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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session Monday (Feb 3, 2014) at City Hall. Council Member Brubakken was not present.
Consent Agenda items discussed separately…
Item “A” was removed by Council Member Buchanan…
A Resolution to authorize Renaissance Zone Tax Incentives for a portion of the Jamestown Rowhomes Limited Partnership project located on Block 42, Original Addition (401 3rd Street SE), the former Essentia Clinic location, by providing a 5 Year – 100% property tax exemption, subject to ND Department of Community Services approval.
He said the Resolution should be denied in order to exempt property tax collections as indicated. Development costs were also not know, he said by the developer at a recent committee meeting. He said the city has more pressing needs, than dollars available.
Erin Anderson with the developer MetroPlains explained demolition and asbestos removal costs, adding the facility will be located centrally to senior citizens and others, saying the project will provide value to the community, plus added services, from Central Valley Health District, James River Community/Senor Center, and Easter Seals.
The motion to authorize was passed on a 3-1 vote with Council Member Buchanan voting in opposition.
Regular Agenda:
Resolutions:
A Public Hearing was held concerning the request to vacate a roadway adjacent to Lot 3, Block 2 and Lot 3, Block 3, Diamond Acres 2nd Addition. Corey Bayer indicated a model home business will be set up there. Following the Public Hearing the City Council voted to approve the request.
The Council considered the evaluation related to claims of utility conflicts by Sellin Brothers, Inc., on Wastewater Lift Station Replacement and Force Main Project Phase II – Force Main and Gravity District 13-31 & 13- 32 (CWSRF No. 380808-06).
The pipeline portion of the project is completed, with three lift stations to be completed, including lift station number nine at the Jamestown Business Center.
City Attorney Dalsted asked the matter be tabled, following a call from Sellin’s attorney, asking to defer action.
Council Members considered the replacement of a Roll-off Truck for the Sanitation Department, at a cost of $160,000. The Council voted forward the item to the Public works Committee meeting.
The City Council then, discussed the request of Norm Aldinger for the City to direct Otter Tail Power Company to remove the structure at 113 12th Avenue NE based on language in the city franchise ordinance. Mayor Andersen said the item was tabled at the request of Aldinger’s attorney.
Approved a Change Order to Energy Services Group, for the Jamestown Civic Center Energy Services Project, with no change in contract price.
Ordinances:
The First Reading concerned amending and re-enacting an Ordinance of the
City Code by amending the District Map to change the zoning of Lots 10-14, Tahran’s Addition from R-1 (One-Family Residential District) to C-1 (Local Commercial District).
Hearing from the audience: Jerry DeMore asked the proper procedure if a citizen feel a zoning Ordinance is in violation. Attorney Dalsted said it depends on the type of violation that occurs either his office or police.
Other Business:
Approved a Payment to Energy Services Group, LLC. for the Jamestown Civic Center Energy Services Agreement, in the amount of $60,213.00.
Granted the request from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation MinnDak
Inc – Jamestown Chapter for a gaming site authorization to conduct gaming at the
Gladstone Inn on March 22, 2014.
The Council dicussed the painting scheme and additional $44,300.00 and additional 30 days for painting completion on the new Southwest Water Tower. Travis Dillman with Interstate Engineering noted the paint scheme from white with black letter to blue with letter similar to the JSDC logo lettering. The blue and lettering would cost another approximately $44,000 to bring the total to about $69,000. Mayor Andersen suggested the paint and letter is a marketing tool for Jamestown. The Council moved the item to the next Public Works Committee meeting.
The Council moved the item to the next Public Works Committee meeting.
Approved a Payment to Woodsonia Real Estate Group, Inc., per the Developer Agreement with the Menard’s project, dated August 8, 2013, in the amount of $125,000.00.
Approved a Payment (No. 1 (1710), to Prairie Soil Consulting, LLC, for services on the Solid Waste Landfill (Expansion-50 Acres approx), in the amount of $7,650.00.
The meeting was shown live on CSi 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown’s Mayor Katie Andersen says she’s taken out a petition to run for a second term as mayor.
