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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamrstown City Council’ s Finance & Legal. Planning &Zoning, and Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday (Mar 19, 2013) at City Hall. Council Member Gumke was not present.
Finance & Legal Committee heard an update from SRF Consulting relative to the status of the Growth Development Plan and Technical Assistance Project.
Stephanie Falkers presented a draft which outlined the two issues.
She said under Growth and Development, a future land use plan is being put together.
SRF has been reviewing existing conditions in Jamestown, development in the recent past, and zoning issues.
She said future land use alternatives will be developed.
Nearby townships have been involved in the process.
She pointed out, on April 4, 2013 there will be a public meeting outlining the SRF land use draft, from 3-7 p.m., at the Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown.
Copies of the future land use plan will be available soon at the JSDC web page,
Maps will also be available at the web site, and at city hall.
Current zoning maps are also available at the city’s web site, and at city hall.
The committee considered entering into an agreement with Tyler Technologies for the procurement of accounting, tax and appraisal software for the City during 2013.
City Administrator Jeff Fuchs said the city is looking at joining Stutsman County in the venture.
He said in discussions with the county, the conversion will be phased in.
The County Commission approved the conversion at the March 2013 meeting.
The committee recommends the city take the funds from the reserve fund, then amend its budget, to payback, and enter into the agreement with Tyler Technologies.
The committee then heard from Holly Miller from the JSDC, and considered the request from Two Rivers Printing for Economic Development Funds to provide for up to $54,000 in Flex PACE Interest Buy Down Funds with the City Share to be $43,200, and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.
The Jamestown/Stutsman Board of Directors approved Two Rivers Printing’s request for a Flex PACE Interest Buy Down for up to $54,000.
Two Rivers Printing applied for the loan to purchase the Waggin Tails Doggy Daycare building.
The building has been on the market for several months and Waggin Tails has accepted Two River’s offer to purchase the building.
The move will provide Two Rivers Printing the opportunity to expand their services and continue growing their business.
Two additional full time employees will be hired, by June 2013, with full benefits.
The committee recommends approval of the request.
The committee received information from City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs, relative to the feasibility and impact of financing the Sanitary Lift Station Improvement Project from the City Share Special Assessments Reserve Fund.
He outlined funding possibilities , saying the city has funding available, through income from the city sales tax and the sanitary sewer improvement fund. He said in order for the project to continue with sales tax funding, the city sales tax will have to be extended past its current expiration date, of 2018, to 2032.
$545,250 would be the cost to the city annually, for bond repayment for the estimated $5.8 million project.
If Special assessment funding is used, districts will need to be set up.
No recommendation was made on financing by the committee on Tuesday.
The committee considered the request from The Depot LLC, for an on-sale Beer & Wine License, specifically for the dining area, to be served with meals.
The committee recommends approval.
The committee discussed authorizing the submission of grants for Section 5311 and State Aid to Public Transit funding on behalf of Jamestown Taxi Service.
Mayor Andersen said the previous City Council mandated that the city would not authorize such grants. She said Jamestown Taxi Service currently receives a subsidy.
She said Last Leg Taxi now exists which did not when Jamestown Taxi was established.
With two taxis in town, a subsidy is no longer an option for Jamestown Taxi, as the city has competing taxi services.
Last Leg Taxi doesn’t receive a subsidy.
Jamestown Taxi Service owner, Doug Fogderud said Last Leg Taxi was purchased by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service.
He said without a subsidy Jamestown Taxi would not exist.
He pointed out James River Transit is also a competitor.
The committee recommends to make the grant application with Mayor Andersen voting in opposition.
The committee considered establishing amendments to the Taxi Licensing ordinances for the establishment of regulations for providing taxi services within the City.
City Attorney Ken Dalsted said, insurance, is one area that needs addressing in amending the city ordinance. Inspections are also of concerns, along with a required background check of the owner.
The committee recommends that Dalsted inquire of other cities as to what their taxi regulations consist of.
The committee considered the application of Ben Maulding for an animal permit to pasture and keep horses at 605 10 th Avenue NW in the City.
A City Ordinance will need to be approved to make approval of the request, regarding a sunset clause.
The First Reading will come before the City Council.
Discussion was held relative to filling the City Forester position within the City.
City Administrator Jeff Fuchs said there was no response to advertisements for the position.
Mayor Andersen commented that the City Forester is a part time rather than a full time position, as has always been the case. She still suggest a contract service.
Some previous City Forester’s also worked for the street department.
The committee took no action. The City will look at options of hiring a City Forester.
