[2:10] uh it's a workshop we're first a roll call

[2:15] listen council member clappy

[2:19] here council member overton councilmember

[2:22] kramer here vice mayor burdock here here

[2:27] all right we go to the burns valley development project workshop

[2:31] mr flora to start off this

[2:35] yeah so um

[2:38] so this is going to be kind of in two parts we're going to start

[2:42] by introducing um

[2:45] brian whitmore who's with studio w architects and so

[2:49] the city of clear lake the city of lakeport and the county of lake over the

[2:53] last well quite a few months have been

[2:57] working with brian's team on developing a recreation

[3:02] feasibility study for the entire county so um

[3:07] this is the first of the presentations to the governmental agencies about this

[3:12] report so you're the first to see it and then

[3:15] hopefully we have some time at the end to kind of go over

[3:18] the draft site plan that we've been working with the burns valley sports

[3:22] complex committee on so with that i'd like to turn over to to

[3:28] brian and michael to go over the plan well good evening everyone i'm

[3:33] brian whitmore i'm with studio w architects can you hear me okay this

[3:37] evening yes

[3:39] wonderful yes okay i'm joined here this evening by uh mike

[3:43] gelato mike is with shellato training and consulting mike you want to give a

[3:47] just a brief introduction yourself

[3:51] sure um i retired from the city of roseville in

[3:55] 2010 i'm in the last year or so i was serving the city manager but prior to

[4:00] that most of my career was either as the director of parks recreation libraries

[4:05] or assistant city manager still doing parks recreational library so

[4:09] um since retiring i worked with a number of jurisdictions on feasibility studies

[4:16] operational analysis strategic plans have a lot of familiarity working with

[4:21] both aquatic centers and recreation centers not only in my city with the

[4:25] city of roosevelt but in the agencies i've worked with subsequently

[4:32] then i see dennis has joined us as well from aquatic design group dennis you

[4:36] want to give a brief introduction to yourself

[4:38] thanks brian yes good evening hi i'm dennis berkshire with aquatic

[4:42] design group aquatic design group is an architectural engineering firm that

[4:47] specializes in public recreational water systems and and facilities

[4:53] we've been in practice since 1984 and and have designed more than

[4:59] 3 500 facilities across the us through

[5:03] 42 states and 24 countries

[5:09] great i'm gonna share my screen here and hopefully you folks can see this okay

[5:14] can you see my screen yeah all right

[5:18] so we we have a presentation here i just wanted to share with you our three

[5:23] entities studio w architects aquatic design group enchilada training and

[5:27] consulting are the consultants that put together uh this report uh this is a

[5:32] high level overview of the report the report itself at least for phase one we

[5:36] have a two part phase one and phase two component

[5:40] to the study we were

[5:43] given the green light to move forward on phase one

[5:46] which includes some of the items here i'll go through today

[5:50] but we will offer that report for everybody for review uh following this

[5:54] presentation this is the first by the way of three presentations that we

[5:58] expect to give both to you folks at the city of clear lake uh the city of

[6:02] lakeport and also lake county so the agenda here this evening we're

[6:07] going to talk briefly about the purpose and the process that we embarked on

[6:11] for phase one we've identified a number of partners

[6:16] that is known throughout the report as the lake

[6:19] county recreation task force and then also other resources

[6:23] that were available we went through some programming with

[6:26] that team to identify some of the needs both for recreational facility and an

[6:31] aquatics facility now i will mention that there was some

[6:35] difference between sort of the interests uh on aquatics as it relates to sort of

[6:39] lakeport and the rest of the county versus the city of or the area of clear

[6:43] lake and we'll talk about that in this

[6:46] presentation we did some very high level capital cost

[6:50] estimates and also cost recovery trends we looked at various management

[6:55] structures how a recreation center or aquatic center of this kind might be

[7:00] managed funding opportunities that exist and

[7:03] project location opportunities that exist and we'll talk about next steps

[7:09] so the purpose of the phase one study was really to explore the feasibility of

[7:13] a recreation and or aquatic center in lake county

[7:18] identify the marketability of the facility that is its need identify

[7:22] programmatic features such as to identify its capital costs and and

[7:27] potential cost recovery and then identifying management structure funding

[7:32] and location opportunities the process began on march 24th

[7:37] we held regular meetings with a large contingent of what we're considering

[7:42] that lake county recreation task force we facilitate facilitated tight site

[7:47] tours on april 13th so we toured multiple

[7:51] sites both in clear lake and in lakeport so throughout the county

[7:57] we schedule presentations tonight and we have subsequent presentations for the

[8:01] city of lakeport on august 3rd and august 10th up for the county of lake

[8:08] uh these were the partners that were identified and actually

[8:12] the task force had done a pretty good job of putting these folks together even

[8:15] prior to when we got selected so from a local government agency

[8:20] standpoint we have lake county city of lakeport city of clear lake and lake

[8:25] county office of education the school districts included lakeport

[8:29] unified school district connected unified school district

[8:33] upper lake unified mendocino college and woodland community college now some of

[8:38] these folks were very active in the process and offered a lot of information

[8:43] some of these folks were simply on the email list

[8:47] and were provided information as we went through the process

[8:50] but certainly these could be considered partners especially when we start to

[8:53] look at funding opportunities and other mechanisms of joint use or

[8:57] other capacities we move forward some of the local community

[9:01] organizations that we're identifying include first five of lake county

[9:05] lake family resource center the lake county channel cats this is sort of the

[9:10] local aquatics team hope rising

[9:15] the west side park committee which is the committee focused on the westside

[9:18] park area of lakeport redwood community services

[9:23] we also identified healthcare providers we see a lot of healthcare organizations

[9:28] becoming involved with recreation aquatics facilities across the state

[9:32] and you have a number of them here locally sutter health adventist health

[9:35] and also tribal health and one of the things that we identified

[9:39] although they weren't involved at the task force level

[9:43] were some of the additional resources that could be lent from some of the

[9:46] tribes that are identified here

[9:49] and so we tried to identify all of the local tribes

[9:53] that have at least some some hand in the lake county region

[9:59] part of the process that we went through was trying to identify a program really

[10:02] identify what were the needs when you start to identify recreational uses and

[10:07] also aquatic uses across the county and this

[10:12] spreadsheet identifies at least for the recreational center

[10:16] some of the items that came up so some sort of large multi-use indoor

[10:22] court type of facility so for basketball and volleyball

[10:25] would probably have maybe an 84 by 50 main court

[10:29] cross courts those sorts of things racquetball courts

[10:33] cardio and weights area some sort of training rooms

[10:38] either for yoga other sort of specialized classes

[10:42] those kinds of things perhaps a game area a billiards

[10:47] other sorts of smaller games those kinds of things card room

[10:50] other elements that bring folks from a variety of different age

[10:54] groups to a recreational center

[10:57] obviously we have a lot of support types of spaces restroom facilities entry

[11:01] reception locker room type of facilities custodial storage

[11:05] equipment and circulation and so generally speaking we looked at sort of

[11:09] if we identify gross areas for these kinds of things how big of a facility

[11:13] might be we might we'd be looking at and so what this dictates is right

[11:18] around 15 000 square foot facility which is not

[11:23] insignificant in size but it's certainly not

[11:26] you know large by comparison to some of the examples that we'll share with you a

[11:29] little later in this presentation

[11:33] likewise from the standpoint of aquatics and i'll give dennis a opportunity to

[11:37] jump in here but i'll just go through a brief recap

[11:40] we identified a variety of different aquatic opportunities

[11:43] and pool configurations we identified four different

[11:47] options those options have

[11:50] varying requirements when it comes to both the bath house and support building

[11:54] so obviously the larger the pool facility

[11:57] the larger the support facilities that go along with that as well as the pool

[12:01] deck area this was option one this is a 4 800

[12:05] an 80 square foot pool featuring a 75 foot long by 40 foot wide 45 foot wide

[12:12] lap area with the teaching peninsula the city of patterson is a good example

[12:16] of a pool of this kind and this was one of the options that was

[12:20] looked at when we looked at sort of the area need

[12:23] necessary for a pool pool deck and bath house and support of this kind of pool

[12:28] by comparison option two was around a 5700 square foot pool

[12:33] featuring a 75 long by 75 foot wide lap area for 10

[12:37] 25 yard lanes yuba city gaucher park in yuba city was

[12:42] the example a case study that we used featuring this pool

[12:47] in each one of these cases i'll mention as well aquatic design group also put

[12:51] together cost information is related to

[12:54] maintaining and operating these pools not just capital costs and that's part

[12:58] of the report that we put together also

[13:02] option three is a 5800 square foot 78 foot long by 45 foot wide lap area

[13:08] for a nine lane um essentially a nine 25 yard lane with six feet of deep water uh

[13:14] for various other forms of competition this was the largest of the options and

[13:20] consequently obviously the largest in terms of pool deck area

[13:24] and supporting area this facility is currently designed as

[13:28] part of north natomas community center aquatics complex this is in sacramento

[13:32] and this was a project uh that started actually as a feasibility study back in

[13:36] 2014 that's currently under construction um so it gives you a good idea of just

[13:41] you know how many years in the process there

[13:44] that it took from sort of where we're at today

[13:46] to where they were able to build a community center

[13:49] and aquatic center and then finally a fourth option a 3 500

[13:54] square foot pool featuring a 75 foot long by 45 foot wide lap area

[13:59] for 6 25 yard lanes this was the the smallest of the

[14:04] configurations and therefore the smallest in terms of its area need

[14:09] we also identified spray ground there was some desire of the ability that in

[14:14] an aquatics program somewhere in lake county to have uh not only just a single

[14:18] body of water but perhaps a second body of water that would allow for

[14:22] uh playtime activities and activities for smaller children that aren't yet

[14:27] ready to swim so this all of these options include a 2

[14:31] 000 square foot playgrounds essentially 50 by 4

[14:35] parking is largely dictated by the size of the pool the size of the

[14:39] deck area obviously in the rec center configuration

[14:42] parking would be dictated solely by the rec center

[14:45] but we did identify the needs for parking

[14:48] and so based on sort of these very high level programmatic needs

[14:52] we looked at uh dollar per square foot cost so costs ranging from the rec

[14:57] center to probably somewhere around 500 a square foot

[15:01] to the pool the spray ground the bath house pool deck area the parking area

[15:05] the site pool equipment and site infrastructure

[15:09] these costs range from anywhere from about 14 to

[15:13] maybe 15 or 16 million dollars in construction we did add contingency we

[15:17] did ad escalation for a number of years trying to be conservative and then soft

[15:21] costs at around 25 so what you see here is that you know all the needs that were

[15:26] sort of identified through this study add up to somewhere around 22

[15:31] 21 to 22 million dollars depending on the options and the

[15:35] configurations that you look at and then just by comparison and really

[15:41] for the purposes of the city of clear lake

[15:45] because there wasn't maybe as much of a desire for aquatics program

[15:49] in the clear lake area just looking at the potential of a

[15:52] recreation center with its own parking and site infrastructure you know

[15:56] probably closer to the eight to nine million dollars in construction 12

[16:00] million dollars in total project costs with soft costs

[16:03] there as well

[16:06] cost recovery trends this was something that mike shelton put together

[16:11] based on understanding of similar facility operation what we did was we

[16:14] looked at a number of different facilities

[16:17] most of these facilities are larger in size than what was identified there you

[16:22] can see roseville sports center there is

[16:25] probably the closest at 23 000 square feet

[16:29] mill valley community center and indoor pool some of these are simply rec

[16:32] centers some of them include rec centers and pool facilities but what you see

[16:36] there is a range of cost recovery the cd star community center and indoor

[16:42] pool being probably the worst in terms of

[16:45] cost recovery at about 37 and then

[16:49] the incline village recreation center an indoor pool there in nevada on the north

[16:54] side of lake tahoe being one of the best at 102

[16:58] but what you see here is a funding subsidy and this is an annualized

[17:03] funding subsidy of anywheres from you know a hundred

[17:06] thousand dollars actually twenty seven thousand dollars in inclines case uh to

[17:10] somewhere over a million for cv star um what we would expect maybe with a

[17:14] smaller facility and an average maybe 78 is the average

[17:19] here of these areas identified or these buildings

[17:23] identified maybe you're looking at a couple hundred

[17:25] thousand dollars each year in subsidy uh in terms of cost recovery

[17:30] and so that is really what sort of revenue are you generating in terms of

[17:34] you know sales of tickets uh other kinds of entry fees that sort of thing

[17:39] um other types of special events and then what sort of actual revenue are you

[17:43] generating in terms of maintenance operation uh et cetera mike do you want

[17:47] to add anything here no i think in trying to benchmark what

[17:52] uh rec centers and and or pools for this thing we looked at not only

[17:58] size but the scope of the work so the fitness the components of brian went

[18:03] over in terms of the program for the building are pretty similar in some

[18:07] cases because of buildings at 35 000 square feet or 30 thousand

[18:11] they have other amenities or facilities agora hills

[18:16] has some

[18:18] multi-purpose room banquet rooms that are part of that center mill valley also

[18:23] has some community center meeting rooms that are bigger

[18:26] agora hills as a climbing wall roseau sports center has a climbing wall but

[18:31] generally speaking the the program for the buildings that we use in the

[18:35] benchmark uh were similar

[18:40] so then we start to look at management structures actually after we start to

[18:44] identify what's the potential need um you know what are we looking at in

[18:49] terms of potential cost and cost recovery

[18:52] we were asked to take a look at you know how might lake county and or various

[18:57] partners within lake county manage a facility of this kind and we identified

[19:01] four different options hopefully some of these you're familiar

[19:05] with mike maybe if you want to jump in and

[19:07] talk briefly about uh just joint development use agreement versus joint

[19:11] powers authority and then i'll switch the other sure

[19:14] the the um the first being the one i'm obviously most familiar with is the

[19:19] roosevelt aquatic center um the the pool that you see in the picture is built on

[19:23] a a 200 acre park that sits immediately adjacent to a high school in roosevelt

[19:30] one of the high schools in roseville in this case the school district

[19:33] contributed over a million dollars towards the construction of the pool

[19:38] as well as some other joint use facilities in the park site so lighted

[19:42] ball fields and some things the city roosevelt has a long history of joint

[19:46] use facilities with the

[19:49] all four different school districts in this case the high school district

[19:53] and the um this the part of the agreement provided for ongoing

[19:58] funding operations from the school district to fund the

[20:02] operation of the pool and that's fairly normal

[20:05] in this case it's roosevelt but there's a number of other examples where

[20:10] joint used parks and pools are built together and in some cases

[20:15] normally the lead is where the property where the pool is built on and then the

[20:20] other part of the other joint used party contributes both to construction and

[20:24] ongoing operation um the uh i worked with the agora hills

[20:29] calabasas community center which was pretty unique it was a joint powers

[20:34] authority between the cities of calabasas and the city of glory hills

[20:38] and they got some money they had some land from the la county

[20:43] and then did some other fundraising and

[20:46] contributions between both of those agencies

[20:50] it's run by the jpa which is its own entity uh

[20:55] although both the cities of calabasas and the city of agora hills

[20:59] creates an annual contribution um to offset the operating costs of the

[21:04] facility this facility does really well in terms of

[21:08] in a normal non-coveted year but in a regular year

[21:11] they do a really good job of really being pretty close to 100 cost recovery

[21:16] it's a bigger facility but it's extremely well utilized um

[21:20] in those two jurisdictions but the jpa was the model by which it was both

[21:25] funded for development and continues to be funded by jpa the jpa board is made

[21:31] up of a couple of council members from each of the respective cities as well as

[21:35] other citizens at large that might be from the park and recreation commission

[21:39] and then citizens at large that manage the jpa

[21:44] i think the city of i don't want to get this wrong one of

[21:48] the cities is responsible for doing payroll

[21:51] but then the funding comes from the jpa itself

[21:55] the other model cv star uh community center i worked

[22:00] with this jurisdiction actually to do uh operational analysis to try to improve

[22:04] their overall utilization and cost recovery um this is really pretty

[22:09] spectacular facility that came from some both private donations and from a

[22:14] foundation that allowed it to be built it was

[22:18] i think probably about 40 million dollars so it's a pretty expansive

[22:21] facilities but but it's run by the mendocino coast recreation and park

[22:26] district which is a relatively small agency up by fort bragg

[22:31] and what they realized early on once it was opened that they really couldn't

[22:36] cover a lot of their operating costs so the city of fort bragg uh

[22:40] entered into an agreement with the mendocino coast recreation park district

[22:44] and then passed a tax override measure to provide the ongoing

[22:50] subsidy for this operation because it really wasn't covering its operating

[22:55] costs so you see that's although it has the largest

[22:59] subsidy if you will in terms of operating costs that's

[23:02] actually funded via the

[23:05] tax measure that was used to offset the operating cost

[23:09] the last is um the special district for recreation we

[23:14] were asked to look at that so we looked at

[23:17] the turkey donor park and recreation district up out of truckee and they

[23:21] built a fairly large recreation center and then just two years ago opened a

[23:25] large indoor pool complex um and that was funded by

[23:30] um the funding from the the local recreation and park district

[23:35] that they have as well as they got some other monies

[23:38] from gosh the airport district and a couple

[23:41] other areas uh it it generally does really

[23:45] well in terms of cost recovery uh the facilities this one has a large gym has

[23:50] a couple of meeting rooms fitness facilities child care those kind

[23:54] of things that we similar to what we're talking about but a little larger scale

[24:00] but the park district is a separate entity so the truckee donner recreation

[24:05] park district overlays the town of turkey which is its own

[24:10] municipality and it also overlays

[24:14] some of the other areas like tahoe donner homeowner association which

[24:19] is a homeowner association about 25 000 residents so it's been overlapping use

[24:24] so the the customers come from um you know multiple jurisdictions um

[24:30] the town of turkey didn't really put any money into it uh they tried to do a bond

[24:34] measure to build a pool but um narrowly didn't pass

[24:39] but then they didn't have the funding to go ahead and build it it's a very

[24:43] popular facility although like everybody else this year has been slowly reopening

[24:47] with covet right so they're getting back up to speed

[24:51] so that kind of outlines the basic management structures from

[24:55] joint use as well as

[24:58] one of the things we looked at if there was a special district

[25:01] um overlaying the three respective communities in uh in the lakeport

[25:07] clear lake lake county area and then or just traditional joint use

[25:14] so additionally one of the things that we looked at was funding opportunities

[25:19] um and so we surveyed at least amongst many of the task force members sort of

[25:25] what existed out there currently or what was reasonably visible versus other

[25:30] future potential sources and i will say this is one of the things that

[25:35] is not well defined at this point

[25:38] there really isn't a clear definition of how much funding where funding might

[25:43] come from for a facility of this kind hence the reason we've talked about

[25:46] management structures you know trying to bring multiple entities together to sort

[25:51] of leverage their own respective funding pods

[25:53] to be able to make that more palatable and more feasible

[25:58] for example when we when we talk about the north natomas aquatics

[26:02] facility center that started that feasibility back in

[26:06] 2014 you know much of that funding was really

[26:09] the city and one city council member in particular that

[26:13] represented that district the city of sacramento is represented by various

[26:16] districts uh you know really saying you know making that a priority

[26:22] you know obligating the rest of the city for general funds

[26:26] looking at special taxes that were identified for the purposes of

[26:31] parks and recreation in the district one region

[26:34] and then partnering with with some of the large business owners private

[26:37] privately funded business owners health care providers

[26:40] as well as the local school district in their local bond

[26:44] in order to bring enough facilities together roughly about 40 million

[26:48] dollars in capital funding and then an additional probably somewhere around

[26:52] half a million dollars annually uh in terms of subsidy to uh to facilitate

[26:57] that piece so some of the the entities that we identified here in terms of

[27:02] funding include obviously general funds and all entities the city of clear lake

[27:07] city lakeport and certainly lake county have those available

[27:11] lake county has quinby there are state grants available both at

[27:15] lake county and at local school district levels certainly the local school

[27:18] districts are probably looking at in cases where they have had bonds pass and

[27:23] they have leveraged some of that money locally

[27:25] looking at prop 51 or even new proposition we're anticipating another

[27:29] state bond in 2022 that may have some funds coming back to

[27:34] them and there may be additional funds there

[27:36] having leveraged off their local funds neighboring housing redevelopment funds

[27:41] i understand there's some potential there with the city of clear lake the

[27:44] school district bonds the local bonds which i mentioned and we understand

[27:47] there was you know some prioritization

[27:50] particularly at lakeport about you know what they spent their money on what the

[27:54] promise was perhaps to spend money on as it related to in particular aquatic

[27:59] center but based on the prioritization of projects and perhaps even the

[28:02] expensive projects at that time that that priority really fell off the

[28:06] map so there's a little bit of funds there but not much uh when it relates to

[28:10] lakeport a little bit it can octa unified school district as well

[28:14] remaining rescue act funds at connecti and then property and asset sale

[28:18] potential as it relates to lake form other

[28:21] potential sources include tax assessments that may not be as yet

[28:26] defined or some sort of tax assessment that may want to be looked at in the

[28:29] future for the purpose of funding such as a project as this

[28:34] development funding or additional development agreements with future

[28:38] developments in particular homeowner developments

[28:40] state bond funding proposition 68 federal funding the american recovery

[28:45] act there is funds there although um you know they are generally limited and and

[28:50] very competitive in terms of the way that they're being dolled out

[28:54] the joint powers agreement funding we talked about

[28:57] previously landed one-time funding and was even suggested by lake county about

[29:02] the potential of some of the cannabis industry

[29:04] which seems to have a firm foothold in the region

[29:09] project location opportunities so as i mentioned back in april we did tour

[29:14] several different sites some of the selection criteria i've

[29:19] identified here i think is very important it's very important as you

[29:23] folks in particular think about city of clear lake and the opportunity that you

[29:26] have with your burns valley park development

[29:29] site and that is the proximity and or

[29:33] synergies that exist with other like types of facilities

[29:37] so the proximity to other community park amenities athletic fields

[29:42] baseball soccer hard courts other kinds of things that go hand in hand with a

[29:47] recreation type of facility so they're being nearby

[29:51] the potential for shared parking amongst some of those facilities

[29:55] so on special events or other kinds of functions there

[29:58] you're not building say independent parking areas you're building joint use

[30:02] parking that could be paired it could be used separately depending on

[30:06] the time of the year or the the time of a day of a particular event a

[30:12] co-location of libraries other centers senior centers schools

[30:16] and also pools with recreation centers combined

[30:20] that these have a lot of synergies together they bring together certainly a

[30:23] lot of different age groups uh the potential for child care the potential

[30:27] for senior citizen involvement those kinds of things we feel like are very

[30:30] important and then the place making principles

[30:33] that you kind of see here off to the right you know social

[30:37] emotional types of things comfort

[30:40] access obviously we did look at things like arterial

[30:44] streets and access to major thoroughfares public transit other

[30:49] kinds of things i'm not going to go into too much detail

[30:53] about some of the properties in the city of lakeport

[30:56] we'll talk a little bit about the burns valley park development and i understand

[30:59] you're going to have a presentation after this about sort of the master plan

[31:03] that's evolving from that but there were a number of facilities in

[31:07] the lakeport area the west shore swimming pool which is part of the

[31:10] existing high school there in lakeport which unfortunately now is is not an

[31:15] operation there's really not a lot to save there

[31:18] but certainly it has some synergies when it comes to the pool

[31:22] that exists in the parking and also the high school that's there it doesn't have

[31:27] real good access to nature thoroughfares just a little bit off the beaten path

[31:31] there is some additional land that the district owns but it's generally very

[31:37] hard to access in fact access compliance is one of the first things that you

