{"id":47989,"date":"2014-06-17T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47989"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:14:08","slug":"jsdc-turns-down-bus-shelter-funding-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47989","title":{"rendered":"JSDC Turns Down Bus Shelter Funding Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bus-stop2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27317\" alt=\"bus-stop2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bus-stop2-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bus-stop2-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bus-stop2-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bus-stop2.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Board of Directors, has denied a request from Charlie Kourajian, representing a non-profit corporation for funds to build a bus shelter in downtown Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>JSDC Board President, Gary Riffe, says he personally supports the project, but does not believe that the JSDC was the proper funding source for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Bus Stop, Inc., was requesting $12,000 from JSDC toward estimated construction costs of $16,000. The balance would come from other sources.<\/p>\n<p>Kourajian says bus transportation is important for economic development.<\/p>\n<p>A small lean-to building is proposed for the southeast corner of the parking lot west of the Post House which is located on First Avenue South, downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The building would include lights and heat but no restroom.<\/p>\n<p>Windows would make up the entire south wall of the building to allow law enforcement to observe activities in the building.<\/p>\n<p>Kourajian, expects to use volunteer labor to construct the building.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also includes operations handled by one part-time employee and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s looking at the possibility of selling bus tickets at the bus stop and using the 10 percent commission paid by the bus line to fund operations.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson Lines schedule includes two buses through Jamestown each day.<\/p>\n<p>The buses stop in the city parking lot along First Avenue next to the railroad tracks, in a small three-sided shelter, with no lights or heat.<\/p>\n<p>Kourajian says that bus service is also important to local social services agencies, that give bus vouchers to individuals traveling to Fargo or Bismarck for shelter.<\/p>\n<p>If Kourajian is able to secure funding, he hopes to see the building finished before this winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corp. Executive Committee will meet with local lenders before making a recommendation to the JSDC Board of Directors concerning participating in the Bank of North Dakota Flex Pace Affordable Housing program.<\/p>\n<p>JSDC Executive Committee members said they want to hear from lenders and developers about how much a project like the JSDC is proposing would be used. COO\u00a0 Connie Ova says the JSDC staff will try to schedule the special meeting on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Board of Directors, has denied a request from Charlie Kourajian, representing a non-profit corporation for funds to build a bus shelter in downtown Jamestown. JSDC Board President, Gary Riffe, says he personally supports the project, but does not believe that the JSDC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989","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=47989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48009,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions\/48009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}