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File #: 2025-0824   
Type: Oral Report / Presentation Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/16/2025 In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
On agenda: 11/20/2025 Final action:
Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to: A. RECEIVE AND FILE quarterly status report on the ZEB Program; B. UTILIZE the Washington Department of Enterprise Services Contract or Colorado State Contract for a not-to-exceed expenditure amount of $50,000,000 inclusive of sales tax, for up to 40 battery electric buses (BEBs); and C. APPROVE a Life-Of-Project (LOP) budget in the amount of $52,000,000 for the purchase of up to 40 BEBs, professional and technical support, labor and contingency under Capital Project 201078.
Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
Indexes: Air quality, Bids, Budget, Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Bus rapid transit, Carson, Chatsworth, City of Los Angeles, Cleaning, Congestion Mitigation And Air Quality Improvement Program, Contract administration, Contracts, Division 05, Division 07, Division 08, Division 09, Division 18, El Monte, El Monte Busway, El Monte Transit Station Enhancement, Electrification, Fuel cells, Grant Aid, Harbor Transitway, Labor, Location 0075, Location 30, Maintenance, Maintenance practices, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Divisions, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Mitigation, Motion / Motion Response, Natural gas, North Hollywood, North San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, Olympic games, Operations and Maintenance, Oral Report / Presentation, Plan, Procurement, Program, Progressive Design/Build, Project, Project delivery, Purchasing, Renewable energy sources, Renewable Natural Gas, Request For Proposal, Research management, Rolling stock, Safety, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, South Bay Service Sector, State Of Good Repair, Station 1125, Station 1135, Strategic planning, Transit buses, Transit centers, Transportation Improvement Program, Trucking, Universal City/Studio City Station, Vehicle miles of travel, West Hollywood, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector, Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions, Zero-Emission Truck Collaborative
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Motion 50, 2. Presentation
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 20, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: ZERO EMISSION BUS (ZEB) PROGRAM UPDATE

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to:

A. RECEIVE AND FILE quarterly status report on the ZEB Program;

B. UTILIZE the Washington Department of Enterprise Services Contract or Colorado State Contract for a not-to-exceed expenditure amount of $50,000,000 inclusive of sales tax, for up to 40 battery electric buses (BEBs); and

C. APPROVE a Life-Of-Project (LOP) budget in the amount of $52,000,000 for the purchase of up to 40 BEBs, professional and technical support, labor and contingency under Capital Project 201078.

Issue
ISSUE

This update provides a status report on the ZEB transition plan, including bus acquisition, division electrification, funding status, and upcoming program activities. Due to major safety, schedule, and cost concerns, staff have canceled the bus procurement and will reprocure ZEBs through a four-prong acquisition strategy for the same number of buses. While the re-procurement is underway, there is an opportunity to accelerate the delivery of ZEB busses through piggybacking existing State schedule contracts. In addition, in parallel with this Report, staff are recommending award for a Progressive Design Build Operate and Maintain (PDBOM) contract to electrify Divisions 18 (Carson) and 7 (West Hollywood) as well as an equipment purchase and installation of en route chargers for the North San Fernando Valley Transit Improvements Project (NSFV TIP), the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit (NH2P BRT), and other sites across the County. Recommendations for the PDBOM and en route chargers are submitted to the Board in separate reports.

Background
BACKGROUND

In July 2017, the Board approved Motion 50 by Directors Bonin, Garcetti, Najarian, Hahn, and Solis (Attachment A), which endorsed a ZEB Strategic P...

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