CDBG advisory committee shifts small-park dollars, approves $605,000 for YWCA building repairs after safety review

Members of the City of Glendale CDBG Advisory Committee voted Feb. 28 to move $100,000 among city capital projects and to recommend a $605,000 CDBG award for building repairs at the YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena’s Lexington Street property.

The committee voted to reduce previously designated allocations for the Elk Mini Park and Wilson Mini Park playground replacements from $250,000 apiece to $200,000 and to place the $100,000 difference into a Pelincony Park renovation project. The motion passed on a roll call vote after staff described Pelincony as an older park in need of backstop fencing, asphalt replacement around a baseball field and half court, bleacher repairs and irrigation work.

Why this matters: The Pelincony decision preserves half a million dollars for municipal mini-park projects while shifting a relatively small amount to address infrastructure deterioration at one of the city’s older parks. The committee framed the change as a schedule- and scope-neutral reallocation intended to let staff proceed with bidding and construction timetables already in place.

What the staff report said Tamar Kabanjian, administrative associate in the Community Services & Parks Department, presented status updates on multiple City and community capital improvement projects. Among the projects under design or construction were: work at Pacific Park (natural grass field redesign and an Edison Elementary…