LAKEPORT – The Lakeport City Council will once again discuss retiree health benefits and whether or not to make retirees pay for a surcharge when the council meets this Tuesday.

The council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

The agenda and supporting staff reports are posted online at www.cityoflakeport.com/departments/docs.aspx?deptID=88&catID=102 .

Finance Director Janet Tavernier will take the retiree health benefits to the council Tuesday.

As it's proposed, the surcharge would cost retirees $92.55 per person per month, $194.38 for two or $277.67 for a family on a monthly basis.

Retirees have told the council during two previous meetings this summer that they were promised those benefits until they become eligible for Medicare at age 65. However, city officials said a memorandum of understanding between the city and its employees that was adopted in July 1998 states that the city doesn't have to pay more for health benefits for retirees than active employees.

In other council news, in its consent agenda, the council will discuss a final memorandum of understanding with the Lakeport Employees Association. Those negotiations had appeared headed for impasse earlier this summer, as Lake County News has reported, but the two sides appear to have resolved their differences, with a final document awaiting the council's approval.

Also in the consent agenda is a lengthy response to the numerous recommendations about the city in the Lake County Grand Jury report, released in July.

Other meeting items include a discussion regarding an application for funding from the Planning Technical Assistance allocation of the State Community Development Block Grant Program, terminate negotiations for the Avalon Housing Project Owner Participation Agreement, award the bid for the Martin and Forbes Street Sidewalk Project to Epidendio Construction, and accept the engineering plans and for the Pedestrian Improvement Project at 562 and 566 South Main St., and authorize staff to bid the project.

The council also will hold a closed session to discuss negotiations with the city manager and a case of litigation.

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