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The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8, online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
To participate in real-time, join the Zoom meeting by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 865 3354 4962, pass code 726865. The meeting also can be accessed via one tap mobile at +16694449171,,86533544962#,,,,*726865#. The meeting can also be accessed via phone at 669 900 6833.
In an item timed for 10:30 a.m., the board will consider a presentation from sheriff’s office and Community Development Department staff regarding the Road Map Task Force accomplishments and lessons learned in Clearlake Oaks, and proposed community oriented policing and targeted restoration for Nice, Lucerne and other shoreline area communities for fiscal years 2024/25 through 2026/27.
The proposal for the three-year project has a budget totaling $1,312,348, and will be based in the Lucerne sheriff’s substation.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Adopt proclamation designating April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
5.2: Adopt proclamation commending Laura Calderon for her 23 years of service to the county of Lake.
5.3: Adopt proclamation designating the week of April 21 to 27, 2024, as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
5.4: Approve Board of Supervisors minutes for March 26, April 2 and April 9, 2024.
5.5: Adopt proclamation designating the week of April 14 to 20, 2024, as National Public Safety Dispatchers Week.
5.6: a) Waive the formal bidding process pursuant to County Ordinance 3109 Section 2-38 due to 38.2(3), not in the public interest as competitive bidding would produce no economic benefit to the county; and b) approve eighth amendment to the lease agreement between county of Lake and NL Family Trust/KLA Family Trust for the property located at 1216, 1222 and 1228 South Main Street in Lakeport, for $22,800 from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, $23,820 from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, and $24,840 from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.7: a) Waive the formal bidding process pursuant to County Ordinance 3109 Section 2-38 due to 38.2(3), not in the public interest as competitive bidding would produce no economic benefit to the county; and, b) approve contract to lease agreement between county of Lake and OMarshall Inc. for the property Located at 16170 Main St. in Lower Lake, in the amount of $62,436 per fiscal year from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, and authorize the chair to sign.
TIMED ITEMS
6.2, 9:03 a.m.: Pet of the Week.
6.3, 9:04 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the week of April 21 to 27, 2024, as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
6.4, 9:05 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
6.5, 9:06 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation commending Laura Calderon for her 23 years of service to the county of Lake Behavioral Health Services Department.
6.6, 9:07 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation designating the week of April 14 to 20, 2024, as National Public Safety Dispatchers Week.
6.7, 9:10 a.m.: Sitting as the Lake County Watershed Protection District, (a) consideration of the cooperative agreement with Caltrans to provide Blue Lakes Safety Project Mitigation funds to support the Clover Creek Hitch Habitat Restoration Project in an amount not to exceed $246,492 and authorize the Water Resources director to sign the agreement; and (b) consideration of a presentation of the proposed project.
6.8, 10 a.m.: WITHDRAWN — PUBLIC HEARING (a) consideration and presentation of the fire mitigation fee nexus studies; and (b) consideration of ordinance amendments to increase fire mitigation fees.
6.9, 10:30 a.m.: Consideration of presentation on Road Map Task Force accomplishments, lessons learned, and proposed community oriented policing and targeted restoration for Nice, Lucerne and other shoreline area communities for fiscal years 2024/25 through 2026/27.
6.10, 11 a.m.: Consideration of an agreement between the county of Lake and PlaceWorks in the not-to-exceed amount of $253,520, for Lake County Housing Action and Implementation Plan consulting services.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of the Classification, Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention Committee (CCRR) 2023-2024 Reclassification Cycle findings and recommendations.
7.3: Consideration of the following Advisory Board appointments: Heritage Commission; Glenbrook Cemetery District.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Public employee appointment pursuant to Gov. Code Section 54957(b) (1): Interviews for Social Services director; appointment of Social Services director.
8.2: Public employee appointment pursuant to Gov. Code Section 54957(b) (1): Interviews for Public Works director; appointment of Public Works director.
8.3: Public employee appointment pursuant to Gov. Code Section 54957(b) (1): Interviews for Water Resources director; appointment of Water Resources director.
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The council will meet Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. 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.
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On Tuesday, the council will meet new city employee Melissa Carpenter, and present proclamations designating April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The agenda includes a public hearing on a proposed ordinance revising Lakeport Municipal Code Chapter 3.34 regarding fire mitigation fees and direction to city staff to schedule a public hearing for the second reading of the ordinance for May 7.
Under council business, Community Development Director Joey Hejnowicz will ask the council to adopt a resolution for “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” in Lakeport.
That will be followed by a request from Public Works Director Ron Ladd to approve the plans, specifications and working details and award a construction contract to T&T Paving, Inc. dba Valley Paving for the South Main Street Sidewalk Project and authorize City Manager Kevin Ingram to execute the construction contract for the bid amount of $334,279.15.
On the consent agenda — items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the City Council’s special meeting on March 28 and regular meeting on April 2; approval of application 2024-016, with staff recommendations, for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Day walk; adoption of the proposed resolution adopting a records retention schedule, and authorizing destruction of certain city records and rescinding Resolution No. 2908 (2023); and adoption of the resolution accepting construction of the Lakefront Park Project by Builder Solutions Inc. and authorization of the filing of the notice of completion.
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Nearly 327,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness lived in shelters, a small proportion (0.1%) of the U.S. population from 2018 to 2022 but higher than from 2013 to 2017, according to American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates released in a working paper.
The 2013-2017 ACS, the previous 5-year ACS with no overlapping years, showed there were approximately 267,000 people (0.08% of the U.S. population) in shelters during that period.
