BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS
The Lassen
County Board of Supervisors convene in Regular Session at
Present in the
Closed Session are Supervisors Robert Pyle, Lloyd Keefer, and Brian Dahle;
County Counsel Craig Settlemire, County Administrative Officer John Ketelsen,
Risk Manager Ron Vossler and County Clerk Theresa Nagel. Supervisor Chapman enters at
The Lassen
County Board of Supervisors reconvenes in Regular Session on
ANNOUNCEMENT
OF ITEMS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION
The
AGENDA
APPROVAL, ADDITIONS AND/OR DELETIONS
Supervisor
Keefer requests that Item F-2, Milford Fire District appointment, be moved to
the next agenda.
It is moved by
Supervisor Dahle, seconded by Supervisor Keefer and carried to approve the
agenda with the noted change.
PUBLIC COMMENT
1. Darrell Foster announces the Third
Annual PACE Pancake Feed to be held March 3rd.
PACE Class President Misty Taylor provides further information on the
fundraiser.
2. Chip
3. Steve Shelley complains about the phone
books that are left at rural mail boxes and states something needs to be done
to make the companies come back and pick up books that are left. Supervisor Chapman suggests the CAO write a
letter to the companies asking for voluntary compliance and if that does not
work other steps can be investigated.
UNAGENDIZED
BOARD REPORTS
1. Supervisor Dahle announces he will be
meeting on March 7th with COMPAC, Big Valley Family Resource Center Board and
Kevin Mannel to discuss the funding for the Family Resource Center; will be
attending the NACO Conference in Washington, D.C., March 3 - 6, 2006; announces
an equipment and antiques consignment auction being put on by the Family
Resource Center.
CONSENT CALENDAR
Supervisor
Chapman requests that Item G-6, audit report, be placed on a future agenda for
discussion rather than just on the consent calendar.
Supervisor
Dahle has questions about Item G-3, Trail Coordinator, and requests it be
pulled for separate consideration.
It is moved by
Supervisor Keefer, seconded by Supervisor Dahle and carried to take the noted
action on the following Consent Calendar items:
COUNTY CLERK
ITEM
Approve
Minutes of
ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES ITEM
Approve request
for position change from Senior Account Clerk, Range 11, UPEC, to Account
Technician, Range 15, UPEC, in the Public Works Department and promote Michele
Salas, the incumbent, to the Account Technician without further competition.
PROBATION
DEPARTMENT ITEM
Approve travel
authorization request for Assistant Chief of Probation Donna Humphrey to attend
the mandatory Standards & Training for Corrections (STC) for Managers and
Supervisors in
OFFICE OF
EMERGENCY SERVICES ITEM
Ratify
continuation of Declaration of State of Disaster - Flood/Emergency in
MISCELLANEOUS
CORRESPONDENCE ITEMS
Receive and
file the following correspondence:
a. Highway 36 Town Hill Safety Task Force
meeting agenda for
PERSONNEL
DEPARTMENT
Following a
response to questions from Supervisor Dahle, it is moved by Supervisor Dahle,
seconded by Supervisor Chapman and carried to approve request to abolish the
position of Assistant/Associate Planner (Trail Coordinator) from the Community
Development Department and reallocate the position to the Department of Public
Works.
RECOGNITION
COMMITTEE - PRESENTATION
Chairman Pyle
makes the following presentations for years of service:
Ten years: a
brass letter opener to Dan Schlueter (Assessor's Office).
It is
announced that Dan is a Navy Reservist and will be on tour in
LOCAL REUSE
AUTHORITY
(Convene as
the Local Reuse Authority)
It is moved by
Supervisor Dahle, seconded by Supervisor Keefer and carried on a roll call vote
with Supervisor Chapman voting NO, to approve special engineering services
contract with Walter's Engineering to assist County's Review Herlong Utility
Water Systems Project Concepts, Financing, and Conditions of Service to
Stakeholders, not to exceed $5,000 from LRA Funds; and authorize the CAO to
sign.
