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Lakeport City Council to discuss redistricting process for state and federal government representation
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda can be found here.
The council chambers will be open to the public for the meeting. In accordance with updated guidelines from the state of California and revised Cal OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards, persons who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 are required to wear a face covering at this meeting.
If you cannot attend in person, and would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the Zoom meeting remotely at this link or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799.
The webinar ID is 973 6820 1787, access code is 477973; the audio pin will be shown after joining the webinar. Those phoning in without using the web link will be in “listen mode” only and will not be able to participate or comment.
Comments can be submitted by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To give the city clerk adequate time to print out comments for consideration at the meeting, please submit written comments before 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Indicate in the email subject line "for public comment" and list the item number of the agenda item that is the topic of the comment. Comments that are read to the council will be subject to the three minute time limitation (approximately 350 words). Written comments that are only to be provided to the council and not read at the meeting.
The main item on the Tuesday agenda is a discussion regarding the California Citizens Redistricting Commission’s redistricting process, which takes place every 10 years based on the U.S. Census results.
Staff is asking the council for direction on prioritizing redistricting efforts to ensure that Lake County is not split into separate districts and to keep Lake County aligned with its strategic
agricultural and economic partners of Sonoma and Napa counties.
Over the past three weeks, the commission has released several “visualizations” — or scenarios — of potential groupings and then issued draft maps last week.
In his report to the council, City Manager Kevin Ingram explained, “Since the City Council’s last meeting the visualization maps have once again been updated and contain drastic changes compared to those reviewed previously by the City Council. Most notably the most recent visualization maps from November 8th show the County divided into two Congressional districts
with Lakeport and the north county in a district encompassing a large portion of the NE section of California including Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, Trinity, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Modoc, Shasta, Butte, Lassen and a portion of Sutter counties. By contrast, Clearlake and the southern portion of the County are in a district with Napa, Yolo and Solano counties.”
Ingram added, “It seems likely that additional visualization maps will be published over the next few weeks that may again include significant changes to Lake County’s representational districts. As such, rather than attempt to prepare specific comments to any one set of visualization map set, staff would recommend the Council iterate its priority objectives for the community to better enable staff to respond to subsequent map changes proposed by the Commission. This way staff could craft a tailored response to each proposal mapping change and ensure that the City of Lakeport’s voice is presented to the Commission”
In other business, the council also will consider authorizing the cancellation of the regular meeting on Dec. 21.
On the consent agenda — items usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the council’s regular meeting on Nov. 2; the Nov. 5 warrant register; adoption of a resolution authorizing continued remote teleconference meetings of the Lakeport City Council and its legislative bodies pursuant to Government Code section 54953(e); confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the COVID-19 public health emergency; approval of event application 2021-014, amended to request the closure of Second Street between Forbes and Main Streets, to cancel the closure of Main Street between Third and Fourth Streets, and to add a sled hill/slide to the Dickens Faire event.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss a case of existing litigation, City of Lakeport et al. v. Amerisourcebergen Drug Corporation et al., and a potential case.
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