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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall. All members were present.
No Consent Agenda items were considered separately.
On the Regular Agenda:
Resolutions
A Public Hearing was held, concerning the special assessments on the 2013 Sidewalk, Curb & Gutter District #13-11.
Following the hearing Council Members approved the special assessment District in the total amount of $45,237.10, with the City Share-Departments at $44,685.87, and benefited properties to be assessed in the amount of $551.23. Moved by Council.
The Council approved the plat of Country Side Estates, a Replat of City West Subdivision.
The Council approved the plat of Witzig’s Fourth Addition.
The City Council also approved the plat of Hammer Addition.
The Council Members considered adding 10th St NE between 5th Ave NE & 12th Ave NE to the Snow Emergency Route. Council Member Buchanan requested the item be discussed. He said the street is an arterial and connects to two major routes (5th and 12th Ave), which has a good amount of traffic. He said the “dead end,” avenues on 10th Street utilize 10th Street to access 5th & 12th Avenues. He sited the high school, vocational center, and churches, and a number of apartment buildings in the area. Mayor Andersen said 10th Street is parallel to 13th Street, which is a Snow Emergency Route. She added the fewer snow emergency routes, the quicker the street crews can clear other residential area.
The Council voted in opposition to the addition.
Committee reports:
Awarded the bid for the sale of impounded/abandoned vehicles to for 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan to Budget Auto in the amount of $1,271.
Awarded the bid for the sale of a 2004 Dodge Intrepid to Budget Auto in the amount of $612.
Ordinances:
The Second Reading of an Ordinance to amend a section of the City Code pertaining to uses permitted, M-1 Districts was approved.
Hearing from the audience: Ave Maria Village CEO Tim Burchill asked for clarification of a “Snow Emergency Route.” Mayor Andersen said the routes are cleared first, under snowfall guidelines. Burchill added that transportation of essential employees occurs when snow is piled up in the streets.
Appointments:
The City Council approved the appointment of Brian Kilzer to serve as a member on the Board of Adjustments for a three year term to expire January 2017.
Also approved was the appointment of Ashley Lies as an Assistant City Attorney.
Mayor and City Council Member Reports:
Council Member Kourajian said that Buffalo City Tourism will unveil its new branding and logo on May 9, 2014 at 5-p.m., for the public, at the Arts Center in Jamestown.
Other business:
Approved the request from the Wonder Bar Sports Bar for a street dance permit to close the west end of 100 Block/2nd St SW on July 25, from 8PM to 2AM, July 26, 2014.
City Council agenda items concerning the agreement with the Jamestown Menard’s planned for Southwest Jamestown.
Ordinances:
A Public Hearing was held concerning amending an Ordinance to change the zoning of a tract of land located in the NW Quarter of Section 2,
Township 139 North, Range 64 West (Menards Site) from P-O-C (Public Open Development & Conservation District) to C-2 (General Commercial District).
Following the Public Hearing, a Second Reading of an Ordinance was approved to amend the District Map to change the zoning of a tract of land located in the NW Quarter of Section 2, Township 139 North, Range 64 West (Menards Site) from P-O-C (Public Open Development & Conservation District) to C-2 (General Commercial District).
The City’s Bond Counsel, John Schockley, outlined a number of specific items concerning the Tax Increment Financing District, and other items relating to the agreement between the city and Menard’s. He went through the agreement documents concerning such items as creating the TIF District and the Development Agreement, along with the City Sales Tax distribution fund agreement. The opening of the store would be no later than July 1, 2016. He also pointed out, following procedures outlined in the North Dakota Century Code. Also on hand at Monday’s meeting was real estate representatives, and Menard’s real estate representatives.
A Public Hearing was held concerning a Renewal and Development Plan for the City of Jamestown and a proposed Developer’s Agreement with Menard’s, Inc. Dwaine Heinrich asked a series of questions on the agreements. He said the city council, in regard to the Menard’s agreement, is not living up to policies and procedures under using the city sales tax dollars. Clarice Liechty spoke and asked about the road plan, involving 10th Avenue Southwest, to access Menard’s property, and water drainage issues. Mayor Andersen said Menard’s will be responsible for the paving of 10th Avenue along with improvements to 25th and 23rd Street, and paid from the sales tax agreement.
Following the Public Hearing the City Council approved a Resolution creating Tax Increment District No. 2014-1 of the City of Jamestown. Council Member Buchanan voted in opposition.
The City Council approved a Resolution approving the City of Jamestown Renewal and Development Plan of 2014. (Menard’s, Inc.) Council Member Buchanan voted in opposition.
