Staff reports
CLEARLAKE ? Following last year”s narrow defeat of Measure G, the City Council will consider putting a similar measure on the ballot, possibly as soon as this November, at its 6 p.m. meeting Thursday at City Hall.
The council, realizing it”s facing a tight deadline to make the November ballot, will try to decide at the meeting whether to plan for the next election or wait until 2014. The council also needs to determine whether the measure would be identical to Measure G, which proposed a 1-percent sales tax increase within the city to pay for road improvements and code enforcement, or different from it.
Options would include separate measures for roads and enforcement, or just one measure covering one of the targets but not both.
Measure G received strong support, collecting 61.7 percent of the vote, but needed two-thirds majority to pass.
In other business, the council will consider adopting the proposed 2013-14 fiscal budget (along with the adoption of fiscal year goals and objectives), and discuss a possible moratorium on new building construction and major remodels on Lakeshore Drive between Olympic Drive and Old Highway 53.
