BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting*

1. CALL TO ORDER
   1. Land Acknowledgement**
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. ROLL CALL
4. MAYOR’S/CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ***
   • Minutes of the October 16, 2023 – Study Session Meeting
   • Minutes of October 17, 2023 – Business Meeting
   • Minutes of the October 27, 2023 – Special Business Meeting
6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
   • Public Arts Advisory Committee Annual Report
   • Croman Mill Development Update Presentation by Townmakers LLC     
7. CITY MANAGER REPORT
8. PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda)
9. CONSENT AGENDA 
10. PUBLIC HEARINGS
11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
    • Scope of Work for Homelessness Masterplan
12. NEW BUSINESS
    • North Mountain Ave. Protected Bike Lane and Parking Restriction Approval
    • Resolution Loan Authorization from Special Public Works Funds to the Ashland St. Rehabilitation
    • Employment Agreement Deputy City Manager as Acting City Manager
13. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    • First Reading – 3226 – An ordinance establishing Hours of Parks Closure   
    • First Reading – 3227 – An ordinance allowing Alcohol Use in Parks 
    • Contract for Severe Weather Shelter Management/Operation
    • Resolution 2023-26 – BN 23-25 Budget Transfer
    • Contract for Full Fiber Network Pilot Program Equipment        
    • Special Procurement contract with Lomakatsi Restoration Project for Forestry Services   
    • Amend Resolution 2023-06 to Change the Forest Lands Standing Advisory Committee to the Forest Lands Management Advisory Committee
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.