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LAKEPORT – The Lakeport Transfer Station will mark its last day of operation this Saturday, a move slated to save the county an estimated quarter of a million dollars, according to county officials.


The station, which handles solid waste disposal, is located on Bevins Street. Garbage that Lakeport residents deposit there is then hauled to the county's Eastlake Landfill in Clearlake.


County Public Services Director Kim Clymire said the station will close permanently at the end of business Saturday, with services to be assumed by Lake County Waste Solutions, at 230 Soda Bay Road in Lakeport, beginning on Monday, Dec. 1.


The plans to switch over collection services to Lake County Waste Solutions have been in the works for some time.


In March of 2008, the Board of Supervisors voted to support the company's facility upgrade which would allow the station's closure, as Lake County News reported. This past June, the board gave county staff the go ahead to prepare to close the station, which at that time was estimated to take place in October.


In recent years the transfer station's aging equipment has begun to fail, and replacing it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for basic repairs and up to $1 million for full replacements, as Clymire previously told the board.


Clymire said that the tonnage being deposited at the transfer station by Lakeport residents has gone down substantially – he reported a 25-percent reduction in refuse, which has resulted in the loss of approximately $500,000 in annual revenue.


He estimated the transfer station's closure will save the county approximately $250,000 annually in salaries, benefits and operational costs.


Clymire called the switchover a “win-win” for everyone.


The transfer station is located on land owned by the city of Lakeport. Earlier this year the county and city renewed a contract to offset street maintenance costs resulting from the station.


The city currently is receiving about $4,500 a year from the county based on the agreement. The county also paid the city more than $15,000 to cover the years since the original contract expired in 2004, as Lake County News has reported.


The property reverts to the city if it's not operated for 30 days, according to interim Lakeport City Manager Kevin Burke.


As a result, the transfer station's closure will be the focus of upcoming discussions to iron out some of the details for how the property will be handled going forward, Burke said.


The transfer station building itself was placed on the property by the county, and what to do with that building will be one of the points of discussion, Burke said.


“At the present time the city does not have much of a need for the structure itself,” he said, adding that the city hasn't evaluated the future of the site yet.


The two governments will need to consider options including whether or not the city will pay for the structure or if the county will take it down, Burke said.


He added that Clymire has been communicating with the city on a regular basis about the transfer station developments.


Burke expected the negotiations will extend through year's end. “We definitely don't have any immediate plans for that property,” he said.


Burke, who noted that he's used the transfer station himself, said he'll miss it. He said the county operated it well, and the staff was very friendly and helpful.


With the station being located near an important entrance into the city, Burke said the Lakeport City Council and staff are very interested in exploring future options for the property.


Clymire said Lake County Waste Solutions' fee structure will be the same as that of the county's transfer station, charging $48 a ton.


He said the major difference will be that Lake County Waste solutions will charge for loads over five cubic yards based on tonnage and not volume – the reverse of how county gate charges have been determined – so load charges may vary.


Clymire said weighing loads by weight and not by volume is a science and will eliminate any potential for error when assessing fees for loads over five cubic yards.


Loads five cubic yards or less will continue to be based on volume, he added.


Lake County Waste Solutions already takes recyclable and other materials at its Soda Bay Road site, and on Monday the company will begin providing a one-stop disposal and recycling facility.


Clymire said customers can drop off household refuse, recyclables, appliances, tires, greenwaste, electronics, concrete, roofing materials, asphalt and other items the county’s transfer station could not accept.


He said Lake County Waste Solutions will be open one more day per week than the county currently is, with a schedule of Monday through Saturday, from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.


For more information about the transfer station closure and the Lake County Waste Solutions expansion, contact Public Services at 707-262-1618.


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LAKE COUNTY – Based on direction given by the Board of Supervisors earlier this year, the county's Community Development Department is beginning enforcement actions against resorts offering long-term rentals, and also checking contract compliance with Williamson Act parcels.


In May the Board of Supervisors – citing code enforcement concerns and a loss of transient occupancy tax – determined that they wanted county staff to begin working on getting resorts, motels and RV parks that have turned into long-term housing back into compliance with county ordinances.


