Meetings & Agencies

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As of Nov. 5, 2026. The Nov. 17 Council agenda was not yet posted. Later dates are tentative agendas from the newest weekly report (City Manager's Weekly Administrative Report No. 26-44, Nov. 5, 2026, tentative agendas on pp. 51–54) and can change. For the Nov. 6 IMAC infrastructure tour, the Nov. 4 meeting, the Nov. 3 election and earlier meetings, see Recent below.

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 7 p.m. — Finance Advisory Committee (City Hall Community Room and on Zoom). According to the City Manager's Nov. 5 weekly report, the agenda topics include a "Greater Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex Financial Report" and a grants update; the agenda packet is to be posted at least 72 hours before the meeting (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 22).

Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 7 p.m. — regular City Council meeting (Hesse Park and online; the agenda was not yet posted as of Nov. 5). The tentative agenda (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 51) lists three landslide items: "Affirm continued landslide emergency contracting" on the consent calendar; "Update from SCE regarding outages and improvements to infrastructure" (see SCE below); and "Consider a report on the landslide hydrology and hydraulics." The City's presentation at the Nov. 4 meeting (PDF) says Geosyntec's hydrology and hydraulics study of the landslide complex is "Scheduled to present to the City Council on November 17, 2026" (slide 30).

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 3 p.m. — Landslide Complex Working Group (next third-Wednesday meeting, on Microsoft Teams). Per the City's Working Group page, it meets monthly on the third Wednesday at 3 p.m. via Microsoft Teams; request the Teams link through that page and confirm the date there. The City Manager's calendar in Weekly Report No. 26-44 (Nov. 5, 2026, p. 48) also lists the Nov. 18 session, as a virtual meeting from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Later landslide items on the tentative agendas (Weekly Report No. 26-44, pp. 51–54): December 1, 2026, a public hearing on an appeal of a Director's Determination under RPVMC 15.20 (the Landslide Regulations), a consent item to extend the El Niño emergency resolution, and an item to consider extending the landslide emergency resolutions and receive a progress report. The same Dec. 1 agenda lists "Award of PWA for PVDS Storm Drain Repairs" (the title does not say where) and an urgency ordinance on RPVMC Chapter 17.72 (coastal permits); neither title says whether the item concerns the landslide area. December 15, 2026: "Certify 2026 Election Results for City Council and Measure RS," new since the Oct. 28 report; no landslide emergency renewal is listed that day. January 19 and March 16, 2027: further extensions of the El Niño emergency, titled for the forecasted "Super El Nino." The Council adopted that El Niño proclamation on Oct. 6 as Resolution No. 2026-78, according to the draft minutes (see Recent), and the staff report for Nov. 4 says it will come up for renewal on Dec. 1 (p. 32). The same staff report gives the next landslide renewal as Dec. 1 in its section on the road ban and as Dec. 15 in its two emergency sections (pp. 52–53); the tentative agendas in No. 26-44 still list the landslide emergency extensions on Dec. 1 (pp. 51–52). Every regular meeting on the tentative agendas through March 16, 2027 also lists "Affirm continued landslide emergency contracting."

SCE and power for Portuguese Bend: On Sept. 9, 2026 the City said staff were coordinating a meeting with SCE that month to discuss SCE's re-energization plans (City 2026 Community Updates Archive, Sept. 9, 2026 entry). The Sept. 15 staff report said the City Manager wrote SCE's president and CEO in August asking to meet in person to reconsider the threshold for restoring power in the Portuguese Bend Community Association (PBCA), and that one of two meetings was tentatively scheduled for Sept. 14 (staff report). The staff report for the Nov. 4 meeting does not mention the Sept. 14 meeting. It says a meeting with SCE's chief operating officer was set for Oct. 30, and it includes a letter SCE sent the City Manager on Oct. 13, 2026 (staff report, a large PDF, Attachment U on p. U-1, its last page). SCE wrote that movement in the Portuguese Bend area "continues to exceed the one inch/week safety threshold," that conditions do not allow safe re-energization, that it will keep its threshold of less than 1 inch per week, and that it cannot commit to completing engineering and design before that threshold is met. The letter does not say which measurements SCE used, and it predates the City's Oct. 28 survey figures (our Oct. 28 entry). Per the staff report (p. 25), there is still no indication when power will be restored in the PBCA; SCE has re-energized 84 homes in the Beach Club and Seaview plus 2 KCLAD well meters, and 7 homes there remain without power; the City's presentation at the Nov. 4 meeting repeats those figures (slide 18). The Council's tentative agenda for November 17, 2026 still lists "Update from SCE regarding outages and improvements to infrastructure" (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 51); the title does not say whether it will cover the PBCA. An earlier SCE item, at the Council's Sept. 15, 2026 meeting, was a status report on power outages in the Grandview Estates, Grandpoint Lane and Rolling Riviera neighborhoods; its staff report does not mention the landslide area, and according to the meeting's draft minutes SCE was invited but unable to attend. In the City's words, SCE's condition is "a continued and sustained reduction in land movement near its electrical infrastructure to less than 1 inch per week." That test is about movement near SCE's own lines, not the City's area-wide averages. As of Nov. 5, 2026, neither the City's written updates nor SCE's pages had reported the outcome of the Oct. 30 meeting: the City's Nov. 5 weekly report does not mention it, and the City's presentation at the Nov. 4 Council meeting lists the meeting only by its purpose, to discuss the City's request to adjust the threshold for restoring power in the PBCA and to begin engineering and design for its landslide mitigation projects (slide 18; City Land Movement Updates and SCE's RPV page, checked Nov. 5, 2026). Next check: the Nov. 17 SCE item and the City's Nov. 12 weekly report (our Oct. 28 entry).