Approved a Resolution approving a Developer Agreement between the City of Jamestown and Menard’s, Inc. Council Members Buchanan and Kourajian voted in opposition.
Approved a Resolution approving a Developer’s Incentive Agreement between the City of Jamestown and Menard’s, Inc. Council Members Buchanan and Kourajian voted in oppostion.
In making a statement on his stance on many of the issues that came before the Council on the Menard’s agreement, Council Member Buchanan said in part that he has nothing against Menard’s, however the business should locate in Jamestown with “their own money,” and not “the taxpayers money.” He added that the public has not been “fully education,” on all the issues.
The meeting was shown live on CSi 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports two Jamestown women were injured as the driver of a vehilce was attempting to negotiate a curve and swerved to miss a goose.
The accident occurred on Sunday on May 4, 2014, on County Road 67, south of Cleveland.
Sheriff Chad Kaiser says the vehicle driven by, 23 year old Deven Smith was traveling North on County Road 67 South of Cleveland when it swerved to miss a goose, leaving the roadway and rolling in a slough.
Smith and the passenger,25 year old Kelsie Laizure were not seat-belted and ejected from the vehicle into the water.
The Medina Ambulance transported both woman to the Jamestown Regional Medical Center.
Their injuries were not immediately known. Speed was a contributing factor in the collision.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Jefferson Lines, bus stop location will be located, for the foreseeable future, in the lot south of the former Eagles Club in downtown Jamestown.
The plan to move the Jamestown Bus Stop to 112 8th Street Southeast, is on hold, at this time, as a rental offer was turned down by the owner of the building.
The building would have housed the Jamestown Downtown Association and the bus depot, and place the bus depot under the JDA liability insurance policy.
At this time the Jefferson Bus stop hours are 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and again from 12:10 p.m., to 1:45 p.m., seven days a week.
A small office space is available to sell tickets with 10 percent going toward paying a part-time employee to operate the booth.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is hosting a Community Service of Remembrance on Monday, May 12, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at Ave Maria Village, 501 19th Street NE in Jamestown.
Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one, either recently or in years past, is invited to come and share in this informal service honoring the memory of our loved ones in a supportive atmosphere.
The Service of Remembrance is free of charge and open to everyone. Those attending are asked to bring a picture of their loved one to the service. Please enter the main door at Ave Maria Village.
For more information about this service or the Jamestown Area Grief Support Team call Diane at 320-4915.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Public School District will not appeal the ruling of Southeast Judicial District Judge Jay Schmitz.
Last month he issued an opinion about the impasse between the Valley City Education Association and Valley City Public School District.
It centered around the negotiated agreement between the two.
Schmitz ruled in favor of the VCEA, saying that the school district was in breach of the agreement by demanding that teachers sign contracts with modification the board made to Section 3 of the contract.
Valley City School District Attorney Rachel Bruner-Kaufman says the school board decided not to seek an appeal of the ruling and will comply with the opinion. The board voted to continue with negotiations with the VCEA.
VCEA Attorney Michael Geiermann says the teachers are pleased with the opinion and look forward to getting back to settling their differences with the school district.
Jamestown (CSi) Central Valley Health District in Jamestown will hold a public input meeting to discussed uses for a Department of Health and Human Services five year grant worth up to $9.7 Million to North Dakota, to address binge and underage drinking.
85% of the grant is required to stay local.
Central Valley Health Unit Administrator Robin Iszler, says about $259,000 has been given to Stutsman and Logan Counties.
The grant would not go toward treating a problem, but rather toward taking preventative measures for a problem.
The Jamestown meeting will be on Thursday May 15, 2014, from 11-a.m., to 2-p.m., at the Gladstone Inn and Suites.
Call Central Valley Health District at 701-252-8130 to RSVP.
The event is free and lunch will be provided.
In local sports…
Valley City (CSi) University of Jamestown’s baseball team is headed to the NAIA Natipna; Tourament next Monday May 12, 2014, as the team captured the North Star/Frontier Conference Athletic Conference crown, Monday by defeating Mayville State 6-5 at Charlie Brown Stadium in Valley City.
The Jimmies record stands at 35-8, while Mayville State wraps up the season with t 40-14 mark.
The Jimmies opposition at Nationals to be determined and the location will be at one of the nine predetermined NAIA baseball sites.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases increased less than 1 percent in 2013 following a year of double-digit growth.
Tax Department records show taxable sales and purchases totaled a record $25.4 billion last year. That’s up from $25.2 billion in 2012.
State Tax commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger (RAW’-shun-bur-gur) says a “slower and more sustainable growth” was expected in 2013, after taxable sales and purchases in oil-rich North Dakota soared 29 percent in 2012.
