How to resolve AdBlock issue? The council will convene in closed session at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, to hold a performance evaluation of City Manager Greg Folsom before the regular meeting convenes at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
The meeting will feature presentations by Mayor Bruno Sabatier to former Councilman Russ Perdock, a proclamation declaring March as March for Meals Month and the Highlands Senior Center annual report.
On the agenda is the consideration of awarding a contract for design services to the firm Design Workshop for the Austin Park Improvement Project. The contract is not to exceed $224,000.
The council also will discuss purchasing equipment for road improvements with up to $530,000 in Measure V sales tax funds.
The pieces of equipment that the city is proposing to purchase are as follows: new roller, $70,000; new five yard gas dump truck, $80,000; new backhoe, $100,000; new trailer-vactor, $80,000; new/used boom truck, $60,000; and a newer used grader/loader, $140,000.
In other business, the council will consider sponsorship of the Meals on Wheels program.
Also planned for Thursday is a public hearing to confirm assessments totaling $35,000 for failure to abate nuisances on a number of properties.
Items on the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are warrant registers; minutes of the Jan. 4, 11 and 25, and Feb. 1; consideration of continuation of a declaration of local emergency issued on Oct. 9 and ratified by the council on Oct. 12 in response to the Sulphur fire; and consideration of a request for approval of a purchase order for a 2017 Ford F250 and animal transport box.
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