Two resorts, U Wanna Camp on Scotts Creek Road near Lakeport and D&G's Last Resort on Lakeshore Boulevard in Nice, both were on the Lake County Planning Commission's Nov. 12 agenda.


U Wanna Camp's owner, Houser Holdings CA LLC, is appealing a notice of violation issued on Sept. 3 for long-term occupancy of RV spaces with the resort having an expired use permit.


D&G's Last Resort's owner Dorothy Knevelbaard is appealing a Sept. 9 notice of violation alleging the conversion of a resort with six motel units and four cottages from transient accommodations to apartment rentals for long-term residential occupancy.


However, the commission granted both resorts time extensions until January in order to to allow them more time to prepare for the appeal hearings.


In explaining the reasons behind the notices of violation to the commission, Community Development Director Rick Coel referred to the board's direction and the issue of bringing back TOT money.


“We've lost a lot of that over the last decade or so and it seems to continue to fall off,” said Coel.


He assured the commission, “You're not going to see a whole rash of these all at once.” Rather, his department is dealing with them a handful at a time.


Coel said the board's direction included an admonition to look at the unique circumstances of each site and find solutions in an effort to help resort owners come back into compliance.


Over the next couple of months, four appeals of violation notices will go before the commission, Coel said.


In addition to the task of working with the resorts, Coel's department received board direction in September to go through the list of parcels under Williamson Act contracts to make sure they're following the program's guidelines.


The Williamson Act pays counties a subvention in return for the counties offering reduced property tax rates for property kept in agricultural production, Coel and County Counsel Bob Bridges explained.


Coel said Community Development began going through the list of contracted parcels, which included a total of 111 properties.


Some of them didn't meet the program's criteria, Coel said. For example, the program requires that prime agricultural soil properties not be less than 10 acres, and nonprime soil properties not be less than 40 acres.


He said his staff, working with the Lake County Farm Bureau and the Lake County Assessor's Office, has gone through the list and have about 70 left to review. Those that don't meet the standards have been sent notices of nonrenewal.


Coel said the board's direction was that if the properties aren't in compliance Community Development is to record notices of violation.


He said many of the contracts cover land that originally had been under a contract. However, Coel said that, about five or six years ago, they started to see underlying parcels – which had been bundled together under the contracts – being sold off. Some of those parcels were five or six acres in size, below the minimum Williamson Act sizes.


“That's mainly what our enforcement efforts are dealing with right now,” he said.


In the coming year, Coel said his staff will start reviewing the larger ranch sites for compliance and agricultural activity.


The process “generated a lot of work for the department,” said Coel, noting the amount of effort required to go through the property records.


Bridges told the commission that in this past budget the state eliminated its subvention payments to counties. County officials previously said that subvention amount totaled about $68,000 which, while a small amount, has done a lot to preserve ag land.


Many counties now are looking at the program and considering whether or not it's worth it to stay in the Williamson Act, Bridges said.


“Some counties have given thousands of notices of nonrenewal,” he said, while others are paying for it themselves in order to support agriculture.


Still others – like Lake County – are in the middle, considering what to do since the state pulled the “financial rug” out from under the program, Bridges said.


Coel said the California Department of Conservation audits counties and how they handle the program. He said it's not fair to legitimate farmers to let others who aren't following the rules take advantage of the program.


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LAKEPORT – The Lakeport City Council decided last week that it will begin working with Habitat for Humanity to bring more affordable housing to the city.


The decision could help the city meet its affordable housing needs, mandated by the state.


Mayor Ron Bertsch asked Richard Birk, president of the local Habitat for Humanity chapter, to address the council and explain the group’s programs.


Birk told the council that Habitat for Humanity has been in Lake County since 2001, and the local chapter is affiliated with the nationwide group.


“We’re a grassroots organization,” he said.


Birk said Habitat for Humanity can ask the county to set aside properties on the tax default list that might make for good building prospects.


The group is composed of volunteers. Prospective home owners must take part in the program by helping with construction. “We don’t give homes away,” Birk said.


The people Habitat considers for homeownership must meet certain criteria which include need and some form of income to help pay for the expenses of running a home, he said.


