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The council will meet at 6 p.m. Jan. 19, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
The meeting will be broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel or the Lake County PEGTV YouTube Channel. Community members also can participate via Zoom or can attend in person.
The agenda can be found here.
Comments and questions can be submitted in writing for City Council consideration by sending them to City Clerk Melissa Swanson at
To give the council adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit your written comments before 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.
Each public comment emailed to the city clerk will be read aloud by the mayor or a member of
staff for up to three minutes or will be displayed on a screen. Public comment emails and town hall public comment submissions that are received after the beginning of the meeting will not be included in the record.
On Thursday, city staff will present January’s adoptable dogs and also give out certificates of appreciation for Breakfast with Santa volunteers.
Under council business, there will be an update on the Lake County Recreation Task Force.
The council also will consider approving a resolution granting consent to the county of Lake to renew the Lake County Tourism Improvement District, or LCTID, and include the city of Clearlake in the LCTID.
Council members also will review and approve the submittal of the fiscal year 2023-24 recognized obligation payment schedule for the period of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
On the meeting's consent agenda — items that are considered routine in nature and usually adopted on a single vote — are warrants; authorization of an amendment of contract with REY Engineers for the Tree Streets Design Project in the amount of $158,175; award of the Contract for the Youth Center flooring to Bridges Construction; continuation of authorization to implement and utilize teleconference accessibility to conduct public meetings pursuant to Assembly Bill 361; minutes of the Dec. 14, 2022, Lake County Vector Control District Board meeting; and authorization of an agreement with Studio W for city hall remodel services for a not-to-exceed amount of $130,916.
The council also will hold a closed session following the public portion of the meeting to discuss a liability claim filed against the city by David and Kimberly Cavagna.
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MATH will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the Middletown Community Meeting Room/Library at 21256 Washington St., Middletown. The meeting is open to the public.
To join the meeting via Zoom click on this link; the meeting ID is 659 964 1209. Call in at 669-900-6833.
The meeting will feature District 1 Supervisor Moke Simon, who will give his “state of the county” report. There will be a question and answer session afterward.
There also will be the MATH Board elections. Those who attend in person as well as those on Zoom can participate.
Once elected, the board of directors will nominate and elect officers — chair, vice chair and secretary — and the MATH Assembly will nominate and elect alternates.
MATH also will have a Zoom discussion.
The MATH Board includes Chair Monica Rosenthal, Vice Chair Ken Gonzalez, Secretary Todd Fiora, Rosemary Córdova and Bill Waite.
MATH — established by resolution of the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12, 2006 — is a municipal advisory council serving the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (including Hidden Valley Lake), Long Valley and Middletown.
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
We asked 11 healthy middle-aged and older adults to sit in our lab for eight hours – representing a standard workday – over the course of five separate days. On one of those days, participants sat for the entire eight hours with only short breaks to use the bathroom. On the other days, we tested a number of different strategies to break up a person’s sitting with light walking. For example, on one day, participants walked for one minute every half-hour. On another day, they walked for five minutes every hour.
Our goal was to find the least amount of walking one could do to offset the harmful health effects of sitting. In particular, we measured changes in blood sugar levels and blood pressure, two important risk factors for heart disease.
We found that a five-minute light walk every half-hour was the only strategy that reduced blood sugar levels substantially compared with sitting all day. In particular, five-minute walks every half-hour reduced the blood sugar spike after eating by almost 60%.
That strategy also reduced blood pressure by four to five points compared with sitting all day. But shorter and less frequent walks improved blood pressure too. Even just a one-minute light walk every hour reduced blood pressure by five points.
In addition to physical health benefits, there were also mental health benefits to the walking breaks. During the study, we asked participants to rate their mental state by using a questionnaire. We found that compared with sitting all day, a five-minute light walk every half-hour reduced feelings of fatigue, put participants in a better mood and helped them feel more energized. We also found that even walks just once every hour were enough to boost mood and reduce feelings of fatigue.
Why it matters
People who sit for hours on end develop chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, dementia and several types of cancer at much higher rates than people who move throughout their day. A sedentary lifestyle also puts people at a much greater risk of early death. But just exercising daily may not reverse the harmful health effects of sitting.
Because of technological advances, the amount of time adults in industrialized countries like the U.S. spend sitting has been steadily increasing for decades. Many adults now spend the majority of their day sitting. This problem has only gotten worse since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the migration to more remote work, people are less inclined to venture out of the house these days. So it’s clear that strategies are needed to combat a growing 21st century public health problem.
