- Elizabeth Larson
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Supervisors to discuss major changes to Lucerne Area Town Hall
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 28, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
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At 10:30 a.m., Supervisor EJ Crandell will ask the board to consider transitioning the Lucerne Area Town Hall to the Central Region Town Hall, or CeRTH, which will change its boundaries.
“As of right now the map for the MAC known as LATH consists of solely the community growth boundary of Lucerne,” Crandell wrote in an agenda item to the board. “With the implementation of CeRTH, the boundaries will include the full zip code boundaries of Lucerne. The concept is to ensure more inclusivity and engagement from the Central Region of District 3.”
Since the start of the year, Crandell has not brought forth any new appointments to the Lucerne Area Town Hall, other than Kevin Waycik, who was reappointed on Jan. 10 but died at the end of February.
Crandell has not explained his reasons to community members or to Lake County News until putting the matter on the agenda.
Crandell and the town hall’s members have been at odds since December, when he attempted to cancel a meeting at which the group planned to speak about its concerns with a plan by the Scotts Valley Pomo tribe to turn the Lucerne Hotel into a homeless housing facility.
The town hall’s leadership moved forward with a meeting in December in which they unanimously approved a resolution condemning the project at the hotel, a project for which Crandell’s wife has publicly advocated.
Since then, the town hall has continued to meet to discuss town business, but Crandell has not participated.
In other business, in untimed items, the board will consider a letter regarding Cal Fire’s State Responsibility Area Fire Hazard Severity Zones Maps and discuss the scope of the Lake County Fish & Wildlife Advisory Committee, the needs to support the population of the Clear Lake hitch and possible direction to staff.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Appoint Supervisor Bruno Sabatier as the voting delegate for the 2023 NACo Annual Conference & Exposition to be held in Austin, Texas, July 21 through 24, 2023.
5.2: Adopt resolution approving Agreement No.23-7306-0265-RA with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services for the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, for the amount of $ 127,629.36.
5.3: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between the county of Lake and Lisa Warner, MBA for support services for managed care for fiscal year 2022-23 in the amount of $40,000 and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.4: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between Davis Guest Home and Lake County Behavioral Health Services increasing the total compensation payable under the agreement to $310,000 for FY 2022-23 and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.5: Approve lease agreement between county of Lake and Berg Investments LP for lease of the commercial space at 13300 East Highway 20, Clearlake Oaks beginning March 1, 2023, through Feb. 29, 2028, and authorize the Behavioral Health director or their designee to sign.
5.6: ERRATUM — Approve Board of Supervisors minutes from March 7, 2023, and March 14, 2023.
5.7: Adopt resolution adopting a continuous record retention and destruction schedule for the Office of the Registrar of Voters.
5.8: Adopt proclamation of appreciation for Registrar of Voters Staff, poll workers, and county key staff on successfully conducting the June and November 2022 Elections.
5.9: Approve lease for commercial property located at 858 Lakeport Blvd., Lakeport, from Feb. 1, 2023, through Feb. 28, 2024, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.10: Approve temporary reduced hours of Vital Statistics due to staffing shortages for the period of April 3, 2023, through April 7, 2023, to be closed from noon to 5 p.m. each day.
5.11: Waive competitive bidding per 38.2(3) and approve amendment to agreement between the county of Lake and Tyler Technologies to provide case management software and associated services for the period of April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, for an amount not to exceed $46,880 for the first year, $57,474 for the second year, and $72,498 for the third year, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.12: Sitting as the Lake County Sanitation District Board of Directors, a) waive the competitive bidding process, pursuant to Lake County Code Section 2-38.4 Cooperative Purchases; b) authorize Special Districts Administrator/assistant purchasing agent to issue a purchase order not to exceed $130,000 to U-Rock Utility Equipment for the purchase of a Portable Rovver X Basic System; c) Approve budget transfer allocating money from object code 63.05 to 62.74.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:07 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation of appreciation for Registrar of Voters staff, poll workers, and county key staff on successfully conducting the June and November 2022.
6.3, 9:30 a.m.: a) Consideration of overview of Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians and Lake County Watershed Protection Districts Adobe Creek Managed Flow Strategy Project being submitted under the Office of Planning and Research’s 2022-2023 Adaptation Planning Grant Program; and b) review and consideration of letter of support from the Board of Directors of the Watershed Protection District for the proposed project.
6.4, 10:30 a.m.: Consideration of Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) transition of the Lucerne Area Town Hall (LATH), initially known as (MRTH) Middle Region Town Hall; to (CeRTH) Central Region Town Hall.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of a letter documenting written comments in response to Cal Fire’s State Responsibility Area (SRA) Fire Hazard Severity Zones (FHSZ) Maps.
7.3: Consideration of consistency of the scope of the Lake County Fish & Wildlife Advisory Committee with needs to support the population of the chi/Clear Lake hitch, and possible direction to staff.
7.4: Consideration of the county of Lake acting as lead agency on a grant application to provide funding for the Lake County Risk Reduction Authority, Lake County Resource Conservation District, Lake County Fire Safe Council, and the Lake County Office of Climate Resiliency as well as funding to implement four hazard mitigation actions from the county of Lake’s 2018 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
7.5: Consideration of agreement between the county of Lake and Redwood Community Services Inc. for supportive employment and supportive education program services for fiscal years 2023-2026 for $408,282.
7.6: Consideration of the following advisory board appointments: Child Care Planning Council, Emergency Medical Care Committee, Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee and Mental Health Board.
7.7: Consideration of updated advisory board application.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Conference with legal counsel: Existing litigation pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54956.9 (d)(1) – FERC Project No. 77, Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project.
8.2: Conference with legal counsel: Existing litigation pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54956.9(d)(1): In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL No. 2804/Case No. 17-MD-2804.
8.3: Public employee evaluation: Information Technology Director Shane French.
8.4: Public employee evaluation: Health Services Director Jonathan Portney.
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