cityhallJinsideJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Finance & Legal, Building, Planning & Zoning, and Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.  Council Member Buchanan was not present.

On the Finance & Legal Committee:

Recommends approving the request from JSDC for $33,810 from the Economic Development Fund to pay South Central Dakota Regional Council dues for 2015 with the City Share to be $21,300 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

Recommends approving the request from the JSDC for $75,000 from the Economic Development Fund for the continuation of matching grant funding for tourism, with the City Share to be $60,000 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

Recommends approving the request from JSDC for $43,000 from the Economic Development Fund to provide a Flex PACE Interest Buy-down for the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority hangars project, with the City Share to be $34,400 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

Recommends approving sending the request to the City Council without recommendation from JSDC… for up to $642,900 from the Economic Development Fund to provide for the community share to participate in Flex PACE Affordable Housing multi-family housing projects with the City Share to be up to $642,900 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund, with a defintion of “affortable housing.”

(The Stutsman County Commission table the request).

The committee recommends approving the request from JSDC for $20,000 from the Economic Development Fund for roof repair on the Economic Development Center building, with the City Share to be $18,000 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends tabling the request from JSDC for up to $99,999.00 from the Economic Development Fund to provide for Phase 1 of a study on the Jamestown Aquifer, with the City Share to be $90,000 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends the purchase of a Human Resources module license from Tyler Technologies, in the amount of approximately $5,750, and annual maintenance of $1,750.

Recommends tabling the request from Albert L. Boeckel for a quit claim deed on a portion of vacated alley of Tahran’s 2nd Addition, to next month’s committee meeting.

The committee recommends moving to the September City Council meeting, covenants prohibiting any ground disturbance activities on Lot 2, Block 1, of Hammer Addition,Lots 5 through 11, Block 1, Homestead III Addition, Lots 1 and 2, Block 2, Homestead III Addition, and Lots 7-9, Block 6, Homestead Addition, except under the authority of the ND State Historical Society.(Undeveloped property south of 7th Street SW between 12th Avenue SW and 10th Avenue SW). Consideration of the offer(s) to purchase Lot 5, Block 1, Homestead III.

Recommends the city provide the Stutsman County Water Resource Board for funding to provide a Storm Water Drainage Study for the area south of I-94 and west of Highway 281 South, which area is partially inside the city and includes part of Woodbury Township.

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