[31:40] recognize when you look at that site the quail run fitness center is kind of

[31:45] an intriguing opportunity for the city of lakeport

[31:49] that's a pre-existing recreation and pool facility

[31:53] that has some potential for sale it would be an opportunity for

[31:57] renovation so it would uh it wouldn't be a ground-up sort of scenario and

[32:01] obviously there'd be a significant cost savings at least capital cost initially

[32:06] to leverage that facility in terms of you know it's its structure its shell if

[32:11] you will and then build out what's necessary to sort of support the needs

[32:15] that we would identify within the county the pool itself is probably not the

[32:19] correct size we probably increased the size of the pool the pool deck and some

[32:23] of those amenities but it is very proximate to the west

[32:26] side park in fact it's just across the street there and there could

[32:30] be some both pedestrian and other access opportunities that exist between the two

[32:34] it's also very coincident with the major thoroughfare there the highway one of

[32:39] the major intersections to the highway and so it

[32:42] gives a lot of access obviously to to the county area and then finally the

[32:46] west side community park area as part of the phase two master plan

[32:50] lends itself an opportunity to develop a new built

[32:54] recreation and or aquatic center at that location

[32:58] uh but for you guys uh the burns valley park development is really the location

[33:03] that we looked at and so

[33:05] we identified some of the pros and cons and part of i believe what uh city

[33:10] manager is going to share with you here in a moment is some of even the

[33:13] recommendations of our team made about how to orchestrate perhaps even some of

[33:17] the conceptual design there so some of the pros that we identify

[33:22] obviously it's already a park business area

[33:25] many synergies exist with both the potential for future parking utilities

[33:30] and athletics fields which are already planned a neighboring library

[33:35] which i think is a fantastic synergy between a recreational center

[33:40] and the rest of the athletics pieces that are there and also the senior

[33:44] center which is just up the street close proximity to sort of

[33:48] the olympic drive area there running east-west

[33:54] and so you kind of have again better access to uh to facilities

[33:59] even like local restaurants and other types of amenities that can

[34:04] help serve some of these special events and the things that go along with the

[34:08] rec center and even the potential for reporting

[34:10] some of the cons of course is it is a ground-up build

[34:14] you know so you're talking about bringing full level of utilities to the

[34:17] site some of the costs that are identified

[34:20] there i know some people probably get some sticker shock we are still in a

[34:23] very escalating market when it comes to construction across the state and so

[34:27] it's more likely that we're going to see you know those prices continue to

[34:31] increase and so those are probably the only cons in the dressing say a ground

[34:36] up site versus a renovation opportunity like like

[34:42] so um as sort of a summary and next steps some of the recommendations moving

[34:47] forward one of the things that we would recommend as part of really the second

[34:51] phase we identified it briefly in the first phase report but is is

[34:55] facilitating a strategic market analysis so perhaps utilizing surveys conducted

[35:01] via social media you have a lot of social media outlets

[35:04] as part of the report we identified some of the key questions that should be

[35:07] asked and how maybe perhaps some of that

[35:10] social media survey might be operated we got a lot of feedback from the folks

[35:16] on the lake county recreation task force a lot

[35:19] of the members that were identified and the partners there

[35:22] while that may be strong that doesn't necessarily identify the core need and

[35:27] there may be other needs or other pieces that are identified and so i think

[35:30] that's very important as you think about the potential of

[35:33] partnering perhaps with other folks or even building a recreation type

[35:38] of facility on your own of just what sort of market analysis

[35:42] that and and what sort of programmatic needs

[35:46] are they really looking to have there what we show is really kind of a blended

[35:50] group of priorities as a result of sort of across the county

[35:54] narrowing down the location not so much in your case the location but the

[35:58] funding opportunities how would you fund such a a program

[36:02] both from a capital cost standpoint and an ongoing operational and maintenance

[36:07] standpoint the cost recovery examples that we showed you earlier and

[36:12] then really our phase two component to the report uh would enable you to then

[36:16] do some actual conceptual layouts so if it is burns valley and there is an

[36:21] identification of land there identified as part of that

[36:24] master plan you know what might that program really hold

[36:28] what sort of conceptual design might emerge from that that then we use to put

[36:33] together a more professional cost destination

[36:37] and operational analysis and then be able to finalize that report so that you

[36:41] really have a target there in terms of what you're looking to fund and how much

[36:46] funding that would occur at that point perhaps

[36:50] you might look at solidifying joint use opportunities

[36:53] other sorts of things don't really see is that the special district is perhaps

[36:57] something that might come to fruition but perhaps it is

[37:01] like was identified at truckee donner but more than likely some sort of either

[37:05] joint powers agreement joy use type of agreement or even joint development

[37:09] amongst yourselves the local school districts and some of

[37:12] the other private entities that were identified

[37:15] local nonprofit entities that were identified here

[37:20] so with that um i'm going to turn it over for those that might have question

[37:25] and answer in fact i'll take this off of there so hopefully you can see us a

[37:28] little bit better um

[37:30] but happy to uh to answer the questions you might have at this point regarding

[37:35] phase one in that portion of the study

[37:40] you you didn't have identified anything in the south county uh middletown and

[37:46] kelseyville between lake port and clearly why is that

[37:51] that's a good question um you know really as part of the the discovery that

[37:56] was an area that really wasn't something that i think people felt was was

[38:01] either high need or perhaps um something that neither one of the cities

[38:07] has sort of said on lake county i think while they're sort of orchestrating a

[38:11] lot of this i don't see them as maybe perhaps being a huge

[38:15] dollar partner in the process and so when you start to look outside of

[38:20] sort of the city areas proper city of lakeport

[38:24] city of clear lake it becomes more challenging

[38:28] trying to figure out who becomes the lead agency

[38:31] and how do you really fund that definitely there's there's need i'll say

[38:35] coming from that region you have the school district in that

[38:39] region you have other elements but certainly from a less populated area

[38:43] you're talking about something or maybe even two centers you know one in

[38:47] lakeport one in clear lake that really drive folks uh from that south county

[38:52] area you know into the more populated centers of either lake port or the city

[38:55] of cleveland do you think it can be funded through a

[39:00] lighting and landscaping kind of district

[39:04] mike you want to jump in i think there are

[39:10] the short answer is can it yes i think it has to do with how much

[39:15] undeveloped land use currently exists in either of the just

[39:20] jurisdictions probably the more common method today versus lighting landscape

[39:26] is like a community facility district for service that can be used to fund

[39:30] capital but typically the creating that

[39:34] assessment on is usually typically on new properties

[39:38] otherwise you can do it you can establish a community facility district

[39:43] but if it's on existing uh residential property it would require uh voter

[39:48] approval um so it's possible that you could do that

[39:52] but you know so somebody might you know if you're gonna go to voter approval for

[39:56] something like that you would certainly that would be

[39:59] certainly one right answer establishing a

[40:02] overlaying community facility district for service or capital to do that

[40:08] similarly you could um a jurisdiction could do a bond measure um that um the

[40:14] either either on your own or in concert with the other jurisdictions that you

[40:19] might be partnering with or or like um you know the fort bragg and the city

[40:25] or menacing coast did a tax measure so all of those then require voter approval

[40:36] established before any homes get built is going to require the homeowners

[40:42] to approve that

[40:54] i hope i answered that question

[40:58] how did you get involved in fort bragg because my understanding it was

[41:04] not being used um yeah i i got a call from both the um

[41:11] the city of fort bragg and the um general manager of the mendocino coast

[41:16] recreation park district uh looking for some help in evaluating uh how they

[41:22] could operate their center and pool more cost effectively

[41:28] improve the overall cost recovery and utilization

[41:32] but it was a uh kind of uh early on it was involving both the city

[41:38] of fort bragg which was contributing a substantial amount of

[41:42] money every year to offset the operating cost so i ended up giving um

[41:47] to two agencies

[41:50] in the final recommendations this was really more of an operational analysis

[41:54] didn't have anything to do with building it

[42:06] any other question well we all know that uh

[42:11] the lakeport school district tried this and it

[42:14] really turned out into a big disaster uh both funding and this so i think we

[42:21] might have some hesitation on on this this kind of issue

[42:27] yeah as i mentioned earlier um you know that was that was something that was

[42:31] brought to our attention uh pretty quickly

[42:34] um and it's not uncommon

[42:37] you know school districts passing bonds um you know identifying in a master plan

[42:41] or in a needs assessment that they have you know sometimes three four five times

[42:45] the amount of need then they have you know bonding capacity

[42:49] one of the things i will offer is that you know a number of school districts

[42:53] last year you know every two years in effect we

[42:56] have an opportunity for local school districts to pursue general obligation

[43:00] bonds and so the last year was 2020 the next year will be 2022.

[43:04] interesting and interestingly enough in march of 2020

[43:09] bonds did not go that well throughout the state and that was

[43:13] actually prior to covet you know the

[43:17] the primaries were in march they were early march so really kind of before

[43:21] everybody had a sense of what the pandemic was going to do

[43:24] we had some you know talk of out of this this outlying virus and and there was

[43:30] some if you recall some challenges to the stock market at the time and i think

[43:34] the general settlement across the state of california was

[43:38] that folks didn't want to to pass

[43:41] local bonds for school districts um fast forward to november of 2020

[43:47] and we had at least for those school districts that

[43:49] went after bonds nearly a record in terms of the pass

[43:54] rate um and and one of the reasons we believe that that occurred was because

[43:58] of the fact that um you know schools were considered essential um and we had

[44:03] folks uh you know depending on what no matter what really the economy was doing

[44:08] really saying we need to support local school districts and we need to pass

[44:11] dollars for them whether it be for facilities or for other sorts of

[44:14] programs so i think we're going to see a lot of

[44:17] school districts try and pursue bonds in 2022

[44:20] and i think there's an opportunity certainly for cities like yourself

[44:24] and others to reach out and say you know is there a possibility can i die like

[44:28] poor et cetera to reconsider that and to also consider

[44:33] the need for something like this it could be a true joint use opportunity

[44:37] natomas unified school district in sacramento did that effectively they

[44:41] contributed i think around two and a half million

[44:44] dollars now to that north natomas project that we featured earlier and

[44:48] you know it really obviously goes back to the sentiment the politics in your

[44:52] particular region um but uh you know it's it's interesting how sort of these

[44:58] things ebb and flow and so the next opportunity could be an opportunity in

[45:01] 2022 sounds like

[45:04] city of clear lake and your relationship with your local school district is a bit

[45:08] better than perhaps what would happen with lakeport

[45:12] but definitely that's an opportunity to leverage when it comes to funds

[45:16] you know school districts can be one of the

[45:19] bigger users certainly an aquatics facility if not a recreational facility

[45:25] however there is requirement to go through dsa

[45:28] when it comes to the approval process and sometimes that dsa field act

[45:32] compliance can escalate the cost of a project pretty rapidly you know mike has

[45:37] some experience in that in the city of roseville with the joint using the

[45:39] agency thank you

[45:43] anyways yeah um so

[45:47] i mean some of this you know i figured that we would talk about when we look at

[45:50] the site plan but you know this whole process really started

[45:54] because of the situation that we're talking about in lakeport and the fact

[45:58] that they were promised a pool and they don't have one

[46:01] um and then we got involved because some of the

[46:04] things that we were looking at um and i think

[46:08] the timing's really good um while we weren't involved from the beginning

[46:11] we're probably in a position to see this sooner than what's going to

[46:16] happen in lakeport because of the sports complex and

[46:21] you know the way we had initially looked at design the focus of course was on

[46:25] the baseball fields and then being able to add soccer

[46:29] and we had kind of set a little piece off to the side to maybe do a rec center

[46:33] at some point in the future but and going through this process and

[46:39] talking with our school superintendent and some other organizations

[46:45] i really feel like that there's interest and probably available funding there for

[46:50] us to do this uh sooner than expected and

[46:54] so we we redid the design which we'll talk about here in a minute to make a

[47:00] recreation center as part of this whole project and a central part of it

[47:07] um and so you know it is a big

[47:10] a big pot of money i mean we don't really have room

[47:13] at the burns valley location to even consider putting a pool in there

[47:18] um our our school district doesn't see as

[47:21] much of a need for that they want to have after-school programs

[47:25] for kids and they think you know this type of a

[47:29] rec center would fulfill that need for a significant period of time

[47:33] and so our thought is to let lake pour

[47:38] folks on a pool if that's what they want to do

[47:41] we do our sports complex and rec center now

[47:45] and you know if if the community decides that that they we really need a pool

[47:50] here that's something that we could do kind of was a

[47:53] next phase project um somewhere else within the city so

[47:58] really what we want from the council tonight is

[48:01] you know that you kind of like the direction this is going and you're

[48:04] supportive of moving into phase two i mean i think the timing of what brian's

[48:09] talking about will work perfectly with the master planning process that

[48:13] we're in the middle of for the whole complex right now

[48:16] um and these guys are you know experts in the rec center piece and maybe you

[48:20] know they can handle that portion of the project

[48:23] um while we uh you know we'll obviously be engaged but

[48:28] you know kind of our design team's focus will be on on the sports complex

[48:33] which you know we want to make sure and get that done you know as soon as

[48:36] possible so um

[48:39] you know the the three entities the two cities and the county

[48:43] um supported the phase one portion of the project financially

[48:49] we haven't come up with a plan at this point on the second phase

[48:53] i'm sure that we would need to to put some funding in but we had also planned

[48:58] to ask the larger group of partners to participate financially in the phase two

[49:02] if the three jurisdictions supported moving in that direction

[49:10] but to be clear the baseball field soccer field portion of it

[49:14] is as a project that we're going to go forward with

[49:19] the rec center is something that sounds good and we definitely want to look for

[49:23] the so your group would take care of the rec center

[49:26] uh brian well i mean yeah i mean that's

[49:30] kind of what i was thinking right i mean we it's important when we do the complex

[49:35] to make sure we have the spot for the rec center in there but

[49:39] i think um

[49:41] and you know i i really think that we will end up being pretty close to having

[49:46] the funding to be able to to make it happen um but from my

[49:51] perspective phase one is the

[49:55] the ball fields right um and as long as we have the spot there we could always

[50:00] bring that up you know a little bit later as we put all the pieces together

[50:03] obviously it takes a lot of years to actually put it all together

[50:09] but we were gonna we don't like taking

[50:22] is needed in that area so i think it's a great idea to put it all together

[50:27] yeah i concur and i think this community's been asking for a pool for a

[50:31] long time since they built that center

[50:34] the community center was supposed to be right but um just to finish i'd like to

[50:39] see us go forward at least with the planning phase and settings

[50:42] room aside for it for the rec center for the record yes

[50:47] that's what i'd agree with move forward phase

[50:50] one and plan for phase two and just to be clear

[50:55] and just to be clear you said we're close on on funding that's without a

[50:58] bond or any type of assessment correct yeah i mean you know

[51:03] it's it's helping us out and you know maybe we should just start kind

[51:07] of transitioning into talking about um

[51:12] the the site plan a little bit but because

[51:15] of all the the kind of mixed use nature of the burns valley project in

[51:21] general you know it provides us the opportunity to leverage a lot of other

[51:25] funds um

[51:28] but yeah i feel like that really we're we're not going to be too far off on

[51:34] on being able to fund the whole complex and the rec center

[51:42] okay

[51:45] you're going to pull that yeah so i'm going to pull this up

[51:48] um and

[51:52] let me let me zoom out slightly just to give you all some context so we

[51:56] have olympic drive down here on the bottom

[51:59] uh burns valley road here that that comes around to the north this

[52:03] is the safeway complex so

[52:08] um you know this is a 31 acre property that the city purchased

[52:13] in december and there's you know i mentioned mixed

[52:16] use there's several components [Music]

[52:22] to this i'm going to start over here with um

[52:25] this section which is will be for new public works yard

[52:31] this is a public works yard shop in addition there's some

[52:35] space here for the police department for evidence storage and

[52:40] vehicle processing which is needed in certain crimes

[52:45] and so this area would be fenced and lighted

[52:49] storage back here for vehicles that are towed and so forth

[52:53] material storage equipment storage all that

[52:58] and so there would be a new roadway installed

[53:02] on this hundred foot property that's between the pg e public works or

[53:06] corporation yard and the burns valley mall complex

[53:10] so this would include a roadway into the site

[53:15] some parking and then this is the location of the mudslingers kiosk where

[53:20] the council approved that um that coffee

[53:25] building so we'd be we have a lease agreement in place for them

[53:29] which should be kind of a nice amenity to sort of be part of the part of the

[53:32] park um

[53:38] the corporation yard gets funded differently

[53:40] yeah so that's a different part of funding so the plan is we're working on

[53:44] the design um of

[53:49] the the plan is to do this section here into the site this section of roadway

[53:55] the fencing the light the sight lighting and all the

[54:00] utilities for the complex um this year yet

[54:05] and as long as

[54:09] as long as mr schwartz

[54:18] there's no reason that's not going to happen right dave

[54:25] um and then the the rest of this project would um start

[54:31] um at some time next year along with the the housing component

[54:37] so um the rest of the site

[54:41] i'll just kind of start from i keep getting my zoom things and dragging them

[54:45] around instead of um so we'll just start here on the west

[54:48] and work back to the east so this is a um a soccer field

[54:54] um this is depressed with a little berm around here to keep balls from flying

[54:58] out into the street as much as possible we do have a

[55:03] lot of room and we worked with um you know our partners with the the soccer

[55:08] league and so forth and i won't take the time to pull it up but now but there's

[55:12] the ability to have as many as eight to ten different games

[55:16] going in this area depending on the

[55:20] [Music] size of the fields and

[55:23] they're really comfortable with the size that we have here

[55:27] we are hopeful at some point in the future we'll be able to expand the

[55:30] soccer amenities into another nearby area but um

[55:35] so we have a you know large parking area here um drop-off zones and whatnot

[55:41] there's area for tour buses for um our little league and

[55:46] soccer tournaments to be able to drop folks off

[55:50] this this is very rough but this is a general location where we'd expect the

[55:55] rec center to be located we haven't really focused much on design but the 15

[56:00] 000 square foot footprint and then additional space here the idea

[56:05] is to combine and allow bathrooms for the

[56:09] complex to be accessible from the outside so that you

[56:13] know nothing was happening in the rec center

[56:16] there's still some games going on outside it's just a way to be able to

[56:20] cut the the costs for developing the site

[56:25] and then so we have two of the smaller fields here and then the large baseball

[56:31] field over in this area we have additional parking

[56:34] um here and here what you see here is a lot of

[56:38] extra space that we haven't detailed out yet some of this

[56:42] would be designated for a t-ball field um

[56:46] for the little guys and then there's plenty of room we intend to have

[56:51] playground equipment and some other amenities so you know

[56:55] when the family's there everyone has something to to keep them entertained

[57:00] these designs include you know announcer's booths batting

[57:05] cages bleachers plenty of warm-up area

[57:11] and then of course a road all the way through the site here

[57:14] um and then the housing development um which is in the process up here which is

[57:20] 80 units of mixed income family housing

[57:24] what we've been able to do partnering with them is

[57:27] um funding this is about a 50 million

[57:30] dollar project and their funding we've connected

[57:34] um directly into the forest complex and so some of the funding that they're

[57:39] going to be pulling down we'll be able to use actually for

[57:43] installing all this infrastructure at the site which is going to help

[57:48] you know keep the the costs you know the other funding

[57:51] sources that we need down which which is going to be really nice

[57:55] um so that's kind of the super quick

[57:58] overview and um try to address any questions

[58:03] that the the council has about the plan

[58:12] i want to thank um the ladies from little league and uh

[58:15] where is george soccer yeah he's not here

[58:19] thanks for watching with us

[58:33] these fields would all be

[58:44] so when it's not baseball season can these be used for other sports

[58:50] i don't know why not i mean i know we're gonna be playing all year round

[58:58] being more competitive when we travel therefore we need to have baseball

[59:09] the outfields could be used for like the five-year-old soccer games could be set

[59:14] up in the outfields yes we have

[59:45] pretty much when they're using the facilities in middletown

[59:49] i've been here for 35 plus years i played soccer and baseball

[59:53] all the way through high school i played on these same fields we play on right

[59:56] now with baseball and i did the same thing as a kid traveling in middle of

[59:59] town so i definitely and i have three sons

[1:00:02] so i totally understand we need to have more stuff in town so i'm totally not

[1:00:06] against ever letting anybody help you

[1:00:12] well anybody else in the comments from the audience here

[1:00:20] awesome

[1:00:23] yeah i just had a i had a question are these designs final are we gonna do a

[1:00:27] public hearing at some point

[1:00:30] well um i guess that's up to the council i

[1:00:34] mean we normally don't do a public hearing on the designs um

[1:00:38] the i mean well i should i should take that back we we plan to apply for a

[1:00:44] state parks grant for a portion of this project which

[1:00:49] is due i think in november of this year so

[1:00:52] um we have an agreement with a great the same grant writing team that we worked

[1:00:57] with for the highlands park project which we still don't know is funded or

[1:01:01] not yet but that the requirements of that grant will

[1:01:06] include a number of public meetings like we had

[1:01:09] for highlands park um you know as a requirement so we've

[1:01:14] been working trying to get all this stuff

[1:01:16] uh sort of sorted out and we've been you know using our city engineer and his

[1:01:20] team so that we can start on the main infrastructure and the public works

[1:01:24] piece of it we will be using a landscape architect

[1:01:30] as part of the grant process to further refine some of these points of the plan

[1:01:35] like i mentioned the t-ball thing and the playground equipment some of those

[1:01:40] other site amenities um you know if dave had his way everything would be concrete

[1:01:45] and asphalt so um we need to we need to bring someone

[1:01:49] else in to help help us with that

[1:01:55] so there will be there will be a number of opportunities for the public to

[1:02:00] review and provide input on the plan yes so that will be a planning commission

[1:02:06] item uh normally we don't do a planning

[1:02:09] commission item for that but i mean you know we could if you would like us to

[1:02:15] i think there's more people coming out when you have something noticed that

[1:02:19] well like the public meeting meetings are doing

[1:02:22] this part you know i mean what what the council

[1:02:25] directed was creating this committee to work with which is what we've been doing

[1:02:28] but you know i know that there's a lot of interest in this project and we need

[1:02:33] some ways to bring in whatever you think is the right way to

[1:02:37] do it council can give us additional direction on how you want us to do that

[1:02:41] all right i do think that we should have an

[1:02:44] opportunity for folks outside of the committee to weigh in

[1:02:47] the other question i had was around the soccer field i know i had brought this

[1:02:52] up but i i don't know if it was discussed in the committee

[1:02:55] a grass field versus a turf field and if that was considered

[1:03:01] currently we're planning turf on the soccer field you are okay excellent yes

[1:03:07] all right that's good

[1:03:10] all right even though even though cancer probably caused a

[1:03:13] high rate answered i think we're workshop is over

[1:03:20] and we'll take a couple minute breaks a couple of minutes break to

[1:03:23] get a council meeting going so

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[1:08:36] come to visit us whether we ask a special blessing to be on the staff and

[1:08:42] families who live here they may be prosperous and have

[1:08:47] safety in their travels whether we ask for this all in your

[1:08:50] son's holy name amen amen

[1:08:54] all right

[1:09:00] see the adoption of the agenda are there any changes to the agenda

[1:09:04] no changes mr mayor make a motion to adopt the agenda is submitted no second

[1:09:09] time we have a motion by vice mayor burdock in a second by

[1:09:12] mr kramer all in favor aye aye aye

[1:09:18] all right we'll go to presentations number two presentations of july

[1:09:22] adoptable dogs

[1:09:27] good evening mayor members of the council unfortunately tonight we do not

