Public Notice: Council Business Meeting Agenda

August 13, 2025

Council Business Meeting Agenda

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL
BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

Live stream via RVTV Prime at rvtv.sou.edu or broadcast on Spectrum 180 & 181.

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.

6:00 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
    1. Minutes of the August 4, 2025 – Study Session Meeting
    2. Minutes of August 5, 2025 – Business Meeting
  6. CONSENT AGENDA
    1. OLCC Permit Approval
    2. Resolution 2025-25 Supporting the Submission of an Application for a Housing Planning Assistance Grant by the Rogue Valley Council of Governments
    3. Committee Member Appointments
  7. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
    1. Mayor Graham’s Visit to Sister City Sviatohirsk, Ukraine
  8. PUBLIC FORUM
    15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda
  9. PUBLIC HEARING
    1. Public Hearing and First Reading of Ordinance 3272: “An ordinance annexing property and withdrawing an annexed area from Jackson County Fire District no. 5., and also repealing ordinances 3215 and 3194 which were the previous annexation approvals in Casita 1 and Casita 2.” (1511 Highway 99 – Planning Action #PA-T3—2024-00011)
  10. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
    1. Second Reading and Adoption of Findings for a Legislative Amendment to the Southern Oregon University Facilities Masterplan and Implementing Ordinances #3267, #3268, and #3269 (#PA-L-2025-00016)
    2. Emergency Shelter Contract Amendment – Phase 2 Guaranteed Maximum Construction Price
  11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
  12. NEW BUSINESS
    1. 2025 Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
  13. CITY MANAGER REPORT
  14. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS / REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
  15. 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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