At the regular meeting beginning at 6 p.m., City Manager Kevin Ingram will present a resolution confirming the fulfillment of all provisions outlined in the memorandum of understandings, dated Jan. 11, 2011, and July 19, 2011, between the Judicial Council of California and the city of Lakeport in connection with the development of the new Lake County Superior Courthouse to be located at 675 Lakeport Blvd.

A ballot measure being pushed by business groups could place strict new limits on the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes. But California Democrats — from Governor Gavin Newsom to mayors from around the state — are asking the state Supreme Court to invalidate the proposition and remove it from the 2024 ballot.

(Subscription required) The matter is related to multiple coordinated lawsuits against Liberty Utilities, many of which were filed in Mono County. Los Angeles Judge Kenneth R. Freeman is presiding over the coordinated proceedings.

Today, the Supreme Court finds resentencing is in fact necessary under the 2021 legislation, which requires reduced prison terms in some cases when “psychological, physical, or childhood trauma” was “a contributing factor in the commission of the offense,” “unless the court finds that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances that imposition of the lower term would be contrary to the interests of justice.”