The Ashland Board of City Commissioners conducted a series of votes March 27, adopting several second-reading ordinances and approving numerous first-reading ordinances and contracts. Below is a concise summary of each action recorded during the meeting.

Votes at a glance

- Ordinance (final adoption): Agreement with USALCO LLC to install a tank-level monitoring system for the Department of Utility Operations — adopted (no cost to the city).

- Ordinance (final adoption): Change Order No. 1, Judy Construction Company — Robert Strive screen replacement project, decrease $39,337 — adopted.

- Ordinance (final adoption): Change Order No. 1, Leidy Contracting LLC — Sidewalk Replacement Project Phase 2, decrease $121,637.03 — adopted.

- Ordinance (final adoption): Contract with Boyd County Sanitary Landfill Inc. (Rumpke) for landfill disposal at up to $22.24 per ton for one year — adopted.

- Ordinance (final adoption): Change Order No. 5, Mechanical Construction Company — 26th Street pump station rehabilitation, decrease $7,241.63 — adopted.

- Ordinance (final adoption): 2025–26 Kentucky Pride Fund recycling grant application submission and 25% city match authorization (household hazardous waste program) — adopted.

- Ordinance (final adoption): Consulting agreement with Harrison Consulting LLC to provide construction oversight for a planned conference center — adopted.

- Resolution: Adoption of the consent agenda actions presented by the city manager for the March 27 meeting — adopted.

- First reading and approval (contracts for demolition via Lights Enterprises Inc.):
• 2143 Thomas Street — $9,999
• 2220 Smith Street — $5,600
• 3128 Central Avenue — $4,800
• 2740 Carter Avenue — $9,200
• 62120 Seventh Street (address per agenda) — $5,800
• 1933 Central Avenue — $9,200
All were approved on first reading and will return for a second reading as required by the city’s ordinance process.

- First reading and approval: CDBG annual action plan amendments (2019, 2020, 2023) and adoption of the amended 5-year consolidation plan for 2020–2024 — first readings approved.

- First reading and approval: Contract with Lottie Contracting LLC for concrete at Dawson Pool — $64,398 — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Amendment No. 2 to GRW Engineers, Inc. (increase $50,880) — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Change Order No. 1, CJ Hughes Construction Co., Inc. — Sewer lining and repair project — contract time increased by 150 calendar days — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Traffic ordinance designating certain one-way streets — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Real estate purchase agreement with Brooks Wells Inc. to acquire 341 Fourteenth Street for up to $122,500 — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Stop-sign ordinance amendments (Order No. 169 series of 1995 amended) — approved on first reading.

- First reading and approval: Contract with Rumpke of Kentucky, Inc. for sludge removal for one year — $295,680 — approved on first reading.

- Municipal order: Memorandum of understanding between City of Ashland, Ashland Bus System, and the Kentucky Interstate Planning Commission — adopted.

- First reading and approval: Change Order No. 2, CTB Inc. — Seventeenth Street City Hall entrance project, decrease $4,302 — approved on first reading.

How the votes were recorded: Nearly all items on the agenda were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote with ‘‘aye’’ recorded as the prevailing response; roll-call tallies were not recorded in the public portion of the meeting for those items. Where the item was identified as a ‘‘second reading and final adoption,’’ the commission adopted the ordinance at the meeting; items listed as ‘‘first reading and approval’’ will return for a second reading per city procedure.

Why it matters: The actions authorize capital work (sidewalks, pool concrete, pump-station work), disposal and sludge contracts that affect operating costs, and urban development steps (property purchase and conference center consulting). Several demolition contracts move nuisance-property removals into contract schedules with timeline requirements.