Proposed Portuguese Bend abatement district (GHAD), not yet rescheduled: On July 7, 2026 the Council voted to continue the process of forming a third geologic hazard abatement district (GHAD) to cover the Portuguese Bend Landslide. Staff were to negotiate a fee with a formation consultant and bring a professional services agreement back to the Council, then tentatively scheduled for September 2026. The City called this a first step and said further Council direction and public input will be needed (Weekly Report No. 26-27, July 8, 2026; Random Lengths News). The Council's tentative agendas through March 16, 2027 in the Nov. 5 Weekly Report (No. 26-44, pp. 51–54) do not include it.

Recent: Friday, November 6, 2026, 2 p.m. — Infrastructure Management Advisory Committee (IMAC) special meeting (City Hall Community Room and on Zoom). The agenda, posted Oct. 30, had one business item, an infrastructure tour: "For informational purposes only. No action will be taken." The tour's itinerary included a drive along PV Drive South past the former Wayfarers Chapel (ponding, drainage and pavement rehabilitation, CIP 8302) and Terranea Drive, a walking stop labeled "Beach Club DDWs" (deep dewatering well operation and winterization, CIP 8307) and a walking stop at the Abalone Cove sewer system (CIP 8202). The City Manager's Nov. 5 weekly report said the meeting was still scheduled (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 25).

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 — regular City Council meeting (McTaggart Hall at Hesse Park and on Zoom; agenda). City staff gave the latest landslide update (Regular Business Item 3; staff report, a large PDF). According to the City Manager's Nov. 5 weekly report, the Council "renewed for 60 days the local emergencies in the landslide area and the temporary prohibition of motorcycles and bicycles along a two-mile stretch of Palos Verdes Drive South" (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 5). The report gives no vote count, resolution numbers or new end date, and for all of the Council's actions it refers readers to the meeting video. The City had not posted the adopted resolutions or a new end date as of Nov. 6, 2026. The staff report had asked the Council to extend the emergencies for 60 days, through Jan. 3, 2027 (pp. 52–53). The City's tentative agendas dated Nov. 5 list the next extension of the landslide emergency resolutions, with a progress report, for Dec. 1, 2026 (Weekly Report No. 26-44, pp. 51–52; see Coming up).

Staff had recommended that the Council: accept and appropriate $55,964,462 in federal grants, that is, $54,024,898 in FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program money for buyout Rounds 1 and 2 (27 properties; $52,145,417 of it for acquisition, the rest for management costs) and the $1,939,564 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant for permanent well power (pp. 1–2, 5, 37–38); approve Amendment No. 1 to Geo-Logic Associates' agreement (+$2,900,000, to $3,125,000) for design of the BRIC 2022 Phase 2 and BRIC 2025 remediation projects, and Amendment No. 1 to LSA Associates' agreement (+$150,937, to $501,937) for their environmental permitting, both paid from the City's capital fund (the City's Oct. 28 update calls them "two contracts totaling a combined over $3 million"); and adopt three 60-day resolutions, extending the ban on unicycles, bicycles, motorcycles and other one-, two- and three-wheeled vehicles on PV Drive South within the complex, the landslide local emergency, and the separate de-energization emergency for the Portuguese Bend Community Association, Portuguese Bend Beach Club and Seaview.

