Council Business Meeting Agenda

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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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.

1. City Council Training Session and Informational Meeting 5:15 – 6:00 pm

Pursuant to ORS 192.360(1)(m) the City Council will receive training on Public Records, Public Meetings Law, and Government Ethics by the City Attorney. There will be no discussion as this is an informational session only.

2. BUSINESS MEETING – CALL TO ORDER 6:00 pm
   1. Land Acknowledgement**
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4. ROLL CALL
5. MAYOR’S / CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT
   1. Hiroshima Nagasaki Proclamation
6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
   1. Minutes of the July 14, 2025 – Study Session Meeting
   2. Minutes of the July 15, 2025 –  Business Meeting
   3. Corrected minutes of the June 17, 2025 Business Meeting
7. CONSENT AGENDA
   1. Requesting approval to purchase a van mounted sewer inspection camera system.
   2. Award of Design Contract – Phase 2 & 3 of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Headworks Upgrade Project
   3. Requesting approval to purchase chemicals for the water and wastewater treatment plants from the lowest bidder.
   4. 2200 Ashland St. Facility Ad Hoc Committee Appointments
8. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
9. PUBLIC FORUM

15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda

10. PUBLIC HEARING
11. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    1. Second Reading of ORD 3270 – Removing AMC 4.32 Alarm Systems
    2. Second Reading of and adoption of Findings for Ordinance 3261: “An ordinance amending the officially adopted physical and environmental constraints map removing the locally adopted Ashland modified floodplain from Hamilton Creek” (Planning Action #PA-T3-2025-000012).
12. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

1. Ratification of 3- Year Labor Agreements between IBEW Electrical Union Local 659, IBEW Clerical Union Local 659, LiUNA Local 737, and Resolution No 2025-22. Clarifying Certain Employment Conditions for Management, Confidential and Non-Represented Employees

13. NEW BUSINESS
14. CITY MANAGER REPORT
15. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
16. 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.