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CSi Weather….
TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight in the Valley City area. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then showers and thunderstorms
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area.
.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY…Partly sunny with chance of showers and slight chance
of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows around 60.
.SUNDAY…Partly sunny with chance of showers and slight chance
of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
There is a chance of strong to severe storms over parts of
western and most of central North Dakota the rest of Tuesday. Hail up to one
inch in diameter and wind gusts up to 60 mph will be the biggest
threats.
There is growing confidence that widespread thunderstorms, some
strong to severe, will develop across much of western and central
North Dakota on Thursday. Very large hail and significant damaging
wind gusts will be the primary threats.
This activity may continue through Thursday night and into
Friday.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in the final session of the current council, Tuesday at City Hall.
All members were present.
HEARING FROM THE AUDIENCE: No one spoke.
NO CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS Were Discussed separately:
REGULAR AGENDA
RESOLUTIONS:
To certify that the below named officers were elected by a majority vote at the 2018 State Primary/City Election:
Term Expires Votes
Mayor
Dwaine Heinrich June 2022 1,282
Council Member
David Steele June 2022 1,746
Municipal Judge
Lawrence P. Kropp June 2022 1,986
City Park Commissioners
Mike Landscoot June 2022 1,317
Mike Soulis June 2022 1,490
Mindi Schmitz June 2022 1,381
ORDINANCES:
FIRST READING: Concerning an ordinance to amend and re-enact a Section of the Code of the City pertaining to security personnel requirements for special event alcohol permits issued for public buildings.
FIRST READING: Concerning an ordinance to amend and re-enact a Section of the Code of the pertaining to entities permitted to obtain a temporary special alcohol permit.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER’S REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL:
Council Member Phillips attended the Community Health Partnership Meeting in Jamestown.
OTHER BUSINESS:
A Resolution was approved to accept the affidavit from Joseph Franzen that Check No. 13480 (Unison Bank), dated May 31, 2018, in the amount of $1,575.00, has been lost or destroyed and authorize the issuance of a duplicate.
Approved the request from Vets Club, Inc., for a site authorization to conduct gaming at the Vets Club for the period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
Approved awarding the bid to Strata Corporation, for the 2018 Safe Routes to School Sidewalk District 18-21, Project TAU-2-987(039), PCN 21964, in the amount of $229,810.75, contingent upon NDDOT review and approval.
Approved of maintaining the stop loss coverage at $20,000 per member and establish the monthly premium rates for the City of Jamestown Employee Group Health Plan for the fiscal year September 1, 2018 – August 31, 2019, as follows:
City Share Employee Share Total
Single Plan $614.74 -0- $614.74
Single Plus Dependent $755.98 $294.24 $1,050.22
Family Plan $896.58 $642.12 $1,538.70
Adjournment
Sine Die
Mayor Katie Andersen was awarded plaque as mayor of Jamestown with thanks to her eight years of Service.
Council Member Ramone Gunmke was awarded a plaque with thanks for his eight years of service.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Following the final Regular meeting, the Jamestown City Council met in Special Session, the meeting of the organization meeting of the new council was held.
All members were present.
Judge Troy LeFevre administered the Oath of Office to, Council Member David Steele and then Mayor Dwaine Heinrich.
Mayor Heinrich called for round of applause for former Mayor Andersen and former Council Member Ramone Gumke.
New Council Member David Steele, and New Mayor Heinrich thanked their families for their support during the campaign.
Nominations for President of the Council.
Voted for approval was Daniel Buchanan
Nominations for Vice-President of the Council.
Voted for approval was Pam Phillips
APPOINTMENTS:
Appointment of Leo Ryan to serve as City Attorney and City Prosecutor for a two year term to expire June 2020
Appointments of Kara Brinster , and Abby Gerioux to serve as Assistant City Prosecutors and Assistant City Attorneys for two year terms to expire June 2020.
Appointment of Tonya Duffy to serve as a Special City Prosecutor for a two year term to expire June 2020.
Appointment of Dwaine Heinrich to serve on the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation Board for a two year term to expire June 2020.
Appointment of David Steele to serve as a City Council representative on the County Zoning Board for a four year term to expire June 2022.
