Rancho Palos Verdes

City Council

G. Consideration and possible action to reconfirm continuing the emergency justification for work and contract bidding on the Portuguese Bend Landslide Emergency Hydraugers Project. (Copp) Recommendation: 1) Reconfirm, by a four-fifths vote, there is a need to continue the work on the Portuguese Bend Landslide Emergency Hydraugers Project declared by Council-adopted Resolution No. 2024-20 on May 7, 2024, finding an emergency exists requiring immediate action to install hydraugers in the Portuguese Bend Landslide to seek to mitigate the movement of the landslide; and 2) Direct the City Clerk to confirm the same in the minutes of this City Council meeting, via Minute Order, reflecting this action; and, 3) Adopt Resolution No. 2024-_: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, FINDING AND DECLARING, BY A FOUR-FIFTHS VOTE OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, THAT AN EMERGENCY EXISTS WHICH WILL NOT PERMIT THE COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION OF BIDS FOR THE EMERGENCY HYDROAUGERS PROJECT, DETERMINING THE EMERGENCY HYDRAUGERS PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT PURSUANT TO THE EMERGENCY EXEMPTION SET FORTH IN PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE, SECTION 21080(b)(4), AND AWARDING A CONTRACT TO MALCOLM DRILLING COMPANY, INC., TO CONSTRUCT THE EMERGENCY HYDROAUGERS PROJECT Agenda Report