[1:09:30] have a we have dogs available we did not have

[1:09:33] staffing to um bring one in for the meeting tonight um however i'm gonna go

[1:09:36] over the stats real quick um so far this year we've taken a 194 dogs

[1:09:41] into the shelter uh 192 have left the shelter 104 have gone to rescue 60 have

[1:09:47] been returned to the owners 21 have been adopted

[1:09:50] six have been euthanized and we have the ones still on here that escaped um so

[1:09:55] our live release rate is still pretty good we're down a tiny bit but we're at

[1:09:59] 96.9 percent so we're still doing really good and hopefully we'll keep that up

[1:10:04] for the rest of the year can you say something about an escape

[1:10:08] yeah oh that one's been there for a couple months but yeah we had one

[1:10:11] a while back um he was able to get out of his cage inside the new building and

[1:10:15] then when he got out he found a window that was a couple inches open he pushed

[1:10:18] the window up then he pushed the screen off went out

[1:10:21] to the door and where he went out is a

[1:10:24] fenced in area that has the building on one side and then has

[1:10:27] that probably eight foot fence on the other side and he dug a hole and then

[1:10:31] came out on the airport road and disappeared industrious dog we got him

[1:10:34] back later but um i think i think he had help but yeah

[1:10:38] but he he wanted some freedom for a little bit

[1:10:42] all right thank you very much all right let's go to number three

[1:10:47] presentation of the regional transportation plan

[1:10:50] uh mr alford who is doing that today

[1:10:56] uh is miss bates going to be presenting okay

[1:11:00] lisa

[1:11:04] here us hello

[1:11:08] there she is

[1:11:12] let us start our video sorry yes we can hear you late

[1:11:16] we're getting rummy okay quick hi hi hi uh

[1:11:20] john spka and this is lisa david bates we're with the

[1:11:24] lake area planning council the regional transportation planning agency

[1:11:29] for this region of which um your council members

[1:11:33] herdock and kramer are on our board we just want to give a quick

[1:11:37] presentation of our upcoming regional transportation plan we're

[1:11:42] still seeking uh public input and we have a social pin a social

[1:11:48] pinpoint website that has a bunch of interactive

[1:11:52] activities that you can leave comments and such on but

[1:11:56] we're going to give a short presentation um it's about eight minutes long and it

[1:12:01] will it'll explain what the regional transportation plan is and how you can

[1:12:06] provide feedback uh

[1:12:11] let me see do we have access to uh or do we have permission to share here you

[1:12:16] should

[1:12:26] okay so here is the presentation [Music]

[1:12:31] welcome to a brief presentation of the 20

[1:12:34] make sure hold on i just want to make sure

[1:12:37] you could hear that could everyone hear that 22 regional transportation plan and

[1:12:42] active transportation plan update both plans are being prepared by the

[1:12:47] lake area planning council which serves as the regional transportation planning

[1:12:51] agency for the lake county region

[1:12:56] the lake apc board is made up of two county supervisors from the county of

[1:13:00] lake and two city council members from each of its two incorporated cities the

[1:13:04] city of lake port and the city of clear lake

[1:13:07] two at-large members are also appointed to serve as directors rounding out the

[1:13:11] board's eight-person makeup the primary advisory bodies for the lake

[1:13:15] apc include the technical advisory committee which consists of public works

[1:13:19] and community development officials from each of the three jurisdictions as well

[1:13:24] as representatives from the california highway patrol the lake transit

[1:13:27] authority and the caltrans district one office

[1:13:30] the second important advisory body to the area planning council is the social

[1:13:34] services transportation advisory council this group advises on matters involving

[1:13:40] transit dependent individuals within the region including the elderly disabled

[1:13:44] and persons of the limited means additional duties of the lake area

[1:13:48] planning council include the administration of the call box program

[1:13:52] otherwise known as the lake service authority for freeway emergencies

[1:13:56] and finally lake abc council members also serve a separate role as the board

[1:14:00] for the lake transit authority

[1:14:04] the primary function of the lake apc is to allocate federal and state

[1:14:08] transportation funds to projects within the lake county region

[1:14:12] funding is derived from a variety of state and federal programs each having

[1:14:15] separate goals addressing public needs ranging from road safety to greenhouse

[1:14:20] gas emissions reduction to the promotion of healthy lifestyles through active

[1:14:24] forms of transportation like walking or biking like abc also assists regional

[1:14:30] and local agencies including public works departments of the county and

[1:14:33] cities as well as the region's transit agency in identifying or applying for

[1:14:38] potential funds for priority projects these can often be time-consuming

[1:14:42] processes especially for staffs with local agencies that might lack the

[1:14:46] resources or time to compete for such funds

[1:14:50] finally as the regional transportation planning agency the lake apc is tasked

[1:14:55] with preparing the region's long-range transportation planning document

[1:14:59] this regional transportation plan helps guide the decision-making process by

[1:15:04] setting long-range transportation goals for the region

[1:15:11] so what is the regional transportation plan

[1:15:14] as noted it is the area's long-range planning document for all forms of

[1:15:17] transportation throughout lake county and its cities

[1:15:21] it covers a 20-year horizon and is updated every four years to reflect

[1:15:25] changing conditions in the region over time

[1:15:28] its main purpose is to promote safe and efficient transportation for the

[1:15:32] movement of people and goods throughout the region

[1:15:35] examples of this are found in projects improving unsafe road conditions or

[1:15:39] dangerous intersection crosswalks or else reducing congestion to improve

[1:15:44] trekking delivery routes basically anything that helps to connect

[1:15:48] community members with areas both within or outside of their immediate

[1:15:51] surroundings land includes all transportation modes

[1:15:55] in lake county such as highways streets and roads transit services pedestrian

[1:16:00] facilities and bicycle lanes among others

[1:16:06] update process also covers an update to the active transportation plan

[1:16:10] so what is the active transportation plan

[1:16:13] this is a plan that focuses on improving and integrating bicycle and pedestrian

[1:16:17] networks throughout the region essentially it is a focused form of

[1:16:21] transportation that deals with non-motorized or active transportation

[1:16:27] projects within the active transportation plan are eligible to

[1:16:29] apply for grants under a specific state program known as the active

[1:16:33] transportation program this is a highly competitive grant

[1:16:37] program that rewards well-planned high-priority projects which are

[1:16:40] evaluated as part of the active transportation plan

[1:16:44] lake county adopted its first active transportation plan in 2016.

[1:16:49] prior to that the regional transportation plan would normally

[1:16:52] include a section or element that covered non-motorized forms of

[1:16:56] transportation for the previous rtp update in 2017 it

[1:17:01] was decided that the 2016 active transportation plan

[1:17:06] would now serve as that component of the rtp and both plans will be updated in

[1:17:10] conjunction from that point on the active transportation plan therefore

[1:17:14] serves two purposes one as the non-motorized element and also as a

[1:17:19] stand-alone document for projects that can potentially be funded by future

[1:17:23] rounds of the active transportation program

[1:17:27] identifying needs and priorities for the region is a big part of either plan

[1:17:31] there are plenty of needs to choose from for each transportation mode whether

[1:17:35] they are on state highways or local roads or serve bicycle and pedestrian

[1:17:40] purposes or public transit etc identifying those needs is important

[1:17:46] but prioritizing maybe even more so this is done by soliciting feedback from

[1:17:50] local public works departments state agencies tribal governments and your

[1:17:56] voices from the general public to determine how the next 20 years worth of

[1:17:59] improvements should unfold prioritizing is especially important

[1:18:04] because there are far more needs than available funding can accommodate

[1:18:07] the rtp seeks to guide how these limited dollars should be spent

[1:18:12] the process will look something like this

[1:18:14] from now through the summer we will be seeking public input to help guide the

[1:18:18] update by mid-spring we will have an idea of

[1:18:21] the local and regional needs and how important they'll be in meeting the

[1:18:24] overall transportation goals of the region

[1:18:27] a draft of the updated regional transportation plan and active

[1:18:30] transportation plan as well as the environmental review documents for each

[1:18:35] should be posted by late summer there will be a comment period specified

[1:18:39] for the documents at that time as well finally we expect to present a final

[1:18:43] draft to the board of the lake area planning council by the end of the fall

[1:18:48] these will be publicly noticed meetings where additional comments can be made by

[1:18:51] the public along with those of the area planning council board prior to the plan

[1:18:56] of adoption

[1:18:59] again we want to stress that your voice is important to this process

[1:19:03] transportation needs and issues that you bring up will be evaluated as part of

[1:19:07] the regional transportation plan and this will ultimately guide what the

[1:19:10] final plan will look like whether it's road safety or sidewalk

[1:19:14] accessibility or transit system improvements or any barriers that make

[1:19:19] different forms of transportation more difficult in your local community we

[1:19:23] want to know so please make your voices heard

[1:19:29] here are the best ways to provide input you can go to the website for the update

[1:19:33] project which can be accessed at the web address in red

[1:19:37] the site is interactive and will allow you to provide comments on maps in which

[1:19:41] you can pin written comments at specific locations within your community or the

[1:19:46] region as a whole it will also include surveys and budget

[1:19:49] exercises where you give us your feedback on where

[1:19:52] your concerns lie or which projects you believe aren't the most funding

[1:19:56] or feel free to email or write letters to staff myself john spika senior

[1:20:02] transportation planner at the email address in red

[1:20:05] or else at the physical mailing address below that

[1:20:08] lake area planning council 525 south main street suite g ukaya california

[1:20:17] we 95482 forward to hearing from you and thank

[1:20:19] you for participating

[1:20:26] okay so um yeah hopefully if that was clear enough for

[1:20:32] you all to hear and such but the

[1:20:35] main idea again is is we've like as much public input as we can get on

[1:20:41] the plan and

[1:20:44] the website that we are referring to is um seen here

[1:20:49] i just wanted to show you a couple of the features of the website um

[1:20:54] and presentations there uh that we just saw

[1:20:58] there's uh if you scroll down there's the interactive activities including say

[1:21:02] the interactive map which

[1:21:06] by clicking on you'll

[1:21:09] see you could scroll in

[1:21:13] for instance

[1:21:18] your city and you could go to whatever intersection or

[1:21:22] you know any other area that you think deserves some attention as far as some

[1:21:27] type of transportation activity again sidewalks or road improvements or

[1:21:33] whatnot and then by clicking on it

[1:21:37] you are clicking up here i'm sorry you could

[1:21:40] say what type of project you're after or you're most interested in you can leave

[1:21:44] an actual comment there um that will show up on the map and we

[1:21:48] could gather those towards the end [Music]

[1:21:54] um there's also a survey by clicking on and it kind of just gives an overview of

[1:22:02] where the comments are coming from or the location for where the queen new

[1:22:06] members live you know age and some

[1:22:08] standard demographic information and what type of you know transportation

[1:22:14] is is most used um

[1:22:17] or you know those types of questions so that would um again give us some

[1:22:24] insight as to where we should focus

[1:22:27] um and then finally there's these two budget exercises on the right side uh

[1:22:32] each from one's for the regional transportation

[1:22:35] plan budget and uh it you just get an idea of you

[1:22:39] could go down this list of different types of projects

[1:22:43] and you start with a hundred dollars and you

[1:22:46] spend your way down to zero um

[1:22:49] you know just kind of it gives you an idea of

[1:22:53] what you have left and actually fortunately it goes beyond a hundred so

[1:22:59] you have to be cognizant of uh where to stop

[1:23:03] um there's that one and then there's a

[1:23:05] second one that gives uh active transportation

[1:23:10] projects that are really more specific to walking or biking type projects and

[1:23:15] what uh you know the specific projects that you would think deserve

[1:23:20] specific amounts of funding or you know in proportion to the hundred dollars the

[1:23:24] same idea for as the last one

[1:23:29] so that is our quick little spiel here and um

[1:23:33] happy to answer any questions that you might have um again we're trying to get

[1:23:38] the word out as much as possible too and that's

[1:23:42] our presentation here and to other uh organizations and groups

[1:23:46] so uh

[1:23:50] any questions

[1:23:53] just a quick question would will these be linked to the city and county

[1:23:57] websites for people who may be navigating those

[1:24:02] uh we we could do that in fact that probably

[1:24:07] make it simpler which is always good um

[1:24:11] i could contact would it be melissa with the city to see if i could get that up

[1:24:17] on the city website sounds like a perfect idea john

[1:24:22] i believe that it's correct

[1:24:26] and or you can just type in lake apc and uh you know you'll

[1:24:31] see this on the home page it's fairly easy to find

[1:24:36] stop sharing the screen unless anybody has any questions uh

[1:24:41] specific to the interactive activities that we just

[1:24:44] showed you

[1:24:48] i don't have any additional ones no questions

[1:24:53] no questions from the council thank you appreciate it okay we

[1:24:57] appreciate appreciate the chance to give you the presentation thanks a lot

[1:25:01] thank you thanks john lisa thanks thank you very soon

[1:25:07] we go to item number four presentation about cyanobacteria outreach work group

[1:25:12] well looks like there's some people in the audience that

[1:25:15] would like to talk about us

[1:25:19] way smarter than me

[1:25:24] do you have anything that you want to put on the screen too we have some

[1:25:27] presenters that are on zoom and denise pomeroy from public health has a

[1:25:31] presentation to share press their kids okay cool

[1:25:34] welcome denise hi good evening city council of clear

[1:25:37] lake i appreciate the opportunity to present with you tonight

[1:25:42] um i'm gonna try to share my screen and plug our presentation i think we have it

[1:25:48] down to about 15 minutes so

[1:25:52] hopefully this is going to work so we all are in this electronic system

[1:25:57] area

[1:26:02] see all right can you see my screen

[1:26:08] yes yes we can all right so

[1:26:12] uh lake county cyanobacteria communication work group this is a

[1:26:16] multi-agency update to um that we're going around to giving

[1:26:20] both to the cities and the county um back in july of 2017 and again in

[1:26:26] 2018 the board of supervisors for the county directed staff to establish a

[1:26:32] county-wide strategy and incorporate the cities and community partners for a

[1:26:36] long-term all-sector approach to cyanohab

[1:26:40] systems factual and consent messaging to businesses and general public on

[1:26:45] have related issues this has been a very good collaboration

[1:26:51] between both cities county and some of our tribal partners

[1:26:59] um following up from our prior year's um board of supervisors recommendation the

[1:27:04] county developed uniform education about cyanobacteria

[1:27:09] um the last couple of years the work group

[1:27:13] which is both cities county and our tribal partners uh water resources

[1:27:20] and special districts environmental health

[1:27:23] have been working on um the potential impacts the progress the

[1:27:29] current lake conditions and uniformed messaging to not only just our community

[1:27:35] but to the the wide variety of communities that visits lake counties

[1:27:43] we've moved from a reactive mode to a proactive mode and we

[1:27:49] work hard to communicate to all the sectors that are impacted

[1:27:53] uniformed and communications addressed through social media and other avenues

[1:28:00] have been a huge success for our communications out to the public

[1:28:06] regarding these challenges

[1:28:10] so i'm going to let angela take it from here on what is cyanobacteria

[1:28:17] thank you very much for having me today i'm angela de palmadao i'm in water

[1:28:20] resources i'm a program coordinator over there for county blake

[1:28:24] so cyanobacteria even though they're sometimes confused as an algae they are

[1:28:28] a bacteria they photosynthesize so they do convert co2 from the air into oxygen

[1:28:34] that goes both into the air and the water they're very old they've been here

[1:28:37] in clear lake for thousands of years and

[1:28:41] the same conditions that promote cyanobacteria warm weather still calm

[1:28:46] shallow waters and nutrient waters are the same things that promote the green

[1:28:50] algae which is different than cyanobacteria and that's why we have a

[1:28:54] world-class fishery here we have a really productive waters and all those

[1:28:59] factors that promote the green algae which feed our fish

[1:29:03] and promote our industry our fishing industry are also the same things that

[1:29:06] promote cyanobacteria blooms that we have in the lake um and so even though

[1:29:10] we care these things are both important to us they're just in different ways and

[1:29:14] they're both driven by the same factors next slide

[1:29:18] so what makes a harmful algal bloom harmful and again that's not an algae

[1:29:21] we're talking about cyanobacteria so when there's an over abundance of

[1:29:26] favorable conditions just like right now it's warm we have a lot of nutrients

[1:29:30] you're going to get a big abundant bloom growth of the cyanobacteria and they can

[1:29:34] produce toxins some of the strains can produce toxins not all of them and we

[1:29:38] really don't know what specifically promotes the toxins to be there they

[1:29:42] don't all produce the same toxins at the same time in the same amounts

[1:29:46] but some of them do produce the toxins and

[1:29:49] just because there's a bloom present doesn't necessarily mean that there's

[1:29:52] going to be toxins of a certain level and same thing there could be no bloom

[1:29:56] present you might have some toxins if you have some of the strain present that

[1:30:00] does produce the toxins so we really rely on that monitoring data to be able

[1:30:04] to tell us if they're toxin present and is there not and what level is it and is

[1:30:08] it of a health hazard level concern

[1:30:13] so we want to thank all of our stakeholders who work

[1:30:17] on this project with us and who's been a collaborative partner for the last

[1:30:22] four years or so um collectively the team has developed and had consensus on

[1:30:27] all the work that we've completed to date

[1:30:31] we definitely clarify that these are work group participants but everyone who

[1:30:36] lives or visits lake county is a stakeholder

[1:30:40] they have a voice or should have a voice in our lake it's our biggest asset among

[1:30:47] our people in lake county

[1:30:53] sarah

[1:30:56] hi good evening sarah ryan the big valley band of pomo indians

[1:31:00] environmental director i have spoken before

[1:31:03] you guys before on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in our program so it's great

[1:31:08] to be a part of a collaborative effort of the county and

[1:31:12] the cities and other stakeholders in terms of communicating these results

[1:31:18] as well as the conditions of the lake so

[1:31:21] as you probably know and you've heard that cyanobacteria is not just happening

[1:31:24] on clear lakes cyanotoxins are not just on clear lake they are

[1:31:28] throughout the world of course what affects us most is what's

[1:31:32] here so having blooms here and having toxins here is is concerning but it is

[1:31:37] something that even back in the 1990s the world health organization developed

[1:31:42] standards for exposures to cyanotoxins the state of california took a while to

[1:31:47] get to those standards they're still not full standards but there are

[1:31:51] recommendations for exposures for both drinking water and recreation us epa has

[1:31:57] also just recently finalized standards for recreational exposure to cyanotoxins

[1:32:02] but it is a worldwide problem if we can move to the next slide please

[1:32:08] in california and on there is a very small map but if

[1:32:12] you go to mywaterquality.gov and look under habs harmful algal blooms

[1:32:17] you'll see a map that has the most recent results not just from clear lake

[1:32:21] but from all of the water bodies in california where there are

[1:32:24] where there's cyanotoxin monitoring going on clear lake is the most

[1:32:28] monitored lake in california thanks to the tribes um maybe some some people

[1:32:32] don't thank the tribes for that but uh you know there's a lot of uses of clear

[1:32:37] lake and so it's really important to know what the toxin levels are so we

[1:32:40] know which areas should be avoided and which areas are are just fine so

[1:32:46] the on that my water quality.gov you can see on the map

[1:32:49] it is updated on a regular basis with the toxin results and you can go and so

[1:32:55] people are saying what about clear lake you can always look at some of the other

[1:32:58] water bodies in california that are being tested and what their levels are

[1:33:02] and there's plenty of other water bodies with danger levels

[1:33:05] and usually on clear lake we might have some danger levels and other levels will

[1:33:08] be below caution it's not even a problem at

[1:33:11] all so we like to make sure that people understand that as well

[1:33:15] next slide please [Music]

[1:33:18] moving to scott i am scott horner with lake county

[1:33:22] special districts uh there is a list of potential impacts there i'm going to

[1:33:26] speak to the the water utility there's a direct correlation between the have

[1:33:30] blooms and the increase in cost in producing water

[1:33:33] there's increased chemical costs there's increased backwash filter frequency

[1:33:37] there's increased operation time there's increased operators time and then

[1:33:41] there's the testing and sampling costs that that are associated with it

[1:33:45] and what this leads to is that the citizens and customers that around the

[1:33:50] lake whose water utility pulls their water from clear lake are paying a

[1:33:53] higher percentage of their monthly uh gross income to pay for water than our

[1:33:58] similar surface water producers throughout the the state so there's a

[1:34:02] there's an impact here for the citizens here and every one of those communities

[1:34:07] that's being served by the lake is a disadvantaged community so there's kind

[1:34:10] of a double whammy there

[1:34:15] so the emphasis that people have different reactions to cyanotax and just

[1:34:20] very much like allergies that you would have um some people have no reaction um

[1:34:26] some people have a very sick severe reaction some people get a skin rash

[1:34:32] some people especially animals um like dogs and and

[1:34:38] other pets especially livestock and stuff can have a much bigger reaction

[1:34:43] they're smaller plus they tend to get in the water or or pull the water with open

[1:34:49] mouth so they actually ingest the cyanotoxins

[1:34:54] these reactions vary greatly from a small rash to

[1:34:58] neurological issues um we have no actual um

[1:35:05] so some of the surveillance for human and veterinary health impacts are you

[1:35:09] know we don't have a lot of testing available

[1:35:13] that can confirm actual cyanotoxins to health and animals

[1:35:18] the tests on animals are usually postmortem

[1:35:23] and they take actual liver and kidney and internal

[1:35:27] biopsies and test it for certain toxins um and then humans there there really is

[1:35:33] none it's it's very much a medical puzzle as to

[1:35:38] what you were doing when you were doing it and

[1:35:41] how that works there's a very big piece of under reporting

[1:35:46] people swim they don't connect that they were

[1:35:49] swimming in an actual body of water or recreating

[1:35:53] boating fishing whatever um and they just think that they have you know

[1:36:00] some type of rash or or symptom so we really do

[1:36:05] do a lot of messaging with our physicians and our veterinarians around

[1:36:10] the clinics the ed rooms um to educate the physicians and the clinicians and

[1:36:16] the veterinarians on the symptoms of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in

[1:36:22] humans and in animals so far this summer we don't have any

[1:36:27] confirmed cases but we have had received a few complaints um two for animals and

[1:36:34] um two for different for humans that um we've not been able to

[1:36:41] [Music]

[1:36:44] completely be confident that it was related to xiaomi toxins but we do have

[1:36:49] an investigation process that we do at the health department with the with the

[1:36:53] collaboration of the tribes and testing and the state

[1:36:58] to see if we can make a match um there are here in this slide there

[1:37:05] are definitely symptoms it can be from a skin rash which is hard

[1:37:11] because you also have swimmers itch and other things that can happen

[1:37:16] um in summer and recreation activities out hiking and

[1:37:20] stuff but um you know they can be anywhere from a mild rash all the way up

[1:37:25] to neurological symptoms and animals we have had a couple of

[1:37:31] confirmed dog deaths related to cyanotax and

[1:37:36] cyanotoxins over the past four or five years

[1:37:42] um this is a mutual effort on surveillance and it is a

[1:37:47] collaborative project between the effort and investigation

[1:37:51] between the parties uh we have water resources big valley

[1:37:57] public health environmental health regional water boards we send out

[1:38:01] letters press releases cdc surveillance and public service announcement

[1:38:08] we get referrals on a regular basis

[1:38:12] of possible symptoms and reactions to the water and

[1:38:17] our department along with our partners

[1:38:21] um thank you everyone who partners with us um do a complete and full

[1:38:26] investigation on every complaint or case we get

[1:38:30] [Music] sarah

[1:38:37] just to follow up on the on the investigations i mean there is some

[1:38:40] funding that has come to big valley to be able to

[1:38:45] go take the samples and also send it off to the lab we don't have to pay for that

