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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-1020 Documents Submitted at the Mtg eRENEWAL APPLICATION Please email this completed renewal application with requested attachments to beecityusa@gmail.com with APPLICATION in the subject line. Annual Bee City USA designation is recognition of work completed by the community during the previous year. As [Title-Mayor or other city official] of [City/town and State], I herewith make application for this community's designation as BEE CITY USA to be renewed for [year], having met the Bee City USA standards noted below. STANDARD 1: Maintain a Bee City USA Commission, Board, Subcommittee, or Responsible City Department and their Representative (i.e. Liaison to Bee City USA) • Name of responsible entity: • Name of representative, phone, and email: • Date of establishment of board or subcommittee: • List or attach member names: • List meeting dates for past year: STANDARD 2: Maintain Bee City USA Resolution • Attach adopted resolution only if it has been amended since last Bee City USA application. • Date resolution adopted STANDARD 3: Publicly Acknowledge Your Bee City USA Designation • Install or maintain at least one Bee City t/SA street sign using artwork provided by Bee City USA. • On the municipality's website indicate your Bee City USA liaison(s), link to your signed resolution and the Bee City USA website (beecityusa.org), and summarize the pollinator- friendly activities the municipality has undertaken or accomplished the previous year. Attach photo(s) of and provide location(s) of Bee City USA street sign(s) Provide URL for webpage with links: STANDARD 4: Annually Celebrate Your Bee City USA Designation With Proclamation and Public Event(s) During National Pollinator Week or Other Appropriate Date (See Instructions below) • Provide a PDF of your signed annual Bee City USA proclamation. • Date(s) observance(s) was held • Attach announcement of your Bee City USA annual observance(s). Bee City USA Renewal Application, Page I of 2 STANDARD 5: Apply for Annual Renewal and Summarize Activities Conducted to Raise Awareness of and Sustain Pollinators Instructions: In no more than five pages, please summarize how you made your community more hospitable to pollinators this year. Attachments and photos are welcome. Possible activities follow below; however, each community is encouraged to conduct activities that reflect its unique needs and assets. In your description of each activity, please indicate the date, audience/participants, hosts, and the location. • Develop and disseminate a list of attractive plants that: are native to your county, provide food or nesting materials for pollinators, and are available from local seed and plant suppliers. • Provide staff development regarding managing landscapes to sustain pollinators. • Provide public education through workshops, brochures, websites, media, etc. regarding best practices to sustain pollinators. • Remove non-native invasive plants. • Designate pollinator refuges in public spaces. • Develop a policy discouraging or banning the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes on ornamental plants on municipal property or within the municipality's jurisdiction (similar to the cosmetic pesticide ban now in force in Takoma Park, Maryland). • Plant, and/or label, native pollinator-friendly plants on city-maintained lands. • Substitute natural, chemical free treatments for pesticides or reduce pesticide use for least ill effects on pollinators, scheduling treatments during times when pollinators are not active. • Provide incentives for or require that developers use native, pollinator friendly plants in their landscape. • Recognize businesses, residents, or neighborhoods for establishing and/or maintaining pollinator friendly habitats and demonstration gardens. • Replace lawns with pollinator meadows. • If removal of honey bees is necessary, promote colony capture rather than destruction. • Report your pollinator-friendly activities in the media and on your website. • Collaborate with the Department of Transportation to make roadsides pesticide-free pollinator meadows. Note: With these signatures, you give Bee City USA permission to use the information and photos you share in promotional materials. Mayor or equivalent: (Liaison) Person Completing This Form: Name: Name: Title: Title: Address: Address: City, State, Zip: City, State, Zip: Phone: Phone: Email: Email: Signature: Signature: Date: Date: Certification (To be completed by Bee City USA) Congratulations! Bee City USA is pleased to advise you that we received your renewal application and have concluded that you have met the standards for renewal of your designation as a Bee City USA affiliate through the calendar year. With your help, we are making the world safer for pollinators, one city at a time. If we take care of the pollinators, they will take care of us. Bee City USA Renewal Application, Page 2 of 2 Oregon Hone Y mqmw Festival Saturday, November 15th, 2014 Ashland Springs Hotel 212 E. Main St. Ashland, Oregon .r. . . "On the Oregon Irail ]Q, - Elvin Honey, Almonds, Confections, Tastings, Gourmet Luncheon limited tickets Demos, Recipes, Silent Auction, Bee