How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council on Tuesday night presented a proclamation in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, met the city’s newest police officer and approved a project list for SB 1 funds.
Mayor Stacey Mattina presented the proclamation designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month to Lake Family Resource Center Executive Director Jennifer Dodd and center staffer Kimberly Layton.
The proclamation stated that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, Lake County law enforcement responded to more than 371 incidents of domestic violence involving men, women and children.
In the past year, the District Attorney’s Office’s Victim Witness Division has served 224 victims of domestic violence, and the District Attorney’s Office has prosecuted 118 felonies and 106 misdemeanor acts of domestic violence, according to the document.
“Lake Family Resource Center responded to 372 crisis line calls, served victims, and additionally sheltered 166 domestic violence victims and their children for a total of 5,335 bed nights,” the proclamation said.
“That’s a lot of numbers, and the numbers are actually worse,” said Dodd.
Before the meeting she had handed out small pink cards with the toll-free number for the community crisis line, 888-485-7733.
That number is a resource for domestic violence victims, it reaches the Rape Crisis Center and also is a suicide prevention resource, she said.
“I guarantee you, someone you know needs it,” she said of the number.
She said everyone in the room was connected to someone who has had physical, emotional, financial or spiritual violence, and is stuck in a cycle of power and control.
People in Lake County have died due to domestic violence, she said. “Please don’t be silent.”
Dodd said that it generally takes a victim seven times before they actually leave, and that’s when they’re at the most dangerous point.
Also on Tuesday, Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen presented his agency’s newest officer, Casey Debolt, who was sworn in on Monday.
Debolt was born and raised in Lake County. He served six years in the United States Army and had two deployments overseas, in Iraq and Egypt, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen said Debolt attended Santa Rosa Junior College and ended up being a top candidate in the city’s recent recruitment.
After his official welcome by the council – and a round of applause from the audience – Debolt left to get back to work, accompanied by Sgt. Mike Sobieraj.
In other business during the council’s 15-minute meeting, Public Works Director Doug Grider sought and received the council’s approval of a resolution approving the city’s SB 1 project list for fiscal year 2017-18.
SB 1 is the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. Grider’s report said the bill increases gasoline and diesel taxes and vehicle registration fees to address basic road maintenance and rehabilitation needs on both state highways and local streets and roads.
A portion of the funding is distributed to cities like Lakeport based on a formula. “This is a requirement to be eligible for these funds,” Grider said.
As part of that brief discussion, the council amended the budget to account for anticipated Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account funds in the amount of $26,923.
Grider said the document needed to be submitted to the California Transportation Commission by Oct. 16.
Staff proposed that the funds be used for the Third Street Thin Lift Overlay Project, which Grider’s report explained includes the mill and fill of failed areas along Third Street between Main and Forbes streets with a thin lift overlay.
The council approved the proposal unanimously.
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