CLEARLAKE — On Thursday, the Clearlake City Council will hear an update from local public health coalition Hope Rising on the status of a planned recovery center that is headed toward the construction phase.
The Hope Center for Transformation has been referred to by Adventist Health Clearlake as Hope Rising’s “flagship facility,” and would offer a broad scope of rehabilitative programs for those in need, from medical treatment to transitional housing opportunities, according to a 2018 Adventist Health community health plan.
The program would feature “intensive case management, transitional housing, substance use disorder treatment, and job skill training with work experience for up to 200 program members per year,” Adventist Health states.
Slotted to be located at an Adventist Health-owned facility in Clearlake, the Hope Center was approved by the city planning commission in 2018. Now in the final planning stages, according to a memo from Clearlake City Manager Alan Flora, the Hope Center is in need of money to get off the ground.
“While some funding is available,” Flora writes, “there is still a significant shortfall…The Hope Rising team has made a request to the City to provide some funding in support of the project.”
In order to build the Hope Center, Hope Rising would need to demolish the existing office building at the center’s site on Emerson Street. Building permits have been acquired already, Flora’s memo indicates.
Flora did not state how much money Hope Rising has requested from the city.
Other business
Also on Thursday, the Clearlake City Council will hold a second reading of and consider adopting an ordinance that will require some commercial property owners to retrofit their access gates with radio technology in order to allow law enforcement to enter properties in an emergency. Last year, the city council adopted an ordinance requiring the same technology be installed at residential gated communities; this year’s ordinance expands upon the previous one.
Lakeport City Council meets Tuesday
The Lakeport City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 21 will consider directing staff to apply for a grant that could see two public restrooms replaced near Library Park.
Public Works Director Douglas Grider writes in a memo to the council that the 30-plus year-old restroom facilities now located at the 1st and 3rd Street boat ramps had “deteriorated significantly making further repairs cost prohibitive. Most of the plumbing parts are now obsolete and the price to re-plumb them would not be cost effective in light of the declining condition of the building itself.”
Grider says a $184,073 California Division of Boating and Waterways grant would be enough to fund the demolition and replacement of the restrooms. New restrooms would match the facility located at the 5th Street boat ramp.
The Lakeport City Council is also planning to discuss requesting up to $3.5 million of Community Development Block Grant funding from the federal government, but a public hearing on the subject has been requested by city staff to be pushed to the Feb. 4 meeting of the council.
Lakeport City Council meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Regular council meetings begin at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chamber at city hall. The public is invited to attend all council meetings.
Beginning in February, the Clearlake City Council meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at city hall, located at 14050 Olympic Drive. The public is welcome to attend all council meetings. Agendas are available at www.clearlake.ca.us.
