BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting*

1. CALL TO ORDER
   • Land Acknowledgement**
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. ROLL CALL
4. MAYOR’S/CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS
   • 150 Year Anniversary of Ashland Police Department Proclamation
   • Black History Month Proclamation
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ***
   • Minutes of the February 5, 2024 – Study Session Meeting
   • Minutes of February 6, 2024 – Business Meeting
6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
   • Fire Life Saving Award
7. CITY MANAGER REPORT
8. PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda)
9. CONSENT AGENDA
   • Updated IGA with Jackson County for Jail Bed Rentals
   • Public Arts Advisory Committee Appointments
10. PUBLIC HEARINGS
    • First Reading – Ordinance 3230 Amending Procurement & Contract Procedures
    • First Reading – Ordinance 3232 Adopting the Parks, Trails and Open Space Map
11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
    • Selection Process for City Manager
12. NEW BUSINESS
13. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    • Resolution 2024-04 Jackson County, Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan
14. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
15. ADJOURNMENT OF BUSINESS MEETING

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Manager’s office at 541.488.6002 (TTY phone number 1.800.735.2900).  Notification 72 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to the meeting (28 CFR 35.102-35.104 ADA Title I).

*    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, ashland.or.us/Agendas.asp.