is a p as a predator or a groomer. Moms for Liberty normalizes violence against children and members of our community. There has been a common theme tonight about unity and taking care of our community members. And that's what I'm here to speak about. I'm here as a local realtor. I'm here to to speak for my kids and their friends and their classmates. Ba does not speak for the local realtors I've spoken to, many of them. As realtors, we are community builders. We're here to take care of our neighbors. I'm requesting that BAOR take a firm stand against hate against organizations like Moms for Liberty. I'm requesting that BAR does a full vetting process before they rent their space to anyone and to stand up for our children and our community members. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Bridget Underwood followed by Braden Day. Welcome. Uh, thank you. Good evening. My name is Bridget Underwood. I'm an animation worker and local here in Burbank. Um, as a Burbank resident, I'm here because I want bus rapid transit. Um, I want safe, viable alternatives to having to get in a car, drive, and park for every trip I take. Um, I'm really excited about the no to Pasadena BRT and for the dedicated lanes that'll make it a fast, reliable, and successful project. I'm pretty sure we all agree that sitting in traffic sucks and BRT with dedicated lanes is actually a solution to that. Dedicating lanes to BRT is going to give people a fast, cheap, and viable alternative to driving. And every person who chooses it because it works because it works is one more car not on the road, which alleviates congestion for those who do need to drive. If buses are stuck in private car traffic, it will hamstring their speed and reliability, as we heard in that earlier story, making it just another unreliable LA bus. I want to be proud of this city doing its part to make this vital transit line successful and useful to all of us by supporting the BRT and the dedicated lanes that are core to its functionality. I also want to say I was quite moved by the presentations at the start of this meeting and in particular the dedication of a month to older citizens. My father lives just a few blocks from me. He's 86 years old and we are confronting the shrinking of his world as his eyesight dims and he may not be able to drive for much longer. Public transit is a lifeline to independence for the old, the young, the disabled, anybody who does not have access or the ability to drive a car themselves. I want everybody in the city to have the dignity of that freedom and independence without having to rely on a car, without having to rely on somebody else's schedule, just a bus that shows up when it's supposed to and gets you where you

need to go. Good public transit is a universal public good. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Braden Day, followed by Kim Allander. Hi guys, welcome.

Hello, my name is Braden Day. I'm 16 years old and I was born here in Burbank. I've lived here for all my life. I'm here representing as one of the LA Metro Youth Council members. And while it isn't on the agenda, the bus raid transit from North Hollywood to Pasadena is extremely important. First of all, transit is important for Burbank and absolutely deserves dedicated bus lanes on all of modifying the project or denying construction permits will negatively impact the project and that is not good, especially with the Los Angeles Olympics coming up quickly. This is a vital regional connector and cannot be slowed down to this point. Not only will this provide vital access to Burbank for students, commuters, and um and residents, but it also provides more housing and makes all of Avenue safer for everyone. Not just that, but it improves our improves the environment and our air quality and provides priority to our first responders, giving our residents a quicker 911 response. I urge you to support this project and help Metro get this important busway done as quickly as possible. Your residents will thank you dearly.

Thank you for your comment. Well done. Thank you. [laughter] Next up is Kim Allander followed by Dorothy Dorothy Foron Foronberry. Welcome. You have two minutes.

Good evening, council members. I'm Kim Allander. I'm the transportation chair of the Sierra Club Verdugo Hills Group. We're part of the Anggeles chapter and we encompass Burbank, Glendel, and a little part of North Hollywood. I'm here to reiterate the CR Club's support for bus rapid transit. It's part of a regional transportation system that's going to uh be bring Burbank and Glendale into the system of clean electrified public transit. the system. Uh, in fact, just today, the Dline is opening along Wilshire all the way from downtown Los Angeles out to Beverly Hills. This system is growing. It's going to be mature. And without bus rapid transit running from North Hollywood subway station to the Pasadena light rail station through Burbank and Glendale with dedicated bus lanes, without that, Burbank is completely left out of this regional transportation system. So, I I'm here to urge you on behalf of the Sierra Club to uh make sure that this happens in a timely manner, the construction is completed in a timely manner, and it's ready to go for the 28 Olympics. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Dorothy Foronberry, followed by Jacob Pierce. Yeah, Dorothy left. Okay. Okay, so next up is Jacob Pierce, followed by Andrea Goyen. Welcome. Thank you. Uh yes, my name is Jacob Pierce. I'm a policy associate for Abundant Housing LA. uh speaking in support of the bus rapid transit including the dedicated lanes. Uh we submitted a a coalition letter uh with signitories from a wide variety of organizations uh including the Burbank Democratic Club, Strongtowns Burbank, uh Burbank Tenants Union, Walk Bike Burbank, uh Move LA, uh I believe ACT LA is also in here in support as well. Um, and uh just wanted to highlight the fact that uh removing uh support for part of a regional uh transportation project that would benefit all of LA County sets a really troubling precedent uh that I that I don't think we should take lightly. Um this is a project that would support uh transit dependent riders uh a healthier Burbank uh Burbank's own environmental environmental goals. Um, so we ask you to not take the rapid rapid out of the rapid transit. Um, and uh, get well, Miss Perez. Hope you and your daughter feel better soon.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Andrea Goyan, followed by Cameron Hunter. Welcome.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Andrea Goyan, and I am here tonight with my husband, Ronald Frerieded, about our ongoing difficulty with the neighbors barking dogs. That's what brings us here tonight. We're concerned about repeated noise violations, but even more, I'm disappointed in the city's ability to enforce its ordinances and its seeming lack of care about the neighbors being affected. The one household per 7-day complaint policy means blinders are put up so no paper trail exists indicating the severity of the problem. Even when several neighbor neighbors are disturbed by the noise, only one complaint is registered at a time. Again, not only does this mean the city doesn't have an accurate record of the problem, neither does the dog's owner. They have no way of knowing things are escalating if the city isn't tasked with mentioning it to them. So, after the 7-day period, when the problem clearly isn't fixed, it's rinse and repeat. Nothing changes. Our problem isn't going anywhere. We've had issues with this household on and off for over a decade. We've won several court cases here in Burbank and yet the problem continues. It's harrowing to hear them bark and cry for hours at a time. Yes, it's heartbreaking and disruptive. And with the warmer weather on the horizon, our open windows will increase the noise level. But the real issue is that our beautiful city's inability to help us resolve this problem is our problem. And that's why we're here tonight reaching out to the council looking for some help.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Cameron Hunter followed by Colin Wamskin. Welcome.

Good evening, mayor, council members. My name is Cameron Hunter and I serve as the 2026 president of the Burbank Association of Realtors. The BAOR has proudly served this community for over a hundred years. Our members are local professionals, small business owners, and neighbors who have lived and worked here in Burbank. As part of our operations, we maintain a meeting space that is made available to a variety of community organizations under consistent and non-discriminary rental policies. Providing access to that space does not constitute endorsement, sponsorship, or support the views, actions, or affiliations of any group or individual horins. In the days leading up to the April 28th event, we communicated that exact point to the members of the city council. We explicitly stated that the BAO is not endorsing, supporting, or hosting this event. We are simply renting out our meeting space. Even after that communication, our organization was purposely and publicly mischaracterized. purposefully purposeful misinformation spread like wildfire. That misinformation contributed to a situation where tensions escalated, access was impacted, and people reported feeling unsafe. While we respect everyone's right to express their views, we recognize the impact this situation has had on members of our community and the concern it has created for many. Since then, our members and staff who had no involvement have received calls, messages, and online commentary that have been unfairly associated with an event they did not organize or participate in. That's not right. We are asking the city to take a close objective view at what led up to that event, including the role public communications and actions may have played and to help ensure better

coordination and accurate information and safe access moving forward. This isn't about viewpoints. It's about safety and accountability. Thank you. Next up is Colin Wamsg followed by Janet Deal. Is Colin here? No. All right. Next up is Janet Deal, followed by Alfonso Direto Jour Jr. Oh, it'll take me about a week to get to the Oh, yeah. gives us a little break, so it's fine.

Yeah. Really? Never wear clothes that keep sliding off. Anyway, good evening, Mayor. Is this It's okay. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council, Mr. City Manager. My name is Janet Deal. I've been in Burbank for 40 years and um served on the transportation commission for 25 years. Um Mr. Anthony and I worked very hard for rapid transit and so I really hope that you take that whole project and make it move. That would be great. Um, my family was involved in the Holocaust. My stepmother who raised me was in three camps and escaped and walked a thousand miles back to Chuckle Slovakia. My dad was in the Army Airore in a B17 bomber. It's extremely important to us, to our family, to many, many other people who are Jewish or disabled or LGBTQ. All of the people who were murdered, it there was no reason. There was no reason. Just a crazy man and people following him. Please come on the um Tuesday night next week 7 o'clock and you'll hear one of our survivors speak

Burbank Advisory Council on Disabilities which I'm always pounding my drum for has a meeting next the four third. Thank you for your call. I feel that my Third Thursday at 1:30 online bacon team.com. Thank you. [laughter] Next up is Alfonso Directo Jr. No rush. And then following is Susan O' Carol. Welcome.

Good evening, council. My name is Alfonso Direto Jr. Uh I'm a proud Burbank resident and parent. Um, I was here last month, uh, representing the Burbank, uh, Roosevelt bike bus, which we're having our last month tomorrow morning. Uh, I'm also a transit rider, multiode rose, uh, road user run on Olive Avenue three times a week. Um, I'm a organizer and advocate as well. Uh, I work for ACT LA. We're a 50 or coalition of 50 community- based organizations who represent low-income communities, uh, residents of color, uh, and transit riders. and I'm here to urge your support of the Olive Avenue BRT with dedicated bus lanes. Um, it's a good reason for all the reasons people have mentioned already. It's great for health. Um, it provides an alternative to driving. Uh, I'm going to represent the fact that it provides a community connection. Um, as as the as the bike bus does, it provides uh younger adult younger kids to be able to um get around town. Uh, it also provides an option for older adult adults to get around town as well. Um, common concerns about increased traffic and too little parking is because there's too many cars and too few highquality transit options. I encourage you to support no to Pasadena BRT because it gives us the opportunity as Burbank to create uh a connection point to NHO Pasadena uh that's not driving. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Susan O' Carol followed by Joe Pimeient. Welcome. Good evening, mayor and members of the city council. I came here tonight with a threeinut video about the problems that SB79 creates and the need for legislative solutions, but I'm not able to show that tonight. Um I so I'm also here asking for an SB79 update. Um that was voted for by council and we've never had one other than the one night that I came and asked for information. So, I think it's very important that we agendaize a meeting to deal with these things. The unfortunate thing about SB79 is that it pits transit against homeowners. Um, as you're well aware, part of why people are against the BRT or the the only reason really is that it triggers the destruction of single family neighborhoods along its alignment. Um, and destroys the communities that homeowners are part of and that are part of what makes Burbank Burbank. transit riders, the city, homeowners, um, everyone needs to band together to work against SB79 and its destructive force. It's bad for transit. That's why Metro has taken the position that SB that LA County should be exempt from SB79. We all need to pull together to work in that direction. But we as members of the community have been disenfranchised by a lack of discussion of this issue and a lack of mobilization of all the groups that are impacted by SB79. SB79 is terrible for affordable housing. It works against meeting Rhina

numbers. As I've mentioned, it turns people against the BRT because if it's a choice between a dedicated lane or a standard bus lane and the destruction of your neighborhood, you're going to be against the BRT. It's only logical. Please, let's talk about this more. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Joe Pimeient, followed by Jackie Waldman.

Welcome. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council members, staff, and everybody presented the chamber. Uh just for the record, uh Jose Pimenta, and also uh homeowner, but also uh very excited for the BRT, and I do hope that it gets to happen because you've always heard me say that I it's very important to bring in better modes of public transportation for alternative measures. Anyways, uh I want to reiterate something that I brought up last week, which is that um uh the housing enforcement unit is a great resource. However, one of the issues as a participant with the Burbank Tenant Union, one of the issues that we see the most is that the leading cost for displacement happens to be the incremental rent increases that go all the way to 8% on a yearly basis, which tends to price people out. Now, again, since these are legally permissible, that tends to turn away people from trying to seek out help because they figure, well, you can't really do anything about that, which is what leds to believe that the that the HU is not is not as useful. However, we do think that it is a good resource. However, one of the reason why we advocate for stronger tenant protections is because we need stronger regulations in order to keep people house. Again, we are fighting against displacement because as we can see, uh advocating for preventive measures keeps your neighbors house. Strong tenant protections are displacement preventions altogether. So, uh and also like I know that some people have brought up that like uh AB1482 is sufficient in uh in SB 567 as well. However, I just want to remind people that uh that h not only does that have exemptions to single family housing, single family housing, um duplexes, uh condos and so on and so forward, but also it has a sunset. So by 2030, we will be looking at something that we will be looking at a policy that already has come to an end and therefore once again we will see that like the tenant protection act is no longer applicable. So that's why I think it is very important to take into consideration why it's important to install local protections for our residents in order to keep our neighbors house in order to make sure that there are no more displacement and that our community can continue a a dignified life. Uh lastly

uh just again thank you for your service but also I want to say that like in the days of remembrance just remember that never again means never again for everybody. So in that case uh trans rights lands back and free Palestine. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Jackie Waltman, followed by Harry Tamuran. Welcome. Hi. It's interesting. If you say something I don't like that I can label you as a hate group, that doesn't mean it's true, right? It just means that that's what I think about it.

We are moving so far into a territory where you better not have an opinion that doesn't align with my opinion. You better not have an opinion that doesn't align with my opinion, okay? Because I'm going to like try to do something to you. We had talk about the Holocaust. That's what happened in Nazi Germany. Everybody had to see think the same thing. Lock step. Don't disagree with me. I said they're bad. So they're bad. We had a protest where people were assaulted in the middle of Burbank in the middle of the daytime because somebody said, "Oh, that's a hate group." Who are they to say that? We have to be more tolerant. It seems to me that the more people who say we need tolerance, we need inclusion are the people who are the most intolerant and the most exclusive exclusionary. You know, it's like talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can't have it both ways. It can't be poor Mr. Rosati had an opinion that didn't sit well with Mr. Anthony. Oh, we better recall him. Mr. Anthony and Miss Perez decided they would sign a petition that has the potential to cost the city of Burbank millions of dollars because they didn't like something he said. That is irresponsible. It is un It is inhumane to people. You have to let people have a voice. right down to not letting people clap in the chambers. You know, how how draconian can you be? You know, Mr. Anthony, I'm concerned about your behavior with this campaign collection that you say was for tenency tax and now it seems to be that there's some shady stuff going on. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Harry Tamuran followed by Paul Drigo. Welcome

council. Good evening. Name is Harry Taran and I'm a member of the Burbank Association Realtors. For over a hundred years, this association has been a cornerstone of this community. We have helped build schools. We have cleaned parks. We've hosted countless community events. What have you done? In the 1990s, when graffiti was rampant in the city of Burbank, it was realtors that drove around with paint cans in their cars and they would drive around and it would paint walls. So, graffiti was not prevalent. What have you done? Since 1987, throughout through our community service foundation, we have donated personally from the pockets of every single realtor over $3 million to seniors from Burbank schools for scholarships for their colleges. What have you done? We've bought turkeys for Burbank temporary aid centers, food supplies for Burbank Temporary Aid Center during Christmas, during Thanksgiving. We've bought school supplies for kids through the Boys and Girls Club. What have you done? Every single one of these acts, every dollar, every supply came from the personal time and money from realtors. What have you done in this city except create chaos? Who are you to bismerge the great name of the Burbank Association Realtors? You should be ashamed of yourself. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Paul Drigo, followed by Gina Maniraasina. Welcome.

Hello. Uh, hi. My name is Paul Drigo. I'm with Chula, Citizens for Humane Los Angeles. We do animal advocacy work uh on Facebook. And I'm here um first of all, yeah, thank you for for your work with the city. I appreciate it. Um, I'm here to support the neighbors and the dogs on Fair View. I did an investigation myself and I've got video. I've got documentation. I've sent you all an email where I articulated my legal position on it and I sent it to the chief county DA um [clears throat] and and enough of people to review my position on that and I hope to hear from you folks on that. But yeah, I mean animals that I I I saw the dog pacing in the cage. That's obviously distress. The police officers have a right with existent circumstances. If the dog is in distress, they can enter the property. So why this has been going on for 10 years, I don't know. Especially lately that has been happening. Quiet enjoyment's definitely being violated. So we need a cease and desist order on that to help these folks and dogs as well. Okay. Second thing I'd like to talk about is the canines. Um training a canine cost about $50 to $75,000. We allow canines to be released against suspects with knives and guns. Of all the deaths, and there's about 25 a year, three ways they die. Knives, guns, and heat ex heat exhaustion. People forget to either listen to the sensors in the car, they don't turn it on, the dog dies from heat. So, the one thing I would like to request is that Burbank reooks at the way their SOP is for releasing canines again, suspects with weapons. [clears throat] Uh, third thing is town halls. I've been asking for a year and a half for town halls. I don't know why we don't have them. We can sit with each other and actually talk about topics. Like, you heard it tonight. Other folks seem to be interested in that as well. And I hope we do. I mean, Mr. McDougall, I've sent you multiple emails. I'd love

to hear back from you on that. whatever we need to do to get that working. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Gina Ma Mangosina followed by Ramy or Remy. Welcome. Good evening council. Um my name is Gina Mandraina. Very good try. Mayor, thank you. Um everybody else seems to be wanting to talk about the bus routes, but uh I am here to talk about the budget. I am not the smartest, but I have skimmed [laughter] the budget to the best of my knowledge and I noticed there isn't anything about a minimum wage increase. The city of Los Angeles has almost $2 on us. I personally used to work in the city for sec for security for Warner Brothers security or Warner Brothers Discovery. And I quit that job and took a job 40 minutes away because a homeless shelter offered me more money and more fulfillment. I'd also like to implore you to dissolve our contract with Flock. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a human investigating footage than AI, which can't even tell the difference between a zero and the letter O. Not to mention the fact that any lawsuits that arise due to any data breaches, which has happened many times already, or due to police negligence, uh the city will have to file to be removed will pay have to pay to file to be removed from litigation. And I don't and don't think that it won't happen here. The Institute of Justice wrote an article last week listing the 14 times since 2021 that police have reportedly used license plate readers to stalk romantic interests. CBSLA reported last night that LAPD has a lawsuit being filed against them right now because of the the license plate readers. If you want the streets of Burbank to be safer, raise the minimum wage, pass rent control, build affordable public housing and a shelter, and vet, hire, and adequately train. I will say this again for emphasis, adequately train officers. I'd also like to state for the record

that a hate group is considered a hate group when they target a protected group. And I will yield the rest of my time. Thank you, council. Thank you for your comment. Next up is Remy followed by Christine Maloof. Welcome.

Hi council public. Um I'm Rammy um res of uh res of Bang for almost three years of Glenda for 30 years. 30 years 30. Um yeah here here I'm here the face of the protest protest for many things here um uh from the housing high high electric rates sewers I'm paying like $25 for sewer I mean just one person I don't know how much sore I can fill up uh I'm paying for uh yeah I'm paying like $25 a month um housing issues I'm against um uh corporate ownerships uh and um as well as um we need more uh renters protections. Uh we need um uh uh more affordable housing here. Um actually I had this uh I had a friend uh we were we were older adults here and uh yeah one of my friends is as I said he is he's a older um uh older adults he said that you know what housing shouldn't be for profit housing shouldn't be profit for profit so I'm here uh against corporate ownerships and uh lower rights rents are too Thank you for your comment. Next up is Christy Maloof, followed by David Donahghue. Welcome.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council members, and staff. My name is Christy Maloof, an owner. I do not want to see the BRT come to Burbank. I do not want SB79. I do not want rent registries or any more rent control. Insurance is up again 25%. I like to drive. I use the RTD. Anybody remember what that is? I used the bus every day when I was younger. I need to drive. I have little cousins that I got to pick up and take to sports. All of Avenue now is so crowded. We do not need a dedicated lane. Some might want it and some might not. And I support the Flock camera. As a former civilian employee with the LAPD, we need that system. It is a very good system. And officers are trained as well as our fire department. We have the best fire and police anybody could have. And I have another issue to the council members. You represent all of us and you need a recall is going to cost money out of my pocket because you can't get along with Councilman Rosati. You need to do better. You represent all of us, not just the people that follow what you want. You represent all of us on this dis. So please don't spend money we don't have. You could use that for housing. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. [applause] Next up is David Donahghue, followed by Walter Lewis. Welcome.

Good evening, council. My name is David Donahghue. Um before April 28th, I was uh allowed to see some communications from council member Constantine Anthony to the Burbank Association of Realtors where in my opinion he was trying to coers them into cancelling a gathering and this was very concerning because um it is very clear who he was talking to and that they knew that he was a Burbank city council member. I do not believe he was acting his own on his own. So this event I wanted to attend to see what was it about because also the [clears throat] planning commissioner Mike Van Gorder was making very incendiary comments on Instagram. And as I came to the event I noticed probably about 30 maybe 50 people standing outside with signs and horns. I got out I started recording and I was immediately assaulted. I was hit about the head and I had a whistle blown in my ear. And I did this I I had my camera out to purposely record Council Member Anthony who was standing there saying derogatory comments and I do have those on record. My statement to the city to the city attorney, city manager, and to you, Mayor Tagahashi, I have delivered. There's a Google Drive with the evidence and the videos. I believe that the actions of both Mike Van Gorder and Council Member Anthony have put the city at great risk of civil liability of what they did in violation of the Bane Act. And this is not something that I knew about until I talked to several attorneys. So, the Bane Act is real and it has some teeth for his actions. I believe that this body should immediately um admonish council member Anthony and they should immediately call and agendaize to have Mike Van Gorder removed from the planning commission because I do believe his actions even though as an individual poorly represent

the city and I think this is a very grave moment that you need to think about. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Next up is Walter [applause] Lewis and that's my last card. Good evening. My name is Walter Lewis. Madame Mayor, Madame Vice Mayor, city council members and staff, police chief, fire chief Alvarez, and my fellow citizens of Burbank. The evening of Saturday, March 15, 2025, I had a sudden cardiac arrest at my home here in Burbank. At a checkup two weeks later, the cardiac surgeon let me know that I had died. Paramedics brought me back and the staff at Providence Medical Center completed saving my life. I don't have memory of what led up to my cardiac arrest, the five days after, or why I didn't call 911, but rather my son, Joseph, who lived a few blocks away. When he entered my home, I was sitting upright in a recliner. My lips were a deep blue. He immediately called 911 and then pulled me off the recliner to the floor and began CPR. On behalf of my sons, Joseph and Christopher, my daughter-in-law Carly, my grandsons Henry and Parker and myself, we want to thank and let our fellow citizens of Burbank know about the outstanding 911 police and fire department that we're blessed with and the expert medical personnel of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center we have serving us. and especially for everyone participating in saving my life. The 911 operator from the Verdugo Fire Communication Center, Patricia Velesco, personnel from the Burbank Fire Department, Jeffrey Goldstein, Adam Cole, Caleb Solless, Nick Ramos, and Dave Sheay. Personnel from the Burbank Police Department, Roy Timlin, Marcus Andrew, and Paul French. While all had a part in saving my life, especially the paramedics, a special thank you to the 911 operator, Patricia Weslesco, who supported and kept my son Joseph composed and uh focused. And especially to Officer Royland, who arrived before the fire department, came

into my house, tapped Joseph on his shoulder, and said, "I'll take over." And continued giving me CPR. Those combined, five minutes of CPR set the foundation that followed me that allowed me first to live and second to do so without neurological damage. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. [applause] That one I'm willing to talk about. All right. [applause] [applause] Now, that's a reason to clap. That is a real reason for everyone in the room to clap together. for sure. All right, Miss uh city clerk, madam city clerk, we have some callers on the line.