[1:38:50] and that does happen whenever there is a suspected dog or animal illness

[1:38:55] so the another part of the program is the signage and you have probably seen

[1:39:00] those signs online also posted

[1:39:04] at various areas and these are signs that were created by the state water

[1:39:09] resources control board and specifically the the people who are working on

[1:39:14] cyanotoxins and cyanobacteria so they've been able to because of a toxicological

[1:39:19] study on cyanotoxins that was done in uh i believe 2014 by the state

[1:39:25] there are caution warning endangered trigger levels uh based on the toxin

[1:39:29] results that they uh recommend that certain

[1:39:34] activities do not occur anymore so for caution there's uh at that level you can

[1:39:39] still swim in the area you want to avoid a mat or a bloom

[1:39:44] but you don't want to eat any shellfish from that area there are shellfish in

[1:39:47] this lake so you don't want to eat shellfish because it accumulates

[1:39:50] but at the warning level

[1:39:53] there are more restrictions in terms of letting dogs swim in there having

[1:39:57] children play in there and at the danger level you actually want to avoid it even

[1:40:00] in terms of boating because one of the ways that you can be exposed to

[1:40:03] cyanotoxins is through the um the mist and inhalation of the irritabilization

[1:40:08] of the toxins so these signs are there to

[1:40:12] inform the public you see those icons of the activities um to inform the public

[1:40:17] about what you can't what's recommended you can and can't do uh with the

[1:40:21] cyanotoxin levels that are there those signs are up

[1:40:24] from the time that we're aware of the toxin levels from the testing and are

[1:40:29] brought back down after there's two completed sampling events where the

[1:40:33] toxin levels have dropped and those are based on the state's recommendations for

[1:40:38] taking action on cyanotoxin levels

[1:40:43] okay next next slide angela

[1:40:47] okay so some of the progress the milestones that this work group has done

[1:40:51] um is we've encouraged supported tribal monitoring which is essential to this

[1:40:55] work group many of the members of the work group

[1:40:58] participate in local task force on this issue as well

[1:41:02] as state programs and it is multi-agency

[1:41:05] collaboration so working between the county and the cities

[1:41:09] special districts and the tribes and we have been able to

[1:41:13] produce the signage we have permanent signs around the lake to provide some

[1:41:16] basic information to those water users that are accessing the lake through

[1:41:20] public spots and some private areas as well as

[1:41:23] well as the temporary signs that sarah just covered we have produced some

[1:41:27] educational materials brochures websites i brought some for you guys today we'll

[1:41:31] go over that a little bit in a few slides as well as press releases and um

[1:41:35] informative psas so the press releases uh we produce a press release at the

[1:41:39] beginning of the season to give everybody you know the season starting

[1:41:42] it's going to get warm there might be a chance of cyanobacteria what to look for

[1:41:46] who to call and then also

[1:41:48] whenever there's a bloom incident or a specific change when there's a danger

[1:41:53] area or a lakewide event there will be a press release

[1:41:57] to inform the public of that event and where it was and to give them all the

[1:42:00] information

[1:42:07] sarah so the tribal monitoring

[1:42:10] on the slide you see a map that we produce and put on our website and also

[1:42:14] on the facebook page clear lake water quality

[1:42:17] and that's that map is showing not only the locations where we're doing our

[1:42:22] cyanotoxin monitoring we do have some shoreline

[1:42:26] we have approximately 23 shoreline sites and some sites that are on the interior

[1:42:31] uh that we get water samples from from the county and also uc davis when

[1:42:35] they're out there on the lake and we color the the markers based on those

[1:42:40] toxin levels and those coloration of those signs you remember danger was red

[1:42:43] warning was orange and caution was yellow

[1:42:46] green means that it's below the caution level

[1:42:49] so it's a it's a very visual sign um to to reflect what those toxin levels

[1:42:55] are those we are out there monitoring every two weeks we started this program

[1:42:58] in 2014 as you might remember i think i i think i came to the city council in

[1:43:03] 2015 to do a presentation um this is a program that started by big valley

[1:43:07] rancheria and elm indian colony and we are continuing to do it with

[1:43:11] funding from the federal government as well as a state government

[1:43:16] the next slide there's actually also

[1:43:20] the state the cchab network you can see all the

[1:43:23] partners on there cc habs the california cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom

[1:43:28] network i co-chair that along with somewhere from dave karen from the

[1:43:33] university of southern california and rebecca stanton from the office of

[1:43:36] environmental health hazard assessment and as we co-chair it we meet with all

[1:43:41] the stakeholders we meet quarterly with researchers

[1:43:45] vendors and uh government and um the educational you know the academia

[1:43:52] to look at ways that we can improve our programs in the state of california as

[1:43:56] well as solve this problem so know that uh you know that what you have as part

[1:44:01] of this team and as part of you know the the monitoring on the lake is we're

[1:44:04] actually very well connected with the state on

[1:44:08] and have the most recent updated information about studies um there's

[1:44:12] also uh federally there is a cyanobacter cyanobacteria assessment

[1:44:17] network and there is um also satellite imagery that we have access to

[1:44:22] uh it's not on this page but it's fhab.sfei.org

[1:44:27] and you can go on there and look at the satellite imagery of california and

[1:44:32] clear lake right now is standing bright and

[1:44:35] red um because of the cyanobacterial bloom

[1:44:38] so we have a lot of resources at our hands i guess that's what i'm trying to

[1:44:41] say um and it's a well collaborative uh group of people working on this on

[1:44:47] clearly not only clearly but all the water bodies in california

[1:44:51] and the next slide

[1:44:54] okay so i get all the phone calls when there's um blooms in the lake and if

[1:44:59] anything comes in and there's a health hazard in question

[1:45:03] i will direct them to this page this is a state page

[1:45:06] and it's the mywaterquality.ca.gov and if you look at

[1:45:10] this page on the right hand side in red it says report a bloom so this is the

[1:45:14] first step if someone has any questions of been if they've been exposed to

[1:45:18] cyanobacteria bloom and have any potential health hazard

[1:45:21] impacts or they have a family member or an animal or pet in their family they go

[1:45:26] to that page it's like you scroll twice you fill out the information

[1:45:30] there's a team at the state that responds to this pretty quickly i was

[1:45:33] talking to a guy the other day he had filled out the form had called me i

[1:45:37] called him back in about maybe half an hour and he had already talked to

[1:45:39] somebody from the state about his issues so they have staff resources that are

[1:45:44] dedicated to figuring out what's going on and also collecting the information

[1:45:48] so they can make more research resources available for us

[1:45:52] this team there works with public health they'll communicate to public health

[1:45:55] together they'll complete the investigation we'll figure out if us or

[1:45:59] the tribes go out do spot site sampling to figure out if there was

[1:46:02] something there in the water and so it's just a really great resource and that's

[1:46:05] where i direct staff or i direct calls that come in if there's health

[1:46:09] hazard impacts at all any question i send them there

[1:46:17] this thing is just showing there's about 30 30 plus signs around the

[1:46:22] around the lake that give information about how to

[1:46:25] recreate safely and

[1:46:28] in water that could possibly have the habs it also provides links to

[1:46:33] in public health water resources there's a qr code that links you to big valleys

[1:46:38] uh monitoring data so you can get the most recent data there and

[1:46:45] [Music]

[1:46:50] the slide actually shows those the location of the signs and this is most

[1:46:55] of those signs are at our monitoring locations although there's a few uh

[1:46:59] areas that have signs that we don't monitor most of our modern monitoring

[1:47:03] locations are the parks

[1:47:07] we have a city you know city of clear lake city of lakeport uh locations in in

[1:47:12] the city of lakeport it's a redbud park and austin park

[1:47:18] and we have and we have some all around the lake we also have

[1:47:22] sampling locations at homeowners associations and private

[1:47:26] properties so there are signs that are available i believe that

[1:47:31] there'll be more discussion about that but homeowners and and private property

[1:47:35] owners can get signs also affixed to their area and they just need to talk

[1:47:39] with public health or water resources about that

[1:47:45] so part of this group was developing education outreach materials i talked

[1:47:48] about the press releases already we do have articles um on our websites and

[1:47:53] then we have brochures both in english and spanish um that are available on our

[1:47:56] website as well as hard copy i'm gonna give you guys some

[1:47:59] these are all for you so take what you need

[1:48:03] um we also have some radio and digital psas so we recently just did a digital

[1:48:07] campaign this is a visual psa uh to go on digital media we have it on the

[1:48:13] facebook as well as its ads marketing we also do little videos so we have one

[1:48:17] about um being safe with your your pets around the water and then the

[1:48:22] big valley does post their results as soon as they get them um on the clean

[1:48:27] lake water quality facebook page which has a very uh big following and so

[1:48:31] people get that information right away and they can make the best decisions for

[1:48:35] themselves and their family when they're recreating

[1:48:42] this brochure that you see on the slide for small drinking water systems and

[1:48:46] that's actually for private drinking water systems that are

[1:48:50] one to four homes that these water systems are connected to

[1:48:54] these don't believe there any of these in the city of clear lake

[1:48:57] but throughout the lake we have 100 miles of shoreline there are a number

[1:49:01] hundreds actually of homes who have near shore wells or private intakes into the

[1:49:06] lake where they are drying water in and treating it possibly

[1:49:11] and drinking it or showering in it feeding it to their animals and whatnot

[1:49:16] and so this this brochure that is on the

[1:49:20] slide is warning or basically giving recommendations to people who are

[1:49:24] drinking that type of water um to take care if you're mixing water uh if you're

[1:49:30] making formula for your child you want to use bottled water instead of lake

[1:49:33] water from your own private intake not talking about the public water systems

[1:49:37] where most people 65 of the people in this county get their drinking water

[1:49:41] from public water systems but from these small systems so this outreach also has

[1:49:46] been available for several years it was dr karen tate the public health officer

[1:49:49] who put this together in coordination with the rest of our

[1:49:52] group so we do do outreach to these private intakes and these state smalls

[1:49:57] as well because they do have lesser treatment systems for their drinking

[1:50:01] water

[1:50:05] so you know our next steps um for this group we've been together for

[1:50:10] like i said about four four years now um as a directive to from the board of

[1:50:17] supervisors um we want to get more signs out to private properties and homeowners

[1:50:22] associations around the lake we have those permanent signs available whether

[1:50:27] it's a resort or you know local

[1:50:31] hoa associations um communication we're going to continue the monitoring

[1:50:36] continue partnering with our tribes and our other agencies our cities around the

[1:50:42] lake you know really manage the message

[1:50:44] because that's what it's all about it's about informing people so that they can

[1:50:48] make the right choice for them and then of

[1:50:52] course we look for input from our community leaders such as yourselves we

[1:50:56] we welcome and we support that input and that's basically why we're here today

[1:51:01] to give you an

[1:51:04] update and you know we'll now take any questions or um concerns that you have

[1:51:11] here are the three entities that

[1:51:15] people can contact for questions or for more information or

[1:51:20] brochures lake county water resources

[1:51:24] like county public health and big valley band of pomo indians who

[1:51:29] really started this trend back i don't know 10 years ago i

[1:51:34] guess sarah i could be wrong on that but we really have them to thank for getting

[1:51:40] this project off and running

[1:51:43] with the testing of our leg many years ago so we thank you for your

[1:51:48] time and we're happy to answer any questions

[1:51:51] it looks like councilman has questions uh thank you denise and and all of you

[1:51:56] for that presentation it was very informative

[1:51:59] i didn't i heard a lot of the the problems created by the cyanobacteria

[1:52:04] and both localized areas and across the lake

[1:52:08] my question is is there any progress being made on something that we can

[1:52:12] knock these blooms down especially in localized areas for instance off of

[1:52:17] austin's beach or off of redbud uh or off of library park lakewood

[1:52:22] whatever so is there any anything that's being

[1:52:25] done or can be done to at least break those up and

[1:52:29] push them away i'm gonna let our scientists answer

[1:52:34] the questions of sarah and or angela i get this question all the time so i

[1:52:39] love it thank you thank you um

[1:52:42] yeah so the conditions that make the algae grow there are the still warm

[1:52:46] water nutrient rich we have super nutrient water we're not you know the

[1:52:49] nutrients are there they've been there for um thousands of years just old lake

[1:52:53] so it's all piled there there's a big resource there for the food for them

[1:52:57] and this warm water so still warm food and then we get summer daylight so we

[1:53:01] have these long daylight hours of the sunshine and that's what they love so

[1:53:05] they're gonna grow there um what you can do and again this is

[1:53:09] extreme year so this drought year with the low water and these when if we had

[1:53:13] three weeks of a hundred plus weather in a row starting in june like that's crazy

[1:53:18] so that's very extreme there has been success local level in

[1:53:22] some places in the lake with moving the water right so you're removing that

[1:53:25] habitat you're making it so it's not still comfortable you'll still might get

[1:53:29] some blooms and some toxins but not at the same level that we

[1:53:34] see in areas where you have but still nice quiet coves there how have you been

[1:53:37] moving the water there's things that are water movers there's um at big valley in

[1:53:41] their marina they have a solar bee which is a little bubbler that kind of moves

[1:53:45] it around um there are dock mounted basically it's underwater fans that can

[1:53:50] move it and of course you can get different sizes then again you're moving

[1:53:52] electricity around you know um there there's our options but they're small

[1:53:57] scale for your own property kind of thing so it's it's not we can't move a

[1:54:01] whole large cove of algae and in fact i think they tried it in 2010 and they

[1:54:05] moved it out and it just went into somebody else's cove and then you're

[1:54:08] dealing with that problem in that that location so it doesn't there's no quick

[1:54:13] fix or else we would have had it already or other water bodies would have had it

[1:54:16] so the work the work being done up for instance and rodney and slude as their

[1:54:21] going to do you know make that a slow again and it was supposedly going to

[1:54:26] help filter the water coming in is that going to have any any impact positively

[1:54:30] on this yes absolutely when that gets done and other if we can do smaller

[1:54:35] scale of those two around the lake like restoring wetlands and natural

[1:54:39] shorelines around the lake that definitely will help because all of that

[1:54:41] habitat basically competes for all those things like the nutrients

[1:54:46] that the the cyanobacteria does um like although it's been here it's going to

[1:54:52] continue being here we're just trying to lessen the severity and the frequency of

[1:54:55] it yeah and i wanted to say that the um in

[1:54:59] the clear lake nutrient tmdl which was established about 15 years ago from the

[1:55:04] regional board they um they estimate 100 years of

[1:55:08] in-lake loading so we somehow in 2009 you know we had a lake

[1:55:14] wide bloom it just hit i know there was cyanobacteria prior to that but in 2009

[1:55:18] it just hit and with 100 years of it you know there

[1:55:22] are a lot of smaller lakes and and i'm not recommending this with smaller lakes

[1:55:26] that are that are using alum to cover the bottom of the lake and do find ways

[1:55:31] to make that food that is sitting on the bottom not available to the

[1:55:34] cyanobacteria to take it up but the thing that really keeps it that the

[1:55:39] thing that really makes it available is low oxygen levels so that's another

[1:55:42] thing another reason why aeration is really

[1:55:46] useful though it's very localized as angela said we would we have done um

[1:55:51] uh using a a simple um pump and pulling water from the lake and spraying it back

[1:55:57] in the lake we would do that i say do it often and early uh don't wait till it

[1:56:02] looks like this you know um yeah can't do it now uh because there's no water

[1:56:07] practically but if you if you aerate it and you move it around locally it makes

[1:56:11] a huge difference we had not have those problems on the big valley shoreline so

[1:56:16] the bubblers the aerators fire hoses blowing water out yeah that you know

[1:56:21] it's it keeps the smell it keeps the mats from forming but you have to do it

[1:56:26] early and often yeah a year yeah years ago

[1:56:29] yeah years back they there had been a proposal or a couple of proposals or

[1:56:34] studies anyway done to possibly harvest uh

[1:56:38] algae basically a water water floating uh harvester that would

[1:56:44] take it in and and then take the material off up on the

[1:56:48] shore dry it out and they had apparently had looked into different uses for it

[1:56:53] have you heard and done anything or seen anything of that this was back in the

[1:56:56] 90s i think yeah i i've heard it as an urban legend maybe maybe angela can

[1:57:02] speak to it more but i do know it's hard to pick up cyanobacteria it will you

[1:57:06] know if you put a pool skimmer out there and try to lift it up most of it will

[1:57:10] fall through so it's really much better to

[1:57:14] yeah it is it is a you should look at um well i want to say but there's a few

[1:57:18] spots that we saw yesterday it looks like a green smoothie

[1:57:20] um removing it is difficult it's better to

[1:57:24] prevent it from from forming the other thing i wanted to say about middle creek

[1:57:27] is the uc davis studies are showing that the what we have in the lake is

[1:57:33] is probably producing more of the blooms than what's coming in everybody's been

[1:57:38] working hard to prevent the coming in erosion control projects and things like

[1:57:42] that but if what we have is mainly from the lake the middle creek restoration

[1:57:46] project will be helpful tule planting will be helpful but we

[1:57:50] have to deal with what's the panacea no there's no magic bullet

[1:58:00] yeah i just um on our on the signage that you guys have set out i haven't

[1:58:04] seen it for a while um is there anything on there that say if you have these

[1:58:09] symptoms after being in the water please contact

[1:58:14] the health department because i mean i think that should be on

[1:58:17] the signage itself people aren't necessarily going to see those

[1:58:21] and i don't know i never thought about that after all these years

[1:58:25] but when you mentioned that i was like i don't remember seeing that on our signs

[1:58:28] so um

[1:58:30] denise do you know yeah i do believe it's there let me pull

[1:58:34] it up i there's a ul cord uh to um big valley so they can scan and get

[1:58:42] local conditions at that on that day but i do believe we also have um our phone

[1:58:48] numbers on the signs for both water resources and public health

[1:58:52] um i don't know that let me i'm gonna check real quick here

[1:58:57] let me go through all these slides also this

[1:58:59] symptoms can be different for different people it's like allergies right

[1:59:02] sometimes people get watery eyes or sneezing or some people get headaches

[1:59:06] and um so it's kind of different so if we listed every single symptom well you

[1:59:09] might have to look at symptoms but maybe they should say if you feel

[1:59:15] like something simple like if you feel like you've been in the water and you

[1:59:18] feel sick or or have rashes please call

[1:59:22] you know your doctor and let them know that you're in

[1:59:25] the water or something like that has algae i'm just thinking that there might

[1:59:28] be yeah actually have on the side

[1:59:32] so what it says is um to call your health provider on the

[1:59:36] temporary signs it says if you have any reactions call your local medical

[1:59:41] provider and then on the permanent signs it says

[1:59:45] um the current toxin levels it gives the website and the url

[1:59:50] information or to report a bloom or call

[1:59:55] a local county departments for information so

[2:00:03] okay

[2:00:05] all right and then on the temp app

[2:00:08] [Music] you have any

[2:00:10] questions say call your doctor or veterinarian if you

[2:00:14] or your pet get sick after going in the water for more information contact

[2:00:19] water quality california habs um and then for local information contact um

[2:00:26] public health

[2:00:29] water resources or big valley so it is on there

[2:00:35] thank you councilman mclaffy you have any

[2:00:38] questions no questions thank you all for the work you're doing on this this is uh

[2:00:43] is a great presentation thank you i have one or two questions

[2:00:48] uh is the smell

[2:00:50] is it i mean if you have blooms is it autumn let me smell or is it what what

[2:00:54] creates the smell how can you get rid of the smell

[2:01:00] well there actually are taste and odor

[2:01:03] compounds that cyan bacteria produces and lingbia seems to be the smelliest i

[2:01:07] remember in 2009 i remember saying it looks and smells like raw sewage

[2:01:12] um so uh but also when it's dying so you've

[2:01:15] probably seen some blooms that look pink right now these big masses and that's

[2:01:20] that is the uh dying cyanobacteria so um that's so it either is because of the

[2:01:26] cyan bacteria itself some of them smell like swampy you know microcystis has a

[2:01:30] different smell than than lingam but lingby is the smelly is to my opinion

[2:01:43] you said uh i've noticed there's some places that they just take thules out is

[2:01:48] that illegal yeah that is can you tell me let us know

[2:01:53] call our department let us know where that is so we can investigate

[2:01:56] they're not supposed to tulies are protected and you're not alone clear

[2:02:00] lake other outside of the lake we don't have that that's not an

[2:02:04] ordinance rule but it is the shoreline ordinance chapter 23 does prohibit the

[2:02:08] removal of these some people can cut them down um even though we don't

[2:02:12] recommend that right now for this year because they don't have water and you're

[2:02:15] putting through stress so basically the ordinance language says you cannot do

[2:02:18] anything to the plant that results in death of the plant if a plant has no

[2:02:21] water and you trim it down that could result in death so you're not supposed

[2:02:24] to do that um but you're not supposed to uproot them or move them some people

[2:02:28] weed whack to get a better view and that's okay that's allowed um but yeah

[2:02:32] if if you know the site just call us okay so we can go check it out some of

[2:02:36] them are growing on top of my concrete ramp that's still the shoreline and

[2:02:41] protected oh sure sorry

[2:02:50] you said this is a worldwide problem so where else in the world are they

[2:02:54] working on some kind of uh to to deal with the effects of this

[2:03:00] yeah all over um it's just very different so like lake erie is world

[2:03:05] renowned for having cyanobacteria issues and drinking water and recreation their

[2:03:10] problems are very different because they get

[2:03:12] those huge storms in the summer and then they plaster the area with phosphorus

[2:03:17] and they have drain tiles so they're getting constant fertilizer influx

[2:03:21] during the whole year and they're getting those blooms right um we're very

[2:03:25] different we're still getting blooms but our lake is very different so the tools

[2:03:28] to manage and treat in an area like that are very different than the ones that we

[2:03:32] have to develop here and i will say that i think i'm correct

[2:03:36] but i think clear lake is one of the only

[2:03:38] drinking water lakes or reservoirs in california that has these bloom events

[2:03:42] um versus all the other ones there are some bloom events it's getting more and

[2:03:45] more often but i think clear lakes the one where they have as a drinking water

[2:03:48] intakes directly on the lake is the only one in the state so it's very unique

[2:03:52] which means there's not a lot of research and data as of yet just for our

[2:03:55] specific situation is that climate change have anything to do with that oh

[2:03:59] absolutely because what did we talk about the temperature

[2:04:02] um and still water so we're getting warmer temperatures earlier

[2:04:06] longer periods of these warm temperatures less rain we have less

[2:04:09] dilution yeah that's definitely a contributing

[2:04:11] factor yeah

[2:04:14] all right thank you for oh but mr product

[2:04:17] patiently waiting patiently waiting to ask my questions um

[2:04:21] so i understand the the wind the the naturally occurring winds that typically

[2:04:27] blow it down the the northern arm or toward elam and clearly goku's area and

[2:04:31] obviously we receive the same type of prevailing winds uh which makes it pool

[2:04:36] and pocket in those areas which where it gets stagnant does the state or local

[2:04:44] i'm thinking boating and waterways our own water resources they have

[2:04:48] anything or any recommendations for our private property owners and and some of

[2:04:53] our public areas where that where it pools where we can maybe get some

[2:04:57] assistance either trash pumps or other ways to mitigate when it starts to pile

[2:05:03] up i'm not just talking about cyanobacteria but actually when the

[2:05:06] algae the different forms and types of algae

[2:05:09] begin to die and decompose there's a lot of gases that come off of

[2:05:13] that as it decomposes

[2:05:16] so that's um i would say that most of what that is describing is the

[2:05:20] cyanobacteria and not the green algae and

[2:05:24] private homeowners when they call me this i recommend you know you can put in

