November 19, 2024 • 53 mins
Ever wondered how a small-town council member navigates the bustling halls of the California Assembly? Join us as Mayor Nick Schultz shares his riveting journey from local governance to state politics and his innovative strategies for bridging divides in a complex legislative environment. We celebrate community victories like the Dodgers' World Series triumph and the parade that united Burbank, elaborating on how such events fortify community spirit. Nick’s tales of knocking on 50,000 doors to secure his election success are nothing short of inspiring.
Experience the creative transformation of Burbank’s "State of the City" event, expertly reimagined by Public Information Officer Jonathan Jones and his team with an engaging "Back to the Future" theme. We explore how this newfound vibrancy is indicative of the city’s broader evolution. From the revitalization of the downtown area to the sophisticated redesign of the public library into a high-tech multimedia center, we delve into the community initiatives that are setting the stage for Burbank’s future.
Burbank is not only evolving through its events and infrastructure but also through practical urban planning. We discuss the reintroduction of parking meters aimed at optimizing downtown traffic flow, and the enthusiastic embrace of outdoor dining that’s become a lifeline for local businesses. As we look ahead to the Mayor's Christmas Tree celebration, we underscore the importance of maintaining Burbank’s charm while modernizing its amenities, ensuring a pet-friendly and vibrant environment for all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My Burbank Talks presents another edition of Ask
the Mayor, a monthly forumgiving the Mayor of Burbank an
opportunity to answer questionsfrom you, the listener, and
address issues important to theCity of Burbank.
Now let's join our hosts asthey welcome the Mayor of
Burbank.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, burbank, craig Short here with you once again
for another edition of Ask theAssemblyman Wait a second, wait
a second.
I mean Ask the Mayor.
And once again we have NickSchultz with us, who has just
been elected to the CaliforniaAssembly.
Nick, good to have you with us.
Oh, thank you, craig, happy tobe here.
And, of course, what would ashow be without Ross Benson?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know I haven't been in the studio in so long.
What camera.
Oh, there it is you know, Ihaven't been in the studio in so
long.
What camera?
Oh, there it is.
That's my camera.
Tell me how let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We got a show to go, or something like that you still
got it you still got it ross solots happened since our last
show, number one being we've hadthe election well, I, I would
argue number one is the dodgersjust won the World.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Series.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But number two, we had a big election, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Was that amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
The Dodgers?
Yes, oh my God, that'sincredible.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I mean the parade, it .
Just how many people could youget in one location that was
wearing blue, you know, I mean,it was just crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We didn't get one in 2020, so it was good to have
that one.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The first of many.
I hope, let's hope yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So let's just talk about a little bit about the
recent campaign.
So how did it go?
I'm sure you're happy with theresult, of course, but any
reflections back on the process?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now tell the truth.
I want to hear the truth here.
How many tennis shoes did yougo through, how many doors did
you knock on and how many babiesdid you kiss?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, I only kissed my two babies.
You know we're still actuallycompiling all the data, but, as
best we can tell, we probablyknocked on over 50,000 doors
over the course of the two years, and probably more than that.
But I'm I'm trying to beconservative.
Um, we made, oh gosh, somewherebetween 50 and a hundred
thousand calls texts on top ofthat.
(02:13):
Um, I mean, it was a lot.
It was a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think for assembly you had you know from from
Burbank, you now have your newdistrict which covers Huge it's
yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
A million people.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You don't think about it, but you're into different
neighborhoods.
Now, that's right.
You're so used to Burbank beingyour backyard and now you're
going out everywhere, knockingon doors in neighborhoods that
you probably couldn't even spellthe street names.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Oh, and to your question, I forgot Three pairs
of shoes.
That's what it took, becausethose hills in the sunlands of
Hanga, I mean, they're steep andit takes a lot to walk them.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You were a member, one of five.
Now how many are in theassembly?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
There are 80 assembly members, and so yeah to your
point.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Now you're one of 80.
Your voice is not as distinctas it was, and so you're going
to have your work cut out, andI'm sure you were going to
figure out how to make thatdifference, but it's probably
more of an uphill battle thanbeing one of five.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I think that's very fair to say.
The one thing I would saythat's similar is whether you're
talking about Burbank councilor you're talking about the
assembly.
Got to be good at math.
Can't do anything without atleast three votes on the council
or in the assembly.
You need 41.
I mean.
So at the end of the day, it'sall about you.
You can have all the best ideasin the world, but you have to
be able to motivate people andbuild a coalition, or else
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nothing gets done.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
How much of the assembly is is partisan.
Is it?
Is there a lot of partisanshipthere, or is it?
Is it pretty well free thinkers?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know, I would say there aren't, in my view, as
many critical, independentthinkers as I'd like to see.
But at the same time, here's,here's the reality.
It's the same as Burbank CityCouncil.
The bulk of what they handle 80, 90 percent it's bipartisan.
It's the budget, it's, you know, uh, funding for our highways
or funding for our schools.
(04:08):
We, you know, there's 10% thatis deeply partisan and very
divided, whether that's on thecouncil or the legislature.
But we don't really talk enoughabout how bipartisan most of the
business is.
Um, just to give you a sense ofthe legislature's composition,
uh, so in the assembly, um,we're still waiting on the final
number, but I think theDemocrats lost a couple seats
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this year, so it's going to bestill about 60 seats, so three
quarters of the assembly, toabout 20 Republicans or so.
And then on the Senate, it'skind of the same thing.
There's only 40 members there,but it's similarly divided.
So, you know, but even withinthe Democratic Party there, but
it's similarly divided.
But even within the DemocraticParty, there are very different
kinds of Democrats.
And just because there's a D infront of your name does not
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mean people will like your bill.
Issues like housing, which wehave talked about and can talk
about tonight.
As you both know, they arebipartisan.
There are Democrats andRepublicans that can hate a bill
just as much as anyone else, sothat's where it gets
challenging.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think you're going to have a little battle in some
areas, but I think also it's.
You know we don't hear a lotabout the assembly, so one of
the things we want to do isinvite you next year to come a
couple of times on I'll be back.
Talk about you know, the issuesyou're working on, the issues
that will face Burbank to apoint.
Talk about the issues you'reworking on, the issues that will
face Burbank to a point.
Let's face it.
At one time we got hit by acouple of bills that we weren't
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prepared for and, for whateverreason, it would be good to know
what's kind of in the pipelineand stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, I think you had said early on, when you were
running, the reason you chose torun is you a Burbank to have
coverage?
If we, when we lost LauraFriedman, our assembly member,
there was nobody in the assemblyfighting for Burbank and I
think that was one of thereasons you said you, you know,
one of the reasons you wanted torun was support Burbank.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm with Anthony Portantino gone now too.
Look it's.
I know you know there's.
There's so much more we'll talkabout tonight as it relates to
Burbank, but I will say it'sgoing to give me tremendous
pride when so.
So one little thing about theassembly is it's sort of an
etiquette thing, but you neverrefer to assembly member Benson.
It's always the assembly memberfrom wherever that's just the
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way they do it.
Member from wherever, that'sjust the way they do it.
It's going to give me a littlepoint of pride and I'm going to,
like you know, tear up when I,when I start thinking about the
assembly member from burbank.
Like that hasn't been said onthat floor in a long time,
except for maybe a blip whenpaul krikorian was living in
burbank, right, like it's been awhile.
So I'm I understand, andeverything that I say and do and
every vote that I cast, they'regoing to hear burbank a lot on
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that floor and I'm going to tryto do my very best to represent
our community.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, that means when we watch the six o'clock news
we see the ticker, tear, the.
What's that called at thebottom?
The ticker, yeah.
The ticker, it'll say fromBurbank, you know, so we might
see it there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know what I do is when I get press releases, you
know it always says you know thecandidate's name and I can't
even put the politician's name.
And they put whatever, I alwayschange it to Burbank.
If they represent Burbank, Ijust always change it to Burbank
so it localizes the story forus.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So that's Well and that's actually something that
you know.
Day one of orientation theyasked how would you like to be
identified?
Where are you from?
And I was proud to writeBurbank.
So it's always going to sayNick Schultz, d for Democrat
hyphen, burbank.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Get ready to get a lot of frequent fire miles.
But it's nice to have anairport in your own district,
your own backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Anyhow, I had heard that from Portatino.
In fact he loved flying BurbankAirport.
But it is convenient for you tojump on a flight and you have a
new airport or new terminalmight be one of the most
frequent passengers in thatthing well, let's get on to a
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couple.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Let's go a little bit past here.
Let's talk about the state ofthe city, which was probably the
most, uh, um, popular one.
I I know they sold out and aretrying to get more seats put in.
It was, it was a very, it was ahuge event.
Um, as always, jonathan jones,your pio, yeah, and his staff
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was I'd like to I was like I'mgonna sit with them at their
table um, very talented people,and it really helps you out with
your videos.
The videos were absolutelyoutstanding, though, and, as
somebody who does a lot ofediting, I go wow, how did he do
that?
How did they do that?
Wow, that's really good.
I wish I could try thatsometimes, but I thought it was
very well communicated, verywell shot and you know what and
(08:40):
it wasn't too long.
Oh, thank you.
So what are your?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was going to first say I just want to say you know
I've gone, I've covered that foryears and years and besides
rubber chicken, you know it wasa pretty boring event to go to
but everybody the last two years, I think.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I ate the rubber chicken.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Jamie kind of hit it out of the park the last few
years and she really her team atthe Chamber and you got to say
our city PIO.
Jonathan, mary and the crew areso talented and you can tell by
.
You know he was walking like hewas walking on eggshells that
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day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Every year he's very nervous, you know, and you're
right.
Jamie does a tremendous job.
Ever since she's taken over thechamber, it's become a lot more
vibrant.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And you look at the people that were there.
It wasn't just your big studiospeople, it was small Magnolia
Park businesses and downtownbusinesses owners.
In fact I just saw somethingtoday that quite a few people.
It was their first time ever toa state of the city.
You did a great job.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So give us your reflections on the day and what
you thought about it.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, thank you guys for all the kind words and all
the credit goes to Jamie and toour PIO team.
I mean, the Chamber does anamazing event every year.
I mean shout out to themarriott for being a wonderful
venue that we go to.
How far advanced did you startworking on that?
Oh gosh, we probably talked inthe spring, like february or
march, maybe april, and jonathanand mary sat down and said what
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do you want the theme to be?
And that's where we picked backto the future and from there we
were off to the races and andto your point, craig, I mean the
production quality on thatvideo.
I mean they, they did anamazing job of taking a theme,
an idea that I had, and reallycommunicating it in a
spectacular way do you know thatabout the burger king in
burbank being part of that movie?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I actually did because that really tied it into
burbank it did.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I actually lived just a little up the street and
around the corner from there.
