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Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Board met Thursday morning at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.<\/p>\nJamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Board met Thursday morning at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.<\/p>\n
Requests were made on behalf of:<\/p>\n
Big Guns of the Old West, Fort Seward<\/p>\n
Sensory Garden Kiosk, Jamestown Parks and Recreation<\/p>\n
Mower purchase, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation.<\/p>\n
Declaration of Conflict of Interest.<\/p>\n
Financial Report:\u00a0 Mitzi Hager.<\/p>\n
Tourism Report: Searle Swedlund.<\/p>\n
Ex Officio Report.<\/p>\n
New Business:<\/p>\n
Grant Request allocation:<\/p>\n
Under Events, the Board granted the request from Fort Seward for the Big Guns of the Old West event, on September 9, 2017, in the amount of $1,000 for advertising to promote the Gatling Gun Demonstration.<\/p>\n
The estimated economic impact is $5,000 with the attendance around 100 people.<\/p>\n
Under Capital Construction Fund allocations:<\/p>\n
The board heard a request from the Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation of $3,800 to help cover cost of Kiosk signage project at the Sensory Garden Park at\u00a0 Solien DeNault Park, on Parks and Recreation property.\u00a0 The cost installed is $3,680.\u00a0 Maintenance will be by the Parks and Recreation Department.<\/p>\n
Other funding sources are: Jamestown Park Foundation in the amount of $10,000, Private Naming Rights $10,500, and the Jamestown Community Foundation in the amount of $5,000.<\/p>\n
The board recommends funding in the amount of $3,800.<\/p>\n
The Board heard a request\u00a0 from the Stutsman County Trail Builder Group for a commercial grade mower for hiking and biking trails in the amount of $5,699.<\/p>\n
The Board recommends funding in the full amount of $5,699.<\/p>\n
Parks and Rec will maintain the machine and employ the operator to maintain three of the five signature trails at White Cloud, North Ridge and Pipestem.<\/p>\n
The Board reviewed the Event Grant Guidelines, with board members suggesting any changes or additions.<\/p>\n
Major areas included in the discussion were:<\/p>\n
Advertising, Engaging Community Events, Bringing visitors to the community, and economic impact, and starting something new.<\/p>\n
The board also reviewed the community and mission oriented event grants.<\/p>\n
No decisions on possible changes or additions were made at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Board met Thursday morning at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School. Requests were made on behalf of: Big Guns of the Old West, Fort Seward Sensory Garden Kiosk, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Mower purchase, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation. Declaration of Conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127697","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=127697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127698,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127697\/revisions\/127698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}