How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Board of Supervisors this week will consider salary raises to county employees, review an appeal against a bioenergy project by Scotts Valley Energy Corporation, and discuss Behavioral Health Services’ short-term loan request due to the annual Medi-Cal claim pause.
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 17, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8, online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
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At 9:10 a.m., the board will hold the second public hearing on adopting the state’s new fire hazard severity zone map in the local responsibility areas in the unincorporated lands of Lake County.
In the first hearing, the board voted 4 to 1 to move forward with adoption. Supervisor Helen Owen voted against it.
At 9:15 a.m. the board will sit as the Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors and hold a draft budget hearing for the district.
Starting at 10 a.m., the board will consider a series of memorandums of understanding, or MOUs, with labor groups representing county employees to approve across-the-board salary adjustments.
According to the staff report, the MOUs will implement 97.5% of the “market median” based on a compensation study of a dozen "small counties of comparable size,” effective July 1 this year.
The 12 counties include Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Humboldt, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba.
The MOUs include several provisions for salary adjustments. Base salaries will increase 3.5% as cost-of-living adjustment for three years, starting July 1, 2026.
Other provisions include revised pay for bilingual workers, added pay for employees who are required to possess a Class A/B driver's license, and increased longevity pay based on years of service.
At 11 a.m., the board will consider an appeal of permit revocation for a commercial outdoor cannabis cultivation of up to 110,000 square feet located at Lake Pillsbury, operated by Pillsbury Family Farms.
In March, the Planning Commission upheld the Community Development Department’s recommendation to revoke the project’s major use permit.
The revocation was based on findings that the permittee cultivated commercial cannabis in 2022 without a state license, and that the company’s chief financial officer failed a required background check.
Pillsbury Family Farms filed the appeal. According to the staff memo, the Community Development Department is standing by its decision to revoke the permit.
At 1 p.m., the board will hold a public hearing on an appeal challenging the approval of a major use permit for a forest wood processing bioenergy project by Scotts Valley Energy Corp., located at 755 East State Highway 20, Upper Lake.
The project proposes to develop a facility that would process forest wood removed from local forests to reduce wildfire risk and convert it into bioenergy, according to the staff memo.
The Planning Commission approved the permit in December. Appellant Larry Kahn filed the appeal, alleging that certain findings were either not submitted or not considered, including claims of code violations or noncompliance, mostly related to air quality and prime agricultural land protections.
The staff memo included responses to the allegations and reiterates that in December the Planning Commission found that “the project would not have significant impact on the environment and adopted a mitigated negative declaration.”
In the untimed items, the board will consider the request of a short-term loan of $2 million from the county’s General Fund to Behavioral Health Services.
The loan amount will be used to “sustain operations during the state’s annual Medi-Cal claims payment pause, which spans from mid-May through late August,” the staff memo said.
The staff memo emphasized that the loan helps address a “temporary cash flow challenge” and does not reflect a “structural deficit.”
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Adopt a proclamation designating June 19, 2025, as Juneteenth: National Freedom Day.
5.2: Approve memorandum of understanding between the County of Lake Behavioral Health, lead agency of the Lake County Continuum of Care (LCCoC), and the Lake County Community Foundation to be the fiscal agent for the LCCoC, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.3: Approve continuation of proclamation declaring a Clear Lake Hitch emergency.
5.4: Approve continuation of proclamation of the existence of a local emergency due to pervasive tree mortality.
5.5: Approve continuation of emergency proclamation declaring a shelter crisis in the County of Lake.
5.6: Approve letters of support responsive to state legislative update of May 13, 2025, and authorize the chair to sign: (a) SB 346; (b) AB 418; (c) AB 259; (d) AB 339.
5.7: Appoint Assistant County Administrative Officer, Stephen Carter Jr., as interim Animal Care and Control Director effective July 1, 2025.
5.8: Approve agreement between County of Lake and Davis Guest Home, Inc., for adult residential support services and specialty mental health services for FY 2025-26 in the amount of $300,000, and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.9: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between County of Lake and Drug Medi-Cal service provider Redwood Community Services, Inc., Tule House Perinatal Residential Services ASAM Level 3.1, Outpatient Drug Free ASAM Level 1, and Intensive Outpatient Treatment ASAM Level 2.1 for fiscal years 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 with no change to the contract maximum, and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.10: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between County of Lake and BHC Fremont Hospital Inc., for acute inpatient psychiatric hospital services and professional services associated with acute inpatient psychiatric hospitalization for fiscal year 2024-25 to increase total compensation by $100,000 for a new contract maximum of $200,000, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.11: Approve Board of Supervisors meeting minutes for May 13, 2025, and May 20, 2025.
5.12: Approve general services agreement between the County of Lake and NCE Engineering & Environmental Services for landscape architecture and planning services, and authorize the chair to sign the agreement.
5.13: Approve budget transfer from the Sheriff/Coroner budget 2201 to the Sheriff/Jail budget 2301.