Um, I mean, I, I love thatmovie, as you can tell, and it
was really special to have amovie that had so much
connection to Burbank reallyhighlight the theme of the event
.
And then, of course, I thoughtI mean everyone did an amazing
job.
Jamie packed that room, pio hada huge event.
Shout out to them for preparingthe speech.
(11:02):
I don't envy my successor but Imean there was such a great
event put on this year.
I don't know how Jamie andJonathan top it, how can you top
it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
They'll find a way.
They'll find a way.
Well, you know, that's thething.
How do you top it?
I remember last year you did,last year's stood in and our PIO
department.
It's changed.
Craig and I have witnessed howit's changed over the years and
with Jonathan at the helm andhis whole department, we've lost
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Walter, who did a lot of videoJust retired yeah just retired
and everybody says he does notlook old enough to retire.
But most people don't realizethat.
And the drone footage that theydo, and the participation I
heard people walking away fromthe event Wow, I didn't fall
(11:54):
asleep, you know, during thewhole thing.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It really oh, that is Because it moved along, and
that's the whole thing.
It's kind of okay, here we go,but if it's informative and it
moves along, then it's somethingthat I think people are going
to pay attention to, and thebest part, jose you, I'm sorry
to say this oh, I'm fine withthat.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What was the best part?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Those Bundt cakes, the Bundt cakes, the Bundt cakes
.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
They were so good.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
What, though?
I love the lemon or the carrotcake yeah, I've had them before
and and uh, nothing but cakes.
They don't pay for anadvertisement, but I will tell
you they are doing a great job.
We were at their ribbon cuttingup at the empire center.
We were there the other day forthe unveiling of the statue and
they donated him for thatdonated.
I know he's going to be atholiday in the park, coming up
and he has said, whatever yourcrew needs and they're going to
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have a booth there.
I mean, that's one of thosecompanies that have come in here
and they are dedicated.
They are dedicated to thosepancakes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The product sells itself it's that good they are,
that red velvet, damn good.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yep, but no, the whole.
I mean it was nice how you youknow you.
Thank all the department headsand all the employees.
I shot every table oh, that'sgreat.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I shot a lot of pictures that day and there's a
lot of people that make thiscity function well, and and and
I I appreciate that, ross,because I mean you both have
covered this a long, and myunderstanding is that it hasn't
always been the case that themayor calls out every department
head, but I always wanted to dothat, starting last year and
continuing this year, becauseit's not the mayor that runs the
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city, it's not even Justin,although he does deserve a lot
of credit.
To your point, there are somany people that make the city
move and it's a day as much tocelebrate the work they've done
as it is for anyone else upthere.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, craig says it quite a bit.
He says to me you know, turn onthat light switch and we're
guaranteed to have lights.
Yep, on Christmas Day you putyour trash cans out.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That's how it will show up.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Our guys pick up our trash cans on Christmas Day.
They don't do that in BeverlyHills, they do that here in
Burbank, you know.
So you think of all the cityservices that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And, like Ross pointed out, a lot of people
were there for the first time,so it was nice to acknowledge
those people.
They stand up and people wouldsay, oh okay, that's who named
or faced the name Good thing.
Yeah, okay, that's who you knownamed or faced the name Good
thing.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, so that's another, and like 650-some-odd
people in that room Recordattendance?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Where do we?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
go next year.
I mean, they've grown in thatroom.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Jonathan will find a way.
I think he'll have a workoutfor her.
Let me tell you what.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But then again, applause to you and to our PIO
department.
And again, like you said, ourcity is run by Justin Hess and
Courtney Padgett.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They oversee anything .
What a great team.
What a great team too?
Yeah, they really do.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, everybody says how's the sausage made?
You know what?
They're doing a pretty good jobmaking that sausage.
Yes, they are.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay, well, you know what?
Let's move on to some of thestuff going on this month, sure,
and some things we could getyour take on before you leave
office here in December.
Um, let's talk about, uh, let'stalk about, the library series
civic center project now it'sfunny you say that, craig.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I drove by last night and today the library was
closed, I guess for someelectrical work yeah talk about
pitch black.
I went down glen oaks last week.
All the lights are off at thelibrary, not even the lights out
in the courtyard.
Nothing, nothing.
I couldn't, it was a pitchblack hole.
We need a new library soon.
(15:44):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, my point is you know, what do you envision?
What's your dream scenario,Even though you probably won't
be around to be able to vote onthe final thing on it but I've
heard a lot of things proposed.
I've heard a possibleamphitheater inside it, a
community center inside, youknow, like they have at Buena
Vista Library, but on a muchlarger basis.
I've heard people float aroundhousing.
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Possibly, you know, and wouldthe city want to run housing?
Or, like you know, the BurbankHousing Authority goes through
them, or something forlow-income housing.
There's a lot of ideas going onwith this thing.
Oh yeah, so what are I mean?
I know you're just getting areport on it during, uh,
November, but where, where doyou, where do you see that thing
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going?
You know, I think it's a, it'sgonna be a beast.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It definitely is.
So, just to set the table, um,uh, depending on when this airs,
uh, you know, tomorrow, uh,tuesday November 19th, uh,
actually, I think it's at 4 30PM, so it's before the start of
the regular show on tomorrow,before the meeting.
That's perfect.
Okay, so tomorrow 4 30 PMcouncil's having a study session
, so we're going to get anupdate on it.
Um, you know, the moreimportant question is what all
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of your listeners want to see,because that's who should be.
You should be showing upwriting.
The council doesn't have to betomorrow, but my thought on it
is I think this is a realopportunity project.
It's.
It's an opportunity for a majorfacelift.
The downtown Burbank area, thelibrary itself.
I mean I see a new, high tech,cutting edge library with the
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best of equipment.
Um, you know, that addressessome of the access issues that
we see with the current library.
That mitigate some of the otherdeficiencies and hazards that
might exist on that property.
But as a broader civic centerproject, I would love to see
housing included as part of it.
You know we own all of the landthrough there, so if we can
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find the right partner, you know, look primarily and not to
interrupt you, but I'm going tointerrupt you, of course.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I guess I have to interrupt you.
Let's tell people where exactlythis we're talking the old
community services building,right, that's, oh yes, glen Oaks
and all of where the right nowthe electric car parking lot is.
It involves that and where thefarmer's market's held.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Farmer's market, the Wells Fargo Bank, that whole
square.
Right but not the CSB building.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Not the CSB building.
I've heard before they weregoing to replace that also.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
No, yeah, but to your point, ross, it's all of that
land in that little block radius, if you will.
So we own all the landno-transcript.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
All of a sudden they don't teach anymore and they
come in just to get the thelow-income housing, and then
they stop teaching I mean, canyou?
Earmark housing for jobs likethat is that is legal so.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So the short answer is and then I know you want to
jump in Ross is can you do it?
Yes, the question that you'rehitting on is how do you
regulate it?
At what point?
And those are fair questionsthat the next council will have
to address.
But I definitely think, withall that land and with Burbank's
need for housing and all thecommunities, all the
neighborhoods that are alreadyseeing densification and
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negative impacts, it just seemslike a prime site to add housing
in a way that doesn'tcompromise the character of our
existing neighborhoods.
So I'd love to see housing besome component of the project.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Well, you know, I know many police officers don't
like to live in the city thatthey work in.
You don't want to go shoppingin the grocery store and you're
checking out with the guy thatyou just arrested the day before
.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I understand that People who were arrested don't
live in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
This is true, but you know fire department school
teachers.
But you know we're looking atand I want to step back here.
Greg and I have been around fora long time.
I will say that gray hair and Idon't have hair, but we've been
around this town for a longtime.
We've seen the airport Foryears and years.
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People talk about a newterminal.
It's being built and the inputon what people wanted were
people have gone to meetings.
I just last week watched theParks and Rec meeting where they
showed their general plan, avision for many years.
It's going to take a long timebefore that library is built,
(20:30):
that's right.
But input from everybody in thecity and I'm finding no offense
the people in the city arechanging.
It's no more that sleepycommunity.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, it's the downtown areas, as is definitely changed
, and and and with that change.
The one thing I don't likeabout this entire thing is we
keep calling it the new libraryI'd love to the media capital
world called the new mediacenter, multimedia center.
I mean, I, I'm not thinkingabout the books.
Books are good, but I mean allthose.
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I I'm not.
Are you saying more than yeah,because it is, it is going to be
more than books.
You know your library, youthink books, but in our, in our
city, there's so much going onhere.
Books should be part of it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But the name of the center should be something else
besides a library I think, and Iand I see your point, because
what we envision is not just aplace for folks to access books,
but to practice creative arts,digital media, career
advancement A lot of the thingsthat we are doing at the current
library, but in a more updatedspace with technology.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And that's where I think we're going.
When you look at the airport,what they're changing for
handicap accessible I mean fromparking lots to getting on
airplanes, to charging your cellphone in the terminal you know
the library has to look, nottoday, 10 years in the future
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and build it to that.
Um and I I agree with craig umI remember when you used to go
up to the library, the secondfloor of that library, you know,
in the auditorium, and they puton many events.
Our new library, or you knowthere's so much has changed
media-wise has changed.
You know people are producingmovies at our library.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You know, and we need to keep up with that trend.
We are the media capital of theworld and our library has to
really and so what I would sayto round out your question,
Craig.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I agree, I think the three components I'm looking for
is a new space that's modular,that can be reconfigured, that's
high tech to meet our needs,and the other key piece is
housing.
And then, but the third thing Iwould say is public space.
I mean, we we have a decentnumber.
We can always use more.
We have a decent number ofcommunity rooms, but I love the
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idea of an outdoor amphitheater,something that can really be.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that sounds very good.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Maybe there are other thoughts that we haven't even
thought of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
And to your point, Ross, this is definitely the
time to come and make yourvision seen and heard by the
council.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Okay, well, we have a new librarian, we do coming on
board.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know who I was told, Ross, you're looking up
right now, aren't you I?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
am trying to look it up on my phone.
You're right and I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm sure, when Justin hired this person, that it was
somebody who was going to bedeveloping a new center?
Yeah, where?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
he came from I forget Colorado, one of the cities he
was in.
He developed a state-of-the-artand I know that weighed in
quite heavily.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, he was very happy about the hire yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So we're not getting somebody that is green yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You know Experienced veteran here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Exactly so, librarians last eight to 10
years.
It's probably going to takethis project at least 10 years
for us to be able to walk in thedoor, but hopefully you know
he'll stick around long enoughto.
I agree, get us a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Let's move on a little bit here.
Okay, Another issue you'redealing with this month and not
really dealing with this month,but it's a future thing for a
long.
I think it's the changing faceof Burbank are parking meters.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Where Are there parking meters?
