LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Board of Supervisors will continue looking at options for protecting Hill Road East from a landslide near Lakeside Heights, get an update on the progress to expand the Konocti Regional Trails System and consider the proposed Middletown Community Action Plan.
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.
At 10:20 a.m., the board will continue a discussion it began at its Feb. 11 meeting regarding potential actions to take to protect Hill Road East from potential land movement near the Lakeside Heights subdivision, which sustained a large amount of damage due to a landslide that began last March.
The board's discussion last week touched on the tarping on the hillside, which has been damaged by wildlife, wind and sunlight.
Community Development Director Rick Coel told the board that the contouring and earth stabilization work the county had done last fall cost $11,000, with the materials and labor for the tarping costing another $17,600. Some of those costs for tarping were covered by the Lakeside Heights Homeowners Association.
Public Works Director Scott De Leon said county staff believed if they could keep the fill – placed in the hillside at Lakeside Heights decades ago during its construction – dry, they can keep the earth from sliding.
The concern for the board was that keeping the hillside covered with plastic is a temporary fix, and Lakeside Heights Homeowners Association President Randall Fitzgerald pointed out that it's in the best interests of the residents to find a longterm solution.
Coel suggested that a longterm solution is to remove the fill material and so lessen the weight on the hillside, and to follow up with hydroseeding to reestablish vegetation and ground cover.
De Leon said county staff needs to get an idea of what the board wants for an end product. Putting everything back to where it was before the hillside is a “completely different scope of work” than keeping the area stabilized.
The hillside and the construction fill had a history of movement, he said. “It took 30 years for it to finally do what it did,” De Leon said, adding it's hard to predict what the hillslide might do next.
Coel estimated that there is about 10,000 yards of fill, or 30 million pounds of dirt. If the goal is to remove the fill, he said the question is, where does that soil go.
“That's more of a permanent repair,” said De Leon, noting he wanted to have a geotechnical engineer involved in that discussion. “There are a number of ways to solve the problem.”
Without knowing what's going on underneath the ground and all the different causes of the slide, it's hard to make any informed decision, said Supervisor Anthony Farrington, noting they needed to carefully use the county's scarce resources in working out a solution.
De Leon and Coel are expected to return with more options for the board to consider on Tuesday.
In other timed items for this week's meeting, at 9:15 a.m. the board will hear Toni Timpke's appeal of a nuisance animal abatement regarding her male pit bull, which was repeatedly found loose and roaming on neighbors' properties on Bell Hill Road in Kelseyville.
At 9:30 a.m., the board will consider a request for $3,000 to support the Lake County Land Trust's purchase of a wetland property,
At 9:45 a.m., trails coordinator Gigi Stahl will update the board on the progress on developing the Konocti Regional Trails System, and the board will consider the proposed Middletown Community Action Plan at 10 a.m.
The full agenda follows.
TIMED ITEMS
9 a.m., A-1 to A-4: Approval of consent agenda, which includes items that are expected to be routine and noncontroversial, and will be acted upon by the board at one time without discussion; presentation of animals available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control; consideration of items not appearing on the posted agenda, and contract change orders for current construction projects.
9:05 a.m.: Citizen's input. Any person may speak for three minutes about any subject of concern, provided that it is within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on the agenda. Prior to this time, speakers must fill out a slip giving name, address and subject (available in the clerk of the board’s office, first floor, courthouse).
9:15 a.m., A-5: Hearing, appeal of nuisance animal abatement at 2875 Bell Hill Road, Kelseyville. Male pit bull; owner, Toni Timpke.
9:30 a.m., A-6: Consideration of request for support of Lake County Land Trust Melo property purchase, in the amount of $3,000.
9:45 a.m., A-7: Presentation of update regarding the Konocti Regional Trails System.
10 a.m., A-8: Consideration of proposed Middletown Community Action Plan.
10:20 a.m., A-9: Continued from Feb. 11, consideration of actions to protect Hill Road East from potential land movement near the Lakeside Heights subdivision.
NONTIMED ITEMS
A-10: Supervisors’ weekly calendar, travel and reports.
A-11: Consideration of appointments to the Library Advisory Board and the Lower Lake Waterworks District No. 1 Board of Directors.
CLOSED SESSION
A-12: 1. Conference with labor negotiator: (a) County negotiators: A. Grant, L. Guintivano, S. Harry, M. Perry, A. Flora and C. Shaver; and (b) employee organization: Deputy District Attorney's Association, Lake County Deputy Sheriff's Association, Lake County Correctional Officers Association, Lake County Employees Association and Lake County Safety Employees Association.
A-12: 2. Employee Disciplinary Appeal Hearing - EDA 2014-01.
CONSENT AGENDA
C-1: Approve first amendment to agreement between the county of Lake and Remi Vista Inc., for FY 2013-14 specialty mental health services, an increase of $60,000, and authorize the chair to sign.
C-2: Approve second amendment to agreement between the county of Lake and Crestwood Health Inc., for FY 2013-14 specialty mental health services, a decrease of $124,422, total amount not to exceed $400,578, and authorize the chair to sign.
C-3: Approve first amendment to agreement between the county of Lake and California Psychiatric Transitions for FY 2013-14 mental health services, an increase of $60,422, contract maximum amount of $124,422, and authorize the chair to sign.
C-4: Approve issuance of notification to the Konocti Unified School District that the county of Lake will not authorize the issuance of tax and revenue anticipation notes on the district’s behalf.
C-5: Adopt Resolution appropriating unanticipated revenue to Budget Unit 1231, County Counsel ($2,000 from Air Quality Management District for prosecution services).
C-6: Adopt resolution authorizing The Grant Project - Lake County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Response Project (authorizing submission of grant application for funds administered by the Office of Violence against Women (OVW) for grant period through Sept. 30, 2017, and authorizing the county administrative officer to sign various application documents and the district attorney to accept grant award).
C-7: Approve second amendment to agreement between the county of Lake and California Exterminators Alliance (CEA), an extension of term of vegetation control services, an increase of $50,000, and authorize the chair to sign.
WATERSHED PROTECTION DISTRICT
C-8: Approve agreement between the Lake County Watershed Protection District and Mark McCombs for caretaker services at the Highland Springs Recreation Area, and authorize the chair to sign.
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