LAKE COUNTY — A water-sharing agreement between the county and the City of Lakeport, an underage drinking ordinance and a cell tower ordinance will be discussed in the June 10 Lake County Board of Supervisors meeting.
The board will consider an agreement with the City of Lakeport to tie the county and city water systems together by a 700-foot pipeline. The agreement before the board next week was in negotiations for almost two years, according to Lake County Special Districts Director Mark Dellinger.
“The county will install the inter-tie pipeline, and the cost of that is in the neighborhood of $200,000,” Dellinger said.
He said both water systems will benefit from the tie, and the county will bear approximately 60 percent of the project”s cost. The city will bear approximately 40 percent.
“Because of the differences in the two systems, when Lakeport takes water, they don”t need to have water pumped ? it can flow by gravity. When we need water, we have to operate the pump, so we pay for the electricity and for the majority of the pump facility,” Dellinger said.
Dellinger said the project got widespread support at a joint meeting of the two government bodies he attended last week.
In other news, the board tabled an ordinance in December 2007 that sought to penalize adults who allowed underage drinking at parties on private property. Board members expressed a need for clarification about whether or not the adult responsible for the residence where a party is held could have reasonably known about the underage drinking. A revised ordinance will be considered next week.
Landlords will not be held liable in the revised ordinance. In addition to adults who organize a party, adults who own, rent, lease or otherwise have control of the property where the party is held may be fined.
The ordinance holds social hosts responsible, and defines a social host as an adult who allows anyone younger than 21 to drink one or more alcoholic beverages on property owned or controlled by the adult.
The ordinance does not define reimbursement fees for law enforcement response, but charges fines ranging between $100 and $500 for providing alcohol to minors.
After making revisions to an ordinance that seeks to guide where cellular towers can be built in the county at the board”s May 27 meeting, Lake County Community Development Director Rick Coel will bring the ordinance back for consideration next week.
The ordinance requires a major use permits for new cellular towers and puts restrictions on applications for the permits concerning aesthetics, design plans, set-back requirements, methods of ensuring compliance with federal regulations, consideration of project alternatives and deciding whether or not adequate coverage already exists in a given area.
The board will also consider extending a temporary moratorium on new applications until the ordinance is adopted.
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