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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Francis D. Haines, Jr. and several other council members were recalled in an election May 11, 1970, after a conflict between the city council and the city administrator resulted in an attempt to discharge the city administrator and another city official. This collection consists of papers relating to Haines’s term on the Ashland City Council including minutes, reports, correspondence, city publications, and other background and supporting materials about the issues considered by...

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Programs for regular meeting Ashland City Council; Meeting minutes; Correspondence; Reports and financial statements. Newspaper clipping with headlines “A Dilemma in Ashland” regarding committee budget; “Plaza Project Put in Doubt”; “Council Recall Effort Dropped” published by Ashland Daily Tidings 1970.

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Programs for regular meeting Ashland City Council; Meeting minutes; Correspondence; Reports and financial statements. Newspaper clipping with headlines “Ashland’s Wrecking-Crew” published by Medford Mail Tribune April 1970; “Request to Fire Official Blocked” published by Ashland Daily Tidings April 1970.

Scope and Contents Resolution stating intent to complete the federally funded Lithia Park (Plaza) Extension Project and requesting participation in said project by Jackson County; Resolution requesting that the Oregon State Highway Commission assign highest priortity to construction of the Park Street to Tolman Creek Road section of highway 66 in Ashland; Ordinance amending ordinance 1588 which ordinance known as the “Sign Ordinance” regulates signs; Ordinance authorizing the issuance of City Improvement Bonds...

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Correspondence and newspaper articles headlined “Tightens Sign Ordinance” published by The American City July 1969; “Crisis in Public Housing” published U.S. News and World Report November 1969.

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Ashland Development Commission meeting agenda and minutes.

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Budget reports

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Resolution and correspondence.

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The Legislative Functions of the General Plan by T.J. Kent Jr.

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Resolution and correspondence.