We do. We will start putting them through. Thank you. The first caller is Danielle. Welcome Danielle. You have two minutes.

Um hi, good evening um city council and staff. I am calling to address the BRT concerns. Um I don't know how many times we have to hear that. you know, we council has decided on next flow, but but here I am. Um because I keep seeing things. I know I'm in the orange zone, which is extremely concerning because BRT is directly connected to SP79. Many people don't know that. Um, I I am one house away from having a mid-rise highdensity apartment in my as my neighbor and those buildings just do not belong in single family uh neighborhoods and also SC79 eliminates the requirement for any parking. So, where are all those people going to park? Um, also I haven't heard any what's going on with the BRT. I did get a notice a few say a few months back about the that they were going to be starting um preconstruction and I'm like of course that that concern because again you guys said mixed flow. So I'm curious to know where we are with that. My other um thing that I wanted to bring up was uh the recall of Christ body and I would like to hear the council be very transparent and how much that would cost the the tax the taxpayers of Burbank. So yeah, I would like to hear about that. So thank you uh for listening. That's all.

Thank you for your call. Next caller, please. The next caller is Jonathan Wilder. Welcome. You have two minutes.

Good evening, city council. I'm here to comment about uh two things. Uh first of all, I want to express my support for dedicated lanes for the BRT. I've spoken before about the BRT. It's something I'm very passionate about, especially as someone who uh currently drives for their commute, but I would love to instead use the BRT. I think there are a lot of people like me who recognize that the current service is not sufficient. They're too slow. They're not reliable. The BRT could be reliable if we allow to actually be a bus rapid transit and it needs dedicated lanes for that. So, please don't do a half measure. Don't sabotage this project. Let's get this BRT done. Um, second thing I'm going to try to fly through this, but I'm want to talk about uh budgetary concerns. So, uh, I've been following, um, the city's payment of Allied Universal, uh, which is a security company, but also acting as homeless outreach. The city is paying, it seems, over $600,000 for basically retrofitting, uh, this security company to act as outreach. And I think it would be much better to have comprehensive case management internally into the city. I understand that that is significant investment, but I think it is worthwhile for the long term and I hope that can be combined with permanent supportive housing, which I know that the city is potentially considering for the front street site. So, please let's invest in social programs instead of just punishment. The police budget is giant compared to every other budgetary appropriation. Let's bump up the other uh categories a little bit. Uh thank you very much. Thank you for your call. Next caller, please.

The next caller is Renie Gabriel. Welcome. You have two minutes.

Thank you. Hello, council members and staff. My name is Renie Gabriel. In addition to Burbank's city housing, the city of Burbank also currently has affordable housing through mom and pop housing providers like me and my wife. However, your proposed regulations will not only hamper our ability to continue to provide affordable housing, but looking into the future, it could drive us out of business. The voters of Burbank have already decided twice they do not want these new regulations, and now you're ignoring what the voters have decided. This borders on being immoral. Rather than having the city council choose whether or not housing providers should be burdened with more restrictions, controlled prices, and increased bureaucracy that will burden the current taxpayers, the fair and moral thing to do is to put your proposed regulations to the voters along with the cost to the taxpayers. As an example, do you think the taxpayers would be willing to have you spend $5 million on a special election to recall a current council member or provide a $100,000 grant to the arts council and other events that benefit and enrich all Burbank residents? Thank you.

Thank you for your call. Next caller, please. The next caller is Nathan Adair.

Welcome. You have two minutes. Hi, my name is Nathan. I live in the city of Burbank and I'm calling tonight to remind you that I support the BRT. Uh, but we really need it to be a proper bus rapid transit. That means that we need 15minute frequencies along the route. We need dedicated lanes throughout the city and especially along Olive. We need automated ticket enforcement of these dedicated lanes. We need signal prioritization at all lights along the route, especially at the intersection of all of Sparks and Berdugo. And we also need to zone for highdensity housing within a half mile of all stops that are in Burbank so that people can actually live within easy walking distance of this great system. If we build that, I think we would have a really amazing city. It would become easier for people to commute and traffic would go down. Thank you.

Thank you for your call. Next caller, please. That was our last caller. That was our last caller. Okay. Thank you. There will be no there being no further public comment, I now declare the general public comment period closed. And I um also noted um that our translators are still here. I just want to make sure that you knew that you are free to go if you'd like. But if you are staying for other reasons, of course, you know, just want to make sure that that was Okay. Okay. Good. Awesome. Okay, now it's time for a brief response from city council, the city manager or city attorney. City manager, city attorney, do we have any responses?

Uh, yes. Uh, thank you, Madame Mayor. I just had one response. I wanted to bring up our, uh, parks and recck director, uh, Miss Garcia, just to provide a a brief, um, comment related to the dog barking on Fairview Street.

Good evening, Mayor Takahashi, council members. Um, I'm here to just provide a very pre brief update regarding the uh complaints that the city has been receiving regarding dogs at 437 South Fairview. Um, I can let you all know that the city has been enforcing um dog barking complaints since October of of 2025 um with citations. Uh, the city is also uh considering other enforcement options. And while I can't go into any details um uh to avoid um jeopardizing um uh our investigation, um I want to ensure the council, assure the council and the community, especially the neighbors, um that we're taking this matter very seriously and we will be enforcing um the any violations to the extent of the law. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh Mr. City Attorney, anything? I have nothing. Okay. So, council, would you like to make any comments or um Yes, Council Member Anthony.

Yeah, I I can uh be briefed through this real quick. Um first off, uh uh Mr. Duriggo, thank you for coming down. The work you do with Chula is um it's incredible work. Um it's needed work and uh thank you for always advocating on behalf of our four-legged friends. Uh if you I would recommend and I'll I'll email you back as well. Uh the same uh recommendation. Our um the Burbank uh police commission uh meets regularly and they often uh take up um policy issues and and overarching um discussions about uh police engagement. Uh I would recommend uh heading down there and uh seeing if you can have a conversation with those folks. Um Mr. Lewis, thank you for coming down and telling us that story. I don't think it's coincidence that today we honored National Police Week. Uh we have some of the fastest responding officers uh I think even in the country if I'm not mistaken, but we have a very quick response time. I'm so glad that it worked out for you. Uh thank you for coming down and and sharing your story with us. We really do appreciate that. Um, I wanted to just uh give a shout out to um my uh uh my friend Janet Deal, who I did work with on the uh transportation commission for many years. Um I always love her coming down here and supporting um the um National Remembrance Week. We uh had the honor of having National Days of Remembrance here, lighting the candles. Uh the work that BHRC does is incredible. Um, and to keep that memory alive, uh, is important. And, um, you know, talking about tolerance and acceptance and and hate groups and all of that stuff, um, they are a wonderful resource to learn more about how we can prevent that type of language from

permeating into our community. Um, it's incredible work that they do. And uh lastly, uh Cynthia, thank you for uh taking the job to be our new uh business conjugators. Uh I think you're going to have fun. That's it. Okay. Thank you, uh Council Member Rosati. Madame Mayor, thank you. Um Mr. Lewis, welcome back.

Thank you. That was a very powerful testimony and I' I've lost three uh friends this year to heart attacks. So, uh getting a second chance is just an amazing I'm so happy for you that you got a second chance and I highly recommend anyone in the audience to get a coronary heart scan that cost 150 bucks. It's well worth it. So, uh thank you for that testimony. Um uh Mr. Trico, town halls. I'm all for the town halls. I would love to get together on a stage with our council members and have you guys fire questions at us. Um, so I know you've asked. Um, I'm just responding to your your comment. Uh, Miss Deal, as always, thank you for for all that you do and represent and and for your message tonight. And Mr. Simonson. I think all of us agree uh wholeheartedly that the Rancho is an important facet of our community and that it's something that we need to preserve and protect. So, thank you for your passion and your years of supporting that community. Uh Fairview, the dog issue. Um I I I fielded uh calls all week long up until 10:30 at night. um uh appears that we do have an on vote going investigation. So, let's let the system work. I think it's in the city attorney's office. So, that's all I'm going to say about that. Um I I did I did get your uh videos and audio. Um and as an animal lover myself, um it was tough for me not to get out of bed and and go knock on that door myself. Um but I'm just going to let the the system work. Um, thanks to our uh, fire department, fire chief for the update on the women's academy. That's just I saw the the photos and

everything. Just an awesome awesome academy that we put on and helped with. So, thank you for participating in that. And I want to recognize the National Police Week and for for everything that officers do and in conjunction with the fire department and EMT and 911 staff. It's a It's a team. Um and again, that testimony is just uh it was the right tone tonight. Thank you. Um and our correction corrections officers, thanks for all that you do. Um and for everyone in our clerk's office and everyone that received um proclamations tonight, thank you. And then with regards to the protest, um I'm going to speak to that protest and conduct issues later tonight. It's later on the agenda. U I I will simply say that assaulting people in the name of anything is never justified. and smearing a 100red-year institution in our community with lies, misleading post, and literature needs to be dealt with and should be dealt with. And finally, I was at the protest. I was not at the event. I I I go to most protests and I was personally sickened to watch the organizers of the protest allow people to be assaulted. So, I'm sorry that that happened in our community. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you. Uh, Council Member Perez, would you like to make a comment? Respond.

Sure, I can I can respond. So, um, you know, first I I want to thank Mr. Lewis as well. It wish could have been in the room uh to see that, but um, thank you for for that. I think we all needed a little bit of that tonight. Um, I want to thank the Burbank Human Relations Council for another beautiful Holocaust commemoration and for constantly standing up for or against permeating hate in our community. Um, and Mr. City Manager, I know you asked. Yes, the candles look just as nice on video. Um, I want to wish our folks in the force a happy National Police Week. You know, our officers have had a tough year last year and yet they continue to carry themselves with grace, with integrity and commitment to service regardless of who in our community needs them. And I I know a speaker mentioned this. Yes, we do have the best police and fire in Burbank. And yes, we do have one of the fastest response times in the nation. Um, and then to the speaker about the dogs, like my colleague mentioned, we can't really go into into detail since there's an active investigation, but I do appreciate folks coming and sharing it. It It's different to hear it in person than it is to read the emails. And so I I appreciate you sharing with us. And I know on our end, council is is just very concerned. Um, see, I want to thank all the speakers for coming. I know we had folks talk about SB79, about the BRT, and I know those things aren't on the agenda, but there will be information coming up on that later this month. So, do stay tuned because it's an ongoing discussion for our community. And then finally, I have to say, I've been watching the situation unfold,

and like many in our community who have reached out, I I have to say I was incredibly disgusted to hear that the Burbank Association of Realtors decided to rent out their space to a group that the Southern Poverly, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hill, I so many countless others, reputable sources have deemed it a hate group. And I'm well aware of their actions as a hate group because Moms for Liberty is a group that thinks that I, as a member of the LGBTQ community, I, as a bisexual individual, should not share a classroom with a straight child. It is a group who believes that the term groomer is appropriate to anybody who's gay. It's a group who thinks I am subhuman. And there are many, many LGBTQ members of our community, many who are realtors, who found themselves concerned and shocked that the association would have this event on site. I think there's a big discussion about whether or not this is not an agenda item.

I know it's not an agenda item, but I'm I'm going to finish just like my colleague addressed it, Mr. McDougall. And and I will say that I'm speaking for myself here. I can't speak for my colleagues. I can't speak for the other concerns. I know that's coming up later to address. But just speaking for myself, I do think it's important to recognize that the Association of Realtors has a right to have the event. It's a free country. You have a right to rent to whoever you want. But the community also has a right to peacefully question, peacefully protest and ask why this organization, why allow this group into our community? And I have that question along with many others in our community. And so that's my response and and my response to many members of the community who have come forward, many more realtors to share these questions. I would love an answer to That's all I have to say.

Okay. Thank you, Council Member Press. Vice Mayor, would you like to respond to public comment?

I guess nobody else has left except you and I. Okay. Um, first I want to congratulate everyone who received a proclamation from um National Day of Remembrance. Thank you. They're still here with us with BHRC. Uh, thank you so much for everything you do with Janet and I see Diane there behind. So, you guys are always um here making sure that we're well educated about all these events and I do since we're dark on Tuesday, I will be able to make your um the event in the evening. Also to the older American month which I am included in part of that older American month. So, uh, congratulations to Carol and Connie for, uh, volunteering and doing all these many wonderful things you're doing for our community. Uh, congratulation to the city clerk and staff and thank you for all the work you do. Um, the national correctional offices officers as well. Congratulations. And of course, there's something close and near u to me and my heart as a mother of an officer. Uh I am always praying for our police officers and and for them sacrificing their lives to protect us. So yes, congratulations to the chief and everything you do uh to protect us and our community. So always my heart with all of you out there. Um to the chief and the wonderful program that you put on. As I said earlier, thank you for doing that and encouraging more women to go out and become firefighters and hopefully we can next recruit we have we have half at least women on that recruit. Um, let's see. Cynthia, welcome. We talked. Thank you for being here with us in the city. Uh, I'm not going to address the dog issue again. I know this

can be very very um concerning, especially with if the dog is being abused or whatnot. Uh I'm a dog owner myself and and I take care of my baby, so we need to make sure the dog is not being abused and I feel for you. Um and I'm sure the city attorney is handling it the best way he can. Um, and Roy, you're always here speaking on behalf of the Ranch Show, so I appreciate it. As my colleague said, Council Member Rosati, we understand the ranch is very unique, so we do appreciate you being here. Um, let's see. Lot of folks talked about BRT. Some want BRT, some talked about SB79. And there's a lot of information out there. those that spoke about BRT alone, it really goes hand in hand with SB79. So, uh, as council member Rosati, no, it was council member Perez that said, uh, stay tuned. We're going to have a discussion coming up sometime this month. So, uh, we will dive more into the details of BRT and SP79. So we will be sharing that information with you later but understand that we heard you and we will be addressing that. Oh let me see there was a lot of speakers. Um, I want to talk about uh Okay. Uh, the speakers that came uh from the Burbank of Realtors. Uh, I do have a question because obviously there's those who are in favor, those who are against, and uh,

I do have a quick question. Mr. City Manager, just help me clarify one thing. The city of Burbank have facilities and it often we do get facilities rented. Correct. Uh correct. Okay. What would be our policy if a group would call us and they want to rent one of our facilities?

Yeah. So um obviously we are different than a uh a private facility. We are a public uh entity that has a public facilities. that the um as a result the city cannot restrict uh rental access to uh um based on on somebody's viewpoint or or political views. Um so uh otherwise there's first amendment concerns potentially. Obviously they have to meet all the requirements. They have to go through the application process all those types of things

insurance uh all the good stuff that uh we talk about uh permitting but um as far as political views uh that that's something that can't be a basis of denial of the application. Okay, thank you for that. Um, so the this item, we have an agenda item later on to address um some issues that you brought to our attention in a different agenda item under the code of conduct. Uh, but I'm going to leave it for that for right now. I just wanted to make sure that everyone heard we have policies that we cannot address. we cannot discriminate against anyone that really want to rent a facility. So therefore, it applies to other uh private whether it's private or governmental agencies. So I'm going to leave that for now. Um and I think [clears throat] that really covers everything. Thank you all for being here and we have a long agenda tonight. All right. Thank you all for being here tonight. Um, thank you for your comments, taking time out of your day to discuss the things that are important to you here at the council meeting. Um, also there were a few of you who are firsttime speakers. So, welcome to city chambers. You all did very well for your first time speaking. Those of you who were new, let's see. Um, for the folks who spoke about the dogs, um, we already addressed it with the staff and other council members. I, um, echo their their comments. I also wanted to thank you for just caring about the dog. That's um just to have that dog in your heart. Appreciate that. Um Mr. Simson, thank you for continuing to come out and talk about the rancho. You clearly care very much about your community and your neighborhood.

Let's see. Um, for those who spoke about the BRT and SB79, my colleagues already um spoke on that, but I just want to say I heard you. I heard all of you and your perspectives. I heard I took note of them all and um I I I definitely heard all of you. For Mr. Day, congratulations. I think he left, but he was 16 and I think it's his first time speaking here. So, if you're still watching Mr. If you're watching later on the on the on YouTube, just congratulations for coming and I didn't know there was a Metro Youth Council. So, that's kind of cool to come and speak on that. Hopefully, the first of many conversations that you have with us, council. And to Mr. Director Jr., thank you for mentioning the bike bus. Um, I think you said there was one tomorrow. Um, unfortunately, I can't go to that one, but I will be thinking about you at 7:30 in the morning when I'm doing getting ready for work. And let's see. Um, so I wanted to just speak a little bit on the clapping that was mentioned during public comment. Um, so just so you know, the perspective I'm coming from is not to try to inhibit your ability to to share your enthusiasm. It's just that we have a lot of speakers and when everybody claps after every speaker, it does prolong the speaking. it makes it harder for us to go to the next speaker. And so I ask you to please consider not clapping so that everybody can have their time. Also, if somebody's spoken and there's a lot of energy in the room on a on on a particular issue, the next speaker may feel that energy and especially if they're the first time speaker or on the opposite side, it's nerve-wracking. So, it's just respectful. It's kind to use the the the jazz hands. So I I ask that you do do

that when you can please. And then um one of the commenters said um I just wanted to say that this this struck me and I wanted to just share my thoughts on it is that single family homes is what makes Burbank Burbank. I personally don't think that's true. I think that what makes Burbank Burbank is our community and our care for one another regardless of where you live. So I just wanted to put that out there. Let's see. Um, Miss Manerina, I'm so sorry I butchered your last name. I just wanted, if you're still here, if you're not here, if you're watching later, I want to commend you for reading our budget. So, I think uh that anyone who has come tonight and has read our budget, congratulations. That's that's a feat to do that. So, appreciate you. If you haven't yet read the budget, it's riveting. I highly recommend it. you'll see tonight. [laughter] You will not be able to sleep. You'll be so riveted by it. Um, let's see. To Mr. Lewis, thank you for coming tonight. I know, first of all, thank you for sharing your story and I'm so glad you're still here with us. And um, I agree, our fire and police is top-notch. I personally think the best ever like around. Um, [clears throat] and I also wanted to thank you because I um I understand that you have been here several times to speak and in the in those times that you've attended the time has gone down to one minute or you it went to two and you weren't ready for 2 minutes and so you have come back several times in order to tell your story and I just want to thank you for doing that because uh I I think we all appreciated hearing it and we all appreciate you're still with us and it's always great to hear the positive stories about our um emergency services. So, thank you for your tenacity and making sure your story.

One of the reasons

I can't we can't have back and forth. I'm so sorry. Yeah, but you can tell me after the meeting or you can email me or you can email us. I'll let us tell us a little bit more about that. And then the last thing I'll say is um just briefly about the realtor um situation. So, I'm just going to speak generally first is that I want to make it clear that um I denounce the beliefs and practices of Moms for Liberty. I won't go into it, but naming them a hate group is not just cuz it's not just cuz don't like what they have to say. They have been officially named a hate group by many organizations. So, and I agree with them on that. I also strongly support the first amendment and I believe I strongly support the first amendment right to protest and the first amendment right to assemble and to meet even if I disagree vehemently doesn't matter it's a first amendment right and I also believe in that first amendment right protests have rules so long as the rules are followed anyone can protest any business or any issue within the rules and those that's the important So, I'm still personally still learning about the situation of whether the protest and the comm communications crossed a legal or ethical line and I trust that BPD and our city attorney will continue looking into what happened. Um um and also determining between a civil matter and a matter that is before us as a council and that us we we are involved in. And the city attorney and the Burbank Police Department will let us know which is which. And I'm confident they will. And we also will talk more generally about um code of conduct. But um there is a difference between a civil civil situ civil situation and a um council action situation. So that will be I will need more information before I have an opinion on the matter. All right. And

that's it for for me and uh that wraps up our general public comment. Next up okay next up is the consent calendar. Oh, do you want us to wait for you to come back or are you going to put in the consent calendar real quick? Yeah, let's just do that real quick. Okay, consent calendar may be acted in one motion. Madam city clerk, please read the consent calendar.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. We have six items on tonight's consent agenda. Item one is approval of the city council minutes of the special close session meeting of April 16, 2026, the joint meeting of April 21st, 2026, and the dark meeting of April 28th, 2026. Item two is approval of the successor agency minutes of the joint meeting of April 7th, 2026. Item three is approval of the housing authority minutes of the joint meeting of April 21st, 2026. Item four is approval of the parking authority minutes of the joint meeting of April 7th, 2026. Item five is adoption of an ordinance for a zone map amendment to establish a zoning designation of single family residential R1 for portions of 17 properties located on the 600 and 700 block of Roseli Street that are proposed for annexation into the city of Burbank to prezone the 17 properties related to same and item six is adoption of an ordinance amending sections 4-2 2-113 and 4-2-122 of the Burbank Municipal Code relating to procedures for enrollment upon prior notice in solid waste collection services. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? I move to make a motion to approve the consent. Second. All right. We have a first and a second. First by Vice Mayor Mullins and second by Council Member Anthony. Can we get the roll call, please? Council member Anthony. Yes. Council member Perez, yes. Council member Rosati, yes. Vice Mayor Mullins, yes. And Mayor Takahashi, yes. Thank you.

All right. We have two reports to council this evening. One of them is the riveting budget to look forward to. After staff's I think it is I, you know, I'm not I'm saying that unironically. After staff's presentation, the city council will proceed with in-person public comment only. Speakers will be allowed to speak on the item at the conclusion of the presentation as long as a speaker has not spoken on the item during the first period of general public comment. Please be sure to submit your public comment card now as no additional public cards will be accepted once the comment period commences following staff's presentation. All right, the first report to council tonight is an update on the estimated cost of the November 2026 general municipal election from the city clerk's office. I welcome madam city clerk Kimberly Clark to please present the report.