(Adjourn and
reconvene as Board of Supervisors)
COUNTY
COUNSEL-ABANDONED VEHICLE ORDINANCE
It is moved by
Supervisor Chapman and seconded by Supervisor Keefer to adopt, by title only,
Ordinance No. 527-B, providing for the procedure to abate abandoned vehicles
with the noted correction and designating the Sheriff as the responsible
party.
Following
discussion relating to who the responsible party should be for enforcement the
motion carries unanimously, on a roll call vote.
It is moved by
Supervisor Chapman, seconded by Supervisor Keefer and carried to adopt
Resolution No. 06-010, establishing service authority for abandoned vehicle
abatement.
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
Jim McCarthy states
this effort is to get a swimming pool built.
He has concerns about the wording - and he wants assurance the
Recreation District is formed so the money can be used for building a pool and
not just distributed amongst other districts.
Discussion is
held between board members and staff about the proposal. Supervisor Dahle feels this is moving too
fast and an entity (District or JPA) should be formed before the tax measure is
placed on the ballot.
JoEllen Wood
understood the action before the Board was the direction the County was
interested in going. She states people
are getting tired and need some progress to occur. The LAFCO process will be very lengthy and if
the tax ordinance does not pass there is no need to go further to form a
district.
Deputy Public
Works Director Peter Heimbigner provides further information on what has led to
this action that is before the Board.
Supervisor
Chapman states we cannot take a pot of money and give it to the existing
governing structures because people (voters) will not support it. A new entity such as a JPA has to be formed
as a prelude to the tax measure being submitted to the voters. Here is why - when the swimming pool walls
were coming down around our ears, the City Council choose to spend $2 million
to remodel City Hall. Not to be outdone,
the County had $1.2 million in park bonds and the City asked for a share of the
funds for the swimming pool but the Board members had other ideas of ways to
spend the money in each of their districts.
People are not going to support a tax measure if the dollars go to
existing governing agencies. He states
this is not the approach to take.
Supervisor
Dahle wants to give some direction to staff and following further discussion
the Chairman directs staff to proceed with the formation of a JPA and place a
tax measure on the November ballot.
JoEllen Wood
encourages something positive to happen and asks if there are grant writers in
Community Development. She is not
opposed to a JPA, just wants recreation improved and wants guarantees that the
money will go to that purpose.
Supervisor
Keefer is not in support of a sales tax increase and would like research on
what other funding is available.
Rob Hill
states the process is very confusing and he realizes if voters are confused
they will vote no.
Supervisor
Chapman discusses the financial problems that fire districts are experiencing
and the City's financial problems noting there is competition for tax dollars.
Rocky Joy's
concern is if we do not move forward the efforts will eventually die. He suggests changing the ordinance to make
the tax subject to organization of a JPA and place it on the June ballot.
CAO Ketelsen
notes that he had suggested last August, that a JPA be formed to involve the
County, City, High School, College and Elementary School to salvage the pool
before it was shut down. The suggestion
died because it was felt, by some, that it would undermine the Recreation
Alliance's efforts. He states if this is
the direction the Board wants to proceed this could be resurrected. He would be happy to do the work but wants it
understood that serial meetings between all the parties will be needed and this
will take time.
Lisa Liband
(who entered the meeting late) sees the tax measure as the biggest obstacle and
would like it on the ballot in June as she feels they have support now. She feels this money will be only for
recreation and if we do not have a tax then there will not be a recreation
district.
Supervisor
Chapman feels the Chairman has given direction to move ahead with a JPA and
that directions stands.
INFORMATION
FOR THE BOARD
CAO Ketelsen
reminds the Board about legislation requiring sexual harassment training and
announces a class is scheduled on March 21st at Jensen Hall. Board of
Supervisors are specifically mentioned as needing to attend. Personnel Director Ron Vossler will place the
training on the March 21st agenda for the afternoon session at Jensen Hall.
There being no
further business, the meeting is adjourned at
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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
ATTEST:
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THERESA NAGEL,
CLERK OF THE BOARD