Area Council - Regular Meeting

Sorry. Okay. Welcome everybody to the regular meeting of the Lakeport City Council. This is Tuesday, April 7th. Uh we'll start with a roll call. Kelly, yes. Council member Costa here. Council member Parlet here. Council member Price here. Prom Matina here. And Mayor Disney

here. Thank you. First off, everyone, we're going to have a uh moment of silence for Ron Keys. Tonight, we're going to pause and recognize the passing of local resident Ron Keys, an award-winning artist and photographer whose work captured both the spirit of our community and figures from around the world. His talent is reflected here in City Hall and throughout Lake County. On behalf of the city, we extend our condolences to his family and loved ones. Please join me in a moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. Now, if you would all join me. Oh, uh yeah, we're on Pledge of Allegiance. So, if everyone would stand up and join me in the pledge. 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 and justice for all.

Thank you. Next up, we will move to uh urgency items. Kelly, do we have any tonight? We do not. Okay, perfect. Then uh it'll be acceptance of the agenda. Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to accept the agenda as posted. Second. Got a motion in a second. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Next, we move on to the consent agenda. So, the following items on consent agenda are routine and non-controversial. They'll be acted upon by one time uh at the council without any discussion. Uh any council member may pull uh any items from consent for discussion under the regular agenda and if there are removed items they'll be considered following the consent calendar portion of the agenda. So I'll read out all the items. First off item A is ordinances wave reading except by title of any ordinance and ordinances excuse me ordinances under consideration at this meeting for either introduction or passage per government code section 36934. Item B, approve minutes of the city council regular meeting of March 17, 2026. Item C, approve application 2026-015 with staff recommendations for the Kowana's use of the snack shack on the 4th of July. Item D, approve application 2026-016 with staff recommendations for the 2026 Memorial Day parade. Item E, approve application 2026-017 with staff recommendations for reserved parking on Forb Street during the June election period. Item F, approve the modified financial services specialist 1, two, and three classifications and job description. Item G, adopt the proposed resolution approving the city of Lakeport SP1 project list for fiscal year 2026-27 and direct staff to submit the the to the California Transportation Commission. And last up, item H, authorize the police chief to execute a law enforcement serviceou with the city of Clear Lake. Would any council members like to pull anything off of consent tonight? Not seeing any from the council. Anybody

in the room want to speak on any of our items on the consent calendar? Nobody jumping up online. Victor, no hands raised. Okay, then I'll take a motion for consent. Mr. Mayor, if there's nothing further, I'd move for approval of the consent agenda. Second. Got a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next up is our public input portion. Anybody here can come up and speak uh on the microphone for 3 minutes given it's not already on tonight's agenda uh and within the city council's jurisdiction. So, if you have something, come on up. Thank you, Marie.

Good evening. Marie Schrader from Discover Lakeport. So, I am at the 2-year anniversary, believe it or not, of uh of creating this entity. Um I have 3,700 followers. Um, our average reach is 40,000. We were actually in uh February, March up to 50,000, which was pretty amazing. Um, let's see here. I still I I distribute 160 posters citywide every single month. And it always amazes me that some people say, "Why don't you put posters up?" I still get that. You need more. I know. I need more. Double it.

Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure where I'd put them is the problem. Um, let's see. In two years, I've done 9,500 post. Um, which was surprising to me. I didn't know that. Um, let's see here. So, this last month, we did the Easter Bunny at for for four Saturdays in a row. Uh, we did Finino's, uh, Jitterbean, Flowers by Jackie, and the shoe box. And all of those were packed all the time. Awesome.

And it was so darn cute. It was really adorable. Much more so than last year. Um, so we had a really good turnout. All of the uh the the businesses were incredibly happy because they had really really good sales that day. Um let's see here. What else I have? Um so coming up we at the end of this month for on the 24th, 25th, and 26th um we have the citywide yard sale and for the first time you get to you get to choose your hours of those days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You don't have to have to participate in all three days. So, you get to say, "I'm not going to do Friday, but I'll do Saturday and Sunday or whatever you want to do." Um, and we have 32 signed up so far. That's going to go up. People are waiting to see what the weather's going to do because last year it rained. Remember,

it was still We had 90 last year and it rained. So, that I I have a feeling we'll have more this year, especially with the price of gas. One of the things that I'm putting out there is that with the high price of gas, people will come if there are a lot of them in one area and because it's worth the drive. Um, we are going to do Lake Port beautifification on May 16th from 9 to noon. So that's the week before the Memorial Day parade. Um, so we can spruce up downtown, make sure that all of our guests uh find it to be really pretty and all that kind of good stuff. Um, let's see what else. I am uh continuing to do a simple gesture. Um, we in Lakeport alone we have 80 donors on a simple gesture. Um last week on Saturday, we collected 812 pounds of food just in Lakeport alone. Um and did that uh countywide um since October of October 25th was my first pickup. Um we have collected over 10,000 pounds of food

and it's so that's that's been an amazing type of uh program. Um let's see here. the radio program is doing really I'm having a great time with that and having it's it's I have uh audio links on my uh on the the website so that people can go back and listen to the different shows that I've done. Um and it's see a week from a week from Monday I'm having Lake County Fair is is my guest. So tune in. It's going to be really fun. And I think that is about all that I have for you tonight. Thank you.

Thank you for all you do, Marie. Thank you. All right, we are still in the public input portion tonight. Anybody in the room can come up and speak for a couple minutes. Seeing no one else jumping up. Victor, anybody online? I'm seeing no hands raised, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Well, we will close public input now and move on to item B, which is a presentation by the Lake County Office of Educa Education on the Positive Community Norms Project. Thank you guys for coming.

So, my name is Smith Vaughn. I'm the executive director of First Five Lake, not Lake County Office of Education, but I do have Anna with me. Oh, okay.

Um, and I'm also joined by Kevin, um, deputy chief probation officer. um all of us are part of the children's council and um uh that's why we're all here today and I am going to apologize I'm going to read a lot from my slides here um only because I don't want to forget anything. Uh so today we're here to talk about the recent efforts through the children's council and um Lake County Office of Education. As we've already uh seen here to uh as you'll see here in just a moment rather uh the children's council is made up of many different agencies and individuals in Lake County who have the same goal of supporting children. Uh this journey celebrates the strength of Lake County and brings us all closer together, building a brighter, more supportive future for our community. So, I want you to imagine a Lake County where the best of us is the loudest of us. This vision helps move Lake County beyond the narrative of trauma and fully amplifies the hope, resilience, and strength that is already right here in our communities. Currently, there are two projects that are running to complement each other. The first is the healthy outcomes from positive experiences or the hope framework. Hope reminds us that when children have supportive relationships with caring adults, safe environments, and strong connections within their communities, they build resilience that helps them overcome challenges and thrive throughout their lives. The hope framework aims to inspire a movement that changes how people and organizations advance health and well-being for children, family, and communities. At present, trainings are happening in Lake County to introduce the individuals and agencies to the hope framework. We do have one here in April, but unfortunately it has sold out. So, we will be scheduling one for May. Um, as we have a lot of things happening in April. You'll find out that later. And over the next couple of years, organizations will have the opportunity to work towards becoming either hope

