LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will look at a reuse study completed for the city's historic Carnegie Library and consider setting in motion the necessary actions to vacate a portion of city-owned right-of-way next to the Soper Reese Theatre in order for the theater's renovations to continue.

The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

On the agenda is the Carnegie Library Reuse Feasibility Study, finished by San Francisco-based Garavaglia Architecture late last year, as Lake County News has reported.

The report makes a number of suggestions about the nearly 97-year-old building – which sits across from city hall in the heart of Library Park – including creating community partnerships to renovate the building and pursuing potential leasing options for raising money to make needed upgrades.

Also on Tuesday, the council will consider approving a resolution to initiate the necessary proceedings and the setting of a public hearing to vacate a narrow strip of right-of-way on Martin Street next to the Soper Reese Theatre.

Theater Executive Director Mike Adams asked the council last July to consider vacating the 5.4-foot strip that covers a landscaped courtyard.

Vacating the land will allow continuing renovations, including a 750-square-foot addition on the building's south side in order to provide bathrooms compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and an access ramp to the theater.

The Lakeport Planning Commission, at its Nov. 12 meeting, found that the proposal did not conflict with the city general plan's transportation element.

The council on Tuesday also will consider leasing the caretaker home at Westside Park to the Westside Community Park, the nonprofit corporation that is developing the park for the city. The single-family home, in turn, is expected to be leased out as a residence, according to Public Works Director Mark Brannigan's report to the council.

In other business, city Finance Director Dan Buffalo will present the comprehensive annual financial report for the year ended June 30, 2014, and the auditor's communication with governance letter dated Dec. 30, 2014.

Buffalo also will take to the council the recognized obligation payment schedule for the city's redevelopment successor agency for the period of July 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2015.

On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; the Jan. 8 warrant registers; minutes of the council's Jan. 6 meeting; and adoption of resolutions revising the city of Lakeport's personnel policies and a proclamation terminating a local emergency.

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