The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 25, in the Board of Supervisors chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.

In an untimed agenda item, the board will consider a Lake County Redevelopment Agency request to issue a request for qualifications for the Holiday Harbor resort-based mixed-use development.

The property, located on Highway 20 in Nice, once was a trailer park and was purchased by the county redevelopment agency several years ago with the intent of finding a developer to purchase and bring the land to its full potential.

At 10 a.m., the board will hold two hearings regarding dogs owned by Eddie Robinson of Lucerne.

Robinson is appealing an order to destroy one of his dogs and is appealing a vicious animal abatement order on a second.

A discussion that had been set for 9:30 a.m. regarding the annual burn ban has been moved to the June 1 agenda, county staff reported.

The board will convene for a closed session for labor negotiations and to discuss to employee disciplinary appeals.

Other items on the agenda are as follows.

Timed items

9 a.m.: Approval of consent agenda, which includes items that are expected to be routine and noncontroversial, and will be acted upon by the board at one time without discussion; presentation of animals available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control; consideration of items not appearing on the posted agenda.

9:05 a.m.: Citizen's input. Any person may speak for three minutes about any subject of concern,

provided that it is within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on the agenda. Prior to this time, speakers must fill out a slip giving name, address and subject (available in the Clerk of the Board’s Office, first floor, courthouse).

9:15 a.m.: Discussion/consideration of resolution in support of the Big Valley Wetlands Project being undertaken by the Lake County Land Trust.

11:30 a.m.: Assessment appeal hearings, Maria Schetter - Application No. 195-2009 - 4125 Herschel St., Lakeport.

Nontimed items

– Supervisors’ weekly calendar, travel and reports.

– Discussion/consideration of proposed sixth amendment to the agreement between the county of Lake Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. for mental health services for fiscal year 2009-10 in the amount

$235,000 (an increase of $25,000).

– Discussion/consideration of proposed first amendment to agreement between the county of Lake Hallis CPA for cost report preparation services in the amount of $14,000 (an increase of $4,050).

– Presentation of report on the National Association of County Engineers (NACE) Annual Conference.

– (a) Discussion/consideration of request to approve a partial release of improvement security in the amount of $400,000 for Rim Rock Ranch Subdivision located at 20600 Hartmann Road, Middletown; and (b) consideration of request to authorize the public works director to approve any future requests for partial release improvement security for Rim Rock Ranch Subdivision.

– (a) Discussion/consideration of request to authorize Public Works to issue a Purchase Order to CSU, Chico Research Foundation in the amount of $30,000 for Permazyme stabilized soils testing; and

(b) discussion/consideration of request to accept a contribution from Pacific Enzymes Inc. in the amount of $20,000 to be applied to the Purchase Order to CSU, Chico Research Foundation for Permazyme stabilized soils testing.

– Discussion/consideration of award of Bid No.10-37a to River Marine Sales in the amount of $75,584.48 for purchase of a patrol/rescue boat (24' Alumaweld Intruder Sterndrive).

Consent agenda

– Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meeting held on April 27 and May 4, 11 and 18, 2010.

– Appoint Bryan Schwartz to the Lake County EMCC Advisory Board (Southlake Fire representative), for a term expiring on Jan. 1, 2011.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ approving the master grant agreement between the county of Lake and the State of California for the HIV AIDS Surveillance Program for fiscal years 2010-11, 2011-12

and 2012-13 and authorizing the director of Health Services to sign.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ approving a renewal agreement between the county of Lake and the State of California Health Services Department for the Immunization Assistance Program Grant for fiscal year 2010-11.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ temporarily authorizing a road closure, prohibiting parking and authorizing removal of vehicles and ordering the Department of Public Works to post signs for purposes of conducting Middletown Days parade and events (from 12 p.m., June 18, 2010 through 8:00 p.m. June 20, 2010).

– Approve grant deed and direct clerk to certify for recordation (a portion of APN 027-193-18 - Curtis Holding, Inc.); and approve purchase agreement between the county of Lake and Curtis Holding Inc., for Upper Lake Main Street Improvement Project and authorize the chair to sign.

