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Section 2.26.010 Purpose

The Ashland Wildfire Mitigation Commission shall provide advice and support to the Council and City departments and education to the community on wildfire issues and plans for mitigation action. Specifically, the Commission will function as the entity to foster the efforts of the city of Ashland to adopt and achieve the goals set forth in the Fire Adapted Communities program.
(Ord 3044, added, 01/18/2011; amended Ord 3095, 2014)

Additional information about Ashland's Fire Adapted Communities program can be found at fireadaptedashland.org.

Please remember that other than staff, the people listed below are volunteers working on behalf of our community and should only be contacted on matters related to their particular commission, committee or board.

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Established	Meetings	Length of Term
2014	11:00 AM-1:00 PM, third Wednesday of each month at Fire Station 1, 455 Siskiyou Blvd. Meeting dates may change if a quorum cannot be arranged for the regularly scheduled day. See calendar for updates and changes.	3 years

Members

Name	Title	Term Begin	Term End
Vacancy 1	Commissioner - Position 4
Vacancy 2	Commissioner - Position 3
Steve Asher	Commissioner - Position 8	4/16/2019	4/30/2024
Daniel Dawson	Commissioner - Position 7	9/18/2018	4/30/2022
Stephen Gagne	Commissioner - CHAIR - Position 6	11/4/2014	4/30/2022
Tonya Graham	Council Liaison
Douglas Kay	Commissioner - Position 2	8/18/2015	4/30/2023
Kent Romney	Commissioner - Position 1	3/19/2019	4/30/2023
John Scarborough	Commissioner - VICE CHAIR -Position 9	4/6/2021	4/30/2023
Charisse Sydoriak	Commissioner - Position 5	4/2/2019	4/30/2024