LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Board of Supervisors will hold a special afternoon meeting to get updates from county departments and discuss potential actions relating to the Valley fire.

The board will meet beginning at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.

The meeting's only timed item, set for 1 p.m., is an update from county departments and other organizations involved in the response to the fire.

Untimed items include a request for support to establish a temporary permit center in Middletown and consideration of reducing Community Development Department hours in Lakeport.

The board also will consider a staff recommendation regarding an engineering contract for building inspection and plan review services as a result of the fire and appointing Social Services Director Carol Huchingson as recovery coordinator.

Also going before the board is a proposed letter of support requesting that at least 50-percent of the workforce for the state-led master cleanup of the county's wildland fires be local labor, operators and truckers.

The full agenda follows.

TIMED ITEMS

4.1, 1 p.m.: Status reports/updates of response and recovery efforts from county departments, assisting agencies and/or community groups consequent to 2015 wildland fires.   

UNTIMED ITEMS

5.2: Consideration of reduction of counter hours at Community Development Department.          

5.3: Request for support to establish temporary permit center in Middletown in order to assist victims of the Valley fire.

5.4: Discussion/consideration of an urgency interim ordinance authorizing a temporary deferral of certain provisions of Section 21-27.3, Subdivision (P).

5.5: Consideration of staff recommendation to (a) waive county consultant selection process; and (b) approve agreement between the county of Lake and Coastland Civil Engineering Inc. for additional building inspection and plan review services as a result of the Valley fire.   

5.6: Consideration of staff recommendation to appoint Social Services Director Carol Huchingson as recovery coordinator.

5.7: Discussion/consideration of a letter of support requesting at least 50-percent of the workforce for master cleanup of wildland fires be local labor, operators and truckers.

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