Williston has led North Dakota in taxable sales and purchases since 2011, when it surpassed the state’s biggest city of Fargo.
Last year, the oil boomtown recorded $3.3 billion in taxable sales and purchases. Fargo had $2.6 billion.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota has fired its president and chief executive officer after the state’s dominate insurer recently reported nearly $80 million in financial losses.
Paul von Ebers has been the Blues’ top executive since 2009. Von Ebers succeeded former CEO Mike Unhjem, who was fired amid criticism over a Caribbean retreat.
The insurer says its 13-member board unanimously voted to fire von Ebers on Monday. The company says Chief Operating Officer Tim Huckle will serve as interim president and CEO.
Board chair Ann McConn says in a statement that the board fired von Ebers “in order to ensure confidence in the future financial direction of our organization.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – American Airlines says it will launch daily, direct flights from Bismarck to Chicago and Dallas.
The flights are to begin Oct. 1. The two-year deal includes a $1 million minimum revenue guarantee, backed by a $500,000 federal Transportation Department grant and a $500,000 local match by Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce members.
North Dakota’s capital city currently is served with commercial service from Delta, United, Frontier and Allegiant.
Bismarck was one of five airports in North Dakota that set a record for passengers last year.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – More than 200 North Dakota National Guard soldiers who spent almost a year on a homeland security mission in the Washington, D.C., area are coming home.
The Guard says the soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment are to fly into Grand Forks and Bismarck on Tuesday. They will be coming from Fort Bliss, Texas, after going through the demobilization process.
A formal welcome-home ceremony called a Freedom Salute will be held in about three months.
The 1-188th is the most-deployed unit in the Guard, with portions of the battalion previously serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot man is in custody after a scuffle with police that injured an officer.
Authorities say the 29-year-old man became hostile and resisted officers who responded to a neighborhood dispute late Sunday and smelled marijuana. They say the man fought with officers trying to handcuff him, and one of the officers suffered a broken hand.
The man was arrested for aggravated assault on a police officer, preventing arrest and possessing methamphetamine. Formal charges were not immediately filed.
Police say the suspect’s 57-year-old mother was arrested for obstruction, a 25-year-old man at the scene was arrested on drug-related charges and a 46-year-old man was arrested on an outstanding Ward County warrant.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota officials say the director of the school’s Energy and Environmental Research Center has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Gerald Groenewold (GROHN’-wahld) has been director of the center since 1987. UND spokesman Peter Johnson told The Associated Press Monday that the day-to-day operations of the EERC will be handled by Tom Erickson, an associate director for the center.
Johnson would give no further details. Phone calls to Groenewold went unanswered on Monday.
The EERC is UND’s primary research facility and employs about 300 people, including scientists and engineers.
Groenewold pleaded guilty in 2008 to a misdemeanor assault charge for an incident involving his wife, state Sen. Connie Triplett. He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to complete 30 hours of community service.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says it’s “extremely concerned” by the deteriorating situation in southern Ukraine. The U.S. and Europe have been focused on eastern Ukraine, near Russia, where pro-Russian separatists have been occupying buildings for weeks. But the unrest has spread to Ukraine’s southern port of Odessa, where Ukraine’s government is seeking to re-establish control. Riots in Odessa led to 46 deaths Friday when a government building was set on fire.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States is deploying an economic weapon against Russia that could prove to be more costly than sanctions: the Internal Revenue Service. As the U.S. attempts to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Treasury Department plans to start using a new tax law to make it more expensive for Russian banks to do business in the U.S. Congress passed the law in 2010 to curb tax evasion through the use of overseas accounts.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A public safety official in Rhode Island says a snapped metal connector is the only piece of equipment that’s been found that failed in Sunday’s circus accident, which sent eight aerial acrobats falling to the ground. Two of the performers are in critical condition, with injuries that include a pierced liver and fractures of the neck and back.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – Police say a Veterans Affairs hospital employee in Ohio was shot in the ankle Monday while struggling with a retired worker over a gun. Authorities in Dayton say the suspect is in custody. They say they don’t know what led to the shooting, but that the suspect and the victim apparently knew each other.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Police say country music singer Scotty McCreery was the victim of an early morning home invasion near the campus of North Carolina State University, where he is a student. Police were called at around 2 a.m. to an apartment about a mile from campus. Three people armed with guns are reported to have taken wallets, cash and electronic items. Police say the 20-year-old McCreery was among the victims. No one was injured. McCreery won TV’s “American Idol” in 2011. He was named best new artist at the Academy of Country Music Awards the next year.
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