Business Meeting AGENDA
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street
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6:00 p.m. Regular Business Meeting
I. CALL TO ORDER
a. Land Acknowledgement*
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
III. ROLL CALL
IV. MAYOR’S / CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT
V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a. Minutes of the March 31, 2025 – Study Session Meeting
b. Minutes of the April 1, 2025 – Business Meeting
VI. CONSENT AGENDA
a. Budget Transfers and Budget Supplemental
VII. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
VIII. PUBLIC FORUM
15 minutes – Public input or comment on City business not included on the agenda
IX. PUBLIC HEARING
a. Public Hearing on 2025–2026 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Award and Action Plan
b. Public Hearing and Decision on the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan for use of Community Development Block Grant Funds
X. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS
a. Resolutions related to Public Safety, Wildfire and Parks Fees
b. Second Reading ORD 3258 An Ordinance Amending AMC Chapter 10.30 to Prohibit Hazardous Fire Use
c. Second Reading of Ordinance 3259: “An Ordinance Annexing Property and Withdrawing an Annexed Area from Jackson County Fire District No. 5 (300 Clay Street)” and adoption of Findings and Conclusions of Law for Planning Action #PA-T3-2024-00010.
XI. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a. Water Cost of Service Study and Rate Study Final Draft Update
b. Proposed Changes to Enhanced Law Enforcement Area Process
c. 2025-2027 Transient Lodging Tax (TLT) Revenue Use for Tourism Promotion
XII. NEW BUSINESS
XIII. CITY MANAGER REPORT
XIV. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS/REPORTS FROM COUNCIL LIAISONS
XV. ADJOURNMENT
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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, ashlandoregon.gov.
