LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will will hold a special workshop on a city contract and public hearings related to rezoning of Vector Control District parcels and a funding application for the city's new police department headquarters.

The council will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St., for a workshop on the solid waste contract before the regular meeting convenes at 6 p.m.

At the start of the meeting the council will present proclamations designating April as Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Mike Adams is set to offer the council a progress report on the feasibility of a proposed city solar energy project.

The council has two public hearings scheduled for Tuesday night.

The first is for a zoning change and general plan amendment that Lake County Vector Control has requested for four of its lakeside parcels. The action would change them from residential and resort residential to public civic use.

The council will consider the adoption of a mitigated negative declaration for the Lake County Vector Control District General Plan Amendment and Zone Change project based on the based on the information and findings contained in the initial study/environmental review.

At the same time, the council will look at approving the proposed resolution amending the land use designation plan of the city’s general plan along with the proposed ordinance amending the city's zoning maps for the parcels.

The second hearing will be for the purpose of adopting a proposed resolution authorizing the application to US Department of Agriculture Rural Development for financing under its Community Facilities Loan Program for the city's new police headquarters building at 2025 S. Main St., and authorization for City Manager Margaret Silveira to sign all related documents.

Under council business, staff will present an ordinance amending the prezoning map in the South Main Street and Soda Bay Road area of the Lakeport Sphere of Influence.

The council will set a public hearing on Tuesday, April 21, at 6 p.m. at Lakeport City Hall for the purpose of receiving public comments on the proposed prezoning ordinance, holding the second reading and considering adoption of the prezoning ordinance and map.

The item is a result of the council's approval on Feb. 17 of a resolution adopting an addendum to the city's general plan environmental impact report. That resolution approved general plan amendments that, among other things, reduced the city's sphere of influence.

According to the report to the council from Community Development Director Kevin Ingram and Special Project Coordinator Richard Knoll, the Lakeport Planning Commission has recommended follow up action, specifically that that the city's prezoning map in the southern Lakeport General Plan Area and Sphere of Influence Area be amended to be consistent with the Lakeport General Plan Land Use Map designations.

On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; warrant registers for Feb. 10, Feb. 26, March 10 and March 17; minutes of the regular March 17 council meeting and the special meeting on March 27; approval of Application No. 2015-009 for the Lakeport Main Street Association for the annual Lakeport Cleanup (April 25); Wood & Glory Picnic in the Park (May 31); July 4 Arts and Craft Fair (July 4); Taste of Lakeport (Aug. 28); Shipwreck Day (Oct. 17); Trick or Treat Main Street (Oct. 30); and A Very Merry Main Street (Nov. 28); and adoption of resolutions designating the city of Lakeport’s agent for California Disaster Assistance Act funding.

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