[2:05:27] a water mover like sarah talked about early in the season um you can encourage

[2:05:32] natural shorelines so if you have a lot of erosion in the area

[2:05:35] or a lawn that goes right up you know that can promote those conditions

[2:05:39] even though it's harder when it's affecting a large area not just your own

[2:05:42] parcel some people try skimming you know the

[2:05:46] pool skimmer and then put it aside on the shoreline

[2:05:49] but it's just making more room for more of it to come in so yeah i know that

[2:05:53] they had looked at it though for um different uses i mean some algae is

[2:05:57] actually harvested in different parts algae not cyanobacteria i understand

[2:06:01] that but now i'm looking at the health of the lake yes and and the

[2:06:07] we have to enjoy the lake as much as we can and when it stinks it's no no fun

[2:06:11] so you know what can we do to help our residents uh combat that

[2:06:15] so i you know we talked about syncing it we had a former supervisor who used the

[2:06:19] airboat for the county who tried to break it up and try to mitigate that

[2:06:23] we've actually hired contractors with excavators to pull it out of the lake

[2:06:27] haul it away to different um agricultural

[2:06:31] areas for fertilizer so i mean there's different uses i just

[2:06:36] can we start looking at those because this is it happens every year some years

[2:06:40] more than others that we can try to mitigate this and and

[2:06:43] maybe use it for something beneficial

[2:06:48] do you want to talk about the uc davis is doing a study and they're going to

[2:06:51] have some recommendations at the end of that to kind of figure out how to keep

[2:06:54] it from forming um it sells so just because you remove some cells there's a

[2:06:59] whole bunch more and all they do is reproduce and make more actually save

[2:07:02] themselves yeah absolutely yeah so um one thing about having weeds on your

[2:07:08] shoreline and weeds in the water rather than is that it competes with the

[2:07:12] cyanobacteria so i would recommend keeping your you know keeping some weeds

[2:07:16] and they're planting some tules because they eat the same thing that

[2:07:19] cyanobacteria eats so don't you know if you take everything out of there then

[2:07:23] cyanobacteria can dominate and you don't want that to happen i i noticed where

[2:07:30] the edge of the tulis were and they moved

[2:07:34] probably 20 feet farther into the lake over the last 10 years or so yes great

[2:07:39] yeah we need more tulies more tules

[2:07:43] have a thule planting campaign yeah

[2:07:46] we're doing yeah we've done hundreds of feet of big valley shoreline and it's

[2:07:50] very helpful i want to say another aerator that's out there uh we bought

[2:07:54] some one at usa blue books i'm sure they're out there but they look like

[2:07:57] what you put in the bottom of your um fish tank they sit on the bottom you

[2:08:00] have weighted cables and they bubble up and uh

[2:08:04] you know a little over a thousand dollars you can get a bubbler that turns

[2:08:08] over the water in the air uh five acre area in 72 hours and that's what we use

[2:08:14] when tribone clear lake vista and it did make a difference for the water in that

[2:08:18] cove so

[2:08:20] thank you very much very educational thank you we really appreciate that

[2:08:25] all right we uh mr mayor would you have someone on zoom that has their hand

[2:08:29] raised all right

[2:08:33] just wait for a second there's somebody on zoom that might have a question

[2:08:38] go ahead melissa

[2:09:01] go ahead with your comment you have your hand raised

[2:09:07] michael did cheat

[2:09:13] go ahead michael with your comment

[2:09:26] all right i think we have to move on all right we go to public comment

[2:09:35] this is the time for any member of the public to address the city council and

[2:09:38] thanks again we appreciate your presentation of the

[2:09:42] public to address the city council or any matter not on the agenda that is

[2:09:46] within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city

[2:09:49] the brown act with limited exception does not allow the council or staff to

[2:09:54] discuss issues brought before under public comment the council cannot take

[2:10:00] actions on non-agenda items concerns may be referred to staff or

[2:10:06] placed on the next available agenda please note that the comments from the

[2:10:10] public would also be taken on each agenda item and comments shall be

[2:10:14] limited to three minutes per person do we have any here anybody in the

[2:10:19] public here that wants to address the council

[2:10:22] go ahead sir please state your name when you come up

[2:10:30] my name is mr bolt and um we have a traffic

[2:10:35] problem up here on uh 18th avenue where i live

[2:10:39] between phillips and ball my sister wrote this in august 15 2020

[2:10:47] people are driving 60 to 70 miles an hour at all times of the day and night

[2:10:52] keeping us all up at night i am sick with lyme disease and cannot

[2:10:56] get any sleep please have a patrol officer at knives

[2:11:00] sit at phillips avenue or borrow avenues off of 18th and check for violators

[2:11:06] have called several times with no follow-up thank you ronald

[2:11:12] thank you for your comments sir and i live on the corner of irwin

[2:11:18] and 18th and and i requested uh 25 miles an

[2:11:22] hour post sign from 19th and 18th on the corner where i

[2:11:28] live because they drive 40 or 50 miles an

[2:11:31] hour there and i i requested that i would put slow

[2:11:35] down children at play but i would like a 25 miles an hour

[2:11:39] posted on the corner of 19th and 18th right there

[2:11:43] when you come up off of 18th

[2:11:47] they go 40 or 50 miles right there and coming down there's no stop sign and

[2:11:52] they clipped the uh they clicked the sign there that says

[2:11:56] irwin and 18th avenue they took that out and and the mailbox is right there

[2:12:02] doing about 40 right there so there's no stop sign so they fly down the hill real

[2:12:07] fast and if we can have a 25 mile put right

[2:12:10] on the corner there at 19 coming down and right by my place

[2:12:14] going up 25 i will pay for slow down children in

[2:12:19] that play so the kids can ride their bikes there

[2:12:23] and then um between phillips and ball it's like a

[2:12:26] race track all times at night you can see the burn

[2:12:29] off they hit a fire hydrant

[2:12:34] at night they were coming up by the hospital

[2:12:38] coming down like this and they ran phillips the intersection of phillips

[2:12:42] coming up there there's a hydra fire hydrant right there

[2:12:46] he took that out with his truck with the wheel

[2:12:49] and with his bumper he took the two uh yellow

[2:12:53] post that that goes in front of it cement knocked that down

[2:12:57] and for him to hit that up fire hydrant he had to be doing about 70

[2:13:02] miles an hour so he's going over those humps like this

[2:13:05] and pass right past phillips intersection

[2:13:08] doing 70 miles an hour and then hit that fire hydrant and shot it off like a

[2:13:13] bowling bowling pin and with that tightened down he was

[2:13:17] doing at least seven so they're hit they're hitting a lot of

[2:13:21] city property and then coming up from walmart there they just clipped on uh

[2:13:26] where the uh across from the college there

[2:13:30] they went on the left there and hit the green fence right there

[2:13:34] way off the line there and i talked to the lady there and she says that they

[2:13:38] always run that stop sign there and they're burning off like crazy the

[2:13:42] motorbikes and all these trucks well you're in luck because our chief traffic

[2:13:46] officer is in the meeting and listening to all this

[2:13:49] thank you very much for your comments i really appreciate it thank you thank you

[2:13:54] steve white please i just wanted to respond

[2:13:57] that we have met with this uh gentleman on multiple occasions and we did just

[2:14:01] recently order a speed radar trailer um which has been in hot demand our last

[2:14:06] one was broken so obviously areas like this and stuff won't tend to use it and

[2:14:10] the traffic officer is aware of the complaints thank you

[2:14:13] thank you uh are there any public comments on zoom

[2:14:17] adam

[2:14:21] there are no hands raised on zoom all right we'll move on to the consent

[2:14:26] agenda anybody wants to pull any of the consent agenda

[2:14:30] if not entertain a motion i so move that we accept the uh consent

[2:14:35] agenda as presented and i'll second that we have a motion by councilwoman overton

[2:14:40] and the second by councilman cramer

[2:14:44] uh all in favor all right all right we'll move on to public

[2:14:49] hearing item number 15. mr mayor i'd like to make a request that we

[2:14:56] we have our auditor um on zoom and i'd like to request that we take up item

[2:15:01] number 16 before the public hearing okay

[2:15:05] please all right item number

[2:15:11] 16. um

[2:15:14] mr white chief of police interim finance director i think it's your item

[2:16:08] okay sorry about that i was trying to pull this up uh good evening mayor

[2:16:11] members of the council members of the public i come before you tonight as the

[2:16:15] interim finance director to introduce you to our city auditor by

[2:16:20] way of background we hire an auditor to implement an audit of the city's books

[2:16:25] for 2018 and 19 we engaged a new auditing

[2:16:29] firm and the head auditor

[2:16:31] is actually on the line with us and i'm going to turn it over

[2:16:35] to him to go ahead and present this report

[2:16:42] uh yes good evening mr mayor members of the council

[2:16:45] my name is brett van glant i'm a partner with van lant and fenk kennel

[2:16:49] we conducted the audit uh for the city's financial statements for the fiscal year

[2:16:54] ended june 30 2019. i have a short

[2:16:58] powerpoint presentation just kind of going over the audit process and the

[2:17:01] reports that were issued as part of our audits

[2:17:04] if you have any questions throughout the presentation please feel free to

[2:17:08] just cut me off at any time i'm going to try and

[2:17:11] share my screen do i need to share my screen or were you guys gonna

[2:17:16] please you can you can you want to share okay perfect

[2:17:33] so you guys can see that yes okay

[2:17:37] um so the audit process uh it's kind of broken up into two different two

[2:17:41] different parts we do what we call an interim audit

[2:17:45] field work this is where we do some of our

[2:17:48] [Music] preliminary work for

[2:17:52] to assess the risk that the financial statements could contain a material

[2:17:56] misstatement this is what we call our risk assessment process

[2:18:01] this part of the audit we are just gaining an understanding of the

[2:18:06] design and implementation of the different internal controls over the

[2:18:10] city's financial reporting in order to do this we

[2:18:14] have to review all different types of transactions that the city

[2:18:17] engages in cash receipts cash disbursements

[2:18:21] the procurement and purchasing process uh how payroll is processed and any

[2:18:27] other various uh audit areas that we might find

[2:18:30] significant to the the city itself the different

[2:18:34] types of transactions and things like that

[2:18:37] in order to do that we have to review specific transactions uh we observe uh

[2:18:42] the processes that are that are taking place the cash receipts process how

[2:18:46] those are handled uh also the cash disbursements process um and then in

[2:18:51] addition to that we are inquiring with different uh personnel throughout the

[2:18:56] city uh that that handle these types of transactions

[2:19:00] so that's kind of the preliminary process of just

[2:19:03] gaining an understanding of how how the financial transactions work at the city

[2:19:08] and those internal controls over those transactions to make sure that the

[2:19:12] financial statements are fairly misstated or fairly stated in

[2:19:16] accordance with generally accepted accounting principles

[2:19:21] so the second second part of our audit process is the year-end audit field work

[2:19:25] this is where we're actually verifying the balances and the amounts that are in

[2:19:29] the city's financial statements the procedures that we do involve our

[2:19:34] judgment and that uh those procedures are dictated by our

[2:19:39] risk assessment process so uh when i talked about the different internal

[2:19:43] controls if there's if there's various areas that

[2:19:47] uh internal controls might not be as strong

[2:19:50] as we would uh anticipate then we would have to do extended procedures to

[2:19:56] verify that the amounts that are actually reported in your financial

[2:20:00] statements are materially stated so part of that we are doing substantive

[2:20:07] testing of the amount of the amounts that are

[2:20:11] reported in your financial statements we are confirming balances with the state

[2:20:16] and the county different payments that are made

[2:20:19] we test transactions we inquire with city staff

[2:20:23] we perform analytical procedures prior year comparisons try to

[2:20:28] identify any uh any fluctuations from one year to the next that uh can't can

[2:20:33] necessarily be explained uh we will do further procedures to inquire with

[2:20:39] uh city staff to understand you know why those uh fluctuations might have

[2:20:43] happened so that we feel comfortable with the amounts that are

[2:20:46] reported in the financial statements themselves

[2:20:50] uh there are several reports that are issued as part of our audit

[2:20:54] most notably it's the audit report that's the opinion on the financial

[2:20:58] statements we're also required to issue a report on

[2:21:02] internal control and compliance that's required by government auditing

[2:21:06] standards we also issued a report on the city's

[2:21:10] appropriations limit calculation and there's also a letter that was

[2:21:15] addressed to the city council just informative about the audit process

[2:21:20] itself

[2:21:23] so the audit report on the financial statements uh has several sections

[2:21:28] uh identifying the responsibilities of both parties so the financial statements

[2:21:34] themselves are management's financial statements they're the responsibility of

[2:21:38] management our responsibility is to express an

[2:21:42] opinion on the the presentation of those financial statements

[2:21:47] we are providing reasonable assurance that the amounts are fairly stated in

[2:21:51] accordance with generally accepted accounting principles

[2:21:54] uh it talks about uh the procedure or the

[2:21:57] applicable standards that we follow um as part of our audits and also talks

[2:22:03] about that our our procedures involve our judgment

[2:22:07] based off of our risk assessment

[2:22:11] the city received an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion meaning

[2:22:16] we did not the the financial statements are fairly

[2:22:20] presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles

[2:22:24] meaning there's no material misstatements in in the amounts that are

[2:22:28] reported in the financial statements there's also

[2:22:33] the report also discusses our responsibility for the required

[2:22:37] supplementary information required supplementary

[2:22:40] supplementary information includes the md a

[2:22:44] budgetary schedules and pension schedules the city this year elected not

[2:22:48] to present an mdna

[2:22:52] which is management's discussion and analysis

[2:22:56] uh we are not expressing an opinion on that required supplementary information

[2:23:00] and we're only performing limited audit procedures on those

[2:23:04] and then the report also talks about the other supplementary information

[2:23:09] that's reported in the financial statements and our responsibility for

[2:23:14] reviewing that activity as well

[2:23:19] um i just uh put some key figures in here

[2:23:22] um most the

[2:23:25] pension liability uh the city's net pension liability is

[2:23:29] approximately seven million that's a decrease from the previous fiscal year

[2:23:34] 2019 again obviously it's a couple years ago at

[2:23:38] this point but that was one of the first years

[2:23:42] the only year that i've seen actually that the pension liability went down so

[2:23:45] that's a always a plus the fund balance in the general fund

[2:23:50] increased approximately 500 000 compared to the prior year

[2:23:55] the unrestricted fund balance is approximately

[2:23:59] months reserves which of the 2019 expenditures

[2:24:05] gfoa is the government finance officers association

[2:24:09] their their best practice recommendation is to

[2:24:13] have a minimum of two months operating reserves so that kind of gives you an

[2:24:16] idea of where the city's reserves are at with

[2:24:19] best practices

[2:24:24] we had the report on internal control and compliance this is a government

[2:24:28] auditing standards report uh it talks about uh

[2:24:33] it can we're our requirements to consider internal control over financial

[2:24:37] reporting and also uh compliance with anything that could have a material

[2:24:44] impact on the financial statement so that's compliance with laws regulations

[2:24:48] contracts grant agreements things like that anything that could have an impact

[2:24:52] on the amounts that are reported in your financial statements

[2:24:57] we're not expressing an opinion on internal controls

[2:25:00] we are just required to report any significant deficiencies material

[2:25:04] weaknesses other matters or material non-compliance

[2:25:09] as part of our audit we're required to report that

[2:25:13] we did identify for material weaknesses i believe everybody's had a chance to

[2:25:18] review the reports [Music]

[2:25:21] i won't go through each one unless you guys have questions on them they're

[2:25:25] pretty uh you know we've reported on them in

[2:25:28] detail so if there's any questions on any of these uh feel free to

[2:25:33] ask at at any time but these are the four material weaknesses that were

[2:25:37] identified as part of our audit and then there was four significant

[2:25:42] deficiencies that we identified as part of our audience

[2:25:45] that report also talks about you know what

[2:25:49] it involves auditor judgment to determine

[2:25:52] if what we might think is significant enough to be reported as a material

[2:25:56] weakness or a significant deficiency items like that

[2:26:03] there is also the sas 114 report that's a a statement on auditing standards 114

[2:26:09] that's the abbreviation for that but this is a

[2:26:12] required communication with this those charged with governance which is

[2:26:17] the city council and it talks about the different

[2:26:20] estimates that are in the city's financial statements uh sensitive

[2:26:23] disclosures if we had any difficulties or disagreements with management we

[2:26:28] would be reporting that there uh aside from the um you know some of the

[2:26:34] issues with the accounting that that took place throughout the audit process

[2:26:38] we did not have any difficulties or disagreements with management throughout

[2:26:42] the audit

[2:26:45] i'd like to thank uh andrew and and the staff at the city for uh all their help

[2:26:50] in in uh finally getting this audit uh completed it was a a long process by by

[2:26:56] both parties and um you know it

[2:27:01] it was a lot of work on on both ends there's a lot of turnover at the city

[2:27:06] when we came in and so uh having having that time frame with the

[2:27:11] transition it took a while but uh i'm i'm happy to uh have been able to

[2:27:16] work with with the staff to get to get to where we are today so

[2:27:21] if you have any questions i'd be happy to uh

[2:27:23] answer them now any questions from the council here

[2:27:31] chief white has a couple of updates he'd like to share

[2:27:34] sure so um i just first of all uh wanted to thank our our new auditing team and

[2:27:39] specifically brad i think that it's always an opportunity to

[2:27:44] make yourselves better and there's some deficiencies that were identified

[2:27:47] but i am grateful that they came in with a very fine toothed comb in fact a very

[2:27:51] very very fine one but a lot of issues were discovered it

[2:27:55] existed for years and so i think you know from the council's perspective the

[2:27:59] public's perspective transitioning to new systems i think it

[2:28:02] was really important that this was done it's just unfortunate it takes so long

[2:28:05] but it's a huge amount of effort and on our staff specifically i wanted

[2:28:08] to thank amy who's not here but amongst carrying out all her other

[2:28:12] regular duties she assisted in pulling all kinds of records and a lot of

[2:28:15] research had to be done two

[2:28:19] or three areas that i wanted to cover just very briefly it's detailed in the

[2:28:23] staff report but obviously as you're all aware there's been significant personnel

[2:28:26] changes but i think in the last year we've

[2:28:29] brought some stability i mean we just had our first department head meeting

[2:28:32] with the new finance director who will be here shortly

[2:28:35] so i think that's a really good move for the city we have our contract with rgs

[2:28:39] which i think is providing that um professional support that we need to

[2:28:44] make sure that we're doing the right thing especially as we go to change

[2:28:46] stuff and another level of oversight um i would mention that there's

[2:28:51] definitely some classification issues within the current structure

[2:28:55] which is evidenced by the findings and i think it's going to be an ongoing

[2:28:59] challenge for the city because of the expense in adding additional personnel

[2:29:02] without having other types of revenue sources to cover

[2:29:06] that so we'll have to continue to find ways to

[2:29:09] you know provide the necessary oversight where we can't physically split duties

[2:29:15] the second part is we obviously have our new system the erp

[2:29:18] it fixes a number of issues like for example the cashiering process

[2:29:22] we've also automated a huge amount of processes

[2:29:25] including our interactions with like calpers that used to be an entirely

[2:29:28] manual process every two weeks credit card processing i know just

[2:29:33] within this county about government agencies accepting credit cards you know

[2:29:36] just in the last two years we've implemented two entirely different

[2:29:40] systems um that have incrementally gotten us better

[2:29:44] so we have a very efficient system now that integrates directly with the erp

[2:29:49] and then from a public transparency perspective we just recently completed

[2:29:53] the interface with the opengov which

[2:29:56] provides real-time information the last part is policies and procedures

[2:30:00] i think you're gonna we've done a bunch but you're gonna see a lot more when we

[2:30:03] have the new finance director on board to carry this through and then make sure

[2:30:07] it's carried out so again i think that the city's has a good

[2:30:11] solid foundation moving forward is a lot of work

[2:30:14] but with everything new that's happening in the city you know a record budget for

[2:30:18] this year i think this was really a good opportunity to set up that solid

[2:30:21] foundation so that we can be successful moving forward and the final caveat that

[2:30:25] i'll give is it this was 1819 so i would suspect and i think the auditor would

[2:30:30] confirm this that in 1920 there may be some of the same findings mentioned only

[2:30:34] because we just got to this basically at the end of 1920 um so that's the last

[2:30:39] information i'll give thank you mr mayor if i could just add briefly i

[2:30:43] mean um i want to personally think brett i mean i other than at the beginning i

[2:30:48] wasn't too involved in this process but um shared with the council before the

[2:30:53] the the auditor we used the year previous to this we weren't satisfied

[2:30:57] with and the the one that was used before that

[2:31:01] for a number of years so this i know this was a painful process to get

[2:31:04] through but very pleased with um you know the approach brett took and you

[2:31:09] know we had the conversation from the beginning that you know you need to put

[2:31:12] the effort in is required to to get us on the right track and then of course

[2:31:17] chief white put an extraordinary amount of time into

[2:31:23] not only improving a bunch of processes and putting things in place but digging

[2:31:28] information back many uh fiscal years in order to get brett his team the

[2:31:33] information that was needed so a personal thank you to both of you for

[2:31:37] that

[2:31:39] any comments from council if not i have one question

[2:31:44] go ahead yes thank you mr mayor uh quick question mr vinland it looks like

[2:31:48] management concurred with uh all of your recommendations any any concerns on your

[2:31:53] end on the way that they're going to resolve uh some of the concerns that you

[2:31:57] brought up um no i you know a lot of the uh

[2:32:04] my main concerns uh with with some of the day-to-day processes

[2:32:09] are or should be rectified with the new

[2:32:12] system having some automated systems and um you know being able to to capture

[2:32:18] information at the very very start of the process

[2:32:22] for example the cash receipts process and things like that um obviously we are

[2:32:26] actually in the uh preliminary stages of the actual 2020 audit and as as uh

[2:32:33] chief white mentioned um you know some of some of these

[2:32:37] comments uh might might carry forward just because of the timing

[2:32:41] um typically we try not to just uh repeat findings if

[2:32:46] they've already been uh corrected but um

[2:32:50] you know until we're able to actually uh come out there and

[2:32:54] and and observe the those implementations then um i i can't really

[2:32:58] comment too much further on that okay and then uh to city staff it looks

[2:33:03] like the the um the latest implementation of of

[2:33:08] changes would be around september 30th if does that sound correct

[2:33:13] yes we kind of gave an estimate uh based upon onboarding time for the finance

[2:33:16] director and some other stuff so yeah over the next few months and some

[2:33:21] parts have been partially implemented already

[2:33:24] excellent yeah it looks like most were either implemented or close to

[2:33:28] implementation if we could just get maybe a quick update in october and

[2:33:32] november once everyone's settled and we feel like

[2:33:35] all of these recommendations have been locked down and resolved i think that

[2:33:40] would be great thank you

[2:33:43] um do we have

[2:33:46] we'll open a public hearing do we have any comments from the public on this

[2:33:49] item uh madam club

[2:33:53] i've not received any comments and there are no hands raised in the zoom yeah

[2:33:58] we'll bring it back to the council uh any other comments

[2:34:02] no i just want to make a comment thank you uh

[2:34:05] to uh especially alan uh to have a fresh look at this i remember the last couple

[2:34:11] of times when there was an audit and the gentleman walked in with his little

[2:34:16] briefcase and yeah thank you for doing a very thorough job we needed it thank you

[2:34:22] thank you all right uh

[2:34:25] here's there somebody wants to make a motion

[2:34:36] head off hear me now

[2:34:39] mr mayor i'd like to make a motion that we adopt resolution number 20

[2:34:45] 21-35 resolution of the city council of the city of clear lake accepting the

[2:34:50] annual financial report for the fiscal year 2018

[2:34:54] cash 2019. now though okay we have a motion by

[2:34:59] councilman cramer and a second by vice mayor perdoc

[2:35:04] all in favor all right hi all right motion carries we

[2:35:09] go now back to item number 15.

