cityhallJinsideJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall.  All members were present.

Consent Agenda items discussed separately included:

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall. All members were present.

Consent Agenda items discussed separately included:

Council Member Buchanan asked for Item “G” To provide a Resolution of Support and letter to the North Dakota State Historical Society in support

of their effort to obtain $500,000 in funding from the ND State Legislature in order to continue the Society’s efforts for restoration and repurposing of the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse. He said the sponsor of the resolution was missing so he introduced the item…which was approved by the City Council.

On the Regular Agenda:

Resolutions: Nonen

Committee Reports: None

Ordinances:

A FIRST READING: concerned to amend and re-enact Ordinance No. 329 by amending the District Map to change the zoning of lots in a vacated alley, at Mill Hill Second Addition from M-1 (Limited Industrial and Manufacturing District) to C-1 (Local Commercial District).

A PUBLIC HEARING was held to amend am Ordinance by amending the District Map to change the zoning of Lots 1-7, Block 1, Scherbenske Third Estates Subdivision, from R-1 (Single Family Residential District) and A-1 (Agricultural District) to R-1(Single Family Residential District) and Lot 8, Block 1, Scherbenske Third Estates Subdivision, from R-1 (Single Family Residential District) and A-1 (Agricultural District) to A-1 (Agricultural District).  That was followed by a Second Reading of the Ordinance on zone change which was approved.

Another Second Reading of an Ordinance to amend and re-enact Section of the City Code pertaining to termination date of sales tax. (To extend the City Sales Tax for economic development and city infrastructure fifteen (15) years to coincide with the Menard’s Tax Increment Financing District). Council Member Buchanan voted in opposition, saying he disagrees with the process of the tax is being extended for 15 years by the City Council. He restated that the public should have been asked if the city should extend the tax in conjunction with the Menards project. The Ordinance passed.

Another Second Reading of an Ordinance to amend and re-enact a Section of the City Code pertaining to termination date of use tax imposed for school bond issue for building the high school.

City Attorney Ken Dalsted said the school district has provided nothing in writing, to the city, concerning the expiration, at the end of 2014. He said the school district has indicated that the bond will be paid off within a day or two of the end of this year. The city will collect the sales tax pertaining to the bond, until the end of March 2015, as the city did not contact the state relative to a 90 day notice of not collecting the tax.

The vote was to proceed.

Hearing from the Audience: No One Spoke.

Appointments: None

Other business:

Approved the request from El Zagel Jamestown Clowns for a site authorization at Stutsman Harley Davidson on June 20, 2015.

Approved Change Order No. 1, to Northern Excavating, Inc., for construction on Phase II, McElroy Addition Development Project, for a net increase in the contract price of $395.00.

Approved Payment No. 2, and final to Northern Excavating, Inc., for construction on Phase II, McElroy Addition Development Project, in the amount of $120,655.37.

Approved Payment No. 1 & Final (Invoice 20228) to McFarlane, Inc, for Fire Hall Roof Venting in the amount of $30,776.50.

Approved the purchase of a 2006 Freightliner Day Cab semitractor from Trucks of Bismarck, Inc., in the amount of $29,500.00

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