LAKEPORT – A loan for the Mental Health Department and a letter opposing a proposed bill that would raise the amount of trash that counties need to divert from their waste stream will be before the Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting.

The meeting will start at 9 a.m. in the board chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV Channel 8 will broadcast the meeting live. Full agendas can be found at www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Boards/Board_of_Supervisors/BOS_Agendas.htm.

The County Administrative Office will take to the board an item for discussion and consideration of a loan from the general fund to the Mental Health Fund to pay past due invoices from various service providers. The item is untimed.

Last week, the board decided to transfer realignment funds from the Social Services Department to Mental Health, which has $2.1 million in unpaid vendor bills. Earlier this month, the board also approved eliminating 18 Mental Health positions because of budget constraints.

The county already has loaned Mental Health $2 million from the general fund to meet its obligations. The loan the board will discuss on Tuesday will help address the outstanding vendor bills, which officials are concerned may result in vendors cutting off the county if the bills aren't paid.

In other business, at 9:45 a.m. the board will discuss and consider proposed letters to Assemblyman Wes Chesbro and Sen. Patricia Wiggins in opposition to AB 479, which Chesbro introduced in January.

AB 479 would require cities and counties to divert 60 percent of all solid waste through source reduction, recycling and composting on or after Jan. 1, 2015, an amount which would then rise to 75 percent by 2020. State law currently requires a 50-percent diversion, as Lake County News has reported.

In addition, the bill would increase the state's mandatory quarterly landfill fee from $1.40 per ton to $3.90 per ton on or after Jan. 1, 2010; that would raise the county's fees from $70,000 a year to an estimated $195,000 a year.

The board discussed an opposition letter in April, which they agreed to revise and bring back for further discussion.

Other items on the board's Tuesday agenda include the following.

Timed items:

9:15 a.m.: Public hearing – consideration of proposed resolution approving resolutions and capital fire facility and equipment plans submitted by Lake County fire agencies and updating the Lake County Capital Fire Facility and Equipment Plan.

9:30 a.m.: Overview of the First 5 Regional Impact Report by First 5 Executive Director Tom Jordan.

10 a.m.: Presentation and update by Massey Burke on the Lucerne Community Art Project.

10:15 a.m.: Status report and consideration of alternatives to address the Southeast Regional Collection System Clean-Up and Abatement Order and request for board direction regarding the use of the

consultant selection process.

1:30 p.m.: Order to show cause for sewer service disconnection hearings: Roland Herbst, 16407 35th Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,848.86) and 13945 Manakee Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,311,53); Dorothy Cantrell, 21304 State Highway 175, Middletown (delinquent amount, $997.60); Marilyn Carr, 16056 31st Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,797.98; Floyd Cox, 16221 32nd Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $616.64); Ed Eckl, 14981 Saroni Parkway, Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,207); Gregory Ewing, 3412 Grey Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,440.76); Howard Gillespie, 15835 41st Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $712.43); Joanne Hall-Alves, 6025 Spruce Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $3,496,40); Julia Johns, 15654 31st Ave. Clearlake (delinquent amount, $3,675.86); Posey Kaufman, 16118 34th Ave., Clearlake (delinquent amount, $1,093.20).

Non-timed items:

– Update on Water Resources Budget and request for board direction regarding possible staff reductions

– Consideration of request for board direction regarding ballots sent to County departments for Vector Control District’s proposed benefit assessment.

– Update on the emergency action taken on Dec. 9, 2008, regarding the prohibition of fish stocking by the Department of Fish and Game in water bodies of Lake County.

The board also will hold a closed session for labor negotiations and to conduct a performance evaluation of Public Services Director Kim Clymire.

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