Good evening Mayor Tagahashi and members of the city council. Kimberly Clark, city clerk. I will be presenting reports to council item number one update on estimated cost of November 2026 general municipal election. The city will hold a general municipal election on November 3rd to elect candidates to the offices of city council member, city clerk, and city treasurer. The city also anticipates bringing a transient occupancy tax ballot measure and a charter amendment and ballot measure, both related to city council member elections, subject to city council approval. The estimated cost for these offices and ballot measures is $427,000. In addition, a recall petition for a city council member has been submitted to the city clerk's office and approved to gather signatures. If the petition qualifies for the ballot, the city will incur additional costs to verify petition signatures and place a recall measure on the November ballot or hold a special recall election. To qualify for the ballot, recall proponents need to secure ballot signatures from 10,755 or the equivalent of 15% of Burbank's registered voters. The estimated cost for county signature verification ranges from 4,000 to 72,000. And this total depends on the number of signatures submitted and the verification method used by the county to to uh approve the signatures. If submitted with enough valid signatures to be certified, the council will adopt a resolution calling for the recall measure. Depending on when the petition is certified, the recall election may be consolidated with the November 3rd, 2026 election or it may be held as a special election. Either scenario will add to

the estimated cost of this election. If the recall measure is certified prior to August 7th, which is the last day for cities to file election resolutions with Los Angeles County, it can be consolidated with the general election. Under this scenario, the recall and its associated costs are estimated at $43,500, bringing the total election cost to approximately $471,000. Should the signatures be approved in the recall petition certified after August 7th, council will need to adopt a resolution calling for a special election to conduct the recall, which the county estimates will cost between 1,129,000 and 1,465,000. These estimates are for Los Angeles County Election Services only and do not include other associated costs such as mandated legal notices and voter outreach. If the recall were to succeed, it would result in a vacancy which is governed by the city charter. The city attorney's office will advise on future vacancies as needed, at which time my office would return with any additional fiscal impact. This presentation is forformational purposes only and council is asked to note and file this report. At this time, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you. We will move on to public comment period. Uh first, the public comment period for this report to council is now beginning and no additional cards will be accepted. Madame city clerk, how many do we have any public comment cards for this? We do not. We do not. Okay. And Okay, great. So, since we do not have any um comments, then uh council uh actually I'll start with council member Perez. Do you have any questions um for our city clerk on this item? She there.

All right, we'll come back to her in a minute if she stepped away. Um any other uh council members, any questions? No, I do have a couple questions for you, Madam City Clerk, if that's okay. Um so um in the case that there uh the petition does not get the signatures or is is submitted past August 7th and then we have a special election. When would that happen? When would that occur? It wouldn't occur in November, right? It would be a separate it' be later on. No, once the council approves the resolution calling for a special election, we would work out the dates with the county because they need significant lead time to print ballots and get them out. That's why it's so expensive because you're sending individual ballots to 49,000ish residents. Yeah.

Okay. And so the county would be the one running the election. We wouldn't run the election. We we don't hands-on run our elections at all anymore. The county sends out the ballots. The county counts the ballots in Norwok. Um we are the conduit to the residents. Okay, great. Those are my two questions. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, any final comments? Council member Perez, if you're there, pipe in. Any final comments on this item before we wrap up? Sorry, I was trying to reach out and say I need a step away to feed baby, but um, no, just I think thank you to the city clerk. It's pretty clear.

Okay. Thank you. Yeah. All right. If there's no comments or discussion, thank you, madam city clerk, for the report. Um, it's been noted and filed. The second report to council tonight is a review of the proposed fiscal year 2026 2027 budget from the financial services department with successor agency housing authority and parking authority. Before we proceed, I would like to clarify to the to the public that there are four separate presentations tonight as part of the budget report. Council may ask brief questions after each each section. We will not have discussion. We will ask questions after each section and then we will have a public comment period after the public has heard the entire entirety of the four reports and then after that the council will have the discussion or any further questions. I welcome Jennifer Becker, financial services director to please present this riveting support tonight. And I, you know, I was just thinking that um, you know, I was saying it's unironic. I do, I unironically find it riveting and, and in order to do this job, there has to be some level of thinking it's riveting.

I agree with you. This is fun,

right? It is fun. Yeah, it is. I'm sure Miss Becket thinks it's fun, too. Uh, you're telling me. Good evening, Mayor Takahashi and city council members. I'm Jennifer Becker, financial services director, and I'm here tonight, as noted, to present you the riveting uh city of Burbank proposed fiscal year 2026 27 budget. Uh as you well know, the preparation of our annual budget is a process that takes several months and requires a collaborative effort by city staff in every single department. Uh many of those individuals are here with us tonight. So, I just want to thank all of you who for your efforts uh with this budget process and also let the council know that staff is here to answer any questions you may have as we go through the entire budget book over the next couple of city council meetings. So, uh let's go ahead and start with what we plan to cover tonight. Uh first, I know you've received quite a bit of material in your budget binders. So, I'll briefly go over everything that's in there and also let our viewers know how they can access those materials from home. Uh then we'll do a highle overview of our total citywide proposed budget after which we'll kick off our fund by fund review. Uh starting with an in-depth look at the general fund budget. Uh we'll briefly look at the status of our 5-year forecast before diving into the details of our budget with a review of our 2627 projected revenues and citywide fee schedule. Then we'll switch modes and cover proposed appropriations, including our department budget requests [clears throat] for the coming year and our proposed pension funding plan. Then we'll tie all those pieces back together to see how they impact our general fund balance and conclude with a review of our available one-time resources. Uh after we finish the general fund, I will turn it over to public works uh who will present our water reclamation and sewer fund and our refuge collection and disposal fund budgets. after which BWP will come up and present the Burbank Water and Power Fund budgets. Uh following that, if time permits, I'll come back and finish up with all of our

remaining non-general fund items, including internal service funds, special revenue funds, the housing authority, parking authority, and the successor agency. So, just a quick review of the materials you have before you tonight. Uh you each received a very large proposed budget binder which contains 25 sections each with a separate tab. Uh the first tab titled review of the proposed budget contains our staff report provided for this week and next week's budget presentations with our general fund budget matrix and 5-year forecast attached. Uh following that is a tab that contains all of the new budget items that were requested by city departments and approved by the city manager's office to be incorporated in this year's budget. Uh next is our CIP or capital improvement program tab which includes a summary of the fiscal year 2627 CIP projects which were approved by our infrastructure oversight board. Uh this information will be reviewed during our next set of budget presentations two weeks from now. Uh the following tab is our budget summaries tab which includes a number of charts and graphs that provide a highle overview of our citywide and general fund proposed budgets along with the city's debt service schedule, a summary of general fund reserves and our citywide authorized staffing. Additionally, in this section, you can find a copy of the city council's financial policies. Our next tab is revenues, which provides a summary of all of our city-wide projected revenues by fund and category along with the description of each city revenue source. And the next 16 tabs cover each of our city's general fund departments, starting with city council and ending with our non-EP departmental budget and the successor agency. Uh we have three additional sections in the back of our budget. Uh the first being our agreements and contracts list. This list includes all of the contracts for professional services as well as general goods and services that the city council is authorizing as part of the

adoption of this budget. Behind that is a summary of our fee schedule changes that are proposed for fiscal year 2627. And lastly is the final section labeled budget discussion papers. This section includes any additional memos or discussion papers that were requested by staff or the city council as part of this year's budget process. Uh we may add more items to this section in the coming weeks as the budget review process moves along. And for the members of the public that are interested in reviewing these budget materials along with us tonight or learning more about the budget, you can find it on the city's website at burbankca.gov. Uh there's a link to the homepage on the homepage that will take you to the finance department where the budget is posted. Or if you prefer to view view a paper version, we have hard copies of the proposed budget available for review at the financial services department public counter, the city clerk's office public counter, and here in the council chambers. Uh you can also pick up a copy of this proposed budget at a glance brochure at these locations along with each of the city's library branches. On the back of the brochure is a QR code which you can scan to take you to our financial services budget web page where you can view the proposed document in its entirety. So, looking over our schedule for the next month, as I mentioned previously, tonight we'll be covering all of our city funds. Uh we'll continue any remaining items from tonight's budget review at the city council meeting on May 19th. Uh we'll also present our general city capital improvement program at that time and follow up with a review of our discussion papers. Then on June 2nd, we will have the public hearing and adoption of the entire citywide budget and fee schedule. So on that note, let's kick it off and begin with a look at our citywide budget. And of course, we'll start with a look at our overall economy. Uh the US economy is sort of a mixed bag right now. Uh despite disappointing fourth quarter 2025 results, the first quarter of 2026 uh

showed improvement and economists are projecting the US GDP to grow by about 2.2% in 2026. Of course, there are still a number of problems underlying even this moderate growth. Uh the labor market continues to cool off and unemployment is creeping higher both locally and nationally. A growing number of US companies are laying off workers and lingering uncertainty around federal trade policy is preventing some sectors from hiring. Another risk factor uh the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2026 is expected to hit 1.9 trillion uh with total debt held by the public reaching 101% of gross domestic product uh the highest uh since 1945 right after World War II. Uh this is obviously not sustainable and will have to be addressed at some point either by this administration or the next one. And after seeing some relief at the end of 2025, inflation is back on the rise uh thanks to the war in Iran and the ongoing impact of fuel prices. The March 2026 CPI was 3.4% 4% in Los Angeles and 3.3% nationally, driven almost entirely by an 11% increase in energy costs and more specifically a 21% increase in the price of gasoline. Uh this high inflationary environment will keep interest rates elevated longer than initially expected with economists now projecting rates to hold steady throughout 2026. And of course, as prices for basic needs like groceries and fuel continue to rise and household savings rates decline, consumers are pulling back on discretionary spending, which doesn't bode well for the retail sector in 2026. So, all of these factors uh adding to an election year, and it's likely to be a bumpy ride uh for the US economy in 2026. Uh here in California uh but Governor Nuome revealed his fiscal year 2627

proposed state budget in February which includes 349 billion in total state funding with 248 billing of planned general fund spending. Uh the budget includes new discretionary general fund spending of 570 million for various priority programs and 180 million for the extension of existing tax incentives such as the California Competes tax credit. Uh similar to last year, the proposed budget includes another 4.5 billion set aside in the special fund for economic uncertainties uh which can be used for any unexpected event that arises from wildland firefighting to tax revenue shortages. So notably, the state projects a $2.9 billion recurring budget deficit that has been balanced with stronger anticip stronger than anticipated cash receipts from the current year. Uh the governor revised the revenue forecast from the 2025 budget act due to stronger than expected performance of the economy particularly in the high wage technology sector. Uh this growth is forecasted to continue into fiscal year 2627 which uh with revenue projections increasing by $42 billion. Uh we expect to see the governor's may revised budget any day now and we'll keep you posted on the status of any updates to the state budget that may impact Burbank as it moves throughout the approval and adoption process. So while the economic conditions around us are less secure than we would like, our Burbank budget remains on solid footing. And just like consumers are proceeding with caution, Burbank is doing the same with our proposed budget. Uh tonight we're presenting to you a fiscal year 2026-27 budget that maintains the level of services and programs the Burbank community has come to expect and aligns with the city council's goals and priorities. It includes a new four-year pension funding plan which will help address our unfunded liabilities and generate recurring savings to help offset future projected deficits. Uh the budget also includes some exciting

capital investments which will modernize our city's infrastructure which you'll hear more about in two weeks. And lastly, the budget fully funds our formal reserve which will go a long way towards insulating the city from any future economic events as we face what's likely a tumultuous year ahead. So here's a first look at our total citywide proposed budget for fiscal year 2627. The budget includes just over $1 billion in total proposed appropriations for the coming year, which represents only a 6% increase over the current year adopted budget. And as you can see by the pie chart, uh BWP makes up the largest portion of our citywide budget with the electric and water funds uh comprising about 45% of our total budget. The general fund, which is the city's main operating fund, is it second largest section of the budget at 282 million or 28% of the budget. Overall, the citywide budget is made up of 32 different funds proposing appropriations, including four enterprise funds, seven internal service funds, 17 special revenue and capital projects funds, uh the housing authority, parking authority, and the successor agency. And we'll present each of these funds as we go through our full set of budget presentations, but as is tradition, we're going to start with our city's general fund. So, I'm going to start with a look at the general fund 5-year forecast. Now, this is usually where we end our budget presentation, but I thought it was important to provide some context before digging into the details of our budget. Uh, this is the chart we showed you at our mid-year budget presentation in March, which indicated the city would be facing a $4.2 million recurring deficit for fiscal year 2627, which you can see in that area under the yellow circle. So, after several years of balanced budgets, how did we arrive at this deficit? Uh the biggest story is with our sales tax revenue in which the city experienced about a $3.4 million decline this year largely in the auto sales category. While Burbank was hit a little

harder than most other cities, sales tax throughout LA County in the region have been largely flat this year, which is problematic when your expenses continue to grow. Uh the cost of nearly everything we purchase from tangible goods to professional services to commodities like water and and electricity continues to be impacted by inflation and this has been exacerbated by recent spikes in fuel prices. Uh we have increases that were adopted in prior years that significantly impact the budget with labor comprising nearly threearters of our recurring general fund expenses. uh liability and property insurance were already on the rise uh prior to the Eaton and Palisades fires and now these cost increases so no sign of slowing down and all the while the demand for city services remains the same despite these fiscal challenges. As a matter of fact, when the economy struggles, we tend to see an increase in the demand for many of our city services which are low or no cost to the community. So we knew at the beginning of this budget process that staff had our work cut out for us. Our overarching goal with the development of this budget was to try to close as much of the budget gap as we could without cutting or impacting any of the programs and services we provide to our Bourbon community. We started with the obvious. Uh if you want to shrink a budget gap, you have to keep it from growing. So you will see later in this presentation that our new budget requests, particularly those with a recurring impact, are pretty minimal in this budget. And while we work on keeping costs contained, we continue to analyze potential new sources of revenue that could help us address our structural gap over the long term. Our labor groups were active participants in helping us reduce costs. We currently have in place not a hiring freeze, but a hiring chill, which is just a process to make sure all vacant positions are evaluated for true need before we move to fill them. And thanks to the great cooperation from our labor groups along with management services and safety teams, the city experiences experienced a reduction in our workers

comp liability for the coming year, which allowed us to reduce our rates by over $1 million. And of course, we are strategically utilizing available one-time funds in this budget to address immediate needs and also invest in areas where we can generate recurring savings. But the really big story of how we were able to address this budget has much more to do with the decisions that this council and prior city councils made in the past that have given us the luxury of weathering this downturn in a responsible way. Uh first, the city council's pension funding policy has already saved the city millions and we've set aside even more money in the section 115 trust so that we can keep making those invest investments even in a down budget year. Uh two decades ago, the city council agreed to align with the best practices under Gazby 45 and began putting money aside in a trust for other post-employment benefits or OPED. Uh OPED consists of post-employment health care benefits including mental uh medical, dental or vision or any other health related benefits whether provided separately or through a defined uh benefit pension plan. The city has contributed to this trust annually while electing to withdraw only minimal amounts for these expenses. As a result, our latest actuarial indicated that the city's funded status for OPEB is at 97%. Uh this allows us to significantly reduce the amount we contribute annually, resulting in a savings of 500,000 to the general fund and $1.7 million citywide for this coming year. Uh the city council also established and continues to implement our cost recovery policy which established fee recovery levels for the many services we provide to the community. The council implemented paid parking in the downtown which restored the health of our parking authority and provides a source of funding for Burbank's parking infrastructure without relying on general fund subsidies. And lastly, 5 years ago, the city council elected to increase our formal reserves to ensure that the city is prepared financially if

the worst should happen. And as we've seen and experienced all around us, every agency is only an earthquake or a brush fire or a pandemic away from needing to rely on those dollars. So, after all that work was done, here is a look at our revised fiscal year uh 5-year forecast where you see that projected 4.2 million deficit was whittleled down to 2.6 6 million def uh for this proposed budget. And while no one likes seeing those numbers still in their red, it's important to note that the deficit now represents less than 1% of our recurring budget and does not account for the use of any available onetime funds. Uh we've talked quite a bit over the years about making financial decisions that would help insulate us from a future financial downturn. Uh time and time again, this council has made those responsible choices which has allowed us to shrink this gap without any reductions to city services or impacts to the community. Uh we know our work isn't done yet, but for now, let's dive a little deeper into the detail of the general fund budget. So the chart here shows our projected general fund revenues for fiscal year 2627. As you know, our re revenue forecast is a critical component for the general fund budget as it basically determines our spending levels for the current year for the coming year, excuse me. As you can see from the many colors on the pie chart, Burbank has a very diverse stream of revenues with sales tax and property tax being our two largest sources representing 54% of the total anticipated general fund revenues. The table here provides another way to look at our general fund recurring revenue categories. Uh here we show the actual receipts from fiscal year 2425, the adopted and revised revenues in 2526 which is the current year and the projected recurring revenues included in our fiscal year 2627 proposed budget. Overall we are projecting total revenues to increase by 4.4% over our revised 2526 projections. Our revenue staff uses a variety of methodologies to provide

the most accurate projections for each of our different revenue categories. Overall, the results are mixed with some categories anticipating significant growth, while others are at or below inflation. You can find a comprehensive summary and description of each of the city's revenues in the revenues tab of the budget binder. But I'm going to talk about a few of the notable uh categories in the next few slides. And of course, we're going to start with sales tax. Uh in November, we revised our current year sales tax and re revenue projections down by about three and a half million for the current year. Uh this trend continues in both Q3 and Q4 with October through December revenues down 7.8% from the prior year after adjustments. Uh auto sales are largely responsible for the decline, down 53% following the closure of a major retailer here in Burbank. Uh now that it's been a full year, this should be the last quarter where we see these significant declines and we transition to more of a flat projection moving forward. Uh business and industry revenues were also down 15.9% but this had more to do with some large onetime revenues received in the prior year that skewed our results. On the bright side, uh building and construction was up 7.6% representing a healthy amount of construction activity here in the city and general consumer book goods bucked the trends up 7.2% in Burbank compared to relatively flat results in both LA County and the state of California. Our measure P transactions and use tax or TUT revenues continue to be a bright spot in the city's overall sales tax picture, up one point 1 1% from the prior year. Uh because TUT revenues from autos and e-commerce are based on the destination address instead of the point of sale address, those revenues are less impacted by the declines in the auto sales and they also receive a larger share of online sales that take place here within Burbank. Overall, we're projecting a fairly tepid

1.6% increase in sales tax revenue for fiscal year 2627, reflecting consumer trends and a continued anticipation of the lagging retail market. So, here's a chart provided to us by our sales tax consultants at HDL, which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the future of sales tax revenue. Uh since 2012, sales tax from general consumer goods at traditional retail stores in California have increased 18% while online sales have grown 646% during that same time period. While the trend somewhat leveled off after the pandemic, uh you can see that online sales are picking up again while retail has remained relatively flat. Uh HDL expects this trend to continue with those two lines likely to meet somewhere around the year 2032. Uh property taxes uh continues to be a main driver of revenue growth for the city with a projected 4% increase in fiscal year 2627. Uh forecasted property tax revenues are based on our overall citywide assessed value which grew by 2.6% or 854 million between 2024 and 2025 with general fund related value increasing by 3.7%. Uh this is mostly attributable to commercial and residential development along with transfers of ownerships that trigger reassessments. Home sale prices in Burbank for the first quarter of 2026 increased by 5% from the prior quarter and 2% from the same quarter year-over-year. The median sales price for a single family home from January through March of 2026 was 1.3 million. Uh the California housing market is leveling off with home prices stabilizing and listings taking a little bit longer to sell and this will probably continue at least through 2026 as a probability of an interest rate drop seems unlikely. Next revenue we'll look at tonight is

utility users tax or UUT. Uh this is a 7% tax applied to electric, gas, and telephone usage here in the city. We're expecting a 7.8% 8% increase in UUT revenues for next year. And this is largely driven by the BWP electric rate adjustments adopted by the council in May of 2025, as well as higher anticipated natural gas prices. Offsetting this is a continued decline in in revenue from wireless telephone services as mobile usage continues to shift towards more tax non-t taxable data heavy plans. And speaking of telecom, uh AB330, which is the local prepaid mobile tele telephone telephony services, I just can't say that collection act uh which was signed by the governor in October of 2025. Uh this bill extends the terms of AB1 1717 which imposes a UUT on prepaid mobile wireless services uh and was scheduled to sunset on January 1st, 2026. Uh the new bill extends the UUT through January 1st, 2031. Uh securing about 120,000 a year in revenue for Burbank. Uh next up is our transient occupancy tax or TOT for which we're estimating 3% growth in 2627. Toot is a good indicator of how Burbank Burbank's overall tourism industry is performing. Uh the chart here shows Burbank's hotel occupancy rate for the last 5 years in those blue bars with the red line representing the average daily room rate collected by our hotels. Our occupancy rate in 2020 uh6 was at 76% which is up slightly I'm sorry the occupancy rate in 2025 was at 76% up slightly from 74% in 2024. The average daily rate paid for Burbank hotels has remained relatively flat during that time and into the current year.

