Tag: COVID-19
Glendale City Council, Joint CC/Housing Authority Meetings August 24, 2021
Glendale City Council August 24, 2021 Action Items: a. Community Development, re: Introduction of an Ordinance to Revoke and Reinstate Title 5 of the Glendale Municipal Code to Update Business Regulations and Business License Procedures — Council voted unanimously to clean up it’s business license code. It includes a streamlined…
Glendale City Council, Joint CC/Housing Authority Meetings August 17, 2021
Glendale City Council August 17, 2021 The big Action Items were: Police Department, re: Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Special Directives and Impacts Council decided to send a ‘we have some serious concerns, so we’re reaching out to you‘ letter to District Attorney, George Gascon’s office. Ardy Kassakhian made sure…
Glendale City Council, Joint CC/Housing Authority Meetings August 10, 2021
Glendale City Council August 10, 2021 Opening comments regarding the 3-fatality street racing collision in Burbank on Glenoaks Blvd., August 3, 2021. Includes comments by Glendale Police Chief, Carl Povilitis. Consent items: Installation of Class II Bike Lanes and Creative Crosswalks Project was pulled for further discussion. (Brotman) Big Action…
Previous meetings: City Council, Special Meeting, Joint CC/Housing Authority – June 29 & July 13, 2021
City Council -June 29 Apiaries & beekeeping, GWP Energy Risk Management Policy, Public tree trimming procedure and costs), COVID-19 Emergency ordinance extension, Update on racial diversity/equity/inclusion efforts. Special City Council – 6/29/21 Management and Operation of Alex Theatre, Housing Authority CDBG/CARES Act Joint City Council and Housing Authority – 7/13/21…
Happy Independence Day! July 4, 2021
Wishing everyone a happy and safe 4th of July. The best for health and happiness to everyone in Glendale, and our surrounding communities. Below are three local fireworks displays available for public viewing: Starlight Bowl – BurbankThe annual Burbank 4thof July fireworks display will take place beginning at 9:00 pm…
Glendale City Council, March 30, 2021
“The Love Doctor” Ara Najarian enjoys a sunset while Glendale residents die of COVID-19
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 January 26, 2021
Jogger Spitting on Citizens Located, Arrested and Booked
Media Contact: Sgt. HauptmannOffice: 818-937-8888Cell: 818-299-1565Email: GPDPIO@Glendaleca.gov Jogger Spitting on Citizens Located, Arrested and Booked In late 2020, the Glendale Police Department began receiving reports regarding a shirtless male jogger who was spitting on random people outdoors, primarily for not wearing a face mask. Victims of his assaults ranged in…
Dan Brotman creates 50 second COVID-19 PSA; City unable to produce better in 10 months
At the January 12, 2021 Glendale City Council meeting, Dan Brotman stressed the need for better enforcement of our social distancing and face covering ordinances. Though not planned as such, 50 seconds of his comments provided a better COVID-19 public service announcement than our city produced late in the holiday…
Glendale posts Council agenda 12 days in advance. The unintended benefit of taking 20 days off?
On December 31, 2020 Ardy Kassakhian posted on Twitter: “Meeting agendas ready 12 days before the actual scheduled meeting. Let’s make this a regular occurrence so the public has a chance to see what’s coming up for a vote. #transparency#LocalGov “ I agree that the public should have plenty of…
Holiday greeting from our City Council members
Earlier this month as the holiday season began, City Council attended the 2020 virtual Glendale Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony. Each councilmember expressed their holiday greetings to the residents of Glendale, which was followed by clips of the tree lighting event from previous years. A few of the council members spoke…
Glendale City Council produces Christmas Eve ‘panic mode’ COVID-19 video scripted from tweet series
Today, Glendale released a 1:54 mins. video of City Council addressing the dangers of COVID-19. It’s mostly scripted off of the nine-part tweet series mentioned in my last post, but it is overall a good production. This was months and months overdue. It’s unfortunate that the city waited for a…
@MyGlendale tweets wrong COVID-19 death count, only off by six human lives
Today @MyGlendale tweeted a series of nine COVID-19 messages to the public. In their final message, they pled for the public to consider those who have lost their lives in Glendale to COVID-19, citing 225 people who have died from the disease. Unfortunately, their data was two days old, and…
L.A. County on verge of becoming COVID-19 epicenter: ‘We are getting crushed’
Two weeks ago, Ara Najarian and Vrej Agajanian were pondering a ‘Mock Health Department’ to do everything they can to ditch the LA County Health Department’s authority, and preserve the health of the dine-out-burger. Perhaps they should have been preparing for the post Thanksgiving effects of COVID-19. Los Angeles Times…
COVID-19: Councilmember Ara Najarian Proposes Pseudo Health Department to Circumvent LA County Restrictions
Ara Najarian shows us exactly how much importance he places on the health and well-being of Glendale citizens. Najarian proposed the creation of a pseudo-health department which Glendale can lay claim to by “meeting the qualification and check the boxes.” His motivation was NOT FOR THE SAKE OF PUBLIC HEALTH,…
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