Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

(In-Person or Zoom Meeting Access)

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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.

5:30 p.m.  Executive Session

To conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to negotiate real property transactions pursuant to ORS 192.660 (2)(e).

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 ANNOUNCEMENT
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
   • Minutes of the July 15, 2024, Study Session
   • Minutes of the July 16, 2024, Business Meeting
   • Minutes of the August 5, 2024, Study Session
   • Minutes of the August 6, 2024, Business Meeting
6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
7. CITY MANAGER REPORT
8. PUBLIC FORUM
   • minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda
9. CONSENTAGENDA
   • Approval of Liquor License for Lovejoy’s Tea Room of Ashland
   • Acceptance of the Homeless Services Assessment Report
   • Climate and Environment Policy Advisory Committee Appointment
   • Housing and Human Services Advisory Committee Appointments
   • Ashland’s Ad Hoc Committee on Affordable Childcare and Early Learning: Early Childhood Grant Recommendation
10. PUBLIC HEARING
    • First Reading of Ordinance 3242 – Amending the Customer Accounting Policies of the Utility Systems of the Ashland Municipal Code Chapter 14.02
    • First Reading ORD 3243 Amending AMC Chapter 9.08.170.D.6 and 9.080170.D.11 Unnecessary Noise
11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
    • City Attorney Job Description & Process
12. NEW BUSINESS
    • City Manager Appointment
    • Executive Session
    • Beach Creek Phase III Final Plat Dedication of Affordable Lots
    • LOC Member Vote Review and Decision
13. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS

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.