The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
Documents for the meeting can be downloaded at www.cityoflakeport.com/departments/home.aspx?deptid=88 or at www.scribd.com/LakeCoNews.
The council is set to consider appointing a new commissioner to succeed Marc Spillman, who resigned his seat on the Lakeport Planning Commissioner earlier this year after being appointed to the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO).
Applicants for the seat include Michael Damiata, Phillip Myers and Ken Wicks Jr., according to a staff report to the council from City Clerk Janel Chapman.
The council also will present a service award to Spillman for his time on the commission.
Under council business, Administrative Services Director Kelly Buendia will ask the council to lift the nearly three-year-old city hiring freeze in order to allow staff to fill budgeted positions as vacancies occur.
Buendia's report to the council said the move will be less disruptive to the hiring process, which currently requires administrative staff to go to the council for approval to hire positions that already are approved in the budget.
At a budgeting workshop last month Buendia had asked the council if it would be amenable to formally lifting the hiring freeze, and council members indicated they would be.
Other agenda items include the appointment of a voting delegate and alternate for the annual League of California Cities Conference.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss a case of pending litigation, Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 and Lakeport Police Officers Association v. City of Lakeport, Lakeport City Council; labor negotiations; and property negotiations regarding Green Ranch, the location of some of the municipal wells which the city is purchasing.
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