A change in the number of people experiencing homelessness and living in shelters could be due to a change in economic circumstances or resources devoted to shelters or a combination of both.
Group quarters are places — owned or managed by an entity or organization providing housing and/or services for the residents — where people live or stay in a group arrangement.
They consist of institutional (residents primarily not eligible, able or likely to participate in the labor force) and noninstitutional (residents primarily eligible, able or likely to participate in labor force) facilities. Noninstitutional group quarters include places like college dorms and military housing and other noninstitutional facilities.
In the ACS, the sheltered population experiencing homelessness is sampled from facilities where people stay overnight as part of the noninstitutional facilities:
• That operate on a first-come, first-served basis where people must leave the next morning and have no guaranteed bed for another night.
• Where people are assigned a bed for a specified period (even if they leave the building daily).
• That provide temporary shelter during extremely cold weather (like churches). This category does not include shelters that operate only in the event of a natural disaster.
The sheltered population is an estimate of the population experiencing homelessness that stay in emergency and transitional shelters. It is not a complete count of the total U.S. population experiencing homelessness, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimated was 582,500 in 2022. HUD conducts a Point-in-Time count of sheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January every year and a count of unsheltered people every other year.
It’s important to note that some detailed group quarters types are included in the decennial census as “other noninstitutional facilities” but not in the ACS, which may lead to higher or overestimates of this population in the ACS. More information about this is available in Estimates of the Population Experiencing Homelessness and Living in Shelters.
Who are the people who stay in shelters?
Figure 1 shows the share of the sheltered population experiencing homelessness and the population in households and other living quarters (people who lived in households and in group quarters other than emergency shelters) by different demographic groups.
Among the sheltered population experiencing homelessness: 40% were female; 8% were under the age of 18; 8% were age 65 or over; 32% were non-Hispanic White; 37% were non-Hispanic Black; and 35% had a disability.
Figure 2 shows the labor market characteristics of both the sheltered population experiencing homelessness and the population in households and other living quarters.
Among the sheltered population age 16 and over experiencing homelessness, nearly 15% were unemployed and an additional 61% were not in the labor force. That means only about 25% of this population was employed compared to nearly 60% of the population in households and other living quarters.
Among the sheltered population age 25 and over experiencing homelessness, nearly 25% did not have a high school degree and just over 7% had a bachelor’s degree or higher. Low educational attainment and high unemployment likely contributed to a poverty rate over six times higher (76.5%) than for the population in households and other living quarters (12.5%).
Also important to note: nearly one quarter of people experiencing homelessness and living in shelters were not in poverty.
The national poverty rate in 2018-2022 was 12.53%. When excluding the sheltered population experiencing homelessness, the poverty rate was 12.47%, which is not significantly different statistically.
Sheltered population by state
There was a lot of variation in both the number and rate of the population experiencing homelessness in shelters in each state in 2018-2022.
The sheltered population ranged from a low of 173 people in Wyoming to a high of 83,550 people in New York. In fact, four states accounted for over 50% of the total U.S. sheltered population experiencing homelessness: New York (83,550); California (57,700); Texas (15,340); and Florida (13,260).
While 10 out of every 10,000 people lived in a shelter nationally, this rate ranged from a low of 1.5 in Mississippi to a high of 61.5 in the District of Columbia (Figure 3).
Figure 4 shows the ratio of the state share of the U.S. sheltered population to the state share of the total U.S. population. This tells us whether the share of the sheltered population experiencing homelessness in each state was higher or lower than the share of the total U.S. population in each state.
For example, New York had a ratio of 4.23 with about 6% of the U.S. population, but over 25% of the total sheltered population experiencing homelessness. Conversely, Texas had a ratio of 0.53 with nearly 9% of the U.S. population, but only about 5% of the total sheltered population experiencing homelessness.
The share of the sheltered population experiencing homelessness was higher than the state’s share of the U.S. population in 10 states and the District of Columbia and lower in 35 states. The ratio of the two population shares was not significantly different in 5 states.
Figure 5 shows which states had a significant change in sheltered populations experiencing homelessness per 10,000 people in 2018-2022 compared to the 2013-2017 period.
While the number increased nationally, it only rose in 10 states and the District of Columbia. The sheltered population experiencing homelessness per 10,000 people decreased in 17 states and did not change significantly in the other 23 states.
Brian Glassman is an economist and chief of the Census Bureau’s Poverty Statistics Branch.
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Public safety dispatchers play a critical role in orchestrating emergency response efforts, providing vital information to both the callers and emergency responders.
“These women and men are the first point of contact during an emergency, navigating a crisis with composure and expertise to provide vital instructions, while seamlessly coordinating efforts behind the scenes,” said California Highway Patrol Commissioner Sean Duryee. “Their dedication and unwavering commitment to public service deserve praise and recognition.”
The CHP has more than 700 dedicated professionals who serve in that role, working on the front lines of public safety and service, fielding a vast majority of cellular 9-1-1 calls in the state.
Last year, the CHP handled approximately 6.6 million calls for service statewide. Of those calls, 4.6 million were to 9-1-1.
In addition to their primary responsibilities, dispatchers often act as lifelines for individuals in distress offering reassurance, guidance, and support until help arrives.
Their ability to remain calm under pressure, think quickly on their feet, and maintain professionalism in the face of chaos is truly commendable.
The CHP has several openings for public safety dispatchers and public safety operators and is actively recruiting Californians to answer the call of this rewarding career.
For more information, register to attend an online hiring seminar at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. Or take the next step and apply today.
The mission of the CHP is to provide the highest level of safety, service and security.