Public Notice: ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA

February 15, 2025

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

Live stream viarvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. Recorded meetings are available on our website.

Public testimony will be accepted for both public forum items and agenda items. 

If you would like to submit written testimony or if you wish to speak electronically during the meeting, please complete the Public Testimony Form no later than 10 a.m. the day of the meeting.

3:30  p.m. Executive Session

  1. 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*

  1. CALL TO ORDER
    • Land Acknowledgement**
  2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  3. ROLL CALL
  4. MAYOR’S/ CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT
    • Black History Month Proclamation
  5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
    • Minutes of January 21, 2025 – Business Meeting
  6. CONSENT AGENDA
    • Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable Childcare & Early Childhood Development Appointment
    • Approval of Liquor License for Nous Hospitality
    • Approval of Liquor License for AJ Smoke & Grocery StoreLiquor License for Southern Oregon Growlers
    • Approval of Liquor License for Vida Baking Co
  7. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
    • Finance Update – First Quarter FY25 Results
  8. PUBLIC FORUM
    • 15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda
  9. PUBLIC HEARING
    • First Reading – ORD 3256 An Ordinance Amendment to AMC 2.30 Uniform Administrative Appeals Process Designating the Municipal Court as the Administrative Appeal Body
  10. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    • Second Reading – ORD 3245 An Ordinance Terminating Specified Commission and Re-establishing AMC Chapter 2.13 to create Advisory Committees
    • Second Reading – ORD 3248 An Ordinance to Establish and Clarify the Structure and Governance of the Parks and Recreation Department
    • Second Reading – ORD 3254 An Ordinance Amending AMC Title 9 Health and Sanitation Creating Chapter 9.45 Carbon Pollution Impact Fee and Establishing Standards for a Carbon Pollution Impact Fee for New Residential Structures in the City of Ashland
  11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
    • 2200 Ashland Street Facility Plan Ad Hoc Committee
    • Request to Withdraw Affordable Housing Trust Fund RFP to Allow for Strategic Discussion Regarding How Best to Invest the Funding
  12. NEW BUSINESS
    • Grandview Terrace Annexation and Site Review Fee Waiver Request
    • Affordable Housing RFP Issuance Approval-Beach Creek Properties
  13. CITY MANAGER REPORT
  14. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
  15. ADJOURNMENT

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Alissa Kolodzinski at 541.488.5307 (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.

*    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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