What we do The City Clerk is responsible for preparing and distributing City Council Agendas and Action Agendas along with their associated backup material. She also serves as the custodian of all official city records and services City Council’s boards and commissions. The city clerk attends all City Council meetings and provides for meeting minutes. For July 14 Meeting Notice: Due to the locally declared State of Emergency and Stay Safe, Stay Home order, there will be no public attendance at City Council meetings. While we are Staying Safer at Home, City Council wants you to still have the opportunity to participate in the decisions of your government. There are 3 options for providing public comment. Voicemail All voicemail public comments must be received by 5 p.m. July 13 by calling the City’s Toll-Free Public Input Line at 855-925-2801, meeting code: 9553. Before commenting, please state your name, City of residence and the item you are commenting on (Examples: Consent Agenda Item A, Public Hearing Item B, Open Public Comment). Comments will be limited to three minutes per person per item. All comments must conform to City Council rules of decorum. Those comments that do not may be excluded. City Council will receive the transcribed voicemail comments and the comments will be posted, but they will not be heard during the Council meeting. Live call-in Public comment will also be taken from a live speaker queue. For this option, community members should listen to the meeting by phone by calling 855-925-2801, meeting code: 9553. Your phone will be muted and you will hear the meeting live. At this point callers will hear, “for more options please press *.” Pressing * will allow callers to continue to listen live and join a speaker queue. Callers should only join the speaker queue during the time the agenda item on which they would like to speak is being discussed. Calls will be played during the Council meeting in the order received for up to an hour for each agenda item. All comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person per item. Additionally, all comments must conform to City Council rules of decorum. Those comments that do not may be muted. Email Comments can also be submitted by emailing AshevilleCityCouncilJuly142020@publicinput.com. For the public hearing items, emails will be accepted for up to 24 hours after the close of each public hearing. City Council will receive the emailed comments electronically and the comments will be posted, but they will not be read during the Council meeting. How to follow the live meeting Call toll-free to listen to the meeting on your phone: 855-925-2801, meeting code: 9553. Your phone will be muted but you will be able to hear what is happening in the meeting. Watch the live stream through the City of Asheville Public Engagement Hub at https://www.publicinput.com/hub/88. In addition to the stream on the Virtual Engagement Hub, a live stream of the meeting is also available on the City’s YouTube Channel at youtube.com/cityofasheville. All who want to view the meeting without engaging are encouraged to view through this channel. Watch on Charter Cable channel 193 and on AT&T U-Verse channel 99. If you are watching the meeting through your television or the live stream while you are listening to the meeting by phone, please be sure to turn down the volume on your television or computer. Please also be aware there is a broadcast delay of 4-10 seconds. Television has the least delay at about 4 seconds.or the Council meeting Watch - Live City Council Meetings We’re Working for You! All departments within the City of Asheville are operating. 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ConnectMaggie Burleson, City Clerk70 Court Plaza, Asheville, NC 28801Mailing AddressPO Box 7148, Asheville, NC 28802Business HoursMonday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.Main Office Line828-259-5601Emailmburleson@ashevillenc.gov Related Services Request public records Visit this web portal to search and discover any public records previously or commonly requested as well as make a request for any new public records. Watch livestream of city council meetings View live televised Asheville City Council meetings, at 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. More Related Services City Clerk News Asheville residents invited to apply for Vance Monument Task Force Posted on July 1, 2020July 6, 2020 by Polly McDaniel The Vance Monument Task Force (VMTF) was created by a joint resolution (Joint Resolution – Monuments) by the City of Asheville and Buncombe County. 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Request public records Visit this web portal to search and discover any public records previously or commonly requested as well as make a request for any new public records.
Watch livestream of city council meetings View live televised Asheville City Council meetings, at 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month.
Asheville residents invited to apply for Vance Monument Task Force Posted on July 1, 2020July 6, 2020 by Polly McDaniel The Vance Monument Task Force (VMTF) was created by a joint resolution (Joint Resolution – Monuments) by the City of Asheville and Buncombe County. This group will be tasked with gathering citizen input, particularly from those most impacted by the monuments and participate in public dialogue. The task force will consist of up [...]
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