{"id":55751,"date":"2014-10-02T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55751"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:32:49","slug":"group-steps-up-to-help-bus-shelter-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55751","title":{"rendered":"Group offers to help bus shelter funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jeffbusatbabbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31159\" alt=\"Jeffbusatbabbs\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jeffbusatbabbs-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jeffbusatbabbs-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jeffbusatbabbs-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jeffbusatbabbs.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) A private group is offering to split half the $16,000 material cost of establishing a Jamestown bus shelter.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Member Charlie Kourajian, says the organization is challenging the city council to pay the balance.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamestown City Council approved placing a bus shelter in the parking lot west of the Post House in downtown Jamestown in February, but, the Finance and Legal Committee on a 3-1 vote recommends\u00a0to deny\u00a0funding, with Kourajian, the driving force of getting the new bus shelter opposed, and with Councilman Dan Buchanan not present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Kourajian will ask the City Council for city funding at $8,000 from economic development funds. He also indicates that volunteer labor will be used to construct the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>He expects if this request is denied that additional private fundraising efforts will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) A private group is offering to split half the $16,000 material cost of establishing a Jamestown bus shelter. City Council Member Charlie Kourajian, says the organization is challenging the city council to pay the balance. The Jamestown City Council approved placing a bus shelter in the parking lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55751","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\/55751","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=55751"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55771,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions\/55771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}