On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Mayor Andersen said, later this year she will make a formal announcement.
In addition to mayor, city elections include a city council seat, a municipal judgeship and three positions on the Jamestown Parks and Recreation board.
The city elections require 300 petition signatures for mayor and city council, 269 for municipal judge and 284 for park board. The paperwork for those elections can be picked up at Jamestown City Hall, 102 3rd Ave. SE. The deadline to return the petitions with the required number of signatures in April 7, 2014, at 4-p.m.
Also in 2014, five Jamestown Public School Board seats – four at-large and one rural -are up for election.
In Stutsman County, positions up for election include: Stutsman County sheriff, State’s Attorney, three County Commissioners and seats on the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District Board of Directors and the Soil Conservation District.
The city and school board elections are held during the Primary Elections in June 2014.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board voted 6-3 Monday evening not to explore options for funding a paid position for the Parent Awareness Center.
Under the proposal, there would be an independent third party negotiating the requested salary between a representative of the school administration and the PAC.
The third party would also help develop a job description and a one-year contract for services.
PAC co-founder Nellie Degen sought $20,000 for the position.
The organization was formed three years ago as a volunteer advocacy group for students and parents in the Jamestown Public School District.
Superintendent Robert Lech has cited a number of reasons not to move forward with funding the position at this time, including the deficit, concerns about the effectiveness of the PAC if it were brought under the district’s umbrella and that other similar groups may also request funding. Board member Gail Martin reiterated his position.
Ms. Degen said the PAC will continue to operate despite a lack of funding from Jamestown Public Schools.
She appeared on CSi’s City Matters program Monday evening, with updates, and is now replaying on CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) voted unanimously to approve a the new jobs training program, and voted to send the jobs incentive grant program portion of the application to the JSDC Executive Committee for further consideration on a 9-2 vote.
Chairman Gary Riffe, and board member ,Bob Toso, voting opposed.
The JSDC Board may reduce by two-thirds the incentives requested by Dakota Spirit AgEnergy ethanol plant.
The jobs incentive program would grant the business about $600,000 from the JSDC funds based on $17,500 for each job created with a salary of more than $15 per hour.
DSA had requested about $1 million through two programs.
Valley City (CSi) The Hi Liner Activity Center will host an informational meeting, on Thursday February 6, 2014, for input on the direction of permanent flood protection in Valley City.
The meeting will start at 7-p.m.
Valley City is working on a comprehensive plan, and Commissioner, Mary Lee Nielson says, this will be the first of a number of meetings to discuss the permanent flood protect process.
Options include the buyouts to widen the river channel while some residents are concerned about the city losing its tax base with buyouts.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – A nonprofit organization that helps farm families in need is accepting planting applications from farmers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and eastern Montana.
Farm Rescue assisted 50 farm families in 2013 and hopes to help a similar number of families as available funding and volunteer staffing allows.
Farm Rescue was founded in 2006 by Bill Gross to assist farm families who have experienced major illness, injury or natural disaster and has helped more than 250 families since its inception.
Gross says the group encourages friends and neighbors to anonymously refer a family that needs assistance since some families are hesitant to ask for help.
Priority is given to applications received by April 1.
FINLEY, N.D. (AP) – Authorities investigating the death of a man in the eastern North Dakota town of Finley have arrested a woman on suspicion of murder.
Steele County authorities have not released information about the 66-year-old man who was found dead Monday, or about his relationship to the 60-year-old woman who was arrested.
She is being held in the Cass County jail in Fargo.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Trial has been scheduled May 1 for a homeless woman in Bismarck who is accused of not properly caring for her children.
Thirty-four-year-old Ruthann Mountain has pleaded not guilty to felony child abuse or neglect charges that could land her in prison for up to 15 years if she’s convicted.
Authorities allege that Mountain had been living in an apartment building hallway and did not properly care for her 1-, 3- and 7-year-old children.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police arrested a suspect in the armed robbery of a payday loan store and pawn shop after a four-hour standoff at an apartment in the city. A SWAT team was called to the residence about 5 a.m. Monday. The apartment building was evacuated and streets in the area were blocked off, but the standoff ended peacefully.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Fargo attorney Jason Astrup says he will seek the Democratic endorsement for North Dakota tax commissioner.