Where Great.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And they're talking about putting parking Tune in
tomorrow night, Ross.
Yes, they're talking aboutputting parking meters.
Do it tomorrow night, Ross.
Yes, they're talking aboutputting parking meters.
In fact, we have a video of oneof the meetings that we
recorded.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The three people that were there.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The three people.
There were four with me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh, excuse me Do you remember here now I'm going back
, okay when we had parkingmeters along the mall.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Ended in the 1970s, if I'm not mistaken, I think it
was.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
People were going out there with pipe cutters and
cutting the meters off to get 40bucks out of a meter and then
they found you put PVC aroundthem.
They couldn't cut it, but youremember all the every day.
Wow, there would be parkingmeters missing?
Wow, that's because people wereripping off.
Now with smart meters, youcan't do this.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So people are hesitant about meters.
But I think you have to look atthe fact that these parking
structures we built 30 years agoare starting to fall apart and
they need a lot of work.
And you look at areas like,let's say, Magnolia Park, where
if you put parking meters downMagnolia Park, that money could
go toward Magnolia Park.
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But that's the thing.
Is this going to get earmarkedfor whatever money it brings in,
for the money that for the areathat it represents, or will it
go into the general budget?
What are your thoughts on theentire parking meter thing?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah.
So let me just set the tablewith what folks are going to
hear tomorrow night, tomorrowbeing Tuesday the 19th, because
folks will be listening to thisin time.
So, for tomorrow, we are onlytalking about the downtown
Burbank area, so we're talkingabout San Fernando and all the
little side streets in that area.
In total, there's about I'mjust ballparking it here about
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150 parking spaces give or takethat they're looking to have
paid parking on.
Keep in mind that we have 6 000parking spaces in the down
where they're not doing thestructures also, though.
Well, because I think this is,this is just a pilot, it's it's
a first of its kind they want touh figure out.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
They have not been into the parking business.
Yep um for about 50 years.
So they want to start off.
I remember listening to KarenPan at that meeting and say
we're starting off small.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Very small.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
And let's get it under control Yep, and then we
can expand.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I guess the goal is to get 20% occupancy all the
time and the rates change as thespots fill up, and that's the
one thing I would say is that,unlike other cities which are
using paid parking to maximizetheir revenue, that's not our
goal.
Our goal is to have thosespaces turn over so that you can
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jump into starbucks for 20minutes and then you get out and
you the spots freed up.
So will we generate a revenueoff of it?
I'm sure we will, but we're notnecessarily concerned about
maximizing it.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Right, as I recall listening to our good friend, uh
David, our transportation guru.
Um, it's not to, you know, fundthe general fund it's to pay
for.
Let's test it out, let's payfor it.
You got a lot of infrastructure, Lots.
You're going to have to pay forthat.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So does that money go to the general budget then?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
General fund?
Yeah, so great question.
It does not go into the generalfund, it goes into the parking
authority fund.
So it is earmarked in that youcan only use it for these sort
of infrastructure upgrades.
We couldn't take that money andthen use it to buy out a gun
store or some other purpose.
Now to your question.
It's not so narrowly earmarkedwhere it's condensed like a
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specific area, at least not asof right now.
Right now, the concept is let'suse that revenue wherever the
need might exist in the city tomaintain these lots Down the
road, though I suppose therecould be a mechanism, especially
if we were partnering with alocal PBID, to try to designate
some of that revenue just forthe area.
But it's a pilot first of itskind, and so we're just keeping
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it very simple andstraightforward right now, I
know, sitting on the MagnoliaPark Merchants Board.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Boy city manager.
Many years ago Mark Scott metwith us and he said that's a
good way to fund things inMagnolia Park.
And we have.
They've talked about doing aparking study in Magnolia Park
for years.
I was just last Thursdaysitting doing a ribbon cutting
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at one of the businesses withour vice mayor.
We were sitting there talkingand looking at the cars and we
said here's a perfect examplewhere parking meters would pay
off so well in a long MagnoliaPark.
People don't realize you turnover business.
That's good for business,that's good for the city.
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People tend to want to park, goto work, because they know
Burbank doesn't charge and youget away with it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Employees do all the parking in good spots too.
Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, a lot of good things about it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So so I would just say in in short um, however you
feel about paid parking, it'syou know.
In short, however you feelabout paid parking, it's coming
up for discussion tomorrow nightDefinitely make your voice
heard.
But what we will say is, evenif it happens, we'll have paid
parking on 150 spaces, but therewill still be 6,000 total
spaces in the downtown area,because we are cognizant that
cost is prohibited for somefolks.
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So there will still be freeparking options.
You can still go to the parkinglot behind City Hall.
You can park at our police andfire headquarters.
That'll still be free for up totwo hours, I think, and then
you got to move it.
But those spots are not beingtouched by this paid parking
program and others.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The city.
There's a.
If you drive around there istons.
Yeah, if you go on, there's amap on the city.
I've seen we have structuresRight All over downtown.
You'd be amazed.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Over 5,800 spots in fact.
There you go.
But we're looking at thosepremium, you know high.
You know high contact point,like the.
You know the most convenient ofthe most convenient spots and
saying those we need to turnover and, yes, we'll generate a
little revenue in the process.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I think the entire failure of the golden mall was
due to the lack of parking.
There were no parkingstructures at the time, so they
closed down San Fernando, andwhere would people park?
There's only just streetparking on the side streets and
there were no part you knowparking structures, and I think
that's why people stopped goingdown there and that was probably
what the failure was.
(30:39):
Yeah, so let me touch Along inthat general Category, the one
way San Fernando Boulevardexperiment, which you're not
going to be around to See thefinality of it.
I might have comments on it.
How do you feel it's going?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
it's.
Can I read that it's comingback?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
January, I think.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
January.
That's what I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
So you know our new council with Chris Rizzotti.
Congratulations, chris.
They'll have a chance to talkabout it.
Look, from what I've seen, Ithink it's been a success A
success in terms of its reducednegative interactions, if you
will, between pedestrians andbicyclists and motorists.
It is proving to be safer.
I don't think we've seen thenegative impacts to businesses
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that we were concerned about.
What's your thought?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You're just the first thing out of your mouth there.
It has eliminated a lot ofaccidents.
It's safer.
That is the primary reasonpeople don't understand why did
you take all of and do what youdid?
Why did you do this on sanfernando?
Folks get prepared, becauseyou're going to see that be done
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in magnolia park.
You're going to be seeing itdone on riverside drive.
People are getting killed inthis city because of the speed
people are going.
We've got to tame it, we've gotto control it and this is one
way they have found the numbersshow.
I mean, if you want to look atstats, they look at the stats of
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every accident that occurs andwe're eliminating.
I have been to so manyaccidents on San Fernando road,
you know over the years.
Very few anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, it's safer, and I think that there haven't been
the negative impacts tobusinesses and we think that
when we couple in this paidparking pilot program, we're
actually going to see a positiveimpact for businesses because
now that car that's been parkedin front of the Starbucks all
day has to move.
Unless they want to pay, theywill move, and so that means
more turnover, that means morefolks coming in to grab their
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sandwich at Ike's or you know.
I think there are positive.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Well, you know, when you used to have to in cars
where you kept your change, youknow, because you had to feed
the meters.
Yeah, we're dealing with smartmeters.
We're talking smart meters,everybody does.
I break my phone everybody hasa smartphone almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Not even a flip phone , but a flip phone.
Well, you heard what happeneddown at Redondo Beach or
somewhere, where somebody wentand changed the QR codes Right
and people were paying someoutside, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, I would think Burbank would catch on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'm just saying so.
You never know what's going tohappen.
You've got to be careful oneverything you do.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
you know, and for that reason we're not going to
use the QR codes.
We will.
You'll be able to access itonline and we would recommend
that people use the app Becausethen one time you put in your
license plate information, yourcard information, and it's
stored and you don't have tore-enter it.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Will that be part of?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
the 311 app I.
It's going to be separate, uh,because because there's a
separate vendor, but I thinkthere will be a linkage between
our app and that parking app, um, but it'll be convenient.
There's a minimal risk of anysort of fraud because we are.
We are watching what'shappening with those qr codes,
um.
But hey, at the end of the day,if you don't have a smartphone,
you can call and place yourpayment too.
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So as long as you have a, amobile device of any kind,
there's a way to pay.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So usually, you use your smartphone.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You're a dumb person either way but you had brought
up, when we were talking theother day, craig about um
smartphones and some peoplecan't figure out smartphones
well, that's yeah in fact,wasn't it the?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
parking permit.
Let's bring that up.
We're in parking all thosethings.
We're going to a new parkingsystem now and there's no longer
.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Residential.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Residential.
There's no longer the littlethings you hang in your windows
anymore.
You do it all online, which isgreat, but we've always been
able to buy a pass, and somebodycomes over a worker or, you
know, aunt Gertrude or somebodycomes over and she hangs it in
her window and that's it.
The way they're setting this upnow is that you cannot do that
anymore.
You must now.
If somebody comes over, youmust now go on a computer, get
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them a parking pass that day.
And not only does you know poorgrandma maybe not have a
computer access to do that, youknow, and now she's got to worry
about all that stuff butthere's also, I think, a privacy
concern.
What if people don't want toknow who's coming to their house
to visit them?
Now you're giving them theirlicense number and everything
(35:13):
else and they're saying wait asecond, I don't want people to
know that that person came to myhouse.
So to me I think there's a realslippery slope here, and while
I understand why it'sstreamlined- I think having that
one pass you can still buy andbe able to give to somebody is
still a good thing to do.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, when you said privacy and I had written that
down, I understand people don't.
I think people understand.
License plate readers are onall police cars now all parking
control cars.
The new flock system is allover Burbank.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Empire Center is full of them.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Empire Center, the airport.
Your license is going to getrid if you come into this city.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
It will.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Bad guys.
Did you hear what I just said?
You might steal a car and havebad plates, but they're going to
know what color car they cansee inside.
You know the person driving,but now that's the standard
thing, I think, in cities.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I just think it's the privacy of the individual
person and who's visiting theirhouse.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
You know, and I will say that we're just rolling this
out, as you know, craig, and Ithink that there are definitely
this room for improvement, andso I would just encourage you,
as you are, to just continue tolet the council know that.
You know, you're not the firstperson to come to me and say,
hey, I'd really like the optionto have a hang tag.
So it's that that classictension point of trying to
embrace new technology andstreamline things, but it is
change and it's not always asconvenient as we design it.
(36:41):
Well, you know, I stay on topof things.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
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Let's take a quick break, realfast, sure, and we'll be back in
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back to our show, and we're back.
It's November's Ask the Mayorshow with Mayor Nick Schultz and
we're going to move on a littlebit here.
We're talking about what thecouncil is still working on here
in November.