[2:35:13] thank you very much

[2:35:22] backtrack to item number 15. this is an item for our public works

[2:35:27] director if he's around well in this case our city engineer is going to okay

[2:35:34] uh can you hear me okay yep oh yeah good evening mayor members of

[2:35:38] the council uh dale asked me to sit in for him on this particular item

[2:35:44] um this is a resolution that's a continuation of an

[2:35:47] ongoing effort by the city to do some cleanup of a lot of the illegal

[2:35:52] dumping that goes on throughout areas of the city in particular

[2:35:56] in particular the area up around the pomo school

[2:36:00] so this is a a a resolution that would

[2:36:06] allow um city public works department to block

[2:36:10] off a section of you can refer to it either as burns

[2:36:13] valley drive or east lake drive i've never i haven't really

[2:36:18] gotten into looking at the logistics of it so we'll call it both for now but

[2:36:22] it's a it's a fairly uh

[2:36:25] unwell trial or not well-traveled dirt road

[2:36:28] that goes um northeast of the school

[2:36:32] um the gates uh are kind of shown on a map

[2:36:36] that dale had prepared there is one residence on fellers avenue that the

[2:36:41] gate would go beyond that location to not prohibit any

[2:36:44] access there and again this is uh

[2:36:49] we'd also add some k rails as necessary to further block access because uh

[2:36:55] the area off of that roadway is just a large dump site um and it doesn't uh

[2:37:00] it's not used by police and fire there's nobody who lives

[2:37:05] down in that area and we think it would be a good thing to do

[2:37:10] all right we have any questions from council here

[2:37:15] no no okay we open the public hearings we have

[2:37:18] any comments from the public

[2:37:26] there are no hands raised in the zoom mr mayor i have not received any email

[2:37:30] comments okay we'll bring it back to the council

[2:37:33] any more questions if not can i entertain a motion

[2:37:38] yes mr mr mayor

[2:37:41] uh this is long overdue

[2:37:45] i'd like to make a move that uh we adopt resolution number

[2:37:51] 28-20 is that correct

[2:37:56] 2021-3838 it's 20 21 that right

[2:38:02] yes yes 38 a resolution of the city council of

[2:38:06] the city of clear lake authorizing the ongoing closure of a segment of burns

[2:38:10] valley road to reduce illegal dumping and to protect the environment and the

[2:38:14] public health and welfare we have a motion by councilman cramer

[2:38:19] second we have a second by vice mayor her doc

[2:38:23] all in favor say aye aye aye aye all right we're going to move on to item

[2:38:28] number 17.

[2:38:32] mr lee lambert code enforcement here here's some pictures

[2:38:38] [Music]

[2:38:48] all right good evening mr mayor and council members uh

[2:38:52] this

[2:38:54] staff reports in regards to the demolition of 14525

[2:38:58] lakeshore drive purpose of the hearing

[2:39:02] uh is to allow the city manager uh

[2:39:05] to execute a contract with toronto excavating incorporated for the

[2:39:09] demolition of that address upon consideration of the evidence and

[2:39:13] testimony council may

[2:39:16] accept or deny the bid for demolition

[2:39:22] a staff recommendation is to allow the city manager to execute a contract with

[2:39:26] turner excavating inc for the demolition at one four five two five lakeshore

[2:39:30] drive all right

[2:39:34] so overall case activity and this case was started uh december 26 2018.

[2:39:40] there's been 22 total compliance inspections a public nuisance citation

[2:39:44] was issued a notice of violation was issued

[2:39:46] and 11 administrative citations were issued

[2:39:50] in order to abate was finally issued i believe is april of this year

[2:40:00] um there are i believe it's

[2:40:04] [Music]

[2:40:09] 11 different violations the crew musical code and the california

[2:40:14] health and safety code

[2:40:25] so that so i'll describe some of the pictures here uh that's a photo of a

[2:40:29] electrical panel under the property where all the wires have been cut and

[2:40:32] removed

[2:40:36] that's how they built the deck around the existing meters and then all

[2:40:40] the wires in the gutter above the meters have been cut

[2:40:46] and that's a picture of how the inside has been left

[2:40:48] inside sorry excuse me

[2:40:52] um most of the damage to the building has

[2:40:54] been caused by water damage as you'll see in the photos this is just

[2:40:58] one area where the roof caved in another area where they've removed

[2:41:03] sheetrock because to let moisture out

[2:41:08] another area the whole main building is pretty much gutted like that

[2:41:17] um that's an opening in the bar area that gets broken into a lot you can see

[2:41:22] how they didn't really secure it all you have to

[2:41:24] do is pull the plywood down people are getting in there all the time

[2:41:28] so this picture here if you look in the background you see the wall of the

[2:41:33] add-on how it's listing the parts listing out and the lower

[2:41:37] parts listing in um that whole portion of the building is

[2:41:40] failing

[2:41:44] here's another fit why it's failing you have broken beams um and supports

[2:41:48] underneath

[2:41:51] that's the portion of the building failing right there looking straight on

[2:41:55] additionally that swamp clear there is what they were using for the kitchen

[2:41:58] exhaust vent

[2:42:03] more weathering you can see where the water's been getting in creating dry rot

[2:42:06] there

[2:42:08] so this is what happened on the whole roof this was taken in the winter their

[2:42:12] roof uh drainage wasn't leaking so the roof would

[2:42:16] the water would just accumulate on the roof

[2:42:19] and start getting into the wood going pouring down inside the interior

[2:42:24] walls

[2:42:29] so this one here as you could tell that if you look to the right of the concrete

[2:42:33] it's dry this is water after several days of

[2:42:36] being dry which is coming down the wall still creating dry rot in the walls

[2:42:43] creating mold and things like this inside

[2:42:49] ceiling falling down

[2:43:00] mold more mold

[2:43:03] and this is just a picture of how much we've tried to get him to comply

[2:43:07] and he has failed to do so in

[2:43:10] two and a half years

[2:43:14] so case summary again it's been open since december 2018

[2:43:20] the property owners made no attempt to comply with clearly musical code or the

[2:43:24] california health and safety code um

[2:43:27] it's a nuisance property in addition to all the code enforcement detail uh the

[2:43:31] police department has responded 37 times in the last five years there for people

[2:43:35] breaking in or people squatting in it people dumping things there things like

[2:43:39] that

[2:43:46] the city's exhausted all other means

[2:43:51] uh to reach voluntary compliance we even looked into a possible receivership

[2:43:56] but it's not feasible so at this time the staff recommends the city council

[2:44:00] grant the city manager the right to execute a contract with turner

[2:44:05] excavating

[2:44:08] thank you okay we have questions from

[2:44:11] council here mr purdue but mr kramer got us up first

[2:44:24] turn that off this all those photos of course were

[2:44:27] taken in 2018 and i fully agree that the owner in 2018 was a very poor owner

[2:44:35] and um but do you are you aware that he doesn't

[2:44:39] own it anymore that it was recently purchased and the person purchasing it

[2:44:43] wants to uh rehabit has met with the city about

[2:44:47] that yeah i think the city manager is going to speak further about that um

[2:44:51] those photos though weren't all taking into account the ones i saw were data

[2:44:54] yeah some are dated but the ones that weren't data were actually taken this

[2:44:57] last year

[2:45:00] i have no doubt that it needs a lot of work but again it's

[2:45:04] not the same owner

[2:45:11] i just wanna

[2:45:21] so i wasn't i just happened to be in the city when he said he went over and paid

[2:45:24] the fees and came over and and got the permits but he sounded

[2:45:29] like he was going to tear it down because he was getting rating permits

[2:45:32] and stuff i'll be happy to address um so

[2:45:36] yeah mr ching said a lot of things um very few of which were true um

[2:45:41] he did he did pay most of the administrative citations

[2:45:45] within the last 30 days and i believe i talked to him a couple

[2:45:50] of times that was largely i think motivated by

[2:45:55] the fact that he he saw an end of the light for him to continue

[2:46:00] um just ignoring the municipal code

[2:46:04] and um but but one thing that has changed

[2:46:08] recently is that he did sell this property and actually all of his

[2:46:14] properties in the city which i think is is a very good thing

[2:46:19] because all of his properties are in extremely poor condition

[2:46:22] and our inner code enforcement problems um

[2:46:25] so we did meet with the new owner there's a

[2:46:30] family that purchased this property and a property that is just to the north

[2:46:36] which includes several residential units and there was a separate

[2:46:40] um um

[2:46:44] purchaser of the apartments by the lamplighter between the lamplighter and

[2:46:48] the the apartments that we recently sold so we did meet uh

[2:46:54] with the new owners you know they

[2:46:58] the issues with this property were not disclosed to them by mr ching and so

[2:47:04] they were unaware of some of the situation

[2:47:08] i believe that they are very well intentioned

[2:47:11] and have a real desire to

[2:47:14] invest in the community and turn these properties into something

[2:47:20] that will be beneficial

[2:47:25] however as explained to them while the citations were paid prior

[2:47:31] to the property being sold all the violations remain

[2:47:34] and will need to be addressed now they're doing an analysis

[2:47:39] on um whether it's feasible for them you

[2:47:42] know they when they bought it their idea was that they were going to

[2:47:46] renovate the building um i think um

[2:47:52] you know i don't know if that's that's feasible or not everyone that we've

[2:47:55] talked to said that it's not you can see the condition of the building from the

[2:47:59] images um and

[2:48:02] the new owner is on zoom it looks like that she wanna may want to make some

[2:48:07] comments but um i have communicated this to her

[2:48:12] and her husband but my request of the council because of the history of this

[2:48:17] property is that you still authorize me tonight

[2:48:20] to have the authority to execute a contract to demolish this

[2:48:24] building if there's not significant process or a progress from the new owner

[2:48:29] in addressing the violations

[2:48:35] okay just a short question to you that contract with

[2:48:39] chernow construction i believe how long is that

[2:48:42] is that a 90 day that's correct right it's i believe so

[2:48:47] yeah oh if it's not

[2:48:49] work doesn't start in 90 day it's null and void

[2:48:53] or well we'd have to do another

[2:48:56] uh request for bids yeah the bid wouldn't be good after that

[2:49:00] okay any more questions from staff uh chief white please i i just wanted to

[2:49:05] add just for context um i believe the other property that was purchased was

[2:49:08] one four five four one lake shore and while we're cautiously optimistic

[2:49:13] about it um i would mention that has an open case season as of right now there's

[2:49:17] overflowing garbage going all over the area um so perhaps the proprietor might

[2:49:22] address that as well if they're i see their hands right

[2:49:25] there's also numerous electric violations on that property too with yes

[2:49:29] wires right laying on all over the place all right we're going to open for public

[2:49:34] hearings

[2:49:40] lady that just purchased the property now is your time to

[2:49:43] talk to us

[2:49:56] hello mayor and council members this is rupa shaker here i'm sorry i am i didn't

[2:50:00] get ready for the video because i'm away from the camera

[2:50:04] but i will just speak today uh very nice to meet you all and thank you for

[2:50:08] providing this opportunity to meet with you all and share my perspective it was

[2:50:13] great to meet mr flora and his team yesterday and to hear his support so uh

[2:50:18] we're really immensely thankful for that my name is as they all mentioned my my

[2:50:23] name is rupa shaker very new to clear lake little story to share that i shared

[2:50:27] with everyone yesterday that i visited clear lake with my family my two girls

[2:50:31] and my husband in the month of april for a spring break

[2:50:34] tell in love with your town and fell in love with your lake

[2:50:37] and since then i was kind of scrolling on veteran and

[2:50:40] uh onsite online to look for lakeside properties and then these two came along

[2:50:46] which is the one four five two five and one four five four when we were excited

[2:50:52] and with big dreams we decided to invest in your town on in these

[2:50:57] properties with a with a plan to make this as a place to go

[2:51:02] for business shopping dining and entertainment

[2:51:05] i've seen the commercial unit and the pictures that

[2:51:09] was taken in 2018 looks much worse than what i've seen

[2:51:13] um because everything in the interior has been cleaned out since then i want

[2:51:17] to make this a place for a hangout for tourists and look likes that's our dream

[2:51:22] we closed our escrow just less than a month ago

[2:51:25] just few weeks ago and it was a nightmare for us to hear that this

[2:51:30] discussion is happening in the city which we were not aware of

[2:51:34] and we have already taken some steps to uh uh you know improve the property you

[2:51:40] know small steps but still we removed the junk inside the property and outside

[2:51:44] the property we uh boarded the place so that no i like i know where the homeless

[2:51:50] people are hanging out and trashing the place to avoid vandalism

[2:51:54] we have replaced the door at the back and we do know about the water damage

[2:51:58] and then the electrical outlet problems we will address that soon

[2:52:02] we kindly request you all to give us some time

[2:52:06] to make sure that the properties are taken

[2:52:10] care well it takes a long time but will take small

[2:52:14] steps towards the improvement so i just wanted to kind of request that

[2:52:18] we are given extra time rather than hasting and demolishing and investing

[2:52:22] the 55 000 which could be used for a different better purposes to

[2:52:28] improve the economy of the clear lake that's all i have to say thank you for

[2:52:32] listening to me thank you

[2:52:34] are there any other people on the public that wants to speak

[2:52:38] on this issue right here there are no further hands raised in the

[2:52:43] zoom we have one public menu yeah

[2:52:47] mr huge thank you uh

[2:52:51] mr mayor and city council uh dave hughes realty world

[2:52:56] i got involved in this last week when an architect that was up here to

[2:53:01] working with the rupa and her husband

[2:53:05] called me and wanted to meet at the property after he got done meeting at

[2:53:10] city hall

[2:53:14] i have suggested to the buyers that they go back to the agent

[2:53:18] that they worked through and find out why they weren't told about

[2:53:23] the ongoing issues that's a pretty significant

[2:53:28] non-disclosure so

[2:53:32] i would like to concur with her and and ask that the city council give her

[2:53:36] some time to start trying to figure out what the heck they can do or can't do or

[2:53:41] should do or might want to do my other thought is

[2:53:47] i'm assuming that a bid to demolish the building has to be done

[2:53:54] uh if the city gets the bid with prevailing wage

[2:53:58] and if it comes to the fact that the

[2:54:02] building needs to be demolished i think the property owner should be given the

[2:54:06] opportunity to get her own bids that might be a little less costly i

[2:54:12] have no idea but i'm assuming that the bid had to be prevailing wage

[2:54:17] and i understand maybe the desire to keep some fire under someone's

[2:54:24] feet and keep some pressure on to to get something done because it's been three

[2:54:29] years now but

[2:54:32] we do have a new property owner that had no idea about the

[2:54:37] um uh ongoing i mean her her architect told

[2:54:42] them last week after they closed escrow about

[2:54:46] the the city wanting to demolish the building

[2:54:49] so my my only purpose here is to certainly give them some time to do it

[2:54:54] and maybe not accept the bids um

[2:54:58] with the understanding that if there's not ongoing progress the city is going

[2:55:02] to press for the demolition

[2:55:05] uh but at least maybe give them the opportunity to get their own bids which

[2:55:10] might be less money i'd like i said i don't know but i'm assuming prevailing

[2:55:13] wage is is part of the bids that have been

[2:55:16] submitted thank you thank you uh

[2:55:20] mr president product has a comment well just a question to the new property

[2:55:24] owner is it probably curing close no it's not closed yet

[2:55:31] can you uh provide us with some sort of a timeline when you said you wanted to

[2:55:35] get this work done uh and you wanted to get um on it fairly

[2:55:39] soon but we didn't have any timelines you have any idea when that when you

[2:55:42] might be able to get started so to be honest with you i have a as a

[2:55:47] as uh mr dave kind of mentioned i had my article

[2:55:51] come over look at it and i have a um you know workers were started to work on it

[2:55:56] with making some minor modifications to it

[2:56:00] as i shared with miss flora and team this

[2:56:03] property you know cost money to accelerate the improvement but i

[2:56:08] what i assure you is that we are constantly making you i mean i have

[2:56:13] passed the improvements knowing that the city is demolishing and i didn't want to

[2:56:17] put money into the demolishing property so if you all give me time and say that

[2:56:22] yes you can continue to modify it and improve it my work will start from

[2:56:26] monday we will make small improvements check out the foundation check all the

[2:56:30] electrics check out the plumbing and i need to fix the

[2:56:34] um there are some termite activities i need to fix those so

[2:56:38] the improvements will start immediately with a steady progress but i cannot give

[2:56:43] a timeline as to when it will be done because i just bought the property three

[2:56:47] weeks back and i need time

[2:56:51] okay thank you yeah and also while i'm on the audio i

[2:56:55] wanted to address the 15451 the apartment building too

[2:56:58] uh even on that property we have started off

[2:57:01] improvements meaning that last week we cleaned up the property took out the

[2:57:05] junks cleaning the vegetation we will install a new fence and then the

[2:57:10] glue overflowing garbage is due to two reasons one is that it's an apartment

[2:57:15] complex and that particular garbage bin is smaller from what i understand from

[2:57:18] my tenants and also i hear that a lot of public dumping because it's right on the

[2:57:23] door many people come and dump other junks in there so i'm taking the action

[2:57:27] requesting the required a department within the city to give us a bigger bin

[2:57:32] and probably move the bin to the middle of the property so that it's not easily

[2:57:36] accessible by the public and when i install the

[2:57:39] uh fence maybe it'll be less messy but i do agree with you

[2:57:43] all that the property is not in great condition uh and it is not clean and i

[2:57:48] commit to make sure those two properties are taken care and turned around and

[2:57:53] that's the reason why we dreamt of buying a property in the lakeside and

[2:57:56] improve it and not to maintain the same way it is otherwise you want about it

[2:58:00] and i know i paid premium for that from what i hear and what i compare after

[2:58:04] buying it's an aftermath part but i don't want to i'll learn the past but i

[2:58:07] want to move on okay thank you um mr kramer your

[2:58:12] councilman graham just just uh clarification uh rupa

[2:58:19] you've owned the property what less than a month two weeks

[2:58:23] three weeks yes three weeks running now and

[2:58:26] did you say that you already have people in there cleaning it

[2:58:30] working on it oh yeah well yes many work has already been done

[2:58:34] and i'm painting the i've got the bits for painting the properties and i

[2:58:38] already as i mentioned made few modifications the commercial with a new

[2:58:41] door installed from home depot etc so yes the work has started

[2:58:46] but again i think one of the mayor or the council member asked me what's the

[2:58:51] timeline i don't have a project plan to give but what i assure you is that there

[2:58:54] will be progress on a daily basis in small steps

[2:58:59] thank you okay any any other

[2:59:02] public comments if not we'll bring them back to the council mr flora look like

[2:59:06] you want to say something yeah i mean i just want to clarify i mean you know

[2:59:10] the city isn't looking to spend 55 000 on this if it's not necessary i mean to

[2:59:16] mr hughes's comments of course if um the current property owner was to

[2:59:22] demolish the building they would be able to do it

[2:59:24] cheaper than we would the only way for us to recover the funds

[2:59:29] is through a lien on the property which we

[2:59:33] it doesn't get paid on unless the property is transferred normally

[2:59:39] but you know this is a long-standing issue

[2:59:42] it's one of the worst looking properties in the city

[2:59:47] in one of our most visible corridors and while i do believe that

[2:59:53] their intent is good and

[2:59:56] they have the means to make some investments in the property i believe

[3:00:00] that the city needs to apply as much pressure as possible to make sure

[3:00:06] that the cleaning up of this this um

[3:00:10] this parcel happens and so you know if we were to move forward with

[3:00:15] the contract because there's a new owner we'd be required

[3:00:20] to do a new round of noticing and there will be an opportunity for

[3:00:26] an appeal of the abatement which could come to the

[3:00:30] council correct so you know there are some opportunities

[3:00:34] there but you know i think we need to keep the

[3:00:39] pressure on to make sure that this um extremely derelict um and extremely

[3:00:45] visible property in the city um is improved as soon as possible

[3:00:50] more comments from the council i have a question we happen to have a uh

[3:00:56] our attorney here and i'm concerned about a an improper taking of property

[3:01:00] or any any liability issues there well i

[3:01:05] understand your concern and mr floor and i talked about this

[3:01:08] as recent as last week i think there was a more of a due

[3:01:13] process and noticing issue and and we would

[3:01:17] re-notice the new owner with all the issues that mr ching had been notified

[3:01:22] of for years and i think as long as you give that

[3:01:26] notice which could would happen before any demolition

[3:01:29] would actually take place so that would

[3:01:33] that would need to that would need to take place otherwise you could have an

[3:01:35] issue of a of a taking or some kind of what's the timeline for that 60 90 days

[3:01:40] 120 days 16. yeah i don't know that our code says you usually give people a

[3:01:45] reasonable amount of time 30 days 60 days somewhere in that that time frame

[3:01:48] is that about right i'm not sure yeah there's a variety of uh timelines

[3:01:53] and um if there was new noticing for the notice of intent to abate and demolish

[3:01:58] there would be a hearing i believe it would come back before council

[3:02:02] if that happened

[3:02:06] timeline

[3:02:09] for which portion before we can tear that building down

[3:02:17] well correct me i'm wrong uh lee but i believe it's going to be 21 days for the

[3:02:21] notice correct

[3:02:24] yes would be 21 days and then if they gave notice that they wanted to appeal

[3:02:27] then they'd post their deposit for a hearing we'd set up for a hearing

[3:02:31] so you know potentially depend upon how

[3:02:33] long that took out and i believe city attorney correct me i'm wrong but i

[3:02:37] believe once we made a decision they could try to take it to court if they've

[3:02:40] exhausted all their rights within the city in terms of appeal process so

[3:02:44] potentially it could stretch out um our experience with the property has

[3:02:48] generally been little to no response or what i call informal kind of out-of-band

[3:02:53] responses like showing up in the lobby that sort of thing

[3:02:58] and if we're talking about the old owner i'd say let's go for it at this point

[3:03:01] but we're not we're talking about somebody that just bought it has clearly

[3:03:06] shown an intent to try to do what's right

[3:03:08] and it seems to me that to award this contract right now is probably not going

[3:03:14] to happen anyway because with the timelines for noticing for

[3:03:18] appeals etc etc so i i just i don't see what we're

[3:03:23] accomplishing i understand mr flora your your

[3:03:27] desire to keep pressure on but i i just i don't i don't see it and

[3:03:32] i don't agree with it i think that she should be given she and her partner

[3:03:37] should be given time to perform or not

[3:03:41] and it's not going to take us three years obviously to let that happen it's

[3:03:45] gonna it's not gonna let it go that long but i

[3:03:48] don't think that this contract could can happen in 90 days

[3:03:52] anyway so

[3:03:55] i'm not in favor of it also woman overton

[3:03:59] i i agree i guess my one of my questions to the

[3:04:04] new owner is um did you not see this place before you

[3:04:08] bought it yes we did visit the place and when we

[3:04:12] visit the place it was not like the picture that was shown

[3:04:15] the roof was taken out the roof the floor was taken out there was little uh

[3:04:20] like the table tables and chairs from the restaurant with stove etcetera so we

[3:04:26] knew it was a fixer-upper but we thought that you know it's a

[3:04:29] fixer-upper so we'll start fixing up and we will turn it around and

[3:04:34] because we're not gotten the mortgage from the bank our intent is to get this

[3:04:39] ready get this rented i can start paying my market so

[3:04:44] the plan is to move it around quickly and i would like to support miss flora

