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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is asking for the community’s help in locating a runaway teenager.

Vanessa Loansarrow, 16, was last seen in Nice on Friday, police said.

She is described as being 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Police said she was last seen wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt and blue jeans in the Nice area.

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Vanessa Loansarrow, please contact the Lakeport Police Department at 707-263-5491, send the agency a private Facebook message or send an anonymous message from your cellphone by texting the words TIPLAKEPORT followed by your message to 888777.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – USDA Rural Development California State Director Kim Dolbow Vann on Thursday announced a new Web page featuring resources to help rural communities respond to the opioid crisis.

“The opioid crisis has had a significant impact particularly on our rural communities, and California has seen firsthand the effects of this deadly epidemic,” Vann said. “As I continue engaging with California’s rural leaders on strategies to combat opioid abuse and improve rural prosperity, this new webpage will be another great resource in our mission.”

The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016. More than half of those deaths involved opioids, including prescription drugs and heroin.

USDA is playing an important role to help rural communities address this national problem at the local level through program investment, strategic partnerships and best practice implementation.

In April, President Donald J. Trump established the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity to identify legislative, regulatory and policy changes that could promote agriculture and prosperity in rural communities.

In January, Secretary Perdue presented the task force’s findings to President Trump, which included 31 recommendations to align the federal government with state, local and tribal governments to take advantage of opportunities that exist in rural America.

In the area of quality of life, the task force included a recommendation to modernize health care access. The report highlighted the importance of telemedicine in enhancing access to primary care and specialty providers.

The task force also found that improved access to mental and behavioral health care, particularly prevention, treatment and recovery resources, is vital to addressing the opioid crisis and other substance misuse in rural communities.



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LAKEPORT, Calif. – A new report said the new year is seeing higher real estate sales prices in Lake County with the overall pace of sales slowing.

The Lake County Association of Realtors reported that the number of single family residential sales in January decreased by over 32 percent when compared to December 2017 sales.

Fifty-two sales were reported in January with 77 selling in December. In January 2017, 58 sales were reported.

Despite the decrease in sales the $271,450 median price in January bested the December median of $269,000 by 0.9 percent. On a year-over-year basis the January 2018 median exceeded the January 2017 median of $215,000 by over 26%.

“It is not uncommon to see sales slow in the winter months,” stated Melissa Chapman, 2018 LCAOR president. “The percentage increase in sales price over last January was somewhat unexpected but indicative of how the market has performed as a whole on the statewide level.”

Both cash only purchases and distressed sales decreased when compared to December and January 2017 sales.

Cash financing was used in 15.4 percent of the sales and 5.8 percent of the sales were distressed. In January 2017 cash only purchases accounted for nearly 26 percent of the transactions and distressed sales made up 13.8 percent of the deals.

The California Association of Realtors, or CAR, reported existing, single-family home sales in California totaled 388,000 in January on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, down 7.6 percent from December and down 2.9 percent from January 2017.

January’s statewide median home price was $527,800, down 4 percent from December and up 7.3 percent from January 2017.

Mortgage rates broke the 4.0 percent barrier in January as 30-year, fixed-mortgage interest rates averaged 4.03 percent in January, up from 3.95 percent in December but down from 4.15 percent in January 2017, according to Freddie Mac.

The five-year, adjustable mortgage interest rate also edged higher in January to an average of 3.47 percent from 3.39 percent in December and from 3.24 percent in January 2017.

LAKE COUNTY NUMBERS AT A GLANCE

January 2018
Median price: $271,450
Units sold: 52
Median days to sell: 58

December 2017
Median price: $269,000
Units sold: 77
Median days to sell: 56

January 2017
Median price: $215,000
Units sold: 58
Median days to sell: 56
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – On Thursday night the Clearlake City Council voted to take applications to fill a council seat vacated earlier this month.

On Feb. 1, Councilman Russell Perdock resigned in order to apply for the city’s police chief job, as Lake County News has reported.

