CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council gave its final approval on Thursday evening to a proposal to put a 1-percent sales tax measure before city voters this November.

The 4-1 vote – with Mayor Jeri Spittler the lone dissenting vote – approved placing the measure before voters a year after Measure G, also a 1-percent sales tax measure, narrowly missed receiving the 66-percent supermajority it needed.

Like Measure G, the new sales tax measure would raise an estimated $1.4 million annually, with 75 percent – or $1,050,000 – to go for road maintenance and the remaining 25 percent, or $357,000, to be used for reestablishing code enforcements services, city officials reported.

The city said the state Board of Equalization would administer the funds, and would require that the money raised by the measure only be spent as specified in the spending plan.

The spending plan for the measure states that the city has an estimated $17 million in deferred maintenance for its streets, which currently have a pavement rating of 38, which is in the poor category.

Clearlake is spending a total of $40,000 annually for street maintenance and repair. The spending plan explains that, “At that funding level, the City can only patch the chuckholes and re-grade the gravel roads. Current funding does not allow for any major street repair or reconstruction.”

On Friday, Clearlake City Clerk Melissa Swanson submitted a letter and several documents to the Lake County Board of Supervisors, asking that the board authorize consolidating election services for the city for the Nov. 5 general district election.

The request, Swanson noted, is for the purpose of submitting the measure to voters, as well as authorizing Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley to prepare the official canvass of votes cast.

Along with a letter, Swanson sent the county the city's spending plan for revenue from the measure, as well as the ordinance placing the measure on the November ballot and the city's resolution to seek the election consolidation.

The deadline for submitting the documents was Friday, according to city officials.

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