uh it's a workshop we're first a roll call
listen council member clappy
here council member overton councilmember
kramer here vice mayor burdock here here
all right we go to the burns valley development project workshop
mr flora to start off this
yeah so um
so this is going to be kind of in two parts we're going to start
by introducing um
brian whitmore who's with studio w architects and so
the city of clear lake the city of lakeport and the county of lake over the
last well quite a few months have been
working with brian's team on developing a recreation
feasibility study for the entire county so um
this is the first of the presentations to the governmental agencies about this
report so you're the first to see it and then
hopefully we have some time at the end to kind of go over
the draft site plan that we've been working with the burns valley sports
complex committee on so with that i'd like to turn over to to
brian and michael to go over the plan well good evening everyone i'm
brian whitmore i'm with studio w architects can you hear me okay this
evening yes
wonderful yes okay i'm joined here this evening by uh mike
gelato mike is with shellato training and consulting mike you want to give a
just a brief introduction yourself
sure um i retired from the city of roseville in
2010 i'm in the last year or so i was serving the city manager but prior to
that most of my career was either as the director of parks recreation libraries
or assistant city manager still doing parks recreational library so
um since retiring i worked with a number of jurisdictions on feasibility studies
operational analysis strategic plans have a lot of familiarity working with
both aquatic centers and recreation centers not only in my city with the
city of roosevelt but in the agencies i've worked with subsequently
then i see dennis has joined us as well from aquatic design group dennis you
want to give a brief introduction to yourself
thanks brian yes good evening hi i'm dennis berkshire with aquatic
design group aquatic design group is an architectural engineering firm that
specializes in public recreational water systems and and facilities
we've been in practice since 1984 and and have designed more than
3 500 facilities across the us through
42 states and 24 countries
great i'm gonna share my screen here and hopefully you folks can see this okay
can you see my screen yeah all right
so we we have a presentation here i just wanted to share with you our three
entities studio w architects aquatic design group enchilada training and
consulting are the consultants that put together uh this report uh this is a
high level overview of the report the report itself at least for phase one we
have a two part phase one and phase two component
to the study we were
given the green light to move forward on phase one
which includes some of the items here i'll go through today
but we will offer that report for everybody for review uh following this
presentation this is the first by the way of three presentations that we
expect to give both to you folks at the city of clear lake uh the city of
lakeport and also lake county so the agenda here this evening we're
going to talk briefly about the purpose and the process that we embarked on
for phase one we've identified a number of partners
that is known throughout the report as the lake
county recreation task force and then also other resources
that were available we went through some programming with
that team to identify some of the needs both for recreational facility and an
aquatics facility now i will mention that there was some
difference between sort of the interests uh on aquatics as it relates to sort of
lakeport and the rest of the county versus the city of or the area of clear
lake and we'll talk about that in this
presentation we did some very high level capital cost
estimates and also cost recovery trends we looked at various management
structures how a recreation center or aquatic center of this kind might be
managed funding opportunities that exist and
project location opportunities that exist and we'll talk about next steps
so the purpose of the phase one study was really to explore the feasibility of
a recreation and or aquatic center in lake county
identify the marketability of the facility that is its need identify
programmatic features such as to identify its capital costs and and
potential cost recovery and then identifying management structure funding
and location opportunities the process began on march 24th
we held regular meetings with a large contingent of what we're considering
that lake county recreation task force we facilitate facilitated tight site
tours on april 13th so we toured multiple
sites both in clear lake and in lakeport so throughout the county
we schedule presentations tonight and we have subsequent presentations for the
city of lakeport on august 3rd and august 10th up for the county of lake
uh these were the partners that were identified and actually
the task force had done a pretty good job of putting these folks together even
prior to when we got selected so from a local government agency
standpoint we have lake county city of lakeport city of clear lake and lake
county office of education the school districts included lakeport
unified school district connected unified school district
upper lake unified mendocino college and woodland community college now some of
these folks were very active in the process and offered a lot of information
some of these folks were simply on the email list
and were provided information as we went through the process
but certainly these could be considered partners especially when we start to
look at funding opportunities and other mechanisms of joint use or
other capacities we move forward some of the local community
organizations that we're identifying include first five of lake county
lake family resource center the lake county channel cats this is sort of the
local aquatics team hope rising
the west side park committee which is the committee focused on the westside
park area of lakeport redwood community services
we also identified healthcare providers we see a lot of healthcare organizations
becoming involved with recreation aquatics facilities across the state
and you have a number of them here locally sutter health adventist health
and also tribal health and one of the things that we identified
although they weren't involved at the task force level
were some of the additional resources that could be lent from some of the
tribes that are identified here
and so we tried to identify all of the local tribes
that have at least some some hand in the lake county region
part of the process that we went through was trying to identify a program really
identify what were the needs when you start to identify recreational uses and
also aquatic uses across the county and this
spreadsheet identifies at least for the recreational center
some of the items that came up so some sort of large multi-use indoor
court type of facility so for basketball and volleyball
would probably have maybe an 84 by 50 main court
cross courts those sorts of things racquetball courts
cardio and weights area some sort of training rooms
either for yoga other sort of specialized classes
those kinds of things perhaps a game area a billiards
other sorts of smaller games those kinds of things card room
other elements that bring folks from a variety of different age
groups to a recreational center
obviously we have a lot of support types of spaces restroom facilities entry
reception locker room type of facilities custodial storage
equipment and circulation and so generally speaking we looked at sort of
if we identify gross areas for these kinds of things how big of a facility
might be we might we'd be looking at and so what this dictates is right
around 15 000 square foot facility which is not
insignificant in size but it's certainly not
you know large by comparison to some of the examples that we'll share with you a
little later in this presentation
likewise from the standpoint of aquatics and i'll give dennis a opportunity to
jump in here but i'll just go through a brief recap
we identified a variety of different aquatic opportunities
and pool configurations we identified four different
options those options have
varying requirements when it comes to both the bath house and support building
so obviously the larger the pool facility
the larger the support facilities that go along with that as well as the pool
deck area this was option one this is a 4 800
an 80 square foot pool featuring a 75 foot long by 40 foot wide 45 foot wide
lap area with the teaching peninsula the city of patterson is a good example
of a pool of this kind and this was one of the options that was
looked at when we looked at sort of the area need
necessary for a pool pool deck and bath house and support of this kind of pool
by comparison option two was around a 5700 square foot pool
featuring a 75 long by 75 foot wide lap area for 10
25 yard lanes yuba city gaucher park in yuba city was
the example a case study that we used featuring this pool
in each one of these cases i'll mention as well aquatic design group also put
together cost information is related to
maintaining and operating these pools not just capital costs and that's part
of the report that we put together also
option three is a 5800 square foot 78 foot long by 45 foot wide lap area
for a nine lane um essentially a nine 25 yard lane with six feet of deep water uh
for various other forms of competition this was the largest of the options and
consequently obviously the largest in terms of pool deck area
and supporting area this facility is currently designed as
part of north natomas community center aquatics complex this is in sacramento
and this was a project uh that started actually as a feasibility study back in
2014 that's currently under construction um so it gives you a good idea of just
you know how many years in the process there
that it took from sort of where we're at today
to where they were able to build a community center
and aquatic center and then finally a fourth option a 3 500
square foot pool featuring a 75 foot long by 45 foot wide lap area
for 6 25 yard lanes this was the the smallest of the
configurations and therefore the smallest in terms of its area need
we also identified spray ground there was some desire of the ability that in
an aquatics program somewhere in lake county to have uh not only just a single
body of water but perhaps a second body of water that would allow for
uh playtime activities and activities for smaller children that aren't yet
ready to swim so this all of these options include a 2
000 square foot playgrounds essentially 50 by 4
parking is largely dictated by the size of the pool the size of the
deck area obviously in the rec center configuration
parking would be dictated solely by the rec center
but we did identify the needs for parking
and so based on sort of these very high level programmatic needs
we looked at uh dollar per square foot cost so costs ranging from the rec
center to probably somewhere around 500 a square foot
to the pool the spray ground the bath house pool deck area the parking area
the site pool equipment and site infrastructure
these costs range from anywhere from about 14 to
maybe 15 or 16 million dollars in construction we did add contingency we
did ad escalation for a number of years trying to be conservative and then soft
costs at around 25 so what you see here is that you know all the needs that were
sort of identified through this study add up to somewhere around 22
21 to 22 million dollars depending on the options and the
configurations that you look at and then just by comparison and really
for the purposes of the city of clear lake
because there wasn't maybe as much of a desire for aquatics program
in the clear lake area just looking at the potential of a
recreation center with its own parking and site infrastructure you know
probably closer to the eight to nine million dollars in construction 12
million dollars in total project costs with soft costs
there as well
cost recovery trends this was something that mike shelton put together
based on understanding of similar facility operation what we did was we
looked at a number of different facilities
most of these facilities are larger in size than what was identified there you
can see roseville sports center there is
probably the closest at 23 000 square feet
mill valley community center and indoor pool some of these are simply rec
centers some of them include rec centers and pool facilities but what you see
there is a range of cost recovery the cd star community center and indoor
pool being probably the worst in terms of
cost recovery at about 37 and then
the incline village recreation center an indoor pool there in nevada on the north
side of lake tahoe being one of the best at 102
but what you see here is a funding subsidy and this is an annualized
funding subsidy of anywheres from you know a hundred
thousand dollars actually twenty seven thousand dollars in inclines case uh to
somewhere over a million for cv star um what we would expect maybe with a
smaller facility and an average maybe 78 is the average
here of these areas identified or these buildings
identified maybe you're looking at a couple hundred
thousand dollars each year in subsidy uh in terms of cost recovery
and so that is really what sort of revenue are you generating in terms of
you know sales of tickets uh other kinds of entry fees that sort of thing
um other types of special events and then what sort of actual revenue are you
generating in terms of maintenance operation uh et cetera mike do you want
to add anything here no i think in trying to benchmark what
uh rec centers and and or pools for this thing we looked at not only
size but the scope of the work so the fitness the components of brian went
over in terms of the program for the building are pretty similar in some
cases because of buildings at 35 000 square feet or 30 thousand
they have other amenities or facilities agora hills
has some
multi-purpose room banquet rooms that are part of that center mill valley also
has some community center meeting rooms that are bigger
agora hills as a climbing wall roseau sports center has a climbing wall but
generally speaking the the program for the buildings that we use in the
benchmark uh were similar
so then we start to look at management structures actually after we start to
identify what's the potential need um you know what are we looking at in
terms of potential cost and cost recovery
we were asked to take a look at you know how might lake county and or various
partners within lake county manage a facility of this kind and we identified
four different options hopefully some of these you're familiar
with mike maybe if you want to jump in and
talk briefly about uh just joint development use agreement versus joint
powers authority and then i'll switch the other sure
the the um the first being the one i'm obviously most familiar with is the
roosevelt aquatic center um the the pool that you see in the picture is built on
a a 200 acre park that sits immediately adjacent to a high school in roosevelt
one of the high schools in roseville in this case the school district
contributed over a million dollars towards the construction of the pool
as well as some other joint use facilities in the park site so lighted
ball fields and some things the city roosevelt has a long history of joint
use facilities with the
all four different school districts in this case the high school district
and the um this the part of the agreement provided for ongoing
funding operations from the school district to fund the
operation of the pool and that's fairly normal
in this case it's roosevelt but there's a number of other examples where
joint used parks and pools are built together and in some cases
normally the lead is where the property where the pool is built on and then the
other part of the other joint used party contributes both to construction and
ongoing operation um the uh i worked with the agora hills
calabasas community center which was pretty unique it was a joint powers
authority between the cities of calabasas and the city of glory hills
and they got some money they had some land from the la county
and then did some other fundraising and
contributions between both of those agencies
it's run by the jpa which is its own entity uh
although both the cities of calabasas and the city of agora hills
creates an annual contribution um to offset the operating costs of the
facility this facility does really well in terms of
in a normal non-coveted year but in a regular year
they do a really good job of really being pretty close to 100 cost recovery
it's a bigger facility but it's extremely well utilized um
in those two jurisdictions but the jpa was the model by which it was both
funded for development and continues to be funded by jpa the jpa board is made
up of a couple of council members from each of the respective cities as well as
other citizens at large that might be from the park and recreation commission
and then citizens at large that manage the jpa
i think the city of i don't want to get this wrong one of
the cities is responsible for doing payroll
but then the funding comes from the jpa itself
the other model cv star uh community center i worked
with this jurisdiction actually to do uh operational analysis to try to improve
their overall utilization and cost recovery um this is really pretty
spectacular facility that came from some both private donations and from a
foundation that allowed it to be built it was
i think probably about 40 million dollars so it's a pretty expansive
facilities but but it's run by the mendocino coast recreation and park
district which is a relatively small agency up by fort bragg
and what they realized early on once it was opened that they really couldn't
cover a lot of their operating costs so the city of fort bragg uh
entered into an agreement with the mendocino coast recreation park district
and then passed a tax override measure to provide the ongoing
subsidy for this operation because it really wasn't covering its operating
costs so you see that's although it has the largest
subsidy if you will in terms of operating costs that's
actually funded via the
tax measure that was used to offset the operating cost
the last is um the special district for recreation we
were asked to look at that so we looked at
the turkey donor park and recreation district up out of truckee and they
built a fairly large recreation center and then just two years ago opened a
large indoor pool complex um and that was funded by
um the funding from the the local recreation and park district
that they have as well as they got some other monies
from gosh the airport district and a couple
other areas uh it it generally does really
well in terms of cost recovery uh the facilities this one has a large gym has
a couple of meeting rooms fitness facilities child care those kind
of things that we similar to what we're talking about but a little larger scale
but the park district is a separate entity so the truckee donner recreation
park district overlays the town of turkey which is its own
municipality and it also overlays
some of the other areas like tahoe donner homeowner association which
is a homeowner association about 25 000 residents so it's been overlapping use
so the the customers come from um you know multiple jurisdictions um
the town of turkey didn't really put any money into it uh they tried to do a bond
measure to build a pool but um narrowly didn't pass
but then they didn't have the funding to go ahead and build it it's a very
popular facility although like everybody else this year has been slowly reopening
with covet right so they're getting back up to speed
so that kind of outlines the basic management structures from
joint use as well as
one of the things we looked at if there was a special district
um overlaying the three respective communities in uh in the lakeport
clear lake lake county area and then or just traditional joint use
so additionally one of the things that we looked at was funding opportunities
um and so we surveyed at least amongst many of the task force members sort of
what existed out there currently or what was reasonably visible versus other
future potential sources and i will say this is one of the things that
is not well defined at this point
there really isn't a clear definition of how much funding where funding might
come from for a facility of this kind hence the reason we've talked about
management structures you know trying to bring multiple entities together to sort
of leverage their own respective funding pods
to be able to make that more palatable and more feasible
for example when we when we talk about the north natomas aquatics
facility center that started that feasibility back in
2014 you know much of that funding was really
the city and one city council member in particular that
represented that district the city of sacramento is represented by various
districts uh you know really saying you know making that a priority
you know obligating the rest of the city for general funds
looking at special taxes that were identified for the purposes of
parks and recreation in the district one region
and then partnering with with some of the large business owners private
privately funded business owners health care providers
as well as the local school district in their local bond
in order to bring enough facilities together roughly about 40 million
dollars in capital funding and then an additional probably somewhere around
half a million dollars annually uh in terms of subsidy to uh to facilitate
that piece so some of the the entities that we identified here in terms of
funding include obviously general funds and all entities the city of clear lake
city lakeport and certainly lake county have those available
lake county has quinby there are state grants available both at
lake county and at local school district levels certainly the local school
districts are probably looking at in cases where they have had bonds pass and
they have leveraged some of that money locally
looking at prop 51 or even new proposition we're anticipating another
state bond in 2022 that may have some funds coming back to
them and there may be additional funds there
having leveraged off their local funds neighboring housing redevelopment funds
i understand there's some potential there with the city of clear lake the
school district bonds the local bonds which i mentioned and we understand
there was you know some prioritization
particularly at lakeport about you know what they spent their money on what the
promise was perhaps to spend money on as it related to in particular aquatic
center but based on the prioritization of projects and perhaps even the
expensive projects at that time that that priority really fell off the
map so there's a little bit of funds there but not much uh when it relates to
lakeport a little bit it can octa unified school district as well
remaining rescue act funds at connecti and then property and asset sale
potential as it relates to lake form other
potential sources include tax assessments that may not be as yet
defined or some sort of tax assessment that may want to be looked at in the
future for the purpose of funding such as a project as this
development funding or additional development agreements with future
developments in particular homeowner developments
state bond funding proposition 68 federal funding the american recovery
act there is funds there although um you know they are generally limited and and
very competitive in terms of the way that they're being dolled out
the joint powers agreement funding we talked about
previously landed one-time funding and was even suggested by lake county about
the potential of some of the cannabis industry
which seems to have a firm foothold in the region
project location opportunities so as i mentioned back in april we did tour
several different sites some of the selection criteria i've
identified here i think is very important it's very important as you
folks in particular think about city of clear lake and the opportunity that you
have with your burns valley park development
site and that is the proximity and or
synergies that exist with other like types of facilities
so the proximity to other community park amenities athletic fields
baseball soccer hard courts other kinds of things that go hand in hand with a
recreation type of facility so they're being nearby
the potential for shared parking amongst some of those facilities
so on special events or other kinds of functions there
you're not building say independent parking areas you're building joint use
parking that could be paired it could be used separately depending on
the time of the year or the the time of a day of a particular event a
co-location of libraries other centers senior centers schools
and also pools with recreation centers combined
that these have a lot of synergies together they bring together certainly a
