Public Notice: Council Business Meeting Agenda

October 16, 2025

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast on Spectrum 180.

Public comment is welcome on public forum topics and agenda items.

To speak electronically during the meeting or to submit written comments in advance, please complete the online Public Comment Form by 10 a.m. the day of the meeting.

6:00 p.m. JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND PARKS COMMISSION BUSINESS MEETING

  • CALL TO ORDER
    • Land Acknowledgement**
  • PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  • ROLL CALL
  • MAYOR’S / CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT
  • SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
    • Financial Update
  • PUBLIC FORUM
  • NEW BUSINESS
    • Review of APRC PROS Plan
    • Citywide Strategic Plan Update
    • City Finances: Staffing and Service Level Adjustments
    • Food & Beverage Tax
    • Topics and Meeting Frequency
  • CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING
  • CONSENT AGENDA
    • Liquor License Approval for Calypso Hotel
  • ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    • BPA Contract Approval
    • Second Reading of Ordinance 3276 – Vacating a Portion of the Fern Street Public Right of Way
  • NEW BUSINESS
    • Annual Climate and Energy Action Plan Report & Conservation Incentives Adoption
  • CITY MANAGER REPORT
  • OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
  • ADJOURNMENT

Council Business Meeting Agenda

If you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Alissa Kolodzinski at  [email protected] or 541.488.5307 (TTY phone number 1.800.735.2900).  Notification at least three business days before the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to the meeting in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

* Items on the Agenda not considered due to time constraints are automatically continued to the next regularly scheduled Council meeting [AMC 2.04.030.(D)(3)]

**  LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge and honor the aboriginal people on whose ancestral homelands we work—the Ikirakutsum Band of the Shasta Nation, as well as the diverse and vibrant Native communities who make their home here today.

We honor the first stewards in the Rogue Valley and the lands we love and depend on: Tribes with ancestral lands in and surrounding the geography of the Ashland Watershed include the original past, present and future indigenous inhabitants of the Shasta, Takelma, and Athabaskan people.  We also recognize and acknowledge the Shasta village of K’wakhakha - “Where the Crow Lights” – that is now the Ashland City Plaza.

***Agendas and minutes for City of Ashland Council, Commission and Committee meetings may be found at the City website, ashlandoregon.gov.

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