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Home My WebLink About2025-01-21 Council Meeting (3) From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:44:27 AM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. Brad Archuleta Full Name 1/21/2025 Meeting Date Email Address Written Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. I would like to Speak in opposition of this Ordinance 3254 In Written Testimony regards to the residential use of natural gas. (Leave this section blank if you are requesting to speak electronically.) Field not completed. Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Monday, January 20, 2025 7:46:11 PM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. David Cobar Full Name 1/21/25 Meeting Date Email Address Written Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. Field not completed. Written Testimony (Leave this section blank if you are requesting to speak electronically.) 2025 Ashland Electrification Support Letter.pdf Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Saturday, January 18, 2025 9:15:22 PM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. James H Cannon Full Name 1-21-25 Meeting Date Email Address Written Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. One cold winter night a camel asked his master if he could put Written Testimony his head under the tent to stay warm. The master said yes - what (Leave this section could it hurt? After all it was just a little thing. Soon enough the blank if you are persuasive camel was asking to bring his whole body inside. requesting to speak What could the master say- having surrender to the camels nose electronically.) coming inside he had set a precedent without fully thinking through the consequences and surrender to the logic of the camels position. Thus with agreeing to tax non-electric ways of staying warm , cooking your food or heating your water for new construction- which is already very , very expensive- you have opened the tent up to taxing existing appliances because they also use fossil fuels. If fossil fuels are bad - why are they only bad in new homes but not existing homes.? So if you surrendered to the logic of imposing such a tax amounting to thousands of year on new Ashland home owners you set a precedent and are also forcing homeowners into the clutches of the power companies who will be constantly asking to raise rates to cover jury judgements for their negligence. If taxes on fossil fuel appliances are to be adopted why just us. Shouldn’t it apply statewide? Shouldn’t decision that increase the costs of housing get consideration from the Governor and legislators too? Shouldn’t policy be Oregon wide? The Ashland market for natural gas is but a speck - insignificant in the larger scheme. I have to say I regard the ordinance as nothing more than meddlesome virtue signaling. I urge your rejection of the ordinance to impose a tax on non- electric appliance lest we end up with an entire camel. Sincerely, James Cannon Field not completed. Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:48:11 AM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. Paul Elder Full Name 1/21/2025 Meeting Date Email Address Via Zoom Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. I would like to speak in opposition of Ordinance 3254 and the Written Testimony usage of residential natural gas. (Leave this section blank if you are requesting to speak electronically.) Field not completed. Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Tuesday, January 21, 2025 8:50:44 AM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. Bryan Oguri Full Name 1/21/25 Meeting Date Email Address Written Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. I would like to speak about the big picture around,eliminating Written Testimony natural gas. I want talk how dangerous this is for the public. The (Leave this section devastation and death this could cause. blank if you are requesting to speak electronically.) Field not completed. Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From:noreply@civicplus.com To:Ashland City Recorder Subject:Online Form Submittal: City Council Public Testimony Form Date:Wednesday, January 15, 2025 10:04:44 AM \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] City Council Public Testimony Form Public Testimony This form allows citizens to submit public testimony for Council meetings. Testimony is accepted for both general public forum items and agenda items. This form must be submitted by 10 am the day of the meeting. Writtentestimonies submitted by the deadline will be available to the Mayor and City Council before the meeting. All public testimony will be included in the agenda packet. Bryan Sohl MD Full Name 01/21/2025 Meeting Date Email Address Written Indicate if you want to provide written testimony, or if you want to speak via Zoom. Agenda Item Indicate if you would like to speak during Public Forum or for an agenda item. I would like to speak publicly regarding the agenda item " First Written Testimony Reading of the Carbon Pollution Impact Fee Ordinance". I am (Leave this section Chair of Ashland's Climate and Environment Policy Advisory blank if you are Committee (CEPAC). I would also like to submit written requesting to speak testimony on the subject for Council Review. Please see electronically.) attached BRIEF Powerpoint from CEPAC on this issue. Bryan Sohl CEPAC Chair CEPAC Statement on Ordinance.pptx Upload a file or image Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. How Did We Get Here? How Did We Get Here? March 2023, Ashland Youth present to City Council a request to pass an ordinance to require the electrification of new buildings Council directs CEPAC to study an ordinance City Staff and CEPAC work on a concept of an ordinance Stakeholders are engaged January of 2024, CEPAC made recommendations to Council Council reviews CEPAC recommendations, makes their own recommendations and sends process back to City Attorney Today we are having the first reading of an ordinance. 9ĳƂƢ϶ŗĨ϶Źİňêŏċ϶А϶9E¡9϶fŏĨŗŵŎêƂĳŗŏêň϶~đđƂĳŏĩ϶êŏċ϶¨Ƃêńđİŗňċđŵ϶ Engagement re: Electrification Ordinance October 18, 2023 October 26, 2023 Was the Ashland Community Involved? ЧÑE¨Ё϶϶?đđŲňƢ϶ĳŏƚŗňƚđċЁ Item discussed at multiple CEPAC meetings, where public comment was entertained. Stakeholders were proactively identified and actively invited to participate. Two WELL ATTENDED Stakeholder meetings on the subject were held in October of 2023. 72 people attended 28 people testified; 26 in favor of an ordinance, 1 against, 1 neutral City and CEPAC received 101 written comments re: Ordinance 95 letters in support of an ordinance, 5 against, 1 neutral Will This Ordinance Raise the Cost of New Homes in Ashland? NO! Rocky Mountain Institute study of nine USA markets (including Eugene) found all-electric new home costs were less to build and maintain than mixed Natural gas-electric new homes IN ALL NINE MARKETS Less Upfront construction costs (Did not even include incentives and rebates) Less annual energy bills. (Even cheaper in Ashland) Less 15-year total life-cycle costs ($5850 less over 15 years in Eugene) uđƢ϶¨ƇŲŲŗŵƂđŵŹ϶ŗĨ϶ƂİĳŹ϶ŵċĳŏêŏąđ϶А϶Ƈŵ϶ÑŗƇƂİЁ Key Supporters of an Ordinance CEPAC϶А϶CEPAC UNANIMOUSLY and ENTHUSIASTICALLY Supports the 9ňĳŎêƂđϼ¡ŗňňƇƂĳŗŏϼfŎŲêąƂϼ\[đđϼŵċĳŏêŏąđ ϼŏ϶ĳŎŲŗŵƂêŏƂ϶ŹƂđŲ϶ĳŏ϶ŎđđƂĳŏĩ϶ŹİňêŏċЪŹ϶Й9E¡К϶\]ŗêňŹ A model for other Oregon Communities Key Supporters of an Ordinance Ashland Youth Ëđ϶êŵđ϶ċđêňĳŏĩ϶ƜĳƂİ϶ŗƇŵ϶ąİĳňċŵđŏЪŹ϶ĨƇƂƇŵđ϶İđŵđ Ryan Haynes, Director of Real Estate Development, Jackson County Housing Authority “Affordable housing is what we do and who we are. We have realized reduced construction costs “We have also found that our residents who live in all-electric apartment buildings can anticipate competitive, if not reduced, utility bills over time”. Key Supporters of an Ordinance ~êŵń϶uŏŗơ϶А϶u?϶cŗŎđŹϼ϶϶϶ňđêċing developer in town including Eco-Friendly Communities in Ashland such as Beach Creek Key Supporters of an Ordinance ~ĳąİêđň϶~đİêĨĨƢϽ϶¡İ?϶А϶xđêċ϶¡ňanner Townmakers LLC. The Developer of the Planned Crowman Mill Project Э¨ŲđêńĳŏĩϼŏŗƜϼŗŏϼăđİêňĨϼŗĨϼ°ŗƜŏŎêńđŵŹϼxx9ЃϼƂİđϼąŗŎŲêŏƢϼăđňĳđƚđŹϼ ƂİêƂϼĩŗĳŏĩϼêňňДđňđąƂŵĳąϼŗŏϼŵđŹĳċđŏƂĳêňϼĳŹϼêϼŹŎêŵƂϼŎŗƚđЂЮ