One thing that is coming up onthe agenda on Tuesday tomorrow I
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guess everybody knows now howthe sausage is made and we're a
day when we shoot this but oneof the things that is being
brought up is outdoor dining,and it's something that I think
the city of Burbank has reallydone a good job on, very slow
behind all the other citiesgetting into it, and thank
goodness we do have it now.
So that's coming up tomorrownight.
So give us your thoughts on theoutdoor dining.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
So I think this is one of the most impactful things
that we've done all year tohelp small business, and it's
probably it's it's unusuallyquiet.
A lot of folks aren't payingattention to it.
But what we're going to do iswe're going to vote to authorize
our staff to look the other way, to not enforce a Burbank
municipal code which does notallow for outdoor dining the
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next two years.
Um, and then in the spring,when we go through our budget
process, staff is going to comeback, um back with a budget
request, at first for afeasibility study.
But basically where this isgoing is to have a permanent
program to allow for outdoordining.
But to give them the time toget that fully done, we're going
to tell them for the next twoyears not to enforce any sort of
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ban or prohibition on outdoordining.
Now, if an establishmentbecomes a public nuisance and is
having a keg party the othernight, that's a different story.
But, for example, lincoln BeerCompany using their parking lot,
they're going to continue to beable to do that for the next
two years while we design theframework for a more permanent
exception.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Yeah, and Lincoln Beer Company is a good example.
They're the one that have made,addressed the council written
letters.
If you've ever been to LincolnBeer Company, that parking lot
in the evening is empty.
You're in an industrial areaand so why can you not have
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people and I think people arestill getting food off of food
trucks, they don't cook it therebut to be able to dine and,
like you said, being I'm veryinvolved in magnolia park, a
couple of our merchants alongthere.
This has been their lifeline.
I mean, after covid, after theplastic ban, after this, after
that, after the dodgers winning,you know, oh, I had to throw
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that in there.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I like how you threw that one in there.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
But I've been to many of these restaurants and we're
here in California folks, it's80 degrees 90% of the year.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Eat out on the patio.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know I'm frequent at tequilas and that outdoor
patio.
I just love sitting outside.
Over along Magnolia there's acouple of places.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
New Deal's another one New Deal is one that I've
been on their back patio.
Oh yeah, it's great you knowagain.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I think what we need to do is look at the overall
picture, and a lot of our lawsand rules were written a long
time ago, Yep, and things havechanged.
El Frisco Frisco Dining is here.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It is.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
And we need to update our laws.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
And no offense.
I think it's going to continueto help a lot of businesses.
Yes, it does take away some ofthe handicap parking, I will say
, but I'm finding if they letone spot you don't have to
change the whole code.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But I think, and moving the trash cans maybe to a
decorative thing on some ofthese streets, so where a trash
can is, you can extend yourpatio.
Those are little tiny, minorthings that I really um, I hope
uh, is that a?
Um?
What do they call that?
When the council uh?
Consent calendar consent.
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I know the report.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I think tomorrow it's actually a report, so there'll
be an opportunity for publiccomment.
But if you're a small businessowner that is impacted by this,
or if you just care what'shappening to our small
businesses, I hope and I expect,just based on prior votes taken
, that the council will give thegreen light for this to
continue for at least the nexttwo years, while we work on a
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way to really make it permanent.
So at least through the end of26,.
There shouldn't be any questionthat New Deal, tequilas all of
your favorites are going tocontinue to be able to operate
that and I will say I know theowners of all these businesses
and they are worried.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
They've been worried.
You know, if this goes back youmight be out of business.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Like I said, I can't guarantee anything, but just
based on prior discussions andthe way we've voted before, I'm
optimistic that'll be a 5-0tomorrow night, you know, and
the nice we've voted before, I'moptimistic that'll be a 5-0
tomorrow night, you know, andthe nice thing is uh being
dining outside.
You can have your dog with you.
Yes, you can where's dodger?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
he's asleep over here .
Oh well, you know he's asleep,but no, that's the other night
thing.
And people here in californiadoesn't everybody take their dog
?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I know I do oh yeah okay.
Well, let's you know what wegot.
One more thing for tonight, um,and that's our big upcoming
event yeah, which is uh, themayor's christmas tree lighting,
which is coming up on december7th.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
So, uh, probably your last official act yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be the last, last bigevent of the year before the
reorg.
Um, yeah, let me, let me justmention so.
That's going to be six o'clockright on the steps of burbank
city hall, santa's going to bemaking an appearance.
I know he's got so much to dothese days, but you get them on
your schedule every year I don'tknow how we must have inside.
(43:12):
Yeah, we, yeah, we got them onspeed dial.
Um, yeah, we encourage peopleto start lining up out there
about 5, 30, 5, 45 we do beginright at six.
Um, or shine, rain or shine,we'll be out there.
And I also want to give justone other plug.
So I mean that that's reallyour hallmark seminal holiday
event, although there's always amenorah lighting at amc walkway
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, so we'll have that later indecember.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
You know what?
Now that I think about that'sthe one.
I'm usually down in palmsprings visiting my relatives
celebrating hanukkah.
But do you want a clue off?
I hear the emcee for themayor's tree lighting is
probably last year.
They rocked it.
They did such a great job Ourown, mr Jones and Mary.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
They do a heck of a job.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
They really did.
And if you don't know JonathanJones personally, see him, see
this.
That event just makes a greatstop out and you get.
I know you can probably write anote to a serviceman.
Our veterans are out there.
Yeah, yeah, you can get candycanes.
You can talk to Santa Claus,you can take a picture with
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Santa.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
If you have your kids and you can see all the cute
kids with their dance troupe andlocal choirs, I mean it's a
real nice showcase of our localtalent.
So six o'clock on the seventh,but I also, if it's all right,
I'll go go ahead going into ourlast little bit, I know you
normally ask me what's on mymind I well, let me instead.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Let me do this.
Yeah, so what's on the mayor'smind?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
greg, thank you.
Um, I also want to highlighttwo other events that are
happening, um, both this weekend.
Actually, if you're wanting toget into the you know the
holiday mood you want to supportsome local businesses.
There's two other really greatthings happening.
So, starting on friday ross, Iknow you know all about this we
have a holiday in the park.
Um, it's going to be from fiveto nine.
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I'm actually going to hand itover to Ross in a minute, uh,
cause that's the big one I wantto steer you to, but also, and
then it's yours in a second,ross, after you've had fun at
holiday in the park.
Uh, on Saturday, if you likewine, you can come downtown and
we have the Burbank winter winewalk, which is really a great
opportunity to enjoy some wineand shop and frequent some of
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our downtown businesses.
But, ross, tell us aboutholiday in the park.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I don't know a thing about it.
I happen to be co-chair ofholiday in the park.
This year we are rocking it.
We are.
We've doubled the exhibitors, Imean the vendors.
We have more food trucks.
We got three stages forperformances.
We got, I think, 30, 40 carswow, I mean some real classic
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cars.
Um, it's going to be a greatevent.
Got a ferris wheel going to beat uh ume.
One of our hosts, brad corb, isuh sponsoring the ferris wheel
which everybody comes out to see.
But it's a great way to getinto the holidays.
The nice thing is support yourlocal businesses.
They're staying open.
You know, if you haven'tshopped in some of the little
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stores, stop in.
It's a good time.
Plus, you know.
You know you might be able tosay hi to craig doing the
podcast for myburbankcom.
Oh, really.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Okay, we will be out there.
In fact, we have some niceshirts to sell and hats and if
you come by, we actually let mehold this up to the camera.
Here we actually have a nice myBurbank pen which we're going
to give away If anybody wants tostop by and get one.
One-size pen, one-size stylus.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Oh, I didn't even realize that.
Oh, this is.
Oh, yeah, it is, wow.
Well, and, and you know what?
I'll clue you off only becauseI know the maps.
Yeah, real well, greg will bekind of near pizza hut and
that's where my burbank boothwill be.
I'll be over there over thereby uh the there's california and
magnolia the street.
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Let me just throw this in there.
We take over the street at 11am.
Parking enforcement goes intoeffect at 8 am.
It is just one day.
We are trying to help eliminatea ton of cars.
If you want to take a rideshare, we highly recommend it
and you can come in.
Tell your driver to.
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3, 3221 is the do-it-yourselfcenter.
We will have their parking lotafter five o'clock so they can
come in off a chandler, droppeople off you're right in the
middle of holiday in the park,um, and then they can go out and
you can be picked up there and,um, bring your appetite.
I mean, there will be everychoice of food and those bundt
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cakes will be out there too.
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
And and portos and the other thing I would just
mention is there are so manyholiday freebies and events that
we could talk about we don'thave time, but if you go to
burbankcagov, forward slashholiday events 2024, or if you
just google it, we have a wholeweb page devoted to all the
great things.
I want to close on one morething, because we don't always
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in my opinion, we haven't alwaysdone a great job of celebrating
all of the holidays that fallinto december.
We actually have a menorahlighting at city hall this year
from december 25th to january2nd and look, we're still a work
in progress, but I think everyyear we're trying to add more
and be more inclusive ofeverybody, of all faiths, that
call Burbank home.
So, in addition to you know, Ithink it's going to be an
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addition to the AMC walkwaydowntown AMC walkway.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
Rabbi, he just.
It's the Chabad house ofBurbank and they bring out
potato latkes.
If you don't know, what that?
Is.
It's potato pancakes,applesauce.
You got to have potato pancakewith donuts.
They serve a ton out there andit's a really a nice way to uh
to support that holiday.
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And there are others.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
Yeah, so if you want to come celebrate that, if you
want to see a free screening ofgremlins, like, all of that is
on our website and there arelike 20 events, so it's going to
be a really fun season now.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Mr mayor, I, I, I know you're you're moving on
here soon, but I got a questionI gotta ask sure doesn't burbank
?
It just has a fantastic feel.
I mean, these community eventsa lot of cities stop doing them.
Um, we expect to see 25 or30,000 people over at holiday in
the park this week.
(49:25):
I love it.
I mean, people come out ofeverywhere.
But that's the thing aboutBurbank.
We are different.
What is it?
It's just to get together.
If it's a menorah lighting, ifit's holiday in the park, if
it's supporting, you know, alocal club or organization, we
just do it Cool.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
We do.
It's that small town field thatyou just don't see a lot of
anymore, and I agree with you.
It's, um, whether it's whetherit's the 4th of July, whether
it's Halloween, whether it's, uh, the holiday season, we do it
better than everyone, and, uh,I'll have my family out there
holiday in the park, so we'll berocking it with y'all, cool.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
All right.
Well, I think that's anotherwrap for another month here, and
we thank the mayor for comingon the show, as always, because
he is not only a busy guy beingthe mayor but now being our
assembly member also, so weappreciate him stopping by and
expressing his views and what'sgoing on in Burbank.
