How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council will consider making a minor adjustment to a fee increase for city solid waste services and discuss water-related issues when it meets this week.
The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
Documents for the meeting can be downloaded at http://www.cityoflakeport.com/departments/docs.aspx?deptID=88&;catID=102 or viewed below.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Utilities Director Mark Brannigan will take to the council a proposed resolution amending solid waste collection and disposal fees to be charged by Lakeport Disposal for collection, transportation, and disposal of solid waste and yard waste, and the handling of recycling materials for residential customers.
On Dec. 20 the council approved a 2.4-percent increase for solid waste collection that was scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, as Lake County News has reported.
The city’s consumer price index increase was based on the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area index for All Urban Consumers, which Brannigan reported is the city Finance Department’s index for inflationary increases.
However, according to Brannigan’s report, after that resolution for the fee increase was passed in December, “it became apparent that conflicting assumptions were made” between the index the city used and that used by Lakeport Disposal, which is the index for All Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, and is included in the agreement between the city and company.
While the city’s increase amounted to 2.4 percent, the index used by the company totaled 2.7 percent, or about $0.04 per month for a 20 gallon toter and $0.06 for a 32 gallon toter, according to Brannigan.
He’s proposing the council amend the resolution, adding that the Finance Department will amend the customer accounts to reflect the increase effective Jan. 1.
Also on Tuesday, Brannigan will ask the council to authorize Mayor Stacey Mattina to sign a memorandum of agreement with 17 other water agencies in Lake County to have a consultant produce the state-required "Sanitary and Source Water Assessment Survey of the Clear Lake Watershed Area."
The survey was first required to be completed in 2002. Brannigan reported that the agencies later partnered to complete the 2007 survey, and so are looking to work together again for the 2012 update.
“This survey is based on a physical inspection of the various water systems and how they are operated and maintained,” he wrote. “During a sanitary survey, a trained inspector, accompanied by a water system owner/operator, performs a field inspection of the water system. The inspector reviews water quality test data with the system and how/where water samples are taken to be sure the test results are representative and accurate.”
In more water-related action, Brannigan will ask the council to review a new Domestic Water Supply Permit issued to the city in December by the California Department of Public Health.
The agency has “strongly recommended that the issue of deferred maintenance of the water system and the vulnerability of the Scott’s Creek Wells be brought to the City Council’s attention,” Brannigan reported.
In other business on City Engineer Scott Harter will ask the council to adopt a resolution authorizing an application for the California Energy Commission's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
His report to the council said funds are available through the program for local governments to carry out cost-effective energy efficiency projects.
“The City is an eligible local government, and staff is pursuing a grant to provide funding for the conversion of our existing High Pressure Sodim (HPS) lights to LED lighting,” he wrote.
Harter reported that there are 94 existing decorative lights along Main Street, Park Street and Third Street, and 24 existing lights within Library Park which are eligible under the program.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss a case of pending litigation, Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 and Lakeport Police Officers Association v. City of Lakeport, Lakeport City Council (Lake County Superior Court Case No. CV410232).
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