How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Board of Supervisors is set to hold its first meeting of the year, choosing its leadership for 2026 and welcoming the new chief public defender.
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, 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 and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
To participate in real-time, join the Zoom meeting by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 865 3354 4962, pass code 726865. The meeting also can be accessed via one tap mobile at +16694449171,,86533544962#,,,,*726865#. The meeting can also be accessed via phone at 669 900 6833.
At the start of the meeting, the board will elect its chair and vice chair for the year, and also elect the chairs and vice chairs of the Lake County Board of Equalization and the Lake County In-Home Supportive Services.
At 9:04 a.m., the oath of office will be administered to Thomas Feimer, who the board appointed last month as the county’s new chief public defender.
As part of the board’s consent agenda, the supervisors are expected to adopt a resolution appointing Katherine Vanderwall as agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures for a four-year term effective Feb. 12.
In untimed items, the board will consider an ad hoc committee toward development of a Lake County energy policy as well as appointments to the Building Board of Appeals; Cobb Municipal Advisory Council; East Region Town Hall; Lake County Agricultural Advisory Committee; Vector Control District Board of Trustees; and Western Region Town Hall.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Adopt proclamation designating the month of January 2026 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Lake County.
5.2: Adopt resolution appointing Katherine Vanderwall as agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures for a four-year term effective Feb. 12, 2026.
5.3: Approve subrecipient agreement to provide CDBG funding in support of the Build Program by North Coast Opportunities Inc. in the amount of $280,374 and authorize the chair to sign.
5.4: Approve Amendment No. 2 to service agreement between the County of Lake and Community Development Services.
5.5: Approve the agreement between the County of Lake and BHC Heritage Oaks Hospital Inc. for acute inpatient psychiatric hospital services and professional services associated with acute inpatient psychiatric hospitalization in the amount of $300,000 for fiscal year 2025-26 and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.6: Approve Amendment One to Supplemental Services Agreement One between the County of Lake and Geo-Logic Associates for Eastlake Sanitary Landfill Expansion Phase Two and Three design services and authorize the chair to sign.
5.7: (a) Approve the purchase of the RaySecur MailSecur MS300 mail scanner from Command Sourcing Inc. in an amount not to exceed $120,000, and (b) authorize the sheriff or designee to sign the purchase order.
5.8: Approve acceptance of $275,000 in additional Housing and Disability Advocacy Program funding for fiscal year 2026-27.
TIMED ITEMS
6.1, 9:01 a.m.: Election of chair of the Board of Supervisors and vice chair of the Board of Supervisors for 2026 (outgoing chair conducts election).
6.2, 9:02 a.m.: Sitting as the Lake County Board of Equalization: Election of chair and vice chair of the Lake County Local Board of Equalization for 2026.
6.3, 9:03 a.m.: Sitting as the Lake County In-Home Supportive Services, election of chair and vice chair of the Lake County In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority Board of Directors for 2026.
6.4, 9:04 a.m.: Administer the oath of office to Thomas Feimer as chief public defender.
6.5, 9:05 a.m.: Public input.
6.6, 9:06 a.m.: Pet of the week.
6.7, 9:15 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the month of January 2026 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Lake County.
6.8, 10 a.m.: Public hearing, consideration of agreement for the purchase of real property adjacent to the Eastlake Landfill in Clearlake, and adoption of a resolution accepting and recording the grant deed.
6.9, 10:30 a.m.: Public hearing, consideration of ordinance to amend Chapter 21, Articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 27 and 68 of the Lake County Zoning Code to implement General Plan Sixth Cycle Housing Element policies HE-38, HE-58, HE-59, HE-60, HE-61, HE-71, HE-72 and HE-73, and a policy for implementation of HE-6.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of the chair’s recommended 2026 committee assignments for members of the Board of Supervisors.
7.3: Consideration of formation of an ad hoc committee toward development of a Lake County energy policy.
7.4: Consideration to approve Amendment No. 5 to the agreement between the County of Lake and Community Behavioral Health for specialty mental health services for fiscal years 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26.
7.5: Consideration of the following advisory board appointments: Building Board of Appeals; Cobb Municipal Advisory Council; East Region Town Hall; Lake County Agricultural Advisory Committee; Vector Control District Board of Trustees; and Western Region Town Hall.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Public employee appointment pursuant to Government Code Section 54957(b)(1): Interviews for animal care and control director and appointment of animal care and control director.
8.2: Conference with labor negotiator. (a) Chief negotiator: S. Parker; county negotiators: S. Carter, C. Moreno, P. Samac and D. Rico. (b) Employee organization: LCSEA.
8.3: Public employee evaluation, Community Development Director Mireya Turner.
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