The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St. The meeting will be broadcast live on the PEG Channel, TV 8.
At 9:45 a.m. Deputy Redevelopment Director Eric Seely will take the redevelopment review to the board.
His report to the board states that California Redevelopment Law requires that a public hearing be convened at least once within the implementation plan's five-year term to consider the agency's redevelopment plan and evaluate its projects.
The Lake County Redevelopment Plan and Implementation Plan can be found at www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/DepartmentDirectory/Redevelopment/Northshore_Plans.htm for those wishing to comment on the plan Tuesday.
Seely's report says that Clearlake Oaks “is perhaps the Agency's greatest redevelopment success story.” Successful projects there include Nylander Park, Clark's Island, improvements to the East Lake Grange building. Still to come are completion of The Plaza, Eskaton Clearlake Oaks Manor Senior Housing and a new restroom facility for Nylander Park and a visitor center, which will be a joint project with the Public Services Department.
“The Agency is also making progress on a new Live Oak Senior Center facility,” Seely wrote.
Significant improvements helped by redevelopment also have occurred in Upper Lake, and the Main Street improvements are set to begin soon, Seely reported.
Seely added that the agency “has been very successful in eliminating unsightly conditions, creating public open space and providing lake access, but as of yet redevelopment efforts haven't directly created additional jobs or significant tax revenue,” although he notes redevelopment has “supported and encouraged” such projects as Upper Lake's Tallman Hotel.
Other projects noted in his report include Lucerne's new entrance signs, Lucerne Creek Park and the sheriff's new regional office in Lucerne, as well as utilities undergrounding in Nice and park improvements at Hinman Square.
At 10:20 a.m. Deputy Administrative Officer Jeff Rein will report to the board about the recent allocation of of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act funding.
The extension of the federal funding, based on historic timber receipts, will bring an estimated $2.9 million to the county over the next four years, as Lake County News reported last week. The money will be split between county schools and the county government.
Rein said the funding provided to the county in this fiscal year will be approximately $100,000 less than in the previous year, and will continue to decline by that amount in each fiscal year through the extension's final year, 2012. By that time, the allocation will be approximately half of the $1,023,226 received in fiscal year 2007-08, Rein reported.
Rein's report said that the board needs to decide whether, according to the funding formula, 15 or 20 percent of the funding is to be dedicated to certain eligible local projects, with the remainder of the funding going to county schools and road maintenance.
That off-the-top percentage can be used for projects proposed by the local Resource Advisory Committee; such projects, Rein writes, must provide protection restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife.
“Staff believes that both the Mt. Konocti acquisition and the quagga mussel mitigation project meet these conditions,” Rein wrote.
In light of those projects' significant benefit to the county, the board may wish to ask the Resource Advisory Committee to give “serious consideration to prioritizing these projects,” Rein noted.
The board can also use the money to develop community fire protection plans and fund activities under local firewise committees, according to Rein.
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