CLEARLAKE— The Business portion of the Clearlake City Council meeting Thursday focused on a discussion and consideration by staff and council for support of an affordable housing project by Chelsea Investment Corporation. The firm was selected as the developer of affordable housing on formerly County-owned property (15837 18th Avenue, in Clearlake) by the State of California. They have plans to develop 80 units of housing on the site.
"There's a lot of money out there. We have looked at a number of different funding programs. There are reasons why this is more attractive. I don't want to speak for Chelsea, but I believe that they're committed to this project and, if they weren't successful here, we'll be looking at other funding sources," City Manager Alan Flora said. "One of the challenges is with what they call 'the excess sites'. The excess sites properties score a little bit higher."
The project estimates a mix of one, two and three bedrooms, arranged on a four two-story building,146 parking spaces, as well as a fifth building that will be solely dedicated to community, with a laundry room, kitchen, computer room, leasing office and an outdoor tot lot for the families who live there. There is also potential for a sports court.
"It's important for people to understand what the project scope is, because we have such a need for housing in our community, particularly after the big fires that took place years ago. We still haven't recovered from that," Council Member Russell Cremer said.
The motion passed with unanimous votes of the Council.
The adoption of a resolution authorizing the sale or disposal of surplus city property was also brought up during the event. The recommended action was to move to adopt the resolution.
As the Public Works Director Adeline Leyba explained, "the city has an older grader at the old Public Works yard. This greater is old, outdated and noncompliant. It is no longer able to be used. We bought a new one back I believe in 2017, and in our transition from the old Public Works yard to the new one, we began to sort and dispose of things that we're no longer able to use with the greater being one of those. Since it is over $10,000, we need to bring it to council to be able to surplus it at an auction. Staff recommends that the council move to adopt (this resolution) authorizing the sale or disposal of surplus city property."
Mayor Dirk Slooten moved that the Council adopt the resolution authorizing the sale or disposal of surplus city property. The project passed unanimously, with all Council members voting in favor of it.
The Clearlake City Council meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of each month at the Clearlake City Hall Council Chambers, located at 14050 Olympic Drive, Clearlake. Agendas are available prior to the meetings according to the Brown Act. Minutes are available following approval and can be found online at clearlake.ca.us/143/City-Council.
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