LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will consider approving an agreement to develop a lakefront revitalization plan and pursuing a revenue ballot measure.

The council will meet in closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, to discuss negotiations for a utility easement at 818 Lakeport Blvd. Before the public portion of the meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

At the start of the meeting the council will present proclamations designating the month of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen also will present to the council an update on his department's volunteer hours in 2015.

Under council business, Community Development Director Kevin Ingram will take to the council a proposed professional services agreement between the city of Lakeport and the Design Workshop Inc. for the development and implementation of the Lakeport Lakefront Revitalization Plan.

Ingram is asking the council to authorize the agreement and authorize City Manager Margaret Silveira to sign the agreement on behalf of the city of Lakeport.

Also on Tuesday, Finance Director Dan Buffalo will seek the council's direction to prepare a possible revenue ballot measure.

The council is being asked to authorize staff to issue two requests for proposal to select a consultant to assist with a feasibility assessment and select a consultant to develop and implement an education and outreach program.

In other business, the council will introduce an ordinance amending Chapter 2.22 of Title 2 of the Lakeport Municipal Code Regarding the Traffic Safety Advisory Committee and set a public hearing for April 19.

On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on March 15; the March 17 and March 30 warrant registers; and approval of applications for the annual Lake County Aids Walk on Sept. 10, the Wood & Glory Classic boating event at Library Park on June 5, the Walk Talk Autism event at the Library Park Gazebo on April 30 and the League of California Cities' Redwood Empire Division meeting reception on the Lakeport Yacht Club lawn on May 20; and approval of an amendment to the agreement between the cities of Clearlake and Lakeport and the county of Lake relative to operation of a local public, educational, governmental cable television channel, referred to as the PEG Channel.

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