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…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING…
Blizzard conditions possible. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE…Portions of southeast North Dakota.
* WHEN…From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Plan on slippery road conditions. Blowing
snow could significantly reduce visibility, with near whiteout conditions possible.
The hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commute. The cold wind chills around 30 below zero could cause frostbite on
exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Winter Storm Watch for blizzard conditions means there is a
potential for falling and/or blowing snow with strong winds and
extremely poor visibilities. This can lead to whiteout conditions
and make travel very dangerous.
Forecast…
TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows zero to 5 above. Temperature
rising overnight. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the
southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph
increasing to northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the evening.
Areas of blowing and drifting snow through the night.
Little or no snow accumulation. Windy. Lows around 5 below. Northwest winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent. Lowest wind chills around 25 below after midnight.
.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow in the
morning. Much colder. Highs around 5 below. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 15 below. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 5 below.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 below.
.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
afternoon. Highs 15 to 20.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Lows
zero to 5 above.
.SUNDAY…Snow. Highs 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Snow likely in the evening, then chance
of snow after midnight. Lows around 5 below. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 below.
.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above.
Late Saturday into Monday, the potential for accumulating snow and winds as strong, if not stronger than the upcoming Wednesday/Thursday system.
A short-lived warming trend is forecast through the weekend before
Arctic air returns next week.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown city crews have begun the full snow plowing program starting with the Emergency routes beginning approximately at 5:00 a.m., Tuesday January 22, 2019.
City crews will begin plowing residential areas at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Crews will continue work during the night with the downtown district beginning at 11:00 pm.
Downtown merchants and all public/private schools are asked to have their sidewalks shoveled by 9 p.m.,Tuesday January 22, 2019.
PLEASE NOTE:
The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions and snow accumulation totals.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session, Tuesday at 4-p.m., at City Hall. All members were present.
A Public Hearing was held concerning the performance of the City of Jamestown in carrying out its community development responsibilities related to the $94,000.00 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the ASI/Dewey Apartment project and to obtain citizen views and to respond to proposals and questions. No one appeared at the hearing.
A Resolution was also approved pertaining to the 2019 Seal Coat, Patching, Construction and Reconstruction District No. 19-41:
- To create the district.
- To direct the preparation of a preliminary engineering report concerning the district.
- To approve the preliminary engineering report on the district.
- To declare it necessary to construct the district and direct the City Administrator to publish notice
The district includes the area, in Northeast Jamestown north of Highway 20, including the airport road, and school parking lot, at a total cost of $1.8 million.
Bids will be opened at the end of April this year.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Finance & Legal Committee, Building, Planning & Zoning Committee, Civic Center & Promotion Committee, Police & Fire Committee, Public Works Committee met Tuesday evening at City Hall. All members were present.
A proclamation was declared for the City of Jamestown as a Main Street City.
Considered was the re-establishment of suggested sales prices on City owned lots for the year 2019.
Considered was the re-establishment of suggested sales prices on City owned lots for the year 2019.
The committee recommends approving the amended schedule provided, removing an area in McElroy Addition being not for sale, pending any sales approval by the City Council.
With economic development topics:
A request was recommended for approval from the JSDC for $250,000 in Flex PACE interest buy down funds for 2019 from the Economic Development Fund with the City Share to be $200,000, and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund and changing the repayment policy.
The committee recommended for approval the request from the JSDC for $5,687.79 from the Economic Development Fund to reimburse the Center for Economic Development building loss for 2018 with the City Share to be $5,119.01, and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.
Recommended for approval, was a request from the JSDC for reimbursement for 2018 JSDC Real Estate & Special Assessment costs from Economic Development Funds, in the amount $6,467.01, with the City Share to be $5,820.30 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.
The committee considered the JSDC Board of Directors’ recommendation to approve the purchase of 18 iPads and covers at a cost not to exceed $10,000 to replace the iPads purchased in 2012 for Board members and staff.
CEO Connie Ova said the present iPads are no longer able to be updated.
The committee recommends, approval.
BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE
The committee considered the final plat of Steidl Subdivision, Lot 1, Block 1, a re-plat of Lots 5 and 6 of Lakeshore Addition within the NW ¼ of Section 13, T140N, R64W extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Jamestown, Midway Township, North Dakota. The property is located at 3964 4th Ave NW, on the west side of Jamestown Reservoir to build garages.
The committee recommends, approval.
CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE
No agenda items at this time.
POLICE & FIRE COMMITTEE
The committee recommends, approving entering into a memorandum of understanding with Stutsman County to maintain and regulate the law enforcement shooting ranges.
Chief Edinger said the county has approved the MOU.
THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
The committee recommends approval of a Change Order to Burski Excavating, Inc., for a time extension from September 15, 2018 to September 27, 2018, per request from the ND Department of Health.