informed or hope inspired starting first with First Five Lake. Um, as we are going to lead by example, prevention is not only responding when something goes wrong. It's about building the conditions that allows families and children to succeed in everything that we do. The other project, and this one's um more in full swing, is um and the one that we're going to delve into the most today, is the positive community norms. We've partnered with the Montana Institute to bring the science of the positive, decades of proven research on how to build healthier communities here to Lake County. Their experts appro their expert approach helps us move away from focusing on the problems and instead uses clear data to show the strength and positives already living here in Lake County. This method uses the social norm theory of peer influence by shaping behavior from our perceptions of what others are doing and shifting focus to a strength-based model where instead of focusing on what is wrong, we focus on what is healthy and growing. The solution in reframing our reality is simple. First, we identify the gaps. And beginning today, we have launched a communitywide survey meant for all adults in Lake County to help us identify some of those gaps in our perceptions. When we say gaps in our perceptions, we're looking at what we as individuals do versus what we believe everyone around us does. Once we know where the gaps are, we plan to publicize the truth to let the community know what the reality is so that they can start believing in ourselves. And then eventually over time, this work has shown to as this work will show and has shown through um other states and agencies that behaviors will change to follow the new perception. It encourages individuals to align with the positive

majority creating a self-reinforcing cycle of health. Now, this is an example that comes out of uh the Wright County, Minnesota. Um in their county, what they did is they asked middle schoolers and high schoolers a a wide variety of questions. And in this in the case of this one rather, um they asked about uh marijuana use. So they asked the children, "Have you ever used marijuana?" And then they asked, "How many of the the students do you think used marijuana?" That perception gap existed. Their belief was that a lot of children used, but the reality was many of them reported that they did not. Four out of five Wright County High School students have never used marijuana. And that is an example of what we're we're achie uh looking to achieve here um with our survey. So, why does this matter? Well, kids do better when neighborhoods help out. Kids feel safer and connected. When kids feel safer, they are able to focus on learning and growing. This provides them with the foundation to thrive in their life. It supports healthier families. Helping a friend or neighbor actually lowers the stress of everyone. And when we show up for others, we make our communities a better place to live and uh creates stronger communities. And I'm actually really happy that the individual who spoke right before me um spoke about all the wonderful things that she's doing here in in Lakeport because that really reinforces this idea and this concept because the goal is to show that Lake County we are full we are on the same team when it comes to helping our kids grow happy and healthy and successful. For years, we have brought um the information to the communities around ACES or adverse childhood experiences. And we know that we have high numbers of adverse childhood experiences. And we

know how deeply that can impact us. But now we're moving forward to our focus on the positive childhood experiences because research shows that even small positive connections can actually protect a child's brain and body from those effects of past trauma more so than the effects of ACEs have. By focusing on these positive moments, we can move from just talking about the problem kids face to actively building the support they need to grow, heal, and thrive. Think of posit of positive childhood experiences as the protective buffer in our community. So, how this supports us, these are just a couple examples. There's a lot more and this slide would have looked a little crazy if we had them all. So, we chose to focus on um it supports everyone's mental health. Positive childhood experiences brings resilience that act as protective factors making prevention cheaper than chronic treatment. It builds community trough trust by shifting from a deficit mindset to a strength-based mindset. It improves the morale and fosters trust between residents and agencies. And probably most agencies favorite one, it does actually grow the workforce. When children feel safe and secure, they are able to focus on learning and attending. And attendance builds literacy and graduation rates and ensures a skilled talent of local industries. Two more. Here in Lake County, we care. We connect. We inspire. And you'll be seeing this image hopefully on a lot of billboards, a lot of flyers as we get the survey results back. And you should have seen it on the survey flyer itself. And if you haven't received that survey flyer, I will absolutely make sure you don't get it. So, this is just midway of our process.

In the spring of 2025, there was a lot of planning and meeting uh with the Montana Institute on how to bring signs of the positive to Lake County. And then by the fall of 2025, there were multiple community trainings that were held to help people understand what it is and what the idea is. And um starting in the winter of 2020, nope, winter of 2025 rather, not 2026. Um we began the work on creating uh the community survey, which again launches today. By the summer, we're hoping to analyze that survey results and find those gaps so that we can then move on to the positive community norms messaging. And um that messaging is going to be co-f facilitated with many agencies. and we're hoping that uh the Lake C Lakeport City Council is one of those. So, let's build a culture of hope together. Thank you. And Carly wasn't able to be here, but if you have hard questions, you can email her. Easy questions. I can

Thank you, Samantha. Um if you're okay, does any of the council have questions?

Have a comment. Yeah, go ahead. I just super excited about this culture of hope and I just I've seen it in families when parents have a really good approach and they say to their children, well, this is how we are, you know, we're kind, we're we're um patient, we're giving, you know, we're generous or whatever. So, they build an identity, right? And then when something uh a child acts outside of that, it's like, well, I'm surprised. I mean, that's just not really who you are. It's that whole identity of bringing it together. And just to picture having the messages of truth um and just really kind of expand and and have that um show up in our community um kind of just really get immersed so that people in Lake County say this is who we are. We connect. We care. We inspire. You know, that's what we do here. So I I love it. Thank you.

Yeah. really really great. I mean to just to echo what council member uh Costa said that that positive mindset is great individually and having that positive mindset countywide is is such a great step that we should all be taking. So I love the work and thank you for for showing us it tonight.

Yeah, thank you. Uh, next up tonight we have a proclamation designating April 2026 as child abuse prevention month. Same group.

You thought you were getting rid of us, but you're not. Come on up, you guys. I'll read out the proclamation designating the month of April 2026 as child abuse prevention month in the city of Lakeport. Whereas every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment where they feel valued, supported, and connected to caring adults and their community. And whereas preventing child abuse and neglect is sh a shared responsibility that requires the commitment of families, neighbors, educators, healthc care providers, faith communities, law enforcement, businesses, and local organizations working together to build a culture where children and families try th uh thrive. And whereas Lake County is working to strengthen families and prevent child abuse through collaborative community-based strategies that promote protective factors, build resistance, sorry, resilience, and ensure families have the access to the supports and services they need. And whereas throughout the month of April, Lake County will recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month through community events and awareness activities, including the Pinwheel Garden Challenge, the Children's Festival and Advocacy Walk, the Children's Memorial Flag Displays, and other efforts that promote awareness, hope, and collective action. And whereas the blue pinwheel is the national symbol of child abuse prevention and represents the happy, healthy childhood that every child deserves, reminding communities that prevention begins with nurturing environments and supportive relationships. And whereas the children's memorial flag is displayed to honor and remember children who have

lost their lives to abuse or neglect, serving as a solemn reminder of the importance of prevention and a call for communities to come together to protect children and support families. And whereas by working together to strengthen families, build positive relationships, and promote supportive and positive community norms, we can create a safer, healthier future for all children in Lake County. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the city council of the city of Lakeport does hereby designate the month of April 2026 child abuse prevention month in the city of Lakeport and encourages all residents, community organizations, businesses, faith communities, and public agencies to join in the efforts that strengthen and support families, promote positive childhood experiences, and ensure that every child has the opportunity to grow up safe, healthy, and hopeful. Come on up.

Good afternoon. Uh my name is Anna Santana. I'm with Lake County Office of Education and with the Lake County Children's Council. Thank you um City of Lakeport for recognizing April as child abuse prevention month. Today we gather not only to acknowledge a difficult issue but also to recognize the many people across Lake County who are working every day to support children and to strengthen families. Child abuse prevention is not the responsibility of one agency or one system. It requires a commitment of families, neighbors, educators, healthcare providers, faith communities, local organizations, and public leaders all working together to create environments where ch where children are safe and supported. Before we talk about the work happening across our county to prevent child abuse, it is important that we acknowledge the realities many children and families are facing today. To help provide that perspective, we would like to invite a representative from child welfare services to share an overview of the current data for Lake County.

