LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lakeport City Council is set to consider raising water and sewer rates for city residents, as well as approval of a lease for a portion of the Carnegie Library.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda can be found here.
The council chambers will be open to the public for the meeting. In accordance with updated guidelines from the state of California and revised Cal OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards, persons who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 are required to wear a face covering at this meeting.
If you cannot attend in person, and would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the Zoom meeting remotely at this link or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799.
The webinar ID is 973 6820 1787, access code is 477973; 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 before 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
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 are 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 before the meeting.
The council will meet new Lakeport Police Officer Katie Hutchins and present a proclamation designating October 2021 Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
On the agenda is a public hearing during which the council will receive written protests of the proposed rates, to be followed by adoption of resolutions to establish new water and wastewater rates to go into effect on Nov. 1.
Based on the proposed increases, over five years, an average single-family residential water customer with a monthly flow of 800 cubic feet has an existing bill of $53.09 would see their costs increase to $71.49 by the fifth year for water, and would go from $74.25 to $86.05 over that time period for water.
In other business, City Manager Kevin Ingram will take to the council a proposed one-year lease with the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center, or CLERC, for the reuse of the Carnegie Library building for the development of an environmental research center and associated labs and offices.
The proposed lease calls for the nonprofit to pay $850 a month for the use of the building. The city will cover the costs of electricity, water, sewer and trash.
“As the building has not been utilized in several years it is not clear what the true costs for utilities at this site are at this time. Both the City and CLERC have agreed to revisit the allocation of costs prior to the expiration of the lease term once the parties have data on the actual costs associated with CLERC’s use of the building,” Ingram said in his report.
Also on Tuesday, Police Chief Brad Rasmussen will ask the council to approve a Crisis Intervention Responder Program and authorize him and the city manager to finalize details and sign a memorandum of understanding with Lake Family Resource Center.
On the consent agenda — items usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on Oct. 5; and approval of the side letter agreement with the Unrepresented Employees Compensation and Benefits Program adopted Sept. 7, 2021.
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Lakeport City Council to consider new water and sewer rates, Carnegie Library lease
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