CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council will continue closed session deliberations on a new city administrator and discuss land acquisitions in open session when it meets this week.

The council will meet for a closed session at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 14, before the regular meeting starts at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

The full agenda and all staff reports for the meeting can be found at Lake County News' Scribd account, www.scribd.com/LakeCoNews.

The topic of the closed session will be further discussion on appointing a new city administrator.

City Clerk Melissa Swanson said the council will be considering an appointment to the job, which last month the city had offered to Tully Clifford. Clifford initially accepted then turned down the offer.

Swanson said City Engineer Bob Galusha is filling the job on an interim basis. Earlier this year he also acted in the same capacity, as Lake County News has reported.

In open session, the council will look at an offer made by Celia DuBose to donate to the city a vacant 25-foot by 100-foot lot at 16544 Third Ave. that belonged to her recently deceased parents, Dorothy and Francis DuBose. The lot is considered to be “without buildable potential,” according to a report to the council from Swanson.

The council also will discuss a proposed redevelopment agency purchase of 13981 Morgan Ave., a substandard property where the city authorized demolition of a dilapidated mobile home and outbuildings last year, according to a report from Swanson.

The property's owner, Shandor Szentkuti, filed a claim against the city on March 9 for $150,000, stating he was not properly notified of the abatement, Swanson reported.

According to the report, in closed session the council – acting as the redevelopment agency board – authorized agency Executive Director Steve Albright to negotiate a property purchase for $74,750, which was the property's value at demolition. Szentkuti has agreed to sell the agency his property and settle the claim.

The agency is proposing to improve the property and offer it under the city's first-time homebuyer program, Swanson reported.

At the Thursday meeting the council also will consider designating voting delegates and alternates for the League of California Cities' annual conference in September.

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