lot of different age groups uh the potential for child care the potential
for senior citizen involvement those kinds of things we feel like are very
important and then the place making principles
that you kind of see here off to the right you know social
emotional types of things comfort
access obviously we did look at things like arterial
streets and access to major thoroughfares public transit other
kinds of things i'm not going to go into too much detail
about some of the properties in the city of lakeport
we'll talk a little bit about the burns valley park development and i understand
you're going to have a presentation after this about sort of the master plan
that's evolving from that but there were a number of facilities in
the lakeport area the west shore swimming pool which is part of the
existing high school there in lakeport which unfortunately now is is not an
operation there's really not a lot to save there
but certainly it has some synergies when it comes to the pool
that exists in the parking and also the high school that's there it doesn't have
real good access to nature thoroughfares just a little bit off the beaten path
there is some additional land that the district owns but it's generally very
hard to access in fact access compliance is one of the first things that you
recognize when you look at that site the quail run fitness center is kind of
an intriguing opportunity for the city of lakeport
that's a pre-existing recreation and pool facility
that has some potential for sale it would be an opportunity for
renovation so it would uh it wouldn't be a ground-up sort of scenario and
obviously there'd be a significant cost savings at least capital cost initially
to leverage that facility in terms of you know it's its structure its shell if
you will and then build out what's necessary to sort of support the needs
that we would identify within the county the pool itself is probably not the
correct size we probably increased the size of the pool the pool deck and some
of those amenities but it is very proximate to the west
side park in fact it's just across the street there and there could
be some both pedestrian and other access opportunities that exist between the two
it's also very coincident with the major thoroughfare there the highway one of
the major intersections to the highway and so it
gives a lot of access obviously to to the county area and then finally the
west side community park area as part of the phase two master plan
lends itself an opportunity to develop a new built
recreation and or aquatic center at that location
uh but for you guys uh the burns valley park development is really the location
that we looked at and so
we identified some of the pros and cons and part of i believe what uh city
manager is going to share with you here in a moment is some of even the
recommendations of our team made about how to orchestrate perhaps even some of
the conceptual design there so some of the pros that we identify
obviously it's already a park business area
many synergies exist with both the potential for future parking utilities
and athletics fields which are already planned a neighboring library
which i think is a fantastic synergy between a recreational center
and the rest of the athletics pieces that are there and also the senior
center which is just up the street close proximity to sort of
the olympic drive area there running east-west
and so you kind of have again better access to uh to facilities
even like local restaurants and other types of amenities that can
help serve some of these special events and the things that go along with the
rec center and even the potential for reporting
some of the cons of course is it is a ground-up build
you know so you're talking about bringing full level of utilities to the
site some of the costs that are identified
there i know some people probably get some sticker shock we are still in a
very escalating market when it comes to construction across the state and so
it's more likely that we're going to see you know those prices continue to
increase and so those are probably the only cons in the dressing say a ground
up site versus a renovation opportunity like like
so um as sort of a summary and next steps some of the recommendations moving
forward one of the things that we would recommend as part of really the second
phase we identified it briefly in the first phase report but is is
facilitating a strategic market analysis so perhaps utilizing surveys conducted
via social media you have a lot of social media outlets
as part of the report we identified some of the key questions that should be
asked and how maybe perhaps some of that
social media survey might be operated we got a lot of feedback from the folks
on the lake county recreation task force a lot
of the members that were identified and the partners there
while that may be strong that doesn't necessarily identify the core need and
there may be other needs or other pieces that are identified and so i think
that's very important as you think about the potential of
partnering perhaps with other folks or even building a recreation type
of facility on your own of just what sort of market analysis
that and and what sort of programmatic needs
are they really looking to have there what we show is really kind of a blended
group of priorities as a result of sort of across the county
narrowing down the location not so much in your case the location but the
funding opportunities how would you fund such a a program
both from a capital cost standpoint and an ongoing operational and maintenance
standpoint the cost recovery examples that we showed you earlier and
then really our phase two component to the report uh would enable you to then
do some actual conceptual layouts so if it is burns valley and there is an
identification of land there identified as part of that
master plan you know what might that program really hold
what sort of conceptual design might emerge from that that then we use to put
together a more professional cost destination
and operational analysis and then be able to finalize that report so that you
really have a target there in terms of what you're looking to fund and how much
funding that would occur at that point perhaps
you might look at solidifying joint use opportunities
other sorts of things don't really see is that the special district is perhaps
something that might come to fruition but perhaps it is
like was identified at truckee donner but more than likely some sort of either
joint powers agreement joy use type of agreement or even joint development
amongst yourselves the local school districts and some of
the other private entities that were identified
local nonprofit entities that were identified here
so with that um i'm going to turn it over for those that might have question
and answer in fact i'll take this off of there so hopefully you can see us a
little bit better um
but happy to uh to answer the questions you might have at this point regarding
phase one in that portion of the study
you you didn't have identified anything in the south county uh middletown and
kelseyville between lake port and clearly why is that
that's a good question um you know really as part of the the discovery that
was an area that really wasn't something that i think people felt was was
either high need or perhaps um something that neither one of the cities
has sort of said on lake county i think while they're sort of orchestrating a
lot of this i don't see them as maybe perhaps being a huge
dollar partner in the process and so when you start to look outside of
sort of the city areas proper city of lakeport
city of clear lake it becomes more challenging
trying to figure out who becomes the lead agency
and how do you really fund that definitely there's there's need i'll say
coming from that region you have the school district in that
region you have other elements but certainly from a less populated area
you're talking about something or maybe even two centers you know one in
lakeport one in clear lake that really drive folks uh from that south county
area you know into the more populated centers of either lake port or the city
of cleveland do you think it can be funded through a
lighting and landscaping kind of district
mike you want to jump in i think there are
the short answer is can it yes i think it has to do with how much
undeveloped land use currently exists in either of the just
jurisdictions probably the more common method today versus lighting landscape
is like a community facility district for service that can be used to fund
capital but typically the creating that
assessment on is usually typically on new properties
otherwise you can do it you can establish a community facility district
but if it's on existing uh residential property it would require uh voter
approval um so it's possible that you could do that
but you know so somebody might you know if you're gonna go to voter approval for
something like that you would certainly that would be
certainly one right answer establishing a
overlaying community facility district for service or capital to do that
similarly you could um a jurisdiction could do a bond measure um that um the
either either on your own or in concert with the other jurisdictions that you
might be partnering with or or like um you know the fort bragg and the city
or menacing coast did a tax measure so all of those then require voter approval
established before any homes get built is going to require the homeowners
to approve that
i hope i answered that question
how did you get involved in fort bragg because my understanding it was
not being used um yeah i i got a call from both the um
the city of fort bragg and the um general manager of the mendocino coast
recreation park district uh looking for some help in evaluating uh how they
could operate their center and pool more cost effectively
improve the overall cost recovery and utilization
but it was a uh kind of uh early on it was involving both the city
of fort bragg which was contributing a substantial amount of
money every year to offset the operating cost so i ended up giving um
to two agencies
in the final recommendations this was really more of an operational analysis
didn't have anything to do with building it
any other question well we all know that uh
the lakeport school district tried this and it
really turned out into a big disaster uh both funding and this so i think we
might have some hesitation on on this this kind of issue
yeah as i mentioned earlier um you know that was that was something that was
brought to our attention uh pretty quickly
um and it's not uncommon
you know school districts passing bonds um you know identifying in a master plan
or in a needs assessment that they have you know sometimes three four five times
the amount of need then they have you know bonding capacity
one of the things i will offer is that you know a number of school districts
last year you know every two years in effect we
have an opportunity for local school districts to pursue general obligation
bonds and so the last year was 2020 the next year will be 2022.
interesting and interestingly enough in march of 2020
bonds did not go that well throughout the state and that was
actually prior to covet you know the
the primaries were in march they were early march so really kind of before
everybody had a sense of what the pandemic was going to do
we had some you know talk of out of this this outlying virus and and there was
some if you recall some challenges to the stock market at the time and i think
the general settlement across the state of california was
that folks didn't want to to pass
local bonds for school districts um fast forward to november of 2020
and we had at least for those school districts that
went after bonds nearly a record in terms of the pass
rate um and and one of the reasons we believe that that occurred was because
of the fact that um you know schools were considered essential um and we had
folks uh you know depending on what no matter what really the economy was doing
really saying we need to support local school districts and we need to pass
dollars for them whether it be for facilities or for other sorts of
programs so i think we're going to see a lot of
school districts try and pursue bonds in 2022
and i think there's an opportunity certainly for cities like yourself
and others to reach out and say you know is there a possibility can i die like
poor et cetera to reconsider that and to also consider
the need for something like this it could be a true joint use opportunity
natomas unified school district in sacramento did that effectively they
contributed i think around two and a half million
dollars now to that north natomas project that we featured earlier and
you know it really obviously goes back to the sentiment the politics in your
particular region um but uh you know it's it's interesting how sort of these
things ebb and flow and so the next opportunity could be an opportunity in
2022 sounds like
city of clear lake and your relationship with your local school district is a bit
better than perhaps what would happen with lakeport
but definitely that's an opportunity to leverage when it comes to funds
you know school districts can be one of the
bigger users certainly an aquatics facility if not a recreational facility
however there is requirement to go through dsa
when it comes to the approval process and sometimes that dsa field act
compliance can escalate the cost of a project pretty rapidly you know mike has
some experience in that in the city of roseville with the joint using the
agency thank you
anyways yeah um so
i mean some of this you know i figured that we would talk about when we look at
the site plan but you know this whole process really started
because of the situation that we're talking about in lakeport and the fact
that they were promised a pool and they don't have one
um and then we got involved because some of the
things that we were looking at um and i think
the timing's really good um while we weren't involved from the beginning
we're probably in a position to see this sooner than what's going to
happen in lakeport because of the sports complex and
you know the way we had initially looked at design the focus of course was on
the baseball fields and then being able to add soccer
and we had kind of set a little piece off to the side to maybe do a rec center
at some point in the future but and going through this process and
talking with our school superintendent and some other organizations
i really feel like that there's interest and probably available funding there for
us to do this uh sooner than expected and
so we we redid the design which we'll talk about here in a minute to make a
recreation center as part of this whole project and a central part of it
um and so you know it is a big
a big pot of money i mean we don't really have room
at the burns valley location to even consider putting a pool in there
um our our school district doesn't see as
much of a need for that they want to have after-school programs
for kids and they think you know this type of a
rec center would fulfill that need for a significant period of time
and so our thought is to let lake pour
folks on a pool if that's what they want to do
we do our sports complex and rec center now
and you know if if the community decides that that they we really need a pool
here that's something that we could do kind of was a
next phase project um somewhere else within the city so
really what we want from the council tonight is
you know that you kind of like the direction this is going and you're
supportive of moving into phase two i mean i think the timing of what brian's
talking about will work perfectly with the master planning process that
we're in the middle of for the whole complex right now
um and these guys are you know experts in the rec center piece and maybe you
know they can handle that portion of the project
um while we uh you know we'll obviously be engaged but
you know kind of our design team's focus will be on on the sports complex
which you know we want to make sure and get that done you know as soon as
possible so um
you know the the three entities the two cities and the county
um supported the phase one portion of the project financially
we haven't come up with a plan at this point on the second phase
i'm sure that we would need to to put some funding in but we had also planned
to ask the larger group of partners to participate financially in the phase two
if the three jurisdictions supported moving in that direction
but to be clear the baseball field soccer field portion of it
is as a project that we're going to go forward with
the rec center is something that sounds good and we definitely want to look for
the so your group would take care of the rec center
uh brian well i mean yeah i mean that's
kind of what i was thinking right i mean we it's important when we do the complex
to make sure we have the spot for the rec center in there but
i think um
and you know i i really think that we will end up being pretty close to having
the funding to be able to to make it happen um but from my
perspective phase one is the
the ball fields right um and as long as we have the spot there we could always
bring that up you know a little bit later as we put all the pieces together
obviously it takes a lot of years to actually put it all together
but we were gonna we don't like taking
is needed in that area so i think it's a great idea to put it all together
yeah i concur and i think this community's been asking for a pool for a
long time since they built that center
the community center was supposed to be right but um just to finish i'd like to
see us go forward at least with the planning phase and settings
room aside for it for the rec center for the record yes
that's what i'd agree with move forward phase
one and plan for phase two and just to be clear
and just to be clear you said we're close on on funding that's without a
bond or any type of assessment correct yeah i mean you know
it's it's helping us out and you know maybe we should just start kind
of transitioning into talking about um
the the site plan a little bit but because
of all the the kind of mixed use nature of the burns valley project in
general you know it provides us the opportunity to leverage a lot of other
funds um
but yeah i feel like that really we're we're not going to be too far off on
on being able to fund the whole complex and the rec center
okay
you're going to pull that yeah so i'm going to pull this up
um and
let me let me zoom out slightly just to give you all some context so we
have olympic drive down here on the bottom
uh burns valley road here that that comes around to the north this
is the safeway complex so
um you know this is a 31 acre property that the city purchased
in december and there's you know i mentioned mixed
use there's several components [Music]
to this i'm going to start over here with um
this section which is will be for new public works yard
this is a public works yard shop in addition there's some
space here for the police department for evidence storage and
vehicle processing which is needed in certain crimes
and so this area would be fenced and lighted
storage back here for vehicles that are towed and so forth
material storage equipment storage all that
and so there would be a new roadway installed
on this hundred foot property that's between the pg e public works or
corporation yard and the burns valley mall complex
so this would include a roadway into the site
some parking and then this is the location of the mudslingers kiosk where
the council approved that um that coffee
building so we'd be we have a lease agreement in place for them
which should be kind of a nice amenity to sort of be part of the part of the
park um
the corporation yard gets funded differently
yeah so that's a different part of funding so the plan is we're working on
the design um of
the the plan is to do this section here into the site this section of roadway
the fencing the light the sight lighting and all the
utilities for the complex um this year yet
and as long as
as long as mr schwartz
there's no reason that's not going to happen right dave
um and then the the rest of this project would um start
um at some time next year along with the the housing component
so um the rest of the site
i'll just kind of start from i keep getting my zoom things and dragging them
around instead of um so we'll just start here on the west
and work back to the east so this is a um a soccer field
um this is depressed with a little berm around here to keep balls from flying
out into the street as much as possible we do have a
lot of room and we worked with um you know our partners with the the soccer
league and so forth and i won't take the time to pull it up but now but there's
the ability to have as many as eight to ten different games
going in this area depending on the
[Music] size of the fields and
they're really comfortable with the size that we have here
we are hopeful at some point in the future we'll be able to expand the
soccer amenities into another nearby area but um
so we have a you know large parking area here um drop-off zones and whatnot
there's area for tour buses for um our little league and
soccer tournaments to be able to drop folks off
this this is very rough but this is a general location where we'd expect the
rec center to be located we haven't really focused much on design but the 15
000 square foot footprint and then additional space here the idea
is to combine and allow bathrooms for the
complex to be accessible from the outside so that you
know nothing was happening in the rec center
there's still some games going on outside it's just a way to be able to
cut the the costs for developing the site
and then so we have two of the smaller fields here and then the large baseball
field over in this area we have additional parking
um here and here what you see here is a lot of
extra space that we haven't detailed out yet some of this
would be designated for a t-ball field um
for the little guys and then there's plenty of room we intend to have
playground equipment and some other amenities so you know
when the family's there everyone has something to to keep them entertained
these designs include you know announcer's booths batting
cages bleachers plenty of warm-up area
and then of course a road all the way through the site here
um and then the housing development um which is in the process up here which is
80 units of mixed income family housing
what we've been able to do partnering with them is
um funding this is about a 50 million
dollar project and their funding we've connected
um directly into the forest complex and so some of the funding that they're
going to be pulling down we'll be able to use actually for
installing all this infrastructure at the site which is going to help
you know keep the the costs you know the other funding
sources that we need down which which is going to be really nice
um so that's kind of the super quick
overview and um try to address any questions
that the the council has about the plan
i want to thank um the ladies from little league and uh
where is george soccer yeah he's not here
thanks for watching with us
these fields would all be
so when it's not baseball season can these be used for other sports
i don't know why not i mean i know we're gonna be playing all year round
being more competitive when we travel therefore we need to have baseball
the outfields could be used for like the five-year-old soccer games could be set
up in the outfields yes we have
pretty much when they're using the facilities in middletown
i've been here for 35 plus years i played soccer and baseball
all the way through high school i played on these same fields we play on right
now with baseball and i did the same thing as a kid traveling in middle of
town so i definitely and i have three sons
so i totally understand we need to have more stuff in town so i'm totally not
against ever letting anybody help you
well anybody else in the comments from the audience here
awesome
yeah i just had a i had a question are these designs final are we gonna do a
public hearing at some point
well um i guess that's up to the council i
mean we normally don't do a public hearing on the designs um
the i mean well i should i should take that back we we plan to apply for a
state parks grant for a portion of this project which
is due i think in november of this year so
um we have an agreement with a great the same grant writing team that we worked
with for the highlands park project which we still don't know is funded or
not yet but that the requirements of that grant will
include a number of public meetings like we had
for highlands park um you know as a requirement so we've
been working trying to get all this stuff
uh sort of sorted out and we've been you know using our city engineer and his
team so that we can start on the main infrastructure and the public works
piece of it we will be using a landscape architect