We hope you guys learnsomething from this.
So, um, for mayor Nick Schultzand Ross Benson, this is Craig
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Sherwood saying thank you verymuch for listening or watching
on YouTube and we will see younext month.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
And we is out.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Perfect and I'll use the restroom restroom and then,
if you guys want after a break,we can do the breaking news
first.
Exclusive with my burger.
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
diuretics too.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
No, he's on he's on yeah how else do you expect me
to stay awake?
Oh, I will tell you, the onething I do not look forward to
is you, you, you, you, you you.
My Burbank Talks presents another edition of Ask
the Mayor, a monthly forumgiving the Mayor of Burbank an
opportunity to answer questionsfrom you, the listener, and
address issues important to theCity of Burbank.
Now let's join our hosts asthey welcome the Mayor of
Burbank.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, burbank, craig Short here with you once again
for another edition of Ask theAssemblyman Wait a second, wait
a second.
I mean Ask the Mayor.
And once again we have NickSchultz with us, who has just
been elected to the CaliforniaAssembly.
Nick, good to have you with us.
Oh, thank you, craig, happy tobe here.
And, of course, what would ashow be without Ross Benson?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You know I haven't been in the studio in so long.
What camera.
Oh, there it is you know, Ihaven't been in the studio in so
long.
What camera?
Oh, there it is.
That's my camera.
Tell me how let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We got a show to go, or something like that you still
got it you still got it ross solots happened since our last
show, number one being we've hadthe election well, I, I would
argue number one is the dodgersjust won the World.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Series.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But number two, we had a big election, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Was that amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
The Dodgers?
Yes, oh my God, that'sincredible.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I mean the parade, it .
Just how many people could youget in one location that was
wearing blue, you know, I mean,it was just crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
We didn't get one in 2020, so it was good to have
that one.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The first of many.
I hope, let's hope yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So let's just talk about a little bit about the
recent campaign.
So how did it go?
I'm sure you're happy with theresult, of course, but any
reflections back on the process?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now tell the truth.
I want to hear the truth here.
How many tennis shoes did yougo through, how many doors did
you knock on and how many babiesdid you kiss?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, I only kissed my two babies.
You know we're still actuallycompiling all the data, but, as
best we can tell, we probablyknocked on over 50,000 doors
over the course of the two years, and probably more than that.
But I'm I'm trying to beconservative.
Um, we made, oh gosh, somewherebetween 50 and a hundred
thousand calls texts on top ofthat.
(02:13):
Um, I mean, it was a lot.
It was a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think for assembly you had you know from from
Burbank, you now have your newdistrict which covers Huge it's
yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
A million people.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You don't think about it, but you're into different
neighborhoods.
Now, that's right.
You're so used to Burbank beingyour backyard and now you're
going out everywhere, knockingon doors in neighborhoods that
you probably couldn't even spellthe street names.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Oh, and to your question, I forgot Three pairs
of shoes.
That's what it took, becausethose hills in the sunlands of
Hanga, I mean, they're steep andit takes a lot to walk them.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You were a member, one of five.
Now how many are in theassembly?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
There are 80 assembly members, and so yeah to your
point.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Now you're one of 80.
Your voice is not as distinctas it was, and so you're going
to have your work cut out, andI'm sure you were going to
figure out how to make thatdifference, but it's probably
more of an uphill battle thanbeing one of five.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I think that's very fair to say.
The one thing I would saythat's similar is whether you're
talking about Burbank councilor you're talking about the
assembly.
Got to be good at math.
Can't do anything without atleast three votes on the council
or in the assembly.
You need 41.
I mean.
So at the end of the day, it'sall about you.
You can have all the best ideasin the world, but you have to
be able to motivate people andbuild a coalition, or else
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nothing gets done.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
How much of the assembly is is partisan.
Is it?
Is there a lot of partisanshipthere, or is it?
Is it pretty well free thinkers?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know, I would say there aren't, in my view, as
many critical, independentthinkers as I'd like to see.
But at the same time, here's,here's the reality.
It's the same as Burbank CityCouncil.
The bulk of what they handle 80, 90 percent it's bipartisan.
It's the budget, it's, you know, uh, funding for our highways
or funding for our schools.
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We, you know, there's 10% thatis deeply partisan and very
divided, whether that's on thecouncil or the legislature.
But we don't really talk enoughabout how bipartisan most of the
business is.
Um, just to give you a sense ofthe legislature's composition,
uh, so in the assembly, um,we're still waiting on the final
number, but I think theDemocrats lost a couple seats
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this year, so it's going to bestill about 60 seats, so three
quarters of the assembly, toabout 20 Republicans or so.
And then on the Senate, it'skind of the same thing.
There's only 40 members there,but it's similarly divided.
So, you know, but even withinthe Democratic Party there, but
it's similarly divided.
But even within the DemocraticParty, there are very different
kinds of Democrats.
And just because there's a D infront of your name does not
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mean people will like your bill.
Issues like housing, which wehave talked about and can talk
about tonight.
As you both know, they arebipartisan.
There are Democrats andRepublicans that can hate a bill
just as much as anyone else, sothat's where it gets
challenging.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think you're going to have a little battle in some
areas, but I think also it's.
You know we don't hear a lotabout the assembly, so one of
the things we want to do isinvite you next year to come a
couple of times on I'll be back.
Talk about you know, the issuesyou're working on, the issues
that will face Burbank to apoint.
Talk about the issues you'reworking on, the issues that will
face Burbank to a point.
Let's face it.
At one time we got hit by acouple of bills that we weren't
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prepared for and, for whateverreason, it would be good to know
what's kind of in the pipelineand stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, I think you had said early on, when you were
running, the reason you chose torun is you a Burbank to have
coverage?
If we, when we lost LauraFriedman, our assembly member,
there was nobody in the assemblyfighting for Burbank and I
think that was one of thereasons you said you, you know,
one of the reasons you wanted torun was support Burbank.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm with Anthony Portantino gone now too.
Look it's.
I know you know there's.
There's so much more we'll talkabout tonight as it relates to
Burbank, but I will say it'sgoing to give me tremendous
pride when so.
So one little thing about theassembly is it's sort of an
etiquette thing, but you neverrefer to assembly member Benson.
It's always the assembly memberfrom wherever that's just the
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way they do it.
Member from wherever, that'sjust the way they do it.
It's going to give me a littlepoint of pride and I'm going to,
like you know, tear up when I,when I start thinking about the
assembly member from burbank.
Like that hasn't been said onthat floor in a long time,
except for maybe a blip whenpaul krikorian was living in
burbank, right, like it's been awhile.
So I'm I understand, andeverything that I say and do and
every vote that I cast, they'regoing to hear burbank a lot on
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that floor and I'm going to tryto do my very best to represent
our community.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, that means when we watch the six o'clock news
we see the ticker, tear, the.
What's that called at thebottom?
The ticker, yeah.
The ticker, it'll say fromBurbank, you know, so we might
see it there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You know what I do is when I get press releases, you
know it always says you know thecandidate's name and I can't
even put the politician's name.
And they put whatever, I alwayschange it to Burbank.
If they represent Burbank, Ijust always change it to Burbank
so it localizes the story forus.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So that's Well and that's actually something that
you know.
Day one of orientation theyasked how would you like to be
identified?
Where are you from?
And I was proud to writeBurbank.
So it's always going to sayNick Schultz, d for Democrat
hyphen, burbank.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Get ready to get a lot of frequent fire miles.
But it's nice to have anairport in your own district,
your own backyard.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Anyhow, I had heard that from Portatino.
In fact he loved flying BurbankAirport.
But it is convenient for you tojump on a flight and you have a
new airport or new terminalmight be one of the most
frequent passengers in thatthing well, let's get on to a
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couple.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Let's go a little bit past here.
Let's talk about the state ofthe city, which was probably the
most, uh, um, popular one.
I I know they sold out and aretrying to get more seats put in.
It was, it was a very, it was ahuge event.
Um, as always, jonathan jones,your pio, yeah, and his staff
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was I'd like to I was like I'mgonna sit with them at their
table um, very talented people,and it really helps you out with
your videos.
The videos were absolutelyoutstanding, though, and, as
somebody who does a lot ofediting, I go wow, how did he do
that?
How did they do that?
Wow, that's really good.
I wish I could try thatsometimes, but I thought it was
very well communicated, verywell shot and you know what and
(08:40):
it wasn't too long.
Oh, thank you.
So what are your?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was going to first say I just want to say you know
I've gone, I've covered that foryears and years and besides
rubber chicken, you know it wasa pretty boring event to go to
but everybody the last two years, I think.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I ate the rubber chicken.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Jamie kind of hit it out of the park the last few
years and she really her team atthe Chamber and you got to say
our city PIO.
Jonathan, mary and the crew areso talented and you can tell by
.
You know he was walking like hewas walking on eggshells that
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day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Every year he's very nervous, you know, and you're
right.
Jamie does a tremendous job.
Ever since she's taken over thechamber, it's become a lot more
vibrant.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And you look at the people that were there.
It wasn't just your big studiospeople, it was small Magnolia
Park businesses and downtownbusinesses owners.
In fact I just saw somethingtoday that quite a few people.
It was their first time ever toa state of the city.
You did a great job.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So give us your reflections on the day and what
you thought about it.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, thank you guys for all the kind words and all
the credit goes to Jamie and toour PIO team.
I mean, the Chamber does anamazing event every year.
I mean shout out to themarriott for being a wonderful
venue that we go to.
How far advanced did you startworking on that?
Oh gosh, we probably talked inthe spring, like february or
march, maybe april, and jonathanand mary sat down and said what
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do you want the theme to be?
And that's where we picked backto the future and from there we
were off to the races and andto your point, craig, I mean the
production quality on thatvideo.
I mean they, they did anamazing job of taking a theme,
an idea that I had, and reallycommunicating it in a
spectacular way do you know thatabout the burger king in
burbank being part of that movie?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I actually did because that really tied it into
burbank it did.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I actually lived just a little up the street and
around the corner from there.
Um, I mean, I, I love thatmovie, as you can tell, and it
was really special to have amovie that had so much
connection to Burbank reallyhighlight the theme of the event
.
And then, of course, I thoughtI mean everyone did an amazing
job.
Jamie packed that room, pio hada huge event.
Shout out to them for preparingthe speech.
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I don't envy my successor but Imean there was such a great
event put on this year.
I don't know how Jamie andJonathan top it, how can you top
it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
They'll find a way.
They'll find a way.
Well, you know, that's thething.
How do you top it?
I remember last year you did,last year's stood in and our PIO
department.
It's changed.
