{"id":120562,"date":"2017-04-28T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120562"},"modified":"2017-04-28T07:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:49:54","slug":"frontier-village-tourism-at-odds-on-future-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120562","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Village, Tourism at odds on future funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58265\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DiscoverJMST-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DiscoverJMST-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DiscoverJMST-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DiscoverJMST.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Frontier Village Association Board President Nellie Degen says the board will be submitting a letter of appeal to Jamestown Tourism to reconsider taking action on the grant request prior to the October funding cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund, told the FVA Board, that Jamestown Tourism\u2019s budget has not increased significantly in five years, adding that Tourism has done its best to sustain\u00a0 funding\u00a0 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Swedlund told the Village Board, that Tourism will no longer be sustainable to support staffing and non-experience-related requests, along with requests for building maintenance at current levels.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier Village \u00a0requested Capital Construction funds to shingle the general store and depot building.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that at the Tourism Grant\/Executive meeting discussing the 2017 capital construction grant requests due in March this year, no Frontier Village\u00a0 Board member present at meeting to discuss the funding request, and no action was taken on the request.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Frontier Village Association Board President Nellie Degen says the board will be submitting a letter of appeal to Jamestown Tourism to reconsider taking action on the grant request prior to the October funding cycle. Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund, told the FVA Board, that Jamestown Tourism\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120563,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120562\/revisions\/120563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}