At a glance: City council votes — September 2, 2025

Oxnard — The Oxnard City Council took a series of formal actions on Sept. 2, 2025, approving contracts, grant agreements and an ordinance. Below is a concise summary of each formal vote recorded in the meeting.

Nut graf: Several items were approved unanimously or by large majorities; one ordinance drew a single dissenting vote. These actions range from professional services and construction change orders to grant-funded urban-forest mapping and a code update establishing a candidate processing fee.

Key votes and actions (selected):

- Ordinance: Candidate processing fee (Ord. No. 3068) Motion: Adopt ordinance adding candidate processing fee language to Oxnard Municipal Code (filing fee reimbursement of $25 in specified circumstances). Vote: 5–1 (Councilmember Starr voted no). Notes: Item came back after earlier discussion; clerks will send the required notices to eligible past candidates as directed.

- Contract award: Labor compliance services (on-call compliance firm) Motion: Authorize agreement for labor compliance services to verify prevailing wage and on-site labor interviews for public works construction projects. Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Staff described compliance work as wage verification and worker interviews to reduce city exposure to back-pay liability.

- Contract award: Park House Tire Service — tire retreading and repair Motion: Authorize a one-year agreement, plus four optional one-year extensions, for rethreading and repair services (not to exceed $1,000,000 initial term). Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Staff said rethreading is an established practice that can save 30–50% compared with new tires for large vehicle fleets.

- Grant subaward / agreement: ArborPro tree inventory (grant administered by GreenLatinos) Motion: Authorize agreement to perform a citywide tree inventory, LIDAR analysis and level-2 assessment to identify hazardous trees and planting priorities. Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Grant-funded project will inventory tens of thousands of trees and identify hazardous removals; staff expects subsequent competitive bids for any removal work.

- Software agreement: Paradigm (scale-house operations software) Motion: Authorize five-year software agreement for scale-house operations and support, not to exceed $504,003.25. Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Staff said the vendor is the city’s current provider; some councilmembers asked staff to start negotiations before future renewal windows to limit future price increases.

- Engineering services during construction: AECOM (wastewater reliability project) Motion: Approve agreement for engineering services during construction for the wastewater reliability project, and appropriate $835,335 from wastewater funds. Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Staff said additional construction-phase design work was needed after contractors encountered uncharted underground utilities and corrosion inside headworks tanks.

- Construction contingency increase: College Estates Park restroom Motion: Authorize an additional project contingency of $10,000 to the contract for the restroom improvement project at College Estates Park (new contract total $429,980). Vote: 6–0 (approved). Notes: Change order reasons included a collapsed sewer lateral discovered during demolition and Southern California Edison’s requirement to relocate the electrical meter pedestal outside the building.

Ending: Most votes were unanimous. Councilmembers and staff noted follow-up steps on grant-funded work (competitive bidding for tree removals if necessary), and advised the public that many of the contract approvals fund work already listed in the city’s capital-improvement program.