The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in the board chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St. TV Channel 8 will broadcast the meeting live.
At 9:15 a.m., the board will consider sending a letter to state officials opposing the closure of Anderson Marsh State Historic Park.
Anderson Marsh is among 220 state parks Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to close in order to deal with the state's budget crisis, as Lake County News has reported.
Early last year, Anderson Marsh and Clear Lake State Park – spared in this latest round of proposed closures because its gets gas and boating tax to support it – were on a list of 48 state parks the governor had proposed closing.
The board also will receive an update on the sale of four decontamination washing stations the county purchased in March of 2008 for its quagga mussel prevention program, and consider a request from the city of Lakeport for one of the units. The discussion is untimed.
Originally, the county had planned to place a station at the county's main entry points and make them available for private enterprise, to be in place by last July, according to county reports.
But the plan never took off, and the result has been that the county declared them surplus and offered them for sale. The county of Los Angeles has offered to purchase each of them for $16,000, down from the $21,646 each paid last year.
Last Tuesday, Lakeport City Council member Suzanne Lyons had the council add an emergency item to its agenda to discuss purchasing at least on of the stations for use in the city.
During the discussion, Councilman Bob Rumfelt suggested the county shouldn't charge the city for a station. “It seems like they should just give it to us. We've already paid for it in the past.”
Councilman Roy Parmentier said once the quaggas arrive in Lake County “it's all over.”
Lyons agreed that the invasive mussels' arrival is “potentially catastrophic.”
“You won't get rid of them,” she said. “They won't go away. There is no cure.”
In the Great Lakes region, where the mussels have been for many years, Lyons reported that the power industry spent $3 billion from 1993 to 1999 due to the mussels clogging intake pipes.
During the discussion Parmentier accused the county officials in charge of the mussel prevention program with not knowing “what the hell is going on.”
County Administrative Officer Kelly Cox said late last week that interim City Manager Kevin Burke had called county Deputy Administrative Officer Jeff Rein about the stations, indicating that the council was interested in “one or two” of them.
As a result, Cox said he placed the issue on the board agenda to obtain the board's direction.
Other items on the agenda include the following.
Timed items:
9:30 a.m.: Consideration of amendment four to the agreement between the county of Lake and Quincy Engineering, Inc. for engineering services for South Main Street/Soda Bay Road Corridor Improvement Project in the amount of $1,082,603. Continued from June 2.
Non-timed items:
– Approval of findings of fact: Terry Hopkins' appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision to deny a minor modification of a use permit to allow the establishment of home occupation with an oversized detached accessory structure that was approved as a collector’s garage in 2003; project located at 1519 McMahon Road, Lakeport.
– Proposed amendment six to the agreement between the county of Lake and Pavement Engineering Inc. for engineering services for the design of rehabilitation improvements in downtown Upper Lake (an increase of $15,387, bringing the total amount of contract to $224,050).
– Discussion/consideration of request for authorization for Public Works Director Brent Siemer to negotiate an agreement with PG&E to assure that the county will assume PG&E and AT&T costs for undergrounding utilities in the event that there be a material change or cancellation prior to the completion of the Soda Bay/South Main Street Corridor Improvement Project.
– Consideration of request to purchase 25 Glock Model 17 rough textured finish duty weapons ($429 per duty weapon), from L.C. Action and 25 Glock Model 17 rough textured finish duty weapons ($429 per duty weapon), from ProForce ($23,326.88 total cost for the 50 duty weapons).
– Request for waiver of purchasing policy, Section 2-40.3(a) and find that the low bidder is not in conformity with the needs of the county and award bid to a vendor other than the lowest bidder; consideration of Budget Transfer No. 288 in the amount of $590 for purchase of a washer and dryer
for the Lake County Jail - Budget Unit No. 2301 – Sheriff/Jail; consideration of award of bid to Taylor Houseman for the purchase of a Maytag/Unimac washer and dryer for the Lake County Jail/Hill Road facility in the amount of $22,589.17.
The board also will hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations, a potential case of litigation against the county and whether to initiate two other legal suits.
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