Public Notice: ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA 

March 17, 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 

Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street 

View on Channel 9 or Channels 180 and 181 (Charter Communications) or live stream via rvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. 

HELD HYBRID (In-Person or Zoom Meeting Access) 

For written public testimony, email [email protected] using the subject line: Ashland City Council Public Testimony 

For public oral testimony, fill out a Speaker Request Form at ashland.or.us/speakerrequest 

and return to the City Recorder at [email protected] 

5:30 PM Executive Session 

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

  1. City Manager Review, pursuant to ORS 192.660(2)(i). 

6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting* 

II. CALL TO ORDER

  1. Land Acknowledgement** 

III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 

IV. ROLL CALL 

V. MAYOR’S/CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. Proclamation Honoring Cesar Chaves 
  2. Proclamation Celebrating Arbor Day 
  3. Proclamation Declaring Food Waste Prevention Week

VI. APPROVAL OF MINUTES *** 

VII. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

  1. Union Pacific Railroad Restrictive Covenant Amendment Request 

VIII. CITY MANAGER REPORT 

IX. PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes) (Public input or comment from the audience on City business not included on the agenda.) 

X CONSENT AGENDA

  1. Greenleaf Restaurant Liquor License Approval Request 
  2. Citizen Budget Committee Appointments 
  3. Contract Amendment with ZCS Engineering for the Community Center and Pioneer Hall Design 

XI. PUBLIC HEARINGS (Hearings shall conclude at 8:00 p.m. and be continued to a future date to be set by the Council, unless the Council, by a two-thirds vote of those present, extends the hearing(s) until up to 9:30 p.m. at which time the Council shall set a date for continuance and shall proceed with the balance of the agenda.)

  1. Ordinance 3218 Public Hearing and First Reading of 2022 Orgon Fire Code 

XII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  1. City Council Priorities for the 2023-2025 Biennium 

XIII. NEW BUSINESS 

XIV. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS

  1. Contract for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Assessment with Paradigm Public Affairs, LLC 

XV. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS

  1. City Recorder’s Office Administrative Support for Liquor License Processing 

XVI. 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. 

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