LAKEPORT, Calif. – At its meeting this week the Board of Supervisors will discuss implementing a fee to help support Lake County's public access television station.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.
At 10:15 a.m. the board will consider the budget for TV8, also known as the Lake County Public, Education and Government (PEG) Channel budget.
As part of the discussion, the board will look at a request to implement a cable television subscriber fee to support the channel's operations, which currently are carried out by a group of volunteers.
Last November, the board agreed to make a $5,000 contribution to the channel for the 2010-11 budget year, based on a request from Clearlake Mayor Joyce Overton, who sits on the PEG Board, as does Supervisor Jeff Smith.
The board followed with with a public hearing on Dec. 14 to consider a proposed ordinance to support establishing a fee of up to 1 percent of Mediacom's gross revenues to support the station. At that time a decision was continued to a future date to allow discussions with the cities of Lakeport and Clearlake, as well as to let the board see a more detailed station budget.
In other board news, at 11:15 a.m. the supervisors will present a proclamation declaring the month of April 2011 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and recognizing April 5 as the Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action, April 27 as Denim Day and April 10 through April 16, 2011, as National Victim Rights Week in Lake County.
The board will hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations and conduct a performance evaluation of the county's information technology director.
Other items on the agenda include the following.
Timed items
9 a.m.: Approval of consent agenda, which includes items that are expected to be routine and noncontroversial, and will be acted upon by the board at one time without discussion; presentation of animals available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control; consideration of items not appearing on the posted agenda, and contract change orders for current construction projects.
9:05 a.m.: Citizen's input. Any person may speak for three minutes about any subject of concern,
provided that it is within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on the agenda. Prior to this time, speakers must fill out a slip giving name, address and subject (available in the clerk of the board’s office, first floor, courthouse).
9:15 a.m.: Consideration of proposed county information security policy.
9:20 a.m.: Public hearing, public bid opening for the sale of county surplus real property (2 bedroom/2 bathroom single-family manufactured home), located at 9549 Copsey Creek Way, Lower Lake, described as Assessor’s Parcel Number 049-101-05; the minimum bid price of the real property is $70,000.
9:25 a.m.: Consideration of recommendation for the grant of $1,500 to the Resource Conservation District to support its annual creek cleanup efforts.
9:35 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation declaring March 20 through March 26, 2011, as National Surveyors Week in Lake County.
10 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation endorsing the World-Wide Charter for Compassion.
11:20 a.m.: Hearing, consideration of request to modify vicious animal abatement order issued Dec. 13, 2007 (Martha Lois Embry for Merlin the dog; located at 8120 Reclamation Road, Upper Lake).
Nontimed items
– Supervisors’ weekly calendar, travel and reports.
– Consideration of proposed ordinance establishing a prima facie speed limit zone on Hartmann Road (County Road No. 104), from Hidden Valley Road to the end of Hartmann Road (35 miles per hour).
Consent agenda
– Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meetings held on March 8 and March 15, 2011. (Minutes from March 8, 2011 were carried over from the March 15, 2011 meeting.)
– Adopt proclamation declaring March 20 through March 26, 2011, as National Surveyors Week in Lake County.
– Adopt proclamation endorsing the World-Wide Charter for Compassion.
– Adopt Proclamation declaring the month of April 2011 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, April 5 as the Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action, April 27 as Denim Day, and April 10 through April 16 as National Victim Rights Week in Lake County.
– Approve agreement between the county of Lake, Community Development Services and Mt. Konocti Facilitation to provide a Microenterprise Technical Assistance Program, in the amount of $50,000 over the next two years, and authorize the chair to sign.
– Adopt resolution approving Agreement 11-C0015 with the state of California Department of Pesticide Regulation and authorizing the execution and signature for the electronic submission of pesticide use
data during fiscal year 2011-12.
– Approve Budget Transfer B-156 from Capital Projects budget, in the amount of $15,000, for the purchase of one (1) 1990 Etnyre chip spreader, from Sonoma County, and authorize the chair to sign.
– Approve waiver of 900-hour limit for extra-help Staff Services Analyst II Janice Hubbell, extra-help Eligibility Worker I Jeffree Watts and extra-help Office Assistant III Teresa Newton, as per staff
memorandum, dated March 8, 2011.
– Approve Budget Transfer B-142, in the amount of $59,200 to cover additional expenditures for lateral and manhole repairs, emergency rehabilitation and repairs of lift station No. 2 in the Southeast Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, and authorize the chair to sign.
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