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Jamestown sanitary sewer project update
Sept 25, 2013
Water Department Superintendent Steve Suko said some items would be able to be trimmed, but the requests will come back in subswquent years.
The water department is looking at meter replacements, and installing new meters, and is looking at remote reading equipment. Mayor Andersen said the remote reading costs will not be in the budget, however, a financing plan will be looked at in the future.
Renovation of the water storage tank at Cavenish is estimated at $490,000 and the costs will come from the utility reserves. The clean waste water treatment filter replacement cost was approved. Replacement of water line infrastructure will be Special Assessed to areas that will benefit from replacements, with the city paying 25 percent of the costs.
With infrastructure planning, some items will be budget, and individual requests will come to the City Council, for approval.
With the sewer utility, it starts at a negative balance of $2.5 million. A request for a raker building, which keeps debris out of the pumps was taken out of the proposed budget.
FEMA Hazard Mitigation grants, if approved may pay for some of the budget items. Removed from the budget was $28,000 for a new automated gate, and replacement of sewer lines was removed, and costs mainly Special Assessed to affected property owners. The request for an additional employee is in the budget, in the event the person is necessary with the GRE plant coming on line later.
Water and sewer rates will be raised by three percent.
With the Sanitation Department budget, a balance of $30,000 is anticipated.
With the Solid Waste budget, it shows a negative ending balance of $104,375, some of which is dollars required to be set aside, by the State Health Department, if needed.Some funds will be transferred from the Sanitation budget.An incremental rate increase of five percent will still be needed, along with fees, to balance the budgets in Solid Waste and Sanitation for 2014.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 23, 2013) — The public is invited to support the All Vets Club in Jamestown by attending a live and silent auction, and optional dinner, on Thursday October 10, 2013. The annual Patriotic Banquet.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the Co-Chair, Nellie Degen says, the event will be at the All Vets Club in Jamestown, at 116 1st Street East.
She says the social is at 5:30-p.m., with dinner at 6-p.m., followed by the live and silent auctions.
Tickets are $30 for a single, or $50 for two tickets.
She adds that five groups are out selling tickets which are also available at the All Vets Club, and various organizations.
Monetary donations may be dropped off at First Community Credit Union in Jamestown.
Ms. Degen point out that there will be no charge for those wishing to attend the auctions, only.
She says a number of items have been donated for the auction, and more are welcome by the deadline of October 7, 2013.
Some of the auction items donated so far include…a flat screen t.v. a certificate from Looysen I Care, an overnight stay at the Quality Inn, and Qual Chiropractic Clinic as donated a therapeutic water pillow.
More From Orr will conduct the live auction.
For more information or to donate auction items contact Nellie Degen at 320-5440, or call the All Vets Club at 252-8994.
She says it will be an evening of celebration and fundraising for the All Vets Club, noting that Senators Hoeven and Heitkamp are sending representatives to attend, and other dignitaries are being lined up to speak.
She notes that the Club is under the new management of Jon Beyer, and is offering new menu items, including lunch specials. The All Vets Club also has nightly entertainment.
Bismarck, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 25, 2013) — Gussner Elementary School in Jamestown has been named a 2013 National Blue Ribbon School, by the U.S. Department of Education.
Three North Dakota schools were named, others include schools in Wyndmere, and Edgeley Public Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced that 286 schools are 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools.
Founded in 1982, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students’ academic achievement.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler, says,
“Blue Ribbon Schools are selected based on overall academic excellence or progress in improving student academic achievement. I am proud that Edgeley Public School, William S. Gussner Elementary School in Jamestown, and Wyndmere Elementary School are among the schools to be recognized for this prestigious national honor.”
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck State College president Larry Skogen has been named interim chancellor of the North Dakota University System.
The state Board of Higher Education voted Wednesday to hire Skogen, who has been serving as acting chancellor since the board bought out the contract of Hamid Shirvani.
Skogen and former state commerce commissioner Shane Goettle were finalists for the job.
Skogen is expected to take over by Nov. 1. The contract runs until June 2015, which would allow Skogen to serve through the 2015 legislative session.
North Dakota residents will go to the polls in November 2014 to decide whether the state should dump the higher education board and chancellor and replace it with a three-member commission appointed by the governor.
The board held its monthly meeting Wednesday in Bismarck.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakotans will have fewer options and will pay more than most states in the federally run health insurance exchange.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report released Wednesday provides a peek at the rates that will be available when enrollment opens next week for insurance marketplaces under President Barack Obama’s health insurance overhaul.
The federal government is running the marketplaces in North Dakota and 35 other states.
Federal data show North Dakotans will have an average of 24 qualified health plans to choose from, compared to the national average of 53.
Data show that premiums for a low-level plan for a family of four with an income of $50,000 will be $111 a month after tax credits. The national average is $95 a month.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple and a Minnesota-based energy company are pushing the concept of an “energy corridor” that could move oil, natural gas, electricity and water out of the western part of North Dakota.
Dalyrmple and officials of Allete Inc. announced the concept on Wednesday. The idea is to establish a right of way adjacent to Allete’s existing electric transmission line right of way in western North Dakota to Duluth, Minn.
