CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council will discuss more redevelopment-related business as it faces the impending closure of its redevelopment agency, and also will consider city business including adding new bank signatories.

The council will gather in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, for a closed session at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, to hold performance evaluations on interim City Administrator Joan Phillipe and interim Police Chief Craig Clausen before the regular session opens at 6 p.m. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.

Phillipe will take to the council a proposed resolution to add more signatories to the city’s commercial accounts and for its local agency investment fund, or LAIF.

Due to staff turnover the city currently has only two people – City Clerk Melissa Swanson and Clausen – who are authorized to sign on the accounts, and Phillipe’s report voices concern about being able to transfer money from the accounts should an urgent need arise.

She reported that most cities have four people authorized to sign, including the city administrator and finance director.

Phillipe also is proposing that the council obtain signature stamps for Mayor Joey Luiz and Vice Mayor Jeri Spittler, which would allow the two to avoid the inconvenience of signing numerous checks.

“This stamp would be kept under lock and key and used only by Finance staff to sign checks,” Phillipe’s report said, noting that it is “a fairly standard procedure in many cities.”

In redevelopment-related business, Phillipe will ask the council to appoint a council member and a redevelopment agency staffer to the Clearlake Redevelopment Agency’s seven-member successor agency board.

The council voted at its Jan. 12 meeting to act as successor agency following the California Supreme Court’s decision last month that has cleared the way for the dismantling of redevelopment agencies statewide.

Phillipe’s report said the successor agency must be in place by May 12.

The council also will weigh the risks and benefits of assuming the redevelopment agency’s housing obligations.

If the city does not elect to take on those obligations, they would go to a local housing authority or, in the absence of such a body, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, according to a report from City Attorney Malathy Subramanian.

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