– Approve Grant Deed and direct Clerk to certify for recordation (a portion of APNs 027-213-12 and 027-213-13 - Woodrow A. Flud and Eunice M. Flud); and approve purchase agreement between the

county of Lake and Woodrow A. Flud and Eunice M. Flud, for Upper Lake Main Street Improvement Project and authorize the Chair to sign.

– Approve Plans and Specifications for Elk Mountain Road PM 35.7 and PM 35.9 for storm damage repair and authorize Public Works Director/Assistant Purchasing Agent to advertise for bids.

– Approve agreement between the county of Lake and state of California, Department of Transportation for exchange of federal transportation dollars for state exchange and matching dollars (in the amount of $244,873), and authorize the chair to sign.

– Approve contract between the county of Lake and Souther Folder for the partial retrofit and installation of security locks at the Lake County Jail/Hill Road Facility in the amount of $10,805 and authorize the chair to sign.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ declaring intent to sell surplus real property owned by the county of Lake (an improved lot with a 1,288 square foot, 3 bedroom/2 bathroom single family residential dwelling built in 1996), located at 4855 Heidi Way, Kelseyville, California, APN 242-090-32 (minimum bid price $145,000), and set public hearing on June 15, 2010, at 9:06 a.m.

– Approve claims for excess proceeds from Tax Sale #147 (Group 1 Final), per Section 4675 of the Revenue and Taxation Code as recommended in the Memorandum dated May 25, 2010, from Treasurer-Tax Collector Sandra Kacharos.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ amending Resolution No. 2009-145 establishing position allocations to conform to the Fiscal Year 2009/2010 Final Budget, Budget Unit No. 8799 - Air Quality Management District (deleting one Deputy Air Pollution Control Officer allocation and adding one Air Quality Engineer/Senior Air Quality Engineer allocation).

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The community is invited to come and meet new Lakeport City Manager Margaret Silveira on Friday, June 11, 2010, in Lakeport, Calif. Courtesy photo.

LAKEPORT – An official welcome for new Lakeport City Manager Margaret Silveira is planned for Friday, June 11.

A reception will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St. Refreshments will be served.

The city is hosting host the event in order to offer community members the chance to come and meet Silveira, whose first day on the job was April 5, as Lake County News has reported.

Silveira came to Lakeport from the city of Gustine in the Central Valley.

Lakeport City Hall can be reached at 707-263-5615. Visit the city online at www.cityoflakeport.com.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CORRECTED AND CLARIFIED REGARDING THE NEW FINANCE DIRECTOR'S RATE OF PAY.

CLEARLAKE – Less than a week after the Clearlake City Council voted to lay off several employees – among them police officers – the layoff notices began to go out.

The council took the unanimous vote near the end of a nearly three-hour-long meeting May 13, following a second discussion in as many meetings on the city's troubled financial situation and a rather dire set of options set out by administrative staff.

City Administrator Dale Neiman said the employees slated for layoff received their notices this past Wednesday, May 19.

Slated for cut are 9.5 full-time equivalent positions, including 5.5 from the police department, a maintenance worker, office assistant and assistant planner, as Lake County News has reported.

Neiman said the layoffs will take effect on June 1.

Additionally, Neiman's position is going to half-time on July 1, with the council needing to approve an at-will agreement with him, the same as that for the city engineer and finance director, he said.

Neiman said his current agreement has a three-month severance pay provision in the event his position is terminated or eliminated. In the new agreement his position could be eliminated at any time by the council with no severance pay.

Also becoming part-time is the city's finance director post. To fill that job, formerly held by Michael Vivrette – who abruptly resigned in March – the council interviewed two candidates and decided to hire Fort Bragg resident Roy Mitchell, brother of Mark Mitchell, one of the developers of Cristallago. Neiman said he has known Roy Mitchell since the early 1990s.

That decision also was made at the May 13 meeting, when several community members and Councilman Roy Simons suggested a local person should be hired from the job. Neiman and other council members said they had not been able to find a local candidate experienced in government finance.

In the May 13 meeting it was stated that Mitchell would make $525 a week. However, he actually will make $520 a week in subsistence pay and shall receive $66.63 per hour, not to exceed 20 hours per week. He will start work the first week in June; Neiman told Lake County News that he scheduled that start time to save money.