Grants and the two amendments: the City Manager's Nov. 5 weekly report describes the grant items in the future tense: the Council "will consider formally accepting" over $54 million in FEMA buyout funds for the 27 Round 1 and 2 properties and over $1.9 million in Pre-Disaster Mitigation funds for permanent well power (p. 5). It does not mention the Geo-Logic Associates or LSA Associates amendments. In the City's RPVtv video update posted Nov. 5, 2026, City Manager Ara Mihranian says the Council approved nearly $56 million in federal grant funding on Nov. 4: more than $54 million for the voluntary buyout of 27 red- and yellow-tagged properties and $1.9 million for permanent power to the deep dewatering wells (RPVtv City Council Update, Nov. 4, 2026 (City video, posted Nov. 5)). Patch reported on Nov. 6 that the vote on the grants was 5-0 and that the Council also approved the Geo-Logic Associates (+$2.9 million) and LSA Associates (+$150,937) amendments; the City's video update and its Nov. 5 weekly report do not mention a vote count or the amendments, and the minutes had not been posted as of Nov. 6, 2026. For Oct. 20, staff had proposed a $6 million Geosyntec amendment for the same design work, saying they were not recommending Geo-Logic Associates "per direction from CalOES and FEMA"; the Council deferred it (see the October 20 meeting below). For Nov. 4, staff recommended Geo-Logic instead. They acknowledged that its prior involvement in developing the projects' conceptual designs and cost estimates presented a potential conflict under federal procurement requirements, and said its $2.9 million fee was lower than the about $4 million the Geosyntec proposal would have cost the City (pp. 39–40, 59). Staff had also offered an alternative (Alternative 6) that would have let the City Manager approve the Geosyntec amendment instead, for ratification on Nov. 17. On Nov. 6, Patch reported that the Council approved the Geo-Logic Associates amendment (see above); the City's video update does not mention Alternative 6. Consent Item E asked the Council to reconfirm, by a four-fifths vote, the need to continue landslide emergency work and to ratify a $306,500 amendment to AAA Oil's well-generator fueling contract (staff report); Consent Item A was the draft Oct. 20 minutes. As of Nov. 6, 2026, the City's written reports had not given their outcomes.

The City's presentation at the meeting (PDF) says an orientation meeting for the pre-selected Round 1 buyout properties was held Oct. 29, 2026, and lists as next steps "Appropriate awarded & obligated grant amounts (recommended council action)" and "Begin executing buyouts in groups over next few months" (slide 20); the City's video update says the Council approved the grant funding on Nov. 4 (see above). No purchases under the buyout program had been reported as of Nov. 6, 2026 (City buyout page, checked Nov. 6, 2026). The meeting video is posted (the landslide item begins at 1:20:41); the minutes, which will record the votes, had not been posted as of Nov. 6, 2026. More in our Nov. 4 entry and our agenda preview. Next check: the Nov. 4 minutes.

The staff report for the Nov. 4 meeting mentioned an informational meeting on Nov. 5 for owners who received the City's Oct. 23 easement letters about the remediation project (p. 36); the City had not reported on it as of Nov. 5.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — City Council election and Measure RS. Voters cast ballots for three City Council seats; the City's election page lists six qualified candidates, and no incumbent ran. Unofficial results are on the L.A. County Registrar's results page; they can change until the results are certified. The election page, which now also links to the Registrar's live results, links RPVtv recordings of three candidate forums: Sept. 17 (hosted by CHOA and the PVP Chamber of Commerce), Sept. 27 (Ladera Linda HOA) and Oct. 7 (League of Women Voters and PVP AAUW, at McTaggart Hall, Hesse Park). The Daily Breeze (Oct. 9; may require a subscription) reported that at the Oct. 7 forum the six candidates named the impact of land movement, along with public safety and fire safety, as top priorities for the City. PVLandslide.com does not endorse candidates or take positions on ballot measures.

