City Hall 3Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Finance & Legal Committee Building, Planning & Zoning Committee, and Civic Center & Promotion Committee met Tuesday evening at City Hall. 

 

Council Member Gumke was not present.

 

FINANCE & LEGAL COMMITTEE BUSINESS:

The committee recommends approval of JSDC documents and agreement of:

JSDC Procedures dated June 2016

JSDC Revised Articles of Incorporation

Revised Agreement Between The City of Jamestown and Stutsman County and JSDC

The committee considered the request from JSDC for $154,000.00 from Economic Development Funds to be used along with $56,000.00 from the Stutsman Rural Water District to provide the community share of funds for the next phase of the Red River Valley Water Supply project engineering study, the design phase, with the City Share to be $138,600.00.

Mayor Andersen said that water supply would be more cost effective than and independent means of supplying a large amount of water to the Spiritwood Energy Park for a major industry.

The committee recommends to approve the request.

 

Considered the request from Jamestown Tourism for $75,000.00 in matching fund to tourism grants with the City Share to be $60,000.00

The committee recommends approval of the request.

The committee considered the request from the JSDC to provide $50,000.00, in matching funds from Economic Development Funds, to Spiritwood Ingredients, LLC, (barely processing plant for aquaculture) for a Basic and Applied Research Grant through APUC (approved 100% at $50,000) with the City Share to be $45,000.00.

The committee recommends approval.

Also on Tuesday, the Stutsman County Commission unanimously approved committing $15,400 of its 2017 budget to pay its share of $154,000.

The committee recommends allowing the request from the JSDC to approve the transfer of 320 acres (East ½ of Section 28, Spiritwood Township) into the Spiritwood Energy Park Association.

 

The committee recommends the approval of the JSDC 2017 Budget as presented.

The budget is a 3-percent increase, over 2016.

 The meeting was shown live on CSi 67 followed by replays.