The discussion on filling Perdock’s vacant seat during the Thursday night meeting began at the 1:10:14 mark in the video above.

City Manager Greg Folsom told the council that Perdock’s term is set to expire in November.

He said the government code requires that within 60 days the council has to call a special election or appoint a new member.

The special election would take place in November at the same time as the regular election would, he explained.

“You essentially have two options,” Folsom said.

Folsom said they could leave the seat vacant until November or appoint a new councilmember. The latter is the route the council has taken with other recent vacancies.

If the council chose to seek applicants, Folsom said the city could release an application on Friday, with the deadline set for March 15.

On March 19, an ad hoc committee composed of the mayor, vice mayor and planning commission chair would review the applications, interview applicants and suggest up to three individuals for appointment, Folsom said.

Folsom said the council would be expected to select an appointee at its March 22 meeting.

There was no public comment on the matter, and with no further discussion Councilman Phil Harris moved to approve a resolution to pursue the appointment process.

Councilman Nick Bennett seconded the motion and the council approved it 4-0.

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Thursday announced that he is establishing a Bureau of Environmental Justice within the Environment Section at the California Department of Justice.

The bureau’s mission will be to protect people and communities that endure a disproportionate share of environmental pollution and public health hazards. This will be accomplished through oversight, investigation, and enforcement of the law.

The bureau’s attorneys will work primarily with attorneys in the Environment Section handling environmental enforcement matters on behalf of Attorney General Becerra. They will also coordinate with and utilize the expertise of other sections within the Attorney General’s Office, as needed.

“Today is a special day. The harsh reality is that some communities in California – particularly low-income communities and communities of color – continue to bear the brunt of pollution from industrial development, poor land use decisions, transportation, and trade corridors. Meeting the needs of these communities requires our focused attention. That’s why I’m establishing the Bureau of Environmental Justice,” said Becerra. “To all who advocate for environmental justice, the California Department of Justice will work with you and fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. We have a moral and legal responsibility to do so.”

“Far too many disadvantaged Californian communities, like those in my district, have been rendered vulnerable due to disproportionate impacts of pollution, contamination, and other egregious environmental violations. I commend the Attorney General’s leadership and I am proud to put forward legislation to extend resources into this critical new Environmental Justice Bureau,” said Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia. “Justice should not be reserved for communities who can afford to investigate and litigate parties that break the law. The launch of this bureau along with the introduction of AB 2636 is the first step of empowering environmentally disenfranchised areas with tools to take charge of their own destiny with the means to significantly improve their public health and overall prosperity.”

"We commend Attorney General Becerra for this unprecedented commitment and effort to prioritize enforcement actions and legal protections for communities that have borne unconscionable health and safety impacts from polluting industries and sources,” said Gladys Limón, executive director of California Environmental Justice Alliance. “The establishment of the new Bureau of Environmental Justice is a significant step in providing the necessary level of protection for those communities at greatest risk from those impacts and that have for too long been neglected. We look forward to working with the Bureau to ensure that its promise for these communities is realized.”

"Far too many families in California suffer from both poverty and pollution – in fact, they usually go hand in hand. That’s why the Dream Corps and Green For All applaud Attorney General Becerra for his leadership in fighting for families and creating the Environmental Justice Bureau,” said Vien Truong, CEO of Dream Corps and director of Green For All. “Families across the state will breathe a sigh of relief with the promise of justice and accountability for polluters.”

The bureau will use the law enforcement powers of the Attorney General’s Office to identify and pursue matters affecting communities on the frontlines of the pollution battle.

In addition, the bureau will work with stakeholders from all sides, along with local and state agencies, to address enforcement objectives.

The bureau’s oversight and enforcement work will focus on:

– Ensuring compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and land use planning laws;
– Remediating contaminated drinking water;
– Eliminating or reducing exposure to lead and other toxins in the environment and consumer products;
– Challenging the federal government’s actions that repeal or reduce public health and environmental protections; and
– Penalizing and preventing illegal discharges to air and water from facilities located in communities already burdened disproportionately with pollution.

