CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The Clearlake City Council is set to consider tribal consultation guidelines and an updated contract for the police chief.

The council will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

The agenda can be found here.

The meeting will be broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel or the Lake County PEGTV YouTube Channel.

Community members also can participate via Zoom. The webinar ID is 833 4262 8911, the pass code is 355701. One tap mobile is available at +16694449171,,83342628911#, or join by phone at 669-444-9171 or 253-205-0468.

On Thursday’s agenda is a discussion and consideration of the council’s adoption of tribal consultation guidelines.

City Manager Alan Flora’s report to the council asks members to “consider amending the City’s current environmental guidelines to include more detail on management of tribal cultural resources and consultation.”

He said that in 2016 the city adopted a set of environmental guidelines that included an appendix titled, “Native American Tribal Consultation Program,” to implement the requirements of AB 52 from 2015.

He said the council has been in a consultation process on the updated guidelines since October 2022.

“While in large part consultation and coordination between the City as lead agency and the tribes has worked quite well, that has not always been the case,” said Flora, a reference to several lawsuits the city is in that were filed by the Koi Nation, one of three tribes with ancestral ties to the city.

“Staff hoped that by adopting a more comprehensive policy framework related to tribal cultural resources would result in more predictability, less room for disagreement, and a more streamlined and economical project completion,” Flora wrote.

“The draft policy before you has undergone many iterations, but has ultimately been brought back in a format that more comprehensively summarizes the existing requirements of the City under state and federal law, but does not significantly expand the City’s responsibilities beyond those requirements,” Flora’s report stated.

In other business on Thursday, the council will consider an amendment to the employment contract with Police Chief Tim Hobbs to add a longevity incentive.

Hobbs has been police chief since January 2023.

Also on Thursday, there will be a presentation of certificates of appreciation to trunk or treat volunteers and donors, consideration of the 2024-25 salary schedule, and the introduction and first reading of three proposed new ordinances for fire mitigation fees, fire hydrant inspection and testing requirements and establishment of standards for relocation of underground utilities in the public right-of-way.

On the meeting's consent agenda — items that are considered routine in nature and usually adopted on a single vote — are warrants; City Council minutes; minutes of the Oct. 9 Lake County Vector Control District Board meeting; adoption of amendments to the council’s norms and procedures; the second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 272-2024, an ordinance establishing Article 6-10 of the Clearlake Municipal Code regulating tobacco retailers; and continuation of the director of emergency services/city manager proclamation declaring a local emergency for winter storms.

The council also will hold a closed session to discuss Kathleen Sherlock’s liability claim against the city.

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