According to Visit California's February update, 2026 domestic visitation to California is expected to increase by 1.7% in the coming year, while international visitation is expected to grow by 2.7%. Uh between the FIFA World Cup this summer, the Super Bowl in 2027, and the new airport replacement terminals scheduled to open this fall, we expect Bourbank to beat that forecast, and we're projecting about a 3% increase in uh the coming fiscal year. A transient parking tax or TBT tends to follow along the same lines of TOT in terms of their reliance on tourism as a majority of our parking tax revenue come from lots serving the Hollywood Burbank Airport. Uh you can see that passenger counts dipped a little bit from 6.5 million in 2024 to 6.2 million in 2025, but that's likely attributable to some of that construction. Uh we expect to see a healthy increase in both passenger counts and parking revenue once the replacement airport terminal opens in October. So our service charge revenue category includes all fees and charges for the various services the city provides to the community. and we're expecting a modest increase of about 3.4% for fiscal year 2627. Uh there are some great stories to tell here. We have seen a substantial increase in emergency medical services revenue in the current fiscal year allowing us to increase our forecast by nearly a million dollars. Uh this is largely due to the rollout of our 247 fourth rescue ambulance. Uh the increased capacity has allowed the fire department to take more EMS calls, reducing the amount of calls assigned to our neighboring jurisdictions and allowing us to keep that EMS transport revenue here in Burbank. Uh additionally, Park and Wreck is in is anticipating increased revenues from a variety of programs, most notably the return of the Starlight Bull revenue for the upcoming summer season. Uh hoay for that. Uh they are also anticipating an

increase uh from revised green fees and contract fees at the DeBell Golf Course which will help offset some of their operating expenses. And while we're on the topic of service charge revenues, let's talk a little bit more about our fee schedule overall. We are currently three years into our citywide fee study, which recommends that we adjust fees annually by CPI in order to keep pace with current recovery levels. Uh this helps maintain alignment with the city council's cost recovery policy which is illustrated in that pyramid you see on the slide. Uh staff is proposing to adjust the majority of our fees by the December 2025 CPI which was at 2.7%. Now there's one category which we elected to exempt from CPI increases this year and that is anything related to filming services uh in support of our local entertainment industry. Those service fees will remain unchanged for the coming fiscal year. Uh it is important to note that all of the city's fees and charges for service remain in compliance with Proposition 26 which dictates that we cannot set user fees as a rate at a rate that is higher or more than it costs to provide us to provide the service. And just a reminder, the city still operates a very popular Burbank program activity and service subsidy known as the PASS program. Uh this program provides Burbank residents in need of financial assistance the opportunity to engage and participate in city programs and services at significantly reduced rates. Subsidies are available through the pass program for a wide variety of city services including sports and aquatic programs, recreation classes, animal adoptions, and senior and disabled transportation. Uh managed by the parks and recreation department, the city has 829 residents actively participating in the PASS program. Uh if you'd like to fill out an application or review which programs are eligible under the PASS program, you can visit their website at www.burbankca.gov/bankpass.

Okay, then let's uh switch modes now and take a first look at our total proposed general fund appropriations for fiscal year 2627. Our overall proposed general fund budget is $282 million. This is about a 2.4% 4% increase over last year's adopted budget of 275.4 million. Despite some unavoidable cost increases andou obligations, as I mentioned previously, a variety of internal savings were achieved achieved that resulted in a budget increase that is less than the rate of inflation. The chart you see here shows how our total general fund appropriations are broken up by city department. 48% of our budget is dedicated to providing safety services to the public, including our police and fire departments. Another 34% is dedicated to our community-f facing departments, including community development, public works, parks and recreation, and library services. And roughly 13% of our budget is dedicated to administrative functions such as finance, management services, uh, city manager, city attorney, treasurer, clerk, and city council. Uh roughly 74% of our total general fund operating budget is comprised of salaries and benefits including the Calipers pension benefits for city staff. [clears throat] Okay, let's get into the heart of the budget and talk about all of our general fund department appropriations. Uh as I mentioned earlier, the city made every effort to keep budget requests to a minimum, but there are always some mandated costs that are unavoidable or critical to maintaining city operations. This year's general fund budget includes roughly 1.4 million in new general fund recurring requests net of revenue. The budget also includes 3.8 million in one-time budget requests along with a 1.8 million contribution to the information technology fund for the continuing enterprise resource planning software ramp up plan uh which we'll discuss further when we get into our fund 537 budget. And of course the

budget also includes the general fund share of the additional payments towards our pension liability. Each new budget item was reviewed and approved by the city manager's office prior to in its incorporation in the proposed budget. New appropriations were prioritized uh based on whether they were a mandated expense or how they adhere to the city council established goals including city services, economic development, housing, public safety, quality of life, sustainability, and transportation and traffic. I'm going to briefly cover the highlights, of which there aren't many me very many in this year's budget, but you can find a more detailed description of each item under the new budget request tab in your budget binders. And of course, if you have any questions on any of these individual requests, we have representatives here from each department who can answer them. So, we'll start with our recurring budget items, of which you can see the list is very small. Uh the first item is a positive story. Due to the success of our 247 rescue ambulance pilot program, staff is recommending that we make this program permanent and officially add the fourth rescue ambulance to the fire department staffing plan. As I mentioned earlier, the implementation of this program resulted in an increase of nearly 1 million in EMS revenue. And though it doesn't completely cover the $ 1.6 6 million cost of the program. Uh staff felt strong enough that this is a high priority item that should be incorporated into the city's recurring budget. Uh next, the parks and recreation department is requesting additional funding in support of increased operating expenses for the Debell Golf Course. Uh this is partially offset by the revenue we discussed in the earlier slide. Additionally, Park and Wreck is asking for recurring funding to officially adopt the drone show as part of the city's Fourth of July celebrations, substituting the annual fireworks with a safer alternative. And lastly, both parks and wreck and public works have experienced an increase in utility costs due to the

recent electric and water rate increases, and they are asking for a combined 366,000, which uh represents only a a small increase to their overall utility budgets. So, we have a slightly larger list of non-recurring budget requests. Uh this includes funding for public records act compliance and police strategic oversight for the city attorney's office. Uh continuation of the allied homeless support services and outreach contract which is managed by CDD. Uh funds to replace several fire opera apparatus including a fire ladder truck and several uh auxiliary vehicles. Uh support for the job connect plus program at the library. the continuation of the police recruitment program which is uh within the management services department. Uh performing arts funding which is managed by parks and recreation. Additional funding to maintain the senior nutrition program at its current levels. Uh funds to install recycling receptacles at Burbank Parks in compliance with state law and funding to replace 20-year-old floor care equipment utilized by our public works custodial staff. So, I have one other list of items within the budget that I'd like to point out, and these are our budget discussion papers. Discussion papers are special requests for items or programs that arise during the budget development process that require additional input or provide additional information that has been requested by the city council. A brief report on each of the topics shown here can be found in the very back of your budget binders behind the tab entitled budget discussion papers. Uh due to our ongoing budget deficit, the majority of these this year's discussion papers are for information only, but we do have a few that have a fiscal impact. We plan to review these items at our next budget presentation on May 19th. But in the meantime, if any of the city council members wish to add an item that is not already included among this list, tonight is a great time to direct staff

to do so. So we can prepare that information for our follow-up discussion in two weeks. So, as I mentioned, roughly 74% of our general fund operating budget is comprised of salaries and benefits and our, of course, our CalPERS pension benefits. So, I'd be remiss to not do a review of citywide pension costs. [clears throat]

The chart here on this slide shows us the Kalpers's pension rates that have been incorporated into this proposed budget with the normal cost shown as a percentage of payroll and the unfunded actuarial liability or UAL cost shown as a dollar payment for each of the city's three pension plans. Similar to past years, this budget proposes that the city prepay its annual liability payment in July, which will result in a net savings to the city of just under 1.2 2 million in fiscal year 2627. Uh based on Burbank's most recent Kalpers's actuarial reports, the city's unfunded actuarial liability for pensions is $435 million and the average funded status of our three plans is at 75%. You can see from the chart here that while our liability payments continue to climb each year, our normal cost rate declines slightly. This is largely due to the growing number of PEPA employees that make up our employee population. Employees hired under PRPA receive a reduced pension formula compared to our classic employees and are automatically required to contribute half of their normal pension cost. As of April 2026, over 60% of the city's employees now fall under PEPA. Uh you may remember that CalPERS ended the 2425 fiscal year with a very strong net investment gain of 11.6% which is well over their expected rate of return of 6.8%. As a result, we expect to see a modest improvement in the city's funded status and a reduction in our UL payments beginning in fiscal year 2728 as Kalpers sets their rates a year in a rears from their actual returns. However, in November 2025, Kalpers adopted the results of their most recent experience study, which they undertake every 5 years. This study examines all kinds of historical data and makes recommendations for changes to Kalpers's assumptions that they use to calculate

liabilities for their member agencies. The adopted study recommended increase to assumptions for both wage growth and inflation, which when incorporated into our next actuarial is expected to increase our UAL costs by an average of 1.2%. 2% beginning in fiscal year 27-28, offsetting some of those expected savings from their 2025 investment returns. At their spring 2026 meeting, Kalpers announced strong returns in the first half of the fiscal year, and those earnings have continued into spring, largely driven by gains in public equities. It's important to keep in mind that any investment performance, either over or under their expected 6.8% 8% rate of return will impact our unfunded liability and our funded status beginning in fiscal year 2028 2029. So the city continues to take measures towards mitigating future pension cost increases including sending additional discretionary payments uh to calipers over that are above and beyond the city's required contributions. Since 2019, the city has contributed $71 million in additional discretionary payments to PERS, generating 9.5 million in recurring budget savings citywide and 6.6 million in recurring savings to the general fund. As promised at midyear, staff is proposing a new 4-year pension funding plan as part of this budget, which includes an investment of 6 million per year over the next four years with 4.4 million of that investment funded by the general fund. But this new plan comes with a twist. Uh council has been diligent about setting aside additional general fund dollars for pensions in our section 115 trust. And since since the inception in 2020, the balance of that trust has grown to over $35 million. So we are recommending now that we use those funds uh to make the general funds portion of the payments for the next four years. This allows us to preserve our general fund cash at a time when the city has a

number of other one-time needs and the economy is uncertain. [clears throat] Uh we expect that this new pension funding plan will generate over a million in recurring savings for each year of the plan with about 75% of that amount directly benefiting the general fund. So I realize I've covered a lot of information this evening. So, now is the time where we're going to wrap up all of those numbers and summarize how they fit together to form our overall budget picture for the current year for for the coming year. Uh, we're going to start at the top with our total projected revenues minus our total proposed appropriations, which net to a $2.6 million recurring budget deficit for fiscal year 2627. As a reminder, this deficit is less than 1% of the overall budget. Looking at our one-time or non-recurring funds, we are projecting to end this current fiscal year with a general fund spendable balance of $34.2 million. Then we go to the next line, which is the projected non-recurring revenues and use of one-time resources program for the coming year. This includes our proposed use of our section 115 trust for the pension funding plan. Then we have our estimated budget savings of 5.5 million, which equates to 2% of the recurring general fund budget. Out of that available cash, we will fund our formal reserves and our compensated absences reserves in accordance with the city council's financial policies. We are proposing to appropriate uh nearly 4 million in proposed one-time budget requests for fiscal year 2627 and contribute 1.8 million in ramp up funding towards our future ERP project. And lastly, we have earmarked 4.4 million in general fund dollars for the additional contribution to Kalpers as part of our pension funding plan. Netting all of these onetime items together, we get a total non-recurring balance of about 30.6 million. So now we add that 2.6 million recurring deficit to our 30.6 million

non-recurring balance to get our projected general fund spendable balance of 27,980,5 give or take a dollar or two um at the end of fiscal year 2627. So once again, I'll bring you back to that 5-year forecast chart where you could see that recurring deficit peaks at just over 3 million in fiscal year 2829. So despite the great work done as part of this budget process, we know there is more work to do over the next few years. It is stacks staff's expectation that both recurring revenue growth and recurring expenditure growth will average 3.9% over the next 5 years leaving that structural gap largely the same without any assumed growth to city programs or services.ou agreements, pension costs, and overall inflationary increases for goods and services all play a role in our forecasted expenditure growth. Uh the key to balancing this budget over the next 5 years is to identify ways to enhance revenue growth while continuing to explore options to gain efficiency and make strategic investments in order to generate recurring savings. Uh fortunately, as shown at the very bottom of the chart, our general fund cash position remains strong throughout the next 5 years, which gives us the luxury of time to address these deficits without significant impacts to the community. And of course, our forecast is based on what we know today, but we make frequent updates as the circumstances surrounding our assumptions are constantly changing. Uh, this slide looks at some of the unknowns that are always acting to help or hurt our forecast. On the upside is increased tax revenue from continued development throughout the city. Uh, each development that comes online increases the assessed value of a property and provides additional revenue to the city in the form of property tax and in many cases other taxes and revenues as well. Uh the tourism room restaurant sectors remain relatively strong here in Burbank. Hotel occupancy remains high and the replacement airport terminal is expected to open in October.

Uh we are also looking forward to welcoming visitors to our city for a number of exciting events over the next 5 years including the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, and of course the 2028 Olympics. Uh we are lowering our recurring UIL pension payments with each year of our pension funding plan. And with our section 115 trust, we're able to continue those investments while also preserving our general fund cash. Now, on the flip side, sales tax revenues are slumping due to the lackluster performance of the retail and automotive industries. And this is unlikely to correct itself anytime soon. Uh unemployment is ticking up nationally and layoffs within the local entertainment entertainment industry are no doubt hitting our residents hard. All the while, inflation is back on the rise, driven by rising fuel prices. And between the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the tensions with Cuba, and shifting federal policy on everything from tariffs to technology, the amount of political and geopolitical instability taking place throughout the world has a direct impact on the economy at home. And we certainly don't expect to see this improve in the coming election year. And of course, lastly, we know that any potential Kalpers investment losses or future assumption changes could result in bigger pension costs for the city down the road. Uh, fortunately for Burbank, prior city council decisions have put us in a strong position to be able to weather those future events. Uh, now is a good time to remind the council that in addition to our projected spendable general fund balance of uh, 28 million, we are fully funding our formal reserves and our compensated absences reserve in accordance with city council financial policy. The numbers you see here are our current reserve levels which will be updated as part of the absorption of this budget. Altogether, the city council has over 133 million in available unrestricted funds in reserve, which represents nearly 50% of the recurring general fund budget. So, in conclusion, uh the fiscal year 2627 proposed general fund budget is

balanced overall, but forecasts a recurring deficit of 2.6 million and a projected onetime general fund cash balance of 28 million at year end. While we remain conservative with our funding plan, we believe that the proposed general fund budget we presented tonight reflects the city council's goals and priorities and maintains all of the programs and services that our community has come to expect. The budget also includes a new four-year pension funding plan that will provide long-term recurring budget savings for the city and address those future deficits. And then, of course, the budget fully funds the city's formal financial reserves. So, this concludes our general fund presentation and uh before I introduce Stephen Walker to present the budget for our sewer fund, I'm happy to take a pause and answer any questions that the council may have. Great. Thank you. So, we're going to do um just for this section, questions only um for clarification before we move on to the next section. Council members, any questions on this section? Uh, Council Member Versati.

Uh Miss Becker, thank you very much. Uh, I like your steady but kind of we're on alert approach. Uh, very prudent. Um, do you have any comments with regards to potential buy out of Warner Brothers and then the Warner ranch coming online this year? Do you have any comments as to what potentially that could do for us or not do for us?

Uh, we don't have a dollar impact. Unfortunately, we're somewhat reliant on LA County uh the assessor's office to actually reassess the property. Uh we've already seen some returns. They do an interim assessment as a construction moves forward, but it could be 1 to two years or sometimes longer before we get a final assessment on that property to know exactly what the impact will be to the city. uh you know, we know it'll be substantial, which is why even though we're capped at a 2% CPI, we're uh projecting a 4% increase overall in property tax revenues, not just from the one development, but you know, lots of developments around the city. Uh so it's hard to put a dollar figure on that now, but of course, you know, any expansion of the entertainment industry drives our economy, both with tax revenue to the city and of course jobs, which are very valuable.

Thank you. Any other questions?

Just one question. Uh, and this goes back to uh, somebody came up for public comment and talked about uh, something that was a white paper last year. If we wanted to bring that back again, that would be a discussion for the end of the evening or That's right. uh when we uh we can take direction at the end of our budget presentations uh and bring back anything that the council uh asks [snorts] us to do. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Vice Mayor, do you have a question? Yeah. Um just a quick question for um the one-time budget request and that's slide 32. um under recycling. Mhm.

Um the receptacles, doesn't that come out of the sewer and rubbish or actually the rubbish account? Does that come out of enterprise or do we have to pay where is this coming out of the general fund or uh my understanding is there isn't available funding within the refugees fund to fund this specifically. So the general fund is on the hook to uh fund the installation of the receptacles. Uh, I'm happy to bring up our parks and rec director, Miss Garcia, if you have further question on this.

No, I'm just curious because that's that's what it's supposed to be used for, but I mean, that's why I'm asking the question because it's coming out of the general fund. Just wondering, I mean, good evening, Mayor Takahash, and council members. I hope I um answer this accurately. If not, I'm sure somebody from public works will will be able to answer. Um but but the refu um the parks and recreation department is a user and so it is our responsibility to comply with state law. So therefore it is our responsibility um the the general fund to pay for um uh installing recycling receptacles next to each trash can in our public parks.

Okay. We're taking it from the general fund to pay our refuge account basically. Yes. Which is what we do already, right? Um so the general fund of parks and recreation is a a user, a customer. Um so we pay utilities, we pay quad and power, we pay um sewer fees. Yes. Okay. I do have one more question while you're standing there, Miss Garcia. Sorry since you got up.

Sure. Um, also on the same page, slide uh 31 under the Debell Golf Course operating expense. So, we recently received an email regarding the change of operators in there. Um, does that amount you're requesting in the budget? Are you foreseeing this would be um in the future dropped so it's not 540,000 due to maybe better operating uh experience or more attraction more revenue to be coming in to the golf course.

So first just want to clarify we don't have a new operator we just have a new general manager under this under Touchstone Keer who is um our our operator of the golf course. So, it's just a new um individual who's overseeing the golf course. In terms of the costs, these are just costs of doing business. Um as the city's um you know, our our salaries go up, cost of goods go up, um capital improvement, utilities. So, the funds that we're requesting, we've not re we've not requested um or received an increase in the uh budget for the golf course for a number of years. So, this is just to get us to um be able to pay for our direct cost to run that golf course. I will mention that we are um uh generating revenue to offset some of these uh increase in costs.

If I could, I I knew that was a large number that 540,000. So that that's why one of the uh discussion papers that you have which is anformational item uh talks about the overall golf um uh budget uh uh and uh kind of looks at a cash flow related to just the the debel golf course. So even though that's a large number, you're able to see having the history of going back when it was an enterprise fund and and some of the troubles that we had, uh we wanted to make sure that we provided you uh informationational memo to show that we're still fine as far as uh as Miss Garcia said that is generating uh more revenue than than expenses. But uh we've had some substantial costs uh recently uh related to a few of the uh um operating expenses as well as well as capital.

Yeah. And I will thank you. Um will add that the new general manager who's come in is uh super dynamic and is introducing new programming. Um, as your discussion paper um indicates, we're increasing our um uh some of our fees to again keep up with our costs, but we're hoping that um through just being responsible with our our spending, um increasing our programming to really draw more um attention, uh you know, doing yoga at the golf course. These are just some of the programs that that he's looking to introduce that will be able to generate just more um revenue, non-golf related revenue.

Okay. Well, that's what I was hoping to hear because I know I s I read something in the email that we're expanding some maybe programs. So, I I was looking for more our revenue side. Is that going to also increase to help offset the $540ome,000? Yes.

Okay, great. Thank you. Um I do have one more question regarding slide 33 and again it relates to enterprise fund the uh the c two WP customer service reps um are those also coming out of the general fund or that's going to be an enterprise fund. Oh that this is uh going to be an enterprise fund. There is we wanted to just list all the discussion papers that you had in the back of your binder. I do believe uh Miss Summer is going to address that during her presentation which is coming up uh very soon. Okay. So, we're just combining everything together even though it's an enterprise fund.

Yeah, this is correct for the discussion papers. I didn't want to leave any of them off. Well, you did very well. Thank you. [laughter] And riveting. I know. Hey, I just wanted to add there's really no surprise in there because you were just here not too long ago and we kind of were anticipating some of this information to come up. So, thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Um I have a few questions. Um so for on slide 20 looking at the brickandmortar versus online sales. Um that's interesting interesting graph. Thank you for sharing that. Um so for the online sales is the tax determined based on the delivery location or is it based on the distribution or how does the tax determined for online sales

and that is a very loaded question. Um I will start with the easy part for measure P for our TUT revenues or transactions and use tax revenue it is based on the delivery address because it only applies to those living in Burbank right that is a local tax. So that is the easy answer. Uh the more complex answer is the Bradley Burns, you know, because retail taxes are based on the point of sale. So when you go into a Target or Walmart or you buy something in that store, the point of sale is where you physically make the purchase. Uh when you're making a purchase online, the point of sale is much more complicated. Sometimes it's an out ofstate retailer, sometimes it's a local retailer, sometimes it's shipped from a warehouse somewhere in in California. Uh so the point of sale varies greatly. Uh for out of state, what happens is it goes into uh the county pool, the Los Angeles County pool. So all online purchases from Los Angeles County that come from out of state go into this pool and then the pool is divided up to all the different cities in Los Angeles County based on your proportionate share of the brickandmortar tax. So in quarters where our tax revenue goes down, our share of that county pool also goes down even though it's not really related uh to online sales, but that's just kind of the legislation and how it's done. Um and for instate purchases, uh it it goes to where the point of sale happens. So if you happen to have say an Amazon warehouse in your city and the item you order online even though it's shipped to Burbank the point of sale is going to take place in the Amazon warehouse from which the item is shipped which means those cities that have the warehouse are collecting that tax in that point of sale. So it is a very interesting and complex process. Uh there's a lot of angst statewide about

the way we distribute sales tax, but getting legislation off the ground to change it to maybe make it more fair would be very difficult because some cities will be winners and some cities will be losers. Uh and so although there have been movements over the years to try to make a legislative change, it just really hasn't gone anywhere. So we're kind of stuck with the system that we have. Okay. It's probably way more than you wanted to hear. That's exactly actually what I was curious about because you know looking at the projections of increased online sales I was curious how much

let's just assume for the sake of argument that nothing changes in the you know how that's distributed how that will impact us as a city will that can we project that can we look at that or is it really difficult because the way it's complicated in distribution of taxes

it is really difficult I mean that's why you know we contract with HDL we have an outside agency that helps us look at these things because uh they're very involved at the state level uh with examining all the different trends and sales tax. So, uh it's not impossible. They give us a a forecast, but uh we know which direction the trend is heading. Uh and so I would say it's kind of a wash. It both hurts and benefits Burbank at the same time. uh because of the TUT, it actually benefits Burbank because we happen to be a community that apparently does a lot of online shopping. Uh but uh for the Bradley Burns, for the brickandmortar tax, uh it's more complex. Uh in general, I think there's this feeling that just United States in general is over retailed, that retail is just going to shrink. You know, even stores are getting smaller, footprints are getting smaller as they realize they can make just as much money without having to carry the cost, the leasing costs of retail property. So, the trend overall uh more important than the revenue trends is that the the retail space is going to shrink and that's almost a foregone conclusion with the prevalence of online shopping. So, that's almost a bigger picture item than the tax itself.

Interesting. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. And then um I have some thoughts on that for our discussion later. But um for questions um for the uh general fund revenues for transit parking tax at the airport. Um so actually it's a two-part question here. First one is that um do we see an projection when the new terminal is opened of an increased amount of usage for parking at the airport because of the increase of passengers? Do we expect that?