Hello, I'm Sheri Delator. I'm program manager for Lake County Child Welfare. Every year, Child Welfare Services receives reports of suspected child abuse and neglect in Lake County from every jurisdiction. These reports come from community members, educators, healthc care providers, law enforcement officers, and others who are concerned about the safety of a child. In 2025, Lake County Child Welfare Services received over 1,500 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. Of those, almost 600 met criteria for investigation and potential intervention. At any given time, there are Lake County children who must live outside of their homes because of safety concerns related to abuse or neglect. Currently, there are about 110 children placed outside of their parents' care with intensive services and supports in place to help these families mitigate the issues that resulted in malreatment and separation. Sadly, the number of situations requiring child welfare intervention has increased steadily over the past several years, reminding us that the need to strengthen families and prevent abuse before it occurs remains critically important. But excuse me, these numbers are not just statistics. Behind every report and every case is a child and a family navigating challenges and circumstances that none of us would wish to. While child welfare services plays an important role in responding when children are unsafe, we also know that true prevention happens before a report is ever made. It happens when families have support, when communities come together, and when systems work collaboratively to help families thrive. And that is exactly the work that many organizations and community partners across Lake County are focused on today.

So at this time I would like to invite a representative from the Lake County Children's Council to share more about these.

Good evening. My name is Kevin Lewis. I'm chief deputy at Lake County Probation. I am a member of the Children's Council. um one of many agencies who are working hard every day to make things better for children and families. The data you heard, it shares that there's challenges, but there's also incredible work that's being done across Lake County to support families and children and to prevent child abuse before it occurs. Through the Lake County Children's Council and Resilient Lake County, community partners have worked together to develop a comprehensive prevention plan or CPP. This plan brings together agencies, schools, healthc care providers, tribal partners, and community organizations to strengthen the systems that support families and ensure children have the opportunity to grow up in a safe and nurturing environment. One of the key priorities of the comprehension comprehensive prevention plan is ensuring that families have access to parenting education and support programs that help caregivers build confidence, strengthen relationships with their children, and connect with other parents. Across Lake County, families can participate in a variety of parenting programs, including nurturing families, abriando puas, triple P positive parenting program, motherhood is sacred and fatherhood is sacred, positive Indian parenting, and more. Each of these programs provides families with tools, encouragement, and community support as they raise their children. In addition, the Resilient Lake County Collaborative continues to meet regularly to support the goals of the comprehensive prevention plan and

strengthen prevention efforts across the county. Recently, partners participated in a two-day learning and planning event where agencies came together to learn from one another, share best practices, and refine strategies that will help create long-term and sustainable supports for families in Lake County. These collaborations reflect a growing understanding that prevention is not something one program can do alone. It requires communitywide commitment, shared leadership, and the village of the partners and the people that are working for children and families. Additionally, throughout the month of April, Children's Council will be hosting several events that bring the community together to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month with this year's theme of keeping kids safe in every world. One of the most visible efforts is the Pinwheel Garden Challenge. The Blue Pin Wheel is a national symbol of child abuse prevention and represents the happy, healthy childhood of every child that every child deserves. Through the Pinwheel Garden Challenge, community members, organizations, and agencies across the Lake County are invited to plant their own pin wheelel gardens and participate in a friendly competition to see who could create the most inspiring display. Previously, the traveling trophy was proudly held by Lake County Provation, and we're excited to see who will take home the title this year. These gardens serve as a bright and hopeful reminder across our communities that every child deserves a joyful childhood. We will also be hosting two children's festivals and advocacy walks where families are invited to come together for a day of fun activities, connection, and community. April 11th, this Saturday at Abbiton Park in Lakeport and April 25th at Austin Park in Clear Lake. Both events will take place from 10:00 to 3

p.m. with a short advocacy walk kicking off each event. These events celebrate families and highlight the many organizations working to support children throughout Lake County. Um there'll also be uh placemats uh of a I forgot to bring it. Sorry. Um but uh during the month of the month month of March uh children of after school programs of elementary of elementary schools all around Lake County uh were asked to participate in an art contest. We had several winners and so there were several um locations that will be displaying those uh placemats. We'll also have a couple of our coffee partners who will be doing um some coffee sleeves as well. Um in addition, last year I came forward and I asked this uh city council, I'm going to ask again if you would uh raise the the children's memorial flag for the entire month of April. Um I'm also giving you guys uh this little poster that you can post outside um so that the community itself can understand what the flag is about. Um, but just for this uh council, this red uh child in the middle here is that child lost to child abuse and neglect. The child that um is no longer with us to to to um to be here. Um I'm hoping that you will display the flag as we have um we're hoping for uh 20 flags flying throughout the entire county of Lake um with various agencies. Um, and then on the fourth Friday of April, which is April 24th this year, uh, is Children's Memorial Day when we'll do the final flag raising ceremony that'll take place at the, uh, Lake County Sheriff's Department at bright and early 9:00 a.m. Um, so you're more than welcome to join us for that final flag raising. U, we also, uh, child abuse prevention is also not just programs and policies. It's about the everyday decisions that we make as a community. as we mentioned

um earlier and for you as a uh council members those decisions often come in the form of policies funding priorities and strategic planning. We encourage you uh to keep children and families in mind whenever those decisions are made. Even policies or funding requests that may not directly mention children can have meaningful impacts on our families and environments we our children grow up in. By considering those impacts, you help create the conditions where families are supported and children have the opportunity to thrive. Together, we can build a Lake County where families feel supported, communities look out for one another, and every child has the opportunity to grow up safe, healthy, and hopeful, and have lots of pin wheels.

Thank you.

Yes. Yeah, of course. Thank you. Hey, bra. Wonderful. Thank you. We're pretty approachable. Let's get it up. Thank you. Sure. Thank you, Anna. Thank you so much, Rock. How are you? Okay. Yeah. And I'll bring the proclamation down and we can get a picture. I don't think we do. I mean, we have one here. We also too. So, I'm not sure which one. Okay.

Yeah. So, I I have a comment. I don't know if others have a comment. So, uh some of you know that in my day job I work for, you know, child welfare services. So, I I know firsthand, but tonight my comments are as a city council member. Before I get there, I know firsthand the um dedication and the efforts that the agencies represented here and so many others um that belong to the Children's Council do uh on a regular basis just working hard to do the work that's sometimes invisible to um have that positive effect in the community. and I appreciate um all of you for that. I also now as a city council member want to say how um much I appreciate the the work, the efforts, the collaboration, the focus on the positive. I also want to just mention um our tribal um partners. Um, in particular, I'll shout out to Big Valley because they are so near to us uh, geographically and they just have a host of programs uh, for children and families that are positive and strengthening and open to all of the community. So, anyone in Lakeport can go and enjoy those uh, activities and uh, uh, boys and girls clubs and so many other wonderful enriching things that are going on. A a volleyball tournament as I understand it even as we speak is happening over there. Uh, so there's just so much, but I think my my comment tonight has to do with what Samantha said about the role of um the city councils. Uh, because I'm I'm really it

was good that we all understood that there's trauma that the there's adverse childhood experiences, etc. to raise the awareness that people in our community are walking around impacted with these things. But now I'm I'm excited uh almost beyond words for the focus on the positive because there something tangible we can all put our hands on. I think that the agencies represented here there are people with particular professional skills and they say this is what I can do. I bring my skills to this problem. But the rest of us might feel like well what can we do? Well what we can do is foster the positive. we can just relentlessly foster the positive knowing that data shows that is prevention. That's just not a fun time and something nice you'd like to see in your community. That is strength and health for your community. So, I would just um I I know that I will as a city council member and I invite my my uh fellow council members to consider in the back of our minds as Samantha pointed out whatever that thought that issue is before us, how does it affect the families and the children? Is it good for the children? What will be the final outcome when we're deciding what we want our community to look like? What we want that identity to be? Uh what we hope for for the future. I think this is a just a great simple way to help guide us in that direction with along with all of our other priorities. So, you know, thank you so much for bringing the information you brought and for the inspiration that you brought and for all the work that you do. Thank you.

