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Resident praises city legal team after Burbank resists Metro injunction; urges transparency on SB79 and SB1361
Summary
During public comment July 21, Susan O'Carroll praised Burbank's legal team for fending off Metro's attempt to obtain an injunction related to a BRT project, asked the city to post court documents and the hearing transcript, and urged the city to educate state lawmakers about Metro's actions and to lobby against SB1361.
At the start of the public-comment period, Susan O'Carroll commended the city attorney and the municipal legal team for successfully defending Burbank in a recent court hearing against an injunction sought by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority related to a Bus Rapid Transit project.
"Metro made clearly inaccurate representations about how SB79 works and the City's ability to deny SB79 projects," O'Carroll said, and she asked the city to post the court documents and the hearing transcript on the city's website to improve transparency. She also urged Burbank to educate the State Assembly and the bill's author about what she described as Metro's failures to cooperate before and after SB79 and to lobby to defeat SB1361.
O'Carroll framed her remarks as both praise for the legal defense and a call for public access to the underlying court record so residents can better understand the litigation and the city's legal arguments. The transcript of the case listed in the council's closed-session announcement appears as "Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority versus the City of Burbank," described in open session as involving CEQA and a breach-of-contract claim.
The council did not respond to O'Carroll with any new, detailed public explanation of the litigation during the open comments; the city later moved into closed session, where by law deliberations and certain details are not disclosed publicly.