Appointment of Dan Buchanan to serve as a City Council representative on the County Zoning Board to fill the unexpired term of Katie Andersen, June 2020.
Appointment of Steve Brubakken to serve as a City Council representative on the Law Enforcement Governing Board to fill the unexpired term of Ramone Gumke, December 2020.
Appointment of Dwaine Heinrich to serve as a City Council representative on the Law Enforcement Governing Board to fill the unexpired term of Katie Andersen, December 2019.
Appointment of Dan Buchanan to serve as a City Council representative on the Pension Committee to fill the unexpired term of Ramone Gumke, March 2019.
Appointment of David Steele and Dwaine Heinrich to serve on the Storm Water Committee to fill the unexpired terms of Katie Andersen and Ramone Gumke, April 2019.
Appointment of David Steele to serve as a City Council representative on the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority to fill the unexpired term of Katie Andersen, December 2021.
MAYOR’S, COMMITTEE CITY COUNCIL ASSIGNMENTS:
Finance & Legal Committee and Personnel Committee—Council Member Dan Buchanan
Building, Planning & Zoning Committee—Council Member David Steele.
Civic Center & Promotion Committee—Council Member Pam Phillips
Police & Fire Committee—Council Member Dwaine Heinrich
Public Works Committee—Council Member Steve Brubakken
HEARING FROM THE AUDIENCE: No One Spoke.
OTHER BUSINESS:
Council Member Phillips said at the July 2nd City Council meeting members of the Frontier Village Association Board will be in attendance.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Special Session at the 5 -p.m., for the organizational meeting of the new Commission, Tuesday at City Hall. All members were present.
NEW BUSINESS
The Barnes County Official Canvassed Abstract and the Certificate of Election from the Primary Election held on June 12, 2018, were read into the minutes
Newly elected City Commissioner, Jeff Erickson, took his seat on the Commission.
Commissioners approved and appointed Vice President to Valley City Commission, Commissioner Magnuson.
Approve reorganization of Commissioners’ Portfolios:
Finance, Commissioner Powell
Public Works Streets, Sanitation & Sewer, Commissioner Erickson
Public Works Electric & Water, Mayor Carlsrud
Police & Fire, Commissioner Bishop
Building & Grounds, Commissioner Magnuson
Appointed and approved Commissioner assignments to additional committees and boards.
Planning & Zoning, Commissioner Erickson.
Representative on the Valley City/Barnes County Economic Development Corporation, is Commissioner Bishop.
Newly Elected Officials Orientation will be held in Jamestown.
The meeting was shown live on CSi 68 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) The annual Jamestown High School summer musical has been set.
This Thursday and Friday, June 28, and 29, the group will present their production of the musical “The Addams Family.” Adapted from the comic, TV series and movies, the show provides a different spin on the characters everyone has come to know.
The play is Co-directed by Mike McIntyre and Cheryl McIntyre, who is providing musical direction.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Cheryl said 24 students are taking part in play, along with behind the scenes support and the pit orchestra made up of students and community members.
Also joining us on our show was Samara McDermid playing Wednesday Addams, with the character in this production older that her brother, Pugsley, played by Alexis Young, who has to deal with the sister growing up without him.
Also on our show were Anja McDermid, who plays a dancer and ancestor, and Paris Ndikum (Dee-Kum) who plays Lucas.
Emma Bennett plays the mother Morticia, who tries to keep the family together through their growing pains.
Both shows will begin at 7 PM on Thursday, June 28th and Friday, June 29th at the Jamestown High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door and are $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens.
Bismarck (Gov. Burgum’s Office) – North Dakota offers the best quality of life in the country and ranks fourth overall among U.S. states for the second year in a row in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings released Tuesday.
This is the first year the magazine’s annual rankings have included a quality of life category, and North Dakota topped the list. The state also ranked first in four metrics – growth of young population, labor force participation rate, low food insecurity and budget balancing – and ranked second in the infrastructure and fiscal stability categories.
