The office of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass will address the nearly 1,000 page of the newly released AECOM document in a Zoom meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 26.
The three-section documents include Public Infrastructure Restoration click here, Wildfire Resilience click here and Logistics and Traffic Management click here.
To register for Mayor’s meeting click here. If a resident has questions they can be submitted to [email protected].
AECOM was hired by the city to replace Hagerty, which was paid $3.5 million.
The payment for AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm was unclear, but in an April 2025 Request for Proposals was worth reportedly $30 million.
In August 2025, residents at a Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting were told that AECOM would deliver a report within 120 days. That report went to the City at the beginning of December 2025. It was not immediately made public.
At the Palisades Democrat Annual meeting on February 1, CTN asked Mayor Bass about the status of the report. The Mayor said she had not seen it, that it had gone directly Hydee Feldstein Soto in the City Attorney’s office.
Feldstein Soto said that the report could possibly be released this week, February 9. She said that there were almost a thousand pages, three sections of more than 300 pages in each. The City Attorney said they had been asked by LAFD to redact personal information of firefighters to ensure privacy.
According to a November L.A. Times Story (“Palisades Fire Reports List Nearly $1 Billion in Infrastructure Needs”), “the resiliency report found that ‘almost all’ local streets within the Palisades are narrower than permitted by the city fire code – particularly in the Alphabet Streets, Rustic Canyon and Castellammare areas. A ‘majority’ of long dead-end streets did not fulfill the sections of the fire code ensuring that fire engines have enough space to turn around, the report said.”
A December 2025 lawsuit alleged that the city failed to comply with similar state regulations when it approved new construction in the city’s “very high fire hazard” areas.