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…WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM MONDAY EVENING TO 9 AM CST TUESDAY…

INCLUDING THE JAMESTOWN AND VALLEY CITY AREA…

 

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15 below. West winds 5 to

15 mph. Wind chill readings 27 below to 32 below zero.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of light snow in the

afternoon in the Valley City area, 30 percent in the Jamestown area. Highs 10 to 15. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Lowest

wind chill readings 29 below to 34 below zero in the morning.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of light snow

in the evening, 40 percent in Jamestown area. Lows 5 to 10 below.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs 5 to 10.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15 below.

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of light snow. Highs

zero to 5 above.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of light snow.

Lows 10 to 15 below.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs zero to 5 above.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 5 to 10 below.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 10 to 15.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows zero to 5 above.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 20 to 25.

Hazardous wind chills Tuesday night through Friday

night.

Light snow showers or flurries late Tuesday into early Wednesday.

Snow amounts are expected to be quite light with a dusting expected.

On Wednesday snow for areas along and south of US Hwy 2.

It appears Thursday holds the best chance of snow passing through or near the region, and precipitation chances Friday.

The city of Jamestown overnight was clearing downtown and arterials of the latest snowfall, which began over the weekend with the Emergency snow routes.

Any information on clearing residential areas will be posted on line at CSiNewsNow.com

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall.  All members were present.

CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS Discussed Separately:

Council Member Buchan requested Item I be discussed separately. Resolution to authorize the City Attorney to send a notice of default to the Recycling Center of North Dakota, Inc., on February 1, 2018, if curbside recycling service has not yet begun based on the terms of the agreement between the company and the City of Jamestown.

He asked if the notice had been sent, and City Attorney Leo Ryan said it had not, as of yet.

Buchanan asked about the default notice, to which Ryan said it was legal action, and that the recycler has 60 days from February 1, 2018 to begin recycling, the trigger date for the default notice.

Mayor Andersen said the date of default will be in early April.

Following discussion the City Council voted, unanimously to approve the Resolution.

 

REGULAR AGENDA

RESOLUTIONS:

PUBLIC HEARING: Concerning Seal Coat, Patching, Construction and Reconstruction District #18-41 protests and the sufficiency thereof.

Following the Public Hearing it was determined that protests have been found to be insufficient to bar proceeding with Seal Coat, Patching, Construction and Reconstruction District

Resolution passed to authorize the City Engineer to develop detailed plans, specifications and estimates for Seal Coat, Patching, Construction and Reconstruction District #18-41.

Council members considered entering into an agreement renewal with the Jamestown Community Correction Program to provide community service and restitution program services for a fee of $3.00 per hour.

Mayor Andersen moved to table, pending additional information.

Considered was the request from Otter Tail Power Company for reimbursement for relocating electrical lines off City right-of-way.

From Otter Tail Power, Richie Wolf said the area concerns 12th Avenue Northeast.

He said the city originally indicated room for the utility, and then informed Otter Tail that changes in the design with the street and sidewalk, required moving the utility’s lines.  He said the lines were reinstalled underground, at a cost of $33,000. He requested the city pay the cost of $7,500.

The franchise agreement indicates the utility will not charge the city for movement from the City Right of Way.

Wolf said Otter Tail Power agrees, but brought up the issue to say rate payers will foot the bill for the relocation.

Mayor Andersen said she sees an exemption to the agreement in this case, as part of the multi-use path project.

Council Member Buchanan moved to pay the $7,500.

The council voted 4-1 to approve, with Council Member Brubakken voting in opposition.

 

ORDINANCES:

FIRST READING: Concerning an ordinance to amend and re-enact Ordinance No. 329 of the City Code by amending the District Map to change the zoning of All Except the S90’ of Lot 1 Replat & Except Parcel A, Block 1, Residence Park 2nd Addition, from R-1 (One Family Residential District) to R-2 (One to Six Families Residential District).

 

HEARING FROM THE AUDIENCE:   No one spoke.

 

APPOINTMENTS:

Appointed Trent Hillerud  to serve as a member on the Fire Code Board of Appeals for a three year term to expire November 2020.

 

Appointed Travis Iversen to serve as an Assistant City Attorney and Assistant City Prosecutor for a term to expire June 2018.

 

MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER’S REPORT:  No one spoked

OTHER BUSINESS:

Approved recognizing the EZ Wheels Shrine Club as an other public spirited organization and authorize the issuance of a raffle permit.

The City Council rejected  a bid due to irregularity, and  not opened January 30 for the Water Treatment Plant roofing removal and replacement project.

A second bid was opened as it’s irregularity was rectified.

