BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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5:00 PM Executive Session
The Ashland City Council will hold an Executive Session for the following:

1. Deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations, pursuant to ORS 192.660(2)(d).
2. City Manager Review, pursuant to ORS 192.660(2)(i).

6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting*

1. CALL TO ORDER
   1. Land Acknowledgement**
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. ROLL CALL
4. MAYOR’S ANNOUNCEMENTS
   • Indigenous Peoples’ Day Proclamation
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ***
   • Minutes of the September 18, 2023 – Study Session
   • Minutes of the September 19, 2023 – Business Meeting
6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
   1. DEQ Railyard Clean-up Presentation
   2. City Staffing Update
7. CITY MANAGER REPORT
   • Community Development Recognition for Ashland’s Housing Production Strategy
8. PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes)
9. CONSENT AGENDA
   • Liquor License Approval for Cru Siskiyou at 798 St. Andrews Circle
10. PUBLIC HEARINGS
    • Public Hearing and First Reading of LUBA remand for PA-T3-2022-00004 for the property at 1511 Hwy 99
11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
12. NEW BUSINESS
    • City Council Standing Advisory Committees Workplans Review
13. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    • Contract with Grayback Forestry Inc. for prescribed burning for the Ashland Forest Resiliency All-Lands Restoration Project
    • Contract with Evan Brooks for Grant Application Services
    • Approval of multiple Public Contracts for internet Bandwidth
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.