Informational: Monthly departmental reports.
The committee discussed the possibility of providing for credit card payments for utilities, licenses, permit fees, etc.
Next month’s committee will look further into the issue.
Buffalo City Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund inquired about the contract extension (continuing Resolution) between the city and the Buffalo City Tourism Foundation, which is set to expire at the end of March 2013.
The committee put the issue on the April 1, 2013 City Council agenda without recommendation.
Swedlund said a Special Finance and Legal Committee meeting earlier, Tuesday with the BCTF Board was productive, and the Mayor said the city and Tourism is close to reaching an agreement on a new contract.
At the Special meeting discussion was held with the Buffalo City Tourism Foundation relative to entering into an agreement for financing of the foundation.
The committee the considered entering into an enterprise agreement with Buffalo City Tourism Foundation for financing.
BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE
Draft Minutes of the March 11, 2013, Planning Commission meeting was presented.
It was noted that the Public Hearing and Second Reading of an ordinance to change the zoning of Lot 2, Berndt Addition), from M-2 (General Industrial and Manufacturing District) to POC (Public, Open Development and Conservation District) is scheduled for the April 1, 2013, City Council meeting.
Also the Public Hearing and Second Reading of an ordinance to change the zoning of Lots 1 & 2, Block 4, Hi-Acres Hillcrest Addition, from R-1 (One Family Residential District) to POC (Public, Open Development and Conservation District) is scheduled for the April 1, 2013, City Council meeting.
CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE
Civic Center Manager Pam Fosse said the dance on Saturday March 16, 2013, at the Civic Center was orderly and the attendance was between 1800 and 2000.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News ) — The Jamestown Public School Board, Monday (Mar 18, 2013) reviewed options in the school districts growth, the next seven years.
Superintendent Bob Toso noted the anticipated growth at Spiritwood Energy Park, which could mean Jamestown Public Schools having an additional 600 students.
The South Central Dakota Regional Council and Maxfield Consultants, say the area will need roughly 1,200 new homes by 2020.
It’s anticipated that the population growth would add students to Gussner Elementary, or Louis L’Amour elementary.
Toso says options to spread out the increase in students at those schools include moving students to Washington Elementary School, which has room, or closing Washington and building additions to Gussner or Louis L’Amour or a combination of the two plans.
Another plan would be to realign schools to teach a specific grade level in each building.
For example, a school would house all the kindergarten and first grade students.
It was brought up that the plans will likely come from increases in school property taxes.
The Jamestown High School 22 mill tax levy is schedule to end in 2017.
Toso said some of those mills could be transferred to any new building, with voter approval.
In other business, the School Board okayed paying $5,000 to the Two Rivers Activity Center committee, if other groups contribute to fund the next stage in development of the proposed building,
The meeting was recorded and is now showing on CSi Cable 10.
Jamestown, ND (Mar 19, 2013) — Fresh, cut daffodils are being delivered through Friday 22, 2013 by Jim and Linda Bender, that were pre-ordered to support the American Cancer Society.
Nellie Degen said the deliveries were postponed a day by the storm on Monday,
to the locations from which the flowers were ordered.
Don’s House of Flowers kept the flowers fresh until they are delivered, and is the distribution point.
Also starting Tuesday, additional daffodils are available for purchase, at the Buffalo Mall’s, K-Mart entrance.
Community Relations Manager, Mary Dahl, of Fargo says, the Cancer Society’s Flower of Hope, is a sign of renewed life.
She says Daffodil Days comes at a time of year when a sign of spring is a welcome sight.
She adds, once again the Jamestown High School National Honor Society, under the supervision of Tammy Mullowney, along with Community Representatives, Bill & Nellie Degen and Jim & Linda Bender, hosted the event in Jamestown and neighboring communities of Stutsman County.
The Society would like to share that every bouquet of daffodils purchased is appreciated, and that the dollars raised by the event will be used to help the American Cancer Society continue its funding of cancer research, its state and national legislative advocacy, and its many educational and patient service programs.
A portion of the money raised by past Daffodil Days in Stutsman County is presently being used to support Look Good … Feel Better, Reach to Recovery, Patient Lodging Program, and Transportation Assistance, which are very successful and well-utilized programs here in the area.
The money raised locally is also helping to fund the Society’s Cancer Resource Centers. Patients and their families from Jamestown and throughout North Dakota have been visiting these Centers for information and assistance following their diagnosis of cancer.