A third bid was submitted by another business.

Then, the Council voted to award the bid to  C.L. Lindfoot of Grand Forks, in the amount of $195,674.

The Council tabled action on the bids due to a wide variance in the bid price.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen says Residential Recycling in Jamestown is still moving forward for implementation in the next few weeks.

On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 she said the goal of recycler, Ralph Friebel is to have the recycling carts delivered by February 12th.   However, she pointed out that while the temperatures remain unseasonably cold, the distribution may be delay until the temps warm up.

She added the city has implemented the default option on his contract on February 1st, however Friebel has a 60 day extension to implement residential recycling until the about the end of March this year.

She added that Friebel is awaiting final word on financing to move the recycling center to the former Coke plant in Jamestown.  In the meantime the present location of the Recycling Center has returned to its former hours.

Mayor Andersen pointed out that the city as of December 31st, is no longer providing a subsidy to the recycler.

In other city update’s Mayor Andersen said the City Council has approved hiring Sarah Helleckson as the new City Administrator, effective February 20th this year.

Most recently she has been the solid waste coordinator for the city of Plymouth, Minnesota, who previously withdrew her candidacy, and was re-contacted by the search committee, to come in for an interview.

Mayor Andersen said Ms. Helleckson is an attorney, adding that her background will be an asset in her position as City Administrator.

City Administrator Jeff Fuchs remains in a half time position until the end of March assisting with the transition.

His original retirement date was December 31, 2017, however as a search for his successor took longer than planned he agreed to stay on.

The mayor added that Fuchs could be retained after March 31  to assist in other projects that he’s familiar with.

Mayor Andersen said the recent public meeting concerning proposed traffic flow changes in Downtown Jamestown was well attended.

Part of the presentation included the New Jersey Road Diet Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_zrAfRj20 which outline how a similar project took place, there.

She added that written comments are being accepted until February 15th to:

Travis Dillman, City Engineer, 102 3rd Ave. NE, Jamestown, ND 58401 or by email at travis.dillman@interstateeng.com.

She added that the City of Jamestown will apply for a grant from the North Dakota Department of Transportation to cover the majority of costs, if the project is approved.

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a father and his adult son have been arrested after sheriff’s deputies found drugs worth more than $1 million in their pickup truck during an interstate traffic stop in North Dakota.

Morton County sheriff’s officials say 53-year-old Robert Earl Smith from Vancouver, Washington and his 24-year-old son,  Christopher Conkey from Grants Pass, Oregon, were stopped on Interstate 94 near Mandan on Sunday morning.

The sheriff’s office says the son told a deputy they were transporting fan gear to the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. The deputy thought they were acting suspiciously and asked to search the truck. The request was denied, so a police dog was brought to the scene and alerted authorities to possible drugs.

Deputies found 210 pounds of raw marijuana, five pounds of THC wax/shatter, and eight grams of methamphetamine. and $2,400 in cash and the two were arrested.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he will seek re-election to the post he has held since 2000.

Stenehjem is a former Grand Forks lawyer and state legislator. He is running for his sixth term as North Dakota’s top law enforcement officer.

Stenehjem says that during his tenure he has focused on combatting human trafficking, crimes against children and the elderly, protecting consumers from fraud, and fighting the illegal drug trade.

Democrats do not have a declared challenger at present.

Stenehjem lost to Gov. Doug Burgum in the Republican primary for governor in 2016.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An American Indian tribe has extended its suspension of new alcohol taxes and rules on the reservation located in the heart of North Dakota’s oil patch.

The Three Affiliated Tribes in November imposed a 7 percent tax on alcohol on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The tribe has said it needs higher tax rates to pay for road repairs, extra police and other consequences of oil development on the reservation.

Tribal rules also require permits and inspections by the tribe.

When the new taxes were first imposed, alcohol distributors halted shipments to the reservation, including the tribal-owned casino. Deliveries resumed when the taxes were first suspended.

The extension is in effect until April 3.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a Denver woman to remain jailed in North Dakota while she awaits sentencing for shooting at law officers during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland refused to grant a request by 38-year-old Red Fawn Fallis to be returned to a Fargo halfway house from which she went missing for an entire day last month.

Hovland cited a “lack of candor” by Fallis, saying she thwarted efforts to find her and refused to answer questions about her whereabouts.

Fallis’ attorneys had argued that aside from the one slip-up, Fallis had been an “exemplary” resident at the halfway house for three months.

Fallis pleaded guilty Jan. 22 to civil disorder and a weapons charge. Her sentencing is set for May 31.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Private attorneys will be hired to defend North Dakota over a new state law intended to clarify disputed ownership of minerals under a Missouri River reservoir.