Astrup specializes in business law, tax law, and estate planning. He says in a statement that he will announce his candidacy on Wednesday in Fargo and Bismarck.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple appointed Republican Ryan Rauschenberger in November to serve the remainder of Cory Fong’s term. Fong resigned at the end of the year to work for a Bismarck-based advertising agency.
Rauschenberger served as the state’s deputy tax commissioner since 2009. He says he will seek the Republican endorsement for tax commissioner.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The list of candidates for the presidency of Minot State University is getting shorter.
A search committee on Tuesday was scheduled to interview the eight remaining candidates via videoconference. The committee will then decide which semifinalists to bring to campus for in-person interviews next week.
The search committee eventually will choose three finalists to recommend to the state Board of Higher Education. That group, which oversees the state’s 11 public colleges and universities, is to name the school’s next president when it meets at Minot State on Feb. 26.
Current Minot State President David Fuller is retiring in June from the century-old northern North Dakota university that has about 3,500 students. He was named the school’s eighth president in 2004.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – An agreement reached in 1966 is at the heart of a dispute over whether a historical village belongs on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds in Minot.
The Ward County Historical Society says the agreement allows it to operate a building on the fairgrounds, and that the State Fair has allowed expansion of the Pioneer Village Museum over a period of decades.
The State Fair board wants the museum off the fairgrounds so the land can be used for current needs and future growth. The board served the historical society with an eviction notice last month.
North Central District Judge William McLees held a hearing on the matter Monday and set a Feb. 21 deadline for lawyers on both sides to submit written arguments.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s winter wheat crop and livestock herds appear to be in good shape as the winter progresses.
The federal Agriculture Department says in its monthly crop report that 66 percent of the winter wheat crop is rated good to excellent, and only 3 percent is rated poor or very poor.
Cattle and calf conditions are rated 78 percent good to excellent, and sheep and lamb conditions 83 percent in those categories.
Stockwater supplies are 98 percent adequate to surplus, and hay and forage supplies are 96 percent in those categories.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) -Minot is asking the federal government to extend the deadline for a program aimed at helping residents repair homes damaged in the summer 2011 Souris River flood. The program allows qualified homeowners to be reimbursed for repair expenses during the first year after a flood. But many residents of Minot postponed repair decisions while they waited for the city to finish a new flood protection plan.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Joan Mondale, who became a national arts advocate while her husband was vice president, has died.
Her family says she died Monday surrounded by relatives in Minnesota. She was 83.
Mondale was so passionate about the arts that she was nicknamed “Joan of Art.” She herself was an avid potter when her husband Walter Mondale, then a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota, was elected Jimmy Carter’s vice president in 1976.
Carter named Joan Mondale honorary chairwoman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. She traveled frequently to museums, theaters and artists’ studios on the administration’s behalf, and lobbied Congress and the states for more spending on arts programs.
Carter said Monday that Joan Mondale was exemplary in using public service to advance the arts and other important issues.
In sports….
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Indiana 98 Orlando 79
Final Washington 100 Portland 90
Final Miami 102 Detroit 96
Final Brooklyn 108 Philadelphia 102
Final Oklahoma City 86 Memphis 77
Final Milwaukee 101 New York 98
Final San Antonio 102 New Orleans 95
Final Dallas 124 Cleveland 107
Final Denver 116 L-A Clippers 115
Final Toronto 94 Utah 79
Final Sacramento 99 Chicago 70
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Edmonton 3 Buffalo 2
Final OT Pittsburgh 2 Ottawa 1
Final OT Colorado 2 New Jersey 1
Final Detroit 2 Vancouver 0
Final Columbus 4 Anaheim 2
Final Chicago 5 Los Angeles 3
Final Philadelphia 5 San Jose 2
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)-Guard Trevor Cooney went 9-for-12 from three-point land and scored more than half his team’s points with 33 in top-ranked Syracuse’s 61-55 victory over Notre Dame last night. That capped a day in which the 22-0 Orange were unanimously voted No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball rankings. Cooney tied a Syracuse record with nine 3-pointers on 12 attempts.
