{"id":65904,"date":"2015-02-19T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65904"},"modified":"2015-02-19T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:49:52","slug":"public-meeting-outlines-trac-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65904","title":{"rendered":"Public meeting outlines TRAC plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tracplan500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-65298\" alt=\"tracplan500\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tracplan500-300x289.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tracplan500-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tracplan500-181x175.jpg 181w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tracplan500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 At Thursday evening&#8217;s public input meeting about the proposed Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) some of the 50 people in attendance expressed support, while others had questions about the need for such a facility and how it would serve community needs.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the meeting, held at the North Dakota\u00a0Farmers Union State office, \u00a0was\u00a0 to explain to the public\u00a0 the plans\u00a0for TRAC and the future economic impact on the community.<\/p>\n<p>If the public supports a\u00a0one percent city sales tax at the polls, this spring, construction could start this coming summer in the area north of Gussner school.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost of the center\u00a0is pegged at around\u00a0$40 million to build, in two phases, with the\u00a0first phase\u00a0 costing\u00a0about $28 million.<\/p>\n<p>Funding would come from the one percent\u00a0\u00a0City Sales Tax, donations, gifts, and grants.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include multiple indoor courts, swimming, a running track along with practice fields.<\/p>\n<p>A daycare area is also planned.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Parks and Recreation employees would manage and program the Center.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, many of the James River Family Fitness Center employees would move over to TRAC\u00a0while still other jobs would be created.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0facility would also meet the growing demand for space from University of Jamestown\u00a0athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The TRAC Committee \u00a0plans additional community meetings<\/p>\n<p>More information about TRAC can be found at tracjamestown.org or on facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 At Thursday evening&#8217;s public input meeting about the proposed Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) some of the 50 people in attendance expressed support, while others had questions about the need for such a facility and how it would serve community needs. The purpose of the meeting, held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65904","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\/65904","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=65904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65906,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65904\/revisions\/65906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}