LUCERNE, Calif. — District 3 Supervisor EJ Crandell is hosting an informational meeting on the plan to turn the Lucerne Hotel into a facility for housing homeless youth.
The meeting will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Lucerne Alpine Senior Center, 3985 Country Club Drive.
The meeting also will be available via Zoom. The meeting ID is 977 5740 1156, pass code is 589351. One tap mobile: +16694449171,,97757401156#,*589351#.
The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians received a $5.2 million grant from the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency in November to convert the historic 95-year-old building into 65 housing units for homeless youth from around the region.
The grant language stated that the Lake County Office of Education would be the primary partner, and that dozens more local organizations would be secondary partners. However, neither the Office of Education nor other partners said they knew about the application or the plan.
Lake County News has outlined the plan in a series of stories, beginning in December.
The tribe has since threatened legal action against Lake County News for covering the project.
Also in December, the Lucerne Area Town Hall passed a resolution condemning the plan.
Crandell initially only posted the meeting on his own Facebook page before the county of Lake shared it on its Facebook page and sent out an announcement about the meeting.
The meeting’s tentative guests include representatives from the offices of Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and state Sen. Mike McGuire, and the California Business, Consumer Services Housing Agency.
Confirmed attendees include the Lake County Community Development Department, the Lake County Office of Education, the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Earthways Foundation, the organization that the county sold the Lucerne Hotel to in 2019 over community objections.
A question and answer session also is scheduled.
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