{"id":98817,"date":"2016-04-14T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98817"},"modified":"2016-04-14T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:49:00","slug":"mediation-schedule-griggs-courthouse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98817","title":{"rendered":"Mediation schedule, Griggs Courthouse case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperstown (CSi) A mediation session has been scheduled May 3, 2016 in a civil case between Griggs County and the County Building Authority over the financial responsibility of the unfinished $3.5 million Griggs County Courthouse\/Emergency Operations Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum reports, in January, Southeast District Judge Jerod Tufte set a December jury trial in the case. However, he also directed the parties to make a &#8220;good faith attempt&#8221; at mediation in an effort to avoid a trial.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides had delayed setting a date for mediation as they attempted to negotiate a settlement, according to a joint status report filed with the court last week.<\/p>\n<p>However, those preliminary settlement discussions apparently have broken down.<\/p>\n<p>At its March 18 meeting, the Griggs County Commission rejected a counteroffer from the Building Authority, that, according to the meeting minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperstown (CSi) A mediation session has been scheduled May 3, 2016 in a civil case between Griggs County and the County Building Authority over the financial responsibility of the unfinished $3.5 million Griggs County Courthouse\/Emergency Operations Center. The Forum reports, in January, Southeast District Judge Jerod Tufte set a December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98817","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=98817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98818,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98817\/revisions\/98818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}