LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lakeport City Council this week is set to consider awarding the construction project for the city’s new Lakefront Park.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, 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. Masks are highly encouraged where 6-foot distancing cannot be maintained.
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.
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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, July 19.
On Tuesday, Public Works Superintendent Ron Ladd will present to the council a construction services agreement with Builder Solutions Inc.
The new park consists of approximately 6.9 acres at 800 and 801 N. Main St.
Ladd’s report said the city received two bids for the project, which were opened on July 12.
Builder Solutions Inc. was the lowest of two bids submitted at $4,399,381. The engineer’s estimate for the project was $4,237,401, Ladd said.
He said construction is estimated to start in early September and be complete mid-January 2023.
In February 2020 the city received a $5.9 million grant to purchase the land and build the park from the California Department of Parks and Recreation in January 2020 through Proposition 68, the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, as Lake County News has reported.
“After two years of design, the project is ready for construction,” Ladd wrote.
Ladd said the project includes construction of a basketball court, splash pad, skate park, concession building with restrooms, shade structures, picnic areas, fitness equipment, a pavilion, lighting, irrigation and landscaping.
The bids were opened July 12, 2022. Two bids were received for the project.
Also on Tuesday, the council will consider adopting a resolution setting the storm drainage special tax at twenty cents per square foot of area covered by the new structure and related impermeable surface.
On the consent agenda — items usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on June 21; 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); warrants; approve event application 2022-020, with staff recommendations, for the 2022 Konocti Challenge.
After the open portion of the meeting, the council will meet in closed session to discuss labor negotiations with the Lakeport Police Officers Association.
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Lakeport City Council to consider awarding contract for Lakefront Park construction
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