LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will consider taking a night off next month and spending it visiting with the community during the annual “National Night Out,” and also is expected to approve a contract with a firm for interim city attorney services.
The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
City Manager Margaret Silveira will ask the council to consider canceling the regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and instead participate in the National Night Out Community Block Party that night.
Silveira’s report to the council explained that the event would be an opportunity for the community to meet council members, staff and local emergency personnel at the Lakeport Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 600 16th St., which has volunteered its grounds and parking lot for the event.
She said the city would provide hot dogs and drinks, and a local service club has volunteered to do the cooking.
“Staff hopes to make this an annual event, which would be rotated to a different neighborhood each year,” Silveira said in her report.
In other council business, Public Works Director Mark Brannigan will take to the council a proposed resolution to amend the sewer user rates for commercial customers volume charge, established with Resolution No. 2463 (2012), increasing the allotted consumption amount from eight units to 10.
In public presentations, Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee Chair Wilda Shock will give the council an update on the committee’s activities, Lake County Water Resources Director Scott De Leon will discuss lakebed management with the council and the council will receive a report on the city’s July 4 events and operations.
On the consent agenda is a proposed contract with the law firm Colantuono & Levin – which is representing the city in its lawsuit against the county and the sheriff’s office over access to a law enforcement records system – for interim city attorney services.
Earlier this month, the council voted unanimously to terminate the contract of longtime City Attorney Steve Brookes, as Lake County News has reported.
The proposed contract calls for a monthly retainer fee of $6,000 for a minimum of 30 hours of work.
Other items on the consent agenda, which includes matters that are not considered controversial and which usually are accepted on one vote, are ordinances; warrants; minutes from the council’s July 2 meeting; building permit reports for April, May and June; an application for the Lakeport Yacht Club Catfish Derby; and appointment of Administrative Services Director Kelly Buendia as alternate to the REMIF Board.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss price and payment terms for a property currently under negotiation at 1400 South Main St., No. 12B.
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