LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Lakeport City Council will get a report on the city's financial activity, consider a zone change for a proposed retail project, and adopt ordinances to update the duties of the city's finance director and how the city clerk is hired.

The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

Finance Director Dan Buffalo will present to the council the year-end budget review.

Buffalo will review with the council the quarterly and year-end financial report summarizing the city’s overall financial activity and position through June 30, 2015.

In other business, the council will introduce the zone change ordinance for the Lakeport AutoZone project and adopt a mitigated negative declaration based on the environmental review/initial study for the project, proposed to be built on Industrial Avenue.

Also on Tuesday, the council will conduct a public hearing and adopt the proposed ordinance giving the city finance direction financial reporting duties formerly performed by the city clerk; hold a public hearing and adopt the proposed ordinance amending the municipal code in order to give the city manager the power to hire the city clerk; and a new city employee will be introduced.

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 Jan. 5; the warrant register for Jan. 6; and approval of sending a letter to the California Air Resources Board supporting the Northern California Rural Zero Emission Bus Commercial Deployment Project Grant Application.

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