LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will meet to discuss the city's midyear budget review, committee appointments and litigation.
The council will meet for a closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
In closed session the council will discuss two cases of litigation: Smith et al. v. Chapman, et al., filed by Kerry Smith and Lake County Mobilehome Park Owners Association against the city and the council over two initiatives set to go on ballots later this year that would establish rent control in senior mobile home parks; and City of Lakeport v. County of Lake et al., filed by the city last year after Sheriff Frank Rivero cut off Lakeport Police's access to a shared records information management system.
The council will convene in open session at 6 p.m.
Finance Director Dan Buffalo will present to the council the midyear budget review.
Buffalo is proposing an amendment to increase appropriations by $148,123 over a number of funds.
Also on the Tuesday agenda, council members will consider appointing Pam Harpster to fill one of the vacancies on the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee.
Two applications – from Suzanne Lyons, a former council member, and Earlene Drapeau – also have been received to fill an open spot on the Parks and Recreation Commission.
On the meeting's consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances, minutes of the regular Jan. 21 meeting and a special Jan. 23 meeting, the Jan. 22 warrant register, approval of the application submitted by the Corvettes of Lake County for its May 25 car show and approval of the Rotary Club of Lakeport's October Konocti Challenge bicycle event.
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