Yes. Uh we are assuming that in the forecast which is why you see that 7.8% uh projected increase probably an increase both in usage and in parking rates but of course we don't know what that's going to be yet. That's at the discretion of the airport. Got it. But it's not just the airport itself. It's also the surrounding lots around the airport uh which will see an increased activity. Right. Okay. And then from the airport, do we get sales tax and property tax from the airport specifically as well like the sales tax from the restaurants and the retail and um other things that are bought in the airport as well as ticket sales? Any of those create sales tax?

Uh sales tax. Yes. Uh so the retail establishments within the airport uh do pay sales tax. Property tax, no. It's a a joint powers authority. It's a JPA. It's essentially a public agency. Uh public agencies don't pay property tax to an agency. So we don't receive property tax. Uh there is no per ticket tax or anything like that. Uh services, you know, statewide are exempt from tax. So things like movie theater tickets, uh airline tickets, I we don't receive any kind of sales tax from that. Okay. If I could interrupt, can you talk about unsecured property tax though? Yes. Yeah.

So uh we do receive unsecured property tax. Thank you for uh correcting me, Mr. Hex. So uh unsecured property tax is a tax on property just like it sounds. It can be moved. It's not a house that's stuck on the ground. Uh Burbank receives unsecured property tax from airplanes. Uh so anybody who has an airplane that they own that is at the Burbank airport uh they pay property tax for that aircraft and the city does receive that property tax. Uh it can vary from year to year because the way they assess airplanes is they pick one day a year to show up at the airport airport and whichever planes are on the ground that's which uh those are the taxes that Bourbon gets in that given year. So, uh, we see wide swings from year to year in our unsecured property tax both up and down.

Wow. Okay. That did not know that. So, thank you for that. And then just really quick back to the sales tax. Um, since we are expecting even though we're we're not increasing the number of gates, um, we are the gates are going to be larger. So, there's going to be presumably more passengers and there's also going to be more um, retail stores and more restaurants in the new airport. So, is this projection 7.8% 8% also. Oh, and this is for transient parking tax in our sales tax like um expectations. Do we also include the potential increase of sale tax for that at the airport? You know, we didn't specifically include retailers at the airport. They're usually small relative to sort of the big type of uh retail we get that drives sales tax, but yeah, um we're already uh projecting maybe slightly more than our uh consultants projected for Burbank. uh not just because of the retail generated at the airport, but as more passengers come in, that generates sales tax everywhere in the city, not just at the airport. Uh so we'll see a small bump. We don't know what the retailers are yet. Uh so it makes it a little bit hard to project, but I'm sure at the very least we'll see a little bit more sales tax than we see in the current airport.

Okay, great. And then my last question is about also about the one-time budget requests. Mhm. Um my question is about the homelessness services outreach onetime budget request and it looks like based on the description in the detailed report here that that one is about the allied services. Um will that include one of the commenters earlier mentioned about um case management wraparound services. So will that include that or is this that's already covered so we don't need to add an extra onetime fund? I'm going to look to our CDD director over here Mr. Prescott can just speak to that kind of like maybe that particular onetime fund and then the coverage of that all the services.

Yes. Uh good evening madame mayor, members of the city council. Patrick Prescott, community development director. That allocation is for allied services citywide and in downtown with the bid. Uh the uh they are trained uh to offer services, but they're they're not the same thing that you're you're discussing. We partner with um both internally in the city and with outside uh uh the county uh case management as well. Um so it' be separate. It's a separate thing. I I if u you you may know we prepared an FAQ frequently asked questions for homeless services. It goes into uh very uh great detail about how we offer the services, who we partner with and so on. Uh and that can be found on the city's website. Uh I think it's uh at on the landing page currently right now you can find that FAQ.

Great. One more. Yes. Followup question. Yes. So for those 644 um one time is is this a temporary increase in the amount of uh allied uh employees we have or what is the what is this uh cost for? It's just a it's just a recurring one last year. Yeah. It's a recurring one time basically. Got it. Yeah. Okay. Great. Awesome. Thank you. Those are my questions. Do we have council member Perez back yet or is she I'm I'm here. Oh, yay. I actually same question you did about taxes.

Um I I had just told Courtney I wanted to ask that question. So great minds think alike. Do you have any other questions? No, that was my one question. Okay, we will then move on to then unless there's any other questions. I guess my only other thing I not not to beat a dead horse, but I do ask Jennifer this every year.

Um, looking at our deficit and and this is the first year that I think we we've actually had a substantial deficit to look at, at least our time on council. Um, just to reassure the public one more time, what are the things that we are doing to to address that? Because I know the city has a plan and it's the reason we're at 2.6 instead of four.

Good question. Thank you. Um certainly as I uh mentioned earlier in the presentation uh it takes um more than one uh more than one strategy to address a budget deficit. So obviously the deficit's a combination of revenue and expenses. So uh the expenses are something we can address more immediately. So, some of the things we're doing like uh you know implementing the workers comp savings and the oped savings uh using our one-time funds to pay down our pension liability which will result in recurring savings the following year. Those it always takes one year for those strategies to be implemented. Uh and then on the revenue side, obviously we're going to continue to look for ways to strategically increase revenue uh without burdening the community. And then in the meantime, obviously utilizing the one-time funds to close those gaps. Uh so it really is a combination of multiple things. Uh and we'll this won't be the last time we'll be here discussing this. So we'll be back uh to provide updates as we move forward with the budget process and into next fiscal year.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. With no more questions for this portion, let's move on to the next section. I want the presentation. Good evening, Mayor Takahashi and council members. I'm Steve Walker, assistant public works director, wastewater systems. I will be presenting the fiscical year 2627 budget for the water reclamation and sewer enterprise fund, which is also known as fund 494. We'll start with a fund overview comparing the approved budget for for fiscal year 2526 on the left with the proposed budget for fiscal year 2627 on the right. The total budget for fiscal year 2627 is approximately 28.2 million which represents a decrease from the prior year of approximately $2.7 million. This is mainly due to projected expenditures on capital being temporarily lower as more CIP projects are designed to prepare shovel ready projects for future construction. The budget for fiscal year 2627 includes the following three categories. First, capital funding shown in red is about 6.4 million. [clears throat] Second, material supplies and services shown in orange are about 19 million.

[snorts]

And third, salaries and benefits shown in green are about 2.8 million. The total sewer fund revenues for fiscal year 2627 are conservatively estimated to be approximately $23.8 million. The total expenses for fiscal year 2627 are estimated at approximately $21.8 million. Year-to- date expenditures for fiscal year 2526, the current year, including depreciation, as of April 1st, 2026, are approximately $18.7 million. With the highlighted changes to revenue and expenses, the sewer fund is projected to have a positive change in net position of $2 million for fiscal year 2627. The beginning cash balance for fiscal year 2627 is estimated to be about $23.8 million. With a positive change in net position that we discussed and after depreciation and obligations, it is estimated that the fund will have an ending cash balance of approximately $22.5 million. The required reserves for financial policies which include 60 days working capital and funds for future capital construction are approximately 19 million. In addition, the reserves for Hyperion Sewer remain approx at approximately $2.1 million. Burbank continues to make payments to the city of LA which we'll discuss in more detail later in the presentation. In summary, the estimated unrestricted cash balance for fiscal year 2627 is approximately $1.5 million. During the budget process during the budget process last fiscal year, the council approved a two-year rate plan for the city's enterprise funds, which included 6% increases in sewer rates for

both fiscal year 2526 and fiscal year 2627. The current monthly flat rate for sewer services for single family residential properties is $301 through the through December 31st, 2026. Effective January 1st, 2027, the single family residential rate will increase to $31.81 per month through December 31st, 2027. With the adjustments approved by the council in May 2025, Burbank sewer rates remain some of the lowest in the area for similar wastewater systems due to our focus on efficiency and reliability. The typical sewer rate drivers include regulatory permit requirements from the state water resources control board and the Los Angeles regional water quality control board. Contractual changes from the city of Los Angeles for the conveyance treatment and disposal of wastewater. Capital improvement projects for both the sewer collection collection system pipelines and the treatment plant and inflationary impacts to operate and maintain the Burbank water reclamation plant and the sewer collection system citywide. The city's wastewater services include the operation and maintenance of the sewer collection system, two sewer pump stations, and the Burmink water reclamation plant, which is operated under contract by Infamar. There are numerous reg numerous regulatory compliance requirements that have to be met under two NPDES permits. One for the treatment plant process discharges and another for the production of recycled water. The Burmake Water Reclamation Plant currently treats approximately 7.5 million gallons per day and converts raw waste water into recycled water for reuse throughout the city. In calendar year 2025, approximately 1 billion gallons of recycled water produced at

the Burink Water Reclamation Plant were reused in industrial applications at construction sites and for landscape irrigation at city parks, the Debell Golf Course, and in roadway medians. Recycled water off offsets the use of potable water. And for reference, this quantity is roughly equivalent to the average annual consumption of about 7,400 single family residential homes. In addition, in fiscal year 2627, public works will continue implementing the city's NPDS permit for the treatment process at the Burbank Water Reclamation Plant, which became effective on January 1st, 2024. The city's collection system crew performs annual hydrojet cleaning and root cutting on all 230 m of sewer mains in Burbank and maintains approximately 3,800 sewer manholes. The photo on the left shows the combo truck which has jet flush and vacuum capabilities and that's used for sewer maintenance. The sewer crew also performs CCTV video inspections on numerous city sewer manes to evaluate pipe condition so that repairs can be prioritized and completed when necessary. The photo on the right shows a C CCTV van used for this inspection work. Next, I'll highlight two capital improvement projects managed by wastewater engineering staff that will provide pipe capacity upgrades to convey additional flows to the Burbank water reclamation plant. First, the Riverside Drive sewer improvement projects, which is located along Riverside Drive from Bob Hope Drive near Johnny Carson Park to Beachwood Drive. The scope of work includes approximately 5,000 lineal feet of seirine upsizing to approximately 18 to 30 inch diameter pipes. Design work is ongoing and includes permitting and

it's and it's scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 2728. Construction is scheduled for fiscal year 2829 and the estimated construction cost is approximately $5 million. The second CIP is a Chandler sewer improvements phase one project which which will also provide pipe capacity upgrades. It will reduce the amount of sewage entering the Los Angeles Hyperion sewer system and it will convey convey additional flows to the Burmick water reclamation plant for treatment and reuse. It is located along Chandler between California Street and Lake Street. Design work is ongoing and it is scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 2728. Construction is scheduled for fiscal year 2829 and the estimated construction cost is approximately $6 million. Public works continues to work with the city of Los Angeles on the Hyperion sewer flow monitoring and billing. All payments that are owed to Los Angeles have been made. They are based on a plane read of the contract which covers the cost for the conveyance, treatment, and disposal of wastewater. Burbank has made payments to Los Angeles totaling approximately $36.7 million since flow year 200910. Estimated payments have been made through uh flow year 2526, the current year with the most recent payment of approximately $3.3 million in December 2025. and reconciled payments have been made through flow year 2324 with the most recent payment of approximately $ 1.5 million in November 2025. It should also be noted that uh Burbank is currently maintaining the Hyperion Reserve Fund in case any additional payments are required to resolve the matter. That concludes the presentation. Are there any questions or comments?

All right. Thank you. Uh yes, Council Member Rosati, you have a question. Just curious the the replacement pipe, is it cast iron, clay, or is it like a high capacity PVC? Most of our existing pipe is clay. A lot of the time we're replacing it with high strength PVC. And no more cast iron. We don't use cast iron typically for sewers. You use it in rare applications on bridges sometimes. Okay. Sometimes it's used for sleeves as well, but the majority of it um of the existing pipe again is clay. And then uh new pipe is typically PVC. And is there a lifespan on that?

Clay is indefinite. I mean, there's there's uh pipe in other cities in the Southern California area that are over 100 years old. And PVC's, you know, got a good lifespan as well. I believe the Roman aqueducts are still clay. That's That's exactly right, actually. [laughter] Yeah. Not within our jurisdiction. Exactly. Not that old in Southern California. Yeah. PVC would be 50 to 70 years at least. Yeah. Yes, Vice Mayor. Um, quick question. Have Have you been also um doing work on Magnolia, replacing sewer on Magnolia as part of the project or that's something completely different?

I think that's different. We did a couple recent emergency repairs. Um, one up at 911 East Olive and another one on Lamer. Um, but those are the most recent uh projects. And then we also had the Providentia sewer improvements um that our director gave an update on um in the last month or two. Okay, that must be maybe BWP doing work there because Magnolia is all torn up doing [laughter] a lot of work. Uh no, Magnolia. Yeah, Buenov Vista. Okay, thank you. Sure. All right. Uh Council Member Perez, do you have any questions? No, I don't have any questions. Okay. Okay.

I mean, if we're airing personal grievances, I have a problem. I'm not. [laughter] All right. Uh, since there's no more questions, thank you for your presentation and we'll move on to the next section. Thank you. The next speaker will be John Mullener.

I request it. Do I have to request it or I think they'll pull it. I think I'll pull it up just

Okay. Could I have the uh program, please? Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Takahashi and Burbank City Council. I'm John Molinar from public works. I'm the assistant public works director over streets and waste management and I'm here to present the refugees budget. I'll start with a fund overview. The left column represents last fiscal year and the right column this fiscal year. Each column is made up of three categories broken down by color. The red are capital expenditures, orange material, supplies and services, and the green salaries and benefits. As you can see, the overall 2627 refugees budget is about 5% lower than the 2526 budget. This is primarily due to decreases in capital purchases of vehicles. Our financial sheet shows total revenues increasing this fiscal year due to the approved rate adjustment coupled with new fees approved in the fee schedule. Last fiscal year, our expenses exceeded revenues. However, this year, the change in net position is turning back to positive. We are always seeking efficiencies in our operations to keep budget pressures low. Our cash reserve sheet shows that we start the year with a balance of $41.1 million and end with a balance of about $40 million.

At the bottom of the slide, you can see that our reserves for financial policies and capital purchases are about $9.8 million and our landfill closure reserves are at about $20.8 million. I'd like to briefly share the services that we provide. Starting with solid waste collection. Our solid waste collection section collects trash, organics, and recyclables for residential and commercial customers. We also provide temporary two and three cubic yard bins for our residents. And of course, we provide weekly bulky item pickup. And our field services staff is continually providing education and guidance regarding solid waste disus as illegal dumping, cart placement, and billing inquiries. Our recycle center staff ensures that we are guided to a more sustainable future. They ensure that our recyclables are processed. They provide education and outreach to our schools, businesses, and residents. They provide a drop off for batteries, electronics, fluorescent bulbs, and mattresses. And they also direct our city's solid waste collections and private haulers to ensure that we remain in compliance with mandates as well as reporting back to the state. Our landfill operations ensure that our trash is disposed of properly. They ensure that our organics are processed and transferred to off-site composting. They ensure that we report to and remain in compliance with at least eight federal and state regulatory agencies. And they also ensure that we are operating efficiently, providing us this resource for another 93 years. Another service that we provide is street cleaning services. That includes weekly street sweeping, cleaning up of illegally dumped items in the right ofway, and clean up of homeless encampments. All of these items help ensure that the

city is clean and complying with storm water requirements. Last year, council approved rates in a two-year cycle with an initial 8% rate adjustment and the next 8% taking effect in January of 2027. With this next adjustment, a typical household will be paying an additional $3.38 per month. That accounts for nearly twothirds of our residential customers. The adjustments were needed to keep up with the demands brought on by state and local mandates coupled with inflation. We are doing our best to help the rateayers by looking forward to the future and by increasing efficiencies in our operations and only increasing rates in the smallest increments possible. And we are one of the lowest rates in town nowadays. I want to switch to current and upcoming capital projects. Starting with the landfill. In order to prepare for the upcoming larger liner expansion projects, it was necessary for us to construct a smaller expansion project on the southeast corner of the active landfill. This $ 1.8 $88 million sides slope liner project was just approved by council. Thank you. And is in progress now. The sides slope liner project was a critical link in the landfill's progress. It buys us two additional years of capacity while we construct the phase 2D and 2e liner projects. The phase 2D and 2e liner projects on the northwest corner of the landfill are the final liner expansions that require significant earth moving. Once these projects are complete, the slopes are in their final configuration and the liner will be placed vertically as the landfill goes up.

I also I want to highlight our newest endeavor in solid waste collection. As I mentioned earlier, we are striving to find efficiencies while continuing to comply with regulatory requirements. We are excited to let you know that we have tested an electric trash truck. The truck has turned out to be viable even on our hills [snorts] and although procurement procurement is in the starting stages, we are seeking to purchase two of these vehicles. This will help us comply with requirements for vehicle electrification and provide for a quieter and more greenhouse gas-friendly Burbank for our residents. Another way we have worked to optimize our operations was to add a shredder to our organics processing site at the landfill. I want to thank you, council, for approving this purchase during our last budget process. I also want to thank our financial department and the city attorney's office for their work to expedite the procurement. Because our of our ability to ex expedite this purchase, we were able to procure the last tariff-free shredder and it saved us $148,000. The shredder reduces the size of the logs and other organics so that they take up less space in the trucks we are sending all the way up to the central valley. Because we are shredding the material, we sent eight fewer trucks out in April compared to March. That results in cost savings and places fewer trucks on the road, resulting in fewer greenhouse gas emissions. The shredder will also be a key component for the composting system we are seeking to permit. That wraps up the refugees budget. Thank you for your time and I'm available to answer any questions.

Great. Thank you. Yes, Council Member Anthony. Uh yeah. What is what does tariffree mean? Is that the brand name? Is that the style? What is that? Um when the president chose to add tariffs to everything. Oh, tariff free. [laughter] I thought you said tariffree. I'm like terra is earth. I mean is earth. Okay. Little nervous. It's a hovercraft. Okay. [laughter] That makes a one time funding thing. A hovercraft. Yeah. If we do see some hovercrafts for sale, let us know.

Any other questions from council? Council member Perez, do you have any questions? Oh, no questions on my end. You have any questions? Okay, I have a couple questions. Um, the first one's about the electric trash truck and um looking at the one-time funding request for it or yeah, onetime funding request for it. So, you said we're getting two two um electric vehicle trash trucks. That's the goal. Or is this a different item? I'm seeing refuse vehicle replacements. Um one of them is a electric vehicle replacement $3.5 million. Is that separate? It's a different thing. That's separate.

It's a different thing. This is This is actually the two demo trucks that we used. We are trying we we are going to get them for almost the same price as the CG trucks we were gonna get that you approved in last year's budget. Nice. So that's what we're working on right now. It's it's still in the initial stages. I can't say it's a guarantee, but we're really trying and they've they've kind of told us we can do it. So that's fantastic. That's great. Uh is there any idea of what area of town they'll be deployed into? Do we know ahead of time or maybe it's a question it's hard to answer right now? We have 14 routes and they will be out every single day if they're if we get them.

Okay. Can I make a request for it to come by my house once in a while? I want to see it. And then also in that same section, it discusses smaller trash trucks that were requested as well. Can you speak to that? Yes, we are. I'm not looking at the page you're looking at, so I'm not sure what it exactly says, but we are seeking a smaller truck. The rear loader, is that what we're talking about here? Yes. Yes. Yes. That is a small rear loader truck so we can service and we still have a few alleys we service. We try to stay out of them because they're so narrow and we get in a lot of accidents and try not to. But

um we're we're going to do a rear loader route where they have the little paddles on the truck and they do that in the alleys and that's what that's for. That's great. Okay. And great. And then um my last question is about uh the shredder, the organic shredder. Okay. My it's a two-part question. Okay. The first part is how awesome is that? That's the first question. Um because it is. And then the second question is, are there any other cities right now that have something like this?

There aren't very many cities that are like Burbank. Uh we're a self-service city. We have just about everything. we're seeking to, you know, open our own composting um system. And uh no, I wouldn't say I mean there there'd be other um counties and other regions that that would be doing something like this perhaps, but um and and shredders are a part of the composting process. You can either make mulch, you can make compost, you know, you can do both and you can do a lot of things with it. But um it's it's pretty cool.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To answer that. I'm going to answer my own question. How cool is that? It is very cool. I actually happen to be up there today and saw it. So, um it's very very cool. Okay. Well, those are my questions. Um anything else before we go to the next section? No. Okay. Thank you. Can I add something from earlier from the question to parks about their their we did used to get quite a bit of grant money back in the day from the state and that has dwindled to basically zero. We used to use that grant money to purchase things like ref um bins for parks and all these other things for generators. We can't do that anymore due to Prop 218 with rateayer money. that was kind of money we could use to do that. We don't have that money to do that anymore.

Well, thank you for explaining that because I it just doesn't make sense when you take it from one account to the other, but it explains because of Prop 218. So, thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. If you ever find money, please give it to them so they can pay for it. All right. So, the next section Oh, all right. Yeah.