as part of the grant process to further refine some of these points of the plan
like i mentioned the t-ball thing and the playground equipment some of those
other site amenities um you know if dave had his way everything would be concrete
and asphalt so um we need to we need to bring someone
else in to help help us with that
so there will be there will be a number of opportunities for the public to
review and provide input on the plan yes so that will be a planning commission
item uh normally we don't do a planning
commission item for that but i mean you know we could if you would like us to
i think there's more people coming out when you have something noticed that
well like the public meeting meetings are doing
this part you know i mean what what the council
directed was creating this committee to work with which is what we've been doing
but you know i know that there's a lot of interest in this project and we need
some ways to bring in whatever you think is the right way to
do it council can give us additional direction on how you want us to do that
all right i do think that we should have an
opportunity for folks outside of the committee to weigh in
the other question i had was around the soccer field i know i had brought this
up but i i don't know if it was discussed in the committee
a grass field versus a turf field and if that was considered
currently we're planning turf on the soccer field you are okay excellent yes
all right that's good
all right even though even though cancer probably caused a
high rate answered i think we're workshop is over
and we'll take a couple minute breaks a couple of minutes break to
get a council meeting going so
test
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty just
for all right
yes sir sir
father in heaven we ask that you would join with us tonight that your spirit
would lead and guide us to do the good business for this city
we may be able to be able to better serve our community and the guests who
come to visit us whether we ask a special blessing to be on the staff and
families who live here they may be prosperous and have
safety in their travels whether we ask for this all in your
son's holy name amen amen
all right
see the adoption of the agenda are there any changes to the agenda
no changes mr mayor make a motion to adopt the agenda is submitted no second
time we have a motion by vice mayor burdock in a second by
mr kramer all in favor aye aye aye
all right we'll go to presentations number two presentations of july
adoptable dogs
good evening mayor members of the council unfortunately tonight we do not
have a we have dogs available we did not have
staffing to um bring one in for the meeting tonight um however i'm gonna go
over the stats real quick um so far this year we've taken a 194 dogs
into the shelter uh 192 have left the shelter 104 have gone to rescue 60 have
been returned to the owners 21 have been adopted
six have been euthanized and we have the ones still on here that escaped um so
our live release rate is still pretty good we're down a tiny bit but we're at
96.9 percent so we're still doing really good and hopefully we'll keep that up
for the rest of the year can you say something about an escape
yeah oh that one's been there for a couple months but yeah we had one
a while back um he was able to get out of his cage inside the new building and
then when he got out he found a window that was a couple inches open he pushed
the window up then he pushed the screen off went out
to the door and where he went out is a
fenced in area that has the building on one side and then has
that probably eight foot fence on the other side and he dug a hole and then
came out on the airport road and disappeared industrious dog we got him
back later but um i think i think he had help but yeah
but he he wanted some freedom for a little bit
all right thank you very much all right let's go to number three
presentation of the regional transportation plan
uh mr alford who is doing that today
uh is miss bates going to be presenting okay
lisa
here us hello
there she is
let us start our video sorry yes we can hear you late
we're getting rummy okay quick hi hi hi uh
john spka and this is lisa david bates we're with the
lake area planning council the regional transportation planning agency
for this region of which um your council members
herdock and kramer are on our board we just want to give a quick
presentation of our upcoming regional transportation plan we're
still seeking uh public input and we have a social pin a social
pinpoint website that has a bunch of interactive
activities that you can leave comments and such on but
we're going to give a short presentation um it's about eight minutes long and it
will it'll explain what the regional transportation plan is and how you can
provide feedback uh
let me see do we have access to uh or do we have permission to share here you
should
okay so here is the presentation [Music]
welcome to a brief presentation of the 20
make sure hold on i just want to make sure
you could hear that could everyone hear that 22 regional transportation plan and
active transportation plan update both plans are being prepared by the
lake area planning council which serves as the regional transportation planning
agency for the lake county region
the lake apc board is made up of two county supervisors from the county of
lake and two city council members from each of its two incorporated cities the
city of lake port and the city of clear lake
two at-large members are also appointed to serve as directors rounding out the
board's eight-person makeup the primary advisory bodies for the lake
apc include the technical advisory committee which consists of public works
and community development officials from each of the three jurisdictions as well
as representatives from the california highway patrol the lake transit
authority and the caltrans district one office
the second important advisory body to the area planning council is the social
services transportation advisory council this group advises on matters involving
transit dependent individuals within the region including the elderly disabled
and persons of the limited means additional duties of the lake area
planning council include the administration of the call box program
otherwise known as the lake service authority for freeway emergencies
and finally lake abc council members also serve a separate role as the board
for the lake transit authority
the primary function of the lake apc is to allocate federal and state
transportation funds to projects within the lake county region
funding is derived from a variety of state and federal programs each having
separate goals addressing public needs ranging from road safety to greenhouse
gas emissions reduction to the promotion of healthy lifestyles through active
forms of transportation like walking or biking like abc also assists regional
and local agencies including public works departments of the county and
cities as well as the region's transit agency in identifying or applying for
potential funds for priority projects these can often be time-consuming
processes especially for staffs with local agencies that might lack the
resources or time to compete for such funds
finally as the regional transportation planning agency the lake apc is tasked
with preparing the region's long-range transportation planning document
this regional transportation plan helps guide the decision-making process by
setting long-range transportation goals for the region
so what is the regional transportation plan
as noted it is the area's long-range planning document for all forms of
transportation throughout lake county and its cities
it covers a 20-year horizon and is updated every four years to reflect
changing conditions in the region over time
its main purpose is to promote safe and efficient transportation for the
movement of people and goods throughout the region
examples of this are found in projects improving unsafe road conditions or
dangerous intersection crosswalks or else reducing congestion to improve
trekking delivery routes basically anything that helps to connect
community members with areas both within or outside of their immediate
surroundings land includes all transportation modes
in lake county such as highways streets and roads transit services pedestrian
facilities and bicycle lanes among others
update process also covers an update to the active transportation plan
so what is the active transportation plan
this is a plan that focuses on improving and integrating bicycle and pedestrian
networks throughout the region essentially it is a focused form of
transportation that deals with non-motorized or active transportation
projects within the active transportation plan are eligible to
apply for grants under a specific state program known as the active
transportation program this is a highly competitive grant
program that rewards well-planned high-priority projects which are
evaluated as part of the active transportation plan
lake county adopted its first active transportation plan in 2016.
prior to that the regional transportation plan would normally
include a section or element that covered non-motorized forms of
transportation for the previous rtp update in 2017 it
was decided that the 2016 active transportation plan
would now serve as that component of the rtp and both plans will be updated in
conjunction from that point on the active transportation plan therefore
serves two purposes one as the non-motorized element and also as a
stand-alone document for projects that can potentially be funded by future
rounds of the active transportation program
identifying needs and priorities for the region is a big part of either plan
there are plenty of needs to choose from for each transportation mode whether
they are on state highways or local roads or serve bicycle and pedestrian
purposes or public transit etc identifying those needs is important
but prioritizing maybe even more so this is done by soliciting feedback from
local public works departments state agencies tribal governments and your
voices from the general public to determine how the next 20 years worth of
improvements should unfold prioritizing is especially important
because there are far more needs than available funding can accommodate
the rtp seeks to guide how these limited dollars should be spent
the process will look something like this
from now through the summer we will be seeking public input to help guide the
update by mid-spring we will have an idea of
the local and regional needs and how important they'll be in meeting the
overall transportation goals of the region
a draft of the updated regional transportation plan and active
transportation plan as well as the environmental review documents for each
should be posted by late summer there will be a comment period specified
for the documents at that time as well finally we expect to present a final
draft to the board of the lake area planning council by the end of the fall
these will be publicly noticed meetings where additional comments can be made by
the public along with those of the area planning council board prior to the plan
of adoption
again we want to stress that your voice is important to this process
transportation needs and issues that you bring up will be evaluated as part of
the regional transportation plan and this will ultimately guide what the
final plan will look like whether it's road safety or sidewalk
accessibility or transit system improvements or any barriers that make
different forms of transportation more difficult in your local community we
want to know so please make your voices heard
here are the best ways to provide input you can go to the website for the update
project which can be accessed at the web address in red
the site is interactive and will allow you to provide comments on maps in which
you can pin written comments at specific locations within your community or the
region as a whole it will also include surveys and budget
exercises where you give us your feedback on where
your concerns lie or which projects you believe aren't the most funding
or feel free to email or write letters to staff myself john spika senior
transportation planner at the email address in red
or else at the physical mailing address below that
lake area planning council 525 south main street suite g ukaya california
we 95482 forward to hearing from you and thank
you for participating
okay so um yeah hopefully if that was clear enough for
you all to hear and such but the
main idea again is is we've like as much public input as we can get on
the plan and
the website that we are referring to is um seen here
i just wanted to show you a couple of the features of the website um
and presentations there uh that we just saw
there's uh if you scroll down there's the interactive activities including say
the interactive map which
by clicking on you'll
see you could scroll in
for instance
your city and you could go to whatever intersection or
you know any other area that you think deserves some attention as far as some
type of transportation activity again sidewalks or road improvements or
whatnot and then by clicking on it
you are clicking up here i'm sorry you could
say what type of project you're after or you're most interested in you can leave
an actual comment there um that will show up on the map and we
could gather those towards the end [Music]
um there's also a survey by clicking on and it kind of just gives an overview of
where the comments are coming from or the location for where the queen new
members live you know age and some
standard demographic information and what type of you know transportation
is is most used um
or you know those types of questions so that would um again give us some
insight as to where we should focus
um and then finally there's these two budget exercises on the right side uh
each from one's for the regional transportation
plan budget and uh it you just get an idea of you
could go down this list of different types of projects
and you start with a hundred dollars and you
spend your way down to zero um
you know just kind of it gives you an idea of
what you have left and actually fortunately it goes beyond a hundred so
you have to be cognizant of uh where to stop
um there's that one and then there's a
second one that gives uh active transportation
projects that are really more specific to walking or biking type projects and
what uh you know the specific projects that you would think deserve
specific amounts of funding or you know in proportion to the hundred dollars the
same idea for as the last one
so that is our quick little spiel here and um
happy to answer any questions that you might have um again we're trying to get
the word out as much as possible too and that's
our presentation here and to other uh organizations and groups
so uh
any questions
just a quick question would will these be linked to the city and county
websites for people who may be navigating those
uh we we could do that in fact that probably
make it simpler which is always good um
i could contact would it be melissa with the city to see if i could get that up
on the city website sounds like a perfect idea john
i believe that it's correct
and or you can just type in lake apc and uh you know you'll
see this on the home page it's fairly easy to find
stop sharing the screen unless anybody has any questions uh
specific to the interactive activities that we just
showed you
i don't have any additional ones no questions
no questions from the council thank you appreciate it okay we
appreciate appreciate the chance to give you the presentation thanks a lot
thank you thanks john lisa thanks thank you very soon
we go to item number four presentation about cyanobacteria outreach work group
well looks like there's some people in the audience that
would like to talk about us
way smarter than me
do you have anything that you want to put on the screen too we have some
presenters that are on zoom and denise pomeroy from public health has a
presentation to share press their kids okay cool
welcome denise hi good evening city council of clear
lake i appreciate the opportunity to present with you tonight
um i'm gonna try to share my screen and plug our presentation i think we have it
down to about 15 minutes so
hopefully this is going to work so we all are in this electronic system
area
see all right can you see my screen
yes yes we can all right so
uh lake county cyanobacteria communication work group this is a
multi-agency update to um that we're going around to giving
both to the cities and the county um back in july of 2017 and again in
2018 the board of supervisors for the county directed staff to establish a
county-wide strategy and incorporate the cities and community partners for a
long-term all-sector approach to cyanohab
systems factual and consent messaging to businesses and general public on
have related issues this has been a very good collaboration
between both cities county and some of our tribal partners
um following up from our prior year's um board of supervisors recommendation the
county developed uniform education about cyanobacteria
um the last couple of years the work group
which is both cities county and our tribal partners uh water resources
and special districts environmental health
have been working on um the potential impacts the progress the
current lake conditions and uniformed messaging to not only just our community
but to the the wide variety of communities that visits lake counties
we've moved from a reactive mode to a proactive mode and we
work hard to communicate to all the sectors that are impacted
uniformed and communications addressed through social media and other avenues
have been a huge success for our communications out to the public
regarding these challenges
so i'm going to let angela take it from here on what is cyanobacteria
thank you very much for having me today i'm angela de palmadao i'm in water
resources i'm a program coordinator over there for county blake
so cyanobacteria even though they're sometimes confused as an algae they are
a bacteria they photosynthesize so they do convert co2 from the air into oxygen
that goes both into the air and the water they're very old they've been here
in clear lake for thousands of years and
the same conditions that promote cyanobacteria warm weather still calm
shallow waters and nutrient waters are the same things that promote the green
algae which is different than cyanobacteria and that's why we have a
world-class fishery here we have a really productive waters and all those
factors that promote the green algae which feed our fish
and promote our industry our fishing industry are also the same things that
promote cyanobacteria blooms that we have in the lake um and so even though
we care these things are both important to us they're just in different ways and
they're both driven by the same factors next slide
so what makes a harmful algal bloom harmful and again that's not an algae
we're talking about cyanobacteria so when there's an over abundance of
favorable conditions just like right now it's warm we have a lot of nutrients
you're going to get a big abundant bloom growth of the cyanobacteria and they can
produce toxins some of the strains can produce toxins not all of them and we
really don't know what specifically promotes the toxins to be there they
don't all produce the same toxins at the same time in the same amounts
but some of them do produce the toxins and
just because there's a bloom present doesn't necessarily mean that there's
going to be toxins of a certain level and same thing there could be no bloom
present you might have some toxins if you have some of the strain present that
does produce the toxins so we really rely on that monitoring data to be able
to tell us if they're toxin present and is there not and what level is it and is
it of a health hazard level concern
so we want to thank all of our stakeholders who work
on this project with us and who's been a collaborative partner for the last
four years or so um collectively the team has developed and had consensus on
all the work that we've completed to date
we definitely clarify that these are work group participants but everyone who
lives or visits lake county is a stakeholder
they have a voice or should have a voice in our lake it's our biggest asset among
our people in lake county
sarah
hi good evening sarah ryan the big valley band of pomo indians
environmental director i have spoken before
you guys before on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in our program so it's great
to be a part of a collaborative effort of the county and
the cities and other stakeholders in terms of communicating these results
as well as the conditions of the lake so
as you probably know and you've heard that cyanobacteria is not just happening
on clear lakes cyanotoxins are not just on clear lake they are
throughout the world of course what affects us most is what's
here so having blooms here and having toxins here is is concerning but it is
something that even back in the 1990s the world health organization developed
standards for exposures to cyanotoxins the state of california took a while to
get to those standards they're still not full standards but there are
recommendations for exposures for both drinking water and recreation us epa has
also just recently finalized standards for recreational exposure to cyanotoxins
but it is a worldwide problem if we can move to the next slide please
in california and on there is a very small map but if
you go to mywaterquality.gov and look under habs harmful algal blooms
you'll see a map that has the most recent results not just from clear lake
but from all of the water bodies in california where there are
where there's cyanotoxin monitoring going on clear lake is the most
monitored lake in california thanks to the tribes um maybe some some people
don't thank the tribes for that but uh you know there's a lot of uses of clear
lake and so it's really important to know what the toxin levels are so we
know which areas should be avoided and which areas are are just fine so
the on that my water quality.gov you can see on the map
it is updated on a regular basis with the toxin results and you can go and so
people are saying what about clear lake you can always look at some of the other
water bodies in california that are being tested and what their levels are
and there's plenty of other water bodies with danger levels
and usually on clear lake we might have some danger levels and other levels will
be below caution it's not even a problem at
all so we like to make sure that people understand that as well
next slide please [Music]
moving to scott i am scott horner with lake county
special districts uh there is a list of potential impacts there i'm going to
speak to the the water utility there's a direct correlation between the have
blooms and the increase in cost in producing water
there's increased chemical costs there's increased backwash filter frequency
there's increased operation time there's increased operators time and then
there's the testing and sampling costs that that are associated with it
and what this leads to is that the citizens and customers that around the
lake whose water utility pulls their water from clear lake are paying a
higher percentage of their monthly uh gross income to pay for water than our
similar surface water producers throughout the the state so there's a
there's an impact here for the citizens here and every one of those communities
that's being served by the lake is a disadvantaged community so there's kind
of a double whammy there
so the emphasis that people have different reactions to cyanotax and just
very much like allergies that you would have um some people have no reaction um
some people have a very sick severe reaction some people get a skin rash
some people especially animals um like dogs and and
other pets especially livestock and stuff can have a much bigger reaction
they're smaller plus they tend to get in the water or or pull the water with open
mouth so they actually ingest the cyanotoxins
these reactions vary greatly from a small rash to
neurological issues um we have no actual um
so some of the surveillance for human and veterinary health impacts are you
know we don't have a lot of testing available
that can confirm actual cyanotoxins to health and animals
the tests on animals are usually postmortem
and they take actual liver and kidney and internal
biopsies and test it for certain toxins um and then humans there there really is
none it's it's very much a medical puzzle as to
what you were doing when you were doing it and
how that works there's a very big piece of under reporting
people swim they don't connect that they were
swimming in an actual body of water or recreating
boating fishing whatever um and they just think that they have you know
some type of rash or or symptom so we really do
do a lot of messaging with our physicians and our veterinarians around
the clinics the ed rooms um to educate the physicians and the clinicians and
