LAKE COUNTY — The county board of supervisors has a packed agenda for its Tuesday meeting. The board will consider; extending a moratorium on new cell towers, continue a discussion of adopting fees for construction and garbage trucks to maintain county roads, hear a proposal by Lakeside Lanes to install an indoor skate park and consider formally adopting agreements with some employee unions regarding changes to contracts.
The board will review and consider whether to extend a moratorium on the approval of applications to the county planning department for construction or modification of wireless communication towers.
The moratorium was established in an interim ordinance adopted by an urgency measure on July 24. It was adopted after discussion during a protest hearing that stretched over three summer meetings. Upper Lake resident opposed the county planning department approval of an application by U.S. Cellular to put up a new cell tower in Upper Lake.
Recommendations from a consulting firm for how to maintain county roads will be back before the board. The firm proposes that the board charge construction vehicles and waste pick up vehicles a fee for the impact the heavy trucks have on the county”s roads.
The board asked county public works staff to verify proposed fees and solidify how the fees would be assessed and collected at a meeting more than a month ago. The discussion is scheduled for 11:15 a.m.
Lakeside Lanes marketing manager Aaron York will bring plans for an indoor skate park before the board.
Supervisor Anthony Farrington plans to bring the item before the board. It will be the first meeting he will attend following a Sept. 22 dirt bike accident.
The presentation is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
Twelve changes to agreements with county employees unions will be considered for formal adoption as the second non-timed item on the board of supervisors” agenda.
Changes include relocation reimbursement and education development for hard-to-fill positions, the option to cash out vacation and sick leave for new hires previously employed at a municipality and removing a three-month waiting period for sick leave for new employees.
Cox said recommendations were approved in concept, in the spring and the county has since come to agreements with employee associations about how to implement the changes.
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