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Council Business Meeting

Agenda
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL
BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street

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6 p.m. Regular Business Meeting*

CALL TO ORDER
1. Land Acknowledgement**
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
MAYOR’S/CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Proclamation Recognizing Historic Preservation Week in Ashland
2. Proclamation Supporting the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

APPROVAL OF CITY COUNCIL MINUTES ***
1. Minutes of the April 3, 2023, Study Session Meeting
2. Minutes of the April 4, 2023, Business Meeting

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS
1. Alan C. Bates Public Service Award
2. Historic Preservation Advisory Committee Annual Report

Document submitted during the meeting

CITY MANAGER REPORT
PUBLIC FORUM (15 minutes) (Public input or comment from the audience on City business not included on the agenda.)
CONSENT AGENDA
1. City Council Liaison Appointments
  - Dylan Bloom to the Forest Lands Advisory Committee
  - Jeff Dahle to the Historic Preservation Advisory Committee
  2. Grant Application for Unhoused Emergency Shelter

Document submitted during the meeting

PUBLIC HEARINGS (Hearings shall conclude at 8:00 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 9:30 p.m. at which time the Council shall set a date for continuance and shall proceed with the balance of the agenda.)
1. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Awards

Document submitted during the meeting

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS
1. Acquisition of the Palen Property (Taxlot 391E16–600) for the Open Space Park Program
2. Climate Change Addendum to the Ashland Forest Plan

Documents submitted prior to & during the meeting

ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
1. Second Reading of Ordinance 3220 Amending the City’s Food and Beverage Tax to correspond with the City’s referendum ballot language for the May 16, 2023, Special Election

Document submitted during the meeting

1. Contract Amendment with RH2 for the East & West Forks Water Transmission Line Design and Construction Administration

OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
1. City Managers One Year Performance Review

ADJOURNMENT OF BUSINESS MEETING

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* 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.