tracplan500Jamestown (CSi) The Two Rivers Activity Center’s committee, voted Tuesday to approve changes to its bylaws removing the committee seat assigned to the Jamestown Gymnastics Club and reduced the overall size of the committee from 11 to nine.

The committee also heard from representatives of American City Bureau, a fundraising consulting company, who said one strength of the proposed Two Rivers Activity Center project would be its positive impact on the quality of life in Jamestown.

Senior consultant for American City Bureau, Maureen Egan said, interviewed some Jamestown residents in March to prepare a report on fundraising possibilities for the project.

Egan said the biggest challenge for getting voter approval for the activity center is educating the public about the project.

Amy Walters, chairwoman of the TRAC Board of Directors, says the board will continue to use community forums to educate the public about the project.

The first public meeting was held on April 21.

The second community forum is Monday April 27, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Jamestown Middle School’s Thompson Community Room.

The third and final public meeting is set for May 15, 2015, at 7 p.m. at the North Dakota Farmers Union’s community room.

Jamestown city voters will vote on June 2, 2015, on a $28.6 million bond issue on a special election ballot. The ballot will ask voters if they want to approve a 1 percent sales tax to repay bonds used to finance the construction and operation of the first phase of the $28.6 million project.

The second phase, would be paid for by a separate capital fundraising campaign, bring the total cost for the project to about $40 million.