City Council Regular Meeting

CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING Clearlake City Hall Council Chambers 14050 Olympic Dr, Clearlake, CA Thursday, June 03, 2021 Regular Meeting 6:00 PM On March 12, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-25-20, which allows Council Members to attend City Council meetings telephonically. Please be advised that some, or all, of the Clearlake City Council Members may attend this meeting telephonically. Furthermore, on March 17, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-29-20, which waives the mandate of public, in-person accessibility to Council meetings provided there are other means for the public to participate. Effective immediately and continuing only during the period in which state or local public health officials have imposed or recommended social distancing measures, the Clearlake City Council meetings will be viewable via livestreaming on the City of Clearlake’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTyifT_nKS-3woxEu1ilBXA and the public may participate through Zoom at the link listed below. Balancing the health risks associated with COVID-19, while appreciating the public’s right to conduct the people’s business in a transparent and open manner, the City wants you to know that you can submit your comments and questions in writing for City Council consideration by sending them to the Administrative Services Director/City Clerk at mswanson@clearlake.ca.us. To give the City Council adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit your written comments prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. Beginning April 1st, 2021, the public may attend City Council meetings in person. However, the Council Chambers will have limited capacity and attendees must adhere to masking and social distancing mandates. You may view the meeting live on YouTube at the City of Clearlake’s YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTyifT_nKS-3woxEu1ilBXA) or “Lake County PEG TV Live Stream” at https://www.youtube.com/user/LakeCountyPegTV/featured. AGENDA Zoom Link: https://clearlakeca.zoom.us/j/99228046290 AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT (ADA) REQUESTS If you need disability related modification, including auxiliary aids or services, to participate in this meeting, please contact Melissa Swanson, Administrative Services Director/City Clerk at the Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, Clearlake, California 95422, phone (707) 994-8201, ext 106, or via email at mswanson@clearlake.ca.us at least 72 hours prior to the meeting, to allow time to provide for special accommodations. AGENDA REPORTS Staff reports for each agenda item are available for review at www.clearlake.ca.us. Any writings or documents pertaining to an open session item provided to a majority of the City Council less than 72 hours prior to the meeting, shall be made available for public inspection on the City’s website at www.clearlake.ca.us. June 03, 2021 Page. 2 ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE INVOCATION/MOMENT OF SILENCE: The City Council invites members of the clergy, as well as interested members of the public in the City of Clearlake, to voluntarily offer an invocation before the beginning of its meetings for the benefit and blessing of the City Council. This opportunity is voluntary and invocations are to be less than three minutes, offered in a solemn and respectful tone, and directed at the City Council. Invocational speakers who do not abide by these simple rules of respect and brevity shall be given a warning and/or not invited back to provide a subsequent invocation for a reasonable period of time, as determined appropriate by the City. This policy is not intended, and shall not be implemented or construed in any way, to affiliate the City Council with, not express the City Council's preference for, any faith or religious denomination. Rather, this policy is intended to acknowledge and express the City Council's respect for the diversity of religious denominations and faith represented and practiced among the citizens of Clearlake. If a scheduled invocational speaker does not appear at the scheduled meeting, the Mayor will ask that the City Council observe a moment of silence in lieu of the invocation. More information about the City's invocation policy is available upon request by contacting the Administrative Services Director/City Clerk at (707) 994-8201x106 or via email at mswanson@clearlake.ca.us. MEETING PROCEDURES: All items on agenda will be open for public comments before final action is taken. Citizens wishing to introduce written material into the record at the public meeting on any item are requested to provide a copy of the written material to the Administrative Services Director/City Clerk prior to the meeting date so that the material may be distributed to the City Council prior to the meeting. Speakers must restrict comments to the item as it appears on the agenda and stay within a three minutes time limit. The Mayor has the discretion of limiting the total discussion time for an item. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA (This is the time for agenda modifications.) PRESENTATIONS 1. Presentation of a Proclamation Commending Sergeant Rodd Joseph on His Retirement 2. Presentation by Housing and Community Development on the RecoverCA Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Program 3. Presentation of a Proclamation Declaring June 2021 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month PUBLIC COMMENT: This is the time for any member of the public to address the City Council on any matter not on the agenda that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City. The Brown Act, with limited exceptions, does not allow the Council or staff to discuss issues brought forth under Public Comment. The Council cannot take action on non-agenda items. Concerns may be referred to staff or placed on the next available agenda. Please note that comments from the public will also be taken on each agenda item. Comments shall be limited to three (3) minutes per person. CONSENT AGENDA: All items listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine in nature and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Council requests otherwise, or if staff has requested a change under Adoption of the Agenda, in which June 03, 2021 Page. 3 case the item will be removed for separate consideration. Any item so removed will be taken up following the motion to approve the Consent Agenda. 4. Award of Contract for Environmental Services for the Dam Road Roundabout Project. Recommended Action: Authorize City Manager to enter into a contract with ECORP for the Dam Road Roundabout Project in the amount of $63,175.968 and authorize the City Manager to approve up to 10% for additional unforeseen contract amendments 5. Continuation of Declaration of Local Emergency Issued on March 14, 2020 and Ratified by Council Action on March 19, 2020 Recommended Action: By motion keep declaration of emergency active and set next review in sixty days 6. Continuation of Declaration of Local Emergency Issued on October 9, 2017 and Ratified by Council Action October 12, 2017 Recommended Action: By motion keep declaration of emergency active and set next review in 30 days 7. Consideration of Resolution No. 2021-28, a Resolution of the City of Clearlake, approving a temporary road closure for the Community Block Party. Recommended Action: By motion, adopt resolution 8. Minutes of the May Meetings Recommended Action: Receive and file 9. Warrants Recommended Action: Receive and file PUBLIC HEARING Notice to the Public: The City Council, when considering the matter scheduled for hearing, will take the following actions: a) Open the Public Hearing b) Presentation by Staff c) Presentation by Applicant or Appellant (if applicable) d) Accept Public Testimony e) Applicant or Appellant Rebuttal Period (if applicable) f) Close the Public Hearing g) Council Comments and questions h) Council Action Once the hearing is closed, no further public comment will be taken. If you wish to challenge in court any of the matters on this agenda for which a public hearing is to be conducted, you may be limited to raising only those issues which you, or someone else, raised orally at the public hearing or in written correspondence received by the city at or before the public hearing. Public hearings listed for continuance will be continued as noted and posting of this agenda serves as notice of continuance. Any matter not noted for continuance will be posed separately. June 03, 2021 Page. 4 10. Consideration of Development Agreement, DA 2021-02 for Akwaaba, INC., to allow the expansion of their existing cannabis operation to include a Microbusiness; Ordinance No. 254- 2021 Recommended Action: Hold first reading of Ordinance No. 254-2021, read it by title only, waive further reading and set second reading and adoption for the June 17, 2021 meeting 11. Consideration of Development Agreement (DA 2021-03) Green Growth Solutions, LLC., for a Commercial Cannabis Operation; Ordinance No. 255-2021 Recommended Action: Hold First Reading of Ordinance No. 255-2021, Read by Title Only, Waive Further Reading and Set Second Reading and Adoption for June 17th, 2021. BUSINESS 12. Consideration of rejection of bids for demolition of structures located at 14525 Lakeshore Drive Clearlake, CA 95422 Recommended Action: Reject all bids for the demolition of all structures at 14525 Lakeshore Drive CITY MANAGER AND COUNCILMEMBER REPORTS FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS CLOSED SESSION (13) Conference with Labor Negotiators: Agency Designated Representatives: City Manager Alan Flora and Administrative Services Director/City Clerk Melissa Swanson; Employee Organization: Clearlake Municipal Employees Association, Clearlake Police Officers Association, Clearlake Middle Management Association (14) Conference with Legal Counsel- Existing Litigation: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9: Case No. CV-421149; Name of Case: City of Clearlake v. County of Lake, a political subdivision of the State of California; Board of Supervisors of the County of Lake, a public body of the County of Lake; Barbara C. Ringen, in her official capacity as the Treasurer-Tax Collector of the County of Lake; and Does 1 through 30, inclusive ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION FROM CLOSED SESSION ADJOURNMENT POSTED: May 28, 2021 BY: Melissa Swanson, Administrative Services Director/City Clerk