How to resolve AdBlock issue? The council will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
The meeting will be broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel or the Lake County PEGTV YouTube Channel. Community members also can participate via Zoom or can attend in person.
The agenda can be found here.
Comments and questions can be submitted in writing for City Council consideration by sending them to City Clerk Melissa Swanson at
To give the council adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit your written comments before 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3.
Each public comment emailed to the city clerk will be read aloud by the mayor or a member of
staff for up to three minutes or will be displayed on a screen. Public comment emails and town hall public comment submissions that are received after the beginning of the meeting will not be included in the record.
At the start of the meeting, Police Chief Andrew White will swear in a new officer and present the annual police department report.
Under business, the council will consider offering a letter of support for the Lake Area Planning Council’s pursuit of a rural regional energy network, or RuralREN, program in Lake County.
City Manager Alan Flora’s report to the council explained that RuralRENs “are a solution for delivering energy efficiency programs envisioned in the early 2010s by the California Public Utilities Commission.”
He said the networks were created “as an innovative framework for local governments to design and administer energy efficiency programs and report directly to the commission. The goal was for the regional energy networks to create energy efficiency programs that would serve customers not otherwise served by the investor-owned utility programs.”
He said Lake APC, which will have staff at the meeting to give an update, is partnering with the seven other members of the Rural Hard to Reach Working group to submit a business plan to the CPUC for a new RuralREN. The business plan will be submitted by Feb. 15 and will seek funding from Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2031.
“The RuralREN is a direct response to the unique issues and urgent needs of rural California energy customers and will address energy equity in our communities by providing programs for residents, businesses, and public agencies,” Flora wrote in his report. “Opportunities for community investment will include hands-on career training and placement, incentives for energy efficiency projects, and localized lending. The RuralREN will provide the resources our communities need to play an equitable role in California’s transition to a clean energy economy.”
In other business, council members will consider confirming assessments totaling for city-funded abatements on six properties.
On the meeting's consent agenda — items that are not considered controversial and are usually adopted on a single vote — are warrants; the second reading of Ordinance No. 258-2022, approving a development agreement for Ogulin Canyon Holdings LLC to allow a cannabis operation located at 2185 Ogulin Canyon Road, Clearlake; waive the requirement for multiple proposals, and authorize the city manager to sign the contract/proposal provided by Weeks Drilling & Pump Co. to rehabilitate the agricultural well near the northeast corner of the Burns Valley Development property for future irrigation demand; minutes of the Dec. 8 Lake County Vector Control District Board meeting; approval of a letter of support for the Berryessa Snow Mountain Expansion Act; authorize city manager to enter into a contract with Argonaut
Constructors for the Burns Valley Development Project and authorize the city manager to approve up to 10% for additional unforeseen contract amendments; move to approve the amendment of contract with Resource Environmental for the waterpark demolition and authorize the city manager to approve up to 10% for additional unforeseen contract amendments.
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