Final ( 6) Villanova 81 Xavier 58
Final 3OT (16) Iowa St. 98 (19) Oklahoma St. 97
TOP-25 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final ( 7) Baylor 81 Oklahoma 67
AP Men’s Top 25..
UNDATED (AP) – Arizona and Syracuse have swapped positions in The Associated Press men’s basketball poll. The Orange, who are off to the best start in school history at 22-0, have taken over the top spot after their exciting win over Duke last Saturday and Arizona’s road loss to California. In the new rankings, Syracuse received all 65 first place votes and is back on top of the poll for the first time since the Orange held the No. 1 spot for six weeks during the 2011-12 season.
Following Arizona is Florida in the third spot with Wichita State fourth and San Diego State fifth.
The second five features Villanova, Cincinnati, Kansas, Michigan State and Michigan.
NBA…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The boot on Nikola Pekovic’s injured right ankle has been removed, but there’s no sign yet of his return to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Coach Rick Adelman said he had “no idea” when the team will have the 6-foot-11, 285-pound center back in the lineup. He’s recovering from bursitis, which is inflammation around the joint. The 28-year-old Pekovic is averaging career highs in points, rebounds and minutes per game.
NHL…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Mikko Koivu’s return to the Minnesota Wild likely won’t come until after the Olympics, leaving his availability for Finland during the Winter Games in question. Koivu broke his right ankle Jan. 4 when he was hit by a puck and had surgery to accelerate the recovery. The captain and first-line center has resumed skating, but Wild coach Mike Yeo says Koivu’s availability for the last two games before the Olympics break was “highly in doubt.” The Wild host Tampa Bay Tuesday and Nashville Thursday before the NHL hiatus begins.
MLB…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Trevor Plouffe’s spot at third base for the Minnesota Twins is tenuous at best because one of the best prospects in baseball is close behind him. But rather than resenting the ascension of Miguel Sano, Plouffe has befriended the big-swinging Dominican. For now, the former first-round draft pick still has a regular spot in the lineup. The Twins start spring training in two weeks.
NFL…
NEW YORK (AP) – For the fourth time in five years, the Super Bowl was the most-watched TV program in history — drawing a record 111.5 million views. It was an online hit as well with 24.9 million tweets, the biggest U.S. live TV event on Twitter.
In world and national news…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Residents and officials in the Northeast are looking over their shoulders, even as they keep their noses to the grindstone, finishing the cleanup from Monday’s winter weather. Forecasters say another storm is in the Midwest today with the heaviest accumulations expected in Kansas and Missouri before the system moves east and dumps as much as a foot in northern Pennsylvania and several inches elsewhere.
VIENNA (AP) – Austria’s Federal Criminal Agency is investigating kidnap threats against two Olympic athletes. The Austrian Olympic Committee says its Vienna office received an anonymous letter from Russia threatening an Alpine skier and a skeleton pilot. Officials say Austrian athletes will be accompanied by security troops when they leave the Olympic Village.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama hits the ground running today with his initiative to get American schools wired for the future. He’ll announce commitments today from U.S. companies totaling about $750 million to connect more students to high-speed Internet. Apple, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Microsoft and the FCC are getting on board with cash and technology.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – An anti-graft watchdog says funds lost to crime, corruption and tax evasion in the Philippines in 2011 were more than twice the size of the fiscal deficit and equal to 95 percent of the total government expenditure on social benefits that year.” Global Financial Integrity says the $3.85 billion in tax revenues is part of massive illicit money flows that totaled more than $400 billion in the past five decades.
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi officials say at least seven people have been killed today in the latest string of bombings in and around Baghdad. A police officer says a parked car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in Baghdad’s western Shurta district, killing four people. A car bomb in a southwestern neighborhood killed two people while a roadside bomb in a northern suburb killed a policeman.
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