Current guidelines recommend that adults should “sit less, move more.” But these recommendations don’t provide any specific advice or strategies for how often and how long to move.
Our work provides a simple and affordable strategy: Take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. If you have a job or lifestyle where you have to sit for prolonged periods, this one behavior change could reduce your health risks from sitting.
Our study also offers clear guidance to employers on how to promote a healthier workplace. While it may seem counterintuitive, taking regular walking breaks can actually help workers be more productive than working without stopping.
What still isn’t known
Our study primarily focused on taking regular walking breaks at a light intensity. Some of the walking strategies – for example, one-minute light walks every hour – did not lower blood sugar levels. We don’t know if more rigorous walking would have provided health benefits at these doses.
What’s next
We are currently testing over 25 different strategies for offsetting the health harms of prolonged sitting. Many adults have jobs, such as driving trucks or taxis, where they simply cannot walk every half-hour. Finding alternative strategies that yield comparable results can provide the public with several different options and ultimately allow people to pick the strategy that works best for them and their lifestyle.
Keith Diaz, Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda can be found here.
The council chambers will be open to the public for the meeting. Masks are highly encouraged where 6-foot distancing cannot be maintained.
If you cannot attend in person, and would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the Zoom meeting remotely at this link or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799.
The webinar ID is 973 6820 1787, access code is 477973; the audio pin will be shown after joining the webinar. Those phoning in without using the web link will be in “listen mode” only and will not be able to participate or comment.
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On Tuesday, the council is expected to adopt a resolution confirming the existence of a local emergency.
On Jan. 10, City Manager Kevin Ingram, who also serves as the director of emergency services for the city of Lakeport declared a local state of emergency in connection with the recent atmospheric rivers and flooding which began impacting the city around Jan. 4.
In accordance with the Emergency Services Act Section 8630(b) and Lakeport Municipal Code section 2.28, the governing body must ratify the declared emergency within 7 days for it to remain in effect.
Also on the agenda for Tuesday, the council will present a proclamation designating January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
In other business, the council will consider adopting a resolution granting the City Council’s consent to the County of Lake to renew the Lake County Tourism Improvement District, or LCTID, and include the city of Lakeport in the LCTID; and receive and file the fiscal year 2022-23 first quarter financial update.
The council also will receive an update on the status of the Lake County Recreation Task Force and get the communications team activity update.
On the consent agenda — items usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the City Council’s regular meeting on Jan. 17, 2022; a resolution authorizing continued remote teleconference meetings of the Lakeport City Council and its legislative bodies pursuant to Government Code section 54953(e); approval of application 2023-001, with staff recommendations, for the 2023 Clear Lake Bass Tournament; approval of the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule 23-24 for the period of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, for presentation and adoption by the Lake County Redevelopment Oversight Board; receive and file the Community Development Quarterly Report for FY 2022-2023; and adopt a resolution amending and adopting an updated Conflict of Interest Code.
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Al James, 63, was arrested at about 10 a.m. Sunday, the Lakeport Police Department said.
Police officers were dispatched to the scene of a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at a location on N. Main Street just before 6 p.m. Saturday evening.
The driver had fled the scene prior to the arrival of officers, authorities said.
The elderly female pedestrian, who was conscious and alert at the scene, was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
Police later reported that she was transported by air ambulance to an out-of-county hospital where she is recovering.
The only witnesses at the scene pointed law enforcement to a silver-colored larger SUV vehicle which was seen driving northbound on N. Main Street near the crash scene at the time of the collision.
On Sunday, police said they had apprehended James, originally a Texas resident.
He was booked into the Lake County Jail for felony hit-and-run, with bail set at $10,000.
Jail records indicated he was no longer in custody on Sunday night.
The Lucerne community meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the multipurpose room at Lucerne Elementary School, 3351 Country Club Drive.
The meeting also will be available via Zoom.
The meeting ID is 857 2312 7967, the passcode is 13931.
Kurt McKelvey, who has served as chair of the Lucerne Area Town Hall, will moderate the meeting.
On the agenda is a discussion of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians’ proposal to use the Lucerne Hotel to house dozens of out-of-county homeless youth and young adults.
The Lucerne Area Town Hall passed a resolution at its December meeting condemning the proposal.
Also on the agenda, there will be discussion for the need for self-determination for the community of Lucerne.
There also will be a discussion of neglected county maintenance issues in Lucerne.