LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Board of Supervisors this week will ask the US Small Business Administration to extend assistance to tribal governments and their casinos, which are suffering impacts from closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and also will consider shortening the window for abatement of nuisance vegetation.
The board will meet virtually beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8 and online on the county’s Facebook page or at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
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At 9:06 a.m., the board will present proclamations designating the month of April 2020 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Lake County and the week of April 12 to 18, 2020 as National Public Safety Dispatcher Week.
At 9:10 a.m., Public Health Dr. Gary Pace will give the board his weekly update on the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an untimed item, Supervisor Rob Brown is asking the board to consider sending a letter to the US Small Business Administration in support of local tribal casinos being able to apply for assistance through the Paycheck Protection Program.
Currently, tribal government-owned gaming businesses and their employees are prevented from seeking economic support under the newly-established Paycheck Protection Program.
The board’s proposed letter said that rule “directly conflicts with both the text and overarching goals of the CARES Act,” also known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
Two board members, Chair Moke Simon and Supervisor EJ Crandell, are in the tribal leadership of Middletown Rancheria and Robinson Rancheria, respectively, which own casinos that are closed in response to state and local shelter in place orders.
In another untimed item, the board also will consider an urgency ordinance establishing a temporary exception to certain nuisance abatement notice requirements of Chapter 13 of the Lake County Code relating to the nuisance abatement process.
The urgency ordinance states: “For the period of April 15, 2020 through July 15, 2020, when the County Fire Official serves a Notice of Nuisance and Order to Abate pursuant to Section 13-62.1.2 of the Lake County Code as a result of a public nuisance caused by hazardous vegetation, the thirty (30) day period for the property owner to self abate described in that section shall be modified to provide that said notice shall order that hazardous vegetation must be abated within fifteen (15) days.”
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Approve letter of support for Hope Rising’s Center for Transformation and authorize Supervisor Scott to sign on behalf of the board.
5.2: Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meetings from Jan. 7, Jan. 28, Feb. 4, Feb. 25 and March 17, 2020.
5.3: Approve budget transfer for capital asset improvements in the amount of $85,000 to pay Garland Co. for roofing materials and authorize the chair to sign.
5.4: Approve late travel claim for Mental Health Services Act Team Leader Carrie Manning in the amount of $216.81 and authorize the auditor-controller to process payment.
5.5: Adopt proclamation designating the month of April 2020 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Lake County.
5.6: Approve public nuisance abatement contracts for the following service vendors, (a) JDM Earthworks for an amount not to exceed $150,000, (b) Cook Construction Engineering Partnership for an amount not to exceed $150,000 and (c) Leonard’s Hauling Services for an amount not to exceed $200,000 and for a term from March 17, 2020, to June 30, 2022 and authorize chair to sign.
5.7: Adopt resolution accepting official canvass of the presidential primary election held on March 3, 2020, and declaring county supervisors duly elected.
5.8: Authorize the closure of the Eastlake Sanitary Landfill until the county of Lake Health officer rescinds the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order.
5.9: Approve agreement for Federal Apportionment Exchange Program and State Match Program for California Department of Transportation - Non MPO County, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.10: Adopt proclamation designating the week of April 12-18, 2020, as National Public Safety Dispatcher Week.
5.11: Approve first amendment to the contract between county of Lake and Lake Family Resource Center for Cal-Learn Teen Parenting Services in the amount of $50,000 for the term of July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.12: Adopt resolution approving the Standard Agreement #19-5042 between the county of Lake and California Department of Social Services for Resource Family Approval Program services and authorizing the director of Social Services to sign the standard agreement.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:06 a.m.: (a) Presentation of proclamation designating the month of April 2020 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Lake County; and (b) presentation of proclamation designating the week of April 12 to 18, 2020 as National Public Safety Dispatcher Week.
6.3, 9:10 a.m.: Consideration of update on COVID-19.
6.4, 9:30 a.m.: Public hearing: Continued from March 24, this item will be continued to May 19, appeal to Board of Supervisors, AB 19-03 for Minor Use Permit MUP 18-10 (Sandtner/Frey).
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of letter to SBA in support of the needs of local tribes due to the COVID-19 crisis.
7.3: Consideration of proposed findings of fact and decision in the appeal of Lake County Local (AB -19-07).
7.4: Consideration of an urgency ordinance establishing a temporary exception to certain nuisance abatement notice requirements of Chapter 13 of the Lake County Code.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Conference with labor negotiator: (a) chief negotiator: M. Long; county negotiators: C. Huchingson and P. Samac; and (b) employee organizations: LCDDAA, LCDSA, LCCOA, LCEA, LCSEA and LCSMA.
8.2: Public employee evaluation: Public Health officer.
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Supervisors to ask SBA to consider help for tribal casinos; board will consider shorter nuisance abatement window
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