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The council will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 9.
The meeting will be by teleconference only. The city council chambers will not be open to the public.
The agenda can be found here.
To speak on an agenda item, access the meeting remotely here or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799. The webinar ID is 951 6769 7302, access code is 529272; 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.
Comments can be submitted by email to
Indicate in the email subject line "for public comment" and list the item number of the agenda item that is the topic of the comment. Comments that read to the council will be subject to the three-minute time limitation (approximately 350 words). Written comments that are only to be provided to the council and not read at the meeting will be distributed to the council prior to the meeting.
The council will receive department presentations on 2020-21 Fiscal Year accomplishments and 2021-22 Fiscal Year recommended goals.
They also will receive public comment, discuss the information and give direction to staff.
Presentations will be given by Administrative Services Department Director Kelly Buendia, Community Development Department Director Jenni Byers, City Manager Kevin Ingram on behalf of the Economic Development Department, Chief Brad Rasmussen and Lt. Dale Stoebe for the Lakeport Police Department, Finance Department Director Nick Walker, Public Works Department Director Doug Grider and Utilities Division Superintendent Paul Harris.
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The commission will meet virtually beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 9.
The agenda can be found here.
Submit comments and questions in writing for commission consideration by sending them to
Community members also can participate via Zoom.
To give the planning commission adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit written comments prior to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 9.
The meeting will be broadcast live on the Youtube channels for the city of Clearlake or Lake County PEG TV.
On the agenda is a use permit Chandra Martinez of Fuego Tribe is seeking for a commercial cannabis operation in existing buildings at 14935 and 14915 Olympic Drive, with cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, nursery and retail delivery among the proposed uses.
The commission will consider if the project is exempt from environmental notice to the public.
Commissioners also will discuss a development agreement between the city and applicant for the operations.
The commission’s members are Chair Kathryn Davis, Vice Chair Robert Coker and commissioners Lisa Wilson, Erin McCarrick and Fawn Williams.
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The findings, published Feb. 25 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, address the ethical dilemma of who should be first in line for a limited supply of vaccine shots amid a contagion that so far has killed 500,000 in the United States and 2.4 million globally.
“Since older age is accompanied by falling life expectancy, it is widely assumed that means we’re saving fewer years of life,” said study lead author Joshua Goldstein, a UC Berkeley professor of demography.
“We show this to be mistaken,” he added. “The age patterns of COVID-19 mortality are such that vaccinating the oldest first saves the most lives and, surprisingly, also maximizes years of remaining life expectancy.”
Taking age and health risks into account, Goldstein, UC Berkeley demographer Kenneth Wachter and Bucknell University mathematician Thomas Cassidy conducted an analysis of life expectancy in the United States, Germany and South Korea in the face of the yearlong coronavirus pandemic.
They based their calculations on the number of lives potentially saved from being vaccinated, multiplied by the life expectancy of those vaccinated.
For example, if one million vaccinations saved 1,000 lives, and those vaccinated people, on average, were projected to live another 20 years, the total number of years of life saved would be 20,000.
The mathematical arguments upon which they based their conclusion apply not just to a few countries, but generally around the globe, the researchers said.
“Allocating scarce COVID-19 vaccine doses involves many tradeoffs. However, a conflict between minimizing the count of deaths and maximizing remaining life is not one of them,” Goldstein said.
Since the approval of various COVID vaccines last fall, and their rollouts in December, a debate has been mounting over which groups to inoculate first, given limited vaccine supplies and, in many cases, chaotic distribution systems.
While some groups have argued that essential workers should take priority to keep health, education and economic systems up and running, others, such as the World Health Organization, have declined the “Years of Life Lost” criterion in ranking vaccine recipients due to older people’s disproportionately higher risk of death and the perception that such an approach would be discriminatory and disrespectful.
This latest study should assuage some of those concerns, researchers said.
“Our empirical analysis shows it is easier than thought to set such fears aside and to give vaccine priority to the oldest and those in the most vulnerable states of health,” according to the paper, which notes that COVID deaths rise exponentially with age.
The researchers found that the COVID death rate by age increased by about 11% annually in the United States, Germany and Korea. Moreover, they found that vaccinating people in their 90s would save three times as many lives as giving the same doses to people in their 80s.
“Before this study, it was suspected that there would be some intermediate age — not too old and not too young — which would maximize the benefit of a vaccine, in terms of person years of life saved,” Goldstein said. “But surprisingly, we show this is not the case.”
Yasmin Anwar writes for the UC Berkeley News Center.
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The following cats at the shelter have been cleared for adoption.
Call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278 or visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm for information on visiting or adopting.
Female domestic long hair
This young female domestic long hair cat has a gray and white coat and gold eyes.
She is in cat room kennel No. 11, ID No. 14320.
Male tuxedo cat
This male tuxedo cat has a short black and white coat and green eyes.
He is in cat room kennel No. 39, ID No. 14359.
‘Buddy’
“Buddy” is a male domestic short hair cat with a flame point and white coat and blue eyes.
He has been neutered.
He’s in cat room kennel No. 100, ID No. 14384.
Female domestic medium hair
This young female domestic medium hair cat has a lynx point coat and blue eyes.
She is in cat room kennel No. 108, ID No. 14391.
‘Trouble’
“Trouble” is a young female domestic medium hair cat with a seal point coat and blue eyes.
She’s in cat room kennel No. 132, ID No. 14378.
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