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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Building Planning and Zoning, and Civic Center and Promotion Committee met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.\u00a0 All members were present.<\/p>\nJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Building Planning and Zoning, and Civic Center and Promotion Committee met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.\u00a0 All members were present.<\/p>\n
FINANCE & LEGAL COMMITTEE<\/p>\n
The committee considered the application for an abatement from W2005\/Fargo Hotels (Pool C) Realty, LP (Comfort Inn) on Lot 2, Block 3, Wagon Master\u2019s Addition by reducing the true & full value for 2015 from $1,725,580 to $934,560.<\/p>\n
City Assessor, Darrell Wollan said he recommends denying the abatement, based on an incomplete income statement provided, by the hotel.<\/p>\n
Mayor Andersen moved to deny and stay with the original true and full value of the property. The committee voted to recommend denial.<\/p>\n
The committee recommends approval of the JSDC 3 Year Strategic Plan.\u00a0 CEO Connie Ova asked for approval, in that if this is the direction the city wishes to proceed.<\/p>\n
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Considered was entering into the Joint Powers Agreement with the Jamestown Park District relative to the 1% City Sales Tax for the construction of the TRAC Facility.<\/p>\n
The additional 1% City Sales Tax will be implemented on April 1, 2016.<\/p>\n
The committee\u00a0 moved the issue to the City Council without recommendation.<\/p>\n
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The committee considered approving the revised Job Description for the City Engineer position. City\u00a0Adminstrator Jeff Fuchs said a major change is for the position having little or no public works department duties. The director of public works would be responsible to the city administrator.<\/p>\n
Mayor Andersen suggested the city engineer be responsible to handle requests for proposals.<\/p>\n
Fuchs said he will make clarifications, and bring it back for consideration.<\/p>\n
The committee recommends approving as amended.<\/p>\n
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First Reading of an Ordinances was reviewed granting a continued franchise to the following utilities whose franchises have expired:<\/p>\n
a. Century Link<\/p>\n
b. Cable Services, Inc.<\/p>\n
c. Dakota Central Communications<\/p>\n
City Administrator Fuchs indicated meeting with the entities. The expired Ordinance for CSi was 10 years and 5 years for Daktel.<\/p>\n
The committee recommends the First Reading, at the April City Council meeting.<\/p>\n
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Informational: Departmental and financial reports were submitted.<\/p>\n
BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE<\/p>\n
The committee considered approving a land use plan amendment on Lot 1, Block 2, Mill Hill 2nd <\/span>Addition, from Commercial to Medium Density Residential, adjacent to the south side fire hall. The action is a land use plan amendment.<\/p>\n The committee recommends approval.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The committee discussed the Second Reading of an Ordinance to enact a Section of The City Code, Appendix C pertaining to traffic impact studies; and to amend Section 9 of Appendix B pertaining to preliminary plat items and to amend a Section pertaining to the amendment process.<\/p>\n Mayor Andersen said she has concerns of wanting the city to be perceived as “development friendly.” She said approval would be an additional expense, and should only trigger for a large development. She said the Ordinance would not be beneficial to Jamestown with the developer paying for a traffic impact study. Council Member Buchanan said the Ordinance would not place an undue burden on developers.<\/p>\n The Second Reading will come before the April City Council meeting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE<\/p>\n The committee discussed soft drink vendor proposals received from Coca Cola and Pepsi.<\/p>\n The committee recommends approval to Coke, as the exclusive provider of soft drinks to the Civic Center.<\/p>\n The meeting was shown live on CSi 67 followed by replays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council\u2019s Finance & Legal, Building Planning and Zoning, and Civic Center and Promotion Committee met Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.\u00a0 All members were present. FINANCE & LEGAL COMMITTEE The committee considered the application for an abatement from W2005\/Fargo Hotels (Pool C) Realty, LP (Comfort Inn) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97395","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\/97395","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=97395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97427,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97395\/revisions\/97427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}