CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph after midnight.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds

around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Southeast winds

5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

.TUESDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. A 30 percent chance of

showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 60.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.

 

A slow warming trend through the weekend, with highs from the upper 60s and lower 70s Friday, the lower to middle 70s Saturday, and by Sunday highs will be close to 80 west.

Then above normal temperatures are expected through next week.

Tuesday night and Wednesday, will bring increasing chances

of thunderstorms.

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council met Thursday afternoon at City Hall,  for a committee meeting, to discuss the 2021 city budget.  All council members were present at City Hall.

City Administrator Sarah Hellekson gave a presentation.  She explained the budgeting process to establish the 2021 calendar year budget, and the timeline, and August of 2020 the preliminary budget is due, and the final budget is due by September this year.  She said every level of government projects budget expenditures, and revenues.

She outlined funded areas, the city will be budgeting for, and the revenue sources, including property tax, and other fees for services.

Deputy City Auditor Jay Sveum said city department heads will be requesting minimal increases for the 2021 budget.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther said his requests are not large, but includes needed items.

City Police Chief Scott Edinger said equipment purchase reductions are included in the request, with increases in ammunitions.

City Forester, Erik Laber is requesting funds to purchase equipment.

Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said, reserve funds are significantly less than they should be, and will be big issue in budgeting for 2021.

Still to be determined is the revenue to date in 2020, versus projected expenditures for 2020.

The consensus was to have that information in hand before budgeting for 2021.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  City Administrator, Sarah Hellekson informs the public that on June 4, 2020, a public hearing will be held at  10:00 A.M., in the Council Room at City Hall, 102 3rd Avenue SE, Jamestown, ND, concerning the proposed budget amendment to the 2020 budget of the City of Jamestown.

The proposed amendment represents fund balances on hand and revenues anticipated for 2020 which were not included in the original 2020 budget document.

A General Fund increase of $87,289.00

Water Utility Fund increase of $724,094.00

Sewer Utility Fund decrease of $19,012.00

Interested persons are encouraged to appear at this hearing to ask questions and make comments or recommendations concerning the amendment. Written comments may be mailed to the City Administrator, c/o City Hall, 102 3rd Avenue SE, Jamestown, North Dakota 58401, or emailed to Sarah Hellekson at shellekson@jamestownnd.gov. Said comments will be presented at the meeting.
A copy of said amendment is on file in the office of the City Administrator for public inspection during normal working hours, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday or on the City website under the government tab, public notices at www.jamestownnd.gov.

GRAND FORKS, ND (KFGO) – The Grand Forks Police Officer who died after a shootout at an apartment building Wed. afternoon has been identified.

He was 29-year-old Cody Holte. Holte was one of the officers who answered an assistance call from two Grand Forks County deputies who were met with gunfire while serving an eviction notice.

The suspect, 41-year-old Salamah Pendleton, was shot in the exchange of bullets as was a deputy who suffered wounds to his abdomen and leg. That officer is expected to recover. A woman in the apartment, 61-year-old Lola Moore of Grand Forks, also died of gunshot wounds.

Officer Holte was married with an infant son. The State Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the investigation.

FARGO, N.D. (KFGO-AM) — A man accused of fatally shooting a North Dakota police officer has an extensive criminal record that includes charges for interfering with police, fleeing, domestic assault and harassing public officials. Police say Salamah Pendleton opened fire on four law enforcement officers who tried to serve eviction papers on him at an apartment in Grand Forks Wednesday afternoon. A woman was also shot to death, but authorities have not described the circumstances of her killing. The officer, whose name has not been provided, was the first Grand Forks police officer killed in the line of duty since 1966.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP)  Another person has died from COVID-19 in North Dakota, bringing the total number of deaths to 57. The state Health Department says the victim was a Cass County man in his 80s with underlying health conditions.

NDDoH

Posted Thurs. May 28, 2020

11-a.m.

 

Categories: Coronavirus

INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19

  • Man in his 80s from Cass County with underlying health conditions.