All right. Good evening, uh, Mayor Takahashi, Vice Mayor Mullins, city council members. So, while the presentation's coming up, uh, I'm going introduce myself. Joe Lilio, CFO for Burbank Water and Power. I'll be presenting on BWP's proposed fiscal year 2627 budget for tonight. So Burbank Water and Power provides water, recycled water, fiber and electric services to the Burbank community. About 20% of our water is uh provided our water demand is provided by recycled water. Our RPS uh or renewable portfolio standards goal for 2526 is 48% and we are meeting that. Both water and fiber have reliability rates of just under 100% and electric has a reliability rate of 99.997%. That's the top 5% uh in the nation. And we get um every 3 years we renew our certificate uh for that. and it's uh um something that uh we're very proud of. So, we are focusing on increasing reserves to adequately address natural disaster re resiliency. Uh we all saw what happened uh back in January of 2025 with the wind storms, firestorms. Um so having adequate reserves for emergency disasters, that's key for a utility. unfunded state mandates such as housing development readiness meeting the annual renewable goal, energy goal, uh getting to 60% renewable by 2030 and 100% by 2045. Um requirements to monitor POS, which is forever chemicals um in our portable water system. So these are all putting demands on um financial demands on the

utility. uh managing debt capacity to maintain favorable bond ratings, strengthening internal fund uh capital reserves, and we have revised projections for both the electric and water forecast load demand and revenue. So, they've uh we're decreasing those by 10% from the 25 26 the 26 27 uh forecast. So some key budget drivers for 2627 um you did hear this um from my counterpart uh Mr. Becker increased labor costs and associated benefits. So that uh has had an impact on our budget via theus uh addition of new positions due to regulatory mandates and compliance. investment in uh one-time large capital projects. A proposed water bond issuance uh to fund replacement of our reservoir 2. So that is about 95 years old um way past its useful life and we will be uh issuing a bond uh next year. Uh we'll come to the council with that. Drivers of capital projects are unfunded state mandates, regulatory compliance, aging infrastructure and reliability concerns. Uh so we have the SB35 mandates uh which lead to additional electrical uh infrastructure work across the city. Our 4KV to 12KV conversions uh reduces line losses and increases the amount of capacity available. capital projects required to expand infrastructure capacity to support future growth. And there are still long lead times with supply chain issues um uh to purchase some of um items such as uh transformers.

our proposed staffing updates for 2627. Um we're asking for eight additional positions, six in the electric fund, uh two power plant operators, uh two customer service rep positions, and two field service rep positions. Uh the customer service rep and field service rep positions are uh needed desperately. We're adding um a lot of uh housing units and that's putting a demand on uh the call centers. I'm adding two new positions for the water fund, the water quality analyst and water inspector and these are needed for um water water quality controls for POS. Um so we do have certain mandates that we do have to adhere to. Um these two positions uh we did receive some uh funding outside of rateayer funds that will be funding these positions uh for years to come. So the proposed budget authority um the total budget authority for all funds maintained by BWP is $502 uh million. This is a decrease of $29 million from the adopted 2526 budget. Let's go over some of them real quick. Electric funds proposed budget is uh just under 359 million which is about 56 uh.7 million less than the prior year and this is due to two main things. The Willow substation project and the Ritzy airport project uh completing in 2526. Water fund's proposed budget is 97.9 million which is about 26 million higher than the previous year and this is really driven by the one tank capital project for reservoir 2. Uh the comm fund proposed budget is 6.5 million which is about 107,000 lower

than the previous year due to reduction in purchase of radios and the street light fund uh proposed budget is 4.2 million. It's a reduction of about 1 million from the prior year and this is driven by a reduction in capital expenditures. Magnolia power project or MPP proposed budget is 32.4 million. Uh this is 2.3 higher than the previous year and driven by capital expenditures. And then Titan's operating fund uh is 2.4 million. So this slide depicts the electric funds uh breakdown of the $359 million budget. Power supply and transmission costs make up a little over half of the costs at 184 million followed by O andM at 20% or 71 million and then capital at 17% or 61 million. This is a snapshot of uh the electric funds cash forecast. going out the 20 32 33. So the yellow portion of those uh vertical bars is restricted cash. So it's bond proceeds a construction um deposits from developers, public benefits obligation fund and low carb fuel standards fund. Green portion of the vertical bar is unrestricted cash and the blue horizontal shaded range is the city council adopted reserve policy goals. That's we want to be between 160 and 240 days cash on hand. And as reflected by the forecast, the electric fund will be at the lower end of a recommended reserve for 2627 and 2728, slowly increasing up uh our reserves to 2031 and then we start dipping down again due to large capital projects. That's kind of the trend with the electric fund. and we'll build up

the cash, spend it back down on electric uh electrical uh capital projects, build it back up again. This is our 5-year capital plan, um which totals 352.5 million. Uh this will be funded by aid in construction, uh will cover 65 million of it, and the rest will be uh cash reserves paying for a little under $288 million. This slide reflects the largest capital projects within the electrical fund. I'm not going to go over all of these. Um, but that top one, I apologize for the acronym that should have said replacement of advanced metering infrastructure, AMI. So, the capital does total 61.1 million for next year. I want to touch on the Americanold property. Uh the Americanold property is located at 10 West Magnolia. It's adjacent to MPP across from the wash. It is in process of being transferred to the city's uh from the city's general fund and transportation to BWP. Uh the acquisition of this fund will be funded by the electric fund. The purchase price is $8.4 million. And then uh remediation of the existing blighted structure is anticipated to begin in July of 2026. The planned uses of this property are storage, parking, warehouse construction, demonstration, andor generation projects. This slide depicts the water fund's breakdown of its $98 million budget. uh capital making just under half of it at 46 million followed by O andM at 25% or

24 million and then water supply purchases at 18% um or just under $18 million. And here we have the water funds cash forecast through 2031. Again, yellow portion of the bar is restricted cash, green portion is unrestricted. And here the city council uh approved reserve policy of 200 to 300 days cash on hand. Again, it's that blue shaded portion. Um the water fund is expected to be above reserves for the next two years and then drop down uh and continually drop down to just uh being at the lower portion of the reserve policy. And here's the water funds uh five-year capital plan. totaling $13.8 million. And this will be funded by aid in construction of 4.8 million, bond proceeds of 40 million, and then cash reserves will cover the difference of 72.2 million. And again, here's a listing of the cap uh the water fund's largest capital projects totaling uh 45.6 million. And again, that reservoir 2 replacement just under $24 million. So BWP does uh maintain the internal service communication fund. So this covers radios and phones citywide are purchased and maintained from this fund uh including for the police and fire departments. And this slide has the breakdown uh between salaries, benefits, material supplies and services and capital and compares the prior fiscal year to uh 2627 um 6.6 million to 6.5 million. So it's decreasing by about $100,000.

The street lighting fund maintains uh citywide street lights. The total proposed budget here is 4.2 2 million. Uh it's decreasing by 1.2 million and this is driven by uh the capital expenditures decrease in those due to the light uh pull LED replacement program being almost uh fully uh completed. We're 96% complete. So the capital item here will continue to decrease in subsequent years as well. Magnolia Power Project is a 310 megawatt natural gas fired combined cycle generating uh plant owned by six cities with Burbank as the operating agent. So the six participants are Anaheim with 38% ownership, Burbank 31% ownership, Glendale at 17%, Pasadena at 6%, Cerritos at four, and Colton at 4%. Total propo proposed budget here is $32.4 million. Titan small hydro project is a 14 megawatt hydroelectric generating facility located near Rimrock Lake in uh Yakima County, Washington. Burbank has 50% ownership and Glendale has the other 50% ownership. And the total proposed budget here is $2.4 million. And that does uh conclude my presentation. I'm open to any questions that council may have.

All right, council. Any questions on this portion of the presentation? Vice Mayor, I have a question regarding the reservoir. We did approve some funds for one of them. This was a while back, like maybe a year ago. Was there a bond or we approved something to fix one of the reservoirs?

So, we do have multiple uh reservoirs. Yeah. Um reservoir 2 uh there was discussions about adding funding to that in prior years. We never did because of the dollar amount. Um so, we are going to be issuing a bond to fund that uh construction. Um and we're asking council to uh approve that. But there there are other reservoirs within the city. I believe there's a total of four res. One of them like doubled the price or triple the amount from where we started originally to do it and it took a while. I remember Yes. Um the summer is coming up. [laughter] Sorry [clears throat] I I'm on deep samur general manager. My voice is like going. So um

you've been singing all night. All night. Um so [clears throat] um we did come with a two-year budget last year and that's when we referenced this. So, this is the approval for that second part of the two-year budget. And uh we are getting some funding from the federal government for this too, about one or two million. So, okay, good. Because I remember we had some discussion about it. So, this is to actually move forward with what we discussed a year ago. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

That's it. Any other questions? No. All right. Well, thank you so much for the presentation and I we have I think one more piece right before we wrap up. Hello. Yes, I'm back. Uh Jennifer Becker with financial services. Uh so we'll just pull up that final presentation. [clears throat] All right. Oh, that is the wrong one. We're working on it here.

Yes, they do look similar. Uh so I'll go ahead and get started while we wait for the chart to go up in the interest of time. Uh so earlier we've covered now the general fund. Uh you just heard from each of our enterprise funds which contains the large majority of our overall budget. Uh and so the last piece we have tonight uh you can see those uh gray sections of the chart uh is our uh internal service funds, special revenue funds, the housing authority, the parking authority, and the successor agency. Uh which all of those combined, you can see in those yellow tabs, uh account for about 18% of the city's total budget. So, I'm going to run through these. Uh, let's begin with our internal service funds. So, internal service funds are used to accumulate funds for specific citywide purposes such as insurance or equipment replacement. Uh, the required funds are collected from participating city departments and funded through a non-discretionary budget line item in uh each cost center's budget. So, the city has seven internal service funds. Uh the first two are managed by management services and that's the general liability insurance fund and the workers compensation fund. Uh next is fund 532, our vehicle equipment replacement fund which is managed by public works. We have our fund 533 office equipment replacement fund uh which is managed by finance. Uh and uh then we have uh our fund 534 municipal infrastructure fund. We're going to hold off on this and present that in two weeks uh when our public works director uh Mr. Skinner uh presents it as part of the CIP presentation. Uh fund 535, the communications equipment replacement fund is managed by BWP and Mr. Lilio just uh covered that during his budget presentation. And last but not least, we have our fund 537 uh information technology fund. So we'll start here with the general liability insurance

fund. Uh this fund covers the cost of citywide insurance premiums and self- insurance programs along with all claims against the city. Uh for fiscal year 2627, the fund will receive 18.5 million in revenue and has 17.2 million in proposed appropriations. So the general liability fund receives the majority of its revenue from rates that are collected from most departments and funds through the insurance line item accounts and their budgets. Uh in addition, the fund maintains a required reserve for future claim development which is based on an actuarial report that is completed each year. Uh due to recent claims history as well as rising legal costs, our actuarial liability increased by about 643,000 this year. Uh the city of Burbank, like other public agencies, is facing an extremely difficult market for insurance. Uh staff is anticipating a 27% increase for general liability. Uh and this sharp increase is due to consistently larger jury verdicts and settlements. Uh social inflation and a plaintiff-friendly environment is a major contributing factor for the hardening insurance market. Staff is also anticipating a 20% increase for citywide property insurance due to recent losses and a 10% increase for all other lines of insurance such as power generation property coverage, cyber liability, environmental liability, autophysical damage, crime and earthquake. Uh based on this forecast, management services is recommending a $960,000 increase to the fund 530 insurance budget for fiscal year 2627. So of course this budget increase impacts the overall operating budget for the fund which much must be collected from citywide insurance rates. Overall insurance rates for city departments increased by 1.6 million for this fiscal year or 10% citywide. Now the next fund in our presentation is the workers compensation fund which is

also managed by management services. Uh fund 531 provides for the city's workers compensation program and all related expenses including medical salary continuation, permanent disability, legal expenses, and investigative services. Uh the workers compensation fund receives most of its revenue from rates that are collected from all city departments and funds based on a percentage of budgeted salaries. Uh for fiscal year 2627, the fund will collect just over 8.6 million in revenue to go against 11.4 4 million in appropriations. Now, the story here is actually the opposite of our liability fund. Due to the great work our management services team has been doing to manage claims in coordination with the city's labor groups, our actuarial liability for the workers comp fund actually went down by 650,000, allowing us to release funds from that reserve and offset budgeted expenses, which in turn reduces the rates paid by all of our employee groups into this fund. So, when considering the rising cost of medical care, in addition to wage growth and inflation, it's pretty remarkable that our workers comp team and our labor groups continue to find a way to reduce costs in this area. In total, the city saved 1.3 million in workers comp expenses this year with over a mill a million of that directly benefiting the general fund. Uh, and in addition, we have no new budget requests for the workers comp fund for fiscal year 2627. So, I'm going to move on next to our vehicle equipment replacement fund. Uh, this fund is managed by the public works department and provides for the scheduled replacement and maintenance of all vehicles within the general city's fleet, including parts, labor, and fuel. Uh, the 15.8 million in projected revenues for the fund come from rental rates that are charged to city departments, and these are based on the depreciable valuable value of their vehicles as well as annual maintenance and fuel costs. A vehicle fund continues to experience cost increases due to the rise in new vehicle prices as well as

part m parts maintenance and fuel for existing vehicles. As a result, the vehicle rental rates collected from departments increased by about 1.4 million or 12% from the prior year. Uh total appropriations of 29 million are proposed for fund 532 with over 15 million of that amount going directly towards the scheduled replacement of depreciated vehicles and equipment in 2627. I'll remind the council that the public works staff does a thorough review of each vehicle at the end of its life and only replaces those that are truly in need of replacement. Because so many of our vehicles remain in good condition, uh we have been able to defer 58 fully depreciated vehicles at a savings of 3.3 million in replacement costs this year. The vehicle replacement fund also has several capital improvements budgeted for the coming year, including the underground fuel system replacement at 950,000, the fuel system modernization at 200,000, the ongoing vehicle lift equipment modernization project at 600,000, the replacement of the city hall emergency generator, and the beam solar pilot project. Moving on to our office equipment replacement fund. This fund is managed by the financial services department and provides for the replacement of a variety of city assets including furniture, machinery, and various safety tools and equipment. Uh, similar to the vehicle fund, total revenues of just under 1.3 million are collected from rental rates with 2.9 million in appropriations going towards the scheduled replacement of capital assets and small equipment as needed. There are several items scheduled for replacement in this fund this year mostly related to our safety departments. About a half million will go towards replacing audiovisisual equipment in both the police training room and the community room as well as the replacement of the current current security system and video surveillance equipment installed throughout the police and fire

headquarters. Additionally, 216,000 will be used to replace outdated equipment with updated technology necessary to support the operations of the police department's realtime intelligence center. And lastly, the fire department is replacing 462,000 in firefighter safety gear and equipment, including personal protective equipment, extrica extrication equipment, and hazardous materials detectors. And of course, last but not least of our internal service funds is fund 537, the information technology fund. Uh the IT fund houses the entire IT department and 537 also uh provides for the equipment maintenance and upgrades of all of the city's computer and network equipment as well as software. Overall, the IT fund will collect around 20.5 million in revenues for the upcoming fiscal year. Uh, fund 537 receives its revenues from rates paid by all departments and funds based on the results of an annual IT cost of service study. In addition to one-time contributions from the general fund and other city funds for special projects, the IT department is proposing total appropriations of 20.4 million for the upcoming fiscal year. Uh we do have one capital purchase for the IT department and that is the replacement of the city's data backup and recovery platform for around 300,000. Now normally this would be the time where I share with you the list of new IT projects for the coming year, but for fiscal year 2627 we will be dedicating a large portion of our IT resources towards our multi-year ERP replacement project. As we discussed last year in this time, the ERP project uh which will ultimately replace our existing Oracle software which was implemented in 1999 and has long since passed its useful life. Uh over the past several months, we've been working with our consultants from GFOA along with city staff to complete a needs assessment for a new

ERP. We expect that to be completed within the next couple of months. uh that this document will guide the development of an RFP which will we expect to release in late summer or early fall with the goal of having a product and vendor selected by the end of the calendar year. So the ERP project is a big lift both from a staffing resource and a financial perspective. So in fiscal year 2526 we adopted a 4-year ramp up schedule to help us plan our resources and smooth out the cost for this 11.5 million endeavor. Uh per the schedule shown here on the slide, the general funds contribution towards the ERP project in fiscal year 2627 will be 1.8 million and we have included that in the proposed budget before you tonight. Okay, so moving on uh that wrapped up our internal service funds and now we'll move on to our special revenue funds. Uh now these are funds established by the city to account for revenues that are restricted for specific purposes and they play an important role in the financial health of our city. Uh the city has 17 special revenue funds and cumulative cumulatively these funds account for approximately 66 million of this year's budget and help support important needs like regional power supply, transportation services and infrastructure and affordable housing. So we're going to review 14 of these special revenue funds as BWP uh already presented the street lighting, the Titan hydropower and the Magnolia power project as part of their presentation. So the city has four special revenue funds that provide transit programs and transportation infrastructure including the Burbank bus fix route service, senior and disabled transit, maintenance of the downtown Metroink station, and a variety of street improvement capital projects uh which will be discussed further during our infrastructure presentation. As shown here in the chart, combined appropriations for our transportation funds total 10.6 million with projected revenues of approximately

10.4 million. Prop A, Prop C, Measure R, and Measure M each received their funding from one of four LA County voterapproved quarter cent sales tax measures. So, while operating budgets remain largely the same from the prior year, there are a couple budget highlights to point out for 2627. Uh, Props A and C will continue to fund the operations of the Burbank bus fixed route service and senior and disabled transit service with no new budget requests this year. Uh, measure R, transportation fund. Uh this fund 107 includes 300,000 for the downtown Burbank Metroink station rehabilitation. Measure M fund 108 includes funding of 2 million for the city's annual street and sidewalk improvement program. So the last of the city's transportation funds is the air quality management district fund. Uh the AQMD fund receives revenues from state vehicle registration fees which have a small portion of dedicated dedicated for local return to cities in the south coast air quality management district. These funds are restricted to be used only for clean air mitigation measures. Uh the city of Burbank's share of these revenues is projected at 148,000 for fiscal year 2627. Consistent with prior years, uh this revenue will be used to fund the city's ride share program, which helps reduce vehicle trips generated by city employees. Uh next up, measure W, fund 109 accounts for revenues received by the city from the LA County Safe, Clean Water Municipal Program. Uh, this program is funded through a special parcel tax of 2.5 cents per square foot of impermeable area which was approved by LA County voters in November of 2018. Burbank receives about 1.6 million annually from this revenue source which is managed by the public works department. In addition to the annual operating costs, we have one proposed capital appro appropriation for 2627,

which is the McCambridge storm Mckambridge Park storm water capture multi-ben project for a million dollars. All right. Now, I'm going to spend a little bit of time on this next item because we have a whole new fund that has been created for fiscal year 2627. Fund 110 is the measure A LCASa fund which we set up to account for the annual funding Burbank will be receiving for measure A which was approved by LA County voters in 2024. Uh these funds will be administered by the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency or Lacassa for short and are intended for affordable housing production and preservation, homeless preservation and renter protection. Uh the newly proposed budget of 622,000 for this fund includes two analyst positions as well as 23% of the existing housing development manager for a total of 2.23 FTEES. Uh other budgeted items include funding in support of low-income legal grants, h the housing rights center, and emergency rental assistance. I should note that the revenues shown here for $6 million on this slide represent two years of of anticipated funding because we don't anticipate receiving our our fiscal year 2526 allocation until after the close of the fiscal year. Uh moving forward, we expect to receive about $3 million annually from this funding source. So there are two special revenue funds that are managed by the police department which we don't always include in the proposed budget. Uh both are restricted restricted for law enforcement purposes. And since the revenue is not always consistent, we tend to allocate these funds for one-time projects. The general city grant fund receives revenue from various federal, state, and county sources, including cops grants and department of justice funding. The drug asset forfeite fund uh was established to account for seizures of cash, property or assets

suspected of being involved in drug trafficking or criminal activity and they are largely managed and passed through to the city from federal agencies. The combined budget for these funds this year is $870,000. Uh $700,000 in fund $121 will be used for the capital construction of the realtime intelligence center at the police headquarters and $170,000 in drunk asset forfeite funds is being allocated for the leasing and deployment of 57 automated license plate reader cameras for the coming year. Uh the next special revenue fund I'd like to present is the community development block grant fund or CDBG. Uh the city receives annual revenue from the federal department of housing and urban development also known as HUD. These funds are allocated towards activities that benefit persons of low and moderate income. Uh the economic development and housing division of the community development department is responsible for the administration of this program. Uh the proposed CDBG budget for fiscal year 2627 is just under 1.1 million for both revenues and appropriations. Uh CDD will be presenting the proposed CDBG public service and capital projects plan at the June 16th city council meeting. So stay tuned for more detail on the CDBG budget for next year. Uh now let's look at our street improvement funds which include the road maintenance and recovery act fund 123 and the state gas tax fund 125. Uh both funds receive revenues from the state of California which are collected through vehicle registration fees and fuel excise taxes. Burbank's combined projected revenues for RMRA and gas tax total approximately 6.3 million for fiscal year 2627 with total proposed appropriations of around 6.2 million. The RMR fund is proposing a budget of 2.5 million which is entirely dedicated

to the annual street and sidewalk improvement program for fiscal year 2627. The city is required to submit a list of city council approved projects to the state in order to receive these funds and the public works department will be returning to the city council on May 16th to present those projects. The gas tax fund 125 supports public works staffing for street projects and the annual maintenance of the city's traffic signals and regulatory guide sign replacements. Uh staff is also proposing to appropriate 800,000 in gas tax funds towards the city's annual street and sidewalk program for 2627. The public improvements fund 127 is funded by development impact fees charged to developers who bring new projects into our city. These revenues are restricted to funding projects that appear in the city's infrastructure blueprint or projects identified at the acce inception of the impact fee program. The budget for this fund includes anticipated revenues of 4.6 million with proposed appropriations of approximately 5.3 million for fiscal year 2627. Uh budget highlights for this fund include several capital projects which will be reviewed at next week's CIP presentation in two weeks or in two weeks, excuse me, including the new central library, the and civic center, the downtown mobility hub, and the Chandler bikeway extension. Uh, fund 128, which is our HUD affordable housing program, receives funding from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to increase the city's supply of affordable housing. Uh, this fund also provides permanent supportive housing vouchers to assist unhoused individuals. And also included is the home investment partnership program, which uses HUD funding to increase the supply of affordable housing in the city. Uh the majority of this year's fund 128 budget is dedicated towards continuing a continuum of care permanent supportive

housing which will cover administration and materials supplies and services cost along with housing assistance payments. Okay, we've made it through our special revenue funds and if you can hang on with me uh for just a few more minutes, we have a few more funds to cover before we conclude our presentations for the evening. The Burbank Housing Authority contains two funds whose purpose is to provide affordable housing for lowerincome residents. The section 8 program provides rent subsidy payments directly to landlords on behalf of very low-income tenants. Of the approximately 16.4 4 million operating budget for this fund. 13.9 million will go directly towards housing assistance payments and 500,000 will go towards emergency housing assistance payments in fiscal year 2627 to help households experiencing homelessness and those at risk of being unhoused. Uh the remaining balance is used to cover the administrative cost of the program. The low and moderate income housing fund 305 lost its primary funding source with the elimination of redevelopment when it received 20% of the RDA tax increment. Current revenue projections of 364,000 are from rehabilitation loan repayments provided to low and moderate income households and interest earnings on the fund balance. The proposed budget for this fund covers program administration and does not include any new projects or appropriation for fiscal year 2627. Our next fund, the parking authority, fund 310, is managed by the community development department's transportation division. For the second consecutive year, the parking authority fund is no longer operating at a loss. Uh this, of course, is due to the new paid parking program in downtown Burbank. Projected parking authority revenues are at 2.3 million for fiscal year 2627, roughly 500,000 more than last year's revenue following the first full year of the program's implementation. The fund also receives revenue from parking permits

and leases for city-owned parking facilities. Proposed appropriations of approximately 1.7 million will cover the cost of operating the downtown parking program in addition to the operations and maintenance of downtown parking lots and structures and the administration of parking permit programs. Uh for fiscal year 2627, we are proposing to increase the amount allocated to the maintenance of our parking garages by 155,000 so we can provide a better parking experience to visitors of downtown Burbank. The final fund we're going to cover this evening is the successor agency, which is a fiduciary fund maintained by the city. Uh this means that we're responsible for these monies, but they don't actually belong to the city of Burbank. As part of the legislation that eliminated redevelopment agencies in 2012, successor agencies were established to oversee the unwinding of redevelopment agencies. The total successor agency budget for fiscal year 2627 is about 2.4 million, most of which will be utilized to pay bonded debt service. In order to receive these dollars, the city needs to submit an annual recognized obligation payment schedule to the county oversight board and then subsequently to the California Department of Finance for approval. Uh this was completed in January and the city received final approval from the department of finance in April. And that's a wrap. So this concludes uh the budget presentations for all of our city funds for fiscal year 2627. And with that, we have staff here from all of our departments who are happy to answer any questions the council may have about any of the material covered this evening.