5.14: (a) Approve purchases of replacement computer equipment from MGT Impact Solutions, Dell and Berkeley Communications; and (b) approve budget transfer from the Sheriff/Jail budget 2301 to the Sheriff/Central Dispatch budget 2202.
5.15: Adopt resolution authorizing and designating Special Districts Administrator, or designee, to submit a financial assistance grant application to the State Water Resources Control Board on behalf of the Kelseyville County Water Works District No. 3, a financial assistance application for a financing agreement from the SWRCB for the planning, design, and potential construction of the Kelseyville County Water Works District No. 3 Consolidation Project.
5.16: Adopt resolution authorizing and designating the Special Districts Administrator, or designee, to submit a financial assistance grant application to the State Water Resources Control Board on behalf of the Kelseyville County Water Works District No. 3 for the planning, design, and potential construction of the Kelseyville County Water Works District No. 3 Consolidation Project.
5.17: Adopt resolution authorizing County of Lake to join with other public agencies as a founding member and participant of California Fixed Income Trust (Calfit) Joint Powers Authority and to invest in interests of the trust.
TIMED ITEMS
6.1, 9:02 a.m.: Public input.
6.2, 9:03 a.m.: Pet of the week.
6.3, 9:04 a.m.: New and noteworthy at the library.
6.4, 9:05 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating June 19, 2025 as Juneteenth: National Freedom Day.
6.5, 9:10 a.m.: Consideration of proposed second reading of ordinance to designate fire hazard severity zones in the local responsibility areas in the unincorporated lands of Lake County.
6.6, 9:15 a.m.: (Sitting as the Lake County Air Quality Management District, Board of Directors) LCAQMD FY 25/26 draft budget hearing for budget units #8799 & #8798.
6.7, 9:45 a.m.: Public hearing - consideration of a resolution dedicating Herndon Cemetery as Pioneer Memorial Park.
6.8, 10:00 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Employees Association, Units #3, #4, & #5 and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029.
6.9, 10:01 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Correctional Officers Association and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029.
6.10, 10:02 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Deputy District Attorney’s Association and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029.
6.11, 10:03 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Safety Employees Association and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029.
6.12, 10:04 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Deputy Sheriff’s Association and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2028.
6.13, 10:05 a.m.: Consideration of resolution establishing salaries and benefits for employees assigned to the Confidential Unit, Section A, for July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029.
6.14, 10:06 a.m.: Consideration of resolution establishing salaries and benefits for employees assigned to the Confidential Unit, Section B, for July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029.
6.15, 10:07 a.m.: Consideration of memorandum of understanding by and between the Lake County Sheriff’s Management Association and the County of Lake for July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029.
6.16, 10:08 a.m.: Consideration of resolution establishing salaries and benefits for management employees for the period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029.
6.17, 11:00 a.m.: Hearing - consideration of appeal of Planning Commission's revocation of major use permit (UP 20-50); for commercial outdoor cannabis cultivation of up to 110,000 sf; located at 26102 19N16 Road, Lake Pillsbury (APN 001-030-36); permittee: John Evans/Pillsbury Family Farms.
6.18, 1:00 p.m.: Public hearing - consideration of appeal (PL-25-22; AB 24-06) of the Planning Commission's approval of major use permit (UP 23-05), and initial study (IS 23-10); for the AG Forest Wood Processing Bioenergy Project; located at 755 East State Highway 20, Upper Lake (APN 004-010-04); appellant: Larry Kahn (continued from May 20, 2025).
NONTIMED ITEMS
7.1 Supervisors’ weekly calendar, travel and reports.
7.2 Consideration of an update on Blue Ribbon Committee priorities and a coalition letter sent on behalf of the committee seeking State General Fund or Proposition 4 funding.
7.3 (a) Consideration and discussion of the Public Defender Oversight Committee membership; and (b) Consideration of appointment of committee members.
7.4 Consideration of letter of support and authorization to submit Proposition 47 Cohort 5 grant application.
7.5 Consideration of short-term loan from the General Fund to Behavioral Health Services in the amount of $2,000,000.
7.6 Consideration of a letter of support for the County of Lake's Safe Streets and Roads for All planning and demonstration grant application.
7.7 (A) Consideration of update on the Lake Pomo Family Sculpture at Historic Courthouse Museum Project; and (B) Consideration of Amendment One to the agreement with Nordhammer Art Foundry for the creation and installation of the Lake Pomo Family Sculpture.
7.8 Consideration of change order #1 to the construction contract with Weeks Drilling & Pump Co., for the Spring Valley test wells in the amount of $133,400 for a total contract amount of $280,400 and authorize the administrator to sign the contracts.
7.9 Consideration of resolution granting authority to waive transient occupancy tax interest & penalties on appeal by an operator.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1 Public employee evaluation: Title: Special Districts Administrator.
8.2 Public employee discipline/dismissal/release.
8.3 Conference with legal counsel: Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Gov. Code section 54956.9(d)(2), (e)(1) – one potential case.
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