The committee recommends entering into an agreement with Interstate Engineering, Inc., for engineering services on the Sanitary Sewer Lift Station System Improvements (Lift Station No. 11, Lift Station No. 20 and the Main Lift Station).
A Change Order No. 2, to Border States Paving, Inc., for construction on 5th Street NE (12th Ave to 27th Ave NE), Paving Improvement District #16-42, and a Change Order No. 3, to Scherbenske Inc., for construction on NW Water Main Replacement Project District 17-61 (11Blocks), were moved to the February City Council meeting without recommendation pending further information.
With Garbage collection and recycling updates, the change to alley to curbside collection, where indicated and a four day collection schedule, Monday through Friday starts on February 4, 2019.
Letters indicating the changes and dates, of collections, and maps have been mailed to residents.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Starting a Brewery and Distillery presentation will be on Tuesday February 26 from 6:30-p.m., to 8-p.m. at the University of Jamestown’s, Unruh-Sheldon Building in Room 136.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Jamestown Regional Entrepreneur Center, Executive Director, Katherine Roth said, Dr. Christiansen, will discuss being compliant with the industry’s regulatory and food safety regulations, along with identifying capital, procuring equipment, managing operations, and establishing marketing and sales plans.
For more information on line: JRECenter.com or call, 701-253-4112.
Then, the Women’s Professional Workshop will be on Tuesday, March 5th at Reiland Fine Arts Center in Jamestown from 8:45-a.m., to 2:30-p.m.
The Jamestown Regional Entrepreneur Center and the North Dakota Women’s Business Center are organizing the Women’s Professional Workshop that will present events such as women in leadership, sexual harassment, becoming prepared to start a business, starting a food-based business, igniting your passion daily, and starting a non-profit organization. The day is tailored to learning and networking! The presentations will be made by experts in those areas from Fargo, Bismarck, and Minnesota.
The cost is $15 through February 8th and thereafter $25. The cost includes lunch provided by Bab’s.
To register for this event, please visit www.JRECenter.com. For information, please contact Katherine Roth, Executive Director of the Jamestown Regional Entrepreneur Center, at Katherine.Roth@uj.edu and 253-4112.
The Workshop is sponsored by First Community Credit Union in Jamestown.
Other public presentations:
Entrepreneurship Club Meeting at the University of Jamestown!
February 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Entrepreneurship Club’s mission is to provide entrepreneurial-minded students at the university, as well as the the community the ability to share ideas, connect with practicing entrepreneurs from the area, and receive input from other entrepreneurs.
The Entrepreneurship Club is all about helping aspiring future entrepreneurs to discuss potential business ideas and how to turn them into real business plans, offering entrepreneurship events to gather and network individuals interested in various industry and providing customized training and individual technical assistance to assist with starting and building a business.
This entrepreneurship club is opened to public.
Food Entrepreneurs – Local Meetup
February 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Jamestown Regional Entrepreneur Center is excited to form a local food entrepreneur community group to help you go from recipes to products and products to profits.
Local Makers Meetup – Selling Goods Locally and Online
February 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Jamestown Regional Entrepreneur Center is hosting more Local Makers Meetup in Jamestown. We would like to create a community of makers for a variety of goods to identify the types of resources that are needed to strengthen this emerging, local community of artisans.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public Schools, Activities Director Jim Roaldson spoke to the School Board on Monday saying that an athletic emergency action plan is a priority of the school district.
He was joined by JRMC, Physical Rehabilitation Department Manager, Tracy Anderson talking about a Safe Sport accreditation process with the National Athletic Trainers Association.
Roaldson pointed out that last year, a systemic emergency action plan for all situations was developed. The three-year certification improves school liability protection along with protecting students health and safety.
It involves updating emergency action plans, preparing coaches and staff, and making essential information available electronically to mobile accounts.
The Safe Sport process covers the area of what to do and what not to do in an emergency.
The certification includes the areas of psycho-social and nutritional aspects. He said, school counselors are needed to be involved in the support process in an emergency or tragedy.
The recorded meeting is showing on CSi Cable 10, The Replay Channel.
Bismarck – (Prairie Public Radio) North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has proposed a new state hospital in Jamestown but the House minority leader says there may be another option.
Representative Josh Boschee says he isn’t in favor of building a new state hospital in Jamestown. He says he would rather see more funding for regional and local behavioral health treatment.
Burgum proposed a new state hospital, converting the current hospital into prison space. Men would be moved there from the Missouri River correctional Center in Bismarck. Women would then move into that space from the Women’s Correctional Center in New England.
Update…
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San Diego Police Lt. Christian Sharp said the fallen tree caused a gas leak in the house and clipped some power lines.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is bringing out-of-state VIPs to lobby lawmakers on his proposal to commit public money to a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in the western badlands.
The first-term Republican governor Tuesday night will host Theodore Roosevelt V, the 26th president’s great-great-grandson, and former Walmart chairman Rob Walton and his wife, Melani, a graduate of Dickinson State University. Burgum also invited lawmakers to a reception at the governor’s residence on the state Capitol grounds.