The Society’s research program is the largest, private, not-for-profit source of funding for cancer research in the United States, second only to the federal government.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple to veto measures that would make North Dakota home to the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S.
Republican state Rep. Kathy Hawken of Fargo says about 10 senators and representatives from both parties met with Dalrymple Monday night.
Hawken says the group of lawmakers worry about the cost of litigation and the effort to “outlaw something that is already legal.”
Lawmakers last week passed two anti-abortion bills, one banning the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy and another prohibiting women from having the procedure based on the fetus’ gender or because it has a genetic defect.
Lawmakers are now considering measures would ban abortions by defining human life as beginning with conception.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Williams County Sheriff Scott Busching says two homicides in one weekend doesn’t do much for the area’s reputation.
But Busching says the area in the heart of the booming North Dakota oil patch “is not the Wild West.”
In one case, a Michigan man stands accused of stabbing his roommate to death at an oil field crew camp between Ray and Tioga. In the other, a Utah man is suspected in the fatal shooting of another man outside a Williston bar.
Busching says the influx of people into the oil patch in search of work has resulted in “some undesirables,” but he says there are a lot of good people in the region, too.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it is giving the city of Minot about $2.1 million for the first phase of a project to protect the city’s water treatment plant with a floodwall.
FEMA says the $2.7 million first phase involves design and engineering work along with an environmental study. If all requirements are met FEMA will help fund construction.
Minot was hit by historic Souris River flooding in the summer of 2011. More than 4,000 homes, businesses and other structures were affected.
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – An oil company has staked out an area near the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s historic Badlands ranch in western North Dakota.
But XTO Energy spokesman Jeff Neu tells The Associated Press that the company is consulting with federal officials about an alternative location. He says reports that the company is intending to drill near the ranch are premature.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Superintendent Valerie Naylor tells The Bismarck Tribune that the prospect of oil wells near the historic Elkhorn Ranch represents the worst threat to the park in its history.
State Mineral Resources officials who will make a recommendation to the Industrial Commission have scheduled a permit hearing March 28.
Any oil wells also would require a federal permit because they would be on the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – An oil company has staked out an area near the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s historic Badlands ranch in western North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Superintendent Valerie Naylor tells The Bismarck Tribune the prospect of oil wells near the historic Elkhorn Ranch represents the worst threat to the park in its history.
ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy has staked out an area for up to four oil wells less than a mile from the 1880s-era cabin site. State Mineral Resources officials who will make a recommendation to the Industrial Commission have scheduled a permit hearing March 28.
Any oil wells also would require a federal permit because they would be on the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
XTO spokeswoman Emily Snooks says protecting the environment is a priority.
In Sports
WDA Girls Basketball All-Conference list
Bismarck High – Naomi Rust, Keisha Engelhardt
Bismarck Century – Hannah Larson, Macy Lynch, Jordyn Jossart
Belcourt – Whitney Wallette
Dickinson – Ali Moody, Rachel Schroeder
Jamestown – McKayla Orr, Kyra Dewald, Paige Peterson
Mandan – Courtney Goetz, Lexi Goldade
Minot – Loni Bryantt, Andie Hankla
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – An assault weapons ban won’t be part of the gun control measure the Senate will begin debating next month. California Democrat Dianne Feinstein (FYN’-styn) says she’s been told by Majority Leader Harry Reid that instead of being included in the measure, the ban will be offered as an amendment. The decision, which was expected, means that the ban seems to stand little chance of surviving because of expected solid opposition from Republicans and likely defections from some moderate Democrats.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Applications for gun permits have jumped in Newtown, Conn., since a school massacre there revived the national debate on gun control and led to worries about new restrictions. Newtown in recent years has issued about 130 gun permits annually. Police say the town received 79 permit applications in the three months since the Dec. 14 massacre, well over double the normal pace.
HAWTHORNE, Nev. (AP) – Investigators will be looking into what went wrong during a training exercise in Nevada’s high desert Monday night. A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen others. It happened at the Hawthorne Army Depot, which is used by troops who are about to be deployed overseas.
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City prosecutor says manslaughter has been added to the charges in the car crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband. The couple’s baby was delivered after the wreck, but died a day later. Julio Acevedo (ah-seh-VAY’-doh) previously was charged with leaving the scene of an accident.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked has had several shows canceled after making an anti-gay slur at a concert in San Francisco. An official at the venue where she was performing Sunday night says Shocked had just begun a second set when she made comments denouncing same-sex marriage and then used the slur. The venue immediately ended the show. At least five of her concerts have been canceled.
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