Since taking office, Attorney General Becerra has made protecting the environment a top priority. Of the nearly 30 lawsuits he has filed at the federal level, almost half have been aimed at ensuring that children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. Attorney General Becerra has not lost an environmental lawsuit to date.

Among his many efforts, he has joined, through an amicus brief, the City of Oakland’s efforts to prohibit for health and safety reasons the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke at one of its port terminals; filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its decision to repeal regulations governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and gas wells drilled on federal and Native American tribal lands; challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ove! r its decision to suspend the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which would protect California’s lakes, rivers, and streams from pollutants; submitted a 30-page comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on due process violations, lack of fairness, and ethical lapses that arise from Administrator Scott Pruitt’s involvement in the proposed rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan; and called on the Administration to immediately withdraw its proposal to open California’s coast to new offshore drilling.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The National Weather Service said that an unsettled weather pattern moving over Northern California this week is responsible for continuing low temperatures, and is bringing with it chances of snow in the mountains and in some lower elevations.

The forecast called for low-elevation snow – down to about 1,000 feet – and rain overnight and into Thursday morning before 10 a.m., with the Lake County forecast noting slight chances of snow even in the lakeside communities.

Snowfall amounts are expected to top out at half an inch. There also are chances for snowfall in the evening, based on the forecast.

Forecasters are predicting daytime temperatures this week ranging up into the low 50s, with nighttime temperatures into the low 20s. The lowest temperatures are forecast for Thursday night.

Chances of showers also are forecast beginning Sunday night and continuing through Tuesday night, according to the National Weather Service.

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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Board of Supervisors last week received an update on the effort to collect insurance to cover the state’s debris removal operations for the Valley fire.

The fund collection process for the Valley Fire Debris Insurance Collection Project is being carried out by county staff but the funds aren’t kept by the county; instead, the funds are being paid to the state, as CalRecycle headed up the Valley fire debris program.

Only those community members whose insurance covered debris removal are being asked to pay. Those who don’t have coverage are asked to submit certifications of noncoverage, county officials said.

County Administrative Office staffer Marcy Harrison updated the board on the insurance collection process at the Feb. 13 meeting.

As of Feb. 13, Harrison said the county had received 509 payments totaling approximately $9,767,178. That was an increase of 133 payments totaling $4,208,949 since her January report.

“That’s in part due to a very very large settlement process we finally competed with AAA,” Harrison said. “They came in and made mass payments and provided the documentation we needed so we were able to process those payments.”

She called getting those payments from a larger insurer “a major milestone in this collection process.”

Regarding those without insurance coverage, Harrison said the county has received 297 certifications of noncoverage and have about 100 more to go.

In addition, about 467 of those who are insured have not paid, and Harrison said the county is reaching out directly to insurance companies to follow up on claims. Most of the companies are backlogged.

“So we’re way over halfway,” said Supervisor Rob Brown.

Harrison said yes.

She explained that other major carriers – including Farmers, State Farm, Hartford and Nationwide – are waiting on backup documentation about the cleanup which the county is working to get from CalRecycle.

Once that information is available, Harrison said they should see another influx of payments, as those carriers cover more than half of the accounts that still must be paid.

Harrison said she had visited Calaveras County the previous day, where that county has hired Tetra Tech to collect debris insurance money for the Butte fire.

The supervisors also had considered hiring Tetra Tech to collect the debris insurance funds for Lake County, a decision that was appealed to the board. County Administrative Officer Carol Hutchinson said the county staff instead is doing the work in-house at a greatly reduced cost compared to the more than $1 million it would have paid the firm.

Board members thanked staff for their work on the project.

Huchingson told the board that the county still hasn’t received any information from the state about debris collection for the fires that followed the Valley fire.

