Public Notice: ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

November 13, 2025

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

 Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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.

  • EXECUTIVE SESSION 5:00 PM

I. To conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations pursuant to ORS 192.660 (2)(d). II. To conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to negotiate real property transactions pursuant to ORS 192.660 (2)(e).

  • BUSINESS MEETING CALL TO ORDER 6:00 PM
    • Land Acknowledgement**
  • PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  • ROLL CALL
  • MAYOR’S / CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT
  • APPROVAL OF MINUTES
    • Minutes of the November 3, 2025 – Study Session Meeting
    • Minutes of the November 4, 2025 – Business Meeting
    • Minutes of the July 19, 2022 – Business Meeting
    • Minutes of the August 2, 2022 – Business Meeting
  • CONSENT AGENDA
    • Appointment of Audit Committee Members
  • SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
    • Finance Update – First Quarter FY 26
  • PUBLIC FORUM
  • PUBLIC HEARING
    • First Reading of Ordinance 3255: An Ordinance Relating to Liquor License Review; Repealing and Replacing AMC Chapter 6.32
  • ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
  • UNFINISHED BUSINESS
  • NEW BUSINESS
    • Proposal for Winter/Extreme Weather Shelter at 2200 Ashland St
    • Ratification of the 3-Year Labor Agreements between IAFF Local 1269 and Ashland Parks and Recreation Teamsters Local 223
    • Franchise Agreement versus Right of Way Ordinance
    • City Council Retreat Agenda
  • CITY MANAGER REPORT

Council Business Meeting Agenda

  • Look Ahead
  • OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
  • ADJOURNMENT

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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