Thanks you guys. All right. Next up on our agenda here is a proclamation designating April 2026 as Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month. Come on up, you guys. That sounds fun. Totally fun. Fun. Yeah. Got a posi this time. I was gonna say you promise. Way to go, Barbara.

Great. All right, you guys. So, I'll read out the proclamation designating the month of April 2026 as arts, culture, and creativity month in the city of Lakeport. Whereas, alts uh whereas arts, culture, and creativity month in April marks the 8th annual statewide celebration first established by the California legislature in 2019. And whereas arts, culture, and creativity bring joy by uniting communities, inspiring individuals, and celebrating the richness of our city's diversity. And whereas arts, culture, and creativity inspire action that drives positive change and strengthens the social fabric of our communities. And whereas arts, culture, and creativity power our city's capacity to address community challenges, including advancing equity, inclusion, and access. And whereas arts, culture, and creativity shape neighborhood character, attract tourism, foster civic pride, and contribute to public safety and social well-being. Well-being. Whereas creativity sparks innovation, provides youth with a well-rounded education, and equips our future workforce with critical skills and civic values. And whereas arts, culture, and creativity, drive local economic growth, stimulate business activity create jobs and workforce opportunities, and serve as essential pillars for small businesses. And whereas over 16,000 arts and culture nonprofits support more than 800,000 jobs and generate 289 billion dollars, representing 7.5% of the state's economy. And whereas these collective efforts at the local, regional, and state levels promote

innovation, prosperity, equity, and enrich the lives of all Californians. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the city council of the city of Lakeport does hereby designate April 2026 as Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in the city of Lakeport and encourages everyone to join in the celebration.

Happy Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month. Tonight, I want to thank the city of Lakeport for being a strong champion to the arts, culture, youth, and education, and for being the home of Lake County Arts Council since 1981. This year, we're proudly celebrating the grand opening of our relocated gallery, which is now named Visions Art Gallery, which is at the community center. Um this helps us increase our opportunities for many of our existing programs including um opportunities for youth in our summer youth art camp and other arts education programs right here in Lakeport. Our arts and public places program brings creativity not only our city hall if you've been in our halls here.

Those are furbished with our arts council local artists as well as um providing arts and public places in um the county courthouse. And we have now moved into on the waterfront and we are expanding to other places and exploring maybe helping furnish some of the empty storefronts and try to make Main Street really beautiful regardless of what's going on within the buildings. Love it.

Um the Sober Theater anchors our community hosting our partners like the Symphony, the Lake County Symphony, the Lake County Theater Company, New Vintage Productions, the many dance groups. We are proudly celebrating uh 10 years. We just did 10 years with Shakespeare at the Lake here at our library park. So, this will be our 11th year now. So, good job, City of Lake. We're jumping right on board in the beginning. Um, we are excited for our 45th annual spring dance festival, which will be April 18th at the Max Center over in the school, the auditorium, the Marjgery, I don't I don't know the name. I can't pronounce it. I apologize. Um, we are also really proud to highlight our local cultural heritage in Lakeport. Um, we have with us Les Miller from Yumaba and Ron Montes from Henipo Henipo Benabo. I cannot talk. I am just losing my breath.

But um, this acceptance is this partnership with our Pomo brothers. It grows my heart. Not only, you know, we have Kabotan Park now. We have the Shiccom art stuff, but at the Soaperies, we're now doing our Pomo culture series, which we're doing our third one this Saturday. So, um, please stay tuned for those because we are going to continue to grow these and they're about to become this amazing thing. I'm so proud and thank you for everyone that's been participating. Um, we also want to honor our Latinx community. We've been doing our SA and Familia at the Soap Race Theater, which are Spanish movie series, which is the first Sunday of the month at 3 p.m. And that is continuing to grow. And finally, I just want to thank all the individuals in this room. I've spoken to so many of you. I've worked with many of you on all these different projects. It's not ever one organization. It's not ever any one person. And it's all of us that makes Lakeport this really unique community that we are. And just thank you for celebrating and let's continue to celebrate arts, culture, and creativity in Lake. Thank you everyone.

Okay. Thanks you guys. Let's come down. I'll give you the proclamation. That's not it. I would like to um Oh, yes, sir. welcome all of you to in August we're going to put the Pomo statue up on at the museum and um we just got an extension. the sculpture had a little problem uh uh medical problem and we got an extension and I'm expecting speakers from this panel as well as the chief of police here and I will be sending a letter to you to invite you to speak there. Thank you.

Because it's very important. This was my project 10 years ago and I can't believe how fast the time has passed and it's to bring community together not separate. So in that in that sense um you know we all have to come together and um especially in Lakeport as I got older I I donate my time to community and I deal with a lot with seniors and youth and I love it you know um if you don't get paid nobody's your boss that

any anyone else want to come up? Yes, sir. Come up, please.

So, good evening. My name is Ron Montes. I'm an elder from the Cababeno tribe, which you guys know as uh Cababe Napo, rock people. And uh we also known as mission because the first mission that was in Lake County was brought here by the by the fathers that came to build and bring in the to convert a lot of the native people as paganistic people. You know how we are. I joke about that because we have our own belief system, our own social system, our own um way of uh government and all of that. And uh we're still trying to uh abide by those which our ancestors left for us many many years ago. But in the meantime, we're still here today. Our young people are growing. They're making kids like crazy more citizens for Lake Park. And and with that in mind, I I decided to become join put my hat in the ring for the Lake County Arts Council so that I could uh open an avenue for our young people to express those an alternative to expression in their personal lives instead of violence, instead of um hurting themselves and others. and not being productive citizens that they can express some of those things that they feel. And I look at the art that comes from them now and I'm amazed at how awesome they are at that expression from all different ages. My hope is to open to put a little spot

over in the Arts Council building and have that on display. And I think it'll be a good uplifting for the our community and also for our families and members of the local tribes around me. If you'll notice that uh if you go through Middletown, you look up on the hills as you're approaching from Lower Lake, what do you see?

Those water towers, the paintings on it uh with Moch and the group up in Middletown. Uh I'm inspired. I want to paint all of them around here, too. So, these are ideas that we have now to help um and it it's twofold. It's to show how awesome we are as a county, as a city, as a people, and that our culture is still alive and we're here. And we want our children to see and be reminded that our ancestors suffered many many hardships so that we could be here today not to be a burden but but to share in this life that we have together on this land that we call our mother earth. So

oh so thank you all. Thanks Ready for t-shirt. Okay,

I'll be Yes, I'd be honorable. Thank you. Thank you. Of course. I'm part of the Scots Valley tribe. He's uh we're always going back and forth. He calls it that park down there. How do you say it? And we call I just sit in between and watch the Thank you guys. Thank you so much. I remember you're on.