the veterinarians on the symptoms of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in
humans and in animals so far this summer we don't have any
confirmed cases but we have had received a few complaints um two for animals and
um two for different for humans that um we've not been able to
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completely be confident that it was related to xiaomi toxins but we do have
an investigation process that we do at the health department with the with the
collaboration of the tribes and testing and the state
to see if we can make a match um there are here in this slide there
are definitely symptoms it can be from a skin rash which is hard
because you also have swimmers itch and other things that can happen
um in summer and recreation activities out hiking and
stuff but um you know they can be anywhere from a mild rash all the way up
to neurological symptoms and animals we have had a couple of
confirmed dog deaths related to cyanotax and
cyanotoxins over the past four or five years
um this is a mutual effort on surveillance and it is a
collaborative project between the effort and investigation
between the parties uh we have water resources big valley
public health environmental health regional water boards we send out
letters press releases cdc surveillance and public service announcement
we get referrals on a regular basis
of possible symptoms and reactions to the water and
our department along with our partners
um thank you everyone who partners with us um do a complete and full
investigation on every complaint or case we get
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just to follow up on the on the investigations i mean there is some
funding that has come to big valley to be able to
go take the samples and also send it off to the lab we don't have to pay for that
and that does happen whenever there is a suspected dog or animal illness
so the another part of the program is the signage and you have probably seen
those signs online also posted
at various areas and these are signs that were created by the state water
resources control board and specifically the the people who are working on
cyanotoxins and cyanobacteria so they've been able to because of a toxicological
study on cyanotoxins that was done in uh i believe 2014 by the state
there are caution warning endangered trigger levels uh based on the toxin
results that they uh recommend that certain
activities do not occur anymore so for caution there's uh at that level you can
still swim in the area you want to avoid a mat or a bloom
but you don't want to eat any shellfish from that area there are shellfish in
this lake so you don't want to eat shellfish because it accumulates
but at the warning level
there are more restrictions in terms of letting dogs swim in there having
children play in there and at the danger level you actually want to avoid it even
in terms of boating because one of the ways that you can be exposed to
cyanotoxins is through the um the mist and inhalation of the irritabilization
of the toxins so these signs are there to
inform the public you see those icons of the activities um to inform the public
about what you can't what's recommended you can and can't do uh with the
cyanotoxin levels that are there those signs are up
from the time that we're aware of the toxin levels from the testing and are
brought back down after there's two completed sampling events where the
toxin levels have dropped and those are based on the state's recommendations for
taking action on cyanotoxin levels
okay next next slide angela
okay so some of the progress the milestones that this work group has done
um is we've encouraged supported tribal monitoring which is essential to this
work group many of the members of the work group
participate in local task force on this issue as well
as state programs and it is multi-agency
collaboration so working between the county and the cities
special districts and the tribes and we have been able to
produce the signage we have permanent signs around the lake to provide some
basic information to those water users that are accessing the lake through
public spots and some private areas as well as
well as the temporary signs that sarah just covered we have produced some
educational materials brochures websites i brought some for you guys today we'll
go over that a little bit in a few slides as well as press releases and um
informative psas so the press releases uh we produce a press release at the
beginning of the season to give everybody you know the season starting
it's going to get warm there might be a chance of cyanobacteria what to look for
who to call and then also
whenever there's a bloom incident or a specific change when there's a danger
area or a lakewide event there will be a press release
to inform the public of that event and where it was and to give them all the
information
sarah so the tribal monitoring
on the slide you see a map that we produce and put on our website and also
on the facebook page clear lake water quality
and that's that map is showing not only the locations where we're doing our
cyanotoxin monitoring we do have some shoreline
we have approximately 23 shoreline sites and some sites that are on the interior
uh that we get water samples from from the county and also uc davis when
they're out there on the lake and we color the the markers based on those
toxin levels and those coloration of those signs you remember danger was red
warning was orange and caution was yellow
green means that it's below the caution level
so it's a it's a very visual sign um to to reflect what those toxin levels
are those we are out there monitoring every two weeks we started this program
in 2014 as you might remember i think i i think i came to the city council in
2015 to do a presentation um this is a program that started by big valley
rancheria and elm indian colony and we are continuing to do it with
funding from the federal government as well as a state government
the next slide there's actually also
the state the cchab network you can see all the
partners on there cc habs the california cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom
network i co-chair that along with somewhere from dave karen from the
university of southern california and rebecca stanton from the office of
environmental health hazard assessment and as we co-chair it we meet with all
the stakeholders we meet quarterly with researchers
vendors and uh government and um the educational you know the academia
to look at ways that we can improve our programs in the state of california as
well as solve this problem so know that uh you know that what you have as part
of this team and as part of you know the the monitoring on the lake is we're
actually very well connected with the state on
and have the most recent updated information about studies um there's
also uh federally there is a cyanobacter cyanobacteria assessment
network and there is um also satellite imagery that we have access to
uh it's not on this page but it's fhab.sfei.org
and you can go on there and look at the satellite imagery of california and
clear lake right now is standing bright and
red um because of the cyanobacterial bloom
so we have a lot of resources at our hands i guess that's what i'm trying to
say um and it's a well collaborative uh group of people working on this on
clearly not only clearly but all the water bodies in california
and the next slide
okay so i get all the phone calls when there's um blooms in the lake and if
anything comes in and there's a health hazard in question
i will direct them to this page this is a state page
and it's the mywaterquality.ca.gov and if you look at
this page on the right hand side in red it says report a bloom so this is the
first step if someone has any questions of been if they've been exposed to
cyanobacteria bloom and have any potential health hazard
impacts or they have a family member or an animal or pet in their family they go
to that page it's like you scroll twice you fill out the information
there's a team at the state that responds to this pretty quickly i was
talking to a guy the other day he had filled out the form had called me i
called him back in about maybe half an hour and he had already talked to
somebody from the state about his issues so they have staff resources that are
dedicated to figuring out what's going on and also collecting the information
so they can make more research resources available for us
this team there works with public health they'll communicate to public health
together they'll complete the investigation we'll figure out if us or
the tribes go out do spot site sampling to figure out if there was
something there in the water and so it's just a really great resource and that's
where i direct staff or i direct calls that come in if there's health
hazard impacts at all any question i send them there
this thing is just showing there's about 30 30 plus signs around the
around the lake that give information about how to
recreate safely and
in water that could possibly have the habs it also provides links to
in public health water resources there's a qr code that links you to big valleys
uh monitoring data so you can get the most recent data there and
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the slide actually shows those the location of the signs and this is most
of those signs are at our monitoring locations although there's a few uh
areas that have signs that we don't monitor most of our modern monitoring
locations are the parks
we have a city you know city of clear lake city of lakeport uh locations in in
the city of lakeport it's a redbud park and austin park
and we have and we have some all around the lake we also have
sampling locations at homeowners associations and private
properties so there are signs that are available i believe that
there'll be more discussion about that but homeowners and and private property
owners can get signs also affixed to their area and they just need to talk
with public health or water resources about that
so part of this group was developing education outreach materials i talked
about the press releases already we do have articles um on our websites and
then we have brochures both in english and spanish um that are available on our
website as well as hard copy i'm gonna give you guys some
these are all for you so take what you need
um we also have some radio and digital psas so we recently just did a digital
campaign this is a visual psa uh to go on digital media we have it on the
facebook as well as its ads marketing we also do little videos so we have one
about um being safe with your your pets around the water and then the
big valley does post their results as soon as they get them um on the clean
lake water quality facebook page which has a very uh big following and so
people get that information right away and they can make the best decisions for
themselves and their family when they're recreating
this brochure that you see on the slide for small drinking water systems and
that's actually for private drinking water systems that are
one to four homes that these water systems are connected to
these don't believe there any of these in the city of clear lake
but throughout the lake we have 100 miles of shoreline there are a number
hundreds actually of homes who have near shore wells or private intakes into the
lake where they are drying water in and treating it possibly
and drinking it or showering in it feeding it to their animals and whatnot
and so this this brochure that is on the
slide is warning or basically giving recommendations to people who are
drinking that type of water um to take care if you're mixing water uh if you're
making formula for your child you want to use bottled water instead of lake
water from your own private intake not talking about the public water systems
where most people 65 of the people in this county get their drinking water
from public water systems but from these small systems so this outreach also has
been available for several years it was dr karen tate the public health officer
who put this together in coordination with the rest of our
group so we do do outreach to these private intakes and these state smalls
as well because they do have lesser treatment systems for their drinking
water
so you know our next steps um for this group we've been together for
like i said about four four years now um as a directive to from the board of
supervisors um we want to get more signs out to private properties and homeowners
associations around the lake we have those permanent signs available whether
it's a resort or you know local
hoa associations um communication we're going to continue the monitoring
continue partnering with our tribes and our other agencies our cities around the
lake you know really manage the message
because that's what it's all about it's about informing people so that they can
make the right choice for them and then of
course we look for input from our community leaders such as yourselves we
we welcome and we support that input and that's basically why we're here today
to give you an
update and you know we'll now take any questions or um concerns that you have
here are the three entities that
people can contact for questions or for more information or
brochures lake county water resources
like county public health and big valley band of pomo indians who
really started this trend back i don't know 10 years ago i
guess sarah i could be wrong on that but we really have them to thank for getting
this project off and running
with the testing of our leg many years ago so we thank you for your
time and we're happy to answer any questions
it looks like councilman has questions uh thank you denise and and all of you
for that presentation it was very informative
i didn't i heard a lot of the the problems created by the cyanobacteria
and both localized areas and across the lake
my question is is there any progress being made on something that we can
knock these blooms down especially in localized areas for instance off of
austin's beach or off of redbud uh or off of library park lakewood
whatever so is there any anything that's being
done or can be done to at least break those up and
push them away i'm gonna let our scientists answer
the questions of sarah and or angela i get this question all the time so i
love it thank you thank you um
yeah so the conditions that make the algae grow there are the still warm
water nutrient rich we have super nutrient water we're not you know the
nutrients are there they've been there for um thousands of years just old lake
so it's all piled there there's a big resource there for the food for them
and this warm water so still warm food and then we get summer daylight so we
have these long daylight hours of the sunshine and that's what they love so
they're gonna grow there um what you can do and again this is
extreme year so this drought year with the low water and these when if we had
three weeks of a hundred plus weather in a row starting in june like that's crazy
so that's very extreme there has been success local level in
some places in the lake with moving the water right so you're removing that
habitat you're making it so it's not still comfortable you'll still might get
some blooms and some toxins but not at the same level that we
see in areas where you have but still nice quiet coves there how have you been
moving the water there's things that are water movers there's um at big valley in
their marina they have a solar bee which is a little bubbler that kind of moves
it around um there are dock mounted basically it's underwater fans that can
move it and of course you can get different sizes then again you're moving
electricity around you know um there there's our options but they're small
scale for your own property kind of thing so it's it's not we can't move a
whole large cove of algae and in fact i think they tried it in 2010 and they
moved it out and it just went into somebody else's cove and then you're
dealing with that problem in that that location so it doesn't there's no quick
fix or else we would have had it already or other water bodies would have had it
so the work the work being done up for instance and rodney and slude as their
going to do you know make that a slow again and it was supposedly going to
help filter the water coming in is that going to have any any impact positively
on this yes absolutely when that gets done and other if we can do smaller
scale of those two around the lake like restoring wetlands and natural
shorelines around the lake that definitely will help because all of that
habitat basically competes for all those things like the nutrients
that the the cyanobacteria does um like although it's been here it's going to
continue being here we're just trying to lessen the severity and the frequency of
it yeah and i wanted to say that the um in
the clear lake nutrient tmdl which was established about 15 years ago from the
regional board they um they estimate 100 years of
in-lake loading so we somehow in 2009 you know we had a lake
wide bloom it just hit i know there was cyanobacteria prior to that but in 2009
it just hit and with 100 years of it you know there
are a lot of smaller lakes and and i'm not recommending this with smaller lakes
that are that are using alum to cover the bottom of the lake and do find ways
to make that food that is sitting on the bottom not available to the
cyanobacteria to take it up but the thing that really keeps it that the
thing that really makes it available is low oxygen levels so that's another
thing another reason why aeration is really
useful though it's very localized as angela said we would we have done um
uh using a a simple um pump and pulling water from the lake and spraying it back
in the lake we would do that i say do it often and early uh don't wait till it
looks like this you know um yeah can't do it now uh because there's no water
practically but if you if you aerate it and you move it around locally it makes
a huge difference we had not have those problems on the big valley shoreline so
the bubblers the aerators fire hoses blowing water out yeah that you know
it's it keeps the smell it keeps the mats from forming but you have to do it
early and often yeah a year yeah years ago
yeah years back they there had been a proposal or a couple of proposals or
studies anyway done to possibly harvest uh
algae basically a water water floating uh harvester that would
take it in and and then take the material off up on the
shore dry it out and they had apparently had looked into different uses for it
have you heard and done anything or seen anything of that this was back in the
90s i think yeah i i've heard it as an urban legend maybe maybe angela can
speak to it more but i do know it's hard to pick up cyanobacteria it will you
know if you put a pool skimmer out there and try to lift it up most of it will
fall through so it's really much better to
yeah it is it is a you should look at um well i want to say but there's a few
spots that we saw yesterday it looks like a green smoothie
um removing it is difficult it's better to
prevent it from from forming the other thing i wanted to say about middle creek
is the uc davis studies are showing that the what we have in the lake is
is probably producing more of the blooms than what's coming in everybody's been
working hard to prevent the coming in erosion control projects and things like
that but if what we have is mainly from the lake the middle creek restoration
project will be helpful tule planting will be helpful but we
have to deal with what's the panacea no there's no magic bullet
yeah i just um on our on the signage that you guys have set out i haven't
seen it for a while um is there anything on there that say if you have these
symptoms after being in the water please contact
the health department because i mean i think that should be on
the signage itself people aren't necessarily going to see those
and i don't know i never thought about that after all these years
but when you mentioned that i was like i don't remember seeing that on our signs
so um
denise do you know yeah i do believe it's there let me pull
it up i there's a ul cord uh to um big valley so they can scan and get
local conditions at that on that day but i do believe we also have um our phone
numbers on the signs for both water resources and public health
um i don't know that let me i'm gonna check real quick here
let me go through all these slides also this
symptoms can be different for different people it's like allergies right
sometimes people get watery eyes or sneezing or some people get headaches
and um so it's kind of different so if we listed every single symptom well you
might have to look at symptoms but maybe they should say if you feel
like something simple like if you feel like you've been in the water and you
feel sick or or have rashes please call
you know your doctor and let them know that you're in
the water or something like that has algae i'm just thinking that there might
be yeah actually have on the side
so what it says is um to call your health provider on the
temporary signs it says if you have any reactions call your local medical
provider and then on the permanent signs it says
um the current toxin levels it gives the website and the url
information or to report a bloom or call
a local county departments for information so
okay
all right and then on the temp app
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questions say call your doctor or veterinarian if you
or your pet get sick after going in the water for more information contact
water quality california habs um and then for local information contact um
public health
water resources or big valley so it is on there
thank you councilman mclaffy you have any
questions no questions thank you all for the work you're doing on this this is uh
is a great presentation thank you i have one or two questions
uh is the smell
is it i mean if you have blooms is it autumn let me smell or is it what what
creates the smell how can you get rid of the smell
well there actually are taste and odor
compounds that cyan bacteria produces and lingbia seems to be the smelliest i
remember in 2009 i remember saying it looks and smells like raw sewage
um so uh but also when it's dying so you've
probably seen some blooms that look pink right now these big masses and that's
that is the uh dying cyanobacteria so um that's so it either is because of the
cyan bacteria itself some of them smell like swampy you know microcystis has a
different smell than than lingam but lingby is the smelly is to my opinion
you said uh i've noticed there's some places that they just take thules out is
that illegal yeah that is can you tell me let us know
call our department let us know where that is so we can investigate
they're not supposed to tulies are protected and you're not alone clear
lake other outside of the lake we don't have that that's not an
ordinance rule but it is the shoreline ordinance chapter 23 does prohibit the
removal of these some people can cut them down um even though we don't
recommend that right now for this year because they don't have water and you're
putting through stress so basically the ordinance language says you cannot do
anything to the plant that results in death of the plant if a plant has no
water and you trim it down that could result in death so you're not supposed
to do that um but you're not supposed to uproot them or move them some people
weed whack to get a better view and that's okay that's allowed um but yeah
if if you know the site just call us okay so we can go check it out some of
them are growing on top of my concrete ramp that's still the shoreline and
protected oh sure sorry
you said this is a worldwide problem so where else in the world are they
working on some kind of uh to to deal with the effects of this
yeah all over um it's just very different so like lake erie is world
renowned for having cyanobacteria issues and drinking water and recreation their
problems are very different because they get
those huge storms in the summer and then they plaster the area with phosphorus
and they have drain tiles so they're getting constant fertilizer influx
during the whole year and they're getting those blooms right um we're very
different we're still getting blooms but our lake is very different so the tools
to manage and treat in an area like that are very different than the ones that we
have to develop here and i will say that i think i'm correct
but i think clear lake is one of the only
drinking water lakes or reservoirs in california that has these bloom events
um versus all the other ones there are some bloom events it's getting more and
more often but i think clear lakes the one where they have as a drinking water
intakes directly on the lake is the only one in the state so it's very unique
which means there's not a lot of research and data as of yet just for our
specific situation is that climate change have anything to do with that oh
