Rancho Palos Verdes
City Council
F.
Consider continuing the emergency justification for work and emergency
contracting for the Greater Portuguese Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide
Emergency Project. (Copp)
Recommendation: 1) Reconfirm, by a four-fifths vote, there is a need to
continue the work on the Emergency Project declared by Council-adopted
Resolution No. 2024-20 on May 7, 2024, finding an emergency exists requiring
immediate action in the Greater Portuguese Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide
Complex (Landslide Complex) to seek to mitigate the movement of the
landslide; 2) Direct the City Clerk to confirm the same in the minutes of this
City Council meeting, via Minute Order, reflecting this action; 3) Accept the
emergency landslide stabilization work conducted by Malcolm Drilling
Company, Inc. (Malcolm) between May 22, 2024 and June 30, 2025 (through
FY 2024-25) as complete and authorize the City Clerk to file a Notice of
Completion for the construction contract with the Los Angeles County
Registrar-Recorder’s Office; 4) Approve Amendment No. 1 to the Consultant
Maintenance Agreement (CMA) with Genesis Electrical, Inc. (Genesis) for
maintenance and repair services for the Abalone Cove Sanitary Sewer System
lift station generators, increasing the not-to-exceed amount for the initial oneyear term by $50,000 from $25,000 to $75,000 while maintaining a 10%
contingency, for which the completed value of work under the amended
Agreement will not exceed the project budget; 5) Approve issuing a purchase
order for goods in the amount of $42,336 to Genesis for purchasing three (3)
trailer-mounted propane tanks to fuel the Abalone Cove Sanitary Sewer
System lift station generators, for which the completed value of work as part of
the purchase order will not exceed the project budget; 6) Award a Public
Works Agreement (PWA) to Yellow Jacket Drilling Services, LLC. (Yellow
Jacket) for landslide emergency on-call dewatering well drilling and related
services in the not-to-exceed amount of $1,500,000, for a term ending on June
30, 2026, for which the completed value of work under the Agreement
combined with other related on-call contracts will not exceed the project
budget; and, 7) Authorize the Mayor to execute the above-listed Agreements
and Amendment in a form approved by the City Attorney.
Agenda Report