Burgum says, “Thanks to U.S. News & World Report for reinforcing what the people who live and visit here already know: North Dakotans enjoy an unmatched quality of life, with abundant natural resources, endless recreational opportunities and hardworking citizens who make this the best place to live, work and a raise a family. We’re committed to creating an environment that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation and helping communities reach their fullest potential to make our state an even more vibrant, healthy place to live.”
It stated, “U.S. News noted the state boasts some of the nation’s best roads and short-term finances, as well as one of the highest voter participation rates and strong social and natural environments.The state’s small towns promote a positive social environment in which people are not only supportive of one another, but they are able to engage in their communities and feel that they are making a difference. Despite a rapid growth in North Dakota’s energy sector over recent years, the state still has some of the best air quality in the nation.”
U.S. News evaluated states across 77 metrics to create the Best States rankings, based on tens of thousands of data points provided by McKinsey & Co.’s Leading States Index. In determining the weights of the eight categories in the rankings, two years of data were used from McKinsey’s “citizen experience” survey, which asked more than 30,000 people to prioritize each subject in their state and provide levels of satisfaction with government services. Health care and education remain the most highly weighted factors in the methodology, followed closely by the economy.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Drug arrests continue to rise in North Dakota, according to 2017 crime statistics.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem released his office’s figures on the last eight years of crime rates for oil country and statewide on Monday. His office also rolled out an online data portal for the state’s crime statistics, the Bismarck Tribune reported .
Drug arrests are increasing despite the state’s fairly level crime rate and population, Stenehjem said. North Dakota’s overall crime rate of about 6,374 per 100,000 people remained relatively unchanged from 2016-2017, a 0.4 percent increase. The crime is calculated using three categories, including crimes against persons, property and society.
North Dakota authorities made about 5,100 drug arrests last year, about a 4.6 percent increase from 2016, according to the data portal. That number is about double the state’s drug arrests made in 2010.
“A part of that is that we’re ever diligent in working to make these kinds of arrests,” Stenehjem said. “But part of it I think, too, is that the number of and the amount that we’re seeing coming into North Dakota, as elsewhere, is simply increasing.”
Marijuana accounts for about half the drug arrests last year, with methamphetamine following second and narcotics third.
“We’re seeing (meth) in greater quantities and stronger potency,” Stenehjem said.
The first two months of 2017 were the tail end of protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in southern Morton County, which included hundreds of arrests and criminal charges. Stenehjem said it’s hard to tell where the protests are reflected in last year’s crime statistics, but they likely affected numbers for DUI arrests because of patrol officers reassigned to respond to the months-long demonstrations.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Canada will have a say in the operation of a major Missouri River water project in the northern U.S. under a deal negotiated by officials in the two countries to end a 16-year-legal battle.
The agreement on the $244 million Northwest Area Water Supply project won’t be final until a federal appeals court formally dismisses the case, and the state of Missouri also is still fighting the project in court. But the deal will end the international dispute that has held up completion of the project first authorized by Congress in 1986.
The project aims to bring Missouri River water to as many as 82,000 people in northwestern North Dakota, giving them a reliable source of quality water. Manitoba sued in 2002 over concerns about the possible transfer of harmful bacteria or other agents from the Missouri River Basin to the Hudson Bay Basin.
The agreement reached between the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Canadian province of Manitoba sets up a team with Canadian representation to oversee treatment and monitoring of the river water, and among other duties help develop an emergency response plan. The team also is to have representatives of the state and federal governments south of the border, and is to meet at least once a year.
The Manitoba government in a statement to The Associated Press called the agreement “a crucial deal” that will allow the province to end its court fight. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington, D.C., ruled last August that the water project complied with federal environmental law, but Manitoba appealed.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo Theatre officials say they don’t want their iconic marquee used in any campaigns and political ads.
KFGO radio reports that the theatre is a nonprofit organization and a spokeswoman says it must remain a politically neutral entity and cannot endorse any political candidate, or give that impression.
Emily Beck, the theatre’s executive director, has requested that all candidates and office holders refrain from using the images without permission. Beck has asked that any misuse be reported to a member of the theatre’s administrative staff.
It’s not clear what led to Beck’s release about the sign.
The marquee on Broadway was used as the backdrop by ESPN for its “College GameDay” show in 2013 and 2014.
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