Habitat for Humanity is active in 100 countries around the world, and the group builds about 6,000 houses a year, Birk said. Last year the group was the nation’s largest home builder due in part to the economy and the resulting slowdown in home building.


The group’s smallest home footprint includes two bedrooms. All the homes now are solar, with national manufacturers providing paint and appliances, according to Birk.


The local chapter also has started a home repair program, called “A Brush of Kindness,” that is targeting people who own homes but can’t afford repairs – specifically seniors over age 62, the disabled and low income families, Birk said.


When Habitat first announced the program’s launch in July, it estimated that 74 percent of the homes in Clearlake needed repair or replacement.


Homeownership has important benefits, Birk explained. Being in a home help stabilizes families, which in turn use fewer social services.


“Those are benefits that come back to the local community,” he said.


Birk said Habitat for Humanity can deliver the lowest-cost housing. The group targets families with incomes that are 60 percent or less of the area’s median income. In Lake County, that would mean a family of four could make no more than $30,000 a year to be eligible for the housing.


“We need help if we want to come to Lakeport,” said Birk. “We're tired of the image that we're just building for the city of Clearlake.”


In Clearlake, the group has completed 14 houses and is preparing to build a 15th, as Lake County News has reported. However, the repair program is countywide, with the first home chosen located in Kelseyville.


Many of the group’s volunteers and some staff come from the Lakeport area, Birk noted.


Bertsch said that when he first brought the suggestion to the council last month about working with Habitat, he envisioned helping the group with purchasing empty lots. He said he had concerns about sewer and hookup fees, adding that he believed many vacant lots haven’t been developed because people can’t afford the fees and costs.


Bertsch suggested a joint letter from Habitat and the city or its redevelopment agency should be sent out to property owners in an effort to buy infill lots.


Fellow council members voiced no objections to the plan.


“We definitely need to do some low income housing for our housing element,” noted Council member Suzanne Lyons.


Birk said the land is critical for Habitat. Otherwise, the will is there to start building in Lakeport.


Bertsch got the consensus of the council to move forward, and he asked Birk to get together with city Redevelopment Director Richard Knoll to craft the letters. The council voted 5-0 in support of the plan.


Birk invited council members to join them at a building site when the weather improves. Bertsch said they’ll be there.


City must meet housing element goals


As Lyons noted, the city needs to meet certain affordable housing objectives because of its housing element, the update of which the council approved at its Nov. 3 meeting.


According to that document, between 2008 and 2014 the city must provide an opportunity for 430 housing units – 97 for extremely low income (up to $16,150 annually), 98 for very low income ($16,151 to $26,900), 138 for low income ($26,901 to $43,050), 29 for moderate income ($43,051 to $64,600) and 68 for above average income levels ($64,600 and above).


Under its previous housing element, updated in 2004, the city was required to provide for 367 housing units from 2003 to 2008, of which 213 were supposed to range between very low and moderate income, as Lake County News has reported.


The new housing element noted that the city did not have any affordable housing projects completed during the 2004 plan’s implementation period.


In September of 2007, the council voted down a funding request for a proposed 62-unit affordable housing complex that Sebastopol-based Terra Partners wanted to build on a five-acre parcel on Martin and Bevins streets, as Lake County News has reported.


The firm was seeking a $600,000 deferred loan from the city in support of the $18 million project, but the council voted down the project – which had been in discussions for some time – at the urging of then-City Manager Jerry Gillham, who said they had other options to meet their housing requirements and suggested they focus on projects that would create jobs.


Last year, the council gave direction to staff to work with developer Bruce Shimizu on an agreement to support a proposed 18-unit affordable housing project in Berry Street. However, earlier this year Shimizu lost the property to foreclosure, ending the project.


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LAKEPORT – In votes that followed quick discussions, the Lakeport City Council last Tuesday approved an agreement to assist with bringing Mendocino College’s new Lake Center to Lakeport, and agreed to assist with an application to begin the annexation process for a 99-acre parcel next to the college site.

Earlier this month, the Mendocino College Board of Trustees voted to purchase a 31-acre property at 2565 Parallel Drive for $1 million from Goldwater Bank of Arizona. The land will be the site of its college’s new county campus, as Lake County News has reported.