Neiman told the council May 13 that he thought the finance job could be handled part-time, and that the busier times of year would be summer and fall, around budget time. The position will get no retirement of medical insurance.

By voting to accept the cuts Neiman proposed, the council eliminated the city's code enforcement division, which has become more active in recent years. About three years ago the division was processing about 300 cases a year, which over the last two years has grown to about 1,000 cases annually, Neiman said.

Neiman said this past week that Clearlake Police Officer Ryan Peterson, who was doing the field work for code enforcement, was reassigned to patrol starting May 18, and city administrative staff will process paperwork on the code enforcement cases currently in the pipeline.

Cuts to code enforcement alarmed some community members who spoke to the council May 13. But Neiman explained, “We left the easy decisions about two years ago,” adding that in his 30 years in city government he's never seen anything like what is now confronting Clearlake.

With many things hitting the city all at once, “There's nowhere to go,” he said.

Amidst the gloom, there were community members signaling their willingness to step up, roll up their sleeves and help.

Among them are businesswoman Jeri Spittler – who promised the council that she could use “barbed wire and chewing gum if I have to” to get things done – and Pete Gascoigne, a former city employee who volunteered a day a week to work on code enforcement cases.

Spittler is now in the process of organizing a city grassroots redevelopment revitalization project at the corner of Lakeshore and Olympic in Clearlake on Saturday, June 5.

Offers like those of Spittler and Gascoigne caused Mayor Judy Thein to say toward the end of the May 13 meeting, “I've just seen a great spirit tonight, something we haven't seen here in a long time.”

Explanations for what happened

Clearlake has gone through numerous staff cuts in recent years, as Neiman pointed out to the council May 13.

He offered a detailed explanation of a number of financial strains encountered by the city over the last decade, suggesting, “I don't think the prior councils knew exactly what was going on.”

In the 1990s, the city borrowed $654,000 from its redevelopment housing fund to purchase Austin Resort. Such a usage of redevelopment funds is illegal, and the group Clearlake Housing Now sued the city and won. The settlement required the city to pay back the redevelopment housing fund, with additional costs of $400,000 to settle the lawsuit, Neiman said.

Neiman said his predecessor, Kathy Kivley, suggested a 17.5 percent raise for city employees. “The money wasn't there and that's caused a lot of problems,” Neiman said.

In February 2007 Neiman arrived, and the first budget he put together – for the 2007-08 fiscal year – has $4 million in revenues and $5 million in expenditures in the city's general fund.

Since then the city has had to cut a number of positions, and reduced expenditures by $975,000, and they've beem working hard to save money and become more efficient, Neiman said.

Other cost reductions have included having a city attorney present for meetings only on an occasional basis. The city would have spent $525,000 over the last three years for a city attorney to attend all meetings, but they've reduced that to less than $100,000, Neiman said.

They also have saved $115,000 a year on planning consultants and $95,000 to manage the city's housing program by having city staff take over those responsibilities; Neiman took over the Community Development Director job, which saves $143,000 annually.

Just through efficiencies such as those the city has saved another $939,000, Neiman said.

Still, that hasn't stopped deep staff reductions.

Since the 2006-07 budget year, the city has lost 24.5 positions, with current staff now totaling 39 full-time equivalents, Neiman said.

“Everything's been cut out of the budget that we can possibly cut out, and the only thing that's left are people,” he said.

As such, programs like code enforcement – one of the few unmandated programs the city still has – are being eliminated, Neiman said.

The environmental consequences of doing away with code enforcement “are going to be significant,” Neiman said, showing slides of residences filled with trash that had been cleaned up.

In addition to Clearlake's more immediate troubles, the state continues to take money from the city.

Neiman said the state Legislature has adopted bills to withhold gas tax revenues from July 1 through April, which will mean holding back $270,000 from Clearlake. That, Neiman said, will mean the city won't have much of a public works department. He said the city filed an exemption request.

Clearlake also has underfunded employee retirement programs, the state is taking redevelopment money and with income taxes “substantially under” projections, the state is taking more money from local governments to make up the difference, Neiman said.

“Those are some of the big things that we're facing,” he said. “If the state can't generate revenue in the future, I think the future's pretty bleak.”

As well, if the city can't do a better job of providing services, residents will become more dissatisfied, it will become harder to attract qualified city staff or city council candidates, Neiman said.