Dalrymple and company officials say the corridor would consolidate and simplify the shipment of several energy sources along a single line.
Allete officials say they are working with other companies that are interested in the concept.
FINLEY, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in eastern North Dakota’s Steele County combed a cornfield to capture a convicted sex offender from Minnesota who had allegedly cut off his tracking bracelet and stolen a motor home.
The sheriff’s office says 22-year-old Corey Roper, of Thief River Falls, was captured Tuesday. A man who was with him was not immediately found. Authorities believe 21-year-old Dylan Klode, of Thief River Falls, has fled in a vehicle stolen from a rural Portland farmstead.
Minnesota Department of Corrections records show that Roper is on probation on an earlier conviction for having sex with a girl under the age of 14.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck police have arrested a Wing man accused of robbing a man with a toy gun.
Police say the 22-year-old approached a 43-year-old man Wednesday morning outside of the south Wal-Mart.
The suspect said he had a gun, showed it to the man and told him to hand over his wallet, which he did.
Officers say they caught up with the suspect minutes later and found the toy and stolen credit cards in a Subaru that had been reported stolen in Burleigh County.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Enrollment at North Dakota State University has hit an all-time high.
Officials say 14,629 undergraduate, graduate and professional students are enrolled at the Fargo school this fall, up 1 percent from last year’s record.
NDSU has a record number of graduate students, at 2,335 – up more than 10 percent from last fall. This year’s freshmen class is the second-largest in school history, at 2,553 students, up 5 percent over the year.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is looking into the possibility of ending Dakota College at Bottineau’s affiliation with Minot State University.
The two-year college at Bottineau has been associated with four-year colleges since 1969 when it joined with North Dakota State University. The school connected with Minot State in 1996.
Bottineau Dean Ken Grosz says former chancellor Hamid Shirvani had planned on announcing that Bottineau would become a stand-alone institution, but it never happened.
Board member Grant Shaft says there have been ongoing discussions about the move and some believe it makes sense to combine it with next year’s retirement plans by Minot State and Dakota College president David Fuller.
The board voted Wednesday to allow the interim chancellor to “engage stakeholders” on ending the affiliation.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Two more properties in Grand Forks have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The register is the federal government’s list of properties deemed worthy of recognition and preservation.
The Skarsbo apartments and the Hariman Sanatorium both were built in the late 1920s.
The Skarsbo buildings still function as residences. The sanatorium began as a chiropractic hospital and has been converted into apartments.
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – One of the oldest buildings in Medora will be demolished, but one next to it was spared the wrecking ball.
The Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation will move the Dakota Cyclery building to an empty lot near the Fudge Depot. But the foundation will tear down the adjacent saloon and pizza place.
A modernized replica for beer and pizza and a ticketing office will fill the empty space.
The foundation’s plans to destroy both buildings were denied at a recent zoning board meeting.
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – Officials at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota are rounding up wild horses this week.
The horses will be sold at auction in Wishek on Saturday in an effort to thin the park’s herd to a size the park can accommodate.
The park maintains a demonstration herd of what it calls feral horses to commemorate the wild horses that roamed the badlands when Theodore Roosevelt ranched in the area during the 1880s. Park officials say the herd has grown to more than 200 animals. About 100 of them will be auctioned.
The park has conducted more than 25 horse roundups since 1954. The last one was in 2009. Officials hope a contraceptive vaccine they’re experimenting with will succeed and eliminate the need for such roundups.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The fight is far from over — but for now, a measure that would avert a partial government shutdown has easily cleared an initial Senate hurdle. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz joined in the unanimous procedural vote to allow the measure to move ahead — shortly after finishing a 21-hour-and-19-minute Senate floor speech. He’s still hoping to derail the spending bill in order to deny Democrats the ability to remove a provision that was added by the House — one that would remove funding for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Iran’s new president says his country is ready to negotiate over its disputed nuclear activities and has “nothing to hide.” President Hasan Rouhani (hah-SAHN’ roh-HAH’-nee) spoke Wednesday to editors in New York, a day before Iran and six world powers are to discuss the nuclear program at a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. But Rouhani said Iran must be careful in starting a new relationship with the U.S. after three decades of frozen ties. Still, he said he would have no problem shaking hands with President Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama isn’t disappointed that he didn’t get to meet Iranian President Hasan Rouhani (hah-SAHN’ roh-HAH’-nee) this week. Press secretary Jay Carney says Obama remains open to the possibility of an informal encounter with Iran’s new president at a future date. Carney says the most important issue is whether both countries can make progress toward resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. says chemical weapons experts who have returned to Syria will be investigating three alleged incidents of chemical weapons use earlier this year, and seeking information on three alleged incidents last month. The inspectors reported last week that the deadly nerve agent sarin (SA’-rihn) was used in an Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A lawyer for the producer of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” concerts has told a Los Angeles jury Jackson died because of his own bad choices, not because of anything AEG Live did. Attorney Marvin Putnam began delivering his final argument today in the negligence suit by Jackson’s family. He said the company did not know anything about Jackson’s use of a powerful anesthetic, nor did it hire Dr. Conrad Murray to be his tour doctor.
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