On Tuesday, the council approved a final memorandum of understanding with the college that, among other things, has the city agreeing to pay half of the $550,000 that will be spent to extend a city water line to the land.

City Redevelopment Director Richard Knoll said the water main project is expected to be completed in August of 2010.

One of the negotiating points for the college and the bank was a request for the city’s support of annexing a 99-acre property that, along with the 2565 Parallel Drive site, the bank took in a foreclosure sale in August. Both properties previously were owned by developer Tom Adamson of Scottsdale, Ariz., as Lake County News has reported. Adamson had turned down the college’s previous offer of $1.53 million for the proposed college site.

In order to encourage the college to locate in Lakeport, the city proposed another access point to the 99-acre property, which will follow Linda Lane and extend westerly, tying into Martin Street at Scotts Valley Road, Knoll explained. That would prevent use of an easement through the campus site.

“What we’re really talking about here is a line on a map,” Knoll said. “It’s the concept that’s important here.”

He said it’s proposed that the roadway would provide access to the western portion of the city’s sphere of influence to the south of the current city limits.

However, he added, “This is not necessarily a road that the city will build,” pointing out that developers have a requirement to provide access to their projects.

Councilman Roy Parmentier moved to approve the final agreement, which Council member Suzanne Lyons seconded. The vote was 5-0.

Community Development Director Mark Brannigan next presented to the council a proposed resolution to initiate the annexation process for the Linda Lane area with the Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCO). The city would act as the lead agency.

Brannigan said the annexation is consistent with the city’s general plan. If annexation were successful, he said it would guarantee orderly urban growth.

Larry Sheffield of Goldwater Bank also addressed the council.

He thanked the college for giving the Parallel Drive site another shot.

“When we took the property over they had pretty much moved down the road and were going pretty quickly on a second site,” said Sheffield, referring to a 14-acre site on Merritt Road in Kelseyville that the college had entered escrow on over the summer.

He said through collaborative efforts between the bank and the city, they were able to regain the project.

Sheffield said he previously came to Lakeport in an effort to bring the proposed sale “out of ashes.”

He said the bank had to sharpen its pencil “not once but twice” to give the college the best proposal. In fact, according to county property records, the bank purchased the property out of foreclosure for just over $1.6 million, and sold it to the college for $600,000 below that price.

In order to recoup some of their loss in the sale, Sheffield said they wanted to have the annexation process start on their second asset – the 99-acre property.

Mike Adams, Mendocino College’s facilities director, said a collaboration that included efforts by the council, city staff, the bank and the college presented the college with the chance to come back to Lakeport for “a pretty exciting project.”

He said it was an example of government and private interests working well together. “It's what ought to happen more often.”

Parmentier thanked Adams for keeping the project alive and not letting it slip away.

Lyons moved to adopt the resolution to begin annexation, which the council adopted 5-0.

Other action Tuesday included the council’s decision to start working with Habitat for Humanity on building affordable housing in the city, and initial passage of an ordinance that would limit recreational riding of off highway vehicles in the city limits, which passed 3-2 – with Lyons and Councilman Jim Irwin voting no.

The council also agreed to retain National Grant Services to work on writing grants for park projects for the city. Firm representative requested a $1,000 retainer fee, but said the city would not have to pay them anything more until they receive a grant.

Council members voted to have city staff  begin working on a revised franchise agreement with the city’s franchise trash hauler, Lakeport Disposal. Company owner Joe Butcher requested changes including dropping annual audits at a cost of between $5,000 and $8,000 to the company. Instead, he proposes to submit regular reports from the firm’s accountant. He also wanted a two-year negotiation term, rather than 90 days. City Attorney Steve Brooks offered instead a year, which Butcher accepted.

The council also approved an owner participation agreement for façade improvements to Campos Casuals in the downtown area, approved an agreement with the consulting firm PFM for the Housing Fund Bond Analysis, not to exceed $10,000, and received a report on housing issues.

The council gave unanimous approval on votes to allow the city’s police officers and employees to enroll in the Peace Officers Research Association of California health insurance plan and to award a $14,623 contract for the Martin Street Improvement Project to Granite Construction.

