City Council

City Council Monday, March 9, 2026, 7:00 PM Regular Meeting City of Rolling Hills The meeting agenda is available on the City’s website. The City Council meeting will be live-streamed on the City’s website. View both the agenda and the live-streamed video. Members of the public may submit written comments by emailing the City Clerk’s office at CityClerk@cityofrh.net. Your comments will become part of the official meeting record if received before 3pm on the meeting day. You must provide your full name, but please do not provide any other personal information that you do not want to be published. View recordings to City Council meetings online. AGENDA 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Pledge of Allegiance 4. Presentations/Proclamations/Announcements 5. Approve Order of the Agenda This is the appropriate time for the Mayor or Councilmembers to approve the agenda as is or reorder. 6. Blue Folder Items (Supplemental) Blue folder (supplemental) items are additional back up materials to administrative reports, changes to the posted agenda packet, and/or public comments received after the printing and distribution of the agenda packet for receive and file. 7. Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items This is the appropriate time for members of the public to make comments regarding items not listed on this agenda. Pursuant to the Brown Act, no action will take place on any items not on the agenda. 1 8. Consent Calendar Business items, except those formally noticed for public hearing, or those pulled for discussion are assigned to the Consent Calendar. The Mayor or any Councilmember may request that any Consent Calendar item(s) be removed, discussed, and acted upon separately. Items removed from the Consent Calendar will be taken up under the "Excluded Consent Calendar" section below. Those items remaining on the Consent Calendar will be approved in one motion. The Mayor will call on anyone wishing to address the City Council on any Consent Calendar item on the agenda, which has not been pulled by Councilmembers for discussion. 8.A. Approve Affidavit of Posting for the City Council Regular Meeting of March 9, 2026 RECOMMENDATION: Approve. 8.B. Approve Motion to Read by Title Only and Waive Further Reading of All Ordinances and Resolutions Listed on the Agenda RECOMMENDATION: 8.C. Approve the following Minutes: February 9, 2026 City Council Special Field Trip Meeting, February 23, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting RECOMMENDATION: Approve as presented. 8.D. Payment of Bills RECOMMENDATION: Approve as presented. 8.E. Republic Services Recycling Tonnage and Complaint Reports for January 2026 RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file. 8.F. Amendment to 2023 Professional Services Agreement with HQE Systems to install Fourth Siren Pole at Upper Blackwater Canyon / Portuguese Bend Road (Garden Triangle), increase compensation by $48,335.96, extend term by 1 year, find the same exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines Section 15303 (Class 3), and authorize City Manager to execute Amendment RECOMMENDATION: Approve as presented. 8.G. Consider and approve the Planned Expenditures for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Safe, Clean Water (Measure W) Municipal Program Funds for submission to Los Angeles County Flood Control District RECOMMENDATION: Approve as presented. 8.H. Receive and file the Annual Progress Reports for the General Plan and Housing Element RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file. 9. Excluded Consent Calendar Items 10. Commission Items 10.A. Receive and file Zoning Case No. 25-091: Site plan review for new construction, non-exempt grading and related improvements; variances for an attached garage 2  within the side yard areas, and finding the project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act for location at 3 Maverick Lane (Karatsu) (Lot 30-SK) RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file. 10.B. Receive and file Zoning Case No. 25-115: Site plan review for new construction, non-exempt grading and related improvements; variances for an attached garage within front yard, addition to home in side yard, and to exceed 40 percent disturbance; and finding the project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act for location at 2 Williamsburg Lane (Paesano) (Lots 44, 45, & 46-A-RH) RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file. 11. Public Hearings 12. Discussion Items 12.A. Adoption of Resolution No. 1404 approving Volume 1 and the Rolling Hills portion of Volume 2 within the 2026 Palos Verdes Peninsula Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council consider adopting Resolution No. 1404 approving Volume I and the Rolling Hills portion of Volume II of the 2026 Palos Verdes Peninsula Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. 13. Matters From the City Council 14. Matters From Staff 14.A. Receive a verbal report regarding Bennett Landscape's invitation to participate in their 2026 Arbor Day tree planting and provide direction to staff RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file. Provide direction to staff. 15. Recess to Closed Session 15.A. Conference with Legal Counsel—Initiation of Litigation Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(4) The City finds, based on advice from legal counsel, that discussion in open session will prejudice the position of the City in the litigation. (1 case) 16. Reconvene to Open Session 17. Adjournment Next regular meeting: Monday, March 23, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, Rolling Hills City Hall, 2 Portuguese Bend Road, Rolling Hills, California, 90274. 3 Notice: Public Comment is welcome on any item prior to City Council action on the item. Documents pertaining to an agenda item received after the posting of the agenda are available for review in the City Clerk's office or at the meeting at which the item will be considered. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting due to your disability, please contact the City Clerk at (310) 377-1521 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting to enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility and accommodation for your review of this agenda and attendance at this meeting. 4