absolutely because what did we talk about the temperature
um and still water so we're getting warmer temperatures earlier
longer periods of these warm temperatures less rain we have less
dilution yeah that's definitely a contributing
factor yeah
all right thank you for oh but mr product
patiently waiting patiently waiting to ask my questions um
so i understand the the wind the the naturally occurring winds that typically
blow it down the the northern arm or toward elam and clearly goku's area and
obviously we receive the same type of prevailing winds uh which makes it pool
and pocket in those areas which where it gets stagnant does the state or local
i'm thinking boating and waterways our own water resources they have
anything or any recommendations for our private property owners and and some of
our public areas where that where it pools where we can maybe get some
assistance either trash pumps or other ways to mitigate when it starts to pile
up i'm not just talking about cyanobacteria but actually when the
algae the different forms and types of algae
begin to die and decompose there's a lot of gases that come off of
that as it decomposes
so that's um i would say that most of what that is describing is the
cyanobacteria and not the green algae and
private homeowners when they call me this i recommend you know you can put in
a water mover like sarah talked about early in the season um you can encourage
natural shorelines so if you have a lot of erosion in the area
or a lawn that goes right up you know that can promote those conditions
even though it's harder when it's affecting a large area not just your own
parcel some people try skimming you know the
pool skimmer and then put it aside on the shoreline
but it's just making more room for more of it to come in so yeah i know that
they had looked at it though for um different uses i mean some algae is
actually harvested in different parts algae not cyanobacteria i understand
that but now i'm looking at the health of the lake yes and and the
we have to enjoy the lake as much as we can and when it stinks it's no no fun
so you know what can we do to help our residents uh combat that
so i you know we talked about syncing it we had a former supervisor who used the
airboat for the county who tried to break it up and try to mitigate that
we've actually hired contractors with excavators to pull it out of the lake
haul it away to different um agricultural
areas for fertilizer so i mean there's different uses i just
can we start looking at those because this is it happens every year some years
more than others that we can try to mitigate this and and
maybe use it for something beneficial
do you want to talk about the uc davis is doing a study and they're going to
have some recommendations at the end of that to kind of figure out how to keep
it from forming um it sells so just because you remove some cells there's a
whole bunch more and all they do is reproduce and make more actually save
themselves yeah absolutely yeah so um one thing about having weeds on your
shoreline and weeds in the water rather than is that it competes with the
cyanobacteria so i would recommend keeping your you know keeping some weeds
and they're planting some tules because they eat the same thing that
cyanobacteria eats so don't you know if you take everything out of there then
cyanobacteria can dominate and you don't want that to happen i i noticed where
the edge of the tulis were and they moved
probably 20 feet farther into the lake over the last 10 years or so yes great
yeah we need more tulies more tules
have a thule planting campaign yeah
we're doing yeah we've done hundreds of feet of big valley shoreline and it's
very helpful i want to say another aerator that's out there uh we bought
some one at usa blue books i'm sure they're out there but they look like
what you put in the bottom of your um fish tank they sit on the bottom you
have weighted cables and they bubble up and uh
you know a little over a thousand dollars you can get a bubbler that turns
over the water in the air uh five acre area in 72 hours and that's what we use
when tribone clear lake vista and it did make a difference for the water in that
cove so
thank you very much very educational thank you we really appreciate that
all right we uh mr mayor would you have someone on zoom that has their hand
raised all right
just wait for a second there's somebody on zoom that might have a question
go ahead melissa
go ahead with your comment you have your hand raised
michael did cheat
go ahead michael with your comment
all right i think we have to move on all right we go to public comment
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thanks again we appreciate your presentation of the
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public here that wants to address the council
go ahead sir please state your name when you come up
my name is mr bolt and um we have a traffic
problem up here on uh 18th avenue where i live
between phillips and ball my sister wrote this in august 15 2020
people are driving 60 to 70 miles an hour at all times of the day and night
keeping us all up at night i am sick with lyme disease and cannot
get any sleep please have a patrol officer at knives
sit at phillips avenue or borrow avenues off of 18th and check for violators
have called several times with no follow-up thank you ronald
thank you for your comments sir and i live on the corner of irwin
and 18th and and i requested uh 25 miles an
hour post sign from 19th and 18th on the corner where i
live because they drive 40 or 50 miles an
hour there and i i requested that i would put slow
down children at play but i would like a 25 miles an hour
posted on the corner of 19th and 18th right there
when you come up off of 18th
they go 40 or 50 miles right there and coming down there's no stop sign and
they clipped the uh they clicked the sign there that says
irwin and 18th avenue they took that out and and the mailbox is right there
doing about 40 right there so there's no stop sign so they fly down the hill real
fast and if we can have a 25 mile put right
on the corner there at 19 coming down and right by my place
going up 25 i will pay for slow down children in
that play so the kids can ride their bikes there
and then um between phillips and ball it's like a
race track all times at night you can see the burn
off they hit a fire hydrant
at night they were coming up by the hospital
coming down like this and they ran phillips the intersection of phillips
coming up there there's a hydra fire hydrant right there
he took that out with his truck with the wheel
and with his bumper he took the two uh yellow
post that that goes in front of it cement knocked that down
and for him to hit that up fire hydrant he had to be doing about 70
miles an hour so he's going over those humps like this
and pass right past phillips intersection
doing 70 miles an hour and then hit that fire hydrant and shot it off like a
bowling bowling pin and with that tightened down he was
doing at least seven so they're hit they're hitting a lot of
city property and then coming up from walmart there they just clipped on uh
where the uh across from the college there
they went on the left there and hit the green fence right there
way off the line there and i talked to the lady there and she says that they
always run that stop sign there and they're burning off like crazy the
motorbikes and all these trucks well you're in luck because our chief traffic
officer is in the meeting and listening to all this
thank you very much for your comments i really appreciate it thank you thank you
steve white please i just wanted to respond
that we have met with this uh gentleman on multiple occasions and we did just
recently order a speed radar trailer um which has been in hot demand our last
one was broken so obviously areas like this and stuff won't tend to use it and
the traffic officer is aware of the complaints thank you
thank you uh are there any public comments on zoom
adam
there are no hands raised on zoom all right we'll move on to the consent
agenda anybody wants to pull any of the consent agenda
if not entertain a motion i so move that we accept the uh consent
agenda as presented and i'll second that we have a motion by councilwoman overton
and the second by councilman cramer
uh all in favor all right all right we'll move on to public
hearing item number 15. mr mayor i'd like to make a request that we
we have our auditor um on zoom and i'd like to request that we take up item
number 16 before the public hearing okay
please all right item number
16. um
mr white chief of police interim finance director i think it's your item
okay sorry about that i was trying to pull this up uh good evening mayor
members of the council members of the public i come before you tonight as the
interim finance director to introduce you to our city auditor by
way of background we hire an auditor to implement an audit of the city's books
for 2018 and 19 we engaged a new auditing
firm and the head auditor
is actually on the line with us and i'm going to turn it over
to him to go ahead and present this report
uh yes good evening mr mayor members of the council
my name is brett van glant i'm a partner with van lant and fenk kennel
we conducted the audit uh for the city's financial statements for the fiscal year
ended june 30 2019. i have a short
powerpoint presentation just kind of going over the audit process and the
reports that were issued as part of our audits
if you have any questions throughout the presentation please feel free to
just cut me off at any time i'm going to try and
share my screen do i need to share my screen or were you guys gonna
please you can you can you want to share okay perfect
so you guys can see that yes okay
um so the audit process uh it's kind of broken up into two different two
different parts we do what we call an interim audit
field work this is where we do some of our
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to assess the risk that the financial statements could contain a material
misstatement this is what we call our risk assessment process
this part of the audit we are just gaining an understanding of the
design and implementation of the different internal controls over the
city's financial reporting in order to do this we
have to review all different types of transactions that the city
engages in cash receipts cash disbursements
the procurement and purchasing process uh how payroll is processed and any
other various uh audit areas that we might find
significant to the the city itself the different
types of transactions and things like that
in order to do that we have to review specific transactions uh we observe uh
the processes that are that are taking place the cash receipts process how
those are handled uh also the cash disbursements process um and then in
addition to that we are inquiring with different uh personnel throughout the
city uh that that handle these types of transactions
so that's kind of the preliminary process of just
gaining an understanding of how how the financial transactions work at the city
and those internal controls over those transactions to make sure that the
financial statements are fairly misstated or fairly stated in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
so the second second part of our audit process is the year-end audit field work
this is where we're actually verifying the balances and the amounts that are in
the city's financial statements the procedures that we do involve our
judgment and that uh those procedures are dictated by our
risk assessment process so uh when i talked about the different internal
controls if there's if there's various areas that
uh internal controls might not be as strong
as we would uh anticipate then we would have to do extended procedures to
verify that the amounts that are actually reported in your financial
statements are materially stated so part of that we are doing substantive
testing of the amount of the amounts that are
reported in your financial statements we are confirming balances with the state
and the county different payments that are made
we test transactions we inquire with city staff
we perform analytical procedures prior year comparisons try to
identify any uh any fluctuations from one year to the next that uh can't can
necessarily be explained uh we will do further procedures to inquire with
uh city staff to understand you know why those uh fluctuations might have
happened so that we feel comfortable with the amounts that are
reported in the financial statements themselves
uh there are several reports that are issued as part of our audit
most notably it's the audit report that's the opinion on the financial
statements we're also required to issue a report on
internal control and compliance that's required by government auditing
standards we also issued a report on the city's
appropriations limit calculation and there's also a letter that was
addressed to the city council just informative about the audit process
itself
so the audit report on the financial statements uh has several sections
uh identifying the responsibilities of both parties so the financial statements
themselves are management's financial statements they're the responsibility of
management our responsibility is to express an
opinion on the the presentation of those financial statements
we are providing reasonable assurance that the amounts are fairly stated in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
uh it talks about uh the procedure or the
applicable standards that we follow um as part of our audits and also talks
about that our our procedures involve our judgment
based off of our risk assessment
the city received an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion meaning
we did not the the financial statements are fairly
presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
meaning there's no material misstatements in in the amounts that are
reported in the financial statements there's also
the report also discusses our responsibility for the required
supplementary information required supplementary
supplementary information includes the md a
budgetary schedules and pension schedules the city this year elected not
to present an mdna
which is management's discussion and analysis
uh we are not expressing an opinion on that required supplementary information
and we're only performing limited audit procedures on those
and then the report also talks about the other supplementary information
that's reported in the financial statements and our responsibility for
reviewing that activity as well
um i just uh put some key figures in here
um most the
pension liability uh the city's net pension liability is
approximately seven million that's a decrease from the previous fiscal year
2019 again obviously it's a couple years ago at
this point but that was one of the first years
the only year that i've seen actually that the pension liability went down so
that's a always a plus the fund balance in the general fund
increased approximately 500 000 compared to the prior year
the unrestricted fund balance is approximately
months reserves which of the 2019 expenditures
gfoa is the government finance officers association
their their best practice recommendation is to
have a minimum of two months operating reserves so that kind of gives you an
idea of where the city's reserves are at with
best practices
we had the report on internal control and compliance this is a government
auditing standards report uh it talks about uh
it can we're our requirements to consider internal control over financial
reporting and also uh compliance with anything that could have a material
impact on the financial statement so that's compliance with laws regulations
contracts grant agreements things like that anything that could have an impact
on the amounts that are reported in your financial statements
we're not expressing an opinion on internal controls
we are just required to report any significant deficiencies material
weaknesses other matters or material non-compliance
as part of our audit we're required to report that
we did identify for material weaknesses i believe everybody's had a chance to
review the reports [Music]
i won't go through each one unless you guys have questions on them they're
pretty uh you know we've reported on them in
detail so if there's any questions on any of these uh feel free to
ask at at any time but these are the four material weaknesses that were
identified as part of our audit and then there was four significant
deficiencies that we identified as part of our audience
that report also talks about you know what
it involves auditor judgment to determine
if what we might think is significant enough to be reported as a material
weakness or a significant deficiency items like that
there is also the sas 114 report that's a a statement on auditing standards 114
that's the abbreviation for that but this is a
required communication with this those charged with governance which is
the city council and it talks about the different
estimates that are in the city's financial statements uh sensitive
disclosures if we had any difficulties or disagreements with management we
would be reporting that there uh aside from the um you know some of the
issues with the accounting that that took place throughout the audit process
we did not have any difficulties or disagreements with management throughout
the audit
i'd like to thank uh andrew and and the staff at the city for uh all their help
in in uh finally getting this audit uh completed it was a a long process by by
both parties and um you know it
it was a lot of work on on both ends there's a lot of turnover at the city
when we came in and so uh having having that time frame with the
transition it took a while but uh i'm i'm happy to uh have been able to
work with with the staff to get to get to where we are today so
if you have any questions i'd be happy to uh
answer them now any questions from the council here
chief white has a couple of updates he'd like to share
sure so um i just first of all uh wanted to thank our our new auditing team and
specifically brad i think that it's always an opportunity to
make yourselves better and there's some deficiencies that were identified
but i am grateful that they came in with a very fine toothed comb in fact a very
very very fine one but a lot of issues were discovered it
existed for years and so i think you know from the council's perspective the
public's perspective transitioning to new systems i think it
was really important that this was done it's just unfortunate it takes so long
but it's a huge amount of effort and on our staff specifically i wanted
to thank amy who's not here but amongst carrying out all her other
regular duties she assisted in pulling all kinds of records and a lot of
research had to be done two
or three areas that i wanted to cover just very briefly it's detailed in the
staff report but obviously as you're all aware there's been significant personnel
changes but i think in the last year we've
brought some stability i mean we just had our first department head meeting
with the new finance director who will be here shortly
so i think that's a really good move for the city we have our contract with rgs
which i think is providing that um professional support that we need to
make sure that we're doing the right thing especially as we go to change
stuff and another level of oversight um i would mention that there's
definitely some classification issues within the current structure
which is evidenced by the findings and i think it's going to be an ongoing
challenge for the city because of the expense in adding additional personnel
without having other types of revenue sources to cover
that so we'll have to continue to find ways to
you know provide the necessary oversight where we can't physically split duties
the second part is we obviously have our new system the erp
it fixes a number of issues like for example the cashiering process
we've also automated a huge amount of processes
including our interactions with like calpers that used to be an entirely
manual process every two weeks credit card processing i know just
within this county about government agencies accepting credit cards you know
just in the last two years we've implemented two entirely different
systems um that have incrementally gotten us better
so we have a very efficient system now that integrates directly with the erp
and then from a public transparency perspective we just recently completed
the interface with the opengov which
provides real-time information the last part is policies and procedures
i think you're gonna we've done a bunch but you're gonna see a lot more when we
have the new finance director on board to carry this through and then make sure
it's carried out so again i think that the city's has a good
solid foundation moving forward is a lot of work
but with everything new that's happening in the city you know a record budget for
this year i think this was really a good opportunity to set up that solid
foundation so that we can be successful moving forward and the final caveat that
i'll give is it this was 1819 so i would suspect and i think the auditor would
confirm this that in 1920 there may be some of the same findings mentioned only
because we just got to this basically at the end of 1920 um so that's the last
information i'll give thank you mr mayor if i could just add briefly i
mean um i want to personally think brett i mean i other than at the beginning i
wasn't too involved in this process but um shared with the council before the
the the auditor we used the year previous to this we weren't satisfied
with and the the one that was used before that
for a number of years so this i know this was a painful process to get
through but very pleased with um you know the approach brett took and you
know we had the conversation from the beginning that you know you need to put
the effort in is required to to get us on the right track and then of course
chief white put an extraordinary amount of time into
not only improving a bunch of processes and putting things in place but digging
information back many uh fiscal years in order to get brett his team the
information that was needed so a personal thank you to both of you for
that
any comments from council if not i have one question
go ahead yes thank you mr mayor uh quick question mr vinland it looks like
management concurred with uh all of your recommendations any any concerns on your
end on the way that they're going to resolve uh some of the concerns that you
brought up um no i you know a lot of the uh
my main concerns uh with with some of the day-to-day processes
are or should be rectified with the new
system having some automated systems and um you know being able to to capture
information at the very very start of the process
for example the cash receipts process and things like that um obviously we are
actually in the uh preliminary stages of the actual 2020 audit and as as uh
chief white mentioned um you know some of some of these
comments uh might might carry forward just because of the timing
um typically we try not to just uh repeat findings if
they've already been uh corrected but um
you know until we're able to actually uh come out there and
and and observe the those implementations then um i i can't really
comment too much further on that okay and then uh to city staff it looks
like the the um the latest implementation of of
changes would be around september 30th if does that sound correct
yes we kind of gave an estimate uh based upon onboarding time for the finance
director and some other stuff so yeah over the next few months and some
parts have been partially implemented already
excellent yeah it looks like most were either implemented or close to
implementation if we could just get maybe a quick update in october and
november once everyone's settled and we feel like
all of these recommendations have been locked down and resolved i think that
would be great thank you
um do we have
we'll open a public hearing do we have any comments from the public on this
item uh madam club
i've not received any comments and there are no hands raised in the zoom yeah
we'll bring it back to the council uh any other comments
no i just want to make a comment thank you uh
to uh especially alan uh to have a fresh look at this i remember the last couple
of times when there was an audit and the gentleman walked in with his little
briefcase and yeah thank you for doing a very thorough job we needed it thank you
thank you all right uh
here's there somebody wants to make a motion
head off hear me now
mr mayor i'd like to make a motion that we adopt resolution number 20
21-35 resolution of the city council of the city of clear lake accepting the
annual financial report for the fiscal year 2018
cash 2019. now though okay we have a motion by
councilman cramer and a second by vice mayor perdoc
all in favor all right hi all right motion carries we
go now back to item number 15.
