Redondo Beach City Council
October 1, 2024

Maintenance and Repair
Ordinance
October 1, 2024
• Charter Review Committee Recommendations
• March 7, 2023, Redondo Beach voters approved Charter Changes • CA 1 & CA 4 amended the Charter to:
o Increase thresholds for procedures on Public Works Projects & provide mechanism to raise thresholds in future
o Stipulate that maintenance / repair projects are defined by ordinance
o Allow for contract signatories besides the Mayor
Draft Ordinance modifies RBMC Title 2, Chapter 6.1 to:
• Align with Charter changes
• Define maintenance and repair project types
• Update language regarding informal bidding, design build, and maintenance/repair processes
• Improve process efficiency
• Expedite project delivery
Activities necessary for the preservation, upkeep, or continued operation of City facilities and infrastructure. Maintenance work shall include, but is not limited to:
• Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of any facility for its intended purposes
• Painting, recoating, and resurfacing of an existing facility • Replacement of existing building systems
• Resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one inch • Landscape maintenance
• Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain water, power, waste collection, or stormwater systems
• Projects listed in the Capital Improvement Program designated by the City Council as maintenance projects
• Projects declared by the City Council by resolution to be a maintenance project Activities required to restore City facilities or infrastructure to their original, intended condition after damage, wear, or other degradation.
• Projects required to restore to intended use any component of the City’s infrastructure that is rendered unsafe, unusable, or unserviceable, or in danger of becoming the same (including those due to deferral of maintenance) • Projects listed in the Capital Improvement Program identified and designated by the City Council as repair projects
• Projects declared by the City Council by resolution to be a repair project • § 2-6.1.01 Enhances the described purpose of the Chapter to meet the amendments to the City Charter and add clarifying definitions to many of the terms used in the Chapter, introduces use of electronic procurement system
• §2-6.1.03 Describes revised procedures for the solicitation, award and execution of informally bid projects, including City Manager’s authority to execute contract
• §2-6.1.06 Revises the procedural requirements for the City Engineer to maintain a contractors list
• §2-6.1.07 Describes revised procedures for the solicitation, award, and execution of formally bid projects.
• §2-6.1.09 Removes discussion of procedures for tie bids and presents procedures and mechanisms by which maintenance and repair projects may be solicited and let.
• §2-6.1.10 Modifies the discussion of payment and performance bonds to go beyond formally bid projects, and authorizes the City Manager to require bonds on smaller value projects.
• §2-6.1.11 Provides procedural direction for design-build contracts •