Products. Honey... It's more than just sweet! General Admission - $ 7 11 am - 4pm Luncheon Tickets - $ 29 12pm - I pm (Available at The Music Coop 541.482.3115) Mention Oregon Honey Festival for special room rates at the Ashland Springs Hotel. co m Like us on Faceboo S P 0\ 5 R E I) 11 1 5 H A S T 1\ A M 1 L 16 S 0 R K S Job rn~s SS 10)-04 A short speech to the Council My name is John Ames; I can be reached at 818 Palmer Road. I'm here today in place of my wife, Janet Boggia, who is out of town at a previously scheduled event. My objective is to encourage you to dip your collective toes in the Lake of Liberty. I think you'll find it feels good. Your sign ordinance covers a broad class of things. The proposed amendment carves out a small sub-set of things that I suggest you decline to control. It's worded not to mean that you control them in a special way, but that you simply leave them to the genius of the people. In case you haven't had a chance to read the suggested amendment, here it is. Add new sub-section 18.96.020.27 (a) Decoration. Any material such as paint, ceramic tile, ceramic relief or similar substance which is affixed to a surfaces small in scale relative to the building on which it is placedf1vhich carries no overt meaning rising to the level of speech either by word or commonly understood symbolsand which neither identifies, describes, nor illustrates any significant aspect of a business shall be considered a decoration and not a sign and is therefore not subject to this ordinance. It's remotely possible that this exception may at some future time lead to a threat to the public health, safety, or general welfare, but I find that difficult to imagine. If that happens, you should of course amend the ordinance to rectify the actual problem. In the meantime, you avoid the risk of ridicule/and the enforcement officer has a clear statement of that with which he does not need to concern himself. JS' Discussion of Wall Graphics Roy Laird Ashland Book Exchange 90 N Pioneer Street 97520 Business: 541-482-1675 Cell: 541-324-2174 October 20, 2014 I want to make a few, brief comments on the Book Exchange mural and small decorative art pieces in our city. I'm pleased that the council has decided to address the issue because the existing ordinance makes no provision for this kind of public art. That's an oversight which the council now has the opportunity to correct. The proposed amendments to the Ordinance, written by John Ames and attached to the documents you received from me, provide a practical and viable solution to this dilemma, one that gives space for smaller projects without placing undue restrictions, red tape, and expense upon them. As a practical matter, the city simply cannot effectively police and regulate all public art. It's too big of a job. This is not a gated community, it's a theater and an arts town. Public art will continue to spring up like flowers or like weeds, depending on your perspective. That's the sign of a vibrant community. It will be beautiful to some, messy and even offensive to others. It's not the job of government to attempt to regulate such expression. The document on Wall Graphics in the Planning Session packet shows that there are as many alternatives as there are towns in how this art is handled. What we have now is not written in stone. Finally, I cannot stress enough how sJngly the public feels about this issue. Almost every day people come into the Book Exchange and comment on it. This is not an issue that has faded from view in the absence of publicity. People simply cannot understand why the city would require a simple mural of a potted plant and bird to be destroyed only to be replaced by a blank whitewashed wall. It doesn't make sense. It makes people cynical about their government and their representatives. I have made every attempt to counter such cynicism by telling people that the city has shown flexibility and is willing to address this issue. The fact that the issue is on your agenda today makes me optimistic that it will be resolved in such a way that the public is reassured and that there remains a place for decorative art in our city. ,M 1JA , j 1. Add the following in AMC 18.96.020 - Definitions Relating to Signs: Decoration. Any exterior wall detail which is created by paint, ceramic tile, or other artistic medium, which is small in scale relative to the business frontage on which it is placed, which is two-dimensional or in low-relief and which does not identify, describe or illustrate in words or in commonly understood symbols any significant aspect of a business. 2. Add the following in AMC 18.96.030 - Exempted Signs: On any given business frontage in the Commercial Industrial and Employment Districts and the Commercial-Downtown Overlay District, a decoration the area of which is less than of the otherwise allowable signage area on the business frontage. The area of a decoration is to be measured by the entire area within circles, triangles, or rectangles which enclose the extreme limits of the decoration. 3. Amend subsection L of AMC 18.96.040 - Prohibited Signs as follows: No wall graphics shall be permitted:, except for decorations except for decorations exempted in AMC 18.96.030*in AMC 18.96.030x.