Thank you. So, we will move on now to uh we have nothing for public hearings, which means we move on to council business. and we're going to pass it over to our city manager for a fiscal year 2526 city department goals, progress, and accomplishments. Evan,

thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Uh, this is definitely one of my more uh favorite uh things to do in the year. I get to sit here and uh highlight and take credit for everything that the management team and all of our our lovely staff uh do uh day in and day out. So, what you have in your packet, thank you, sir. Um, is kind of it breaks it all out department by department specifically in regards to accomplishments. Um, we kind of highlighted the near-term goals for this current fiscal year and um and but then also, you know, noted some additional accomplishments that uh that we've got along the way as well. So you have all that in your packet in regards to what my presentation here this evening to try and kind of pack it all together and how it kind of fits uh with our entire kind of vision. So um it's been a very active year. Um we've across all the departments um what we have here is an emphasis on uh delivering some pretty large um infrastructure projects. Some of them have been going on in various stages over the past two years but um we're excited that uh we we did uh complete those this year. Um you'll also notice the consistent theme is our efforts of not just uh about completing those individual projects but also uh positioning ourself uh to to complete additional projects um in the upcoming years as well. Uh so one of those big ones that has been going on the past couple years is um some of our large uh water and sewer uh projects. Uh this um has involved um I think the biggest more noticeable uh piece of it has been uh two miles of water line replacement, one mile of sewer replacement, but in addition to this overall $8 million of investment into our um our water and sewer uh systems. Um there are a couple of them that are still uh finishing up uh this uh currently as the weather has just turned. So poor Paul is uh out there feverishly u with various uh

contractors. the the sodium hyperchloride conversion that your council approved just a couple months ago is getting underway as well as uh some of the the actual test well drilling now that we've identified sites and different things will also be going um as the weather's gotten a little better as well. So this has been a major um one said the past couple years were really noticeable getting those pipes in the ground. Uh which leads us to one of our other bigger uh accomplishments this past year is um getting um a couple of really uh big um collector roads repaved in conjunction uh with the replacement of those uh utilities underground. Um you there on your left you're seeing Lakeshore Boulevard before and after and then on the right um Martin Street um which I think we would all agree uh were well overdue and ready for paving. Um and then this also, you know, comes on the heels of um even though most I would say probably about 90% of the uh South Main uh project was completed the previous fiscal year, we put it in here again because we officially finished it uh this year. So all three of those um are huge pieces and I would say I mean Ron can probably provide the the actual mileage. But over the past 10 years or so with with um since the adoption of Measure Z, we have um um outside of parallel uh which is next on our list, we have finished um all of our uh collector roads in that 10-year period. Um, and I think overall we have a what 32 lane miles in and we've we've paved approximately a third uh of those I think in that that 10-year period. So what this means going forward is these are the really cash um intensive ones. Um you know budget woes and different things are going to keep us from doing a whole lot. We we did uh expend a lot of our reserves uh to do these these two large projects this

current fiscal year. But what this does allow us to do is uh you to start to turn and actually kind of look a little bit more at that local road network, which I know that you guys all get lots of uh concerned citizens um bringing to your attention um at a frequent basis. But this was these were two really big uh ones. And then um also uh some smaller grants um underway. Um one I think the the blue zones folks uh assisting us with um some improvements right there at the school. Those are um getting underway here shortly. and then also positioning ourselves well for um uh completing our active our local active transportation plan and being ready to go after some grants um and moving forward. We got the design um environmental completed for Lakeport Boulevard which is also uh slated to go this next fiscal year. So, lots of good things happening in this sphere. um our Lakeport Police Department. Um we've, you know, although we've we've been struggling with different uh you know, kind of staff pieces, we have a lot of positive things going on there. And what you're seeing there highlighted in those pictures is uh we've had some some really big promotions in there uh with uh uh Sergeant Kulie being promoted to lieutenant and then uh officers Freighus and officers Johnson being uh you know promoted up to sergeant. Um so we are despite some of our current staff wos we are positioned in in a really good spot going forward. Um you know we we are continuing to see the our recruitment efforts um you know recruiting locally and taking folks um through academy and supporting them through that piece um has continued to be a real help to us. The problem there as we've talked in the past is just that time lag uh that's involved is you know kind of 12 to 18 months to get an officer on the street from scratch and then um unfortunately our officers have become very popular in regards to the training and stuff that they receive and and they are enticed to to other

locations. Um in addition to just our um our you know officer core we've been able to um maintain a lot of our programs. In fact, I would say our connection with the Lake County Behavioral Health uh department has grown. Uh we do have that co-responder program which initially started uh out of a grant with um with uh Lake Family Resources Center is now officially partnered through Lake County Behavioral Health. We have an embedded officer um a licensed clinician uh that go out together um and do that first sort of thing. And it's a great it's a great piece in regards to there are a tremendous number of programs out there and uh being able to have that in the field connection piece and we've also been able to take advantage of uh Lake County Behavioral Health's mobile crisis uh unit um as well. So that's been a great partnership that we've seen um you know continue to grow. Um we continue to staff um an SRO position and continue to have um you know prioritized foot patrols in the uh downtown area. And uh so um we're we are pushing forward and uh we'll continue to be creative in our in our ways of trying to make sure that we can have a a well staffed police department moving forward. As well in that public safety realm as well. We've also um have some really neat uh features in there. what's been on uh your council's list for quite a few years is to try and get a public safety camera uh system into the parklands in particular um in the downtown area. We were able to partner with um a a new AI company, Intelv AI um that offered a really good competitive uh price free uh for a um for a a um for a camera system. We currently have 12 that are up and running. um we have those for six months in that free program, but um they've been very um easy to work with. We're very happy with the quality and the coverage and piece and we're I I think

we have a pretty good strategy where we'll be able to keep uh most of them um in regards to how they partner very well with our existing license plate reader. So, it's creating a very good system um complementing um our existing police force activities as well. Um so that's that's been an very exciting uh piece. Uh Chief has also been um for out in the forefront for a lot of other kind of uh uh technology based sort of stuff to kind of improve efficiencies in the department. One that he identified we've been able to uh utilize is a um report writing um AI uh which the the goal there and what it's already we're kind of measuring it and keeping track of how it's actually working. Um, but the idea is that by reducing the amount of time that our officers are in writing those reports, it means that that's more hours that they're actually out able to be on the streets and dealing with the community. Um, so that's very early on its stages, but we're happy um we're happy with some of the initial results. Um, and in addition to that, using some other uh features of the crime data analysis and different things to kind of find those operational efficiencies. So, even though that we have a small staff, we're we're able to to to serve the community well. We have a few new hires uh that uh this year, including Danielle in here as well. uh she joined us late last year but uh um we didn't get a chance to highlight her um in we had already done our um our accomplishments so we made sure to have her in there as well as officer Cersci officer Via and uh and Sean Mahan who's currently in academy um so this this is an ongoing piece and these are you know the we are a service-based organization and people are the ones that provide those services and so building that team, supporting that team maintains one of our highest priorities. Kelly's been very

