Category: City Council

Glendale City Council- 5/04/2021 Housing Authority – 05/04/2021 Joint City Council and Housing Authority – 05/04/2021 Special City Council – 05/04/2021

City Council- 4/27/2021 Special City Council-4/27/2021 Joint City Council and Housing Authority- 4/7/21 Special City Council- 4/27/2021 (9:00 am)

Glendale City Council- 4/20/2021 Special City Council – 04/20/2021 Housing Authority – 04/20/2021

I didn’t post these two weeks ago, but including them now for archive purposes. Paula Devine replaced Vrej Agajanian as mayor (and the city breathed a sigh of relief). Glendale City Council – 04/06/2021 Joint City Council & Housing Authority – 04-06-2021 Housing Authority – 04/06/2021

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At the March 9, 2021 meeting, Glendale City Council appointed Mr. Roubik Golanian City Manager. Below are Mr. Golanian’s comments to Council and the public as he formally accepted the appointment.

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At the February 16, 2021 City Council Meeting, Councilmember Dan Brotman made comments directly to the viewing public regarding motives behind the ‘Winegate’ fiasco orchestrated by Ara Najarian. This video includes his statement directed to the citizens of Glendale. Mr. Brotman informs us that some with commercial developer interests are…

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This is a clip of the full second motion of ‘winegate,’ where Ara Najarian walks the thin line between defaming someone and defamation, at the February 16, 2021 City Council meeting. Council rejected it in a 2 abstain (Brotman, Devine): 1 no (Kassakhian): 2 yes (Najarian, Agajanian) vote. Mr. Najarian…

Outlook Newspapers’ Glendale News-Press had especially good coverage of Ara Najarian’s failed over-reactive attempt to to create a scandal designed to impair the Design Review Board. Recall that Ara Najarian made a point of mentioning (threatening) media coverage at the City Council meeting. “More than two hours of discussing what…

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Glendale City Council February 9, 2021

Published to Facebook January 9, 2021 with the message “Peace and Love.” At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, while case and death numbers were rapidly increasing in Glendale, this Glendale City Council member was enjoying a day at the beach and declaring himself “the love doctor.” — Nauseating. On…

Glendale City Council Meeting, January 19, 2021 Joint Meeting, January 19, 2021 Housing Authority Meeting, January 19, 2021

An interview with POLITICO’s Senior Political Editor Charles Mahtesian about the Capitol Hill protests/riots, the Democratic control of the Congress and White House and what the future holds for local agencies struggling with the pandemic.

Ara Najarian is a very busy politician. He was ‘so busy’ that he proposed City Council and staff eliminate one City Council meeting per month, giving city officials a handful of taxpayer-paid days off. With a pretense of needing time to catch up on backed up reports and other city…

At the January 12, 2021 Glendale City Council meeting, Ara Najarian’s long-time political adversary, local community newsletter publisher, Mike Mohill called in to bring attention to the repeated censorship tactics practiced by the councilmember. Mr. Najarian has a growing record of using such tactics on Nextdoor to prevent the greater…