[3:04:48] with his uh expectation and work with him and keep

[3:04:51] him updated on a regular basis of the progress we make

[3:04:55] and i want to support him okay so can i ask a question here

[3:05:01] can we postpone this to another meeting without making a vote on it today and

[3:05:06] just postpone it and see what she does before we just say we're not going to do

[3:05:10] anything can we table this well of course yeah i

[3:05:14] mean i say let's see what she does in a couple of weeks and

[3:05:18] and i mean you know the

[3:05:21] none of the violations have been cured so

[3:05:24] um they have uh i don't know if you discussed anything um

[3:05:30] yesterday with you know how long they have to cure the

[3:05:34] violations but i mean there's going to be

[3:05:36] other timelines i i'm just exhausted with this property

[3:05:41] and i think you know any daylight is too much

[3:05:45] daylight in my opinion but and i'm i understand your frustration

[3:05:51] it's just this is like the last place in this town

[3:05:55] that can still have entertainment i mean

[3:05:58] literally we keep asking for people to come to our

[3:06:02] city but we have nothing to offer them and here's another building that we're

[3:06:06] going to take out the last building that we have for entertainment

[3:06:10] i i i want to give her a chance to get it i understand that that our the past

[3:06:15] owner was a real pain um but i want to give her a chance and

[3:06:19] i've i've seen this happen where we voted on something and the administrator

[3:06:22] said i'm not going to do anything and next thing you know it was gone so um

[3:06:26] i just i feel like either we table it and see what she does and

[3:06:30] and give her at least a little bit of a chance give her one month or something

[3:06:34] to to see if you know what she can do and then if we don't see a good progress

[3:06:39] then come back and bring it back to us you know

[3:06:43] i thought chief white had a cook i just i i don't want to interfere with

[3:06:47] your deliberation but i did want to make the final plea at it and i think that

[3:06:51] the commentary during the public comment is

[3:06:53] is illustrative there's a mention about that they've already begun boarding up

[3:06:56] the building your council authorizes ordinance that specifically prohibits

[3:07:00] that without a permit because we don't want boarded up buildings in the city

[3:07:03] there's no indication in the record that there's any attempt to obtain a permit

[3:07:07] or comply with the city codes from just an objective perspective of

[3:07:11] watching these things i heard a lot of discussion about well-intentioned and so

[3:07:15] forth and that may very well be the case however

[3:07:19] the lack of any basic checking i mean you

[3:07:22] saw the picture with the notice of violation stacked on the front door and

[3:07:25] everything else there's very serious issues here and i think that um you know

[3:07:30] at this point from the staff perspective we've come to you because we've

[3:07:34] essentially done most everything that we can do we can leverage with some more

[3:07:37] citations and so forth and i'd expect actually following this meeting that we

[3:07:41] will initiate a whole new set of actions based upon what's existing there and

[3:07:45] what new violations have been disclosed i think that it's important

[3:07:51] when we get to these phases to have some sort of tool to try to compel

[3:07:56] that compliance my fear is that we wait another month we'll be right

[3:08:00] back at the same situation trying to ask for the same authority and so forth

[3:08:05] and we just continue to kind of push the problem down the road i think from the

[3:08:08] staff intent i don't want to spend a dime trying to clean up this property if

[3:08:12] we can try to compel it obviously i think there's good points we already

[3:08:15] discussed internally about the fact they could do it at

[3:08:19] non-prevailing wage rates and so forth um but it's important that we have a

[3:08:23] tool if we don't have that tool i hear a lot of excuses on there even related to

[3:08:27] the other property uh since they brought up

[3:08:30] every other city that i've been at you have stuff enclosed in concrete barriers

[3:08:34] with doors there's no attempt to do that out there

[3:08:37] and so i think that's the same type of issues that we see here a lot of good

[3:08:40] intentions but i've seen a lot of projects come into the city in the three

[3:08:43] years that i've been here that are well intentioned

[3:08:46] but very basic elementary discovery things weren't done we have people that

[3:08:50] buy houses here that call into code enforcement and ask do you have open

[3:08:54] cases and so forth so um i hope that it turns out differently but

[3:09:00] from the police department and code enforcement perspective we would plead

[3:09:03] that you give the city manager the authority to move forward if it's

[3:09:07] necessary in this particular case hopefully it won't be and we'll all be

[3:09:11] surprised thank you uh councilman claffy we haven't heard

[3:09:16] from you on this uh you have any comments

[3:09:19] yeah i'm just listening to the the back and forth i'm i'm

[3:09:22] i'm comfortable tabling for now um

[3:09:26] you know i think three weeks is a very short time

[3:09:30] to to start making changes it sounds like there's a lot of changes that need

[3:09:34] to be made it sounds like there's a lot of research that needs to be done by the

[3:09:37] owner and i think if we if we keep that window tight we'll still

[3:09:41] be able to activate this bid in a future council meeting i i don't

[3:09:47] see a downside to tabling it uh re-noticing this owner and then moving

[3:09:52] forward if we need to if we're not seeing progress

[3:09:56] all right thank you councilman claffy vice mayor product i

[3:10:01] just need some clarification and i apologize but

[3:10:05] if we approve this tonight and we have a 90-day contract with the

[3:10:09] contra with the demo

[3:10:12] um when would you implement when would you

[3:10:16] when you would you have them come in and demo

[3:10:19] um would it be immediate after making this

[3:10:22] decision or would you

[3:10:25] allow the new new owner to get the permits as the chief has pointed out the

[3:10:30] chief made a very compelling argument just now

[3:10:33] um

[3:10:35] i just want to know um reasonableness on this what would a reasonable person

[3:10:39] do well i mean i think um

[3:10:44] you know until yesterday the new owners didn't have the

[3:10:49] list of existing violations um

[3:10:52] and so obviously we need to provide a little bit of time i mean what we

[3:10:56] discussed was the first thing you need to do i mean we had some discussion

[3:11:00] about what happens next and what their vision is for the property and all that

[3:11:04] that's great but you know we have all these violations that have to be cured

[3:11:08] somehow which are you know are way past due so

[3:11:11] they need to come back with a plan um right that's what i was asking about

[3:11:16] how to deal with that so you know i think there's no reason that

[3:11:20] they shouldn't be able to develop some type of plan on that in a couple of

[3:11:23] weeks talking with the contractor are they

[3:11:26] already have you know consulted with an architect so

[3:11:30] um you know i really uh think that there should be a

[3:11:34] determination made within a few weeks on whether it's even feasible to keep the

[3:11:39] building or if they want to begin investing in

[3:11:44] in resolving those things i mean you know i i hope i was clear like

[3:11:49] my intention wouldn't be or you know the staff's intention to turn around next

[3:11:53] week and issue the um abatement contract as much as i

[3:11:58] would love to see or never see that building again but um

[3:12:02] you know obviously the the situation here while you know it's clear there

[3:12:07] wasn't no enough due diligence done i believe you know a short window

[3:12:11] is reasonable for them to try and attempt this i'm just concerned as chief

[3:12:16] white mentioned um you know i think

[3:12:21] you know the the council has always been really good about drawing a firm line on

[3:12:26] these code enforcement cases because the blight has overtaken the city for years

[3:12:32] and you know i just think

[3:12:36] the pressure to perform needs to be there

[3:12:41] that's my you have some more go ahead mr graham

[3:12:47] chief white you do make a compelling argument and if we were talking about

[3:12:50] the old owner i absolutely totally agree with you again we're not

[3:12:55] uh to table this for two weeks and give her an opportunity to come up with some

[3:12:59] sort of a plan or maybe come up the conclusion that oh christ we can't do

[3:13:02] anything like this let's give her that two weeks it's

[3:13:05] what's it gonna hurt you're still within your window to

[3:13:08] to approve the the demolition contract with the with

[3:13:12] the contractor so i i very much would like to see his

[3:13:17] table list

[3:13:20] and that's all i had to say um

[3:13:24] i went in the building after they kind of cleaned it up and it's in my opinion

[3:13:29] and i'm not an expert i'm not a structural engineer i'm not a thing

[3:13:33] uh i i really

[3:13:36] don't see how they can fix this building up with a substantial

[3:13:41] a lot of structural improvements this is a building that needs hundreds

[3:13:46] of thousands of dollars in order to save it

[3:13:50] so i

[3:13:53] obviously we want to

[3:13:56] give the new owner a chance

[3:14:00] and if they address them citations in a

[3:14:04] two or three week time frame if that's if they're willing to uh

[3:14:11] to invest that kind of money in and reboot in

[3:14:15] remodeling and upgrading that building more power to them because i wouldn't

[3:14:22] so what do we have we have three people that want to table

[3:14:25] that so how do we do that mr uh

[3:14:30] i think you just don't need to take any action no action no action okay

[3:14:35] all right looks like the new owner has probably three weeks to deal with this

[3:14:40] thank you very much we appreciate you well hold on mr mayor

[3:14:44] do you intend to bring that back to council

[3:14:47] i i it all depends on what happens in the next few weeks if nothing happens

[3:14:52] you'll bring this back would you like to get yes

[3:14:56] yes bring it back yes we will like to hear it again

[3:15:00] all right we'll go to item number 18

[3:15:05] mr allen florence jordan

[3:15:10] okay uh mr mayor members of the council um so

[3:15:14] i'll be brief on this but um

[3:15:19] you know we've we've been uh so mli associates uh which uh mr matt

[3:15:25] patel is the sole owner um is a an experienced um hotel

[3:15:30] developer and we've been talking to him for a while about a couple of project

[3:15:35] opportunities in the city um

[3:15:38] most recently um we've been negotiating about developing

[3:15:42] a hotel at the former pierce field on

[3:15:45] approximately two and a half acres of land

[3:15:48] we have been able to negotiate a purchase and sale agreement with mr

[3:15:53] patel and

[3:15:55] so i can kind of go over a few of the points hopefully you've had

[3:16:00] a chance to review the agreement um one thing

[3:16:04] taking a look at the map the well so first of all the

[3:16:09] proposed project would be a 75 room fairfield inn

[3:16:14] with a small conference center and possibly some other retail on the site

[3:16:18] um and just for context this site is on the far northern part of the property

[3:16:24] that's owned by the city at the end of the former runway

[3:16:28] and um so the sale price for the probably 305 thousand the city would

[3:16:33] hold a note um on so there would be a 50 000

[3:16:38] uh payment made

[3:16:42] and then the city would hold a note on the rest

[3:16:45] the way the agreement is structured is there be a number of deadlines

[3:16:51] the first one being 14 months after closing

[3:16:54] to get all entitlements complete 20 months after closing

[3:17:01] would be

[3:17:04] to begin construction and then the total project would need to be complete within

[3:17:10] three years and if those each of those deadlines are

[3:17:13] met the remaining

[3:17:16] payments on the note would be forgiven and this

[3:17:19] is just a way to you know this is kind of our

[3:17:24] first tangible project moving forward at the airport so there is increased risk

[3:17:29] on the developer in in taking that first step

[3:17:34] we have a number of other things in process that we're excited about we'll

[3:17:38] be coming forward soon

[3:17:41] um but anyway that's the the way that we had structured this deal that showed

[3:17:46] some commitment from mr patel and then the city

[3:17:49] will be installing infrastructure

[3:17:53] essentially to the site as we have intended with the other

[3:17:58] developer parcels there on in the whole area so

[3:18:03] i guess with that i'll just try to address any questions that the council

[3:18:07] has and then i know mr patel is is here on zoom so he may want to make some some

[3:18:13] comments to the council as well

[3:18:18] david mr

[3:18:32] you might zoom

[3:18:44] do we have any public comments on this item madam clerk

[3:18:50] go ahead mr patel if you'd like to make some comments

[3:18:54] uh thank you now uh good afternoon good

[3:18:56] evening mr mayor uh council members uh chief

[3:19:02] gentlemen it's been a pleasure working with

[3:19:05] alan and the rest of the team over the last few months uh just to let you know

[3:19:10] that marriott committee has approved the site for fairfield and so this is part

[3:19:13] of the marriott product and

[3:19:16] you know we're looking forward to developing and uh building that uh

[3:19:20] relationship with the city for a long time here and uh i had multiple

[3:19:25] conversations with the different individuals including uh rachel and mark

[3:19:29] king uh who's also working with the financing

[3:19:33] and then also construction i've been working with the bridges construction so

[3:19:38] most of the individuals i've been working with this all local so i intend

[3:19:42] to utilize most of the local trade i hear local individuals and

[3:19:47] uh trying to

[3:19:49] support the community

[3:19:53] thank you uh do we have any other comments from the public

[3:19:57] i received two emailed comments mr mayor which i can read out loud if you wish

[3:20:03] please do the first is from sarah mcnabb who

[3:20:08] states i've been living in this county all my

[3:20:11] life and since the fires have started there has been a major issue with

[3:20:15] housing i've been looking for a three-bedroom house apartment for about

[3:20:20] four years seeing as i have three children

[3:20:22] ten-year-old boy and two girls thirteen four

[3:20:26] and i've been stuck in a two bedroom in the clear lake apartments for 14 years

[3:20:30] which is falling apart i can't find anything under 1800 and

[3:20:34] more and more people keep moving here so as a long time resident i don't think we

[3:20:39] need another hotel that's going to turn into a drug addict filled flop hotel

[3:20:44] we need more housing like apartments nice ones or condos something

[3:20:49] there are a lot of family that are struggling are

[3:20:53] homeless because the lack of housing think about the community for once and

[3:20:58] not tourists because we get those anyway

[3:21:02] this town has turned into a miniature oakland or even worse detroit sorry for

[3:21:06] being so blunt but it is the reality for the low income and the sad minimum wage

[3:21:11] pay we get around here the second is from wyatt harris

[3:21:17] who states isn't 305 000 low for a 2.5 acre commercial property especially when

[3:21:24] the city will probably spend more money on the promised

[3:21:27] new utilities infrastructure and roads to the site why isn't purchasing this

[3:21:32] property open to the public and that concludes the emailed comments

[3:21:36] that i've received and i don't see that there are any hands raised on zoom

[3:21:41] all right we'll bring it back to the council do you have any more

[3:21:45] discussion at the council

[3:21:50] bought this property am i not correct it's been for sale for it's been as long

[3:21:54] as i can remember way too long um there is one point

[3:21:58] though that i forgot to mention that um so

[3:22:02] the existing parcel is um 200 feet wide the

[3:22:08] fairfield plan requires 240 foot

[3:22:13] site so there's some paper roads on both

[3:22:16] sides of that parcel so the agreement envisions that we will

[3:22:21] abandon the right-of-way and on one side

[3:22:26] some of it will go to other city parcels some will go to

[3:22:30] this property he's agreed to go ahead and enter into

[3:22:34] the agreement with us while we're undertaking that but our city engineers

[3:22:38] already been working on that process and there'll be a public hearing and whatnot

[3:22:41] that would would come back and finalize that road abandonment so i just want to

[3:22:45] make sure the council knew about that all right

[3:22:49] okay one more okay so this is for the gentleman that

[3:22:52] was on his comment um many cities give property for development it's very

[3:22:59] common and put the infrastructure in and everything when it was going to provide

[3:23:04] taxes and jobs and and bring in people especially hotels so

[3:23:09] years ago i said give the property to anybody that will develop and give us

[3:23:13] jobs and bring in you know some some money to our city so that we can develop

[3:23:17] our parks and stuff like that um this this person's taking a big chance on the

[3:23:22] property uh it may you know it's been sitting

[3:23:25] there for years and it may end up being a failure for him so we have to you know

[3:23:31] take the chance too but we want to develop that and this is the first step

[3:23:34] of as far as i can see is really getting interest in developing when one person

[3:23:39] starts then other other entities start following in

[3:23:43] because they see something's going to happen so i really do believe

[3:23:47] if i didn't think it was going to benefit our community i would not

[3:23:50] approve this but i i think this is a good way to get that property started

[3:23:54] developed

[3:23:56] okay thank you councilman cramer i completely concur with what councilwoman

[3:24:02] overton just said i i was going to say it myself she lead me to it

[3:24:08] um if you're ready to entertain a motion i'm ready to make one i want to see if

[3:24:12] mr claffy has any comments well i i concur as well and i will say i love the

[3:24:16] way the deal structured so great job to the city staff i'm looking forward to

[3:24:20] seeing this come to fruition all right very good um

[3:24:27] can i have a motion

[3:24:30] mr mayor i'd like to move that we council authorizes the city manager to

[3:24:36] execute the purchase and sale agreement with mli associates llc

[3:24:40] for sale of property at 6356 armejo

[3:24:45] avenue in clear lake here we have a motion by councilman cramer

[3:24:50] and we have a second by councilwoman overton

[3:24:53] all in favor say aye

[3:24:57] all right we'll move to item number 19.

[3:25:06] i guess this is mr dave sports item mr schwartz is going to start and then

[3:25:12] i'll wrap it up yeah good evening mayor members of the

[3:25:16] council with great pleasure i get to have another measure v project as

[3:25:21] scheduled on a schedule we provided and have been

[3:25:25] working off of for about three years now this measure v project

[3:25:31] consists of streets of what we call elevated north

[3:25:34] and alaba south howard gulf

[3:25:39] mullin and acacia what you see before you has been broken

[3:25:44] out because into a couple of bit additive alternates

[3:25:48] and logistically the reason was which allen will cover is

[3:25:52] you know not knowing where the measure v funds are going to come in at so we what

[3:25:56] we did is we created a base bid project of what we were confident

[3:26:01] that we'd have funding for and then we broke the other streets out

[3:26:05] as bit out of alternates and that was just for financing purposes now i want

[3:26:09] to cover that these uh roads uh are obviously in

[3:26:13] pretty poor shape the uh construction includes a new asphalt

[3:26:18] concrete where appropriate we'll put

[3:26:21] rolled concrete curb and gutter and where appropriate we'll put ac dyke

[3:26:28] it also includes a lot of storm drain improvements to take care of a lot of

[3:26:32] the localized flooding in particular um if approved tonight

[3:26:37] mullins is is gonna is a big one for storm drain a lot of storm drain pipe

[3:26:41] and that the other ones are pretty minor and the other thing i'd like to bring

[3:26:44] forth is that this product this measure v project was

[3:26:49] a catalyst for

[3:26:52] helping highlands water company move forward with the substantial

[3:26:56] water line improvements in these areas

[3:27:00] due to an ordinance that the city passed about a year and a half ago which said

[3:27:04] if you have a leak in our street

[3:27:07] you've got to pave the street they don't like that so

[3:27:11] this prod that ordinance along with our projects now we're getting a lot of new

[3:27:15] water lines water services and enhanced water service for that matter with fire

[3:27:19] hydrants and stuff we'll be happy to entertain any questions about the

[3:27:23] technical aspects of the project if we have any questions from so just to

[3:27:28] clarify hyland's water will be replacing summer is in the process now replacing

[3:27:32] water lines in those streets they're opening bids tomorrow

[3:27:36] and that'll happen can happen quickly ahead of

[3:27:40] in front of us yes great

[3:27:44] just to follow up any other utilities that are would be impacted

[3:27:47] by this project that would need to be updated

[3:27:50] not to my knowledge we coordinated with special districts

[3:27:54] you know we we send send our plans and specs now we have joint utility meetings

[3:27:58] with uh all all parties involved and highlands was the one that thanks take

[3:28:03] care of it all right uh

[3:28:05] councilman claffy any comments uh no

[3:28:09] all right so can i make some comments

[3:28:12] so um

[3:28:15] uh granite construction was low bidder um

[3:28:19] and you know mr schwartz mentioned the additive

[3:28:23] alternates so we don't have uh quite enough funding in

[3:28:28] measure v to do the whole two million dollar

[3:28:31] project and so there's really two options the

[3:28:35] council could decide to just toward a smaller project

[3:28:40] and use the funds that we have now what staff's actually recommending since

[3:28:45] the project has all this has been designed

[3:28:48] and it's ready to go that we go ahead and do an internal loan

[3:28:53] from some of our other projects complete everything

[3:28:56] this year and then um we will use measure v revenues from next

[3:29:02] year in order to to pay that loan back to the

[3:29:05] city and um

[3:29:09] i guess we've changed the numbers a couple times um i i don't know if you

[3:29:13] want to speak chief white you may you were working on them last i don't want

[3:29:16] to misspeak but um what we're recommending is that we

[3:29:22] go ahead and make a budget adjustment for the project amount and up to the

[3:29:27] maximum 10 um change order amount so that all

[3:29:31] that's covered and then of course if we don't need the money then then um

[3:29:37] we won't spend it um do you want to address the numbers

[3:29:40] real quick chief sure um so conservatively estimating the

[3:29:45] loan could be up to 1.2 million the impact would be in fiscal year 2223

[3:29:50] for measure v removing our estimated operating costs you would have about

[3:29:54] between 400 to 450 000 for projects that year

[3:29:59] one thing to mention is public works is doing a huge amount of projects so i

[3:30:02] don't think there's going to be a lot of pushback to slow down a little bit then

[3:30:06] and the reality is with the pace of work and everything else you probably

[3:30:10] wouldn't otherwise know because projects are going to continue going on so i

[3:30:14] think from a financial perspective if you choose to do the loan um it's a low

[3:30:18] risk it's just basically pushing stuff ahead and we have um from a cash flow

[3:30:22] perspective we're fortunate to have funding to be able to do this sort of

[3:30:25] thing thank you

[3:30:27] yeah and the the funding that we're recommending adjusting would be um

[3:30:31] series a funding that in our recent budget we set aside for the highlands

[3:30:35] park uh project which um you know we're hoping that we'll get

[3:30:39] awarded the grant this year but construction isn't likely to happen um

[3:30:44] within this fiscal year anyway so you know it shouldn't slow down anything

[3:30:48] else and you know we'll still be able to get

[3:30:51] some measure view projects done next year no doubt um there still will be

[3:30:55] funding there you know we are

[3:30:58] currently thinking about expanding the chip seal program to do maybe twice as

[3:31:02] much or something as we did even this year

[3:31:06] which is a low cost and so you know with the sports complex

[3:31:10] infrastructure at the airport we have a second modoc project um

[3:31:16] next year and then the house center south center drive and dam road

[3:31:20] extension so there's still going to be a ton of projects happening next year even

[3:31:24] if we kind of spend a little bit less of measure v dollars than we are this year

[3:31:31] all right so and the and what you would be requesting for to move

[3:31:36] funds from would be what's covered in item number

[3:31:40] number 20. yeah that action would be the next item we just wanted to make sure

[3:31:44] that if you decide that you want to

[3:31:47] um not take that option just say award the

[3:31:50] base bid that we kind of have this discussion all together

[3:31:56] all right um

[3:31:58] i have to open it to the public yes do you have any comments from the public on

[3:32:02] this

[3:32:04] there are no comments from the public from no hands raised on the zoom there's

[3:32:09] no attendees we'll bring it back to the council uh mr claffey councilman claffy

[3:32:15] any comments uh no like the plan

[3:32:18] okay very good um

[3:32:20] do i entertain a motion mr mayor i'd like to authorize a city manager to

[3:32:23] enter under contract with granite construction for construction of the

[3:32:27] 2021 measure v pavement rehabilitate rehabilitation project base and the

[3:32:32] additive alternatives for the total amount of 2

[3:32:36] million 223

[3:32:39] 121 and 50 cents and authorize the city manager to approve up to 10

[3:32:44] for additional unforeseen contract amendments no second that okay we have a

[3:32:48] motion by vice mayor perdoc and second by councilman kramer all in favor all

[3:32:54] right okay item number

[3:32:57] 20.

