Glendale Works In our part of La Crescenta, I can annoy my neighbors by reminding them we live in Glendale. No, they say, we live in La Crescenta. Or Montrose. Or Verdugo City. Never Glendale. Yet, for me, three-ish years reporting on the doings of the Glendale City Council, following years and years representing local […]
The Glendale City Council meets weekly on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. at the Glendale City Hall. By law, its agendas are posted in advance of the meetings, including on the City’s website. The Council hears public comment on agenda items at the beginning of its meetings and general comments at the end. As usual, at […]
By Julie BUTCHER At the beginning of Tuesday night’s meeting, the Glendale City Council adopted a proclamation recognizing Saturday, Nov. 30 as Small Business Saturday and urged Glendale residents to shop locally at small businesses, particularly on that day. “Sixty cents of every dollar spent at a small business goes back into the local community,” […]
By Julie BUTCHER Early in Tuesday night’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, Mayor Elen Asatryan commended Glendale’s Dept. of Economic Development for the city’s recent recognition as one of the five most business-friendly cities in Los Angeles County. Next, the Council reviewed requests for several properties to be included in the city’s register […]
By Julie BUTCHER At the beginning of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, Councilmember Ardy Kassakhian observed that Monday is Veterans Day and proposed that the city plan for next year an event commemorating the day. Councilmember Ara Najarian asked when the discussion of the reconfiguration of North Brand Boulevard would be […]
By Julie BUTCHER The Glendale City Council met Tuesday night for its last October meeting. It first heard a legislative update from Assemblymember Laura Friedman who gave an overview of the 12 bills she authored that were signed into law by the governor as well as budget items of importance to the assembly district. Most […]
By Julie BUTCHER “We’ve been holding council meetings in various neighborhoods for years,” said Glendale Mayor Elen Asatryan when she opened the Tuesday night meeting of the Glendale City Council in the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park in the Glenoaks Canyon neighborhood. “I wanted to change it up and bring city hall to the […]
By Julie BUTCHER “I’m a composter. I don’t see it as waste but rather as a resource,” founder and executive director of LA Compost Michael Martinez said as he addressed the Glendale City Council on Tuesday night. The council approved a three-year agreement with Martinez’ organization for $230,250 for the development of a food waste […]
By Julie BUTCHER Among numerous other items of municipal business on Tuesday night, the Glendale City Council voted to reduce the dollars the city’s utility allocates toward its Public Benefits Charge (PBC) funds from 3.6% to 2.85% of the annual retail electric rate revenues and to use the funds that were inadvertently over-collected to fund […]
By Julie BUTCHER Early in Tuesday night’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, staff and members of the public were confused by the process by which the Council approved “a professional services agreement with Architectural Resources Group for preparation of the East-West Glendale historic context and survey, the North Glendale historic context update and […]