Burbank, California Special Programming, 27 Oct 2022

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From YouTube: "When a City Comes Together" - State of the City Video 2022

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"When a City Comes Together" - State of the City Video 2022

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What is so black.

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Said that, coming together as a beginning, keeping together as progress working together, a success, you see burbankers care deeply about their families, neighbors and the community, and we've been doing that for over 100 years back in 2011, when I was a centennial mayor, all of Burbank came together to put on one of the best and biggest parties to celebrate our Town's 100th birthday and 11 years later, we still go above and beyond, in whatever we do.

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Our vibrant downtown is a perfect example of burbankers coming together to build something special through Partnerships, such as a downtown Burbank property-based business improvement, district or p-bid Property Owners businesses and the City come together under a common goal to continuously improve our city. The PBS efforts have resulted in new additions like Street Plus.

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The property business improvement district here in downtown Burbank, hired Street, plus back in March of 2019 to come in and provide Social, Service Outreach and also too, to provide information to the locals and tourists about what's going on in downtown Burbank and the types of businesses that are here. Streetplus has a very strong relationship with the downtown Burbank businesses.

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They work in close collaboration to make sure that the streets are safe, that the community is vibrant, that is clean and that it's a desirable place for people to come and visit and hang out and just enjoy themselves.

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Street plus has improved the area first of all by transitioning 135 homeless people off the streets. The other thing, too is is that how they've improved it? It's always nice to see a friendly, smiling face of an ambassador right. uh You know somebody that you can get to know on a first day basis, and you know they're there for you to help you give you some guidance, help give you some directions. You know some recommendations, maybe and and I think. That is what makes it so special in the downtown community and.

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Aside from Street Plus's, regular duties, they've recently partnered with another staple of the downtown scene, that's been bringing our community together. Every Saturday morning for almost 40 years, the Burbank Farmers Market.

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Our slogan here at the Burbank Farmers Market, is for your health and for your neighbor's health care and for your health is obviously the benefit of all of the fresh local produce that you can purchase here and then for your neighbor's Health Care is because the proceeds are being donated to Providence St Joseph. We work really well in accordance with the City of Burbank. We are on their property every Saturday morning. The city is just it's wonderful. My favorite thing about the farmers market is the community. The residents we couldn't ask for.

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Better customer base I can tell you who's coming what time they're coming and what like, what they'll most likely buy lucky you came on early. That's.

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All I have left my vendors know all of the customers names. We know. We know the kids, the the grandparents everybody it's the.

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Same people full week after week, we show up strictly because of the community. Here we need them just as much as they need.

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Us the community itself is really amazing here in Burbank the.

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Success of the downtown has not only attracted residents and visitors, but also new businesses. Unique vintage and eclectic clothing store and online business has been in Burbank for over 20 years, but when a storefront became available in the downtown, they quickly made their next big.

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Move so now that we're in downtown Burbank, it's like such a game, changer we're around all kinds of restaurants and other shops, and we've always wondered what it would be like to be in a high traffic area. And now we know.

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Thank you so much so.

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Our flagship store is on San Fernando, but our headquarters is here on Ontario Street in Burbank, it's a beautiful facility. Here we have 30 000 square feet of office and warehouse space. We not only design the line here we pickpack and ship. Here we do all of our photo shoots here. We just rented the building right next door because we're running out of space what I love about Burbank.

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Besides the fact that I practice what I preach I was raised here, I still live here and I'm raising my family here, I just feel such a sense of community. One way we like to give back is: we are hugely supportive of the lgbtq community, so we give back during pride month. We give 10 of our profits away for the month of June for all of our pride merchandise. That's super important to us and we also have donated to the Y and any other. You know community activities that we hear about.

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We like to participate in people tease me around the office because you know they might be moving in from another state and they see where should I live I'm like? Where else would you live, except for Burbank like why not success.

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And collaboration can be seen all across Burbank and nowhere more notably than how local non-profits come together to achieve common goals. Take organizations like home again in La the Burbank housing Corporation and the boys and girls club these three non-profits at both individually and as a team to assist burbankers who need a helping hand since.

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We first opened our doors 12 years ago, home again, LA and boys and girls club have had a great relationship together. We.

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Help ensure that any members from home again La have access to our programs. It's.

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Really critical of that partnership, because many of the families that come to home again in LA are single parents and not having after-school care or summer camp care or Winter Camp Care can cause a lot of.

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Challenges we also have a great partnership with the boys and girls club for the last three years, we've been working in partnership with them to operate our youth programs, our.

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Partnership with Burbank housing, Corporation includes two after-school sites, and then in the summer we provide two summer programs for them throughout.

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The last 12 years we've continued to expand our partnership with bhc.

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During the pandemic home again, La became a local administrator for the housing is Key Program. Our residents were able to work directly with the case manager to apply for the rent relief program, which was a huge help for our families because they needed it.

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I think that there's countless success stories just with the different Partnerships that exist between the boys and girls, club and home again, LA and Burbank housing, Corporation I.

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Came here since I was like eight and now I'm, like 15 years old I'm still coming here. It's like my second home to me home.

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Again, La was very Monumental to my process, not only for myself but for my son in the time frame where his mother walked out on us and I was left with so much uncertainty. I was living in my car, I was homeless for.

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My daughter and I having access to phds resources allowed me to go back to school and also have her in an after-school program. The.

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Reason why I did the deaf and hard of hearing program, because well I had to my parents? Were deaf and I wanted to learn how to sign so I can talk to my parents, my parents and I learned I learned and now I can sign very good.

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I smile now, you know outside, looks green and blue as it used to I'm able to be the father that I know that that I could have been from the beginning. My.

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Family and I really love the City of Burbank, there's no other place. I would want to raise my child.

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When people say that it takes a village to raise a child, well I, look at it. It takes a village of Partners to raise a community.

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We're extremely fortunate to live, work and play in a place like Burbank with top-notch city services, fantastic schools, a healthy job market, dedicated safety personnel, a great airport, beautiful, Parks, I. Think you get the idea. Burbank is a special place, and that's because of you, the community. We work together for the greater good and when a city comes together like we do, the possibilities are endless.

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