Great. Thank you for that final presentation. Um so we're going to do public comment now and then on after that have a final um wrap up of council questions and comments. Okay, we have two um public comment cards. Since we only have two, you get up to three minutes. Our first public commenter is Ralph Mundelle, followed by Brian Smith. Welcome. Good evening, Mayor Takahashi, members of city council. My name is Ralph Mandell. I'm an 11-year veteran of the Burbank Fire Department. I'm a captain. Uh first uh I want to say that I'm here to represent the 133 members of the Burbank firefighters local 778 and I want to thank you for your ongoing investment, our fire department and public safety. Understand this is a tough budget year and I want to thank you for your continued investment in our firefighters and our paramedics. Uh we do view view ourselves as partners in public safety and protecting the city. And tonight I'm here to speak in favor of the 2627 fiscal year budget. really regarding two priorities that we have. Um the first one's going to be the integration of the 247 RA pilot into a recurring cost. Um basically our deployment has relied upon three ambulances since the year 2000. So really 26 years we've been running on three ambulances which uh has had a huge increase in call load during that time. Uh since the pilot went into effect for 247 in October, we've seen really two big things. first is that um we've had an increased transport capacity and the biggest thing also is that we've had a lot more availability of actual Burbank fire ambulances within the city. By making this a recurring budget item really it's going to it's going to decrease our reliance upon our

neighboring agencies, principally Glendale and Pasadena and it's also going to allow us to continue to have rapid response times and good patient care for our citizens. Um, the other thing that I'm here to talk about, our second priority is going to be the onetime funding to replace our aging apparatus fleet. So, we run about 13,000 calls, a little over 13,000 calls a year, which is huge wear and tear on our apparatus. Right now, we have an aerial ladder truck, which we talked about, um, as well as three rescue ambulances and a battalion vehicle or a command vehicle that need replacement. I cannot stress enough how important it is that we get these replaced. We cannot delay it because every delay in these replacements leads to higher in higher maintenance costs as well as uh really risks our operational readiness if we're unable to keep rigs in service for extended periods of time. Um and replacing them now is really an investment in our firefighter safety and as our citizen safety as well. [snorts] Um and as you all know as Burbank grows our um our risks and the risks we face also grow with it. So basically approving these requests um that our department is it's not only um reactive but it's moving us into 2026 uh proactively. So I just want to thank you for your time uh your consideration and your commitment to the safety of Burbank and it citizens.

Great. Thank you for your comment. Next up and our final speaker is Brian Smith. Welcome.

Good evening, honorable council members. Uh, I have the good fortune of serving as the vice uh, chair of the Burbank Water and Power Board and I'm just here to make a statement in support of the budget as it's presented. Uh we had uh two meetings uh with vigorous debate and uh thoughtful questions. Uh the utility was able to come back with uh $24 million in operational budget savings to offset cost increases outside of the utilities control and still maintain the existing rate schedule and proposed 2-year budget as it was presented last year. uh culminating in a unanimous approval on April 2nd uh our April 2nd meeting. Uh I'd also like just to thank uh Mayor Takahashi for joining our meeting in January and invite council members to come to any one of our meetings. We'd love to see you there. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. All right, we'll now move on to council questions and comments. I'm going to start with um Council Member Perez um since she's getting late and she has her baby. So um would you like to make questions or have questions or comments? Council member Perez. Um I don't have questions. I I just have one item for deliberation. All of my other questions about the budget have been answered in the uh peacemail way we've been doing it. Okay. go ahead and um add your comments or requests.

Oh, great. I thank you. I I appreciate it. I have a a [clears throat] little one who's reaching fever territory and it's time to help her relieve her fever. So, um I I just want to ask for a budget white paper and I can give staff the details now. So, um I just want to ask for a one-time expenditure only for up to $50,000 and ask staff to come back with an emergency assistance fund for residents impacted by immigration enforcement actions. And I'd like uh staff to look at the cities like Pasadena, Santa Ana, San Fernando for examples and look to the county of LA and the California Community Foundation as a potential funding uh partnership and look to Home Again LA as an example because they are already the nonprofit that is servicing the other cities in in the region surrounding us including San Fernando and LA. I know that's a mouthful, but it would I just wanted to give staff options to come back with some um potential options for us as a council to review.

Great. Thank you. Staff got that. Okay, great. It is 11. It is 11 o'clock. So, I I don't know if you guys want to continue or before you all make the motion, I am going to have to recuse myself from the rest of the meeting. I have to go take care of my little one. She's got a fever. Yeah. Yes. Thank you for joining us. Hopefully you feel better soon. And your baby, too. Thank you. More worried about her, but thank you. Yeah. Bye. Thank you, everybody. Bye. I'll make a motion to move beyond 11. Oh, you you need to tell us what else is on the agenda, Mr. City Manager.

Yes. So, uh, so this is what I'd recommend because we still have a lot of staff out here and I know they got to get back to work, uh, tomorrow morning. So, I'd like to wrap this up, uh, this discussion as soon as we can as far as getting your last comments and any additional requests and then, uh, um, if you guys like, I I'm totally comfortable, uh, at that point if we want to do the additional agenda item and uh, hopefully wrap it up within the hour. Okay. Do you want to go ahead with the additional agenda item or afterwards? Okay. Okay. So, let's just wrap up our Yeah. So, we can send everyone home. So, I'll make a motion to go beyond 11:00. Second. Okay.

You can just do a show of hands. It's okay. Great. Okay. So, let's do our final comments and questions and comments for the budget. Um, Council Member Anthony. Uh, yeah. I was uh we had a white paper last year uh about a um a study to do minimum wage uh I know uh that was during the early comment uh can we just bring that back just the same same white paper from last year. Okay. All right. Any other comments, questions? No. Um I have also one white paper request which is um uh for exploring the possibility of adding a third community garden.

Yes. Um I believe you all got a um an email from I believe sustainable commission. I'm not sure but uh we we'll we'll include that um as part of the uh the discussion paper.

Great. Thank you. All right. Is there anything else about the budget item before we move on? No. Okay. Well, then then uh that's part one of several parts of discussing the budget. So, thank you all for being here tonight and being ready to answer questions just in case. Thank you to all who did presentations and enjoy your evening. Hopefully, you can get to sleep soon so you can have a good night's sleep before coming back to work tomorrow. Didn't even check my calendar yet. Okay, next up now we will hear council comments including reporting on council committee assignments, attendance. We still have one report. Yeah, we do the we do this first and then we do that last one. You're talking about the agenda item that Yeah, that's this and then the agenda. Yeah,

I know. It's like it's confusing. Yes. Uh [snorts] yes. So, council comments including reporting on council committee assignments, attendance and conferences and regional meetings and community events. Who would like to go first? Council member Anthony.

Um yeah. Uh thank you, [clears throat] uh Madame Mayor. Um, so on April 25th, uh, I saw Council Member Rosati and you, Madame Mayor, at the Earth Day event. Did I Were you there, Vice Mayor, or No. Oh, okay. Uh, I'll let you talk about that when you had a nice, uh, presentation there, uh, Madame Mayor. Um on the 27th, um I heard some uh regional stakeholders uh discussing uh Assembly Bill 91 about uh getting um uh Armenian checkboxes on our uh demographics uh both statewide and federally. Uh interesting uh conversation about that. Um we all were at the uh the or most of us were at the Ritzy the Solar Project ribbon cutting. Um, a bunch of people showed up. That was very cool. And we're very excited for that. And, uh, that's it for me.

All right. Who would like to go next? Council member Rosati.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, Thursday the 23rd, I met with the member of the public. Um, on the 24th, um, I gave the welcome remarks for the Afro Animation Summit, um, 2026 Icon Awards, which was very cool at the Castaways. And then on the 25th, I attended Earth Day with many of you. Um, that was a great event. The the weather turned out to be pretty good um, and well attended. And then on the 29th, I went to the leadership Burbank New [snorts] Day disco fundraiser event which was uh great because they got to unveil their their project uh for this year and Madame Mayor was there. Um so that was a that was actually a really nice event and then um the 30th uh I attended the ribbon cutting for uh St. Bellerin Jefferson Bel Jeff's 90th anniversary in our community. Um and then I attended the kids dental clinic open house. They're moving to just over the border to Glendale. Um but it's a very uh unique space in that it provides them a lot more space parking to get a lot more services which is important. And then um on Saturday uh many of us went to the Boys and Girls Club uh rock uh yacht rock gala and we got to see everyone um in their yacht rock costumes which was fun. Um, and then I went to uh the intro Burbank rooftop site visit for the chamber excellence awards uh which will be

coming up uh I think at the end of the month. Um and then I attended the the Kowanas golf tournament at the Bell uh golf course here in Burbank. And then um I met with the chief uh earlier this afternoon. Thank you, Vice Mayor. You want to go next?

Thank you. Um on the 22nd, I met with a group of uh business owners here at the Chamber of Commerce. Um just to hear their thoughts and feedback on our programs and um how business is running here in the city of Burbank. So it was good discussion. This same afternoon I attended the Burbank creative industry task force meeting and that was in meeting number three. Um we have one more meeting in June and then we'll conclude the discussion bring back to council for um final discussion and recommendations. And on April 23rd, I went to FSA for Create Denim Day, um, decorating jeans. And for Denim Day, they had it at FSA. Um, April 27, I attended the Burbank Community and Impact interview students. Um, it was a online, it was a Zoom call interviewing me about city of Burbank. Then on the 28th I met with some uh residents from Catalina Street talk about the ongoing issue with ARC. On the 29th I had the Aoya Verdugo Communities GPA meeting and uh on the 30th I attended the Valley Economic Alliance 31st anniversary gayla which was very lovely. On May 1st, um we attended BWP regional the Ritzy the solar project. Like council member Anthony said, it was really well attended. Congratulations to BWP for um finally have it up and running. May 2nd, the Gayla for the Boys and Girls Club. Yes. And I wore my

captain's hat. That was fun. Um and uh let's see what else. Yesterday I met with one of our senior citizen members uh on the committee of on the board actually about some um concerns and also some suggestions and recommendations she's making to improve the meeting and also to uh to improve some programs for our seniors. Then this morning I attended a ribbon cutting um for plumbing wholesale outlet. They've been here for 10 years and they just wanted to invite the community to come out and um know [clears throat] where they're at and talked about their locations. Um and then I also attended uh a meeting with the chief um talked about some concerns and issues in the community. That was it. lot of meetings.

Thank you. Um, Wednesday, April 22nd through April 24th, I was up in Sacramento at Cal Cities um doing um cities week advocating for various issues including SP79 and the impact it has on us. And the 25th on that Saturday did the Earth Day event and later on in that afternoon I did a ribbon cutting for Beyond Martial Arts uh 25th year and year celebration. Um and then uh the 27th I met with Mandep at BWP and discussed um the utilities and just got updates. On the 29th, I went to uh the Farmers Insurance Cred Federal Credit Union ribbon cutting. And then later that evening, I went to the Leadership Burbank um disco fundraiser event. That was fun. Some of the outfits, the disco outfits were really fun.

Some people did. They did. Yeah, they were very disco.

Oh, yeah. Their project is a New Day Laundry and it's a mobile laundry service that they're fundraising for and there's already one in LA that I don't think it serves Burbank and so the one that they're um funding is going to serve Burbank and some of the northern parts of Los Angeles. Yeah. And then on the 30th, I went to the Valley Economic Allianc's an um anniversary Valley of the Stars Awards Gala and I got a picture with what was what was his name? Um Mickey

Mickey Dorne from the Monkeys. Yes, that's super cool. And I grew up I actually grew up with the Monkeys apparently. I didn't know when I was growing up that they were reruns of the original airing. I thought they were they were new to me. So, we we watched them a lot when I was a kid. And then on the first I went to the Ritzy Solar Project um ribbon cutting and on the second went to the Boys and Girls Club Yacht Rock Gala. And yeah, it was really fun to see folks dressed up. And um there was one of the auction items was a puppy that was um went for $1,500 puppy. It was a very well love. It was very cute.

Almost got

Oh, really? Justin almost got a $1,500 puppy. Was a very cute puppy. I can see how you were tempted. We almost got it. And then on the 3rd, Sunday the 3rd, um I spoke at the Girls in Motion Summit at Luther Middle School. And um that's a really great program where they um work with women student athletes, girl student athletes, and focus on their mental health and the impact on social media. It's a really interesting intersection of sports and mental health. So it was great to be there. And then that afternoon I went to Solit Conservatory and attended the Burbank Creative Collective performance and saw some some amazing performances from our local artists. Um singing um instruments um poetry was really great. And then on the 4th, I went to that was yesterday, I went to the San Franando Valley Cog Transportation Committee meeting where a lot of our conversation was around highspeed rail and the impact of that. And then let's see, this morning at 7:40 in the morning, I went to uh Glendel Community College as a guest lecturer for one of their business classes and talked about how businesses partner with the city and the difference between private, nonprofit, and city business. That was an leadership, too.

What was the class? I'm not sure the exact name of the class. It um Armand Aakanians from the board school board. It was his class. Yeah, he invited me. And then this afternoon, um, I went up to the landfill and organics mulching facility, um, for the mayor show. Did filming up there. It's really cool. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. The landfill is impressive. And then the organics processing area is impressive, too. Um, and then this afternoon I had a meeting with some folks from an organization called Women in Media, and they have some really great ideas about how we can support the entertainment industry. So, that was a great meeting. All right, so last up is our consideration for previously introduced agenda items. U, Madame Mayor, real quick, um,

let me see if I can get all this done. uh due to an abundance of caution. Um I do have to recuse myself from this discussion uh based on uh recent donations made to a local um ballot measure committee of which I am the sole controller. Um state law and FBPC guidelines uh really lay out a clear involvement of what I can and cannot say especially um with this body. And lastly, I would just mention uh those same um uh laws and guidelines prevent me from speaking to any of you outside of this chamber or prior to tonight or after to tonight. So, thank you. So, does that mean you're going to leave the room? I see. Okay. For the evening?

Yes.

All right. Well, have a good night then. Okay. So, now's the time for the consideration of previously introduced agenda items. As a reminder, this is council's process for adding additional agenda items. The one item for consideration tonight was requested by Vice Mayor Mullins during the meeting of April 21st, 2026. Vice Mayor Mullins will have two minutes to provide a brief explanation of the request along with how to request ties to city council goals. After that, council will vote on whether or not the item should be added as an additional agenda item for consideration at a future meeting. If needed, council may provide clarification or additional information to staff regarding the agenda item. The first item is Vice Mayor Mullen's request for clarification on council protocols and expectations under the council code of conduct, particularly regarding individual council member Constantine Anthony involvement in any city proposed ballot measures. Vice Mayor, the floor is yours.

See if I can talk as fast as you did. Uh I wrote it down so we'll see. Don't hold me to the two minutes. Um so the reason I asked for the report um be due obviously to members of the community concerns regarding actions taken by council member Anthony that is inconsistent with the city of Burbank's council go uh code of conduct. Um, it has been reported that council member the council member engaged in an outreach to members of the the public to solicit donations for the committee supporting a potential ballot measure that has not been formally agendaized or approved by council. Additionally, there are concerns that the committee reference uh may be linked to an existing campaign account for the county supervisor's position. Given the concerns raised by the community, I wanted this body to have a chance to discuss this matter um and to look at the violation of the code of conduct to determine the proper action and that should be taken to address the community concerns um that uh that has been uh spread because of the false pretense of um obviously asking for a donation for a measure that has not been adopted. approved or even discussed by this body. Um I do have this is well the reason I wanted to bring this up. In addition to that, there's additional code of conduct um violations that we've heard tonight uh which I believe falls under the same bundle of code of conduct and that is um the involvement of a council member contacting a business, a private

business to interfere in their operation and to interfere in their um policy or rental. However, whatever it is that they've engaged in an agreement on a contract on contrary to what the body that was renting the place from them, what the purpose of it um in contrary to the mis maybe misunderstanding thinking um you know whether this is a hate group or not hate group, but for a council member to engage in a conversation and text messages demanding that this contract to be cancelled. That is not our place nor that this is the place for council to be interfering. Um with that I wanted us to talk about the actual conduct for both sides. Uh one is the seeking of money or donations and putting out false information about the um me potential measure that's coming. I'm I'm assuming it's going to become come come before us to to listen to. And the second one is the interference. Um and I know you stated, Madame Mayor, and I I'm in total agreement with you that um everyone has the right to demonstrate. We do not stop anyone from uh demonstrating, talking about, expressing their feelings. But we also have no place here in the city for hate. Um, demonstration with violence, they don't go hand in hand. You demonstrate, you respect the demonstration. But that is not even the issue. The issue is not the demonstration. The issue is not the fact that this group was having a meeting. The issue is our interference in a

business in the city of Burbank, which we know this could have very easily happened to us and asking to rent one of our spaces, which again we heard from the city manager earlier saying we cannot tell them no once they sign the agreement, provide insurance and do everything um that we have in requirement. So, there's two things that really is bundled up under the code of conduct. Um, I want to hear first from this council and I do have um a proposal uh especially on the first item, but I'd like to hear back from both of you since we're the only people here in the room to see what your well we have audience, but I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm talking about uh council members and thank you for staying late by the way. So, um those are my concerns and they're very valid. Uh unfortunately, these two situations happened, the community is concerned. They brought it to our attention and we need to address them. So, I'll weigh in and wait till you guys weigh in. Before we do that, could I ask the city attorney um since council member Anthony is not here um uh you know any any any um feedback on how to proceed without him here? And also um it sounds like he had considered his involvement in this discussion based on his involvement with that um committee. So could you at least maybe could you speak to that and help us understand that part of it?

Yes. So, um, as I understand it, based upon some of the filings that I've seen, I think they're form 401 filings or whatever with the FPPC, uh, he has a committee that he's formed with, uh, treasurer and and other officers, um, and he's engaging in support of various ballot measures, um, or intent to support ballot measures in Burbank. Um, and that's not as a council member. That's his own private uh political activity. Um, so that's not really addressed in these um codes. But with regard to his presence or non-presence, there's an enforcement process on page 13 of 14 of the council's code of conduct. And so this is a um the float up procedure of the council is that a council requests a future item and then it comes back to this body uh to see if there's support for it to come back for further discussion. Separately under the enforcement procedure under process, any council member who wishes to bring a complaint against another council member for violation of the code of conduct may request a future agenda item at a notice public city council meeting citing a concise description of the alleged violation. The future agenda item request must be seconded by another council member for placement on the agenda for council discussion. Any discipline imposed by the council shall be determined by majority vote of the council members. Three-fifths of the public uh at a public meeting. Council members, however, may only be removed from office by the voters. So, uh in that regard, this is the time and place for council member Mullins to state the basis and see if there is a second to have this

come back for a discussion. Also under the procedures um the council could censure uh basically reprimand the council member. Um but staff would need to understand the rationale and you know presume council hasn't done this before. You've come close. You've had discussions uh in the past. Um but presumably we'd write up a a you know resolution for the sens censure or a motion uh and bring that back. So whether he chooses to participate or not the council's still at liberty um to discuss and take action.

Okay. You had mentioned and and I'm sorry you did ask another question about the grounds. So the specific discussion last time uh had to do with um his fundraising for ballot measures

and kind of stepping out in front of this body by mentioning a topic which has not yet been put before the body. um which I think uh to the council member's point, vice mayor's point, um it could be misleading to the public because it's it's an issue that um uh while it may be working through the city manager's office to come to you, it's not yet an official position of the council, but perhaps what I'm understanding is was presented to the public as if it was a done deal. And so perhaps it's misleading the public. Um that's one issue. The second issue uh regarding uh the event at the uh board of realators facility um is a is a different issue and we'd have to take a look to pinpoint um the exact grounds uh whether council wants to just make a motion and have it come back and discuss. Um, but there's some question in in my mind as to false pretense and whether there's a violation of a state campaign regulation. Um, we don't have specific campaign regulations in the code of conduct. So, that may be a matter for state law and state interpretation. Uh, not something that we would specifically deal with. um which is separate from this issue of the council member and a planning commissioner's private um political activity on Burbank Boulevard last week

on Magnolia. Sorry, excuse me. Okay, go ahead.

I just want to add clarification. There's also um in the past if we as a council come to determination there's um something that we can vote on tonight in order not maybe to bring this back again for another discussion and and propose a motion and if you have directions from the majority of the council to carry this forward we can do that as well as we have done in the past with you know oh just bring us a paper or email us some information so we don't have to necessarily add it again in a future agenda item. Well, we're [clears throat] also limited by the agenda description. So, this was a request for clarification

concerning the protocols and expectations under council's code of conduct. Correct. which includes the behavior and includes also um issues that could be conflicting with FAPC requirements and things that we need to be looked at in nature for seeking funds for something that did not under false pretense.

Right? So I don't know that the under false pretense is strictly a code of conduct item. So um if it's something that falls under the jurisdiction of the FPPC or the attorney general or some state. So in this area there have been um regarding campaign financing and committees. We don't have those laws on our books, right?

So I can't recommend an action to you this evening because it may require um you know an opinion from a state agency. Right. Um, so you've asked for clarification. I think we do need clarification because the issue with ballot measures and a uh committee may be beyond your code of conduct if I could just chime in. So, I I think if you're asking for clarification as far as it relates to the uh uh um campaign financing thing, I think if you if uh um if you decide to do that uh tonight, you could give staff work direction to go ahead and and do that. Mhm.