Neiman said that staff will bring back to the council resolutions on how to do short-term borrowing within city funds to keep city hall going.

Thein, herself a former city finance department staffer, said it was clear that the city couldn't continue the way it was going. She said it was up to city residents to decide what kind of community they wanted.

“We tried to put a project through, the shopping center, and unfortunately that met opposition, and that's the choice for people,” said Thein, referring to the lawsuit filed against the city by the Sierra Club Lake Group over the Lowe's shopping center project proposed for the city's former airport property on Highway 53.

She challenged the community to “put the politics aside” and work together.

Clearlake resident Susanne Scholz applauded the council for making tough choices to keep the city solvent. She also suggested others come forward to try to put negativity behind the city and make it work better.

Estelle Creel told the council they should cut Police Chief Allan McClain's job to half-time, reduce Neiman to half-time and pay him $45,000 a year – about $27,000 less than he would get on his new half-time assignment – lay off other staffers and cut the council's health benefits, which Creel suggested would save $76,000 a year.

Councilman Chuck Leonard said his benefits package is part of his payment for being a council member. “You have no idea the amount of hours I put in,” he said.

He said if Creel was willing to chip in some money to help the city he would consider giving up his benefits.

Another community member, Jim Scholz, suggested, “The reason this city has been such a mess is we've had unqualified people leading it.”

He said he believed Neiman could lead the city through it, noting that the first thing not to do in difficult situations is panic.

“We've got a lot of people in this city that are willing to chip in,” he said.

Supervisor Jeff Smith, himself a Clearlake resident, said he had asked a former city manager in 1999 where redevelopment money was and he wasn't getting answers. Now, he's finding out that that money was being siphoned off.

He suggested the city needed to pull together in order to move forward, adding that redevelopment needed to be extended. “If you don't think we have anything now, we'll have nothing later on” if it isn't extended, he said.

McClain said he wanted people to understand that department heads aren't overspending, and that they've come in under budget for the last three years in a row.

If the city needs him to leave, McClain said he can retire and come back at half-time. The question, he suggested, is can the police department be run with a half-time person.

He said it bothered him to his core when he hears people suggest that he and Neiman don't want to be there. “I guarantee you I wouldn't take the public abuse that I do if I didn't want to be here.”

At the time of his hire in 2007, McClain said he had another job offer, but that he chose to come to Clearlake.

“I made a commitment to this community,” he said, explaining that he promised the council five years of service.

He said many people don't understand that the city's revenues are as bad as they are. “We're at our wits' end.”

Neiman said McClain offered to go half-time. “We need a police chief full time, there's absolutely no question about it,” Neiman said, explaining that the greatest liability the city has is if something goes seriously wrong with the police department.

That led Neiman to cutting his own job position to half-time. He said he expects his workload to drop significantly – much of it has been spent on redevelopment, with the plan soon to be considered for extension. The Lowe's plan, which also is completed, was another project that took a lot of time.

Thein said she sat down with Neiman and McClain, trying to look at the city's problems from different angles, but it boils down to no revenue.

“This is a very hard choice,” she said.

Thein said the Lowe's project had been “a way out of the darkness for us.”

Vice Mayor Joyce Overton said she hated laying off city employees.

She also called the community to action and encouraged them to volunteer to help get through the rough patch.

As to the Lowe's project and the lawsuit, Neiman noted during the meeting that the city's attorney said the city couldn't be in a better position with regards to the suit.

On May 10, Neiman and Sierra Club representatives held a telephone settlement conference, he told Lake County News.

The first task in moving forward is putting together the administrative record on the project, which includes all documents associated with it. He said the Sierra Club agreed to a 30-day extension due to the lack of city staff.

He said the city is asking the Sierra Club for a deposit of between $5,000 and $10,000 to prepare the administrative record.

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Cathy McKeon, project manager for Ukiah-based Rau and Associates, and Bill Harris of Harris Design gave the presentation, which took place before the regular council meeting Tuesday evening.

McKeon said downtown improvement projects bring significant benefits to many communities by enhancing the area's image, increasing property values and safety, and reducing maintenance costs.

