LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will get an update from the county Public Health officer on COVID-19, consider upcoming events and discuss an application for federal grant money to respond to the pandemic.
The meeting will take place via webinar beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 5.
To speak on an agenda item, access the meeting remotely here or join by phone by calling 415-930-5229 or toll-free, 877-309-2074. The access code is 620-529-293; the audio pin will be shown after joining the webinar. Those phoning in without using the web link will be in “listen mode” only and will not be able to participate or comment.
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 prior to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5.
Please indicate in the email subject line "for public comment" and list the item number of the agenda item that is the topic of the comment. Comments that read to the council will be subject to the three minute time limitation (approximately 350 words). Written comments that are only to be provided to the council and not read at the meeting will be distributed to the council prior to the meeting.
On Tuesday, the council is scheduled to get a presentation from Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace on the current progress in containing the COVID-19 outbreak in Lake County. Pace had been set to speak to the council at its last meeting in April but had a time conflict.
In council business, City Manager Margaret Silveira is asking the council to review the application for the July 18 Rhythm & Brews event and other similar events using public areas in light of shelter in place orders.
“Staff is seeking direction in processing and scheduling events using public areas in Lakeport in the upcoming months. Since March 18, Shelter-in-Place orders have been instituted in Lake County to help stop the spread of COVID-19. It is likely that some type of order will continue through the summer months, making it difficult to respond to public requests for events and the subsequent street closures,” Silveira wrote in her report to the council.
Options for the council to consider include denying the Rhythm & Brews event, approving it with staff recommendations, or directing staff to cancel all events scheduled for May through September.
In other business, the council will consider the proposed resolution adopting the Eleventh Street Corridor Multimodal Engineered Feasibility Study and make a recommendation that the Lake Area Planning Council also adopt the proposed Study.
Staff also will ask the council to proceed with the preparation of a Community Development Block Grant application for $70,681 in aid through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act.
On the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on April 21 and the special council meeting on April 24; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the Mendocino Complex fire; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the February 2019 storms; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the October 2019 public safety power shutoff; confirmation of the continuing existence of a local emergency for the COVID-19 public health emergency; and receipt and filing of the draft minutes of the regular meeting on April 22 of the Measure Z Advisory Committee.
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