- Elizabeth Larson
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Clearlake City Council to hold special, regular meetings this week
The council will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, for a joint meeting with the Measure V Citizen Oversight Committee.
That special meeting will be for the purpose of receiving a report on Measure V’s progress and to evaluate expenditures.
That will be followed at 6 p.m. by the regular council meeting.
One of the key items of business at Thursday’s regular meeting will be the discussion of options for filling the unexpired term of Councilman Russell Perdock, who resigned on Feb. 1 in order to apply for the Clearlake Police Department’s chief position, as Lake County News has reported.
Perdock’s term expires in November, and city staff is recommending that the council adopt a resolution directing City Clerk Melissa Swanson to prepare an application for qualified applicants and schedule interviews with those who apply.
Swanson’s report to the council explained that, rather than seek applicants, it may adopt a resolution calling a special election to fill the vacancy. However, by law, that special election would have to occur on Nov. 6, which is the date when Perdock’s seat would have expired.
In that second scenario, Swanson said the seat would remain vacant until the regularly scheduled election on Nov. 6.
The council also will consider a second reading and adoption of an ordinance amending the city’s commercial cannabis rules allowing commercial cannabis cultivation west of Highway 53 and repealing an urgency ordinance that instituted a moratorium on grows on the west side of the highway.
On Thursday the council also will hear a presentation from Adventist Health Clear Lake regarding the 340B drug program, get the annual audit report for the fiscal year ending 2017 and the annual Clearlake Police Department report from interim Chief Tim Celli.
On the consent agenda – which includes items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are warrant registers and the minutes of the meetings on Nov. 9, 16 and 30, and Dec. 14 and 21.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss two cases of existing litigation, Rosa Aleman v. City of Clearlake and Matamoros v. City of Clearlake.
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