North Dakota’s Industrial Commission directed state lawyers to hire the private attorneys on Monday, after meeting behind closed doors to discuss the lawsuit filed last month by state Rep. Marvin Nelson and others.

Gov. Doug Burgum signed the measure last year limiting state mineral claims under Lake Sakakawea to a smaller area than it had claimed.

Nelson says the law is unconstitutional and a giveaway of state resources.

The Industrial commission consists of Burgum, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring. Burgum and Stenehjem are named in the lawsuit.

The panel did not discuss costs of the lawsuit in public.

 

In sports…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Villanova, Virginia and Purdue are making themselves comfortable atop the AP Top 25.

The Wildcats are ranked No. 1 in Monday’s latest poll, followed by the second-ranked Cavaliers and the third-ranked Boilermakers. It marked the fourth straight week that with the trio sitting 1-2-3 in the poll as they continue extended winning streaks.

Michigan State climbed a spot to No. 4, followed by No. 5 Xavier.

Sixth-ranked Cincinnati moved to its highest ranking since January 2004, followed by No. 7 Texas Tech reaching its highest ranking since March 1996. And eighth-ranked Auburn has its highest ranking since January 2000.

Ninth-ranked Duke and No. 10 Kansas rounded out the top 10. They slid along with fellow national powers Arizona and Kentucky after losses in an upset-filled weekend.

UConn remains the top choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

The Huskies (22-0) were still the unanimous No. 1 by the 32-member national media panel Monday. They routed No. 7 South Carolina on Thursday and then blew out Cincinnati on Sunday.

The first five teams were unchanged in the poll with Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame following UConn. The Bulldogs (23-0) host the Gamecocks on Monday night in a key Southeastern Conference clash.

Texas moved up two spots to sixth while UCLA, Oregon and Maryland round out the first 10 teams in the poll. The Ducks dropped three places after losing to then-No. 24 Stanford on Sunday night.

The 17th-ranked Cardinal made the biggest jump in the Top 25, moving up seven spots.

N.C. State entered the poll at No. 23 and Arizona State came in at 25 while West Virginia and California dropped out.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Young Professionals of Jamestown (YPJ) announces the 2018 Co-ed Volleyball Tournament is set for Saturday and Sunday March 3rd and 4th at Harold Newman Arena on the UJ campus.

On Saturday it will be co-ed teams of four and six.

Sunday, Men’s Teams of four and six, and Women’s Teams of four and six.

All tournaments will have and A & B Division.

For more information and registration on line go to: www.ypjamestown.com/volleyball

Sponsor include: YPJ, First Community Credit Union. Two Rivers Printing, University of Jamestown, Jamestown Regional Medical Center, and Apex Physical Therapy and Wellness Center.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are seeking to push back against a classified memo released by Republicans last week questioning the methods used by the FBI to apply for a surveillance warrant on a onetime associate of the Trump campaign. The House Intelligence Committee is expected to consider whether to release a Democratic rebuttal memo. Some lawmakers of both parties say they doubt President Donald Trump’s claim that the Republican memo clears him in the Russia investigation.

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A woman who reported Larry Nassar to Michigan State University’s gymnastics coach two decades ago for sexual abuse says she hopes the school and USA Gymnastics are transparent in their investigations. Nassar was sentenced Monday to between 40 and 125 years in prison for sexually abusing patients at an elite gymnastics club in Michigan. But more than 260 women and girls say Nassar abused them, including while he worked at Michigan State and USA Gymnastics.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A lay Catholic group in southern Chile that has opposed a bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up says revelations by The Associated Press that Pope Francis heard directly from a victim about the problem “brings an end to his ‘zero tolerance’ rhetoric.” Juan Carlos Claret, a spokesman for Laicos de Osorno, said Monday that the pope and his subordinates must now answer the question of “who decided to constantly discredit the testimony of the victims.”

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi government spokesman has confirmed to The Associated Press that the drawdown of American forces from Iraq has begun following Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the Islamic State group. Government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi says “the battle against Daesh has ended and so the level of the American presence will be reduced.” Daesh is the Arabic language acronym for IS. He says the drawdown is still in its early stages.

MALE, Maldives (AP) — An opposition member of Parliament in the Maldives says soldiers have forced their way into the Supreme Court building where judges are believed to be taking shelter. Ahmed Maloof said late Monday that the soldiers went hours after the government declared a 15-day state of emergency. Officials say the emergency decree gives the government sweeping powers to make arrests, search and seize property and restricts freedom of assembly.