The council will meet at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, to discuss closed session items including a performance evaluation of City Manager Margaret Silveira and negotiations with the Lakeport Police Officers Association before the council convenes in open session at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
On the agenda is a request from Community Development Director Kevin Ingram to authorize the city manager to sign a contract change order with ENGIE Services to complete the citywide solar and energy efficiency retrofit project.
The project includes numerous tasks, including replacing HVAC units, updating lighting in Library Park and along Main Street with LED fixtures, and constructing solar facilities at several city facilities and an electric vehicle charging station in the City Hall parking lot, to name a few, according to Ingram’s report.
“Significant progress is being made towards the completion of this project. HVAC units and retrofitting of indoor lighting has been completed or is nearing completion at all involved City facilities. The conversion of downtown and park lighting to LED is expected to be completed in April and the solar canopy facility at the Corporation Yard has been constructed. Remaining solar canopies and arrays will begin moving forward when weather improves,” Ingram wrote in his report.
He said the principal need for the proposed contract change order involves the recent acquisition of the old Bank of America Building, located by 500 N. Main St., which was not anticipated when the original ENGIE contract was approved.
Discussions between city staff and ENGIE Services have led to the determination that greater energy efficiencies can be achieved for the city by building a solar canopy array at the bank building site in lieu of the construction of a canopy array over the public parking lot adjacent to city hall. Ingram said the updated project would allow a larger solar array to be built.
That and some other minor project changes have resulted in a request for a contract change order totaling $86,900. Ingram’s report said the original contract price was $4,480,417. With the addition of this $86,900 contract change order the total revised contract price is $4,567,317.
He said the bond issuance for the completion of this project included an approximate total of $4.59 million. “There are adequate bond proceeds to cover the cost of this proposed contract change order.”
Also on the agenda is approval of a purchase of SmartGov permit tracking software and authorization for the city manager to sign a licensing agreement with Dude Solutions.
On the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; the minutes of the regular meeting on March 5; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the Mendocino Complex fire; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the February storms; approval of event application 2019-010, with staff recommendations, for the 2019 Camp & Shine VW Car Show; approval of event application 2019-011, with staff recommendations, for the 2019 Child Festival in the Park; adoption of a resolution supporting the 2020 Census efforts.
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031919 Lakeport City Council agenda packet by LakeCoNews on Scribd