LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will receive an audit report and consider whether or not to apply for state grants.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 20, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

Council members will convene at 5 p.m. for a closed session to discuss negotiations with unrepresented employees and an anticipated case of litigation before the regular meeting begins in open session at 6 p.m.

During public presentations, the council will receive a report the auditor, a report that originally had been scheduled for the last meeting but was postponed because the auditor could not attend.

Mount Konocti Facilitation, a group which assists local businesses, also will make a presentation to the council.

The council will hold a public hearing to consider staff recommendations regarding the application for 2011-12 state Community Development Block Grant funding.

Specifically, city staff is recommending that the city not apply this year and apply next year when the chances are more favorable.

In redevelopment-related business, the council – serving as the successor agency to the dissolved Lakeport Redevelopment Agency – will consider adopting a resolution confirming Mayor Stacey Mattina's appointment of City Manager Margaret Silveira as the alternate to the redevelopment successor agency oversight board.

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