{"id":79889,"date":"2015-08-21T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79889"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:46:56","slug":"tourism-discusses-potential-mtg-date-with-fva-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79889","title":{"rendered":"Tourism may meet with Frontier Village board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DiscoverJMST\"<\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Advisory, at Friday\u2019s meeting at Historic Franklin School, tabled action on setting a meeting between Tourism and the Frontier Village Association Board.<\/p>\n

At the Tourism meeting, members decided to set a potential meeting date with the FVA board, to be agreed upon by the full tourism board, at their board meeting set for this Monday (August 24, 2015).<\/p>\n

Tourism Executive Director Searle Swedlund said a meeting between tourism and the Frontier Village should address concerns expressed by the FVA board at their meeting on August 13th<\/sup>, that specifically concerned Pioneer Days event flyers were not poster size, and said he wanted to withhold funding for them, along with other concerns.<\/p>\n

At Friday\u2019s meeting, Swedlund told the tourism board that he has concerns of whether to “invest” in the Frontier Village, with grant dollars that amounts to 35% of tourism\u2019s annual grant funding, adding that the “historical approach,” with the Frontier Village will no longer work.<\/p>\n

The Tourism Executive Advisory Board, Friday, also decided to bring to the full Tourism Board meeting, discussion concerning setting the date for the 2016 community fireworks display, that tourism in recent years has funding the majority of the costs.<\/p>\n

Swedlund also said that JSDC has approved the Tourism request for $75,000 to for renewal of matching funds for Tourism Grant funding for 2016.<\/p>\n

In other business the Tourism Grant\/Executive Advisory Board approved the request from the Jamestown Fine Arts Association (Jamestown Arts Center) in the amount of $2,750, or half the amount, for a study of the economic impact of the arts and culture on Jamestown.<\/p>\n

The balance of the funds will come from the Americans for the Arts program.<\/p>\n

Arts Center Director Cyndi Wish said the North Dakota Council on the Arts is working with Americans for the Arts to do an economic Impact Study for North Dakota, which Jamestown\u2019s will be a part of, separately. She said the Jamestown Arts Center will be cooperating the organizations on the Jamestown Study.<\/p>\n

Materials she supplied to tourism, said the study will assist the Jamestown Arts Center, with accurate data when making a case to local and state legislators in understanding how the arts drive tourism, support economic development, help attract and retain new residents, and provide jobs.<\/p>\n

She added that understanding the impact of the arts in Jamestown could be very helpful in lobbying to get the Jamestown Arts Center\u2019s City budget allocation increased, allowing for expanded programming which will continue to support Jamestown\u2019s tourism.<\/p>\n

Americans for the Arts will facilitate an evaluation process for the study.<\/p>\n

The last study was done in 2007, and she said is outdated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Advisory, at Friday\u2019s meeting at Historic Franklin School, tabled action on setting a meeting between Tourism and the Frontier Village Association Board. At the Tourism meeting, members decided to set a potential meeting date with the FVA board, to be agreed upon by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79889","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\/79889","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=79889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79894,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79889\/revisions\/79894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}