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Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Bldg, Planning & Zoning, Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.<\/p>\nJamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Bldg, Planning & Zoning, Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.<\/p>\n
All members were present.<\/p>\n
The Finance and Legal Committee…<\/p>\n
Recommends approval of the request from JSDC for $3,200.00 from Economic Development Funds to update the JSDC Strategic Plan with the City Share to be $2,560.00 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.<\/p>\n
The committee recommends approval of the request from JSDC to relocate the public accesses to the western border of the east half of Section 28, or a portion of that Section, into the Spiritwood Energy Park.\u00a0 The City of Jamestown is one of the landowners.<\/p>\n
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The committee recommends adopting the following rates for the City Blue Cross Blue Shield Group Health Insurance Plan for the 9\/1\/17 to 8\/31\/18 Plan Year:<\/p>\n
City Administrator Jeff Fuchs says the increase of about 6-percent, stems from an increase in the stop loss coverage.<\/p>\n
The increase proposed is being absorbed by the city.<\/p>\n
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Current Rate 17\/18 Plan Year $ Inc. % Inc.<\/p>\n
Single Plan $561.08 $595.37 34.29 6.11%<\/p>\n
Single Plus Dependent Plan $955.82 $1,016.16 60.34 6.31%<\/p>\n
Family Plan $1,399.37 $1,488.49 89.12 6.37%<\/p>\n
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City Share<\/p>\n
Single Plan $561.08 $595.37 34.29 6.11%<\/p>\n
Single Plus Dependent Plan $675.58 $735.92 60.34 8.93%<\/p>\n
Family Plan $787.83 $876.95 89.12 11.31%<\/p>\n
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Employee Share<\/p>\n
Single Plan $0.00 $0.00 0.00 0.00%<\/p>\n
Single Plus Dependent Plan $280.24 $280.24 0.00 0.00%<\/p>\n
Family Plan $611.54 $611.54 0.00 0.00%<\/p>\n
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The committee recommends conducting a Public Hearing on July 5, 2017, considering authorization of a City Certification of Significant Community Support for the submission of a Community Facilities application on behalf of the James River Valley Library System for a grant to the USDA-Rural Development to be used for renovations of Alfred Dickey Library.<\/p>\n
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The committee reviewed residency requirements for employment with the City of Jamestown.\u00a0 Deputy Auditor Jay Sveum said the review stems from an employee looking at moving out of Stutsman County.<\/p>\n
The current residency requirement allows city employees to live within Stutsman County.<\/p>\n
Those applying for city employment must also live within the county.<\/p>\n
Emergency personnel are required to live within a four township area from the city limits.<\/p>\n
Mayor Andersen agrees with adjusting the policy to include out of county employees for non-emergency which was moved by Council Member Phillips and approved for recommendations.<\/p>\n
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The committee reviewed a policy to allow a modification to liquor licenses to provide for taking a growler beverage out of a liquor establishment that is open container.\u00a0 The product would be re-sealed on site.<\/p>\n
The product would be re-sealed on site.<\/p>\n
The committee recommends the First Reading of an Ordinance.<\/p>\n
Council Member Phillips brought up an appointment to the Jamestown Regional Airport Authority board, at a recent meeting \u00a0regarding the motion being in order.<\/p>\n
City Attorney Leo Ryan said discussion was held, and the motion was within Roberts Rules of Order.<\/p>\n
Informational: Departmental and financial reports.<\/p>\n
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BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE:<\/strong><\/p>\n Informational:<\/p>\n A Public Hearing and Second Reading of an Ordinance to change the zoning of Approximately 5.3 acres, including Blocks 3, 4, and 5 of Mall Woods Addition, within the City of Jamestown, from P-O-C (Public, Open Development and Conservation District) to C-2 (General Commercial District). The property is located at: 900 23rd St SW, 912 23rd St SW and 1024 23rd St SW.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE<\/strong><\/p>\n No items on the agenda.<\/p>\n Two members of the Frontier Village Board appeared and were allowed to speak.<\/p>\n Board President Nellie Degen handed out material to the committee for review, a seven-page document including a copy of a letter of appeal concerning a decision by the Jamestown Tourism Board of Directors to not fund some projects at the village.<\/p>\n After review, Mayor Andersen said the item was accepted but not discussed because it was not on the agenda, for public discussion, and the length of material presented.<\/p>\n The committee then tabled the item to another meeting, possibly a committee meeting or a City Council meeting next month.<\/p>\n The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Bldg, Planning & Zoning, Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. All members were present. The Finance and Legal Committee… Recommends approval of the request from JSDC for $3,200.00 from Economic Development Funds to update the JSDC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123813","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\/123813","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=123813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123837,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123813\/revisions\/123837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}