Craig and I have witnessed howit's changed over the years and
with Jonathan at the helm andhis whole department, we've lost
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Walter, who did a lot of videoJust retired yeah just retired
and everybody says he does notlook old enough to retire.
But most people don't realizethat.
And the drone footage that theydo, and the participation I
heard people walking away fromthe event Wow, I didn't fall
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asleep, you know, during thewhole thing.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It really oh, that is Because it moved along, and
that's the whole thing.
It's kind of okay, here we go,but if it's informative and it
moves along, then it's somethingthat I think people are going
to pay attention to, and thebest part, jose you, I'm sorry
to say this oh, I'm fine withthat.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What was the best part?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Those Bundt cakes, the Bundt cakes, the Bundt cakes
.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
They were so good.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
What, though?
I love the lemon or the carrotcake yeah, I've had them before
and and uh, nothing but cakes.
They don't pay for anadvertisement, but I will tell
you they are doing a great job.
We were at their ribbon cuttingup at the empire center.
We were there the other day forthe unveiling of the statue and
they donated him for thatdonated.
I know he's going to be atholiday in the park, coming up
and he has said, whatever yourcrew needs and they're going to
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have a booth there.
I mean, that's one of thosecompanies that have come in here
and they are dedicated.
They are dedicated to thosepancakes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The product sells itself it's that good they are,
that red velvet, damn good.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yep, but no, the whole.
I mean it was nice how you youknow you.
Thank all the department headsand all the employees.
I shot every table oh, that'sgreat.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I shot a lot of pictures that day and there's a
lot of people that make thiscity function well, and and and
I I appreciate that, ross,because I mean you both have
covered this a long, and myunderstanding is that it hasn't
always been the case that themayor calls out every department
head, but I always wanted to dothat, starting last year and
continuing this year, becauseit's not the mayor that runs the
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city, it's not even Justin,although he does deserve a lot
of credit.
To your point, there are somany people that make the city
move and it's a day as much tocelebrate the work they've done
as it is for anyone else upthere.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, craig says it quite a bit.
He says to me you know, turn onthat light switch and we're
guaranteed to have lights.
Yep, on Christmas Day you putyour trash cans out.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That's how it will show up.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Our guys pick up our trash cans on Christmas Day.
They don't do that in BeverlyHills, they do that here in
Burbank, you know.
So you think of all the cityservices that.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And, like Ross pointed out, a lot of people
were there for the first time,so it was nice to acknowledge
those people.
They stand up and people wouldsay, oh okay, that's who named
or faced the name Good thing.
Yeah, okay, that's who you knownamed or faced the name Good
thing.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, so that's another, and like 650-some-odd
people in that room Recordattendance?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Where do we?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
go next year.
I mean, they've grown in thatroom.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Jonathan will find a way.
I think he'll have a workoutfor her.
Let me tell you what.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But then again, applause to you and to our PIO
department.
And again, like you said, ourcity is run by Justin Hess and
Courtney Padgett.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They oversee anything .
What a great team.
What a great team too?
Yeah, they really do.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, everybody says how's the sausage made?
You know what?
They're doing a pretty good jobmaking that sausage.
Yes, they are.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Okay, well, you know what?
Let's move on to some of thestuff going on this month, sure,
and some things we could getyour take on before you leave
office here in December.
Um, let's talk about, uh, let'stalk about, the library series
civic center project now it'sfunny you say that, craig.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I drove by last night and today the library was
closed, I guess for someelectrical work yeah talk about
pitch black.
I went down glen oaks last week.
All the lights are off at thelibrary, not even the lights out
in the courtyard.
Nothing, nothing.
I couldn't, it was a pitchblack hole.
We need a new library soon.
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Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, my point is you know, what do you envision?
What's your dream scenario,Even though you probably won't
be around to be able to vote onthe final thing on it but I've
heard a lot of things proposed.
I've heard a possibleamphitheater inside it, a
community center inside, youknow, like they have at Buena
Vista Library, but on a muchlarger basis.
I've heard people float aroundhousing.
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Possibly, you know, and wouldthe city want to run housing?
Or, like you know, the BurbankHousing Authority goes through
them, or something forlow-income housing.
There's a lot of ideas going onwith this thing.
Oh yeah, so what are I mean?
I know you're just getting areport on it during, uh,
November, but where, where doyou, where do you see that thing
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going?
You know, I think it's a, it'sgonna be a beast.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It definitely is.
So, just to set the table, um,uh, depending on when this airs,
uh, you know, tomorrow, uh,tuesday November 19th, uh,
actually, I think it's at 4 30PM, so it's before the start of
the regular show on tomorrow,before the meeting.
That's perfect.
Okay, so tomorrow 4 30 PMcouncil's having a study session
, so we're going to get anupdate on it.
Um, you know, the moreimportant question is what all
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of your listeners want to see,because that's who should be.
You should be showing upwriting.
The council doesn't have to betomorrow, but my thought on it
is I think this is a realopportunity project.
It's.
It's an opportunity for a majorfacelift.
The downtown Burbank area, thelibrary itself.
I mean I see a new, high tech,cutting edge library with the
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best of equipment.
Um, you know, that addressessome of the access issues that
we see with the current library.
That mitigate some of the otherdeficiencies and hazards that
might exist on that property.
But as a broader civic centerproject, I would love to see
housing included as part of it.
You know we own all of the landthrough there, so if we can
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find the right partner, you know, look primarily and not to
interrupt you, but I'm going tointerrupt you, of course.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I guess I have to interrupt you.
Let's tell people where exactlythis we're talking the old
community services building,right, that's, oh yes, glen Oaks
and all of where the right nowthe electric car parking lot is.
It involves that and where thefarmer's market's held.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Farmer's market, the Wells Fargo Bank, that whole
square.
Right but not the CSB building.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Not the CSB building.
I've heard before they weregoing to replace that also.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
No, yeah, but to your point, ross, it's all of that
land in that little block radius, if you will.
So we own all the landno-transcript.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
All of a sudden they don't teach anymore and they
come in just to get the thelow-income housing, and then
they stop teaching I mean, canyou?
Earmark housing for jobs likethat is that is legal so.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
So the short answer is and then I know you want to
jump in Ross is can you do it?
Yes, the question that you'rehitting on is how do you
regulate it?
At what point?
And those are fair questionsthat the next council will have
to address.
But I definitely think, withall that land and with Burbank's
need for housing and all thecommunities, all the
neighborhoods that are alreadyseeing densification and
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negative impacts, it just seemslike a prime site to add housing
in a way that doesn'tcompromise the character of our
existing neighborhoods.
So I'd love to see housing besome component of the project.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Well, you know, I know many police officers don't
like to live in the city thatthey work in.
You don't want to go shoppingin the grocery store and you're
checking out with the guy thatyou just arrested the day before
.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I understand that People who were arrested don't
live in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
This is true, but you know fire department school
teachers.
But you know we're looking atand I want to step back here.
Greg and I have been around fora long time.
I will say that gray hair and Idon't have hair, but we've been
around this town for a longtime.
We've seen the airport Foryears and years.
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People talk about a newterminal.
It's being built and the inputon what people wanted were
people have gone to meetings.
I just last week watched theParks and Rec meeting where they
showed their general plan, avision for many years.
It's going to take a long timebefore that library is built,
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that's right.
But input from everybody in thecity and I'm finding no offense
the people in the city arechanging.
It's no more that sleepycommunity.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, it's the downtown areas, as is definitely changed
, and and and with that change.
The one thing I don't likeabout this entire thing is we
keep calling it the new libraryI'd love to the media capital
world called the new mediacenter, multimedia center.
I mean, I, I'm not thinkingabout the books.
Books are good, but I mean allthose.
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I I'm not.
Are you saying more than yeah,because it is, it is going to be
more than books.
You know your library, youthink books, but in our, in our
city, there's so much going onhere.
Books should be part of it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But the name of the center should be something else
besides a library I think, and Iand I see your point, because
what we envision is not just aplace for folks to access books,
but to practice creative arts,digital media, career
advancement A lot of the thingsthat we are doing at the current
library, but in a more updatedspace with technology.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And that's where I think we're going.
When you look at the airport,what they're changing for
handicap accessible I mean fromparking lots to getting on
airplanes, to charging your cellphone in the terminal you know
the library has to look, nottoday, 10 years in the future
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and build it to that.
Um and I I agree with craig umI remember when you used to go
up to the library, the secondfloor of that library, you know,
in the auditorium, and they puton many events.
Our new library, or you knowthere's so much has changed
media-wise has changed.
You know people are producingmovies at our library.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You know, and we need to keep up with that trend.
We are the media capital of theworld and our library has to
really and so what I would sayto round out your question,
Craig.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I agree, I think the three components I'm looking for
is a new space that's modular,that can be reconfigured, that's
high tech to meet our needs,and the other key piece is
housing.
And then, but the third thing Iwould say is public space.
I mean, we we have a decentnumber.
We can always use more.
We have a decent number ofcommunity rooms, but I love the
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idea of an outdoor amphitheater,something that can really be.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that sounds very good.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Maybe there are other thoughts that we haven't even
thought of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
And to your point, Ross, this is definitely the
time to come and make yourvision seen and heard by the
council.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Okay, well, we have a new librarian, we do coming on
board.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know who I was told, Ross, you're looking up
right now, aren't you I?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
am trying to look it up on my phone.
You're right and I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm sure, when Justin hired this person, that it was
somebody who was going to bedeveloping a new center?
Yeah, where?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
he came from I forget Colorado, one of the cities he
was in.
He developed a state-of-the-artand I know that weighed in
quite heavily.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, he was very happy about the hire yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So we're not getting somebody that is green yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You know Experienced veteran here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Exactly so, librarians last eight to 10
years.
It's probably going to takethis project at least 10 years
for us to be able to walk in thedoor, but hopefully you know
he'll stick around long enoughto.
I agree, get us a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Let's move on a little bit here.
Okay, Another issue you'redealing with this month and not
really dealing with this month,but it's a future thing for a
long.
I think it's the changing faceof Burbank are parking meters.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Where Are there parking meters?
Where Great.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And they're talking about putting parking Tune in
tomorrow night, Ross.
Yes, they're talking aboutputting parking meters.
Do it tomorrow night, Ross.
Yes, they're talking aboutputting parking meters.
In fact, we have a video of oneof the meetings that we
recorded.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The three people that were there.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The three people.
There were four with me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh, excuse me Do you remember here now I'm going back
, okay when we had parkingmeters along the mall.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Ended in the 1970s, if I'm not mistaken, I think it
was.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
People were going out there with pipe cutters and
cutting the meters off to get 40bucks out of a meter and then
they found you put PVC aroundthem.
They couldn't cut it, but youremember all the every day.
Wow, there would be parkingmeters missing?