I think if you're going to do anything like uh take action with respect to like a censure, um I think that that would require us to come back actually put together a draft censure resolution for the council to vote on it, which kind of um corresponds to the last uh that the the enforcement page on the code of conduct that three-fifths of the is placed on the agenda and three uh majority um uh needs to vote on it. So I think you could do you could ask for clarification and move that forward uh without having to come back but I think uh if it's a it's a formal censure you will need we will need to put together

prepare it and come back with an action correct but that there is a there is some other things that can be done and voted on today it to move forward in giving directions to staff to follow up and that's assuming you have the the vote Right. Yes. Okay. I'll wait until everybody has a chance to talk. I don't know. Okay. Council member,

so uh just regarding the code of conduct, um I reviewed all the documents and I was present also at the protest, but I reviewed the documents that were sent by the Burbank Association of Realators and the text messages. Um I reviewed the document Mr. Donnie Huset sent about um the assault and then I reviewed the city attorney's letter with the attached letter from the person holding the event and um it's very disturbing if if you if you read everything that that has been presented. You have text messages and calls that show that a local business has been threatened, was coerced, and they were trying to intimidate. Particularly the comments, I want to deal with this quietly. So, what's what's the opposite of that? Blowing it up to what what exactly happened? um all over the internet, flyers in the neighborhood. I'm also disturbed that the council member brought in a city resource and access the chief for his own personal vendetta. I don't think the chief understood what was going on, but the reality is he brought in the chief to make a phone call to try to stop this event. Um, I witnessed the council member and the planning commissioner member who organized this protest. at the protest where people were assaulted, entryways were blocked,

sidewalk walks were blocked, and both did nothing about it. And then BOR, the Burbick Association of Realators, put out a statement about renting the hall, discrimination, potential them getting sued. And then the council member sends another text message and then goes on Instagram or Facebook and he says, "Uh, nowhere does it say sorry or apologize. You guys need to donate whatever money you charged them ASAP. People are pissed off. I highly recommend donating the full amount immediately. Until this action is taken, your words are empty. more threats, more intimidation. It was just like doubling down on on everything that that occurred. Um, you know, we see we received the city attorney's letter um and and the attached email um that the association was hosting the event, stating the same thing that that had been on online and in the in the in the leaflet that was passed out. Um, then we receive a complaint from Mr. Donahghue outlining the same behavior, premeditated intimidation, interference with lawful business, creating fear and anxiety, sanctioned panic and mon um

fear-mongering. And then our city attorney sends us a letter which outlines and exposes the city. Uh council member, um I'm going to caution you not to disclose any communications that I provided to you as your counsel. Oh, is that confidential item? I'm sorry. I didn't know that. Yes.

Okay. So, I'll stop there. Um and then lastly, the text messages, you know, there's this tit for tat. Oh, well, I don't know if he's a council member. I don't know if he's acting as a personal individual. text messages have Constantine Anthony council member on there. So, and we are all council members. We all have to hold ourselves to a higher regard. And for all this to unfold and just all this drama around this event, it it's again it's uh unbecoming of of a person in in that position. All right. So, it seems to me that there there might be two separate considerations here of I or maybe not, but um there's the uh committee and the information that was shared that was um not information that he had um it was not correct information. It was not information that he had the authority to share to the public. There's that and and then the combination with the um the committee and then there's the the communications that he had with the realators association. And those two um issues are they seem to be separate potential violations or separate um one of them is uh communications that's inaccurate and not approved and the other one is disrupting private business. Um so I'm wondering um Mr. city attorney that for the second one, do we have a clear determination

that he was speaking as a city council member? And because you have you have um discussed with us before the challenge of when even though there's an elected official, there's a commissioner that if one is speaking on behalf of themselves, they have the right to do that. Um, and then if they're speaking as a council member, that's when the code of conduct comes in. So, have you been able to have there's been enough time to review the materials for the realtor situation to determine whether he was speaking as a council member representing the city or whether he was speaking whether he had the right to speak on his own behalf? So, I'm going to give you an answer,

but it's going to sound a little technical first because I haven't done anything official except react to um representations that could have been seen as him representing the city, but I don't yet have council direction to jump in and do work on this. That's what the purpose of this agenda item is, right? and the new facts came up since this request was made. Right? But if you look at the first half of the agenda item, it's Vice Mayor Mullen's request for clarification of council protocols and expectations under the code of conduct.

So regardless of whether it's the ballot measures, regardless of whether it's this um protest of otherwise lawful activity, um uh I think it falls under this agenda item. Now, based upon council member Rosat's kind of findings that he just went through and this review of the ethics provision of your code of conduct, starting on page two of 14, um there are issues with both concerning a council member's obligation to act in the public interest and that is representing the whole community, not one's special interests. So, you raise a good point. Was he acting as an individual or was he acting as a council member? Well, an individual doesn't get to call the chief of police and ask them to go intervene,

that would be acting uh presuming to be a council member to make that phone call,

right? Um otherwise, you don't get the chief of police on the call. You get an officer that will come to investigate an allegation, right? Um you've got complying with laws. Well, as a council member, you have an obligation to uphold the constitution. How was he acting? Was he acting as a individual or was he acting as a council member? Right? So, these are things for you to to discuss, but based upon what council member Rosati just said and what members of the community said this evening, there's a question, was he upholding the constitution uh with that conduct? Um, uh, Council Member Rosati talked about use of public resources. So, that goes back to him calling the police chief directly, uh, to try to compel some action. So, you can discuss that and whether that was within your expectations of ethics, a representation of private interests. So, it seems from the written materials that were presented to me that he is engaging in fundraising activity based upon information that's not yet been presented to the council. So, is that representing his private interests as a um organizer of a um fundraising entity, a a political action committee? Um with information that he gained as a council member that has not yet been become the official like there is no ballot measure until this body uh agrees to put something on the ballot. So, um, and then in terms of advocacy, um, he's advocating positions that aren't the positions of the council. Maybe that's just private conduct, right? He's

right. Any council member is engaged to is permitted to engage in any form of advocacy you would like, as long as you're not misrepresenting it as a position of the council. Um, you'll have to decide what your views are. From what I saw, I I I didn't see him saying this is the council's position.

Um, and then in terms of there's there's another one that was advocacy is uh A13 uh 8:14 is policy role of members. Members shall respect and adhere to the council manager structure of Burbank city government. In this structure, city council determines policies. uh members cannot interfere with the administrative functions of the city. So council members don't independently direct department heads to undertake activity.

They work through the city manager. They give direction to the city attorney. Uh and um you know I haven't assessed all the evidence but it appears there was direction uh given to the chief of police. So those are factors for you to consider at least with regard to the um your code of cond your written code of conduct. So I made some shorthand notes that was uh paragraphs A1 A2 A11 A12 A13 and A14. So given that information um based on this is a not an agenda item but it's uh up for consideration of agendaizing is that something that we can deliberate and hash out tonight or do we need to hash that out first before we can um make a move forward. Is that something that we need to

So to Mr. Hessa's point, uh, we would appreciate the opportunity to hear which of those or others you believe are grounds for some type of censure or reprimand. Uh, and then we would take your deliberations and try to return with that for for your action cuz I'm I'm wondering sounds like there might be clear grounds, but it might also require some kind of discussion about the grounds. And I guess my question is that is that discussion about whether or not we have grounds or what the grounds are is that something we can do on this item tonight before that agendaizing it. Can we can we discuss whether the grounds are there? Yeah. Yes.

Okay. All right. I'll make sure. Now, separately on the second half of your agenda description, it says particularly regarding individual council member involvement in ballot measure. And I take that to mean not just the measure itself, but the fundraising for a measure that council hasn't yet placed on the ballot. There may be state law implications uh or interpretations that are not within uh my province and I would need to seek uh separate clarification from that. Right.

So, okay. If if it's okay, I I'd like to uh propose something that we get that ballot measure out of the way so we can focus more on the code of conduct. Um so I'm I'm proposing to make a motion uh to the city attorney to and and let me read it and and we'll see where we land with this. So, I'm making a motion to the city attorney to seek an opinion from the FPPC and the attorney general attorney general and provide guidance including any revalent opinion regarding potential conflict of interest involving council member Anthony. Specifically, there is a concern about the establishment of an open committee, better burbank, and whether funds raised through the committee are being directed toward his campaign for county supervisor. Again, this matter was brought to my attention as an ethical concern, and I'm seeking clarification on whether it's permissible to solicit donations for potential future ballot measure while comingling those funds under the same campaign identification number used for the county supervisor position. So this will be a motion that I'm making to the city attorney to really seek the FPPC opinion and the attorney general because on the optics on the outside that's what is perceived by the public

is this there they have come to us or I should speak personally um because they come here to the podium and they talked about it. We got the emails, we got text messages saying, "Wait a minute, there is a committee here." And this committee, we noticed it was linked there. And if he's absolutely in the right to do that, then that's wonderful. I mean, I don't think any of us are getting enjoyment having to discuss this at midnight.

Um, because we have an axe to grind. We just we want to address the public's concern. So, I'm making this motion to seek the FPPC, to seek an attorney general to say, you know what, you folks are wrong. Wonderful. We'll walk away or if there is an issue or concern, then we need to address that. So, um there's I guess a motion on the floor. Okay. Do you have any reflection on that? Is there a second on that motion? I'd second that motion.

Okay. Um so, quick discussion on that before we vote. Um so that would be to provide clarification on what the laws are um around that particular issue and it's not so much a code of conduct per se. It's that second part of what we're discussing for the staff report because there's the two of them. One is soliciting or seeking funds. The other one is the false pretense under the code of conduct even talking about a measure that hasn't even happened.

Right. and speaking on behalf of council saying, you know, I'm seeking the funds to support this measure and I'm not mentioning names, but you know, we all saw the text message and some of other communications. So, I I'd like to put this out there. Exactly. Just to put it to rest to ask the city attorney, can you get us an opinion from the FPC? Can you get the attorney general? And again, I'm hoping the answer, yeah, sure, he can do this. I it really doesn't matter, but we need to find out if this is right or wrong. Okay. So, um you said to get this out of the way first. This is going to take some time. Oh, no. I don't I'm not in possession of

the whatever the the um false pretense and and the different uses. I will need to first gather information and then the fastest I've had FPPPC opinion turnaround in the last year and we've done several um has been five weeks after we submit the question. So that we may get back to this code of conduct thing before I get No, I'm I'm talking about tonight like to get this out of the Oh, no. I know how long they are. I can see the panic on your face. I can't get back.

I have we have four issues pending with them on a different bank again. Um so specifically you're looking for the the issue of the the um for like how he's using the the um committee and the funding the the coingling of the funds, right? the um misrepresentation is a separate that's a separate issue because it's not necessarily about the coingling of funds. So the FPPC issues about the fundraising and whether he can do that with the supervisor fund and all that that part of it. Yes, the coingling of funds raising money going into committee but co-mingling it and

that is a question in the community. it gets asked, it's being asked quite a bit and um I think that that would it also is um coming in with the conversation about the um the code of conduct and so if we pull that out and clarify that or at least have that being pursued then we can separate that conversation from the

correct because I think that would be the attorney general even asking for funds for something that has not existed or does not exist and asking to make a contribution into a committee. because a potential placement on the ballot and also being very specific to how much money that needs to be raised or how much the city will end up making out of that specific measure. You said and and uh you said FPPC and AG. It may be only one of them. I have to look into that. Who who would be the appropriate?

Okay. Okay. I mean, you know, if one says, "Oh, this is not my area of responsibility." But we we just need this is to clarify for us and the public because again, it's nice to just know is this something wrong, right? So, we can put it to rest and we're able to answer those questions that we are receiving. Okay. So, that that item this is the item that I said I want to just put it aside, get out of the way so we can focus. Okay. So, there's a motion and a second. So, we do a formal vote on this or Yeah, it needs to be a formal formal vote. Okay, roll call, please.

Noting the absence of council member Anthony and the absence of council member Perez. Council member Rosati, yes. Vice Mayor Mullins, yes. And Mayor Tagahashi, yes. Thank you. Okay. Was there any further action you wanted to take on this item tonight? Um, so the code of conduct I you know the violations do you want do you guys want to agendaize it for future agenda or um you want to get that out of the way? I'm going to talk about it. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean it's here. We got we got everything here. So, uh I mean we there was quite a few questions that were raised and I witnessed to things that happened. Um, and obviously there's been several cited violations and I honestly um don't know like how many violations can we incur and we have to answer to the public about uh misconducts one after another after another. So uh this is why again I asked for this to be agendaized so we can have an open discussion. If you all feel well there's there's you know he council member Anthony will continue doing this and there's nothing we can do then at least um we were having this conversation. Unfortunately he's not in the room to defend himself or to say something but I guess that was a choice he made to walk out.

Yeah. zones, but um city manager talked about coming back with the censure uh verbiage.

Yes. So um so if if uh if the council wants to move forward with a formal censure, what we would like for you right now is to provide us kind of the findings or the grounds. Now, um, uh, the city attorney already provided, uh, section A1, A2, A11, A13, A12, A14 as potential grounds. So, uh, um, so there's no magic number necessarily, but we'd like you to at least uh uh articulate uh uh that that misbehavior or or um going against the code of conduct. So when we come back, we could have a draft resolution indicating here here's your draft resolution of what what how he broke the code of conduct.

Maybe if if the city attorney or city manager can explain to us what does that exactly do with the censure? What what what does it mean and what is it's a reprimand? Okay. So goes on his official record. It goes on official records saying there's no there's no there's no specific penalty. It's just goes in the record that he has acted outside your code of conduct, your norms and expectations.

So for this one um you know uh he stepped away from this discussion specifically around the committee.

Yeah. And so, um, since, uh, a censure is a reprimand, um, or, you know, whatever we decide to do to, uh, bring up the code of conduct is going to be basically some kind of reprimand or some kind of discussion with him. Um, that it makes sense to me that if we're going to move forward with something that he be here for that discussion one way or another. Um also um that this this discussion around this I still feel like there's some I don't know I feel like there's still more discussion to be had to understand what happened to understand um a kind of the whether something was done that was illegal or there's any kind of proceedings like with um the email we got from David Mr. Donahghue about possibly pursuing um something with BPD. I feel like that would be helpful to know before making a final decision on censure personally. Um but to the point that it's we could we could come back with a formal censure potentially. Um but at the same time whether we do a censure or not, the discussion I think is really important to have with him. Um, I think it would also be good to have council member Perez here as well to have a full discussion. And I'm particularly um concerned just myself um with using his position to um leverage the chief of police. That's the one area that I think for me is the most concerning. Um but again like the decision tonight this discussion um to go through it without without him here. I just I feel like it's I don't even it's not performative but it's basically complaining and then saying we don't like it and then that's pretty much it. So as much as I hate to push this into the another meeting and

to talk about this again, I really wish he had been here tonight and my hope is that he would have been here tonight to talk about this. So, I'm I don't know how you want to proceed forward, but I think if we're going to resolve this in some way, um I think it at least it looks like to me that it's probably best to move it to a future meeting somehow so that he can be here for that whether we do a formal centure or just bring the conversation to discuss and decide at that discussion what to do. So, does that mean when they come back, they come back with perhaps proposed language to see what censure would look like? Yeah.

I mean, including all the numbers you listed, Mr. City Attorney, because I couldn't write them all down, but they all fit in the categories [laughter] we talked about. Yeah. I mean, it's really council's prerogative. We could come back with the draft. We could come back with not a draft and just have a uh discussion about it. Um or we could come with a draft. It's it's up your direction.

Yeah. Um also for my personal preference is that I'm not so much interested in doing something that is necessarily punitive for past behaviors because what's done is done and that's we're dealing with that. I just don't want to see him doing it again in the future. Right. And so, um, while a censure is, um, like it it's a declaration of like we don't like what you did and we're going to put you on notice, but without that discussion of then what's the future behavior going to be and what our expectations moving forward are going to be, I really want to have that conversation somehow. So even if we do a potential censure, we have language or not, I want to make sure that whatever conversation we bring back is about through the rest of this basically definitely for this year but just in future um what we our expectations are moving forward um for this kind of thing. So I want to be really clear about what it was that he did to violate the code of conduct and how we don't want to see it again. Well, and and I think I I I understand and I'm I'm in agreement with that to to to see how do we prevent this from happening in the future and if we can prevent it,

we can. Yeah. Um but I think what's very disturbing to me is the fact that sending those text messages with a text message a title Constantine Anthony council member. Which one? during the FP during the the text messages about the um I believe that's what you indicated or the text messages about the realtors which the the realators he during this

and and I think it might be the same one I'm and I can't I'm not 100% sure but it's very easy to to verify that information but you you indicated it was for the realtors from the messages that we received from the messages that Sharita uh Smith from the Bourbick Association of Realtors. She supplied a letter with all the text messages. And if you go to the text messages, you'll see Constantine Anthony, city council. Got it. Okay.

So, it's that it's accessing the chief. It's again showing up in a suit and tie to the protest, allowing that to get out of hand without some kind of uh discussion with with the with with the folks. Um it's a lot. I mean I mean there's just there's so many letters and so many things here to discuss. I mean so what would you like to see then? What's your I would like to to be all a wraparound just let's see the draft have the discussion make the decision to use the draft and move forward or not and then have have a have him here.

Yeah. Let's see what he has to say. Yeah. I I don't know really what how do you defend it but he he'll say something. He'll want to say something so on his behalf. And I think he has that right. Yeah. I agree. I agree. So, it sounds like we um want to put it in a future. Do we have time at our next council meeting? Do we have I know we're doing budget for the next one, the one after that. Um

so, so we got we have our community grants program uh as one report along with the rest of the budget. So, you'll have uh capital infrastructure, all the discussion papers. Um if we if we could wait until June 2nd, that that's a way lighter night. there's just the budget adoption, but at that point, I'm hoping it's we've had we've already dealt with all the budget discussion papers and everything. So, so June June 2nd is a lighter night. Uh if if you want us to put it on for the 19th, uh we can. I know that's a busy week.

So, uh it's it's really council preference. We'll we'll do either. I I'd like to, you know, uh not do this at midnight if if we can again. So, um, so if if you guys are okay with June 2nd, we we we'd probably recommend June 2nd right now, but we're we're flexible. Yeah. What do you think?

It's fine because I know it's difficult discussing this at midnight as well. And if we're [snorts] going to have another long meeting, I think it's good that, you know, we have it early on in the evening. So, I'm okay with June 2nd, but I agree we should get the draft. Let's see what the language in there what it says. Allow council member Anthony to um provide an explanation. I don't know. I mean, you know, in all this information that we have and also council member Perez will be here

uh so we can have a discussion all of us about it. But in the meantime, that's why I wanted to get the FPPC request out of the way because that needs to be addressed separate and he doesn't have to recuse himself and walk away because we're not dealing with budgetary or FPPC committees. Okay. And then um one more question for you, Mr. City Attorney. Have you um spoken with council member Anthony about reminding him about using his title in texts and about you know obviously about not

previously I did not I saw a logo I did not inspect the logo but I u upon my cursory review I didn't see him using his title in the information that I've seen I didn't go through every single article um uh So without talking any more about my engagement with the council um that didn't stand out as uh one of the So it might be worth a reminder in the meantime before June 2nd. Yeah, I think we all received an email from the city attorney cautiousing us about I certainly have.

Yes, I remember you sending that and reading it over and I'm like how many times do we need to be reminded? But it's good that I think you need to post it every single week

for you. [laughter] No, no, but I I again this is um we we did all get the email and how do we need to use our social media and how we need to use our text messages and emails and personal and that brings and I know it's not the topic tonight but there is also something uh we probably have to do in a separate discussion um I think for the city manager as well because we need that reminder for our commissioners because Um the commissioner that was mentioned tonight kind of leading um the whole protest was uh his his own website, his planning commissioner, his own Instagram account that was used to encourage people to come out, which is absolutely fine. You know, we have nothing against protests. You have every right to do it. But again, not using the city title. You do not use commissioner on there. Use anything else you want to use. So this is another concern given the commissioners are out there doing their own thing and in in violation of using the same, you know, social media that we are told you can't do.

Okay. So if we bring it back on the June 2nd, was it June 2nd was the June 2nd? Um, we can maybe include that as well of just generally the commissioner the commission using using um our you know using a title on council but or even a title on commissioners as um code of conduct. It it is on the Instagram account. I don't know if that's we want to do that for if you want to do that as part of the same agenda item. Uh yeah, good point. It's just we can separate that as a discussion too on the second since we're addressing social media. We're addressing how to

It feels like I need an additional agenda item. Yeah. Oh, that's going to be the next item on this later. I see. Okay. Okay. Got [clears throat] it. Got it. Okay. And that's for June 2nd, too. Okay. Okay. Did we Did we every everybody straight now? What's going on? June 2nd. gonna bring it back for the whole council to discuss and you you have direction. Okay. I I I didn't hear a motion or a second. I need a motion or second on this. Okay. You want to make good

Okay. Uh I make a motion to bring back the item on June 2nd for discussion. the the item that we talked about the code of conduct with all the numbers that the city attorney mentioned to us and that include a draft of essential. Am I saying it? Second. I got it. Okay. Concerning the involvement uh or representations or actions before the event at the board of realators on April 28th. [clears throat] that and a combination of also misrepresentation of a measure being on the ballot coming up on the ballot which we haven't voted on.

Okay. He's going to recuse himself from that. Well, no, because we are talking just the fact that he went and said something about it that for a measure that would was not adopted by this council. I mean the the financial part is already separated. So, well, he still may recuse himself. He still may recuse himself if we do that. I You know what? It's a probably a good idea to stick with the realators for now. I think that's probably good to keep it, you know, run the risk of him recusing himself. That's fine. He still may anyway, but um that's a motion. That's a motion. Doesn't go anywhere without a second. Somebody speak up.

Yeah, Chris did the second. He used his bunny finger bunny fingers to bunny ears. Second. We're all Yes. All right. I guess we need to do official um vote. Uh noting the recusal of council member Anthony, noting the absence of council member Perez. Council member Rosati. Yes. Vice Mayor Mullins. Yes. Mayor Tagahashi. Yes. Thank you. All right. Now is a time for an introduction of additional agenda items. Do members of council have an introduction, Madam Vice Mayor? Okay, I don't have to work anymore.

I want to be done. Um, okay. Additional agenda item. I'd like to ask staff to bring back a report um on assembly bill AB 1033. This allows accessory dwelling the ADUs to be converted into and sold as separate condominium units. Um the Do you want an agenda item or a memo? No, I need an agenda item. First first report. Yeah. Will be brought back on the consideration for the agenda. Yeah. Yeah.

And I have a second item if I can read. I know I'm Hey, I'm ready for you tonight. Um yeah, I'm trying to read my own handwriting here. uh request a report with a review of the city's zoning regulation as they relate to massage establishments, including how uses are defined and differentiated between therapeutic massage centers and other massage related businesses. This came out of our Chamber of Commerce business meeting. Okay. Have we been getting emails about Okay. Anything else? Yep. Council member Rosati.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. I want to put on a future agenda item to review the code of conduct uh violations of Commissioner Member Van Gorder as it relates to our code of conduct, potential city liability, and have him potentially removed from the commission. Okay. All right. Nothing else. All right. We now adjourn the meeting to Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 for a joint meeting in the council chamber, 275 East Olive Avenue, second floor. Thank you and good night.