{"id":64005,"date":"2015-01-27T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64005"},"modified":"2015-01-27T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:57:00","slug":"jsdc-committee-recommends-additional-rail-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64005","title":{"rendered":"JSDC committee recommends additional rail investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57824\" alt=\"Spiritwood rail-4\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-4-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-4-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-4-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-4.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Executive Committee is recommending that the Board of Directors invest an additional $970,000 for automated rail switches in the Spiritwood Energy Park Association.<\/p>\n<p>The request for the JSDC funding stems from the SEPA Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>The JSDC Executive Committee has scheduled a special meeting for 9 a.m. Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>The additional investment is necessary to install heated and automated switches between the rail loop around the SEPA property and the BNSF mainline.<\/p>\n<p>The railroad announced in November that without automated switches, it will not serve the SEPA rail loop.<\/p>\n<p>BNSF has set a March 31 deadline for payment for the automated switch.<\/p>\n<p>If the investment is approved, the JSDC ownership share would go up to 75 percent, from 70 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a0funding option is borrowing $500,000 from Stutsman County, with other options including a possible loan from the Bank of North Dakota. A bill authorizing loans for railroad switch projects is currently before the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, ethanol plant at the SEPA industrial park, anticipates starting some production in March or April this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Executive Committee is recommending that the Board of Directors invest an additional $970,000 for automated rail switches in the Spiritwood Energy Park Association. The request for the JSDC funding stems from the SEPA Board of Directors. The JSDC Executive Committee has scheduled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64005","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\/64005","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=64005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64007,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64005\/revisions\/64007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}