CLEARLAKE >> Five people were appointed by the Clearlake City Council to its Measure V Citizen’s Oversight Committee during the final regular meeting of January. The committee is tasked with providing recommendations to the council on which roads require work and how funds from the tax will address this work.
Improvements to most of the city’s public roads are under consideration.
Curt Giambruno, Ray Silva, Mike Vandiver, Henry Bornstein and Dirk Slooten were selected from a pool of nine applicants. Giambruno was named chair at the first meeting.
Previously a mayor, council member and Clearlake Planning Commission member, Giambruno said that over his ten year term on the commission he tried multiple times to get community members to support the measure.
“I was happy to see this measure passed and when I saw the opportunity to apply I threw my name in a hat and it got drawn,” Giambruno said.
Giambruno added the committee has not been provided any information yet on specific actions that will be taken under Measure V.
The oversight committee will first create a five year Capital Improvement Plan to provide guidance to the City Council. This Capital Improvement Plan will also be updated annually.
The city hopes to improve the majority of public roads. However, in the Measure V report, roads that are currently unpaved will not be paved due to the extreme cost.
In Clearlake, out of the 112 miles of city roads, only 63 miles of are paved. The Pavement Conditions Index (PCI) has evaluated Clearlake roads and indicated a score of 38 out of a 100-point scale. The improvements on the roads could potentially raise Clearlake’s PCI to 60.
The city will need $15.2 million for maintenance on the roads. It is anticipated that Measure V will produce over $1.7 million a year.
This sales tax will go into effect starting April 1 this year and will expire in 20 years.
To create the Citizen’s Oversight Committee, each City Council member selected one person from the nine applicants to serve.