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LAKEPORT – With the state of the state leading to calls for a constitutional convention, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday discussed giving its support for such an event.


Supervisor Anthony Farrington requested the board discussion on Repair California's proposed ballot amendments that he said would enable the public to call for the convention without relying on the state Legislature.


In a statement on its Web site, www.repaircalifornia.org , the group reported that it turned in ballot language on Oct. 28 that would call the state's first constitutional convention in more than 130 years in response to “a broken system of governance.”


Repair California's ballot measures would call a limited constitutional convention that would focus on four key processes – budget, election and initiative, restoring the balance of power between the state and local governments, and creating new systems to improve government effectiveness.


The convention, according to the group, is “specifically prohibited” from proposing tax increases; it also won't delve into such social issues as marriage, abortion, gambling, affirmative action,

freedom of the press, freedom of religion, immigration or the death penalty.


If the measures were approved, the November 2010 ballot would include a measure for voters to call the constitutional convention which would be held the following year. The reforms that would come out of the convention would have to go back to voters for final approval in 2012, when the issue would appear on one of three scheduled statewide elections.


Farrington said that the measures at one point called for delegates to the constitutional convention to be elected, which he suggested would have allowed the process to be swayed by public interests.


However, Repair California modified its measures so that conventional delegates will be elected from their districts.


“I think that is a huge amendment,” he said.


“The intent is to really repair a broken system,” which Farrington suggested they could all agree can't get much worse.


It's also meant to restore the balance of power between state and local governments while reducing the sway of special interest groups, limiting spending and reducing bureaucracy.


A Repair California fact sheet explains that there would be three different types of delegates – from the state's Assembly districts, its 58 counties and Indian tribes.


There would be three delegates chosen from each district for a total of 240. The state auditor would create a pool of 400 convention delegate candidates from each of 80 Assembly districts and contact them by mail; from those who respond favorably, 50 people would be invited to a meeting where they will learn about the process and then vote for three people to represent the district at the convention.


Each county also will select delegates, one for every 175,000 residents of each county. Counties with less than 175,000 residents would only have one delegate each.


Those county delegates will be chosen by a five-member delegate selection committee that would include two county supervisors, two mayors and a school board or board of education member. The committee would hold public meetings before making the decision. Anyone could apply for those delegate seats.


Four Indian tribe delegates would be chosen as representatives of federally recognized California tribes.


In all, 461 delegates would be chosen for the convention, according to Repair California's process chart.


The initiative's cost is estimated at $1.75 per state resident, Farrington said.


Farrington said there is a potential for a number of reform ballot measures to appear in addition to Repair California's. Another is by the group California Forward.


He said he felt there was no downside to demonstrating support for the measures.


Repair California already is collecting signatures, with its ballot language now being considered by the California Attorney General's Office, according to Farrington.


“I think it's a good measure” – albeit not perfect, but a step forward, he said.


Board Chair Denise Rushing said she also had considered bringing the issue to the board.


“I think it's imperative that we somehow deal with the fact that state government is dysfunctional,” she said.


The question is, what's the best way to fix the problem, Rushing said.


She explained that she's of the mind that you can't even steer a sailboat until the sail is up and it starts moving.


“There may be some better initiatives out there – I don't know that – but at this point we need to get moving on something in order to get the process changed,” Rushing said. “Maybe this is it.”


Rushing said she felt they needed to get moving, and asked county staff what would happen if they gave their support to Repair California's measures but other, better measures came forward.


County Administrative Officer Kelly Cox said they could take a simple majority vote to rescind a previous action to offer support if that was the case.


County Counsel Anita Grant suggested the board could offer general support to calling a constitutional convention without choosing any particular measure at this time.


Supervisor Rob Brown said he supported taking that path.


He said he had some problems with the measure. While it included a well-written nondiscrimination policy, it also called for delegations of tribal members, which he felt was a matter of race.


Farrington said the tribes were being considered sovereign nations and were given representation for that reason, not because of race.


Brown said that the tribal members could be representatives of the county at large, and not just held to a tribal limitation. “If you're going to have anti-discrimination it should be anti-discrimination on both sides.”


