{"id":80189,"date":"2015-08-25T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80189"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:16:14","slug":"2016-preliminary-city-budget-shows-5-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80189","title":{"rendered":"2016 preliminary city budget shows 5% increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"calculator\"<\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council held another 2016 budget meeting Tuesday afternoon, at City Hall. All members were present.<\/p>\n

Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish requested $15,000 as a match to a grant by the North Dakota Council on the Arts. That\u2019s a $5,000 increase from the 2015 budget.<\/p>\n

Funding requested also goes to programs such as Arts in the Schools, and expanding the Artists in Residence program, in the operating budget, and bringing in outside theater groups.<\/p>\n

She also requested $22,600 for “Special Projects,” to replace the sidewalks surrounding the Arts Park.<\/p>\n

Mayor Andersen said the sidewalk request will have to be considered separately.<\/p>\n

Council Member Brubakken, and Mayor Andersen said while other budgets were cut it may not be appropriate to increase the Arts budget.<\/p>\n

The council will look at the request at the end of budgeting.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund requested a six percent increase over 2015 funding for hospitality dollars. He documented the request with expeditures and where the requested funds will be going.<\/p>\n

The Capital Construction component amounts to a request of $68.000.<\/p>\n

With the Community Service program a budget increase of $500, was made due to an increase in city court cases, with the Community Service program.<\/p>\n

With the General Budget, there is a proposed overall five percent increase, including an increase in the Victim\/Witness Program, and includes employee salaries cost of living adjustment and step adjustments.<\/p>\n

A 4.6% increase in expenses is anticipated in 2016.<\/p>\n

Mayor Andersen said the General Fund budget increases by 5 percent over 2015, to balance the budget and keep an appropriate reserve on hand, of 25 percent.<\/p>\n

City Administrator Jeff Fuchs says the city\u2019s property tax is proposed to increase by five percent over 2015.<\/p>\n

It was recommended that $4,000 be put back in the Police Department\u2019 Special Operations Budget. Chief Edinger also pointed out a very short staff at the Police Department which will need to be addressed in the following year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

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With the Equipment Replacement Fund:<\/p>\n

An expenditure is anticipated at $443,000, with five items.<\/p>\n

With Utilities:<\/p>\n

With the Sewer Utility operation, the surplus is anticipated to show a deficit of $84,000.\u00a0\u00a0 Fuchs said the city needs to monitor expenditures in the fund more carefully.<\/p>\n

With the solid waste utility, there is a large deficit that will be carried over to 2016.\u00a0 A rate adjustment may be needed to increase revenue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0At Tuesday meeting, increases included were: $5,000 from JFAA, $4,000 for police Special Operations, and $500 for Community Service.<\/p>\n

The prelininary\u00a0budget will\u00a0 be\u00a0 introduced during the September 8, 2015 \u00a0City Council meeting.\u00a0\u00a0 A public hearing and final vote on the budget will be taken at the October 5, 2015 \u00a0City Council meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council held another 2016 budget meeting Tuesday afternoon, at City Hall. All members were present. Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish requested $15,000 as a match to a grant by the North Dakota Council on the Arts. That\u2019s a $5,000 increase from the 2015 budget. Funding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80189","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\/80189","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=80189"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80198,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80189\/revisions\/80198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}