thank you very much
backtrack to item number 15. this is an item for our public works
director if he's around well in this case our city engineer is going to okay
uh can you hear me okay yep oh yeah good evening mayor members of
the council uh dale asked me to sit in for him on this particular item
um this is a resolution that's a continuation of an
ongoing effort by the city to do some cleanup of a lot of the illegal
dumping that goes on throughout areas of the city in particular
in particular the area up around the pomo school
so this is a a a resolution that would
allow um city public works department to block
off a section of you can refer to it either as burns
valley drive or east lake drive i've never i haven't really
gotten into looking at the logistics of it so we'll call it both for now but
it's a it's a fairly uh
unwell trial or not well-traveled dirt road
that goes um northeast of the school
um the gates uh are kind of shown on a map
that dale had prepared there is one residence on fellers avenue that the
gate would go beyond that location to not prohibit any
access there and again this is uh
we'd also add some k rails as necessary to further block access because uh
the area off of that roadway is just a large dump site um and it doesn't uh
it's not used by police and fire there's nobody who lives
down in that area and we think it would be a good thing to do
all right we have any questions from council here
no no okay we open the public hearings we have
any comments from the public
there are no hands raised in the zoom mr mayor i have not received any email
comments okay we'll bring it back to the council
any more questions if not can i entertain a motion
yes mr mr mayor
uh this is long overdue
i'd like to make a move that uh we adopt resolution number
28-20 is that correct
2021-3838 it's 20 21 that right
yes yes 38 a resolution of the city council of
the city of clear lake authorizing the ongoing closure of a segment of burns
valley road to reduce illegal dumping and to protect the environment and the
public health and welfare we have a motion by councilman cramer
second we have a second by vice mayor her doc
all in favor say aye aye aye aye all right we're going to move on to item
number 17.
mr lee lambert code enforcement here here's some pictures
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all right good evening mr mayor and council members uh
this
staff reports in regards to the demolition of 14525
lakeshore drive purpose of the hearing
uh is to allow the city manager uh
to execute a contract with toronto excavating incorporated for the
demolition of that address upon consideration of the evidence and
testimony council may
accept or deny the bid for demolition
a staff recommendation is to allow the city manager to execute a contract with
turner excavating inc for the demolition at one four five two five lakeshore
drive all right
so overall case activity and this case was started uh december 26 2018.
there's been 22 total compliance inspections a public nuisance citation
was issued a notice of violation was issued
and 11 administrative citations were issued
in order to abate was finally issued i believe is april of this year
um there are i believe it's
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11 different violations the crew musical code and the california
health and safety code
so that so i'll describe some of the pictures here uh that's a photo of a
electrical panel under the property where all the wires have been cut and
removed
that's how they built the deck around the existing meters and then all
the wires in the gutter above the meters have been cut
and that's a picture of how the inside has been left
inside sorry excuse me
um most of the damage to the building has
been caused by water damage as you'll see in the photos this is just
one area where the roof caved in another area where they've removed
sheetrock because to let moisture out
another area the whole main building is pretty much gutted like that
um that's an opening in the bar area that gets broken into a lot you can see
how they didn't really secure it all you have to
do is pull the plywood down people are getting in there all the time
so this picture here if you look in the background you see the wall of the
add-on how it's listing the parts listing out and the lower
parts listing in um that whole portion of the building is
failing
here's another fit why it's failing you have broken beams um and supports
underneath
that's the portion of the building failing right there looking straight on
additionally that swamp clear there is what they were using for the kitchen
exhaust vent
more weathering you can see where the water's been getting in creating dry rot
there
so this is what happened on the whole roof this was taken in the winter their
roof uh drainage wasn't leaking so the roof would
the water would just accumulate on the roof
and start getting into the wood going pouring down inside the interior
walls
so this one here as you could tell that if you look to the right of the concrete
it's dry this is water after several days of
being dry which is coming down the wall still creating dry rot in the walls
creating mold and things like this inside
ceiling falling down
mold more mold
and this is just a picture of how much we've tried to get him to comply
and he has failed to do so in
two and a half years
so case summary again it's been open since december 2018
the property owners made no attempt to comply with clearly musical code or the
california health and safety code um
it's a nuisance property in addition to all the code enforcement detail uh the
police department has responded 37 times in the last five years there for people
breaking in or people squatting in it people dumping things there things like
that
the city's exhausted all other means
uh to reach voluntary compliance we even looked into a possible receivership
but it's not feasible so at this time the staff recommends the city council
grant the city manager the right to execute a contract with turner
excavating
thank you okay we have questions from
council here mr purdue but mr kramer got us up first
turn that off this all those photos of course were
taken in 2018 and i fully agree that the owner in 2018 was a very poor owner
and um but do you are you aware that he doesn't
own it anymore that it was recently purchased and the person purchasing it
wants to uh rehabit has met with the city about
that yeah i think the city manager is going to speak further about that um
those photos though weren't all taking into account the ones i saw were data
yeah some are dated but the ones that weren't data were actually taken this
last year
i have no doubt that it needs a lot of work but again it's
not the same owner
i just wanna
so i wasn't i just happened to be in the city when he said he went over and paid
the fees and came over and and got the permits but he sounded
like he was going to tear it down because he was getting rating permits
and stuff i'll be happy to address um so
yeah mr ching said a lot of things um very few of which were true um
he did he did pay most of the administrative citations
within the last 30 days and i believe i talked to him a couple
of times that was largely i think motivated by
the fact that he he saw an end of the light for him to continue
um just ignoring the municipal code
and um but but one thing that has changed
recently is that he did sell this property and actually all of his
properties in the city which i think is is a very good thing
because all of his properties are in extremely poor condition
and our inner code enforcement problems um
so we did meet with the new owner there's a
family that purchased this property and a property that is just to the north
which includes several residential units and there was a separate
um um
purchaser of the apartments by the lamplighter between the lamplighter and
the the apartments that we recently sold so we did meet uh
with the new owners you know they
the issues with this property were not disclosed to them by mr ching and so
they were unaware of some of the situation
i believe that they are very well intentioned
and have a real desire to
invest in the community and turn these properties into something
that will be beneficial
however as explained to them while the citations were paid prior
to the property being sold all the violations remain
and will need to be addressed now they're doing an analysis
on um whether it's feasible for them you
know they when they bought it their idea was that they were going to
renovate the building um i think um
you know i don't know if that's that's feasible or not everyone that we've
talked to said that it's not you can see the condition of the building from the
images um and
the new owner is on zoom it looks like that she wanna may want to make some
comments but um i have communicated this to her
and her husband but my request of the council because of the history of this
property is that you still authorize me tonight
to have the authority to execute a contract to demolish this
building if there's not significant process or a progress from the new owner
in addressing the violations
okay just a short question to you that contract with
chernow construction i believe how long is that
is that a 90 day that's correct right it's i believe so
yeah oh if it's not
work doesn't start in 90 day it's null and void
or well we'd have to do another
uh request for bids yeah the bid wouldn't be good after that
okay any more questions from staff uh chief white please i i just wanted to
add just for context um i believe the other property that was purchased was
one four five four one lake shore and while we're cautiously optimistic
about it um i would mention that has an open case season as of right now there's
overflowing garbage going all over the area um so perhaps the proprietor might
address that as well if they're i see their hands right
there's also numerous electric violations on that property too with yes
wires right laying on all over the place all right we're going to open for public
hearings
lady that just purchased the property now is your time to
talk to us
hello mayor and council members this is rupa shaker here i'm sorry i am i didn't
get ready for the video because i'm away from the camera
but i will just speak today uh very nice to meet you all and thank you for
providing this opportunity to meet with you all and share my perspective it was
great to meet mr flora and his team yesterday and to hear his support so uh
we're really immensely thankful for that my name is as they all mentioned my my
name is rupa shaker very new to clear lake little story to share that i shared
with everyone yesterday that i visited clear lake with my family my two girls
and my husband in the month of april for a spring break
tell in love with your town and fell in love with your lake
and since then i was kind of scrolling on veteran and
uh onsite online to look for lakeside properties and then these two came along
which is the one four five two five and one four five four when we were excited
and with big dreams we decided to invest in your town on in these
properties with a with a plan to make this as a place to go
for business shopping dining and entertainment
i've seen the commercial unit and the pictures that
was taken in 2018 looks much worse than what i've seen
um because everything in the interior has been cleaned out since then i want
to make this a place for a hangout for tourists and look likes that's our dream
we closed our escrow just less than a month ago
just few weeks ago and it was a nightmare for us to hear that this
discussion is happening in the city which we were not aware of
and we have already taken some steps to uh uh you know improve the property you
know small steps but still we removed the junk inside the property and outside
the property we uh boarded the place so that no i like i know where the homeless
people are hanging out and trashing the place to avoid vandalism
we have replaced the door at the back and we do know about the water damage
and then the electrical outlet problems we will address that soon
we kindly request you all to give us some time
to make sure that the properties are taken
care well it takes a long time but will take small
steps towards the improvement so i just wanted to kind of request that
we are given extra time rather than hasting and demolishing and investing
the 55 000 which could be used for a different better purposes to
improve the economy of the clear lake that's all i have to say thank you for
listening to me thank you
are there any other people on the public that wants to speak
on this issue right here there are no further hands raised in the
zoom we have one public menu yeah
mr huge thank you uh
mr mayor and city council uh dave hughes realty world
i got involved in this last week when an architect that was up here to
working with the rupa and her husband
called me and wanted to meet at the property after he got done meeting at
city hall
i have suggested to the buyers that they go back to the agent
that they worked through and find out why they weren't told about
the ongoing issues that's a pretty significant
non-disclosure so
i would like to concur with her and and ask that the city council give her
some time to start trying to figure out what the heck they can do or can't do or
should do or might want to do my other thought is
i'm assuming that a bid to demolish the building has to be done
uh if the city gets the bid with prevailing wage
and if it comes to the fact that the
building needs to be demolished i think the property owner should be given the
opportunity to get her own bids that might be a little less costly i
have no idea but i'm assuming that the bid had to be prevailing wage
and i understand maybe the desire to keep some fire under someone's
feet and keep some pressure on to to get something done because it's been three
years now but
we do have a new property owner that had no idea about the
um uh ongoing i mean her her architect told
them last week after they closed escrow about
the the city wanting to demolish the building
so my my only purpose here is to certainly give them some time to do it
and maybe not accept the bids um
with the understanding that if there's not ongoing progress the city is going
to press for the demolition
uh but at least maybe give them the opportunity to get their own bids which
might be less money i'd like i said i don't know but i'm assuming prevailing
wage is is part of the bids that have been
submitted thank you thank you uh
mr president product has a comment well just a question to the new property
owner is it probably curing close no it's not closed yet
can you uh provide us with some sort of a timeline when you said you wanted to
get this work done uh and you wanted to get um on it fairly
soon but we didn't have any timelines you have any idea when that when you
might be able to get started so to be honest with you i have a as a
as uh mr dave kind of mentioned i had my article
come over look at it and i have a um you know workers were started to work on it
with making some minor modifications to it
as i shared with miss flora and team this
property you know cost money to accelerate the improvement but i
what i assure you is that we are constantly making you i mean i have
passed the improvements knowing that the city is demolishing and i didn't want to
put money into the demolishing property so if you all give me time and say that
yes you can continue to modify it and improve it my work will start from
monday we will make small improvements check out the foundation check all the
electrics check out the plumbing and i need to fix the
um there are some termite activities i need to fix those so
the improvements will start immediately with a steady progress but i cannot give
a timeline as to when it will be done because i just bought the property three
weeks back and i need time
okay thank you yeah and also while i'm on the audio i
wanted to address the 15451 the apartment building too
uh even on that property we have started off
improvements meaning that last week we cleaned up the property took out the
junks cleaning the vegetation we will install a new fence and then the
glue overflowing garbage is due to two reasons one is that it's an apartment
complex and that particular garbage bin is smaller from what i understand from
my tenants and also i hear that a lot of public dumping because it's right on the
door many people come and dump other junks in there so i'm taking the action
requesting the required a department within the city to give us a bigger bin
and probably move the bin to the middle of the property so that it's not easily
accessible by the public and when i install the
uh fence maybe it'll be less messy but i do agree with you
all that the property is not in great condition uh and it is not clean and i
commit to make sure those two properties are taken care and turned around and
that's the reason why we dreamt of buying a property in the lakeside and
improve it and not to maintain the same way it is otherwise you want about it
and i know i paid premium for that from what i hear and what i compare after
buying it's an aftermath part but i don't want to i'll learn the past but i
want to move on okay thank you um mr kramer your
councilman graham just just uh clarification uh rupa
you've owned the property what less than a month two weeks
three weeks yes three weeks running now and
did you say that you already have people in there cleaning it
working on it oh yeah well yes many work has already been done
and i'm painting the i've got the bits for painting the properties and i
already as i mentioned made few modifications the commercial with a new
door installed from home depot etc so yes the work has started
but again i think one of the mayor or the council member asked me what's the
timeline i don't have a project plan to give but what i assure you is that there
will be progress on a daily basis in small steps
thank you okay any any other
public comments if not we'll bring them back to the council mr flora look like
you want to say something yeah i mean i just want to clarify i mean you know
the city isn't looking to spend 55 000 on this if it's not necessary i mean to
mr hughes's comments of course if um the current property owner was to
demolish the building they would be able to do it
cheaper than we would the only way for us to recover the funds
is through a lien on the property which we
it doesn't get paid on unless the property is transferred normally
but you know this is a long-standing issue
it's one of the worst looking properties in the city
in one of our most visible corridors and while i do believe that
their intent is good and
they have the means to make some investments in the property i believe
that the city needs to apply as much pressure as possible to make sure
that the cleaning up of this this um
this parcel happens and so you know if we were to move forward with
the contract because there's a new owner we'd be required
to do a new round of noticing and there will be an opportunity for
an appeal of the abatement which could come to the
council correct so you know there are some opportunities
there but you know i think we need to keep the
pressure on to make sure that this um extremely derelict um and extremely
visible property in the city um is improved as soon as possible
more comments from the council i have a question we happen to have a uh
our attorney here and i'm concerned about a an improper taking of property
or any any liability issues there well i
understand your concern and mr floor and i talked about this
as recent as last week i think there was a more of a due
process and noticing issue and and we would
re-notice the new owner with all the issues that mr ching had been notified
of for years and i think as long as you give that
notice which could would happen before any demolition
would actually take place so that would
that would need to that would need to take place otherwise you could have an
issue of a of a taking or some kind of what's the timeline for that 60 90 days
120 days 16. yeah i don't know that our code says you usually give people a
reasonable amount of time 30 days 60 days somewhere in that that time frame
is that about right i'm not sure yeah there's a variety of uh timelines
and um if there was new noticing for the notice of intent to abate and demolish
there would be a hearing i believe it would come back before council
if that happened
timeline
for which portion before we can tear that building down
well correct me i'm wrong uh lee but i believe it's going to be 21 days for the
notice correct
yes would be 21 days and then if they gave notice that they wanted to appeal
then they'd post their deposit for a hearing we'd set up for a hearing
so you know potentially depend upon how
long that took out and i believe city attorney correct me i'm wrong but i
believe once we made a decision they could try to take it to court if they've
exhausted all their rights within the city in terms of appeal process so
potentially it could stretch out um our experience with the property has
generally been little to no response or what i call informal kind of out-of-band
responses like showing up in the lobby that sort of thing
and if we're talking about the old owner i'd say let's go for it at this point
but we're not we're talking about somebody that just bought it has clearly
shown an intent to try to do what's right
and it seems to me that to award this contract right now is probably not going
to happen anyway because with the timelines for noticing for
appeals etc etc so i i just i don't see what we're
accomplishing i understand mr flora your your
desire to keep pressure on but i i just i don't i don't see it and
i don't agree with it i think that she should be given she and her partner
should be given time to perform or not
and it's not going to take us three years obviously to let that happen it's
gonna it's not gonna let it go that long but i
don't think that this contract could can happen in 90 days
anyway so
i'm not in favor of it also woman overton
i i agree i guess my one of my questions to the
new owner is um did you not see this place before you
bought it yes we did visit the place and when we
visit the place it was not like the picture that was shown
the roof was taken out the roof the floor was taken out there was little uh
like the table tables and chairs from the restaurant with stove etcetera so we
knew it was a fixer-upper but we thought that you know it's a
fixer-upper so we'll start fixing up and we will turn it around and
because we're not gotten the mortgage from the bank our intent is to get this
ready get this rented i can start paying my market so
the plan is to move it around quickly and i would like to support miss flora
with his uh expectation and work with him and keep
him updated on a regular basis of the progress we make
and i want to support him okay so can i ask a question here