Wow, that's because people wereripping off.
Now with smart meters, youcan't do this.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So people are hesitant about meters.
But I think you have to look atthe fact that these parking
structures we built 30 years agoare starting to fall apart and
they need a lot of work.
And you look at areas like,let's say, Magnolia Park, where
if you put parking meters downMagnolia Park, that money could
go toward Magnolia Park.
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But that's the thing.
Is this going to get earmarkedfor whatever money it brings in,
for the money that for the areathat it represents, or will it
go into the general budget?
What are your thoughts on theentire parking meter thing?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah.
So let me just set the tablewith what folks are going to
hear tomorrow night, tomorrowbeing Tuesday the 19th, because
folks will be listening to thisin time.
So, for tomorrow, we are onlytalking about the downtown
Burbank area, so we're talkingabout San Fernando and all the
little side streets in that area.
In total, there's about I'mjust ballparking it here about
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150 parking spaces give or takethat they're looking to have
paid parking on.
Keep in mind that we have 6 000parking spaces in the down
where they're not doing thestructures also, though.
Well, because I think this is,this is just a pilot, it's it's
a first of its kind they want touh figure out.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
They have not been into the parking business.
Yep um for about 50 years.
So they want to start off.
I remember listening to KarenPan at that meeting and say
we're starting off small.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Very small.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
And let's get it under control Yep, and then we
can expand.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I guess the goal is to get 20% occupancy all the
time and the rates change as thespots fill up, and that's the
one thing I would say is that,unlike other cities which are
using paid parking to maximizetheir revenue, that's not our
goal.
Our goal is to have thosespaces turn over so that you can
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jump into starbucks for 20minutes and then you get out and
you the spots freed up.
So will we generate a revenueoff of it?
I'm sure we will, but we're notnecessarily concerned about
maximizing it.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Right, as I recall listening to our good friend, uh
David, our transportation guru.
Um, it's not to, you know, fundthe general fund it's to pay
for.
Let's test it out, let's payfor it.
You got a lot of infrastructure, Lots.
You're going to have to pay forthat.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So does that money go to the general budget then?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
General fund?
Yeah, so great question.
It does not go into the generalfund, it goes into the parking
authority fund.
So it is earmarked in that youcan only use it for these sort
of infrastructure upgrades.
We couldn't take that money andthen use it to buy out a gun
store or some other purpose.
Now to your question.
It's not so narrowly earmarkedwhere it's condensed like a
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specific area, at least not asof right now.
Right now, the concept is let'suse that revenue wherever the
need might exist in the city tomaintain these lots Down the
road, though I suppose therecould be a mechanism, especially
if we were partnering with alocal PBID, to try to designate
some of that revenue just forthe area.
But it's a pilot first of itskind, and so we're just keeping
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it very simple andstraightforward right now, I
know, sitting on the MagnoliaPark Merchants Board.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Boy city manager.
Many years ago Mark Scott metwith us and he said that's a
good way to fund things inMagnolia Park.
And we have.
They've talked about doing aparking study in Magnolia Park
for years.
I was just last Thursdaysitting doing a ribbon cutting
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at one of the businesses withour vice mayor.
We were sitting there talkingand looking at the cars and we
said here's a perfect examplewhere parking meters would pay
off so well in a long MagnoliaPark.
People don't realize you turnover business.
That's good for business,that's good for the city.
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People tend to want to park, goto work, because they know
Burbank doesn't charge and youget away with it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Employees do all the parking in good spots too.
Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, a lot of good things about it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
So so I would just say in in short um, however you
feel about paid parking, it'syou know.
In short, however you feelabout paid parking, it's coming
up for discussion tomorrow nightDefinitely make your voice
heard.
But what we will say is, evenif it happens, we'll have paid
parking on 150 spaces, but therewill still be 6,000 total
spaces in the downtown area,because we are cognizant that
cost is prohibited for somefolks.
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So there will still be freeparking options.
You can still go to the parkinglot behind City Hall.
You can park at our police andfire headquarters.
That'll still be free for up totwo hours, I think, and then
you got to move it.
But those spots are not beingtouched by this paid parking
program and others.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The city.
There's a.
If you drive around there istons.
Yeah, if you go on, there's amap on the city.
I've seen we have structuresRight All over downtown.
You'd be amazed.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Over 5,800 spots in fact.
There you go.
But we're looking at thosepremium, you know high.
You know high contact point,like the.
You know the most convenient ofthe most convenient spots and
saying those we need to turnover and, yes, we'll generate a
little revenue in the process.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I think the entire failure of the golden mall was
due to the lack of parking.
There were no parkingstructures at the time, so they
closed down San Fernando, andwhere would people park?
There's only just streetparking on the side streets and
there were no part you knowparking structures, and I think
that's why people stopped goingdown there and that was probably
what the failure was.
(30:39):
Yeah, so let me touch Along inthat general Category, the one
way San Fernando Boulevardexperiment, which you're not
going to be around to See thefinality of it.
I might have comments on it.
How do you feel it's going?
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
it's.
Can I read that it's comingback?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
January, I think.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
January.
That's what I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
So you know our new council with Chris Rizzotti.
Congratulations, chris.
They'll have a chance to talkabout it.
Look, from what I've seen, Ithink it's been a success A
success in terms of its reducednegative interactions, if you
will, between pedestrians andbicyclists and motorists.
It is proving to be safer.
I don't think we've seen thenegative impacts to businesses
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that we were concerned about.
What's your thought?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You're just the first thing out of your mouth there.
It has eliminated a lot ofaccidents.
It's safer.
That is the primary reasonpeople don't understand why did
you take all of and do what youdid?
Why did you do this on sanfernando?
Folks get prepared, becauseyou're going to see that be done
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in magnolia park.
You're going to be seeing itdone on riverside drive.
People are getting killed inthis city because of the speed
people are going.
We've got to tame it, we've gotto control it and this is one
way they have found the numbersshow.
I mean, if you want to look atstats, they look at the stats of
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every accident that occurs andwe're eliminating.
I have been to so manyaccidents on San Fernando road,
you know over the years.
Very few anymore.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, it's safer, and I think that there haven't been
the negative impacts tobusinesses and we think that
when we couple in this paidparking pilot program, we're
actually going to see a positiveimpact for businesses because
now that car that's been parkedin front of the Starbucks all
day has to move.
Unless they want to pay, theywill move, and so that means
more turnover, that means morefolks coming in to grab their
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sandwich at Ike's or you know.
I think there are positive.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Well, you know, when you used to have to in cars
where you kept your change, youknow, because you had to feed
the meters.
Yeah, we're dealing with smartmeters.
We're talking smart meters,everybody does.
I break my phone everybody hasa smartphone almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Not even a flip phone , but a flip phone.
Well, you heard what happeneddown at Redondo Beach or
somewhere, where somebody wentand changed the QR codes Right
and people were paying someoutside, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, I would think Burbank would catch on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'm just saying so.
You never know what's going tohappen.
You've got to be careful oneverything you do.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
you know, and for that reason we're not going to
use the QR codes.
We will.
You'll be able to access itonline and we would recommend
that people use the app Becausethen one time you put in your
license plate information, yourcard information, and it's
stored and you don't have tore-enter it.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Will that be part of?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
the 311 app I.
It's going to be separate, uh,because because there's a
separate vendor, but I thinkthere will be a linkage between
our app and that parking app, um, but it'll be convenient.
There's a minimal risk of anysort of fraud because we are.
We are watching what'shappening with those qr codes,
um.
But hey, at the end of the day,if you don't have a smartphone,
you can call and place yourpayment too.
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So as long as you have a, amobile device of any kind,
there's a way to pay.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So usually, you use your smartphone.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You're a dumb person either way but you had brought
up, when we were talking theother day, craig about um
smartphones and some peoplecan't figure out smartphones
well, that's yeah in fact,wasn't it the?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
parking permit.
Let's bring that up.
We're in parking all thosethings.
We're going to a new parkingsystem now and there's no longer
.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Residential.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Residential.
There's no longer the littlethings you hang in your windows
anymore.
You do it all online, which isgreat, but we've always been
able to buy a pass, and somebodycomes over a worker or, you
know, aunt Gertrude or somebodycomes over and she hangs it in
her window and that's it.
The way they're setting this upnow is that you cannot do that
anymore.
You must now.
If somebody comes over, youmust now go on a computer, get
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them a parking pass that day.
And not only does you know poorgrandma maybe not have a
computer access to do that, youknow, and now she's got to worry
about all that stuff butthere's also, I think, a privacy
concern.
What if people don't want toknow who's coming to their house
to visit them?
Now you're giving them theirlicense number and everything
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else and they're saying wait asecond, I don't want people to
know that that person came to myhouse.
So to me I think there's a realslippery slope here, and while
I understand why it'sstreamlined- I think having that
one pass you can still buy andbe able to give to somebody is
still a good thing to do.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, when you said privacy and I had written that
down, I understand people don't.
I think people understand.
License plate readers are onall police cars now all parking
control cars.
The new flock system is allover Burbank.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Empire Center is full of them.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Empire Center, the airport.
Your license is going to getrid if you come into this city.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
It will.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Bad guys.
Did you hear what I just said?
You might steal a car and havebad plates, but they're going to
know what color car they cansee inside.
You know the person driving,but now that's the standard
thing, I think, in cities.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I just think it's the privacy of the individual
person and who's visiting theirhouse.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
You know, and I will say that we're just rolling this
out, as you know, craig, and Ithink that there are definitely
this room for improvement, andso I would just encourage you,
as you are, to just continue tolet the council know that.
You know, you're not the firstperson to come to me and say,
hey, I'd really like the optionto have a hang tag.
So it's that that classictension point of trying to
embrace new technology andstreamline things, but it is
change and it's not always asconvenient as we design it.
(36:41):
Well, you know, I stay on topof things.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
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back to our show, and we're back.
It's November's Ask the Mayorshow with Mayor Nick Schultz and
we're going to move on a littlebit here.
We're talking about what thecouncil is still working on here
in November.
One thing that is coming up onthe agenda on Tuesday tomorrow I
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guess everybody knows now howthe sausage is made and we're a
day when we shoot this but oneof the things that is being
brought up is outdoor dining,and it's something that I think
the city of Burbank has reallydone a good job on, very slow
behind all the other citiesgetting into it, and thank
goodness we do have it now.
So that's coming up tomorrownight.
So give us your thoughts on theoutdoor dining.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
So I think this is one of the most impactful things
that we've done all year tohelp small business, and it's
probably it's it's unusuallyquiet.
A lot of folks aren't payingattention to it.
But what we're going to do iswe're going to vote to authorize
our staff to look the other way, to not enforce a Burbank
municipal code which does notallow for outdoor dining the
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next two years.