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED THURSDAY

  • Burleigh County – 2
  • Cass County – 36
  • Grand Forks County – 1
  • Richland County – 1
  • Traill County – 1
  • Ward County – 1

 

BY THE NUMBERS

86,728 – Total Number of Tests Completed* (+1,978 total tests from yesterday)

 

68,254 – Total Unique Individuals Tested* (+914 unique individuals from yesterday)

65,773 – Total Negative (+872 unique individuals from yesterday)

2,481 – Total Positive (+42 unique individuals from yesterday)

2.1% – Daily Positivity Rate**

161 – Total Hospitalized (+0 individuals from yesterday)

35 – Currently Hospitalized (-5 individuals from yesterday)

1,793 – Total Recovered (+31 individuals from yesterday)

57 – Total Deaths*** (+1 individual from yesterday)

 

Bismarck  (CSi) To help guide best practices as recommended by the Governor Doug Burgum’s ND Smart Restart plan as well as comply with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, the North Dakota University System has launched a task force led by Dr. Joshua Wynne to implement a three-tiered approach to re-opening North Dakota campuses. Wynne is currently serving as the interim president of the University of North Dakota and the vice president for the university’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences. The task force held its first meeting Friday of last week.

State Board of Higher Education Chair Nick Hacker said, “The task force has been formed to assist the North Dakota University System (NDUS) campuses in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic so that students, faculty, and staff can return to their institutions in a way that maximizes safety and minimizes the chance of further spread of the virus. In addition to health and safety, student success and learning is our priority.”

The group will collate the guidelines that have been created for each NDUS campus, recognizing that location, size, and mission differences among the various campuses necessitates specific accommodations and differing local arrangements.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed an overwhelmingly bipartisan measure to modify a new “paycheck protection” program for businesses that have suffered COVID-related losses. It would give businesses more flexibility to use federal subsidies for other business costs and extend the program for four additional months. Senate passage is likely next week. But talks on a much bigger measure to inject more than $3 trillion more into the economy remain stalled. The Paycheck Protection Program required businesses to spend their loan money within an eight-week window to get the loans forgiven. The new measure gives business owners 24 weeks to spend the federal aid.

 

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Virginians who are eligible for an expanded unemployment benefit Congress enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic are waiting for their money because the state hasn’t managed to get the program running yet. A spokeswoman for the Virginia Employment Commission says the agency hopes to have the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program online by July 2. It offers an extra 13 weeks of payment to people who have exhausted their regular benefits. As of early this week, Virginia was one of 19 states that have yet to start making payments. Many laid-off workers are frustrated with the delay and a lack of information.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Store owners who require customers to wear masks will be backed up by an executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The governor said Thursday his executive order will authorize businesses to deny entry to people without face coverings Many stores already require patrons to wear masks. Cuomo says his order will reduce conflicts between shop owners and customers. Meanwhile, Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City businesses that try to reopen before coronavirus restrictions are lifted will face fines starting at $1,000. The mayor said businesses are not supposed to “make up their own rules and jump the gun.”

 

(AP)  Wall Street is rallying again on Thursday, extending this week’s climb built on hopes for a coming economic revival. The S&P 500 was on track for its fourth straight gain. That would be its longest winning streak since early February, before the market began to sell off on worries about the recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Tech and health care stocks were helping to drive the gains, offsetting losses for banks and energy stocks. The S&P 500 is on pace for its third weekly rise of at least 3% in the last four weeks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump administration official says the White House won’t release its official midyear economic update this summer. That means the White House is declining to put its stamp on data documenting the plunge into recession during the pandemic and avoiding going on record with a prediction about the economy’s future. The official says updated information about the budget picture will come out as planned. A significant decline in tax receipts as well as outlays from almost $3 trillion in coronavirus-related aid bills are sure to produce a multitrillion-dollar government deficit for the budget year ending Sept. 30.

 

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has ordered a barber who has been defying the state’s coronavirus restrictions to close his shop. Karl Manke reopened his shop in Owosso on May 4 in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders for certain types of businesses to close to help slow the spread of the disease. The 77-year-old Manke has become a symbol of resistance to the business closures. The appeals court ruled Thursday that Manke failed to rebut the state’s claim that barbershops and hair salons pose a risk to public health. Manke told The Associated Press that he doesn’t care what the appeals court said and that he’ll continue to cut hair.

 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A letter from the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office says a Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete as girls in high sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female. A copy of the letter was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The letter came in response to a complaint filed last year by several cisgender female track athletes who argued that two transgender female runners had an unfair physical advantage. The office said in the letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy allowing athletes to participate under the gender with which they identify.