Burbank City Council

Burbank City Council voiced it's criticisms over the Metro NoHo-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit Project

Burbank City Council rejects an appeal to stop development at the old location of Fry's Electronics, cites state and city development guidelines

The Burbank City Council met virtually on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 and opened the meeting in adjournment of retired Burbank Fire Captain, Guy Thompson, who served the Burbank Fire Department for 33 years. Mayor Bob Frutos proceeded with some announcements to the public including an online community workshop for the Burbank Housing Element hosted by the Community Development Department on February 27th from 11:00am-12:30pm.

Burbank City Council approves oversight of SB35 projects; presented detailed report on COVID-19 news by staff

The Council will also hold a Joint Meeting with the Burbank Police Commission to go over their recommendations starting at 4 pm

This past Tuesday, December 8th, was the last city council meeting for longtime member, Emily Gabel-Luddy, who took seat on the Burbank City Council in May of 2011 and has used her time to help build and transform Burbank for a better future. She built her campaign on being practical with practical solutions and ran for office to have a positive impact on Burbank’s citywide growth. “I made a commitment when first elected to earn the trust of those who did not support me. I hope I met that,” says Gabel-Luddy, “We cannot always solve the problem but we must listen as we represent all in the community.”

The Burbank City Council held a virtual joint meeting with the Police Commission on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021. The meeting pushed past midnight putting the council members in overtime, and the majority of the meeting was spent in discussion of the recommendations to council from the Police Commission as well as callers in the public comment portion of the joint meeting.

Following the tragic traffic accident that occurred on Aug. 3rd, Burbank City Council convened to discuss and amend speed limits.

BPD delivers report on the status and goals of the Student Resource Officer (SRO) program to joint Burbank City Council and School Board meeting

The Burbank City Council met virtually on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 and opened the meeting with the adjournment of retired City of Burbank Fire Engineer, Alan Moore. Moore passed away in October of 2020 after a two year battle with cancer. Moore was a Burbank High School graduate of 1968 who then served the US Army in the Vietnam War before joining the Burbank Fire Department in 1981.