The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 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 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.
At 10 a.m., the board will consider the county’s total compensation report, prepared by CPS HR.
The county awarded the $100,000 contract for the study to CPS HR, a Joint Powers Agency, in November 2018.
The report is part of an apparent plan by county leadership to raise pay for employees, but just how much salaries could be raised – and how much the county can afford – does not appear as part of the discussion.
The county of Lake’s salaries and classifications were compared to 10 other counties: Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Humboldt, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba.
The presentation “is expected to include description of the Classification and Total Compensation Study methodology undertaken by CPS HR, and market data, as appropriate, as verified by CPS HR. This does not constitute any indication of your Board’s implementation of the Study data, nor what level of salary adjustment is affordable by the County of Lake at this time. These matters are subject to ongoing confidential labor negotiations,” according to the report from County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson.
Huchingson, who has pushed for the study to be done, is incidentally the county employee whose job classification is shown to be farthest below the market numbers, based on a table on page 12 of the study, shown below.
With a base salary of $9,339 a month up to a maximum of $11,352 a month, the county administrative officer classification is rated as 81.6 percent below the market minimum, 69.15 percent below the market midpoint and 56 percent below the market maximum,
For comparison, a deputy sheriff II position has a salary range of $4,649 to $5,651 per month, and is rated as only 4.1 percent below the market minimum, 6.2 percent below the market midpoint and 10.2 percent below the maximum. The county historically had trouble keeping deputy jobs filled, citing pay as a key issue.
Also on Tuesday, at 9:10 a.m., the board will get an update on the novel coronavirus, and in related untimed items, the board will continue its consideration of a temporary policy for telework during the pandemic and discuss accommodations to facilitate broader electronic access to Board of Supervisors meetings in light of COVID-19 and Executive Order N-25-20.
The board also is expected to consider ratifying Sheriff Brian Martin’s COVID-19 emergency proclamation, issued Friday.
In other business, in an untimed item, the board also will discuss the structure of the Department of Public Works and the Community Development Department.
On Feb. 11, the board appointed Public Works Director Scott De Leon as interim Community Development Director.
“In the next month, all departments must prepare their proposed budgets for Fiscal Year 2020/2021 and with this in mind, staff is in need of Board direction concerning the structure of these two departments,” Huchingson wrote in her report to the board.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Adopt proclamation commending Operation Tango Mike for 17 years of support for military personnel and their families.
5.2: Adopt proclamation designating the month of March 2020 as March for Meals Month.
5.3: Adopt resolution authorizing the Planning Division of the Community Development Department to file a grant application to the California Strategic Growth Council for a Proposition 84 Wildfire and Resiliency and Recovery Planning Grant to update the Upper Lake/Nice area and Rivieras area plans.
5.4: Approve Wildfire Resiliency and Recovery Planning Grant letter of commitment for updates to the Upper Lake-Nice and Rivieras area plans and authorize chair to sign.
5.5: Approve California Mutual Aid Region II Intra-Region Cooperative Agreement for emergency medical and health disaster assistance and authorize board chair to sign.
5.6: Approve PC purchase for district attorney.
5.7: Approve supplemental service agreement between the county of Lake and Mead & Hunt, Consultants, for mandatory filings of Lampson Field Airport Capital Improvement Plan 2020-2025, not to exceed $5,000, and authorize the chair to execute the agreement.
5.8: Adopt resolution authorizing the director of Social Services to execute the standard agreement and all other documents necessary to participate in the HOME Program administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
5.9: Adopt resolution authorizing the Lake County Water Resources Department to file a grant application to the California Strategic Growth Council for a Proposition 84 Wildfire and Resiliency and Recovery Planning Grant to update the Lake County Storm Water Management Plan.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:06 a.m.: (a) Presentation of proclamation commending Operation Tango Mike for 17 years of support for military personnel and their families; and (b) presentation of proclamation designating the month of March 2020 as March for Meals Month.
6.3, 9:10 a.m.: Consideration of update on the novel coronavirus.
6.4, 9:20 a.m.: Presentation of annual report by Lake County PEG TV.
6.5, 9:40 a.m.: Consideration of Ag Department ordinance for industrial hemp regulations.
6.6, 10 a.m. Consideration of CPS HR’s County of Lake Total Compensation Report.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Continuation of consideration of a temporary policy for telework.
7.3: Consideration of accommodations to facilitate broader electronic access to Board of Supervisors meetings in light of COVID-19 and Executive Order N-25-20.
7.4: Consideration of the structure of the Department of Public Works and the Community Development Department.
7.5: Consideration of the following appointment: Audit Committee.
7.6: Consideration of proposed findings of fact and decision in the appeal of Antonio and Doris Guerra-Freire (AB 19-02).
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Conference with labor negotiator: (a) chief negotiator: M. Long; county negotiators: C. Huchingson and P. Samac; and (b) employee organizations: LCDDAA, LCDSA, LCCOA, LCEA, LCSEA and LCSMA.
8.2: Public employee evaluation: Animal Control director.
8.3: Conference with (a) temporary representatives designated to meet with county department heads regarding salary and benefits and (b) unrepresented management employees.
8.4: Conference with legal counsel: Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2), (e)(3) Threat of Litigation – City of Clearlake.
8.5: Conference with legal counsel: Existing litigation pursuant to Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1) – Ugorji v. County of Lake, et al.
8.6: Public employee evaluations: Interim Community Development director/ interim Water Resources director/ Public Works director.
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