Burgum has proposed dedicating $50 million of interest money from North Dakota’s voter-approved savings account for oil and gas taxes for the library. The state money would be matched by $100 million in private fundraising, under the proposal.
The governor said the library in Medora would elevate North Dakota’s reputation around the globe. But lawmakers are generally lukewarm on the proposal, saying the state has more pressing needs.
“It’s a great idea and opportunity for the state but we’re coming off of five years of budget cuts,” Democratic House Minority Leader Josh Boschee of Fargo said. “My constituents have made it very clear to me that there are other priorities.”
Republican House Majority Leader Chet Pollert of Carrington, and his Senate counterpart, Rich Wardner of Dickinson, said they’ve heard much the same.
“It’s not completely off the table but there are other needs that must be considered in this budget,” Pollert said.
In sports…
Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota Game and Fish reports that mountain lion hunting during the late season in Zone 1 is closed immediately. The zone’s late-season harvest limit of either seven total cats or three females was reached after the seventh cat was taken.
A conditional season in Zone 1 will open Jan. 28 for hunters to pursue the additional six mountain lions that were not taken during the early season. The Zone 1 early season harvest limit was eight cats, and only two were taken.
The conditional season will close March 31 or immediately once the sixth cat is taken. Early season regulations apply, which means hunters are not allowed to use dogs. In addition, hunters who harvested a lion during the early or late season are not eligible to participate.
Zone 1 includes land south of ND Highway 1804 from the Montana border to the point where ND Highway 1804 lies directly across Lake Sakakawea from ND Highway 8, crossing Lake Sakakawea then south along ND Highway 8 to ND Highway 200, then west on ND Highway 200 to U.S. Highway 85, then south on U.S. Highway 85 to the South Dakota border.
The mountain lion season in Zone 2, which is the rest of the state outside Zone 1, has no harvest limit and is open through March 31.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.
The high court on Tuesday reversed lower-court orders preventing the Pentagon from implementing its plans. But the high court for now declined to take up cases about the plan. The cases will continue to move through lower courts.
Military policy had barred service by transgender people until President Barack Obama’s administration began allowing transgender people already in the military to serve openly and set a date when transgender people would be allowed to enlist.
President Donald Trump’s administration has revisited those policies. The Trump administration has sought to generally restrict service by transgender people to only those who don’t seek to undergo gender transitions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump did not propose a “good faith” proposal to end the government shutdown.
The New York senator said Tuesday that Trump’s offer to protect some immigrants from deportation in exchange for $5.7 billion from Congress to build the border wall with Mexico is “one-sided, harshly partisan and was made in bad faith.”
Senate Democrats are expected to reject the measure when it comes to a vote later this week as the shutdown drags on.
Now in its 32nd day, the shutdown has left some 800,000 federal workers facing another Friday without paychecks.
Schumer says the White House wasn’t “seriously negotiating” with Democrats. He says Trump’s immigration proposals do not reflect earlier bipartisan efforts.
He says, “That’s not ‘The Art of the Deal.'”
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Native American involved in an encounter between white teenagers and a black religious sect outside the Lincoln Memorial last week says he wants to meet with the students involved.
The Cincinnati Enquirer cited a statement from Nathan Phillips on Tuesday offering to travel to travel to Covington Catholic High School and have a dialogue about cultural appropriation, racism and the importance of listening to and respecting diverse cultures.
He says he’d like to use what occurred as a teachable moment.
Recorded images of the encounter that initially generated outrage on social media were tightly focused on the students wearing “Make America Great Again” hats who seemed to laugh derisively as they surrounded an elderly Native American beating a drum.
Longer videos from other perspectives showed the drummer intervened as a street preacher made racist statements with a megaphone.
PARIS (AP) — Two police officials say U.S. singer Chris Brown and two other people are in custody in Paris after a woman filed a rape complaint.
One police official said the complaint was filed with police in the 17th arrondissement of northwest Paris. The official said one of the others detained is Brown’s bodyguard.
Both officials said Brown was detained Monday and is still in custody Tuesday while police study the complaint. Neither is authorized to be publicly named discussing the investigation.
Brown’s publicists at Sony Music would not immediately comment.
Brown has been in repeated legal trouble since pleading guilty to the felony assault in 2009 of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. He completed his probation in that case in 2015.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Contentious contract negotiations have resulted in a tentative deal between Los Angeles school officials and the teachers union that will allow striking educators to return to classrooms on Wednesday.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the deal Tuesday. He says it requires the approval of the teachers and the Board of Education.
Tens of thousands of members of United Teachers Los Angeles walked off the job Jan. 14 for the first time in 30 years.
Schools stayed open, staffed by a skeleton crew of substitute teachers and administrators.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and has billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.
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