Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street
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Public testimony will be accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. Please complete the online Public Testimony Form (ashland.or.us/Council), for WRITTEN and ELECTRONIC testimony only. Indicate on the Public Testimony Form if you wish to provide WRITTEN testimony, or if you wish to speak ELECTRONICALLY during the meeting. Please submit your testimony no later than 10 a.m. the day of the meeting.
5 p.m. Executive Session
I. Deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations, pursuant to ORS 192.660(2)(d).
II. To consider the employment of a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent
pursuant to ORS 192.660 (2)(a).
6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting*
- CALL TO ORDER
- Land Acknowledgement**
- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
- ROLL CALL
- MAYOR’S/CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS
- MLK Proclamation
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES ***
- Minutes of the December 18 – Study Session Meeting
- Minutes of the December 19 – Business Meeting
- Minutes of the November 21 – Business Meeting
- Minutes of the November 7 – Business Meeting
- Minutes of the March 6 – Study Session Meeting
- Minutes of the February 21 – Business Meeting
- SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- CITY MANAGER REPORT
- PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included
on the agenda) - CONSENT AGENDA
- Donation of Open Space Lots to City-Wildfire Management
- Resolution 2024-001 Budget Supplemental – Parks Grant
- SERJ Appointment
- PUBLIC HEARINGS
- Second Reading – 3226- An ordinance establishing Hours of Parks Closure
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- Interim City Manager Contract
- Selection Process for City Manager
- AFN Pilot Program Update and Contract Approval
- NEW BUSINESS
- Chair of the City Council Election
- Purchase Request of Networking Equipment
- ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
- Resolution – Ballot Language for City Recorder & Sergeant at Arms.
- Briscoe Roof Replacement-Award of Construction Contract
- Community Wildfire Protection Plan Contract Approval
- OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
- Council Liaison Appointments
- 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.
