LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Clearlake City Council is set to discuss new rules for a food recovery program, the sale of a vacant city-owned parcel and a contract for police mobile audio visual equipment.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 19, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
The meeting will be broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel or the Lake County PEGTV YouTube Channel. Community members also can participate via Zoom or can attend in person.
The agenda can be found here.
Comments and questions can be submitted in writing for City Council consideration by sending them to City Clerk Melissa Swanson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
To give the council adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit your written comments before 4 p.m. Thursday, May 19.
Each public comment emailed to the city clerk will be read aloud by the mayor or a member of
staff for up to three minutes or will be displayed on a screen. Public comment emails and town hall public comment submissions that are received after the beginning of the meeting will not be included in the record.
At the start of the meeting, the council will meet one of the adoptable dogs from the city shelter, present proclamations declaring May 21 to 27 as Safe Boating Week and May 2022 as California Tourism Month, and hear a presentation of the Lake County Tourism Improvement District’s annual report.
Under council business, council members will hold the first reading of an ordinance establishing edible food recovery program regulations in accordance with SB 1383.
Staff also will present the annual financial report for fiscal year 2019-20.
In other business, the council will consider the sale of a vacant parcel at 4438 Fir Ave. for $20,000.
Also on Thursday, the council will consider authorizing Police Chief Andrew White to enter into a five-year contract with Axon Enterprises Inc. for the purchase of Axon Fleet 3 mobile audio and video systems for police vehicles and adopt Resolution No. 2022-27 waiving the competitive formal bidding process. The cost to the city is $208,637.60.
On the meeting's consent agenda — items that are considered routine in nature and usually adopted on a single vote — are warrants; adoption of Resolution 2021-30 to adopt a list of approved projects for submission to California Transportation Committee for funding pursuant to SB1; minutes of the April 13 meeting; and adoption of Resolution 2022-25 supporting the application of Chelsea Investments for the Local Government Matching Grant Program for development of affordable housing at 15837 18th Ave.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations with the Clearlake Municipal Employee Association and Clearlake Police Officers Association, a liability claim from Smiley James Harris and ongoing litigation, including a suit against the county of Lake.
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Clearlake City Council to consider food recovery program, property sale
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