CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council's agenda this week includes a proposed action to make trick-or-treating safer in a city subdivision, marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month and hearing about the prospect of using tiny homes to help the homeless.

The council will meet in closed session at 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, to discuss existing litigation, and property negotiations for the city's airport property, and parcels at 2185 Ogulin Canyon Road, 14265 Lakeshore Drive and 14060 Olympic Drive before convening in open session at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, at 14050 Olympic Drive.

During the meeting, the council will present a proclamation declaring October to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The council also will receive a presentation by Cornerstone Villages on tiny home villages for unhoused people.

For its main item of business on Thursday, the council will consider a request for traffic mitigation measures in the Village Subdivision area – which includes Harbor, Lakeview and Ridgeview drives – from 5 to 8:30 p.m. on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31.

City Clerk Melissa Swanson's report to the council explains that, dating back to at least the 1980s, the Village area “has been a local favorite trick or treating spot for children and families. Several thousand children visit the area each year.”

She said it has been the normal practice for the Clearlake Police Department's Volunteers in Policing to assist in dealing with traffic-related issues by limiting cars in the area that evening to residents only in an effort to protect the children walking from house to house and playing in the street.

Swanson said drivers will be asked to show identification and/or proof of residence to ensure only necessary traffic in an effort to protect the children and families in the area for Halloween.

The activities also are monitored by the Clearlake Police Department, said Swanson.

She said the city will post the mitigation information on its Web site, http://www.clearlake.ca.us/ , so drivers can plan alternate routes that evening.

On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are warrant registers and the minutes of the council's Oct. 8 meeting, minutes of the Sept. 9 Lake County Vector Control District Board meeting, adoption of the 2015 City of Clearlake Injury and Illness Prevention Program, adoption of Resolution No. 2015-34 approving a temporary street closure for Trunk N' Treat event at Austin Park, award of a contract for asbestos/lead abatement and demolition of the building at 4740 Golf Ave., approval of the council's holiday schedule for November and December, and consideration of a contract with William Clemans for interim city engineer services.

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