Measure RS asked Rancho Palos Verdes voters whether to raise the City's hotel tax (the transient occupancy tax, paid only by hotel and motel guests) from 10% to 13%. The City estimates it would raise about $2.2M a year for the General Fund. It is a general tax; the ballot question lists preparing for and responding to wildfires and natural disasters, maintaining roads and storm drains, preventing sinkholes, addressing landslides and land movement, and supporting general City services. In the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's unofficial results as of Nov. 6, 2026, 4:37 p.m. (its fifth post-Election Night update), Measure RS had 75.14% yes (12,060 votes) and 24.86% no (3,989). As a general tax it needs a simple majority ("Majority of votes cast," per the Registrar). The results are not final. On Nov. 6 the Registrar estimated about 414,000 ballots still to be counted countywide (it does not break that estimate out by city), and vote-by-mail ballots postmarked by Election Day count if they arrive by Nov. 10. The Registrar will keep posting updates (daily through Nov. 13, then on Nov. 17, 19, 25 and 27) and is scheduled to certify the election on Nov. 27, 2026; the City Council's certification of the Measure RS and Council results is on its tentative agenda for Dec. 15, 2026 (Weekly Report No. 26-44, p. 52). The tax applies to hotel and motel stays of 30 days or less, and if approved the new rate would take effect 10 days after the Council certifies the election results, according to the City Attorney's analysis. The City's July 21, 2026 staff report (PDF) says that of about $6.9 million in hotel-tax revenue projected in the City's preliminary 2026–27 budget, about $6.7 million is attributed to Terranea Resort and about $150,000 to other sources, including smaller lodging establishments. Coverage: LAist (Oct. 16, 2026). See the City's measure page (which now links to the Registrar's live results and posts no counts of its own), the City Attorney's Impartial Analysis (PDF), the Registrar's Nov. 6 news release (PDF) and its post-election update schedule (PDF). Next check: the Registrar's later updates (daily through Nov. 13) and its certification, scheduled for Nov. 27.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — regular City Council meeting. Landslide-related items on the agenda (our preview):

• Consent Item A: approval of minutes, including the October 6 regular meeting. The draft minutes were posted with the agenda (see the October 6 meeting below).
• Consent Item G: "Consider continuing the emergency justification for work and emergency contracting for the Greater Portuguese Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide Emergency Project." It also asked the Council to approve Amendment No. 1 to Geosyntec Consultants' contract, adding $6,000,000 (from $1,100,200 to $7,100,200) for construction design of two remediation projects (BRIC 2022 Phase 2 and BRIC 2025). Staff said they would withhold signing the amendment until Cal OES and FEMA agree that the procurement meets federal rules. Staff expected about $2.0 million of the cost to be reimbursed by the pending 2026 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants that ACLAD and KCLAD assigned to the City; about $4.0 million would come from the City's capital projects (CIP) fund. Staff said they were not recommending Geo-Logic Associates for this work "per direction from CalOES and FEMA," citing a federal conflict-of-interest rule. The report's schedule: final plans for the HMGP-funded project are expected by Dec. 31, 2026; the City's target is to have the other two designs bid-ready by March 31, 2027 (Geosyntec's own proposed schedule runs to the end of May 2027), to start construction by July 1, 2027, and to complete all three remediation construction projects by Dec. 31, 2028. The report also puts the complex's total estimated cost from 2022 through June 30, 2027 at $74.8 million, from multiple funding sources (staff report; preview in Patch, Oct. 16).
• Regular Business Item 1: "Consider receiving an update on the Storm Drain Asset Management Program and awarding agreements for continuing storm drain inspections and infrastructure construction services." This is the "storm drain assessment" listed on earlier tentative agendas: a citywide camera inspection ("condition assessment") of about 25 miles of City-owned storm drains, not a fee or tax assessment. Staff said about 70% (17.5 miles) has been inspected and completion is now expected in March 2027. The proposed on-call repair agreements "explicitly exclude the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex geographical area," which is covered by separate emergency landslide on-call agreements the Council awarded June 16, 2026. Staff were also preparing a contract of about $600,000, for award by December 2026, to clean, rehabilitate or replace nine storm-drain reaches on PV Drive South between Hawthorne Blvd. and Terranea Way, west of the landslide complex. L.A. County Flood Control District staff were expected to report on their storm preparedness (staff report).
• Regular Business Item 3: the first-quarter update on the FY 2026-27 City Council Goals. It rated Goal 2-1 (Portuguese Bend Landslide) "At Risk, Ongoing," targeted March 2027 for final remediation plans and December 2028 for full project completion, and said advancing the long-term mitigation project "remains highly dependent on securing grant funding" (staff report).

