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Agendas and Minutes

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Regular Meeting

Agenda
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Important: Any citizen may orally address the Council on non-agenda items during the Public Forum. Any citizen may submit written comments to the Council on any item on the Agenda, unless it is the subject of a public hearing and the record is closed. Time permitting, the Presiding Officer may allow oral testimony. If you wish to speak, please fill out the Speaker Request form located near the entrance to the Council Chambers. The chair will recognize you and inform you as to the amount of time allotted to you, if any. The time granted will be dependent to some extent on the nature of the item under discussion, the number of people who wish to speak, and the length of the agenda.

AGENDA FOR THE REGULAR MEETING

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL
August 16, 2016
Council Chambers
1175 E. Main Street

Note: Items on the Agenda not considered due to time constraints are automatically continued to the next regularly scheduled Council meeting [AMC 2.04.030.E.]

7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting

CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL

MAYOR’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

1. Study Session of August 1, 2016
2. Business Meeting of August 2, 2016

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS

1. Annual presentation from the Conservation Commission

PUBLIC FORUM Business from the audience not included on the agenda. (Total time allowed for Public Forum is 15 minutes. The Mayor will set time limits to enable all people wishing to speak to complete their testimony.) [15 minutes maximum]

Document Submitted at Meeting

CONSENT AGENDA

1. Minutes of boards, commissions, and committees
2. Annual renewal of liquor licenses
3. Special Procurement for the purchase of Polymer for the WWTP
4. Siskiyou Boulevard and Tolman Creek Road four-way stop controlled improvements
5. Intergovernmental Agreement with Jackson County to perform crack seal at Ashland Municipal Airport

PUBLIC HEARINGS (Persons wishing to speak are to submit a “speaker request form” prior to the commencement of the public hearing. Public hearings shall conclude at 9:00 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 10:30 p.m. at which time the Council shall set a date for continuance and shall proceed with the balance of the agenda.)

1. Public Hearing and Resolution Adopting a Supplemental Budget Establishing Appropriations within the Biennium 2015-17 Budget

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None

NEW AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
1. Certification of City Measure by City Governing Body Document Submitted at Meeting
2. Approval of the 2016 Water Supply Strategy

ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS

1.   Second reading by title only of an ordinance titled, “An ordinance amending the citizen participation and involvement chapter of the Ashland Comprehensive Plan to establish the Ashland Planning Commission as the committee for citizen involvement”
2.   Second reading by title only of an ordinance titled, “An ordinance amending AMC Chapter 4.34, Food and Beverage Tax, and referring the ordinance to the voters of Ashland in the November 8, 2016 General Election”
3.   Approval of a resolution titled, “Resolution to the City of Ashland to submit to the voters at the November 8, 2016, General Election an ordinance amending AMC 4.34, Food and Beverage Tax”
4.    Approval of a resolution titled, “A resolution accepting changes to the financial management policies and accounting methodologies and repealing Resolution No. 2014-01”
5.   Approval of a resolution titled, “A resolution updating the City of Ashland’s implementation of Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement 54 – Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions and repealing Resolution No. 2011-17”
6. Approval of a resolution titled, “A resolution establishing Target Ending Fund Balances and Repealing Resolution No. 2010-05”
7.   Approval of a resolution titled, “A resolution of the City of Ashland, Oregon, declaring support for the provisions of the convention of the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW)”

OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS

ADJOURNMENT OF BUSINESS MEETING

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