- Elizabeth Larson
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Clearlake City Council to consider property sale for hotel project
The council will meet for a workshop at 5 p.m. on the Burns Valley Development Project before the regular meeting begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 15, 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.. You can also visit the city’s new town hall site and submit written comments at https://www.opentownhall.com/portals/327/Issue_9055. Identify the subject you wish to comment on in your email’s subject line or in your town hall submission.
To give the council adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit your written comments before 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 15.
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.
The meeting will include presentations on July’s adoptable dogs, the regional transportation plan and the Cyanobacteria Outreach Workgroup.
The council will hold a public hearing to discuss implementing restricted access to the segment of Burns Valley Road between Arrowhead and Acacia in the effort to reduce illegal dumping.
Under business, City Manager Alan Flora will present to the council a proposal to sell a 2.5-acre portion of the city’s former Pearce Field airport to MLI Associates LLC, a company that has a long history of developing hotel properties in the Bay Area and across the country.
The parcel, located at 6356 Armijo Ave., is proposed to be sold for $305,000, with the city to hold the note during the construction process, Flora reported. If MLI meets specific deadlines in the project, portions of the note can be forgiven.
After closing the sale, Flora said MLI would have 14 months to complete the entitlement process, and additional six months to begin construction, and a total of 36 months from closing to opening the doors.
“The City will be installing road and utility infrastructure to the site, with MLI completing on-site improvements, which include a 75-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott. The developer is considering including a small multi-tenant retail component to the project as well,” Flora explained in his report to the council.
Flora added, “This project, in addition to several other portions of the airport project that are nearing completion of negotiations, will be the first phase of the long-awaited redevelopment of the former Pearce Field. We expect to bring additional purchase and sale agreements before the Council in the coming months and the City plans to begin installing road and utility infrastructure at the site next spring.”
In other business, council members will discuss awarding a $55,000 contract to Chernoh Excavating Inc. for demolition of structures at 14525 Lakeshore Drive, the former Sunflower restaurant, as well as the award of a construction contract for the 2021 Measure V Pavement Rehabilitation Project to Granite Construction for the total amount of $2,023,121.50.
The council also will consider memorandums of understanding with employee groups, the Clearlake Miscellaneous Employees Association, the Clearlake Police Officers Association and the Clearlake Middle Management Association for the period of July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, along with updates to the management classification and benefits plan and city salary schedule.
Other items on the agenda include the annual financial report for fiscal year 2018-19, consideration of designation of voting delegates and alternates for the League of California Cities Annual Conference in September, and adoption of the first amendment to the fiscal year 2021-22 budgeting appropriating Caltrans Local Roadway Safety Plan Grant funding and Measure V Project funding.
On the meeting's consent agenda — items that are not considered controversial and are usually adopted on a single vote — are warrant registers; authorization for the city manager to enter into contracts with California Engineering Co. for design services for phase one of the Burns Valley Development Project, the Dam Road Extension and South Center Drive Project and the Second and Modoc Road Rehabilitation Project; notification of expiring committee appointments; consideration of continuation of declaration of local emergency issued on March 14, 2020, and ratified by council action March 19, 2020; consideration of continuation of declaration of local emergency issued on Oct. 9, 2017, and ratified by council action Oct. 12, 2017, in response to the Sulphur fire; adoption of Resolution 2021-36 and approval of sole source purchase of a seat wall from Universal Precast; a license agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for use of the Clearlake Community Senior Center as a customer resource center; and minutes of the June meetings.
Following the public portion of the meeting, the council will hold a closed session to discuss existing litigation against the county of Lake and AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp.
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