[3:33:05] chief white this is thank you mayor um good evening again

[3:33:10] this item is to accomplish two things it's the uh amendment to the 2021-22

[3:33:15] budget uh the first item is basically to appropriate the unspent portion of the

[3:33:20] caltrans local road safety plan uh grant and basically it's coming out of

[3:33:25] existing funding so there's no negative impact to the budget

[3:33:30] the second portion of it is to do what we just talked about and and just a

[3:33:34] background on why there's a change in the um

[3:33:37] the numbers is as you heard earlier with the audit we're still adjusting things

[3:33:42] uh to figure out the amounts but as i mentioned to you

[3:33:45] the loan could be up to 1.2 million roughly um between the two funds um but

[3:33:51] i believe there's sufficient cash flow to cover doing that um and you have the

[3:33:55] option well it sounds like from your prior vote that your intention is to to

[3:33:59] go ahead and do that so i think we're safe to uh to let that happen we did

[3:34:03] pass out we had to amend the the resolution that was included in the

[3:34:07] agenda to make a correction on the movement of money it's more of an

[3:34:09] accounting thing but that's been passed out to you i mean

[3:34:13] just in the transparency it's basically just showing that there's a transfer out

[3:34:17] from measure b of one point seven eight six five five one um and that that's

[3:34:21] going to the capital projects fund uh as a transfer in and then basically on the

[3:34:26] back end we'll do a loan for whatever amounts there once the dust settles on

[3:34:29] what the actual fund balance is because we don't have a hard number on

[3:34:32] that it's an estimate at this point based upon estimated tax revenues

[3:34:37] all right we have any questions

[3:34:41] for staff if not well the public hearing we have

[3:34:45] any comments from the public

[3:34:50] we we don't have any attendees on our zoom

[3:34:53] meeting and i've not received any emails regarding this item

[3:34:58] all right uh

[3:35:02] any more comments from the council we'll bring it back to the council if not i'd

[3:35:05] entertain a motion mr mayor i'd like to move that

[3:35:12] we approve resolution number 2021-37 adoption of the first amendment to the

[3:35:18] fiscal year 21 2021-22 budget resolution number

[3:35:24] 2021-33 appropriating revenue from the caltrans

[3:35:28] local roadway safety plan grant and the 2021 measure v projects

[3:35:34] second we have a motion by councilman cramer in a second by vice mayor perdoc

[3:35:39] all in favor sorry hi hi all right we'll move on to our next item

[3:35:45] which is item number 21.

[3:35:50] me too all right uh item 21. mr allen flora

[3:35:56] yes mr mayor members of the council um so as you know we've been negotiating

[3:36:01] with all of these bargaining groups um we've reached tentative agreements with

[3:36:05] all of them that we feel is both physically responsible and respects the

[3:36:09] heart and dedicated work of our employees

[3:36:12] the first one before you is the clinic miscellaneous employees association

[3:36:16] so the key deal points are a one year agreement with a three percent cost of

[3:36:20] living adjustment a two thousand dollar one-time payment

[3:36:24] and recognition of their hard work and dedication to the city

[3:36:28] additional one percent salary adjustment in lieu of various other adjustments

[3:36:32] within the mou removing or reducing other compensation

[3:36:37] there is language in all these agreements which is an agreement to meet

[3:36:41] and confer regarding additional compensation that can be converted into

[3:36:45] base pay there's also some adjustments in this one related to uniform

[3:36:50] regulations the final thing that i wanted to point

[3:36:53] out is i you should have a hard copy there was

[3:36:56] one section under sick leave that was inadvertently deleted

[3:37:00] and so that reflects that section 9.1 being

[3:37:06] back remaining in the in the agreement and the previous section 9.2 is removed

[3:37:11] and that's what's related to the 1 salary adjustment so i would be happy to

[3:37:15] address any questions that you may have okay we have any question for staff

[3:37:23] 9.1 remains 9.2 is removed yes okay

[3:37:27] no question from staff we hope the public hearing any

[3:37:31] public comment on this item adam clark

[3:37:35] there are no hands raised in the zoom or attendees and i've not received any

[3:37:39] emailed comments okay we'll bring it back to the council any more discussions

[3:37:43] if not i entertain a motion mayor i'd like to

[3:37:47] present the adoption adopt the memorandum of understanding between the

[3:37:51] city of clear lake and the city uh miscellaneous employee association and

[3:37:55] authorize the city manager to say okay we have a motion by councilwoman overton

[3:38:00] you have a second second we have a section of advice may

[3:38:03] have product all in favor all right

[3:38:08] all right how about a small little break yeah five minute break

[3:38:14] five minute break make it quick

[3:38:26] huh

[3:42:35] all right we go back in session here we go to

[3:42:40] item number 22 consideration of a memorandum of

[3:42:44] understanding between the city of clear lake and

[3:42:48] the clear lake police officers association

[3:42:51] period 2021 to 2022.

[3:42:56] thank you mister yes um so the key points on this

[3:43:00] agreement a one-year agreement with three percent cost of living adjustment

[3:43:04] 1500 1500 one-time payment in recognition of

[3:43:09] employees hard work and dedication to the city a six percent salary adjustment

[3:43:13] in lieu of various um adjustments to the mou removing or reducing other

[3:43:17] compensation and then again the agreement to meet and confer regarding

[3:43:21] additional compensation that can be converted

[3:43:23] into base pay with that i'll try to address any

[3:43:27] questions the council has okay we have any questions from council no questions

[3:43:31] no questions no questions councilman claffy any

[3:43:35] comments no questions okay very good uh open to the public any

[3:43:40] comments from the public

[3:43:44] there are no attendees on the zoom and i have not received any email comments

[3:43:49] all right we'll bring it back to the council

[3:43:51] any more discussion while i entertain a motion

[3:43:54] mr mayor like to make motion to adopt memorandum of understanding between the

[3:43:59] city of clear lake and the clear lake police officers association

[3:44:02] and authorizes city manager to sign it second we have a motion by councilman

[3:44:07] cramer and the second by vice mayor burdock all in favor say aye aye aye

[3:44:13] okay move right along to item number 23. mr allen florida

[3:44:19] yes mr mayor so this agreement is with the clear lake middle management

[3:44:23] association so the key deal points in this case a

[3:44:27] two-year agreement with the three percent cost of living adjustment each

[3:44:30] year fifteen hundred dollar one-time payment

[3:44:33] recognition of the employee's hard work and dedication to the city and a nine

[3:44:37] percent salary adjustment in lieu of various other adjustments within the mou

[3:44:42] removing or reducing other compensation and then finally the agreement to me and

[3:44:46] confer regarding additional compensation that can be converted to base pay

[3:44:50] over the next year with that i'll address any questions that counts a lot

[3:44:53] right any questions from staff if not go ahead so so these uh

[3:44:59] the salary adjustments are your that's where you're taking away from some

[3:45:03] things and just adding it into their base pay am i correct the for the in

[3:45:07] this case yeah so the the cost of living adjustment to three percent is all

[3:45:11] additional um the nine percent in this case is

[3:45:16] taking um incentives that the employees already receive and taking

[3:45:22] that funding and converting it into base all pay thank you

[3:45:26] all right uh councilman you have any questions no questions

[3:45:31] all right welcome to the public any comments from the public madam club

[3:45:35] there are no attendees on the zoom and i've not received any emailed comments

[3:45:39] on this item okay we'll bring it back to the council any more questions if not i

[3:45:43] have obtained a motion mr mayor i'd like to make a motion to a

[3:45:48] dog memorandum of understanding between the city of clearly and the clear lake

[3:45:52] middle management association authorizes city manager to sign

[3:45:56] we have a motion by vice mayor perdoc in a second by councilwoman overton all in

[3:46:01] favor say aye aye aye

[3:46:05] we're moving on to number 24. mr alan flora

[3:46:10] yes mr mayor members of the council so the um employees of the city that are

[3:46:14] unrepresented and not in one of the other three groups

[3:46:18] most of the benefits are outlined by the city's management benefit plan

[3:46:25] in that plan it states that management employees

[3:46:30] shall receive a salary adjustment each july 1st

[3:46:34] based on the march to march all urban cities consumer price index

[3:46:40] based on the labor market and then the financial condition of the city

[3:46:44] and so so march 2020 to march 21

[3:46:48] cpi was 2.6

[3:46:52] um and so that's what we're recommending uh the council approve for um

[3:46:59] those employees and i just wanted to to point out i'm sure most of you are

[3:47:03] watching the economic situation and

[3:47:07] inflation is is really ramping up just as a little bit of a perspective

[3:47:13] april that april year over year was 4.9 percent

[3:47:17] may was five percent and um i'm not sure if i recall the the june numbers but i

[3:47:22] think they're even higher yet than than five percent so

[3:47:26] anyway um with that i'll try to address any questions counselor you have any

[3:47:29] questions from staff no

[3:47:32] councilman clappy anything no questions all right i'll open the public hearing

[3:47:37] any comments from the public madam clerk

[3:47:41] there are no comments from the public and i've not received any email comments

[3:47:45] okay we'll bring it back to the council if there's no further questions i'd

[3:47:49] entertain a motion mayor i'd like to make the motion to

[3:47:52] adopt cpi adjustments for the management employees for the management benefit

[3:47:56] plan second okay we have a motion by

[3:47:58] councilwoman overton and the second by council man cramer

[3:48:03] um all in favor say aye aye moving right along here

[3:48:12] actually i want to make one little comment

[3:48:14] at this point we just adopted four

[3:48:20] memorandums of understanding and and having to do with the salaries

[3:48:25] of our our

[3:48:28] employees of the city and i'm very proud that uh we're the

[3:48:32] highest payer in the county

[3:48:35] that's been my goal and we accomplished that so thank you very

[3:48:38] much all right designation item number 25

[3:48:44] madam clerk

[3:48:47] honorable mayor and council members the league of california city's annual

[3:48:51] conference this year is scheduled for september 22nd through the 24th and the

[3:48:56] conference is planning to be held in person in

[3:49:00] sacramento and at this meeting the league

[3:49:03] membership considers and takes action on resolutions that establish league policy

[3:49:09] in order to vote at the annual business meeting each year the city council must

[3:49:13] designate a voting delegate and can appoint then up to two alternates in

[3:49:18] addition to that delegate all council members are planning to attend

[3:49:23] the uh the conference and although we've not received

[3:49:27] information on the issues coming up for a vote yet it is appropriate for the

[3:49:33] council to designate a voting delegate and up to two alternates at this time

[3:49:38] any comments or any ideas um

[3:49:42] i if i want to address something i think

[3:49:45] uh councilwoman overton has been a long time representative so i think

[3:49:50] i think she would be as the voting delegate

[3:49:53] and is there anybody that uh wants to be an

[3:49:57] alternate

[3:49:59] and i'm willing to continue in that please do so council woman overton

[3:50:07] all right everybody to go to the you know and i

[3:50:10] plan on attending and i was the uh senator before

[3:50:14] councilman because i went over to so all right it's good to see everybody there

[3:50:18] going there so that's kind of cool all right

[3:50:22] i guess we have to open this to a public hearing

[3:50:25] do we have any comments from the public on this item

[3:50:30] there are no public comments on this item and i've not received any emailed

[3:50:34] comments all right we'll bring them back to the council so

[3:50:37] can i have a recommendation

[3:50:42] mr mr mayor i would recommend councilwoman overton as our voting

[3:50:47] member and council member perdoc and kramer as our alternates

[3:50:52] all right can we have a second on that second all right we have a motion by

[3:50:56] councilman claffy and a second vice mayor perdoc all in favor say aye all

[3:51:01] right all right

[3:51:04] mr mayor if i could interrupt really quick so on the poa agreement that you

[3:51:08] just approved um chief white just noticed in his thoroughness that um

[3:51:14] the for some reason the detective is missing

[3:51:17] from the list of special assignments um and so

[3:51:22] uh the city attorney said that um if you're all okay with making a note of

[3:51:26] adding that back in that's okay if you want to have some further discussion

[3:51:31] about whether to do that or not then we would have to take an action to

[3:51:33] reconsider the item but so how can we do that

[3:51:39] i based on if you're

[3:51:42] in concurrence of what the city manager said and were that was fine and that'd

[3:51:47] be part of your motion then we don't need to reconsider it if you don't want

[3:51:50] that then we should probably vote again to reconsider and pull it out

[3:51:55] of it mr mayor it was my understanding that

[3:51:58] that was already in so was it mine yeah it's just a clerical error right i mean

[3:52:03] it's it's an assignment that we've had yeah so you're okay with that i am

[3:52:08] okay very good so you have your okay we'll go to city manager and

[3:52:14] council report

[3:52:16] okay um i have have a few items so um we received uh just over 1.8 million in

[3:52:25] federal funding today through the our program which we'll be using for

[3:52:29] infrastructure so glad to see that come in and

[3:52:33] the other half of that funding we should receive and i believe may of next year

[3:52:38] so we'll still be in this fiscal year okay right

[3:52:42] well it's the american rescue um i forget exactly the plan act or

[3:52:48] something

[3:52:52] so um we had a bit opening for the sulfur fire road rehabilitation project

[3:52:57] today bids came in um unexpectedly low um

[3:53:02] the low bid being um just over 6.4 million um

[3:53:07] so that's great uh granite

[3:53:11] construction was the low bidder who was also the

[3:53:15] contractor that i'll be doing in the measure v project so i think the timing

[3:53:19] for all those projects is going to work out great

[3:53:24] now the problem we have is we just have to um

[3:53:27] figure out some way to spend an additional 5 million because

[3:53:31] that's not a problem the the bids were much much lower than

[3:53:35] we expected and so good problem

[3:53:39] yeah we'll take it

[3:53:44] well there's a lot of limits on the use of those funds in that program there has

[3:53:48] to be a tie back to the 2017 disaster and whatnot so

[3:53:52] we've been kicking around a few ideas left to consult with hcd obviously we

[3:53:56] don't want to do anything that delays the current project we have in front of

[3:54:00] us but i'm sure we'll figure out some way

[3:54:04] um we definitely don't want to let the money go back

[3:54:10] um so uh we are in the process of listing um

[3:54:15] 23 properties in the city that are owned and available for

[3:54:20] low density residential development to get the word out on those we're also

[3:54:24] finally really rolling out the homestead program

[3:54:28] and so those properties will be listed with a price if someone comes forward

[3:54:32] through the homestead program and likes that property

[3:54:36] we will still give it to them if they qualify

[3:54:43] it's been a little while since we talked about cannabis permits but as you know

[3:54:46] there were a number of the previously issued permits that

[3:54:50] there's not much activity we issued letters to all of the permit

[3:54:55] holders i believe it was in march and informed them that if they did not take

[3:55:01] steps to activate their permit and get their

[3:55:05] business going by july 1st that they would be revoked

[3:55:09] it looks like we're doing some final final checking

[3:55:13] but it looks like that there's gonna be five of the permits that we're gonna go

[3:55:17] ahead and revoke for inactivity um

[3:55:21] i did want to

[3:55:24] i think most of you are aware but congratulate chief white for his

[3:55:27] appointment to the state 911 committee so it's great to have him representing

[3:55:33] clear lake and other rural communities i'm sure he's going to be a big asset

[3:55:39] sort of in random order here but you know

[3:55:42] some pretty positive news um preliminary returns from calpers over the last year

[3:55:48] uh brought their um returns in at 21.3

[3:55:52] which obviously is higher than the assumptions

[3:55:56] the preliminary returns for calpers fund it was 21.3 percent of course which

[3:56:03] is much above the the 7 assumed rate of return

[3:56:08] in fact it was so large it's going to trigger some additional changes

[3:56:13] which is going to bless you

[3:56:17] actually reduce the discount rate from 7 percent down to 6.8 percent in the

[3:56:23] future which is going to

[3:56:27] drive up our our costs uh because of that but

[3:56:32] anyway it's good last year they didn't meet the um assumed rate i don't

[3:56:36] remember what the number was i think it was six something

[3:56:39] um and but you know and that that return will be smoothed over five year period

[3:56:45] but anyway um overall um good to see that um we're continuing to

[3:56:50] monitor the boat ramps at redbud park we have a

[3:56:54] gauge out there we have additional marking to show the end of the concrete

[3:56:58] ramps and signage letting folks know that it

[3:57:02] could be dangerous to launch and they're doing so at their

[3:57:04] own risk but it is continuing to be used the county is uh reporting that they're

[3:57:12] expecting the lake level to drop between two and two and a half feet from where

[3:57:16] we are now before the end of the summer so it's uh very possible that um

[3:57:23] some or all of the ramps at redwater park will will not be usable um just for

[3:57:29] a little bit of context we have there's the ramps that kind of i guess probably

[3:57:33] depending on when they are constructed or a little bit different

[3:57:37] length and

[3:57:40] so we're in pretty good shape similar to some of the ramps at library park in

[3:57:45] lakeport and i think lakeside park um over by kelseyville but there is one

[3:57:51] of the boat ramps at library park in lake port that is a couple of feet

[3:57:56] longer than what we have so it's possible that they

[3:58:00] will be the only

[3:58:02] great access i mean and there's still going to be issues with that

[3:58:05] can we pour something yeah yeah

[3:58:10] serious question yes have you heard of the army corps of

[3:58:14] engineers before

[3:58:18] well you can pour concrete in water yeah it takes a lot of permits and

[3:58:23] multiple years to do so so

[3:58:27] i wanted to mention that the we've been asked by the adventist

[3:58:33] health and hope center to be the grant recipient for a home key

[3:58:39] grant for some additional improvements at the hope center

[3:58:43] they initially received funding for that project with the county being the grant

[3:58:49] recipient for whatever reason

[3:58:52] they apparently have decided not to

[3:58:56] participate in that role anymore and so they asked us if we would step in and do

[3:59:02] that and so we said you know of course we would

[3:59:05] so working with that team on bringing

[3:59:10] curb gutter and sidewalk improvements um and a solar micro grid and other backup

[3:59:16] power as part of part of that project to the hope center

[3:59:20] um the starbucks project's going well as i'm sure you've realized um the

[3:59:23] developer is i'm trying to finalize the plans for phase two of that we had an

[3:59:29] administrative use permit hearing for the

[3:59:31] um stealth cell tower that's going to be part of the pylon sign that will be

[3:59:36] installed there so that was approved today and so

[3:59:41] they will be um moving forward with their building

[3:59:44] permits on that um and then they acquired additional

[3:59:48] property at the site so we're expecting a phase three

[3:59:51] um to follow that development um just a couple other things sorry i have

[3:59:57] a lot of stuff um clear lake waste solutions notified us

[4:00:02] yesterday that um they're being bought out by a larger

[4:00:08] waste hauler and um

[4:00:12] you know they won't go into all the details now they

[4:00:16] believe that it's going to be a good transition for all bruce mccracken

[4:00:21] is going to be hired by this group and remain

[4:00:26] on the team which gives me a lot of relief that will still

[4:00:29] continue to have great service there is going to be an action that's required by

[4:00:33] the council we're planning on taking that on august 5th but

[4:00:37] anyway wanted to let you know about that

[4:00:42] the um oh i'm going to be attending the icma's international

[4:00:47] city managers association conference in october

[4:00:51] i've been asked to speak as a panelist

[4:00:55] a discussion

[4:00:57] entitled a tale of two cities attracting retail and small and rural communities

[4:01:01] with a town manager from warrington virginia so um

[4:01:06] looking forward to that opportunity and then

[4:01:09] one final thing this is kind of more of a future agenda item i guess but

[4:01:13] because of the census there's going to there's a number of redis redistricting

[4:01:19] decisions that are going to need to be made

[4:01:24] the state has a redistricting commission they're kind of starting their public

[4:01:29] outreach related to this and that's going to be continuing

[4:01:34] through the end of the year there will be a community meeting at

[4:01:39] towards the end of august for our sort of zone in the state

[4:01:43] but i wanted to bring up and see if the

[4:01:46] council was interested in um

[4:01:50] actively lobbying to rejoin

[4:01:55] congressman thompson's district um

[4:01:59] you know since the last redistricting lake county

[4:02:02] has been split between congressman thompson and congressman garamendi um we

[4:02:07] get very little representation from congress

[4:02:10] from garamendi and

[4:02:12] i think there's certainly an interest from congressman thompson's office to

[4:02:16] represent us again and so i just kind of wanted to gauge the

[4:02:21] council and see if there's interest in possibly actively requesting that type

[4:02:27] of thing from the council as part of this process

[4:02:31] and if that's the case then we'll probably come back with another um item

[4:02:36] that you know talks a little bit more about the options for doing so

[4:02:40] i definitely agree with that

[4:02:47] okay that's my report councilman kramer anything to report on

[4:02:51] very little report on all meetings that i normally would attend

[4:02:55] were because of the holiday i think were probably canceled

[4:03:00] uh i have been attending blue zone planning

[4:03:04] committee meetings but i assume that

[4:03:08] that mayor vice mayor perdoc is going to give you a report on that so i'm not

[4:03:12] going to have anything to say on that other than

[4:03:16] monday i'm going to let you go with that

[4:03:19] so that's all i have councilman overton clapper you have anything to report on

[4:03:26] uh i attended the peg tv meeting which uh no real action items from that just

[4:03:31] good to see that team moving forward i just wanted to make a comment about the

[4:03:34] fourth of july and the incredible job the staff did the

[4:03:38] police department public works of course the lions every year put on a great

[4:03:43] event um and it i i was there for the parade and i i

[4:03:48] stayed for for mr rich and it was just a superb event all around so kudos to all

[4:03:54] of you thank you for the number of folks that i met that were

[4:03:58] from out of town or were from blake county that came here and just had a

[4:04:02] blast it's a great rep

[4:04:06] reputation builder for our area and i think you all did wonderful so thank you

[4:04:12] nice mayor product well done david you stole my thunder i

[4:04:16] was waiting for them i was going to get the chance to

[4:04:20] just hear my accolades yeah i just would like to echo councilmember clappy's

[4:04:25] comments um what a great presentation i think we've turned the corner we're on

[4:04:29] our way uh making our ascent um there are wonderful things happening

[4:04:34] down here it was great to hear a concert in the park been working for six years

[4:04:40] to get a band stand over there and it was very disappointing with covid not to

[4:04:44] be able to really celebrate and bring that in

[4:04:47] kudos again to lions club another great great event

[4:04:54] anyway great fireworks show and thanks to all the sponsors that

[4:04:58] donated including individuals and many of us

[4:05:01] here in this room or uh donating to the to the fireworks it was a great show

[4:05:07] um as uh councilman cramer pointed out

[4:05:11] um blue zones initiative is a community uh

[4:05:14] based grassroot initiative to try to improve the health and wealth of lake

[4:05:19] county and and clear lake in particular help our youth help our seniors

[4:05:24] and the team is coming into lake county on monday july 26th they will remain on

[4:05:30] site until the 30th wanting to meet with as many as they can

[4:05:36] if you can please uh contact me or or go to the blue zone site and you can

[4:05:42] register to be a participant um so your voice can be heard and again

[4:05:47] if you have any questions please contact me i'd be happy to share

[4:05:51] all right uh mr kramer has it you over no okay

[4:05:57] uh a couple of things uh i thought the concert was just awesome

[4:06:02] i've never seen so many people in the park happy they were parked out there

[4:06:07] from the morning on it was it was at kudos to

[4:06:11] all of the city staff that was just awesome i was so happy to

[4:06:16] see this i was really poked about it all standard and also i want to congratulate

[4:06:20] chief white on his appointment on the 911 committee that's an honor and i

[4:06:26] couldn't have picked a better person for that

[4:06:29] all right uh future agenda items

[4:06:33] got any anybody anything right have not

[4:06:37] um if not

[4:06:40] we'll join and go to closed sessions

City of Clearlake City Council Meeting - July 15, 2021

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