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Supervisors to consider asking governor to delay legislation impacting businesses
The board will meet virtually beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 31.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 and online on the county’s Facebook page or at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx . Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
Because the meeting will be held virtually, members of the public are asked to submit comments on items to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please note the agenda item number addressed.
This week’s board meeting is deemed a special one as the board usually does not meet the fifth Tuesday of the month.
At 9:10 a.m., the board will get the latest update on COVID-19 from Lake County Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace.
In an untimed item, Supervisor Rob Brown is asking the board to consider sending a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom “suspend all legislation that has been recently introduced or been enacted over the last two years that would been seen as detrimental to many private enterprise jobs,” according to Brown’s memo to the board.
The letter, which can be seen below, asks that the governor “act swiftly to suspend all legislation that has been recently introduced or, has been enacted over the last two years that would be seen as detrimental to many private enterprise jobs. This legislation would include Assembly Bills 36, 40, 673,725, 5, 790, 882, 1332 and Senate Bills 37, 44, 135, 10, 246 and 567.”
It goes on to note, “Much of the workforce and business impacted by these legislative actions have actually been identified by the Governor as essential during this current crisis of COVID-19. Additionally, many local businesses may not qualify for benefits that are being made available to others by our Federal and State representatives.
The letter concludes, “The possibility of losing hundreds of thousands of jobs to the effects of COVID-19, is inevitable. To lose hundreds of thousands more, as a result of legislation that is under your control, is a potential disaster that is avoidable.”
In another untimed item, the board will consider recommended changes in the customary budget procedure for fiscal year 2020-21 recommended and final recommended budget, as well as proposed changes to the board’s annual meeting calendar for 2020.
Specifically, County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson told the board in a memo for the meeting that her staff must make alternative plans for the coming fiscal year’s budget, with staffing resources “severely limited” due to COVID-19 disaster response.
“Staff met recently with the Auditor-Controller and with department heads to discuss solutions and determined that the best option will be to initiate the budget process by replicating the numbers from Adopted Budget for FY 2019/2020, as a starting point for FY 2020/2021,” Huchingson said.
Huchingson said her office, in conjunction with departments, will make minor adjustments, between April 13 and May 1.
Originally, the recommended budget hearings were calendared for June 10 and 11, with the final budget hearings set for Sept. 15, Huchingson reported.
She said that, due to the COVID-19 health emergency, staff is requesting to move those meetings to June 9 for the recommended budget hearings, with department heads to present their final budget presentations to the board on Sept. 23 and 24 during final recommended budget hearings.
The full agenda is below.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Approve postponement of performance evaluations of board-appointees due to the COVID-19 crisis.
5.2: Approve the continuation of local health emergency related to the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) as proclaimed by the Lake County Public Health officer.
5.3: Approve the continuation of a local emergency due to the Mendocino Complex fire incident (River and Ranch fires).
5.4: Approve the continuation of a local emergency due to the Pawnee fire incident.
5.5: Approve continuation of a local emergency due to COVID-19.
5.6: Sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors, approve Amendment No. 1 between Lake County Sanitation District and Brelje & Race Consulting Engineers in the amount of $48,000 and a total contract amount of $405,000 for the Anderson Springs Sewer Project; and authorize the chair to sign.
5.7: Sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors, approve an exception to the Lake County Sewer Use Code Sec. 205, allowing APN No. 050-441-36 to remain on septic system until such time as the system is in need of repair or replacement, at which time the property owner will be required to connect to the public sewer at the owner's expense.
5.8: Request to waive 900-hour limit for extra help Field Technician II Daniella Cazares.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:06 a.m.: Consideration of continuation of a local health emergency and order prohibiting the endangerment of the community through the unsafe removal, transportation and disposal of fire debris for the Mendocino Complex fire.
6.3, 9:10 a.m.: Consideration of Update on COVID-19.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of letter to Gov. Newsom asking to suspend legislation that would affect private enterprise jobs.
7.3: (a) Consideration of recommended changes in customary budget procedure for fiscal year 2020/2021 recommended and final recommended budget; and (b) consideration of changes to the board's annual meeting calendar for 2020.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Public employee evaluation: Health Services director.
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