Um, and then in the spring,when we go through our budget
process, staff is going to comeback, um back with a budget
request, at first for afeasibility study.
But basically where this isgoing is to have a permanent
program to allow for outdoordining.
But to give them the time toget that fully done, we're going
to tell them for the next twoyears not to enforce any sort of
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ban or prohibition on outdoordining.
Now, if an establishmentbecomes a public nuisance and is
having a keg party the othernight, that's a different story.
But, for example, lincoln BeerCompany using their parking lot,
they're going to continue to beable to do that for the next
two years while we design theframework for a more permanent
exception.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Yeah, and Lincoln Beer Company is a good example.
They're the one that have made,addressed the council written
letters.
If you've ever been to LincolnBeer Company, that parking lot
in the evening is empty.
You're in an industrial areaand so why can you not have
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people and I think people arestill getting food off of food
trucks, they don't cook it therebut to be able to dine and,
like you said, being I'm veryinvolved in magnolia park, a
couple of our merchants alongthere.
This has been their lifeline.
I mean, after covid, after theplastic ban, after this, after
that, after the dodgers winning,you know, oh, I had to throw
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that in there.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I like how you threw that one in there.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
But I've been to many of these restaurants and we're
here in California folks, it's80 degrees 90% of the year.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Eat out on the patio.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know I'm frequent at tequilas and that outdoor
patio.
I just love sitting outside.
Over along Magnolia there's acouple of places.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
New Deal's another one New Deal is one that I've
been on their back patio.
Oh yeah, it's great you knowagain.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I think what we need to do is look at the overall
picture, and a lot of our lawsand rules were written a long
time ago, Yep, and things havechanged.
El Frisco Frisco Dining is here.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
It is.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
And we need to update our laws.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
And no offense.
I think it's going to continueto help a lot of businesses.
Yes, it does take away some ofthe handicap parking, I will say
, but I'm finding if they letone spot you don't have to
change the whole code.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But I think, and moving the trash cans maybe to a
decorative thing on some ofthese streets, so where a trash
can is, you can extend yourpatio.
Those are little tiny, minorthings that I really um, I hope
uh, is that a?
Um?
What do they call that?
When the council uh?
Consent calendar consent.
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I know the report.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I think tomorrow it's actually a report, so there'll
be an opportunity for publiccomment.
But if you're a small businessowner that is impacted by this,
or if you just care what'shappening to our small
businesses, I hope and I expect,just based on prior votes taken
, that the council will give thegreen light for this to
continue for at least the nexttwo years, while we work on a
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way to really make it permanent.
So at least through the end of26,.
There shouldn't be any questionthat New Deal, tequilas all of
your favorites are going tocontinue to be able to operate
that and I will say I know theowners of all these businesses
and they are worried.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
They've been worried.
You know, if this goes back youmight be out of business.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Like I said, I can't guarantee anything, but just
based on prior discussions andthe way we've voted before, I'm
optimistic that'll be a 5-0tomorrow night, you know, and
the nice we've voted before, I'moptimistic that'll be a 5-0
tomorrow night, you know, andthe nice thing is uh being
dining outside.
You can have your dog with you.
Yes, you can where's dodger?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
he's asleep over here .
Oh well, you know he's asleep,but no, that's the other night
thing.
And people here in californiadoesn't everybody take their dog
?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I know I do oh yeah okay.
Well, let's you know what wegot.
One more thing for tonight, um,and that's our big upcoming
event yeah, which is uh, themayor's christmas tree lighting,
which is coming up on december7th.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
So, uh, probably your last official act yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be the last, last bigevent of the year before the
reorg.
Um, yeah, let me, let me justmention so.
That's going to be six o'clockright on the steps of burbank
city hall, santa's going to bemaking an appearance.
I know he's got so much to dothese days, but you get them on
your schedule every year I don'tknow how we must have inside.
(43:12):
Yeah, we, yeah, we got them onspeed dial.
Um, yeah, we encourage peopleto start lining up out there
about 5, 30, 5, 45 we do beginright at six.
Um, or shine, rain or shine,we'll be out there.
And I also want to give justone other plug.
So I mean that that's reallyour hallmark seminal holiday
event, although there's always amenorah lighting at amc walkway
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, so we'll have that later indecember.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
You know what?
Now that I think about that'sthe one.
I'm usually down in palmsprings visiting my relatives
celebrating hanukkah.
But do you want a clue off?
I hear the emcee for themayor's tree lighting is
probably last year.
They rocked it.
They did such a great job Ourown, mr Jones and Mary.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
They do a heck of a job.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
They really did.
And if you don't know JonathanJones personally, see him, see
this.
That event just makes a greatstop out and you get.
I know you can probably write anote to a serviceman.
Our veterans are out there.
Yeah, yeah, you can get candycanes.
You can talk to Santa Claus,you can take a picture with
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Santa.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
If you have your kids and you can see all the cute
kids with their dance troupe andlocal choirs, I mean it's a
real nice showcase of our localtalent.
So six o'clock on the seventh,but I also, if it's all right,
I'll go go ahead going into ourlast little bit, I know you
normally ask me what's on mymind I well, let me instead.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Let me do this.
Yeah, so what's on the mayor'smind?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
greg, thank you.
Um, I also want to highlighttwo other events that are
happening, um, both this weekend.
Actually, if you're wanting toget into the you know the
holiday mood you want to supportsome local businesses.
There's two other really greatthings happening.
So, starting on friday ross, Iknow you know all about this we
have a holiday in the park.
Um, it's going to be from fiveto nine.
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I'm actually going to hand itover to Ross in a minute, uh,
cause that's the big one I wantto steer you to, but also, and
then it's yours in a second,ross, after you've had fun at
holiday in the park.
Uh, on Saturday, if you likewine, you can come downtown and
we have the Burbank winter winewalk, which is really a great
opportunity to enjoy some wineand shop and frequent some of
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our downtown businesses.
But, ross, tell us aboutholiday in the park.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I don't know a thing about it.
I happen to be co-chair ofholiday in the park.
This year we are rocking it.
We are.
We've doubled the exhibitors, Imean the vendors.
We have more food trucks.
We got three stages forperformances.
We got, I think, 30, 40 carswow, I mean some real classic
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cars.
Um, it's going to be a greatevent.
Got a ferris wheel going to beat uh ume.
One of our hosts, brad corb, isuh sponsoring the ferris wheel
which everybody comes out to see.
But it's a great way to getinto the holidays.
The nice thing is support yourlocal businesses.
They're staying open.
You know, if you haven'tshopped in some of the little
(46:11):
stores, stop in.
It's a good time.
Plus, you know.
You know you might be able tosay hi to craig doing the
podcast for myburbankcom.
Oh, really.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Okay, we will be out there.
In fact, we have some niceshirts to sell and hats and if
you come by, we actually let mehold this up to the camera.
Here we actually have a nice myBurbank pen which we're going
to give away If anybody wants tostop by and get one.
One-size pen, one-size stylus.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Oh, I didn't even realize that.
Oh, this is.
Oh, yeah, it is, wow.
Well, and, and you know what?
I'll clue you off only becauseI know the maps.
Yeah, real well, greg will bekind of near pizza hut and
that's where my burbank boothwill be.
I'll be over there over thereby uh the there's california and
magnolia the street.
(47:01):
Let me just throw this in there.
We take over the street at 11am.
Parking enforcement goes intoeffect at 8 am.
It is just one day.
We are trying to help eliminatea ton of cars.
If you want to take a rideshare, we highly recommend it
and you can come in.
Tell your driver to.
(47:22):
3, 3221 is the do-it-yourselfcenter.
We will have their parking lotafter five o'clock so they can
come in off a chandler, droppeople off you're right in the
middle of holiday in the park,um, and then they can go out and
you can be picked up there and,um, bring your appetite.
I mean, there will be everychoice of food and those bundt
(47:43):
cakes will be out there too.
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
And and portos and the other thing I would just
mention is there are so manyholiday freebies and events that
we could talk about we don'thave time, but if you go to
burbankcagov, forward slashholiday events 2024, or if you
just google it, we have a wholeweb page devoted to all the
great things.
I want to close on one morething, because we don't always
(48:06):
in my opinion, we haven't alwaysdone a great job of celebrating
all of the holidays that fallinto december.
We actually have a menorahlighting at city hall this year
from december 25th to january2nd and look, we're still a work
in progress, but I think everyyear we're trying to add more
and be more inclusive ofeverybody, of all faiths, that
call Burbank home.
So, in addition to you know, Ithink it's going to be an
(48:29):
addition to the AMC walkwaydowntown AMC walkway.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
Rabbi, he just.
It's the Chabad house ofBurbank and they bring out
potato latkes.
If you don't know, what that?
Is.
It's potato pancakes,applesauce.
You got to have potato pancakewith donuts.
They serve a ton out there andit's a really a nice way to uh
to support that holiday.
(48:53):
And there are others.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
Yeah, so if you want to come celebrate that, if you
want to see a free screening ofgremlins, like, all of that is
on our website and there arelike 20 events, so it's going to
be a really fun season now.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Mr mayor, I, I, I know you're you're moving on
here soon, but I got a questionI gotta ask sure doesn't burbank
?
It just has a fantastic feel.
I mean, these community eventsa lot of cities stop doing them.
Um, we expect to see 25 or30,000 people over at holiday in
the park this week.
(49:25):
I love it.
I mean, people come out ofeverywhere.
But that's the thing aboutBurbank.
We are different.
What is it?
It's just to get together.
If it's a menorah lighting, ifit's holiday in the park, if
it's supporting, you know, alocal club or organization, we
just do it Cool.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
We do.
It's that small town field thatyou just don't see a lot of
anymore, and I agree with you.
It's, um, whether it's whetherit's the 4th of July, whether
it's Halloween, whether it's, uh, the holiday season, we do it
better than everyone, and, uh,I'll have my family out there
holiday in the park, so we'll berocking it with y'all, cool.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
All right.
Well, I think that's anotherwrap for another month here, and
we thank the mayor for comingon the show, as always, because
he is not only a busy guy beingthe mayor but now being our
assembly member also, so weappreciate him stopping by and
expressing his views and what'sgoing on in Burbank.
We hope you guys learnsomething from this.
So, um, for mayor Nick Schultzand Ross Benson, this is Craig
(50:26):
Sherwood saying thank you verymuch for listening or watching
on YouTube and we will see younext month.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Happy holidays.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
And we is out.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Perfect and I'll use the restroom restroom and then,
if you guys want after a break,we can do the breaking news
first.
Exclusive with my burger.
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
diuretics too.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
No, he's on he's on yeah how else do you expect me
to stay awake?
Oh, I will tell you, the onething I do not look forward to
is you, you, you, you, you you.
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