Outcome: according to the draft minutes, posted with the Nov. 4 agenda (Consent Item A) and a draft until the Council approves them, the Consent Calendar except Item G passed 5-0, which approved the Oct. 6 minutes (Item A). Item G was pulled for public comment and heard separately. On a 5-0 vote the Council reconfirmed, by a four-fifths vote, the need to continue the landslide emergency work and deferred Recommendations 3 through 6, the $6,000,000 Geosyntec amendment and its appropriations, "to a date uncertain"; for Nov. 4, staff instead recommended an amendment with Geo-Logic Associates, and Patch reported on Nov. 6 that the Council approved it (the City's video update and its Nov. 5 weekly report do not mention it, and the minutes had not been posted as of Nov. 6, 2026; see the Nov. 4 meeting above). On Regular Business Item 1, the 5-0 motion directed staff to keep working with the L.A. County Flood Control District on watersheds within the landslide complex. On a quarterly Public Safety Division update, the Council directed staff, 5-0, to determine how to strengthen the City's messaging and enforcement of the "prohibition of two or more axle vehicles" on PV Drive South through the complex; the minutes do not explain that prohibition. The meeting video is posted. The City's Oct. 21 weekly report says the Council "approved contracts to complete the inspections by March 2027 and perform urgent repairs identified by the assessment" (Regular Business Item 1), without giving a vote, and that Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi presented a ceremonial check for his $5 million state budget allocation "for landslide mitigation efforts," which the City says will help its remediation work "to prevent future re-acceleration"; the Assemblymember's office has said the money helps offset about $15 million of the City's FY 2025–26 landslide costs (our Sept. 22 entry; Weekly Report No. 26-42, pp. 4–5; our entry).

On October 6, the Council's agenda had three landslide-related items (agenda). Regular Business Item 3: "Consider adopting a resolution proclaiming the existence of a local emergency in anticipation of the 2026-2027 El Niño Event" (staff report); staff say a proclamation gives the City more flexibility to procure and pre-position resources but does not by itself make costs eligible for state or federal reimbursement, and the Council must review it at least every 60 days. Outcome: according to the draft minutes (posted with the Oct. 20 agenda, where they were on the consent calendar for approval; the draft minutes of the Oct. 20 meeting record that the Council approved them, 5-0), the Council adopted Resolution No. 2026-78, proclaiming a local emergency in anticipation of the 2026-2027 El Niño event, 5-0. The Daily Breeze (Oct. 7) reported that the proclamation stays in effect for 60 days; according to the paper, Deputy City Manager Catherine Jun said it will come back to the Council on Dec. 1 if the threat continues (more from the meeting). Consent Calendar Item K: "Consider continuing the emergency justification for work and emergency contracting for the Greater Portuguese Bend-Ancient Altamira Landslide Emergency Project," which asks the Council to reconfirm that emergency work by a four-fifths vote and to approve Amendment No. 1 to Geo-Logic Associates' design contract for the Portuguese Bend Landslide Remediation Project: $164,654 in added services, mainly design for permanent SCE power to the project's dewatering system, bringing the contract total to $659,339 including contingency and extending its term to June 30, 2027 (staff report). Consent Calendar Item H: "Consider authorizing the submittal of an application to the Federal Highway Administration PROTECT Competitive Grant Program for the Palos Verdes Drive South Reconstruction Project (CIP 8301)." Staff asked for conditional authority to apply for up to $10 million in federal PROTECT Planning Grant funding, which may pay for planning, environmental review, preliminary engineering and design with no local match, toward realigning and reconstructing about two miles of PV Drive South within the landslide complex. Staff would apply only if, before the October 9, 2026 federal deadline, they found no other available competing grant that would be more advantageous. A Planning Grant would not pay for construction, and construction funding has not been identified (staff report). Outcome: according to the draft minutes, the Consent Calendar, including Items K and H, passed 5-0: the Council reconfirmed the landslide emergency work by a four-fifths vote and approved the Geo-Logic Associates amendment (Item K), and authorized staff to apply for up to $10 million in PROTECT Planning Grant funding on the condition described above (Item H). In its Oct. 14 weekly report, the City says it applied "last week" for a $3 million PROTECT grant that, if awarded, would cover design costs for the PV Drive South Reconstruction Project; it estimates the overall project, including construction, at $28 million (Weekly Report No. 26-41, p. 7). The meeting video is posted (our entry). On September 15, Council received the landslide update on the August survey (staff report) and renewed for 60 days the local emergencies in the landslide area and the temporary ban on bicycles, motorcycles and similar wheeled vehicles on about two miles of Palos Verdes Drive South (Weekly Report No. 26-37; Patch; our entry). On September 1, Council approved sending a letter asking the state to consider creating a landslide insurance program modeled on the California Earthquake Authority or FAIR Plan; on Sept. 3 a City spokesperson told Patch that staff would soon reach out to other landslide-affected cities (Patch; our entry). On August 4, Council extended the local emergency and the Palos Verdes Drive South ban on bicycles, motorcycles and similar wheeled vehicles by 60 days, 4-1 (Weekly Report No. 26-31; minutes). The minutes also record that it adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 700U, 5-0, extending the home-stabilization rules for temporary foundations and same-site temporary housing; the City had described the proposal as running through Dec. 31, 2028, but the minutes do not state the end date (our entry). Full outcomes in Latest Updates.