The Seal Beach City Council on Oct. 27 approved two on-call service agreements for pavement maintenance/repair and pavement marking, giving staff the ability to issue task orders to pre-qualified contractors for emergency and routine roadway maintenance.

Deputy Public Works Director Sean Lowe explained that on-call agreements shorten procurement timelines compared with project-specific procurements (reducing time from an RFP-based procurement to a task-order activation) and allow the city to quickly fund and coordinate maintenance such as asphalt repairs, curb-and-gutter work, sidewalk remediation for ADA compliance and high-visibility pavement markings (including thermoplastic markings with glass beads used for night visibility).

Council members asked for clarification about spending authority and emergency approvals. Staff said most maintenance task orders would be executed under the on-call agreements and that current signing authority limits would be respected; staff also said emergency repairs would be handled under existing emergency authorities and that the city would return to council with a review of signing/signature thresholds and administrative limits. Council approved the two agreements 5-0.

The contracts are intended to supplement in-house capabilities for larger or specialized work, improve fiscal transparency through prenegotiated rates and enable the city to respond quickly to pavement failures and to meet visibility and ADA requirements.