instrumental in uh establishing um our appreciation association uh this year who's been assisting in doing some very wonderful events. That picture you're seeing is from our our Halloween uh party which I won by the way just so you'd know. So that was but very well supported and uh Blue Zones has also been an incredible partner uh with us these past couple years and we are happy to say that we were officially uh certified this year as a Blue Zones employer and uh we also uh were able to through our insurance um provider REIF um um able to secure a wellness grant that we've been able to also use in in some of these pieces and um so we'll continue to see those those pieces grow as Uh the big one uh we made some big strides in regards to our South Lake Port Water Resiliency and Fire Suppression Project. Um and this obviously rolls into uh the you know your council just did approve the design uh for this project. Uh the past couple years we've been uh pushing forward to um get additional funding through the um congressional community project uh program. Um but we're also partnering very closely with the county as they move forward with their road program. And this of course ties into um our annexation effort. Um the big piece here is developing a waterline system serving this highly uh developed high-risk area um that doesn't currently have public water systems. um alleviating um the the small individual water systems that are out there and uh you know providing those basic services to this very important economic um section to not only the city of Lakeport but to the region as well. So definitely more to come on that in the upcoming year. We've seen a lot of development projects uh actually seen some that we've been working on for several years are finally

coming to uh construction and then uh we have another uh quite a few that are in the pipeline um as well. What you're seeing there is the obviously the the old Vista Point shopping center officially demolished and coming down and working very closely with Lake County uh behavioral health in regards to the expansion of their healthc care facility and also um you looking forward to the retail center that they're going that dovetales in very nicely uh with the new courthouse building. Um a number of staff did get a chance to tour that just a few weeks ago. Um it's it's very exciting um to see. I mean it is especially for those of us who have been up to the fourth floor and the cramped sort of situation where they have to move you from here to there and you're you're kind of dodging in the halls moving around. Uh the amount of space that's in this I think is going to be a much better highly functioning um you know community oriented services. But between these two projects alone, uh I think we're slated to see um quite a big transformation uh to especially to that Lakeport um cord, Lakeport Boulevard corridor over the next coming years. We're continuing to work with Retail Coach as there's been uh a large amount of um interest in some of the other vacant sites that exist on that quarter. So I think we're going to continue to see that um transform um over the next few years. Uh the Soarice Theater also uh is uh currently underway with their restroom uh additions um there on the corner of Martin and Main Street. And then of course the Disney boat rental facility uh with their their new dock and uh new building right there on the Lakeshore Boulevard site making a nice uh beautiful entry point uh for anybody coming into the city from that direction. Um and then then as I mentioned a number of other projects that are underway uh working their way through the entitlement uh process.

Uh the big one that's going on you know I think what Joey over 20 14 what is it 14 million in what is a $20 million housing project. I always forget what the actual number is on the park side. Uh 37 million total and we have 10 million of CDBGDR in there as well that the city contributed through that. So that's been a huge project. I mean, for context, I mean, that's that's quite larger than uh the uh Kabotan Park uh project there, and that is actually gone into the vertical uh construction phase. In fact, the picture that you're seeing here is probably old. I think they actually have roofs and sighting and colors are really starting to to take uh form. Um and they're on track, I think you said, for completion in November.

Wow.

So, 64 units. And um additionally uh the project also included quite a bit of other infrastructure there to hopefully assist in uh meeting some other housing needs of the city in the future. A number of different uh partnerships uh you know we've been working on for the past couple years. We actually saw them into fruition through uh license and lease agreements. Um the big ones featured here um Lake County Arts Council um in their partnership um at the SA Community Center allowing that facility to be now available for use um on the weekends and into the evenings. Um and then they are using the front portion for their gallery. Um and that's you kind of in this sort of test phase of it. The grant that we have for the ADA improvements to the restrooms and access to the building is well underway. We just finally uh crossed a big hurdle with HCD and we're actually putting the project out for design. Uh so we are making some progress there to get that open right now. Still sticking with that 50 person uh limit on there, but hopefully that's going to be changing there shortly. Also finalizing um our lease agreement or expanding our lease agreement with clerk on the use of the Carnegie Library building. Uh they've been using the downstairs down stairs area uh basement level there for the past couple years for their lab and um now leasing the seconds story uh space for um the development of an education center there open to the public. They've had a couple of events up there um over the summer kind of with conference in the park. They had an open house um and they've been able to have a few presentations in there, but they're making some good strides on developing that out into um a full board exhibit kind of center there highlighting uh the lake and um and some of the other wonderful ecological things that we have here in Lake County. on the right there, top right you're seeing is uh the

Westside Park uh community uh working in identifying some trail locations on the CLMSD uh property at the south end of town. We formalized that license agreement and they're currently working through their entitlement process uh with the county and hoping to get those official trails in um uh hopefully this fall. So, that's a huge piece kind of using 300 acres of that hillside area there for a multi-use trail park um equestrian, hiking, and biking al together. The Lakeport Community Council also taking some big important steps um in formalizing their nonprofit status. We're uh you know going through that uh that process piece there. But in the meantime, uh still working forward on uh you know, some great Memorial Day event and um also the highlighting a lot of the the Christmas activities, boat light, boat light parade, lighting of the Christmas tree, bringing Santa in there um over there. And then we also have a whole onslaught of some really neat um Fourth of July activities, trying to make a whole week of it. I think the idea is having a you with the fireworks show on Saturday, concerts in the park on Friday. Um I think looking at movie night uh on one of those nights and maybe even a skate night um piece there that they're hoping to kind of tie in also a test run uh with Memorial Day as well. So some exciting things happening in there. Uh these are all partnerships that the city has not you know we're very supportive of but excited to be working with these groups to take them forward. These are things that we just would not be able to do um on our own. uh a lot of exciting uh pieces in the economic development sphere as well. Um we were very excited to be the host city for the uh Redwood Region um economic development summit um held earlier or late last year in November. Um and uh we got to host uh and we held a panel uh there that you're seeing in there and then also took uh the participants

around town kind of showing them our downtown and waterfront area and uh highlighting uh you know kind of over the 30 over the past 10 years to $30 million worth of investment uh that we've done in that in that sphere. It was really neat to to to hear from you know some of our brethren communities around us and uh hearing you know how excited they were. they, you know, a lot of folks were noting um the the high level number of restaurants that we have in the downtown area and, you know, just of course the the beauty of the the lakefront um that uh we've known forever. So, just they need to come down and experience a little bit more. uh lead um uh this year uh kind of highlighted um trying to do some greater outreach to our existing uh businesses and uh so working closely with retail coach on uh some various data gathering uh regarding visitor behavior um you know when people are coming into town, how long they're staying, you know how much they're spending and different things and trying to get that information in a usable fashion to share with our existing businesses. is leveraging uh the leakage report that um we kind of played around with that it's like it's not a very easy read. We're trying to put that into a a more usable um piece that folks can kind of take a look at um and look at ways that they can currently enhance their existing um operations by kind of um you know hopefully adopting some of the pieces that are missing in our community and and so trying to to grow those pieces. We did complete the um hotel feasibility update for the Dutch Harbor uh property this year. Although um in talking with our consultants working with us, um it's been their their suggestion that we continue to hold on highly marketing that site until we see a couple of key economic indicators move forward. Uh we'll be checking in back in with them uh this summer.

