LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Lakeport City Council will select its leadership for the coming new year and hear a presentation on a warming center for the homeless.

The council will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St., for a closed session to discuss an anticipated case of litigation involving Verizon Wireless. Earlier this month, the council granted an appeal of the company's proposal for a cell tower at 1875 N. High St. that the Lakeport Planning Commission had approved in May.

The open portion of the meeting will convene at 6 p.m.

The meeting will begin with the council reorganization, and the nomination and election of mayor and mayor pro tem for a period of one year.

Martin Scheel currently serves as mayor, with Stacey Mattina as mayor pro tem.

That will be followed by the announcement of the winners of the city's holiday lighted decoration contest.

The council also will hear a presentation by Taylor Johnson on behalf of the Lake Ministerial Association regarding a proposal to open a warming center this winter at the Lakeport Seventh-day Adventist Church. Johnson and members of the association spoke about the plan to the Board of Supervisors earlier this month.

In council business, acting City Clerk Kelly Buendia will present for the council's approval appointments to the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee, the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Traffic Safety Advisory Committee and the Lake County Vector Control District Board of Trustees.

Police Chief Brad Rasmussen will take to the council the proposed approval – with staff recommendations – of the application for the Lakeside Car and Boat Show to be held in Library Park on Aug. 12 and 13, 2016.

On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular Lakeport City Council meeting on Dec. 1; the Dec. 10 warrant register; amending and adopting the city's updated conflict of interest code; and the removal of Rick Hamilton from the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee.

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121515 Lakeport City Council agenda packet by LakeCoNews