CC RESOLUTION 5556RESOLUTION NO. 5556
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO ESTABLISHING FEES FOR THE COSTS INCURRED
BY THE CITY FOR AB 1646 COMPLIANCE.
The City Council of the city of El Segundo does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. Findings. The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. Effective January 1, 1994, Senate Bill 1082 created a unified
program to administer state hazardous waste statutes and
regulations (the "Unified Program");
B. The City was certified as the Certified Unified Program Agency
("CUPA"), the El Segundo Fire Department ("ESFD") is responsible
for administering and enforcing the CUPA Program, and the City's
CUPA regulatory authority began on July 1, 1997;
C. State law requires the governing body of each CUPA to establish a
single fee system by which the City may recover its annual costs in
administering the Unified Program within the jurisdiction from
persons, including businesses (Health & Saf. Code, § 25404.5);
D. Effective January 1, 2018, Assembly Bill 1646 ("AB 1646") generally
requires refineries to deploy an integrated alert and notification
system related to potential emergency incidents at refineries;
E. AB 1646 requires each CUPA to adopt a one-time fee allowing for
the agency to recover its costs in designing, building, and installing
the notification system for refinery emergencies and an ongoing fee
as part of the single fee system to cover the CUPA's ongoing
operation and maintenance costs for such notification system;
F. Pursuant to Government Code § 66016, the City made data available
regarding the cost, or estimated costs related to the fees 10 days
before the public hearing at which the City Council considered
adopting the proposed fees; such data is attached to this Resolution
as Exhibit "A";
G. Pursuant to Government Code §§ 6062a and 66018, the City duly
published notice of this public hearing;
H. On September 2, 2025, the City Council heard public testimony and
considered evidence in a public hearing held and noticed in
accordance with Government Code § 66016; and
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The fees, in the amounts set forth in Exhibit 'A," are less than or
equal to, but in no event greater than, the actual direct and indirect
costs and expenses incurred by the City in performing the services
connected with such fees.
SECTION 2. Fee Adoption; Authorizations.
A. The City Council hereby adopts the fees set forth and described in
the spreadsheet attached hereto as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution,
which is incorporated herein by this referfence. Such fees shall
become effective immediately upon adoption of this Resolution. The
fees described in the attached data are estimated fees as some
incidents may exceed four hours in which case the refinery located
within the City, as the party subject to the adopted fees, will be billed
the fully burdened rate for the actual hours worked by the individuals
referenced in the data who provide services during the incident.
B. The refinery located within the City, as the party subject to such
adopted fees, will reimburse the City in any amount in excess the
stated fees for the City's actual and reasonable costs incurred in
carrying out its pertinent obligations under the Unified Program, AB
1646, and state law, as applicable. The subject party must submit to
the City payment of such excess costs within 30 days of the party's
receipt of the City's actual reasonable costs, unless such time period
is extended by the City Manger or designee. Similarly, the City will
reimburse a party subject to the adopted fees for any charge in
excess of the City's actual and reasonable costs and paid by the
subject party, following written request by the subject party.
C. The Finance Director or designee will include the fees established by
this Resolution in the City's Master Fee Schedule.
D. Unless otherwise revised, the fees established by this Resolution will
be automatically adjusted by the City Manager, or designee, on an
annual basis on July 1 of each year by applying the percent change
of the Los Angeles Area of Consumer Price Index for All Urban
Consumers for the prior 12 month period ending on April 30 to the
City's fees. The first fee adjustment cannot be made before a
minimum of ten months after the effective date of this Resolution.
E. The City Manager or designee is authorized to take any action
necessary to effectuate this Resolution.
SECTION 3. Environmental Review. This Resolution is exempt from review
under the California Environmental Quality Act (Cal. Pub. Res. Code §§ 21000, et
seq.; "CEQA") and CEQA Guidelines (14 Cal. Code Regs. §§ 15000, et seq.)
because it establishes, modifies, structures, restructures, and approves rates and
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charges for meeting operating expenses; purchasing supplies, equipment, and
materials; meeting financial requirements; and obtaining funds for capital projects
needed to maintain service within existing service areas. This Resolution,
therefore, is categorically exempt from further CEQA review under CEQA
Guidelines § 15273.
SECTION 4. Severability. The City Council hereby declares that should
any one or more fees established by this Resolution or any portion of this
Resolution be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the City
Council that it would have adopted all other fees and portions of this Resolution
independent of the elimination herefrom of any such fee or such portion as may be
declared invalid.
SECTION 5. Electronic Signatures. This Resolution may be executed with
electronic signatures in accordance with Government Code §16.5. Such electronic
signatures will be treated in all respects as having the same effect as an original
signature.
SECTION 6. Signature Authority. The Mayor is hereby authorized to affix
his signature to this Resolution signifying its adoption by the City Council of the
City of El Segundo, and the City Clerk, or her duly appointed deputy, is directed to
attest thereto.
SECTION 7. Effective Date. This Resolution will take effect immediately
upon adoption and will remain effective unless repealed or superseded.
SECTION & City Clerk Actions. The City Clerk will certify to the passage and
adoption of this Resolution, enter it in the City's book of original Resolutions, and
make a record of this action in the meeting's minutes.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2"d day of September, 2025.
ATTEST:.
