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Land Acknowledgment
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 denounce the egregious acts of the colonizers and government and recognize the horrific impacts that still exist 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.
RESOLUTION NO. 2023-06 A RESOLUTION UPDATING AND CONSOLIDATING RESOLUTIONS 2022-24 AND 2022-32 ESTABLISHING CITY COUNCIL AND MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEES
SECTION 3. Standing Advisory Committees to the City Council are established and responsible for the purposes indicated in the following:
G. Social Equity and Racial Justice Advisory Committee (SERJAC)
A Social Equity and Racial Justice Advisory Committee (SERJAC) is established by the City Council. The SERJAC will consist of nine (9) voting members and one (1) nonvoting ex-officio member designated by the City Manager to provide support to the committee. Voting members will include members from a broad spectrum of community interests and perspectives, specifically including individuals with backgrounds in race and social equity work and a representative cross section of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups, such as Black, Aboriginal peoples, people of color, LGBTQ+, the elderly and disabled persons.
The SERJAC shall be responsible for assisting the City in the following:
i. Encouraging understanding and celebration of the diversity of the City’s population and visitors and promote amicable intergroup relations within the City.
ii. Recommending policies, measures, and practices to bring about social and racial equity and a greater inclusion for all who live, work, or visit in the City, including counter measures to systematic racism, homophobia, sexism, classism, and other racial and social inequities impacting Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, and disabled persons, as well as other marginalized persons in the Ashland community.
iii. Recommending efforts to increase economic opportunities for Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, and disabled persons, as well as other marginalized persons in the Ashland community.
iv. Advising on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and human rights training for the City of Ashland’s staff, commissions/boards, other advisory committees, and the City Council.
v. To seek, at least every two (2) years, a broad spectrum of input from community members on emerging issues and needs of the Ashland community as they relate to diversity, equity, inclusion, human rights, and intergroup