LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Lakeport City Council will consider approving its fiscal year 2015-16 budget and discuss additional water conservation measures as required by the state due to the drought.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda packet for the meeting can be downloaded at http://cityoflakeport.com/departments/home.aspx?deptid=88 .
Finance Director Dan Buffalo, who led the council through two budget workshops earlier this month, will present to the council the 2015-16 recommended budget and its component units, including the appropriations limit of $10,872,913.
This year's budget, according to Buffalo, has revenues of $18.19 million and expenditures of $20.9 million, with one-time costs for major projects like revitalizing downtown Main Street accounting for the higher expenditures number.
Also on Tuesday, the council will consider adopting a proposed resolution continuing the declaration of a stage one water emergency and implementing further water conservation measures as mandated by the State Water Resources Control Board.
Under the latest rules, the city must approve a resolution setting forth which days of the week people can do outdoor watering, according to City Manager Margaret Silveira's report to the council.
Silveira said staff is recommending requiring that those homes and businesses with addresses ending in an even number irrigate outdoor ornamental landscapes or turf on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and those with addresses ending in an odd number irrigate on Wednesdays and Sundays.
In other business on Tuesday, the council will consider the appeal of Nancy Ruzicka, on behalf of the Ruzicka Family Trust, regarding the Lakeport Planning Commission’s approval of a 72-foot high “monopine” cell phone tower at 1875 N. High St.
Public Works Superintendent Doug Grider will take to the council a proposal to purchase a card lock system from Petro Tech in the amount of $30,875.
Community Development Director Kevin Ingram will present a resolution authorizing the submittal of an application to the California State Department of Housing and Community Development for funding under the HOME Investment Partnership Program.
Public Works Director Mark Brannigan will ask the council for approval for the city to execute a contract with Pavement Engineering Inc., to provide engineering services for design of the Bevins Street Pavement Rehabilitation Project.
On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; warrant registers from June 8; minutes of the regular council meeting on June 2; and applications for the Main Street Association's Taste of Lakeport event on Friday, Aug. 28, and Trick or Treat Main Street on Friday, Oct. 30, and the Lakeport Yacht Club's application for the Cardboard and Duct Tape Regatta on July 4.
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061615 Lakeport City Council - Recommended budget and water conservation resolution
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