LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council will start off the year with a discussion regarding the city’s response to COVID-19 and appointments of council members to various committees and boards.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5.
The meeting will be by teleconference only. The city council chambers will not be open to the public.
The agenda can be found here.
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On Tuesday, the council will meet new Utilities Operator III Mark Fetzer and present a proclamation designating January 2021 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the city of Lakeport.
Under council business, City Manager Kevin Ingram will give the council a report on the city’s ongoing response to COVID-19.
Ingram noted that at the council’s regular Dec. 1 meeting, it requested that staff work closely with the League of California Cities to give rural areas a greater voice on COVID-19 relief for local businesses and residents and then bring the item back to the council for further consideration.
He recalled that additional discussion on the topic of the city’s COVID-19 response efforts took place following a presentation from Lake County Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace at the council’s Dec. 15 meeting.
“Following that discussion there seemed to be a greater need to revisit more holistically the City of Lakeport’s current COVID-19 response efforts and evaluate whether or not City staff should be doing things differently,” Ingram wrote.
He noted in his report that, as it was being written, “the City along with Lake County are experiencing its largest surge in the number of new COVID-19 cases to date.”
Ingram will review the city’s community and business outreach, as well as its compliance efforts and activities and will invite input from the council and public. His report and the list of activities begins on page 20 of the staff report below.
“Overall, the City remains committed to finding solutions that balance both the public health and economic needs of the City’s residents and businesses,” Ingram wrote.
Also on Tuesday, Mayor Kenny Parlet will appoint council members as liaisons to various boards, committees and commissions.
The council will adopt a resolution appointing representatives to represent and vote on behalf of the city at the League of California Cities, Redwood Empire Division Business meetings and represent the city and vote at Division Legislative Committee meetings.
Finance Director Nick Walker will present a contract award for Willdan Financial Services of Temecula to complete a utility rate study for $44,750.
The council also will hold a budget review and look and first quarter financials and consider executing the first amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with 4LEAF Inc. for building services. The total “not to exceed” amount in the contract is being increased from $25,000 to $50,000.
On the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on Dec. 15; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency; and approval of the Recognized Obligation Schedule for the period of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, for presentation and adoption by the Lake County Redevelopment Oversight Board.
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Lakeport City Council plans discussion of city’s COVID-19 response
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