He said it's naïve to think that if they're only going to have four tribal representatives for the entire state that all tribes would be represented. Rather, it would be the specific interests of the tribes whose members made it into the delegation. Farrington said he believes there will be more than four tribal groups represented.


Supervisor Jim Comstock said he had concerns similar to those of Brown's. “I can support the concept but the devil's in the details,” he said.


Supervisor Jeff Smith also suggested supporting the convention but waiting to see what shakes out, because he believed some aspects of the proposed measure “could come back and bite us.”


Farrington told fellow board members, “Nobody's going to agree with everything that's in every ballot initiative,” he said.


He said one of the things he liked about Repair California's proposal is that it treats convention delegates as if they were elected officials, holding them to the same disclosure rules.


“This is a really big deal, this constitutional convention,” said Rushing.


Board members voiced a hope that such a convention could bring forward a better version of government.


Rushing noted that the state's current constitution has had more than 450 amendments.


While elected officials are sworn to defend the federal and state constitution, California's constitution has become “indefensible,” Comstock said, and Rushing agreed.


Farrington proposed to bring the matter back to the board next month with proposed language changes.


“We're only gonna get one shot at doing this, and it should be done with some substance, and minimize the political correctness,” said Brown.


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LAKEPORT – A final agreement with Mendocino College and a request to annex a 99-acre property on Parallel Drive that's next to the college's new campus site will go before the Lakeport City Council Tuesday.


The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.


The agenda and supporting staff reports can be downloaded at http://www.cityoflakeport.com/departments/docs.aspx?deptID=88&catID=102 .


City staff is taking to the council a final version of a memorandum of understanding, a previous version of which the council approved at its Nov. 3 meeting, as Lake County News has reported.


The agreement addresses, among other things, the construction of a water main to the 31-acre location at 2565 Parallel Drive that the college is purchasing for $1 million. The city and college are planning to each pay half of the $550,000 cost.


Redevelopment Director Richard Knoll's staff report for the agreement – which he said hasn't changed substantially – said the water main is expected to be completed in August 2010.


Also on the agenda is a request from Larry Sheffield of Arizona-based Goldwater Bank. The bank is selling the 2565 Parallel Drive location to Mendocino College. It purchased both that property and an adjacent 99-acre parcel in a foreclosure sale this summer after developer Tom Adamson defaulted on the land.


Sheffield is asking the city to support annexing the 99-acre property into the city limits and to initiate the application process through the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO).


Knoll's report to the council explained that Mendocino College's decision to select the site on Parallel Drive “came after negotiations between Goldwater Bank and Mendocino College resulted in the bank

lowering their asking price contingent on the City supporting the annexation of the adjoining 99-acre parcel to the west.”


His report stated that the property is within the city's sphere of influence but is within the third of four phases for the city's annexation plans. He said adopting the resolution to support the land's annexation is integral to allowing the college's Lake Center in Lakeport. Goldwater Bank would pay the annexation costs.


Knoll's report added, “There is still a lot of work that must be done as part of the application process to LAFCO, and there is no guarantee that annexation will be allowed as that decision is for the LAFCO Board.”


In other news, the council will discuss a request by Lakeport Disposal to change the terms of its franchise agreement to remove yearly audits and replacement them with monthly and yearly reports from the company's accountant.


Kevin Burke, the police chief and interim city manager, will present to the council a proposed ordinance that will prohibit the recreational use off-road vehicles within the city limits, a measure being taken in response to complaints from local residents.


Other items on the agenda will include a presentation by National Grant Services and authorization of hiring a grant writer to obtain Proposition 84 funding; a contract change order for the Martin and Forbes Street Sidewalk Project; approval of the facade improvement owner participation agreement with Ron and Rhea Beth Campos; approval of a proposal by PFM to complete the housing fund bond analysis with an agreement not to exceed $10,000; receipt of a report on housing activities; award of the Martin Street Improvement Project to Granite Construction in the amount of $14,623; and adoption of a resolution to allow police department employees to enroll in the PORAC health insurance plan through CalPERS.


The council also will hold a closed session to discuss one case of pending litigation, City of Lakeport v. Vincent.


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