The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 23, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
All supporting documents for the meeting can be found at www.scribd.com/LakeCoNews.
Back on the council's agenda is the city's proposed final budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year.
Steve Albright, the city's former interim city administrator, submitted a report to the council that outlined changes made to the document that came from council direction at its June 9 meeting.
Those included eliminating a proposed 2 percent cost of living increase for all employees, adding another new police officer – bringing the total number of new officer positions to be added to the budget to three – rehiring a laid-off Public Works Department maintenance worker and adding another maintenance worker position, with those two Public Works staff additions being funded primarily by the gas tax, according to Albright.
In other council business, the council will consider updates suggested by the Clearlake Planning Commission to the proposed medical marijuana dispensary ordinance.
The commission discussed the proposed document on April 26 and forwarded it to the council, which discussed the proposed ordinance last month and sent it back to the commission for additional consideration of the number of dispensaries and whether or not to grandfather in current operations.
According to a staff report from Albright, the commission recommended that the city initially permit three dispensaries and allow a fourth when the city's population – now at about 15,000 – reaches 20,000.
The commission also recommended grandfathering in the three initial dispensaries and allowing them to continue operating in their current locations, regardless of zoning, Albright reported.
Albright said the only other change since the council last considered the ordinance is that any employees or volunteers who join the operation the year after a permit is issued must meet the background, fingerprinting and other requirements.
Of the three existing dispensaries – The Compassion Center, Lakeside Herbal Solutions and Triple C Collective – Triple C Collective will have to relocate because it is within 600 feet of a school, according to Albright's report.
Also on Thursday, the council – sitting jointly as the redevelopment agency board of directors– will consider approving a $700,000 grant for off-site drainage and other improvements and a $1.1 million 30-year loan from the redevelopment agency to AMG & Associates/Pacific Companies to support the 32-unit Edgewater Village Senior Housing Project, to be located at the southwest corner of Old Highway 53 and Austin Drive.
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