LAKEPORT, Calif. – This week the Board of Supervisors will consider appointing a County Administrative Office staffer as interim deputy registrar of voters and discuss several hemp- and cannabis-related items.
The board will meet beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 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 and online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
In an item placed on the consent agenda, and therefore not expected to be considered separately or discussed, County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson will ask the board to appoint one of her staffers, administrative analyst Marcy Harrison, as interim deputy registrar of voters, retroactive to March 6.
Huchingson’s report to the board said that Harrison was reassigned to support the Registrar of Voters Office – “under administrative direction” – after the initial recruitment for a new registrar failed.
“Marcy has thrived in this special assignment, and I am therefore requesting your Board’s approval to appoint her Interim Deputy Registrar of Voters,” Huchingson wrote. “As you are very probably aware, Marcy has served the County of Lake with quality and distinction for nearly 15 years, including stints in the office of the County Clerk and Special Districts, both of which provided experiences well analogous to Elections functions. Her experience under our distinguished Auditor-Controller, Cathy Saderlund, has likewise translated well to many practical business functions of that office.”
Huchingson said Harrison “has already meaningfully supported the developing Elections team, and this interim assignment will recognize her quality work, already in progress.”
The report said there is expected to be no budget impact.
The county’s longtime registrar, Diane Fridley, retired in December, and her deputy, Maria Valadez, was appointed interim registrar. That followed Huchingson’s unsuccessful request to the board to change the educational requirements for the registrar’s job, which would have excluded Valadez from being hired to run the department.
Valadez left in February to take a job in Mendocino County, which left the county with only part-time elections office staffers without the necessary experience to fill the two top positions, as Lake County News has reported.
A second recruitment to fill the registrar’s job closed on Sunday.
Also on the agenda, in an untimed item, the board will discuss industrial hemp cultivation status in the county of Lake.
The supervisors also will consider a possible limited moratorium relating to the acceptance of pre-applications and applications for commercial cannabis cultivation use permits “to allow for the expeditious processing of applications already submitted and to allow for review of possible changes to the zoning ordinance to more efficiently coordinate the processing of such permits,” according to the agenda.
In an item timed for 1:30 p.m., the board will hold a workshop regarding possible revisions to the Lake County Zoning Ordinance for streamlining the cannabis cultivation permitting process and a discussion concerning the addition of a permitting process for retail and microbusiness.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Appoint Administrative Analyst Marcy Harrison interim deputy registrar of voters, retroactive to March 6, 2019.
5.2: Approve Amendment 1 to the agreement between the county of Lake and Kings View Corp. for MIS Support Services for Fiscal Year 2018-19 in the amount of $73,360 and authorize the board chair to sign the amendment.
5.3: Approve Amendment 2 to the agreement between the county of Lake and Native American Mental Health Services dba North American Mental Health Services for FY 2018-19 in the amount of $300,000 and authorize the board chair to sign the amendment.
5.4: Approve amendment to side letter with the Lake County Deputy Sheriff’s Association to provide deputy sheriffs assigned to patrol the opportunity to be placed on on-call status due to a typographical error in the body of the document.
5.5: Authorize county librarian to close all library branches for staff training on April 27, 2019.
5.6: Approve purchase of office furniture for the Emergency Operations Center from Staples Business Advantage in the amount of $26,081.84 and authorize the sheriff/coroner or his designee to sign the purchase order.
5.7: (a) Approve agreement between the Lake County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Forest Service for FY 19/20 annual operating and financial plan, in the amount of $11,000 for Pillsbury Patrol; and (b) approve agreement between the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Forest Service for FY19/20 annual operating and financial plan, in the amount of $19,000 for controlled substance operations, and authorize the sheriff and the chairman to sign.
5.8: Approve memorandum of understanding and joint exercise of powers agreement between the county of Lake and CalSAWS and authorize the chair to sign all three copies of each agreement.
5.9: Approve waiver of the 900 hour limit for extra help construction inspectors for the Anderson Springs Sewer Project, allowing Mark Dellinger to work up to 960 hours and Ray Porter to work up to 1,000 hours.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:11 a.m.: (a) Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to an atmospheric river event 2019; and (b) update on the atmospheric river event 2019.
6.3, 9:12 a.m.: Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to the Mendocino Complex fire incident (River and Ranch fires).
6.4, 9:13 a.m.: Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to the Pawnee fire incident.
6.5, 9:14 a.m.: Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to the Sulphur fire incident.
6.6, 9:15 a.m.: Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to Clayton fire.
6.7, 9:16 a.m.: Consideration of continuing a proclamation of a local emergency due to the atmospheric river storm 2017.
6.8, 9:17 a.m.: Consideration of continuing the declaration of a local health emergency and order prohibiting the endangerment of the community through the unsafe removal, transportation, and disposal of fire debris.
6.9, 1:30 p.m.: Workshop regarding possible revisions to the Lake County Zoning Ordinance for streamlining the cannabis cultivation permitting process and a discussion concerning the addition of a permitting process for retail and microbusiness.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of resolution of support in support of a landowner seeking to name an unnamed geographical feature located solely within the landowner's private property.
7.3: Consideration of the following appointments: Lucerne Area Town Hall, Maternal Child Adolescent Health Advisory Board, Middletown Area Town Hall and Scotts Valley Community Advisory Council.
7.4: Discussion and consideration of industrial hemp cultivation status in the county of Lake.
7.5: Discussion and consideration of a possible limited moratorium relating to the acceptance of pre-applications and applications for commercial cannabis cultivation use permits to allow for the expeditious processing of applications already submitted and to allow for review of possible changes to the zoning ordinance to more efficiently coordinate the processing of such permits.
7.6: Town hall presentation Community Visioning 2028 on Health and Wellness by Denise Pomeroy, Health Services director.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Public employee evaluations title: Water Resources director.
8.2: Employee disciplinary appeal (EDA 19-01) Pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54957.
8.3: Employee Disciplinary Appeal (EDA 19-02) Pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54957.
8.4: Conference with legal counsel: Existing litigation pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54956.9(d)(1): Rattanavong v. County of Lake, et al.
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Supervisors to consider interim deputy registrar of voters appointment, industrial hemp and cannabis issues
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