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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Another local attorney has joined the race to succeed a Lake County Superior Court judge who isn’t seeking reelection, while so far no new candidates have joined the other county races.

Late last year, Judge Stephen Hedstrom said he wouldn’t seek a fourth term, which opened up the race for his Department 4 seat.

Chief Deputy Registrar of Voters Maria Valadez said that attorney Andre Ross has filed a declaration of intention – an extra step required in judicial races – and paid the filing fee to run for Hedstrom’s seat, and also has taken out nomination papers. He must also file a Form 501 with the state in order to raise funds.

Ross made an unsuccessful bid for district attorney in 2014.

He now joins a field in the race for judge that includes District Attorney Don Anderson and Deputy County Counsel Shanda Harry, Valadez said.

Valadez said the judicial candidates must all submit a declaration of candidacy by March 14 to be on the ballot.

In other races, incumbents Judge Andrew Blum, Judge Michael Lunas and Sheriff Brian Martin have all submitted their declarations of candidacy and fulfilled their signature requirements, and are now official candidates, Valadez said.

Bruno Sabatier, Clearlake’s mayor and so far the only candidate to succeed District 2 Supervisor Jeff Smith, also has submitted the needed signatures and declaration of candidacy and is a confirmed candidate, according to Valadez.

In addition to Martin, four other elected county officials have taken out the Form 501 paperwork with no challengers yet appearing in their races, but still have paperwork pending before their candidacy is official, Valadez said.

They include Assessor-Recorder Richard Ford, County Clerk-Auditor Cathy Saderlund, Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg and Treasurer-Tax Collector Barbara Ringen.

For district attorney, the field includes local attorney Steven Brown and Senior Deputy District Attorney Susan Krones.

In the District 3 supervisorial race, Valadez said three candidates so far have filed the form 501 paperwork: incumbent Jim Steele; Eddie J. Crandell, the tribal chair of Robinson Rancheria and the District 3 county planning commissioner; and businesswoman and former Clearlake Mayor Denise Loustalot.

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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council on Tuesday awarded a contract to a Middletown company to complete accessibility upgrades to the city’s historic Carnegie Library.

The council voted unanimously to award the contract for the Carnegie Library Accessibility Upgrade Project to R&C Construction, which was the low bidder at $385,381, well below the city engineer’s estimate for the project was $425,000. The second bidder, FRC Inc., came in at $479,000.

The Carnegie Library opened its doors on Feb. 18, 1918. Built in Classical Revival style, it served as the city’s library until 1985. Since then it has served at various times as a city and academic facility. For several years it has sat empty.

The city has had plans and studies completed for the building, including a feasibility plan finished in 2015 by Garavaglia Architects of San Francisco, the firm which also designed the building’s accessibility improvements.

The contract bid the council awarded on Tuesday will provide Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant access to the building, including an elevator to provide access to the second floor, remodeling of both bathrooms on the first floor, making one ADA compliant, and installing new water and sewer lines.

Community Development Director Kevin Ingram said this is the third construction bid the city had sent out on the project.

The first was released in June, at which time the city received one bid totaling nearly $500,000, more than twice the city engineer’s estimate at that time, Ingram said.

With staff believing that the elevator portion of the project was dissuading bidders, they sent out a second request for proposals just for the elevator and received no bids, he said.

He said the city engineer and design consultant spent significant hours reaching out to contractors to rework and send out the latest request for proposals, which drew the two bids, including the winning bid from R&C Construction.

“The costs are escalating,” Ingram said, an issue which he attributed to the improving economy and the region’s wildland fires.

Ingram said that rebuilding in Santa Rosa has hurt the city’s ability to get contractors.

The project will be covered in part by a Community Development Block Grant that the city received and was able to get an extension on due the project not being completed by the initial deadline, he said.

The Community Development Block Grant is funded by money that comes in from payments made from previous loans – primarily business loans – made by the city, Ingram said.

