Rancho Palos Verdes
City Council
4. Consider updates on the Greater Portuguese Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide
Complex. (Awwad/Ramos/Forbes/Lozano) (30 mins)
Recommendation: 1) Receive and file an update on the Greater Portuguese
Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide Complex (Landslide Complex) conditions,
activities, and financials; 2) Approve an appropriation of $2,154,416 for eligible
project costs and $140,676 for grant administration costs in the Federal Grant
Revenue for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
Grant Program and Transfers-Out to reimburse the Capital Infrastructure
Projects (CIP) Fund; 3) Approve an updated grant match for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
(HMGP) for the Portuguese Bend Landslide Remediation Project, increasing
the City’s commitment match approved by the City Council on August 19, 2025
from $10 million to $12,179,797 based on 60% engineered plans; 4) Receive
and file an update on the watering restriction within the Landslide Complex; 5)
Adopt Resolution No. 2026-__, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA, EXTENDING FOR
A TERM OF 60 DAYS THE TEMPORARY PROHIBITION ON TRAVEL BY
UNICYCLES, BICYCLES, MOTORCYCLES, AND OTHER ONE- OR TWO-
WHEELED VEHICLES ON PALOS VERDES DRIVE SOUTH WITHIN THE
LANDSLIDE COMPLEX DUE TO CONTINUED ROADWAY CONDITIONS; 6)
Adopt Resolution No. 2026-__, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA, CONTINUING THE
LOCAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION AS ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION
NO. 2023-47 ADOPTED ON OCTOBER 3, 2023 FOR AN ADDITIONAL 60
DAY PERIOD; and, 7) Adopt Resolution No. 2026-__, A RESOLUTION OF
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES,
CALIFORNIA, EXTENDING THE STATE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY WITHIN
THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF THE PORTUGUESE BEND
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, PORTUGUESE BEND BEACH CLUB, AND
SEAVIEW NEIGHBORHOODS BASED ON SUDDEN ENERGY
SHORTAGES, PLANNED DEENERGIZING EVENTS, AND INTERNET
SERVICE SHUT OFFS AS ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION NOS. 2024-52
AND 2024-57 FOR AN ADDITIONAL 60 DAYS.
Agenda Report