Phase two of the project includes Main Street from Martin to Third streets, all of First Street and Second Street from Main Street to the lake, and a portion of Park Street between First and Third streets, she explained.

Lakeport's downtown has been an important venue for community events for a long time, Harris explained. He showed several historic pictures of the downtown, including a parade welcoming back World War I veterans.

Some key design elements on Main Street will be retaining parallel parking, and adding corner bulbouts and landscaping, including new streets trees, he said. There also will be stamped concrete, new waste receptacles and benches, newspaper racks, and new curbs, sidewalks and gutters.

Harris said the bulbouts and crosswalks will help slow traffic in downtown.

The project's first phase – Third Street from Main to the park, and Park Street from Second to Third streets – was completed in 2008.

Harris discussed the three zones of city sidewalks – storefront, throughway and curbside – and explained that street trees compose the “single most important element” in a streetscape.

Street trees are highly visible, providing shade and making the area more pedestrian friendly. Harris said the trees the city plan proposed for Second Street down to the lake were endowment maple and upright ginkgo, which are tall and narrow.

“We think that those are excellent choices for the streets, primarily Second in this case, where we want to maintain that view of the lake,” said Harris, noting that the trees' fall color will frame the lake.

For Main Street, other trees would work better, including Zelkova green vase and frontier elm, which will grow tall and have vase-shaped, leafy canopies for shade.

Councilman Bob Rumfelt said he has been opposed to the street trees proposal all along, especially since the city is spending a lot of money on its facade improvement program and new streets lights.

Previous street trees were removed to make way for those lights, he said, a process which opened up the fronts of the stores.

“And now we're talking about putting in more trees to block those storefronts,” he said.

Harris said he understood Rumfelt's concerts, but said that if a person considers any downtown area they can see the benefit of street trees.

Other street tree selections were red sunset maple and crape myrtle, with the latter being used as a flowering accent at streets corners. The vase-shaped canopy trees, said Harris, would not obscure the fronts of buildings, and would be pruned and cared for to keep their shapes.

Council member Suzanne Lyons questioned why those trees were selected, since she remembered from community meetings that the chanticleer pear was chosen. Redevelopment Agency Director Richard Knoll said the trees Harris discussed were included in the city's original plan, but Lyons insisted the chanticleer pears were the chosen trees.

Harris said the chanticleer pear is a smaller tree. He noted that the city isn't locked into element decisions.

“We're not here to present a plan. We are at the very beginning of our process,” Harris said.

He went over street furniture, tree grates, information kiosks and bicycle racks, bus shelters, new paving – including permeable gutters – and ornamental bulbouts with landscaping and public art.

One existing downtown element that Harris suggested the council might want to keep is a low wall in front of the courthouse museum, noting that it had been there for decades.

There also are special opportunities for big changes to the downtown, including widening the sidewalks, he said. “The entire street is going to be rebuilt.”

Lakeport's Main Street sidewalks are rather narrow – about 10 feet wide at most. Harris said they could narrow the traffic lanes from 14 feet to 12 feet in width; 12 feet is the same dimension as freeway traffic lanes. They would assess turning movements on streets to make sure trailers and motorhomes could navigate the change.

The city could also take the opportunity to create a civic spine between the courthouse park and Library Park, using palm trees in bulbouts in order to create a connection to the large palms surrounding the city's historic Carnegie Library, Harris said.

Harris presented the idea of creating a civic plaza on Second Street near Lakeport City Hall, with special landscaping and design. He showed an illustration of how the street could be closed down and used for special events.

To delineate the downtown, Harris suggested an “entrance gateway” in the area of Martin and Main streets, with a possible public art installation in an island in the middle of the street.

McKeon said such entry treatments also cause people to slow down as they're driving, because it alerts them that they're coming into more of an urban environment.

They also discussed options for turnaround areas for boats and trailers on Third Street.

McKeon said they were aware of the inconvenience and complexity involved in such building projects, and they plan to communicate with property owners and merchants, and have regular meetings on the work.

The ultimate goal, McKeon said, is that when construction is done, Lakeport has a project that services the community better.

Councilman Roy Parmentier said he doesn't want to see street trees in parking areas, which was one of the design options. He also said he hated seeing big bulbouts because of concerns about drivers getting around them with boat trailers.