City Manager Margaret Silveira said the item is budgeted, and there is about $250,000 that can be used toward the remodel, putting the city about $140,000 short.

She said the city has applied for another grant but they don’t know if they have it. “So there is a decision to be made by the council,” she said.

Silveira said the bottom floor under where the elevator will be placed has been dug out. However, when the city had trenches dug for the bathroom remodel, they discovered that all of the 100-year-old concrete has to be jackhammered out.

She said the city had more than $2 million in reserves if the council was OK with dipping into them. The project also can be added to the list of Measure Z sales tax expenses for the coming year.

Councilman George Spurr asked when the work would be done. Ingram said the contractor would aim to have it complete prior to October.

Because of last year’s flood, which put the city behind, the state granted the city more time to complete the library upgrade project, Silveira said.

Ingram said the elevator will result in most of the construction, noting the overall project isn’t that large.

As it stands now, Silveira said the building is unusable to the public, and after a number of public meetings community members made it clear they wanted to be able to use the building again.

Councilman Kenny Parlet was concerned about cost overruns by the contractor, having noted a number of them on the project history provided in the bid document. Silveira said the contractor and its subcontractors are all local.

“I just want to feel comfortable that the number is the number,” said Parlet.

Ingram said he could vouch for City Engineer Paul Curren’s work on the request for proposal, which he believed would make cost overruns very unlikely.

Councilwoman Stacey Mattina said the library is an important community project that the city has to see completed. She supported using reserve funds, noting costs are going up.

Community member Suzanne Lyons said she likes old buildings but thinks the library is unusable, and that the council needed to look at what the building will be used for when it’s done.

Wilda Shock, chair of the Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee, or LEDAC, also addressed the council.

LEDAC worked on the library’s feasibility study, the lakefront revitalization plan which calls attention to the building’s use, and the city’s economic development strategic plan, with Shock noting that the latter plan has the library as a central building.

“All of those plans and the work in developing them were part of a public process with public input along the way,” she said. “And I think the overwhelming feeling that came out of those public meetings was the desire of the community to save, preserve and use the Carnegie Library building and make it a point of interest and a point of public use in the city of Lakeport.”

She said the city doesn’t have many historic buildings that they can point to with pride, and while the library has problems, Shock said they’ve been made known and there are ways to address them. She believed there would be community support, adding that fundraising can help address upgrading the building.

Shock said the building offers a sense of place, and the upgrade should be completed.

“If we're ever going to move, we need to move now,” said Parlet, noting that the building is an important part of Lakeport.

Parlet moved to award the construction project bid to R&C Construction, with Mattina seconding and the council approving the motion 5-0.

The council also held a public hearing and voted to approve changes to the city’s ordinance regarding the Park and Recreation Commission in order to establish a monthly meeting schedule and allow for one at-large, non-city member from the 95453 zip code.

Commissioners told the council at its Feb. 6 meeting that they wanted to meet monthly, not quarterly, and the majority of council members were willing to go that direction.

Parlet said he felt it would give committee members an opportunity to meet often, and the council can revisit it if it doesn’t work out.

“I think that they will go the extra mile to prove that it is necessary,” Parlet said.

City Clerk Kelly Buendia said the city has received five applications for open seats on the commission. Silveira said there are plans to interview all five.

The council’s vote was 4-1, with Mayor Mireya Turner concerned that the changes were not necessary after reviewing a year’s worth of commission meeting minutes.

At Tuesday’s meeting the council also met Bonnie Sharp, the new permit technician.

No reportable action came out of the council’s closed session regarding negotiations with Lake County Tribal Health for property at 902 Bevins Court.

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NORTH COAST, Calif. – In November 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64 legalizing recreational cannabis.

California residents are now seeing the migration of North America’s largest cannabis market into the light of a regulated and legal system estimated to be worth an approximate $7 billion annually.

