CLEARLAKE, Calif. – This week the Clearlake City Council will hold a strategic plan workshop ahead of its regular meeting, during which items will include appointing a planning commissioner.
The council will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, for a strategic plan and bond allocation review in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
At 5:30 p.m., the council will go into a closed session to discuss property negotiations for 14130 Tuli Lane, labor negotiations and the city’s lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. before the regular meeting opens at 6 p.m.
On the regular meeting agenda is the appointment of a planning commissioner to fill the unexpired term, ending in March 2023, of Dirk Slooten, who was elected to the Clearlake City Council in November and took his seat on the council the following months.
City Clerk Melissa Swanson’s report to the council explained that the city has received applications from three interested community members: Steve Gibson, Erin McCarrick and Lisa Wilson.
Staff is recommending the council interview all three candidates at the meeting. The council’s selection would then be appointed by a motion and majority vote of the council, Swanson said.
In other business, the council will discuss an agreement with California Engineering Contractors Inc. to provide city engineering services for a term of three years in an amount not to exceed $300,000; will consider adopting an urgency ordinance related to the issuance, handling, appeals and penalties of administrative citations; and hold the first reading of an ordinance to add a new subsection to the municipal code relating to electric and electronic access gates.
The council also will get an update on energy efficiency upgrades at City Hall and the senior/community center; discuss planning commissioner stipends; and consider appointments to the ad hoc committees to discuss homelessness issues and commercial cannabis.
Also on Thursday, the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce will present its annual report.
On the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are warrant registers; consideration of continuation of a local emergency issued on Oct. 9, 2017, and ratified by council action Oct. 12, 2017; minutes of the Nov. 8 and 19, and the Dec. 3, 6 and 13 meetings; minute of the Dec. 12 Lake County Vector Control Board meeting; and the second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 219-2019, an uncodified ordinance approving a development agreement with Brian Galperin for property located at 14915 Olympic Drive, Unit K.
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