can we postpone this to another meeting without making a vote on it today and
just postpone it and see what she does before we just say we're not going to do
anything can we table this well of course yeah i
mean i say let's see what she does in a couple of weeks and
and i mean you know the
none of the violations have been cured so
um they have uh i don't know if you discussed anything um
yesterday with you know how long they have to cure the
violations but i mean there's going to be
other timelines i i'm just exhausted with this property
and i think you know any daylight is too much
daylight in my opinion but and i'm i understand your frustration
it's just this is like the last place in this town
that can still have entertainment i mean
literally we keep asking for people to come to our
city but we have nothing to offer them and here's another building that we're
going to take out the last building that we have for entertainment
i i i want to give her a chance to get it i understand that that our the past
owner was a real pain um but i want to give her a chance and
i've i've seen this happen where we voted on something and the administrator
said i'm not going to do anything and next thing you know it was gone so um
i just i feel like either we table it and see what she does and
and give her at least a little bit of a chance give her one month or something
to to see if you know what she can do and then if we don't see a good progress
then come back and bring it back to us you know
i thought chief white had a cook i just i i don't want to interfere with
your deliberation but i did want to make the final plea at it and i think that
the commentary during the public comment is
is illustrative there's a mention about that they've already begun boarding up
the building your council authorizes ordinance that specifically prohibits
that without a permit because we don't want boarded up buildings in the city
there's no indication in the record that there's any attempt to obtain a permit
or comply with the city codes from just an objective perspective of
watching these things i heard a lot of discussion about well-intentioned and so
forth and that may very well be the case however
the lack of any basic checking i mean you
saw the picture with the notice of violation stacked on the front door and
everything else there's very serious issues here and i think that um you know
at this point from the staff perspective we've come to you because we've
essentially done most everything that we can do we can leverage with some more
citations and so forth and i'd expect actually following this meeting that we
will initiate a whole new set of actions based upon what's existing there and
what new violations have been disclosed i think that it's important
when we get to these phases to have some sort of tool to try to compel
that compliance my fear is that we wait another month we'll be right
back at the same situation trying to ask for the same authority and so forth
and we just continue to kind of push the problem down the road i think from the
staff intent i don't want to spend a dime trying to clean up this property if
we can try to compel it obviously i think there's good points we already
discussed internally about the fact they could do it at
non-prevailing wage rates and so forth um but it's important that we have a
tool if we don't have that tool i hear a lot of excuses on there even related to
the other property uh since they brought up
every other city that i've been at you have stuff enclosed in concrete barriers
with doors there's no attempt to do that out there
and so i think that's the same type of issues that we see here a lot of good
intentions but i've seen a lot of projects come into the city in the three
years that i've been here that are well intentioned
but very basic elementary discovery things weren't done we have people that
buy houses here that call into code enforcement and ask do you have open
cases and so forth so um i hope that it turns out differently but
from the police department and code enforcement perspective we would plead
that you give the city manager the authority to move forward if it's
necessary in this particular case hopefully it won't be and we'll all be
surprised thank you uh councilman claffy we haven't heard
from you on this uh you have any comments
yeah i'm just listening to the the back and forth i'm i'm
i'm comfortable tabling for now um
you know i think three weeks is a very short time
to to start making changes it sounds like there's a lot of changes that need
to be made it sounds like there's a lot of research that needs to be done by the
owner and i think if we if we keep that window tight we'll still
be able to activate this bid in a future council meeting i i don't
see a downside to tabling it uh re-noticing this owner and then moving
forward if we need to if we're not seeing progress
all right thank you councilman claffy vice mayor product i
just need some clarification and i apologize but
if we approve this tonight and we have a 90-day contract with the
contra with the demo
um when would you implement when would you
when you would you have them come in and demo
um would it be immediate after making this
decision or would you
allow the new new owner to get the permits as the chief has pointed out the
chief made a very compelling argument just now
um
i just want to know um reasonableness on this what would a reasonable person
do well i mean i think um
you know until yesterday the new owners didn't have the
list of existing violations um
and so obviously we need to provide a little bit of time i mean what we
discussed was the first thing you need to do i mean we had some discussion
about what happens next and what their vision is for the property and all that
that's great but you know we have all these violations that have to be cured
somehow which are you know are way past due so
they need to come back with a plan um right that's what i was asking about
how to deal with that so you know i think there's no reason that
they shouldn't be able to develop some type of plan on that in a couple of
weeks talking with the contractor are they
already have you know consulted with an architect so
um you know i really uh think that there should be a
determination made within a few weeks on whether it's even feasible to keep the
building or if they want to begin investing in
in resolving those things i mean you know i i hope i was clear like
my intention wouldn't be or you know the staff's intention to turn around next
week and issue the um abatement contract as much as i
would love to see or never see that building again but um
you know obviously the the situation here while you know it's clear there
wasn't no enough due diligence done i believe you know a short window
is reasonable for them to try and attempt this i'm just concerned as chief
white mentioned um you know i think
you know the the council has always been really good about drawing a firm line on
these code enforcement cases because the blight has overtaken the city for years
and you know i just think
the pressure to perform needs to be there
that's my you have some more go ahead mr graham
chief white you do make a compelling argument and if we were talking about
the old owner i absolutely totally agree with you again we're not
uh to table this for two weeks and give her an opportunity to come up with some
sort of a plan or maybe come up the conclusion that oh christ we can't do
anything like this let's give her that two weeks it's
what's it gonna hurt you're still within your window to
to approve the the demolition contract with the with
the contractor so i i very much would like to see his
table list
and that's all i had to say um
i went in the building after they kind of cleaned it up and it's in my opinion
and i'm not an expert i'm not a structural engineer i'm not a thing
uh i i really
don't see how they can fix this building up with a substantial
a lot of structural improvements this is a building that needs hundreds
of thousands of dollars in order to save it
so i
obviously we want to
give the new owner a chance
and if they address them citations in a
two or three week time frame if that's if they're willing to uh
to invest that kind of money in and reboot in
remodeling and upgrading that building more power to them because i wouldn't
so what do we have we have three people that want to table
that so how do we do that mr uh
i think you just don't need to take any action no action no action okay
all right looks like the new owner has probably three weeks to deal with this
thank you very much we appreciate you well hold on mr mayor
do you intend to bring that back to council
i i it all depends on what happens in the next few weeks if nothing happens
you'll bring this back would you like to get yes
yes bring it back yes we will like to hear it again
all right we'll go to item number 18
mr allen florence jordan
okay uh mr mayor members of the council um so
i'll be brief on this but um
you know we've we've been uh so mli associates uh which uh mr matt
patel is the sole owner um is a an experienced um hotel
developer and we've been talking to him for a while about a couple of project
opportunities in the city um
most recently um we've been negotiating about developing
a hotel at the former pierce field on
approximately two and a half acres of land
we have been able to negotiate a purchase and sale agreement with mr
patel and
so i can kind of go over a few of the points hopefully you've had
a chance to review the agreement um one thing
taking a look at the map the well so first of all the
proposed project would be a 75 room fairfield inn
with a small conference center and possibly some other retail on the site
um and just for context this site is on the far northern part of the property
that's owned by the city at the end of the former runway
and um so the sale price for the probably 305 thousand the city would
hold a note um on so there would be a 50 000
uh payment made
and then the city would hold a note on the rest
the way the agreement is structured is there be a number of deadlines
the first one being 14 months after closing
to get all entitlements complete 20 months after closing
would be
to begin construction and then the total project would need to be complete within
three years and if those each of those deadlines are
met the remaining
payments on the note would be forgiven and this
is just a way to you know this is kind of our
first tangible project moving forward at the airport so there is increased risk
on the developer in in taking that first step
we have a number of other things in process that we're excited about we'll
be coming forward soon
um but anyway that's the the way that we had structured this deal that showed
some commitment from mr patel and then the city
will be installing infrastructure
essentially to the site as we have intended with the other
developer parcels there on in the whole area so
i guess with that i'll just try to address any questions that the council
has and then i know mr patel is is here on zoom so he may want to make some some
comments to the council as well
david mr
you might zoom
do we have any public comments on this item madam clerk
go ahead mr patel if you'd like to make some comments
uh thank you now uh good afternoon good
evening mr mayor uh council members uh chief
gentlemen it's been a pleasure working with
alan and the rest of the team over the last few months uh just to let you know
that marriott committee has approved the site for fairfield and so this is part
of the marriott product and
you know we're looking forward to developing and uh building that uh
relationship with the city for a long time here and uh i had multiple
conversations with the different individuals including uh rachel and mark
king uh who's also working with the financing
and then also construction i've been working with the bridges construction so
most of the individuals i've been working with this all local so i intend
to utilize most of the local trade i hear local individuals and
uh trying to
support the community
thank you uh do we have any other comments from the public
i received two emailed comments mr mayor which i can read out loud if you wish
please do the first is from sarah mcnabb who
states i've been living in this county all my
life and since the fires have started there has been a major issue with
housing i've been looking for a three-bedroom house apartment for about
four years seeing as i have three children
ten-year-old boy and two girls thirteen four
and i've been stuck in a two bedroom in the clear lake apartments for 14 years
which is falling apart i can't find anything under 1800 and
more and more people keep moving here so as a long time resident i don't think we
need another hotel that's going to turn into a drug addict filled flop hotel
we need more housing like apartments nice ones or condos something
there are a lot of family that are struggling are
homeless because the lack of housing think about the community for once and
not tourists because we get those anyway
this town has turned into a miniature oakland or even worse detroit sorry for
being so blunt but it is the reality for the low income and the sad minimum wage
pay we get around here the second is from wyatt harris
who states isn't 305 000 low for a 2.5 acre commercial property especially when
the city will probably spend more money on the promised
new utilities infrastructure and roads to the site why isn't purchasing this
property open to the public and that concludes the emailed comments
that i've received and i don't see that there are any hands raised on zoom
all right we'll bring it back to the council do you have any more
discussion at the council
bought this property am i not correct it's been for sale for it's been as long
as i can remember way too long um there is one point
though that i forgot to mention that um so
the existing parcel is um 200 feet wide the
fairfield plan requires 240 foot
site so there's some paper roads on both
sides of that parcel so the agreement envisions that we will
abandon the right-of-way and on one side
some of it will go to other city parcels some will go to
this property he's agreed to go ahead and enter into
the agreement with us while we're undertaking that but our city engineers
already been working on that process and there'll be a public hearing and whatnot
that would would come back and finalize that road abandonment so i just want to
make sure the council knew about that all right
okay one more okay so this is for the gentleman that
was on his comment um many cities give property for development it's very
common and put the infrastructure in and everything when it was going to provide
taxes and jobs and and bring in people especially hotels so
years ago i said give the property to anybody that will develop and give us
jobs and bring in you know some some money to our city so that we can develop
our parks and stuff like that um this this person's taking a big chance on the
property uh it may you know it's been sitting
there for years and it may end up being a failure for him so we have to you know
take the chance too but we want to develop that and this is the first step
of as far as i can see is really getting interest in developing when one person
starts then other other entities start following in
because they see something's going to happen so i really do believe
if i didn't think it was going to benefit our community i would not
approve this but i i think this is a good way to get that property started
developed
okay thank you councilman cramer i completely concur with what councilwoman
overton just said i i was going to say it myself she lead me to it
um if you're ready to entertain a motion i'm ready to make one i want to see if
mr claffy has any comments well i i concur as well and i will say i love the
way the deal structured so great job to the city staff i'm looking forward to
seeing this come to fruition all right very good um
can i have a motion
mr mayor i'd like to move that we council authorizes the city manager to
execute the purchase and sale agreement with mli associates llc
for sale of property at 6356 armejo
avenue in clear lake here we have a motion by councilman cramer
and we have a second by councilwoman overton
all in favor say aye
all right we'll move to item number 19.
i guess this is mr dave sports item mr schwartz is going to start and then
i'll wrap it up yeah good evening mayor members of the
council with great pleasure i get to have another measure v project as
scheduled on a schedule we provided and have been
working off of for about three years now this measure v project
consists of streets of what we call elevated north
and alaba south howard gulf
mullin and acacia what you see before you has been broken
out because into a couple of bit additive alternates
and logistically the reason was which allen will cover is
you know not knowing where the measure v funds are going to come in at so we what
we did is we created a base bid project of what we were confident
that we'd have funding for and then we broke the other streets out
as bit out of alternates and that was just for financing purposes now i want
to cover that these uh roads uh are obviously in
pretty poor shape the uh construction includes a new asphalt
concrete where appropriate we'll put
rolled concrete curb and gutter and where appropriate we'll put ac dyke
it also includes a lot of storm drain improvements to take care of a lot of
the localized flooding in particular um if approved tonight
mullins is is gonna is a big one for storm drain a lot of storm drain pipe
and that the other ones are pretty minor and the other thing i'd like to bring
forth is that this product this measure v project was
a catalyst for
helping highlands water company move forward with the substantial
water line improvements in these areas
due to an ordinance that the city passed about a year and a half ago which said
if you have a leak in our street
you've got to pave the street they don't like that so
this prod that ordinance along with our projects now we're getting a lot of new
water lines water services and enhanced water service for that matter with fire
hydrants and stuff we'll be happy to entertain any questions about the
technical aspects of the project if we have any questions from so just to
clarify hyland's water will be replacing summer is in the process now replacing
water lines in those streets they're opening bids tomorrow
and that'll happen can happen quickly ahead of
in front of us yes great
just to follow up any other utilities that are would be impacted
by this project that would need to be updated
not to my knowledge we coordinated with special districts
you know we we send send our plans and specs now we have joint utility meetings
with uh all all parties involved and highlands was the one that thanks take
care of it all right uh
councilman claffy any comments uh no
all right so can i make some comments
so um
uh granite construction was low bidder um
and you know mr schwartz mentioned the additive
alternates so we don't have uh quite enough funding in
measure v to do the whole two million dollar
project and so there's really two options the
council could decide to just toward a smaller project
and use the funds that we have now what staff's actually recommending since
the project has all this has been designed
and it's ready to go that we go ahead and do an internal loan
from some of our other projects complete everything
this year and then um we will use measure v revenues from next
year in order to to pay that loan back to the
city and um
i guess we've changed the numbers a couple times um i i don't know if you
want to speak chief white you may you were working on them last i don't want
to misspeak but um what we're recommending is that we
go ahead and make a budget adjustment for the project amount and up to the
maximum 10 um change order amount so that all
that's covered and then of course if we don't need the money then then um
we won't spend it um do you want to address the numbers
real quick chief sure um so conservatively estimating the
loan could be up to 1.2 million the impact would be in fiscal year 2223
for measure v removing our estimated operating costs you would have about
between 400 to 450 000 for projects that year
one thing to mention is public works is doing a huge amount of projects so i
don't think there's going to be a lot of pushback to slow down a little bit then
and the reality is with the pace of work and everything else you probably
wouldn't otherwise know because projects are going to continue going on so i
think from a financial perspective if you choose to do the loan um it's a low
risk it's just basically pushing stuff ahead and we have um from a cash flow
perspective we're fortunate to have funding to be able to do this sort of
thing thank you
yeah and the the funding that we're recommending adjusting would be um
series a funding that in our recent budget we set aside for the highlands
park uh project which um you know we're hoping that we'll get
awarded the grant this year but construction isn't likely to happen um
within this fiscal year anyway so you know it shouldn't slow down anything
else and you know we'll still be able to get
some measure view projects done next year no doubt um there still will be
funding there you know we are
currently thinking about expanding the chip seal program to do maybe twice as
much or something as we did even this year
which is a low cost and so you know with the sports complex
infrastructure at the airport we have a second modoc project um
next year and then the house center south center drive and dam road
extension so there's still going to be a ton of projects happening next year even
if we kind of spend a little bit less of measure v dollars than we are this year
all right so and the and what you would be requesting for to move
funds from would be what's covered in item number
number 20. yeah that action would be the next item we just wanted to make sure
that if you decide that you want to
um not take that option just say award the
base bid that we kind of have this discussion all together
all right um
i have to open it to the public yes do you have any comments from the public on
this
there are no comments from the public from no hands raised on the zoom there's
no attendees we'll bring it back to the council uh mr claffey councilman claffy
any comments uh no like the plan
okay very good um
do i entertain a motion mr mayor i'd like to authorize a city manager to
enter under contract with granite construction for construction of the
2021 measure v pavement rehabilitate rehabilitation project base and the
additive alternatives for the total amount of 2
million 223
121 and 50 cents and authorize the city manager to approve up to 10
for additional unforeseen contract amendments no second that okay we have a
motion by vice mayor perdoc and second by councilman kramer all in favor all
right okay item number
20.