I mentioned a few of the kind of um our never-ending quest for some greater efficiency and innovation sort of pieces highlighting some of the things that we've we've done in the police department in specific, but we've also been doing a lot of uh different uh pieces um in our other departments. Ron and uh and the public works staff um in partnership with Lake APC um had an opportunity to start using the Violytics AI uh program. It's kind of a dashboard mounted camera system that um you just keep there as you're driving through town and it identifies a number of uh you know different it can give us kind of instantaneous pavement readings but it also scopes out far enough out the side where we can see things that are in the pedestrian space. Uh it's been very helpful in identifying vegetation related issues and it translates all that instantaneously into our work order system and it's been highly adopted by our staff and and been a really um a boon for um you know kind of finding some additional efficiencies to help our our lean staff. Um see what else do we have on there? um HR uh kind of continuing to expand um our use of the Bamboo HR program in trying to find efficiencies in the evaluation processes. Uh developed a return to work uh program piece to kind of maintain compliance and and keep our staff um in good form. We already talked about the Intelv AI uh public safety camera system and uh we're hoping that uh we can continue to see that um exist in um our entire park system. Library Park, Botton Park, Westside Parks, and then also the the third and fifth street boat ramp areas um are all currently included in that program. And lastly, I you know, I think a lot of times we we hear, "Oh, great. you're doing another study, you know, but I'm I think we've kind of proved over the years that how we can take those studies

and really get those done. The the Habatan Park is an outgrowth of our revitalization uh plan for the downtown and waterfront area previous years before it set the stage on that. We've been doing a lot of work uh in the passage of our local active transportation plan, which sets us up in good shape for not only um large active transportation grants. We're hoping to be able to submit an application for um you know sidewalk in front of the school areas on Lake Shore trying to connect up with uh the previous uh Hartley safe routes to school program. Um but also some smaller ones, you know, it's been very helpful. I think that that was helpful in blue zones identifying the small project they have. So I think we're very excited to see a lot of those continue to come to fruition. Paul was successful in uh getting the uh the the water and wastewater master plans completed this year. I know we weren't happy to see what the price tag involved with uh some of those improvements are, but I mean it does help us, you know, put together a good strategy for continuing to to make meaningful and and appropriate capital improvement investments into our our water and sewer related systems. So, there's a number of different pieces going on. I know some of these have been there for a couple years. the housing conditions uh survey we've completed. That's a component of our our housing um overall program which uh will be coming uh to you guys probably for presentation as it's completed here this summer. Um, and then the big one we've already mentioned that we're very eager and wish that we could get it moving a little quicker is the uh the SA Center ADA restroom upgrades, but it is moving forward. And um I think the timing and our partnership with the Lake County Arts Council is going to continue to see um the use of that site grow and become a a very vital community feature. So that's it. Um, I'm I've told, you know, my management team to interject if there was any major pieces I missed, but

we're certainly um more than happy to answer any questions regarding this presentation or any of the items in your packet. And as you'll see at our next council meeting, we'll we'll talk about the goals uh for the upcoming fiscal year as we move forward with that budget. And I think it's critical having this presentation because a lot of those goals are outgrows, the next step in some of these processes and these pieces. So I am just thrilled to always do this presentation and and take credit for all the different pieces that all of our that all of our staff has done. So you're welcome. Thank you very Thank you, Kevin. Any uh questions from the council here?

No questions. We'll see. I know it's a receiving and file, but anybody in the room have a question on this or anybody online? Victor, I'm seeing no hands raised. Okay. Well, back to us for comments.

Yeah, the the thing that I'm always interested in is these so-called leakage reports. And um are those the kind of things that I mean I understand that retail coach would use it for you know aspiring new people that want to come in. Do they share those with local businesses is say oh man you know we could sure use more sporting goods or more you know yard furniture or I mean is how does that work? That's exactly the re one of the the fundamental reasons that we that lead kind of put together this this focus and this team because you're right I mean those leakage reports are kind of designed industry standard they're set in these weird kind of formats that you know a lot of the big box stores understand and leverage but we're really trying to parse out that information and get it in the hands of um of our local businesses so that they can identify are so like you know maybe not a great example of it but a an actual use example here is you know all Linda's harm hallmark closed uh just recently that leaves a gap of some of those pieces that are in I mean in trying to get that information to some of our existing businesses that you know okay well you know they held this line and this is you know the data that's in there is quite incredible I mean it will talk about okay this is how much the primary retail market area which is not just the city of Lakeport. Our primary retail market being the regional center uh encompasses most of the uh communities around the lake proper. So looking at that that group of individuals spends x amount of dollars on sporting goods but yet businesses in Lake County only, you know, only sell this much in sporting goods. Okay. So there's a 50 or 60% gap there. there's really room, you know,

for if somebody wants to pick up a portion of that line, even if it's a small business and they just want to tackle a little piece of it, um those opportunities. So, that's really we're focusing on. We we're trying to get that. We've been working really closely. Retail Coach has been a great partner in that and they've kind of helped us uh kind of start on that process. Lead Act has been reviewing those and our hope is to kind of put some of those pieces together and then go to the storefronts and say, "Hey, here's here's some data. Have you thought about that? And then you know if they have some additional questions they they easily can connect you know our our contract does allow them to connect directly with retail coach. That's the bridge that we're trying to create.

Yeah. My question would be followup would be that when they have all this data do they like summarize it and then say well these you know because they got this big packet with all these holes in it and they go take a look at this and they're like yeah okay whatever. you know, we don't we don't have we don't have men's custom suits and you know, all this stuff. Or do they like go to individuals or do they have to download it or do they go there and say, "Hey, we're seeing, you know, over here that we need, let's say sporting goods again, and we don't have this, this, and this. They got to go to Big Five or they got to go to Costco or something like that. Is it more specialized or is it like a big report? Go online, check it out." What we're in the process of doing is taking it out of that big

Excel base report pages down to just a one-page front and back one that we can go out there and then with that added caveat that you know here's the general information if you want to learn more let's let's get you you know some one-on-one time with retail coach and we can talk specifically about what your business is and and what specific opportunities Yes. It's got to be user friendly and not some big data bank that you go to and you go, "Yeah, go online. It's right there." It's always the same thing. Oh, go online. It's online. Read it. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Exactly. Thank you, Kevin.

Oh, go ahead. Um, great uh presentation. It's sort of a state of the city. I feel like we should be having a party now. We You guys really got a lot done. It's impressive and city looks great and um it's just makes me really happy. We're you, as we talked about in our annual communication report, you know, we do have some monies in this current year budget uh to try and uh you to you to to bring on a professional and kind of so between this the budget message and some of those other pieces. You're trying to we're looking at trying to get this out there a little bit further and and so that folks are aware that we are good stewards of their resources. those resources are limited and uh you know there's only so much that that can get done in a given year, but we're you know strategically going through. So we're going to try and get that message a little further out because as you can see we don't have a huge

it's too bad. Yeah. Observing our presentation, but I think people are noticing that the city looks great and um feels safe and there are a lot of places to go and they can flush their toilet and the water tastes good. So, great job. Yeah, thank you. It's just those two things right next to each other. That was just They're kind of the top two, aren't they? They are $8.1 million worth. I mean,

I was just thinking with all the, you know, our past uh presentations this evening when it was talking about identity and stuff, you know, maybe we should think about how what was our identity? What do we want to say over and over about lay? You know, we envision, we produce, we celebrate. I don't know what we want to say. What who are we? But maybe that is something to think about. And well done. Awesome work. And you know, we've see it we see it coming all year long. Uh and it's beautiful the first time around, but it's wonderful to see it all put together like that.

It is. It's really incredible to have these meetings first and third Tuesday. We approve a little project here. We approve a study there. But once you put it into a a presentation of everything that the city staff does all year long, it's a lot. It's a lot for a for a little city. And we we accomplish a lot thanks to you guys. Um but yeah, just getting this presentation to us, it's incredible. We need to get more people in the room. We need to find a way to share it with the rest of the city so we can brag about the great work that you guys do and have a party. and have a party. Hot dogs and lemonade next or the Cinco de Mayo meeting out. Yeah, really.

