LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will select it leadership for the new year and consider a proposed process for moving forward with its planned annexation of a portion of South Main Street.

The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

Tuesday’s meeting, the council’s last of the year, will include the annual council reorganization, consisting of the nomination and election of the mayor and mayor pro tem for a period of one year.

In other business, City Manager Margaret Silveira will ask the council to approve a proposed letter to the Board of Supervisors supporting the city of Clearlake’s request last month for action on tax defaulted properties.

Silveira also will ask the council to provide a response to the Lake Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCo, regarding the city’s willingness to participate in good faith with a proposed process outlined in a Dec. 4 letter regarding the South Lakeport Annexation Project.

LAFCo is asking both the city and the county to participate in resolving their existing disputes pertaining to property and sales tax apportionments in the annexation area.

Other items on the agenda include three appointments each to the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee and the Parks and Recreation Committee effective Jan. 1, 2020, and expiring Dec. 31, 2021; the appointment of one member to fill a vacancy on the Lakeport Planning Commission effective Jan. 1, 2020, and expiring Dec. 31, 2022; and the appointment of one member to the Lakeport Fire Protection District Board effective Jan. 1, 2020, and expiring Dec. 31, 2023.

Community Development Director Kevin Ingram also will present a proposed concrete design for use along the Library Park lakefront promenade.

On the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on Nov. 19; the Dec. 12 warrant register; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the Mendocino Complex fire; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the February 2019 storms; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the October 2019 public safety power shutoff; direction to the city clerk to prepare the 2020 Maddy Act Appointments List and post at City Hall and the Lakeport Public Library; approval of the side letter agreement for the City of Lakeport Police Officers Association enacting the 7(k) exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act; and review and filing of the fiscal year 2019-20 first quarter financial update.

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