LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lakeport City Council held special meetings this week to consider making appointments to fill two of its seats vacated by resignations.
Those appointments are contingent upon the acceptance of the final Nov. 8 general election results at the council’s meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 20, said Administrative Services Director/City Clerk Kelly Buendia.
The council held special meetings on Monday and Tuesday evenings to discuss those and other appointments.
On the city council, there are two vacancies.
One is due to the resignation of Michael Green, who was appointed by the Governor’s Office to the District 4 supervisor seat.
The second is the seat formerly held by Mireya Turner, who resigned in August to take the Lake County Community Development director job.
The council temporarily appointed former council member, George Spurr to fill the remainder of Turner’s term through December.
However, by the time of her August resignation, Turner already had filed to run for a third term on the council and was on the ballot.
She was elected to a third term in the Nov. 8 general election and was required to resign again, and so the council must make a new appointment for another two years, until the next municipal election.
The council considered seven applicants for the seats: Kim Costa, Brandon Disney, Amelia Sparks, Shannon Walker-Smith, Anakalia Kaluna Sullivan, Nathan Maxman and Theresa King.
Buendia said the council made appointments contingent upon a few things happening first — specifically, election certification — with the selections to be finalized at the council’s reorganization meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 20.
She said the council selected Brandon Disney for appointment to the City Council seat formerly held by Green and Kim Costa for appointment to the City Council seat held by Turner.
Costa most recently received notice for her efforts to advocate for her neighborhood in the Parkside subdivision next to Westside Community Park as the planning commission and council were considering Waterstone Residentials new apartment complex next door.
“At the Dec. 20, meeting the Council will certify the election results, acknowledge Mireya Turner's resignation and swear in Stacey Mattina, Brandon Disney and Kim Costa,” said Buendia.
Mattina, currently the city’s mayor, ran uncontested and won a fourth term in the November election.
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Lakeport City Council meets to consider new council appointments
- Elizabeth Larson