Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council’s Police & Fire, and Public Works Committees met Thursday at City Hall. All members were present. Council Member Schloegel joined by phone.

 

POLICE & FIRE COMMITTEE

INFORMATIONAL: Police department and municipal court general update, training, COVID-19 protocols and precautions observed, and implemented.  Assistant Police Chief, Major Justin Blinsky said the School Resource Officer recently completed training. He pointed out that 350 people attended the recent National Night Out in Jamestown.  The police department is being brought up to date with new North Dakota laws that went into effect on August first this year.

INFORMATIONAL: Fire Department update, inspections, training, COVID-19 protocols and precautions observed, and implemented.  City Fire Chief Jim Reuther, said another Fire Inspector has been appointed, Mark Chapin.

 

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

The committee recommends approving entering into an agreement with Interstate Engineering, Inc., for the 2022 Water Main Improvement District.

The committee recommends approval of the City to act as the permit holder on the NDDOT Permit and authorizing the Mayor to sign, subject to approval of the City Storm Water Permit and subject to Anne Carlsen entering into the Anne Carlsen Center Pond Agreement.

Recommended was approval of the Anne Carlsen Center Pond Agreement and authorizing the Mayor to sign subject to the City approving the Storm Water Permit. A retention pond will be installed, with approval of the NDDOT.

 

INFORMATIONAL: City Engineer project were updated.   The Highway 20 mill and overlay project is to start in 2022.  Finishing the river cleaning, project will grant funding  applied for. The First Avenue Road Diet Project is about finished, with a few  items to be completed, including some stripes being changed.  Mayor Heinrich said he has heard positive comments from the public on the finished project.

The committee recommends approval of Change Order No. 2, to CC Steel, LLC, on Sanitary Sewer Lift Station Improvements District 20-31 (Lift Station 11 & 1 Design), for a $13,776.00 increase in the contract price. City Engineer Travis Dillman said this is a SRF project to be paid back from the city’s utility fund.

Recommended for approval is the plans and specifications for the truck scale at the City Transfer (baler) Facility and approval of the advertisement for bids, already budgeted.

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