Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant/Executive Advisory Board met Friday at  Historic Franklin School (CSi Technology Center).  The agenda include grant requests for 2015.

The Frontier Village’s requests included:

  • Grant request for $34,930 to staff Frontier Village during the summer months.
  • Grant request for $11,700 for horse operations run by Karen George during the summer.
  • Grant request for $6,400 for the association’s Pioneer Days celebration  August 15-16, 2015.

Other grant requests were from:

  • Fort Seward for summer staffing: $9,800 in 2015
  • Stutsman County Memorial Museum, summer staffing: $7,000
  • National Buffalo Museum summer staffing: $14,794
  • Frontier Village Wild West Players, $800 for prop guns, ammo, and supplies.

The board voted to grant summer staff dollar allocation increases of four percent over what was expended by each entity in 2014.  Which was in 2014:  Fort Seward : $8,908.46, Stutsman County Memorial Museum: $6,240, National Buffalo Museum: $14,229,  National Buffalo Museum: White Cloud Days: $3,596.42

Also approved was:

  • A grant of $11,700 for horse care for stage coach and pony rides.
  • For Frontier Village: 75 percent tourism funding from shared expenses for White Cloud Days, and Pioneer Days.
  • Frontier Village Wild West Players: $800 for prop guns and ammo the last request in 2012 was for $790
  • National Buffalo Museum …White Cloud Days request was $5,675 with the recommendation for 2015 of $2,000.

The board also voted to expend dollars for the Tourism Community Calendar project to Redplum Media for all expenses, that were not specifically allocated in Tourism’s budget, from allocated city funds.