Susan tUdityrk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mark D. Hensley, City Attorney
Chris Pimentel, Mayor
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Susan Truax, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of the City is five; that the
foregoing Resolution No. 5556 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council,
approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City Clerk
of said City, all at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 2nd day of
September 2025, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: Mayor Pimentel, Mayor Pro Tem Baldino, Council Member Boyles,
Council Member Giroux and Council Member Keldorf
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this 2"d day of
September, 2025. A
Attachment — Exhibit "A" AB 1646 Annual Ongoing Fee
--SuWn Tr j x, City Clerk
of the City of El Segundo,
California
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Exhibit
A - AB
1646 Annual/OngoingAnnual/Ongoing Fee
Administrative Personnel
Fully
Meeting',
Cdeis Administrative
Total Hours
Billing Information:
Administraive t
Burdened
Hours
Communleenana Task Hours
Personnel Cost:
Commxtee
Environmental Safety
$264.47
12
1 4
16Inter-Agency
refinery task force meeting 2x per year x4 hours per meeting =8 hours. Refinery
4,231.52
Manager
S€
meeting w/CUPAs 1 x per year For 4 hours- Total Meeting Hours =12 hours. Oversee AS1646
billing and annual fee transfer to Local ImptementingAgency (LIA) = 4 Administrative Task Hours, '..
'Total
Environmental Safety Manager hours =16 x 239.51.
Emergency Management 1
$136.43
26
9
35
Inter -Agency refinery task force meeting 2x per year x4 hours per meeting=8 hours. South Bay j
4,774.94
Coordinator
Alerttraining 2 hours per month x 9 months = 18 hours. Total Meeting Hours = 32 hours. Crisis
.communications committee 1 hour per month = 9 hours. Note: EMC meeting+ committee hours '
'.startin October. 2025. Total Emergency Management Coordinator hours =44 x 123.55.
:Management Analyst
$187.50 i
18
1B
JComplete monthly billing and payment collection for watch center and associated AB1646 fees
3,374.95
[B
Transfer annual fee to (LIA). 2 hours per month x9 months =18 hours + 2 hours for budget
i
transfer. = 24 Admin. Task hours. Note: ManagementAnalystAdministrative hours start in
S
1 (
'October,2025
Total Management Analyst hours=1Bx 169.80.
TOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL COST;
!Z3111,47
2417 Community Watch
Stand -By Rate Watch Training Hours
Incident Fee
Total Hours
Billinglnformation:
CommunityWatch
Center Personnel
Center
Center Personnel
Battalion Chief
$141.06 i 1040
1040
Deily community watch center personnel will be the Fire Chief end l Battalion Chief. Stand-by fee is
146,718.64
calculated as follows:4 hours x 260 days= 1040 Annual hours per staff member for FY 25-26. Billing
;period: l0/13/25 (anticipated start date) to 6/30/26.
Battalion Chief: 1040 hours x 141.08=$146,718 64
1
Fire Chief: 1040 hours x $0.00 = $0-
FireChief
) $0.00 1040
1040
The Fire Chief is exempt from overtime and willwork stand-by duty as needed- There will be no
0.00
chargeforthis position.
Exercise&Training: Two
$14108 36
36
South Bay Alert notification system and incident training. 2 hours permonth x9 monthsfor2
5,078.72
Battalion Chiefs
v
Battalion Chiefs = 36 total training hours. Note: Training hours startin October, 2025.
E
Incidentfse for ongoing
4,000.00
-
Fire Chief and Battalion Chief hours for ongoing communication during an incident. Feemaybe
4,000.00
communication during an
less than, but not to exceed $4,000. Fee will only be charged in the event of an incident(s) and
incident..
will be billed based on the stand-by rate of the personnel assigned to incident communication.
TOTAL 24/7 COMMUNITY WATCH CENTER PERSONNEL COST.,
1551797t37
Ongoing Community Alert
FY25-26Coat
;
Total Cost Information:
CommunityAlert
System, Network Charges,
JaRting
System, Network,
and Start-up Cost
and Start-up Cost:
Alert South Bay
$13,000.00
_
13,000.00 Integrated alert and notification system to alert and notify the community surrounding a
13.000.00
petroleum refinery including schools, public facilities, hospitals, transient and special needs
populations, and residential care homes in the event of an incident at the refinery warranting the
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use of the automatic notification system. Alerts and communications shall have an audible
alarm and sent by calls to land lines and cell phones, text message, social media, email, Nixie,
Everbridge mobile app, Slack, Microsoft Teams, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
(PAWS), and new technologies as developed, In addition, National Weather Service alerts to
National and Atmospheric administration radios can be activated as needed. The area of the:
' community to be alerted is determined by the local implementing agency and can be selected by
geofence alert. Pricing may be Less than, but not to exceed $13,000 based on forecasted FY
25-26 cost.
24/7 Watch Center
$44,000.00
44,000.00 Networking/Telecommunications equipment. 4 satellite phones, 4iPads, 4 MDC laptops, 4
44,000.00
Equipment
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''''.5tarlinkwireless routers, and related charging/case equipment. Equipment charge will be
invoiced after equipment has been purchased. Fee may be Less than, but notto exceed
3
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144,000.00. This Is a one-time start up costfor FY 25-26.
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24/7 Watch Center Data and
$12,000.00
12,000.00 ]Cellular/network data forwatch center equipment. Fee may be less than, but notto exceed
12,000.00
Network charges
I $12,000.00.
TOTAL COMMUNITY ALERT SYSTEM AND STARTUP COST-
69.000.00
*TOTAL FY 25-. 237.17&.78,
'� Subsequent years wilt be adjusted by the Los Angeles ALL Urban Consumer Price Index on July 1st of each year and updated fully bllydennatf rates