“Some of them don't drive as well as they think they do,” he said.

Knoll said there were still more issues that they didn't have time to discuss, and that they would be presented in written form to the council in order to get additional feedback so the engineers can proceed.

Community members who commented on the plan liked the ideas of the palm trees, making the area more traffic friendly and trying to keep parking spaces.

Another meeting on the plan is scheduled for June 23, Knoll said.

Update on park, sewer plan accepted

The regular council meeting convened at 6:15 p.m.

During public comment, Dennis Rollins of the Westside Community Park Committee gave the council an update. He said he and Charlie Jolin took City Manager Margaret Silveira out for a tour of the park earlier that day and showed her the plans.

“I was very impressed,” Silveira said.

Ruzicka and Associates has donated about $13,000 worth of design work for the park, Rollins said.

The committee has been approved to use inmate labor for weed-eating and removing erosion control wattles, he said.

Rollins said a fundraiser, “Grillin' on the Green,” is planned for Aug. 7 at the park. It will include live music, tours, beer and wine concession, and an area for children.

In other business, the council approved applications for a number of Lakeport Main Street Association events, as well as a request for a Nor Cal Boat and Ski Club event.

The council unanimously approved the city's Sewer System Management Plan, presented to the council two weeks ago during a workshop.

Councilman Ron Bertsch said the plan has 18 sewer system projects totaling $5 million. He asked if by approving the plan they were approving all of those projects.

The answer was no, said city staffer Dan Buffalo.

The projects need to be addressed in the future, he said. “By adopting the plan now you're saying, we recognize that.”

The plan will undergo continual revision because it must be addressed every five years, Buffalo said.

The council also approved agreements with RGH Consultants Inc. and Pavement Engineering Inc. for materials acceptance testing and an independent assurance program for the Forbes Street Overlay Project.

City Engineer Scott Harter said the services, which are required because the project is being funded by federal money, are 100-percent reimbursable.

City Public Works Director Doug Grider received approval to purchase a new $5,900 pool cleaner for Westshore Pool, but the council directed the funds be taken from the pool budget, not from Measure I sales tax revenues.

With the budget process right around the corner, Silveira asked that the council push back a budget meeting from May 25 to June 8.

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NOTICE OF LAND USE APPLICATION PUBLIC HEARING AND INTENT TO ADOPT A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION

May 18, 2010

LEAD AGENCY: City of Lakeport

Community Development Department

225 Park Street

Lakeport, CA 95453

PROJECT TITLE: Savings Bank of Mendocino County

PROJECT LOCATION: 290 S. Main St, Lakeport, CA APN: 025-331-14

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: An application for Architectural and Design Review for the proposed construction and operation of a 3,036 SF banking facility/office and related site improvements. In order to carry out the proposed project, the applicant is requesting an Environmental Review of the project.

The project is not listed on the Hazardous Waste and Substances Sites List as set forth in Government Code Section 65962.5.

FINDINGS / DETERMINATION: The City has reviewed and considered the proposed project and has determined that the project will not have a significant effect on the environment, with substantial supporting evidence provided in the Initial Study. The City hereby prepares and proposes to adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration for this project.

PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD: A 20-day public review period for the Negative Declaration will commence on May 19, 2010, and end on June 8, 2010, for interested and concerned individuals and public agencies to submit written comments on the document. Any written comments on the Mitigated Negative Declaration must be received within the public review period. A copy of the Initial Study is available for review at City Hall at 225 Park Street, Lakeport.

PUBLIC HEARING / MEETING: The Planning Commission of the City of Lakeport will hold a public hearing to consider this application, the Initial Study, and the adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental impact on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, at 6:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of City Hall, located at 225 Park Street, at which time and place all interested persons may appear and be heard. If you have questions or comments, please call the Lakeport Community Development Department at 707-263-5613, extension 28.

Dated this 14th day of May 2010

_______________________________

ANDREW BRITTON

Planning Services Manager

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 18, in the Board of Supervisors chambers at the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport. TV8 will broadcast the meeting live.

At 10 a.m. County Counsel Anita Grant will give the board a presentation regarding the viability of enacting local traffic ordinance that would allow administrative citations.

