What OC Sanitation District is about to decide

The Operations Committee meets Wednesday at 5:00 PM in the Board Room at OC San Headquarters, 18480 Bandilier Circle, Fountain Valley. Most items on this agenda are committee recommendations that go to the full Board of Directors for final action; one purchase order is up for committee approval directly. These are pending decisions from the posted agenda — not outcomes. Every item links to the official record.

Source: official agenda (PDF) · Full documents: meeting page · Next meeting: November 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM

✅ What actually passed (confirmed from the Legistar vote record): According to the District’s Legistar meeting record (minutes status: draft), the Operations Committee approved every action item on the agenda without a dissenting vote. Each consent item (1–5) carried 10-0, with Directors Johnathan Ryan Hernandez and Christine Marick and alternates Dan Ferons and Cindy Tran recorded absent: the September 2 minutes (1); the recommendations to the Board on the $268,718 Alfa Laval centrifuge-overhaul purchase order (2), the $267,007 9-ton boom crane (4) and the City of Newport Beach encroachment agreement on MacArthur Boulevard (5); and the committee’s own approval of the $204,921 Cooper Machinery Services oil-cooler purchase order (3). After staff presentations, the $849,780 contingency increase on the Black & Veatch design agreement for Primary Sedimentation Basins No. 3-5 (6) and the $300,000 Paragon Partners right-of-way services agreement (7) were each recommended to the Board with 13 recorded ayes and no noes — Hernandez, Marick and Cindy Tran are recorded voting on those two items; Ferons is recorded absent. The rate study update (8) was received and filed after a presentation; the record lists no figures from it. The Board-referred items still require final action by the full Board of Directors; the record lists no mover or seconder by name.

The headline: the committee will consider recommending an $849,780 contingency increase (6%) on the existing design agreement with Black & Veatch Corporation for the replacement of Primary Sedimentation Basins No. 3-5 at Plant No. 1 — which would bring the total contingency on that design contract to $2,266,080, or 16%. It is the largest dollar figure on a short agenda that also carries a $300,000 right-of-way services contract, three equipment purchases, and — for ratepayers — an information-only rate study update from the Director of Finance.

🏗 Capital projects & engineering

Primary Sedimentation Basins No. 3-5 Replacement at Plant No. 1 (Project No. P1-126): a non-consent recommendation to the Board to approve a contingency increase of $849,780 (6%) to the existing Professional Design Services Agreement with Black & Veatch Corporation for design services, for a total contingency not to exceed $2,266,080 (16%). The agenda lists a staff presentation with this item. Item 6
Right-of-Way Services (Specification No. CS-2026-725BD): a non-consent recommendation to the Board to approve a Professional Consultant Services Agreement with Paragon Partners Consultants, Inc. for right-of-way services, not to exceed $300,000, with four one-year renewal options, plus an annual contingency of $30,000 (10%). Item 7

🔧 Equipment & maintenance purchases

Plant No. 2 centrifuge overhauls: on consent, a recommendation to the Board to approve a sole-source purchase order to Alfa Laval Inc. for major service overhauls of six centrifuges at Plant No. 2 over a two-year period, not to exceed $268,718, plus an allowance of $120,000. Item 2
Replacement mobile telescopic boom crane (9-ton): on consent, a recommendation to the Board to approve a purchase order to Western Pacific Crane & Equipment for one 9-ton mobile telescopic boom crane, using Equalis Cooperative Contract No. COG-2149B, not to exceed $267,007, with a contingency of $26,700 (10%). Item 4
Cooper-Bessemer LSVB engine oil cooler: committee approval (not a Board referral — the recommended action does not route this one to the Board) of a sole-source purchase order to Cooper Machinery Services for one spare oil cooler for the Central Generation engine, not to exceed $204,921 including applicable tax and freight, with a contingency of $20,492 (10%). Item 3

🤝 Property & encroachment

Encroachment agreement with the City of Newport Beach: on consent, a recommendation to the Board to approve execution of an Encroachment Agreement with the City of Newport Beach for the installation of electrical improvements on MacArthur Boulevard, in a form approved by General Counsel, and to direct the Clerk of the Board to record the agreement with the Orange County Clerk-Recorder. Note: the agenda's item title reads “4147 MacArthur Boulevard” while the recommended action beneath it reads “4141 MacArthur Boulevard” — both appear in the posted agenda, and Council Brief does not resolve the discrepancy. Item 5

📊 For ratepayers

Rate study update: an information item from the Director of Finance. No action is recommended and the agenda carries no figures with it, but this is the item to watch — OC San's rates are what households and businesses across its service area ultimately pay. Item 8

🪑 Also on the agenda

Approve minutes of the September 2, 2026 Operations Committee meeting. Item 1
No closed session is scheduled. The agenda adjourns the committee to its next regular meeting on November 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM.

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