chief white this is thank you mayor um good evening again
this item is to accomplish two things it's the uh amendment to the 2021-22
budget uh the first item is basically to appropriate the unspent portion of the
caltrans local road safety plan uh grant and basically it's coming out of
existing funding so there's no negative impact to the budget
the second portion of it is to do what we just talked about and and just a
background on why there's a change in the um
the numbers is as you heard earlier with the audit we're still adjusting things
uh to figure out the amounts but as i mentioned to you
the loan could be up to 1.2 million roughly um between the two funds um but
i believe there's sufficient cash flow to cover doing that um and you have the
option well it sounds like from your prior vote that your intention is to to
go ahead and do that so i think we're safe to uh to let that happen we did
pass out we had to amend the the resolution that was included in the
agenda to make a correction on the movement of money it's more of an
accounting thing but that's been passed out to you i mean
just in the transparency it's basically just showing that there's a transfer out
from measure b of one point seven eight six five five one um and that that's
going to the capital projects fund uh as a transfer in and then basically on the
back end we'll do a loan for whatever amounts there once the dust settles on
what the actual fund balance is because we don't have a hard number on
that it's an estimate at this point based upon estimated tax revenues
all right we have any questions
for staff if not well the public hearing we have
any comments from the public
we we don't have any attendees on our zoom
meeting and i've not received any emails regarding this item
all right uh
any more comments from the council we'll bring it back to the council if not i'd
entertain a motion mr mayor i'd like to move that
we approve resolution number 2021-37 adoption of the first amendment to the
fiscal year 21 2021-22 budget resolution number
2021-33 appropriating revenue from the caltrans
local roadway safety plan grant and the 2021 measure v projects
second we have a motion by councilman cramer in a second by vice mayor perdoc
all in favor sorry hi hi all right we'll move on to our next item
which is item number 21.
me too all right uh item 21. mr allen flora
yes mr mayor members of the council um so as you know we've been negotiating
with all of these bargaining groups um we've reached tentative agreements with
all of them that we feel is both physically responsible and respects the
heart and dedicated work of our employees
the first one before you is the clinic miscellaneous employees association
so the key deal points are a one year agreement with a three percent cost of
living adjustment a two thousand dollar one-time payment
and recognition of their hard work and dedication to the city
additional one percent salary adjustment in lieu of various other adjustments
within the mou removing or reducing other compensation
there is language in all these agreements which is an agreement to meet
and confer regarding additional compensation that can be converted into
base pay there's also some adjustments in this one related to uniform
regulations the final thing that i wanted to point
out is i you should have a hard copy there was
one section under sick leave that was inadvertently deleted
and so that reflects that section 9.1 being
back remaining in the in the agreement and the previous section 9.2 is removed
and that's what's related to the 1 salary adjustment so i would be happy to
address any questions that you may have okay we have any question for staff
9.1 remains 9.2 is removed yes okay
no question from staff we hope the public hearing any
public comment on this item adam clark
there are no hands raised in the zoom or attendees and i've not received any
emailed comments okay we'll bring it back to the council any more discussions
if not i entertain a motion mayor i'd like to
present the adoption adopt the memorandum of understanding between the
city of clear lake and the city uh miscellaneous employee association and
authorize the city manager to say okay we have a motion by councilwoman overton
you have a second second we have a section of advice may
have product all in favor all right
all right how about a small little break yeah five minute break
five minute break make it quick
huh
all right we go back in session here we go to
item number 22 consideration of a memorandum of
understanding between the city of clear lake and
the clear lake police officers association
period 2021 to 2022.
thank you mister yes um so the key points on this
agreement a one-year agreement with three percent cost of living adjustment
1500 1500 one-time payment in recognition of
employees hard work and dedication to the city a six percent salary adjustment
in lieu of various um adjustments to the mou removing or reducing other
compensation and then again the agreement to meet and confer regarding
additional compensation that can be converted
into base pay with that i'll try to address any
questions the council has okay we have any questions from council no questions
no questions no questions councilman claffy any
comments no questions okay very good uh open to the public any
comments from the public
there are no attendees on the zoom and i have not received any email comments
all right we'll bring it back to the council
any more discussion while i entertain a motion
mr mayor like to make motion to adopt memorandum of understanding between the
city of clear lake and the clear lake police officers association
and authorizes city manager to sign it second we have a motion by councilman
cramer and the second by vice mayor burdock all in favor say aye aye aye
okay move right along to item number 23. mr allen florida
yes mr mayor so this agreement is with the clear lake middle management
association so the key deal points in this case a
two-year agreement with the three percent cost of living adjustment each
year fifteen hundred dollar one-time payment
recognition of the employee's hard work and dedication to the city and a nine
percent salary adjustment in lieu of various other adjustments within the mou
removing or reducing other compensation and then finally the agreement to me and
confer regarding additional compensation that can be converted to base pay
over the next year with that i'll address any questions that counts a lot
right any questions from staff if not go ahead so so these uh
the salary adjustments are your that's where you're taking away from some
things and just adding it into their base pay am i correct the for the in
this case yeah so the the cost of living adjustment to three percent is all
additional um the nine percent in this case is
taking um incentives that the employees already receive and taking
that funding and converting it into base all pay thank you
all right uh councilman you have any questions no questions
all right welcome to the public any comments from the public madam club
there are no attendees on the zoom and i've not received any emailed comments
on this item okay we'll bring it back to the council any more questions if not i
have obtained a motion mr mayor i'd like to make a motion to a
dog memorandum of understanding between the city of clearly and the clear lake
middle management association authorizes city manager to sign
we have a motion by vice mayor perdoc in a second by councilwoman overton all in
favor say aye aye aye
we're moving on to number 24. mr alan flora
yes mr mayor members of the council so the um employees of the city that are
unrepresented and not in one of the other three groups
most of the benefits are outlined by the city's management benefit plan
in that plan it states that management employees
shall receive a salary adjustment each july 1st
based on the march to march all urban cities consumer price index
based on the labor market and then the financial condition of the city
and so so march 2020 to march 21
cpi was 2.6
um and so that's what we're recommending uh the council approve for um
those employees and i just wanted to to point out i'm sure most of you are
watching the economic situation and
inflation is is really ramping up just as a little bit of a perspective
april that april year over year was 4.9 percent
may was five percent and um i'm not sure if i recall the the june numbers but i
think they're even higher yet than than five percent so
anyway um with that i'll try to address any questions counselor you have any
questions from staff no
councilman clappy anything no questions all right i'll open the public hearing
any comments from the public madam clerk
there are no comments from the public and i've not received any email comments
okay we'll bring it back to the council if there's no further questions i'd
entertain a motion mayor i'd like to make the motion to
adopt cpi adjustments for the management employees for the management benefit
plan second okay we have a motion by
councilwoman overton and the second by council man cramer
um all in favor say aye aye moving right along here
actually i want to make one little comment
at this point we just adopted four
memorandums of understanding and and having to do with the salaries
of our our
employees of the city and i'm very proud that uh we're the
highest payer in the county
that's been my goal and we accomplished that so thank you very
much all right designation item number 25
madam clerk
honorable mayor and council members the league of california city's annual
conference this year is scheduled for september 22nd through the 24th and the
conference is planning to be held in person in
sacramento and at this meeting the league
membership considers and takes action on resolutions that establish league policy
in order to vote at the annual business meeting each year the city council must
designate a voting delegate and can appoint then up to two alternates in
addition to that delegate all council members are planning to attend
the uh the conference and although we've not received
information on the issues coming up for a vote yet it is appropriate for the
council to designate a voting delegate and up to two alternates at this time
any comments or any ideas um
i if i want to address something i think
uh councilwoman overton has been a long time representative so i think
i think she would be as the voting delegate
and is there anybody that uh wants to be an
alternate
and i'm willing to continue in that please do so council woman overton
all right everybody to go to the you know and i
plan on attending and i was the uh senator before
councilman because i went over to so all right it's good to see everybody there
going there so that's kind of cool all right
i guess we have to open this to a public hearing
do we have any comments from the public on this item
there are no public comments on this item and i've not received any emailed
comments all right we'll bring them back to the council so
can i have a recommendation
mr mr mayor i would recommend councilwoman overton as our voting
member and council member perdoc and kramer as our alternates
all right can we have a second on that second all right we have a motion by
councilman claffy and a second vice mayor perdoc all in favor say aye all
right all right
mr mayor if i could interrupt really quick so on the poa agreement that you
just approved um chief white just noticed in his thoroughness that um
the for some reason the detective is missing
from the list of special assignments um and so
uh the city attorney said that um if you're all okay with making a note of
adding that back in that's okay if you want to have some further discussion
about whether to do that or not then we would have to take an action to
reconsider the item but so how can we do that
i based on if you're
in concurrence of what the city manager said and were that was fine and that'd
be part of your motion then we don't need to reconsider it if you don't want
that then we should probably vote again to reconsider and pull it out
of it mr mayor it was my understanding that
that was already in so was it mine yeah it's just a clerical error right i mean
it's it's an assignment that we've had yeah so you're okay with that i am
okay very good so you have your okay we'll go to city manager and
council report
okay um i have have a few items so um we received uh just over 1.8 million in
federal funding today through the our program which we'll be using for
infrastructure so glad to see that come in and
the other half of that funding we should receive and i believe may of next year
so we'll still be in this fiscal year okay right
well it's the american rescue um i forget exactly the plan act or
something
so um we had a bit opening for the sulfur fire road rehabilitation project
today bids came in um unexpectedly low um
the low bid being um just over 6.4 million um
so that's great uh granite
construction was the low bidder who was also the
contractor that i'll be doing in the measure v project so i think the timing
for all those projects is going to work out great
now the problem we have is we just have to um
figure out some way to spend an additional 5 million because
that's not a problem the the bids were much much lower than
we expected and so good problem
yeah we'll take it
well there's a lot of limits on the use of those funds in that program there has
to be a tie back to the 2017 disaster and whatnot so
we've been kicking around a few ideas left to consult with hcd obviously we
don't want to do anything that delays the current project we have in front of
us but i'm sure we'll figure out some way
um we definitely don't want to let the money go back
um so uh we are in the process of listing um
23 properties in the city that are owned and available for
low density residential development to get the word out on those we're also
finally really rolling out the homestead program
and so those properties will be listed with a price if someone comes forward
through the homestead program and likes that property
we will still give it to them if they qualify
it's been a little while since we talked about cannabis permits but as you know
there were a number of the previously issued permits that
there's not much activity we issued letters to all of the permit
holders i believe it was in march and informed them that if they did not take
steps to activate their permit and get their
business going by july 1st that they would be revoked
it looks like we're doing some final final checking
but it looks like that there's gonna be five of the permits that we're gonna go
ahead and revoke for inactivity um
i did want to
i think most of you are aware but congratulate chief white for his
appointment to the state 911 committee so it's great to have him representing
clear lake and other rural communities i'm sure he's going to be a big asset
sort of in random order here but you know
some pretty positive news um preliminary returns from calpers over the last year
uh brought their um returns in at 21.3
which obviously is higher than the assumptions
the preliminary returns for calpers fund it was 21.3 percent of course which
is much above the the 7 assumed rate of return
in fact it was so large it's going to trigger some additional changes
which is going to bless you
actually reduce the discount rate from 7 percent down to 6.8 percent in the
future which is going to
drive up our our costs uh because of that but
anyway it's good last year they didn't meet the um assumed rate i don't
remember what the number was i think it was six something
um and but you know and that that return will be smoothed over five year period
but anyway um overall um good to see that um we're continuing to
monitor the boat ramps at redbud park we have a
gauge out there we have additional marking to show the end of the concrete
ramps and signage letting folks know that it
could be dangerous to launch and they're doing so at their
own risk but it is continuing to be used the county is uh reporting that they're
expecting the lake level to drop between two and two and a half feet from where
we are now before the end of the summer so it's uh very possible that um
some or all of the ramps at redwater park will will not be usable um just for
a little bit of context we have there's the ramps that kind of i guess probably
depending on when they are constructed or a little bit different
length and
so we're in pretty good shape similar to some of the ramps at library park in
lakeport and i think lakeside park um over by kelseyville but there is one
of the boat ramps at library park in lake port that is a couple of feet
longer than what we have so it's possible that they
will be the only
great access i mean and there's still going to be issues with that
can we pour something yeah yeah
serious question yes have you heard of the army corps of
engineers before
well you can pour concrete in water yeah it takes a lot of permits and
multiple years to do so so
i wanted to mention that the we've been asked by the adventist
health and hope center to be the grant recipient for a home key
grant for some additional improvements at the hope center
they initially received funding for that project with the county being the grant
recipient for whatever reason
they apparently have decided not to
participate in that role anymore and so they asked us if we would step in and do
that and so we said you know of course we would
so working with that team on bringing
curb gutter and sidewalk improvements um and a solar micro grid and other backup
power as part of part of that project to the hope center
um the starbucks project's going well as i'm sure you've realized um the
developer is i'm trying to finalize the plans for phase two of that we had an
administrative use permit hearing for the
um stealth cell tower that's going to be part of the pylon sign that will be
installed there so that was approved today and so
they will be um moving forward with their building
permits on that um and then they acquired additional
property at the site so we're expecting a phase three
um to follow that development um just a couple other things sorry i have
a lot of stuff um clear lake waste solutions notified us
yesterday that um they're being bought out by a larger
waste hauler and um
you know they won't go into all the details now they
believe that it's going to be a good transition for all bruce mccracken
is going to be hired by this group and remain
on the team which gives me a lot of relief that will still
continue to have great service there is going to be an action that's required by
the council we're planning on taking that on august 5th but
anyway wanted to let you know about that
the um oh i'm going to be attending the icma's international
city managers association conference in october
i've been asked to speak as a panelist
a discussion
entitled a tale of two cities attracting retail and small and rural communities
with a town manager from warrington virginia so um
looking forward to that opportunity and then
one final thing this is kind of more of a future agenda item i guess but
because of the census there's going to there's a number of redis redistricting
decisions that are going to need to be made
the state has a redistricting commission they're kind of starting their public
outreach related to this and that's going to be continuing
through the end of the year there will be a community meeting at
towards the end of august for our sort of zone in the state
but i wanted to bring up and see if the
council was interested in um
actively lobbying to rejoin
congressman thompson's district um
you know since the last redistricting lake county
has been split between congressman thompson and congressman garamendi um we
get very little representation from congress
from garamendi and
i think there's certainly an interest from congressman thompson's office to
represent us again and so i just kind of wanted to gauge the
council and see if there's interest in possibly actively requesting that type
of thing from the council as part of this process
and if that's the case then we'll probably come back with another um item
that you know talks a little bit more about the options for doing so
i definitely agree with that
okay that's my report councilman kramer anything to report on
very little report on all meetings that i normally would attend
were because of the holiday i think were probably canceled
uh i have been attending blue zone planning
committee meetings but i assume that
that mayor vice mayor perdoc is going to give you a report on that so i'm not
going to have anything to say on that other than
monday i'm going to let you go with that
so that's all i have councilman overton clapper you have anything to report on
uh i attended the peg tv meeting which uh no real action items from that just
good to see that team moving forward i just wanted to make a comment about the
fourth of july and the incredible job the staff did the
police department public works of course the lions every year put on a great
event um and it i i was there for the parade and i i
stayed for for mr rich and it was just a superb event all around so kudos to all
of you thank you for the number of folks that i met that were
from out of town or were from blake county that came here and just had a
blast it's a great rep
reputation builder for our area and i think you all did wonderful so thank you
nice mayor product well done david you stole my thunder i
was waiting for them i was going to get the chance to
just hear my accolades yeah i just would like to echo councilmember clappy's
comments um what a great presentation i think we've turned the corner we're on
our way uh making our ascent um there are wonderful things happening
down here it was great to hear a concert in the park been working for six years
to get a band stand over there and it was very disappointing with covid not to
be able to really celebrate and bring that in
kudos again to lions club another great great event
anyway great fireworks show and thanks to all the sponsors that
donated including individuals and many of us
here in this room or uh donating to the to the fireworks it was a great show
um as uh councilman cramer pointed out
um blue zones initiative is a community uh
based grassroot initiative to try to improve the health and wealth of lake
county and and clear lake in particular help our youth help our seniors
and the team is coming into lake county on monday july 26th they will remain on
site until the 30th wanting to meet with as many as they can
if you can please uh contact me or or go to the blue zone site and you can
register to be a participant um so your voice can be heard and again
if you have any questions please contact me i'd be happy to share
all right uh mr kramer has it you over no okay
uh a couple of things uh i thought the concert was just awesome
i've never seen so many people in the park happy they were parked out there
from the morning on it was it was at kudos to
all of the city staff that was just awesome i was so happy to
see this i was really poked about it all standard and also i want to congratulate
chief white on his appointment on the 911 committee that's an honor and i
couldn't have picked a better person for that
all right uh future agenda items
got any anybody anything right have not
um if not
we'll join and go to closed sessions