The council will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, for a closed session to discuss the continuing process of selecting a new city administrator and the appointment of the interim finance director before convening in open session at 6 p.m.
The meeting will take place in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.
Documents for the meeting can be found at www.scribd.com/LakeCoNews or viewed below.
According to interim City Administrator Bob Galusha's report to the council, the city has had a solid waste franchise agreement with Clearlake Waste Solutions since December 1987.
The new agreement with Clearlake Waste Solutions provides for a number of improvements or services, including an increase from 5 percent to 10 percent in the franchise fee that the company pays the city, Galusha said.
The company also has agreed to provide monthly street sweeping of arterial and collector streets and quarterly sweeping of Redbud Park and the Highlands Senior Center; meet requirements of Cal Recycle's public outreach recycling program; provide an annual residential waste dropoff event that's free to residential customers and allow customers to submit two bulky items for collection each calendar year without charge; collect and dispose of up to 200 tires per year from city roads at no cost to the city, and purchase from the city scrap metal, including appliances.
City Clerk Melissa Swanson will take to the council an ordinance to allow remote caller bingo games for charitable purposes, an idea originally proposed to the city by the American Legion.
Swanson reported that recent changes in California law allow charitable organizations such as schools and nonprofits to raise money through the games, which are called from a central location with players throughout the state and the opportunity for larger winnings. Organizations would be required to apply to the city annually for a license to hold the games.
Interim Redevelopment Director Steve Albright will ask the council to consider adopting an “enforceable obligations payment schedule” in order to allow the city's redevelopment agency to continue operating.
Because of redevelopment laws adopted in the new state budget, the city must decide whether or not to participate in the voluntary alternative redevelopment program and make payments to the state or else have its redevelopment agency terminated.
In order to join the program, Albright said the city will need to pay the state $974,019, which he said can be made out of the agency's low and moderate income housing fund. To do so, the city would need the approval of Clearlake Housing Now, which sued the city in the 1990s over improper user of redevelopment housing funds.
Albright reported that the Clearlake Redevelopment Agency also must list its “enforceable obligations” – including its projects, payees, descriptions of the work and amount of payments to be made – to the state by Aug. 26 to continue the agency.
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