Council Approves Moving City’s Risk Management Functions to City Manager’s Office

The City Attorney will prepare and return an ordinance within 60 days that centralizes the City’s Risk Management functions within the City Manager’s office.

The City Manager’s Office is completing the process of centralizing the City’s traditional risk management functions within the City Manager’s Office.

These functions include the safety and workers’ compensation divisions, formerly housed within the Human Resources Department, and the Citywide Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility program, formerly housed within the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department, that have now transitioned into the City Manager’s Office.

The final component of this transition is the liability claims and insurance division, currently housed within the City Attorney’s Office, which will transition to the City Manager’s Office at the commencement of fiscal year 2025.

The foregoing divisions, combined with a newly established enterprise risk management section, will comprise a new Risk Management Division of the City Manager’s Office.

• A purchase order with 72 Hour LLC (72 Hour) for an additional $6,947 (includes 15% contingency) for the purchase of one Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck. This vehicle will be utilized in the Fire Department as a shop truck for support in areas such as training, operations, and administration and will be assigned as ground support units during Rose Parade and Rose Bowl activities.

• A resolution approving of the Road Repair and Accountability Act (SB1) project list for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. This project provides for resurfacing or microsurfacing work on 30 streets (34 street segments) throughout the City for a total of 8.0 centerline miles. The treatment will utilize rubberized asphalt, a noise-reducing pavement material that consists of a regular asphalt concrete mixed with crumb rubber made from recycled tires. This sustainable paving practice diverts tires from the waste stream, with this project having the capacity to divert over 10,000 tires from landfills. In addition, rubberized asphalt pavement lasts longer, is more resistant to cracking, reduces vehicle noise, provides for better skid resistance, and retains a darker color that provides contrast to new pavement markings. Schedule: Resurfacing will be completed in FY 2025. Total Estimated Project Cost: $10,200,000 Total RMRA (SB1) Funds FY 2025 Appropriation: $3,600,000.

• A resolution and the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of the electric/revenue refunding bonds 2024A series in an amount not to exceed $125,000,000. The proposed Revenue Bonds will be issued in compliance with Article XIV of Pasadena’s City Charter. The revenue bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness of the City, but shall constitute obligations, which shall be payable only from the Light and Power Fund.