State Sen. Mike McGuire and Assemblyman Jim Wood will hold a first-of-its-kind hearing next week in Ukiah to discuss the “First 60 Days of Prop 64.”

This will be one of the largest and most comprehensive events of its kind since the initiative went into effect earlier this year.

“Preparing for the implementation of Prop 64 was a massive undertaking for the state of California and local communities, and we have been committed to a transparent process,” McGuire said. “As we all know, the state has been ‘building the plane while it’s flying’ with the implementation of Prop 64 which is why Assemblymember Wood and I have made it a priority to bring all of the state agency, local government and business leaders together in Ukiah to provide an in-depth briefing to the North Coast.”

The hearing will be an official joint meeting of the Committee on Governance and Finance, chaired by McGuire and will be held at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 1.

“We need to make sure that regulations for smaller cannabis farms are reasonable and attainable,” said Wood. “Without that, I am concerned that these farmers, who are an important part of the North Coast economy, won’t have an incentive to comply and may return to an underground economy that could adversely affect public safety and the environment.”

On March 1, the committee will hear testimony from leaders of state and local agencies, as well as the cannabis industry.

Committee members will first hear from Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg and Ukiah Mayor Kevin Doble with welcoming remarks, after which witnesses will testify in three panels:

– State agency Leaders, including Lori Ajax, Chief of the Bureau of Cannabis Control (lead agency for the State of California on all; Nicholas Maduros, executive director of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (responsible for all cannabis related taxes), and Richard Parrott, director, CalCannabis Licensing with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

– Local officials from Mendocino, Humboldt, and Sonoma counties will discuss the challenges and potential opportunities ahead for local governments related to legal recreational cannabis.

– CEOs and executives from CannaCraft, FlowKana, and the California Growers Association will also be presenting on the panel “The Green Gold Rush: Will it Pan Out for California Businesses?”

The two committees consider the most significant legislation that sets the rules for California’s cannabis industry, affects local regulation of recreational cannabis, or changes its taxation.

The hearing follows up on two previous Governance and Finance Committee’s hearings: “California Cannabis in a Turbulent Time,” held last February, and “Preparing for California’s Green Gold Rush – Implementing Proposition 64 Taxes,” which took place in July.

These hearings can be viewed online on the California State Senate’s Web site, http://senate.ca.gov/media-archive?page=1.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Parts of the Clear Lake Riviera lost power on Wednesday night after a vehicle hit a power pole.

The crash occurred at around 8 p.m. Wednesday in the area of 11270 Point Lakeview Road near Kelseyville, according to radio reports and the California Highway Patrol.

Just after 8 p.m. firefighters from Kelseyville and Lake County Fire protection districts were dispatched to a report of lines down in the roadway near the Westwind Mobile Home Park.

Units arriving at the scene they found a snapped power pole and lines in the road, with firefighters closing down the roadway for a short time, according to the CHP.

About a half hour later it was reported that a vehicle had hit the pole, with a sedan found 20 feet down an embankment. The driver was said to have fled.

Just after 8 p.m., power went out to approximately 1,027 Pacific Gas and Electric customers, the company said.

PG&E later confirmed the outage was caused by the crash and that a crew was making repairs at the scene.

All but two of the customers were reported to have had their power restored later in the night, with the rest projected to be restored by 7 a.m. Thursday.

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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Planning Commission is set to hold a special meeting to honor an outgoing commission, welcome a new one and go over reports and goals.

The commission will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.

At Wednesday’s meeting the oath of office will be administered to Kipp Knorr, who was appointed to the commission earlier this month by the Lakeport City Council.

The commission also will offer its presentation of appreciation and dedication of service to the man who Knorr is succeeding, Harold Taylor.

Other items on the agenda include the city planning department’s 2016-17 year-end report, which will give a summary of land use applications and other planning division activities for that yea.

The commission also will discuss and review the planning goals and activities for 2018 and get the list of projects pending Planning Department approval as of Feb. 15.

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