It it might just be that um because of the representative democracy that we have there that they're not down here beating us up because they said those guys that we elected, they seem to be doing a good job. Maybe. That's probably, but maybe not. Well, good job, Kevin. Uh good job staff. I mean, like I said a second ago, you guys do accomplish a lot in a year and that that presentation just really highlights it. Uh, unless there's anything else on this item, um, I think we move right along. Unless I know it said suggested motion was receive and filed. Did you need McKenzie something formal on that? We go back and forth on this. I don't think a motion is okay.

Strictly required. Perfect. Then we'll move on uh to the last item of our regular agenda and that is city council communications. Uh like always we'll go around the room and start with Joey. No report this evening. Mayor. All right, Chief. No report this evening. Danielle. All right, Paul. No report. Kelly, same here. No report. Striking out. Ron, thank you. No report. Okay, Victor, no report. McKenzie, nothing to report. Oh, Kevin, of course, I'll come through for

I left it out of the accomplishments one uh because it's not that great, but I think there are some positive opportunities here, too. We did get we did get a formal response from Congressman Thompson's office regarding the South Lake Port um water resiliency and fire suppression project that um it was not one of his 20 recommended projects. However, I do have a meeting here coming up next week um with Luca uh to talk and explore, you know, maybe some other uh opportunities to get that in. So, he he did express in his letter um that he wants to continue to work with us and uh is happy about the collaboration between the city and the county and knows the importance of the project. It just they didn't find a really good fit to push it through that community project piece. Um Ron, Paul and I will be uh meeting very uh uh uh here shortly um kind of looking at some of that work that we got at our Cal City's Redwood division phase. I think the project is really um uh ripe for some of that Prop 4 um related um funding pieces. So I think and we're well positioned there um already working on design for that project. So um I think there are some trying to accentuate the positive out of there, but did want to share that we did receive that. Um lastly, um uh not last week, but the week before, um I did travel down to Southern California to attend the Cal's, um Rev and Tax, uh committee meeting, and um unfortunately Stacy's meetings was like the next day, so we didn't travel together. I got to say hi to her real quick um before her meeting on Friday. um monitoring as always. Uh number and plethora of different uh legislative uh bills going through and being considered uh by the the legislature. There's a few scary ones in there. Uh we did get a report in regards to um a couple of ballot initiatives that look like that they'll either be on um the uh November or the following one um including a kind of

resurrection of a small portion of the the previous California Business Roundtable one. um a little less scary than the last one, but still uh definitely one we want to keep an eye on. Um but also on the positive side, um the the league um does have um a number of sponsored bills that they're um that they are pushing forward as well that are some positive action pieces there. We do seem to have um some some folks in both chambers um with um a desire to see cities thrive um without the mandates and the the loss of local control. Um so we're excited to see some of those. So we might actually have some support letters um in our future uh for a change. So we'll continue to those and I'm sure that uh Council Member Matine will have an update in regards to the the housing side of things. But that's my report. Kevin, uh, Council Member Costa,

I think the only thing I'd like to report on is I'm continuing to work with some uh really busy people on the splash in uh, and it is uh, that first weekend of June. The total event goes from the 4th through the 8th. The weekend uh, family focused event is mostly Saturday the 6th. And so they'll be uh and which is really only like seven or eight weeks away. So it's coming up real fast and there's going to be a lot for the pilots and the professionals that want to fly in from all over the country where they fly in from. Um, but this year there's a lot of good energy going into um there's a band, there's um hopefully a simulator, there are games, there are crafts, there are interesting things for um families to come and do uh there on site and um demonstrations. Modelers are going to fly some um kind of big kind of model planes uh out over the water and such. So, there should be a lot going on and um we're hoping it is a good beginning for an event that becomes um a little better established and more family uh friendly so that it can um be of interest to a more a wider variety of people here in Lakeport.

What's the date on that again, Kim? I believe it's uh the 4th through the 8th. The first weekend would be the sixth in the set. Yeah, that's seventh. Yeah, that's it. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Uh, Council Member Parllet.

Yeah, just I mean this isn't totally Lakeport, but the APC is working diligently on the Northshore, putting in more of those rapid flash beacons to lower the mortality rate. And they're putting up, I think that they've got it slated all the way out to the nearly the end of June. And they're putting them in all along there. So they're shutting down parking while they're doing all this work and it's definitely needed because unlike Lakeport, they don't have good lighting and good and they have it is a major highway, a major artery from I5 going to 101. A lot of traffic. So um your APC committee is working hard to make all of Lake County safer. So I think that's a good thing. So um and they're very diligent in getting that up. And I've already got stopped at one already that was already put in. I was shocked because this is Calrans that we're talking about.

Yeah. Well, there absolutely is a Lakeport connection there. Supervisor Crandell reached out to to us and uh wanted some information on the ones that we were installing and we were able to get those over to him. And so, yeah, it's it's direct Lakeport connection. It's a really good project when you have businesses nestled right up against a major uh artery like that. And it's it's nice to see safety not just for Lakeport, but for all the way around. And it's so dark. Yeah, it is so dark. And everybody loves black hoodies. I don't recommend on Highway 20. That's it. Thank you, Council Member Price. Nothing to report. Pro Tim Matina. So, uh, well, first, Council Member Plet, we do have APC and transit tomorrow in Lower Lake.

Just go. I'm sure you're prepared

meeting. Um and then I did attend um my committee meeting is housing community um housing community and economic development. And the meetings were great. Um if you guys have ever thought about doing a committee the there's three committees on my day, but we all start in one room together and they do a general presentation. All the lobbyists get up and kind of give us updates on what's going on in the legislature and the actions that Cal's um are doing. And um it's always great to get an overview of where you're at. Um and then just to mention in my committee, we took action on three bills that I'm not going to get into because they're garbage telling us what to do and how to do it. And we we can already decide that on our own for all of these silly things. But I wanted to mention that we opposed all three of them. um which for a while the league was known as um the league of no and so I was kind of having flashbacks to a few years back. I think there's some frustration in getting tired of the state telling the cities what to do. So just thought I'd mention that push back.

Thank you. Uh from my report just a quick reminder that the lake wreck the LC is canceled for this Thursday. Um we will be on next month and in the meantime uh that agency is working on presentation a presentation to give to the Lakeport City Council, Clear Lake City Council and the board of supervisors on uh the updates. Cool. Through Lake W. Yeah. So we will do we have a date

can definitely for us be our May 5th agenda. I likely it'll be Clear Lake that that same week Thursday. 7th. Um, and Lars is working to get us a a date there in early May for the county as well. Perfect. Well, I'll run down to the podium and give you guys a presentation. Uh, Brandon promised that it was going to be 10 times better than Bruno's Peg. Uh, yeah. As the chair of the board, I said, "I'll I'll do it, you guys." Good. Everybody Yeah. agreed with that. So, uh, you'll get to hear more of me uh when that comes.

Uhhuh. Uh so this month canceled next month will be on um and that's it for my report. So the regular meeting uh is not adjourned. We have a close session. I saw you reach for it and I I remembered uh so after this we are going to go into close session uh which is conference with legal counsel existing litigation. Should I read out all of it and it's fine. Okay. Okay. Just ask the public. Yes. Got it. Uh, anybody in the room want to speak on our close session? No. Yeah. Ron, come on up. Uh, anybody online, Victor? No hands raised, Mr. Mayor.

All right. Well, then the regular meeting is adjourned and we will move to close session. Okay, we are back from close session. Uh we had unanimous consent to execute the settlement agreement. This meeting is adjourned.