In addition, the board will be asked to consider a letter of opposition to SB 949, authored by state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, which would preclude local governments from implementing such local ordinances.

In an untimed item, the Public Works Division Administration Division will give the board an update on a department reorganization. The board also will be asked to give direction regarding possible staff reductions.

The board also will hold a closed session to discuss an appeal of an employee disciplinary action; hold a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation, Sidetracked Associates Inc. – dba Featherbed Railroad v. LACOSAN; and conduct labor negotiations.

Other items on the agenda include the following.

Timed items

9 a.m.: Approval of consent agenda, which includes items that are expected to be routine and noncontroversial, and will be acted upon by the board at one time without discussion; presentation of animals available for adoption at Lake County Animal Care and Control; consideration of items not appearing on the posted agenda.

9:05 a.m.: Citizen's input. Any person may speak for three minutes about any subject of concern, provided that it is within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on the agenda. Prior to this time, speakers must fill out a slip giving name, address and subject (available in the Clerk of the Board’s Office, first floor, courthouse).

9:15 a..: Public hearing – intention to name existing unnamed roads in Lake County (Cold Water Creek Road, Rabbit Valley Road, Binkley Road and Lee Spring Road), located off of High Valley Road and Glenbrook Road in the Cobb Mountain area.

9:30 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the week of May 16-22 as National Public Works Week in Lake County.

9:45 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.

Nontimed events

– Supervisors’ weekly calendar, travel and reports.

– Discussion/consideration of authorization for Mental Health staff to provide out-of-county travel and training costs (in the amount of $1,100 for registration and hotel rooms, plus the cost of transportation) for clients on June 4-5 to attend the California Network of Mental Health Clients Far North Training in Willows.

– Consideration of Resolution awarding Bid No. PW 10-03 to North Bay Construction in the amount of $144,450 for construction of the Lakeshore Boulevard Bikeway Project (MP 1.53 to 1.88, MP 2.05 to 3.27 and MP 3.38 to 3.61), located in north Lakeport.

– Update on emergency action taken on March 2 regarding the Southeast Wastewater Collection System – Interim Collection System improvements.

Consent agenda

– Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meeting held on April 27.

– Adopt proclamation designating the week of May 16-22 as National Public Works Week in Lake County.

– Approve repayment agreement between the county of Lake and the U.S. Department of Interior Minerals Management Services pertaining to geothermal royalties and authorize the county administrative officer to sign.

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ adopting the Long Term Monitoring Policies and Procedures for Home-Assisted Rental Projects.

– (a) Adopt Resolution No. _____ establishing 2010-2011 appropriations limit for the County of Lake; and (b) Adopt Resolution No. _____ establishing 2010-2011 appropriations limits for special districts governed by the Board of Supervisors.

– Approve agreement between the county of Lake and DNA Diagnostics Center for professional services (paternity testing), in the amount of $5,334 and authorize the chair to sign.

– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra-help client support assistants Dow Walton and David Perata (not to exceed 999 hours).

– Adopt Resolution No. _____ amending Resolution No. 2009-145 establishing position allocations to conform to the Fiscal Year 2009/2010 Final Budget, Budget Unit No. 1903 – Department of Public Works (adding one assistant Public Works director allocation and deleting one deputy director of Public Works-administration allocation).

– Approve grant deed and direct clerk to certify for recordation (a portion of APN 027-212-14 – North Shore Ministries); and approve purchase agreement between the county of Lake and North Shore Ministries, for Upper Lake Main Street Improvement Project and authorize the chair to sign.

– Approve plans and specifications for Morgan Valley Road Road PM 5.91 for storm damage repair and authorize Public Works Director/assistant purchasing agent to advertise for bids.

– Approve escrow agreement between the county of Lake and North Bay Construction for security deposits in lieu of retention for Soda Bay Road Rehabilitation and Overlay (MP 11.5 to 13.8) Project and authorize the chair to sign.

– Waive the 900 hour limit for extra-help Staff Services Analyst Janice Hubbell (an additional 50 hours).

– Approve Budget Transfer B-255 in the amount of $57,498 for funding in-house labor for major capital projects for the remainder of the fiscal year, Budget Unit No. 8593-Kelseyville County Waterworks District #3, and authorize the chair to sign.

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