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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND
10 MPH INCREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…RAIN. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…RAIN. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN AND SNOW. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
RAIN THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING, BETWEEN A HALF AND ONE INCH.
HIGH RAIN RATES ARE NOT ANTICIPATED…AND MOST AREAS ARE RATHER DRY FOR FALL…SO IMPACTS SHOULD BE LIMITED.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s committee’s met in joint session Wednesday evening at City Hall. Council Member Gumke was not present.
FINANCE & LEGAL COMMITTEE BUSINESS:
The committee recommends approval of a request from JSDC for a Resolution to indicate the city’s participation in the Red River Valley Water Supply Pipeline, study. CEO Connie Ova said Missouri River water would be brought to this part of the state. The project will start in 2019. The water will be treated before entering the pipeline. The Garrison Diversion Conservancy District is supplying information on the project. Council Member Buchanan said he needs more information before endorsing the plan, and voted opposed.
The committee recommends approval of the request from Alice Bietz for Renaissance Zone incentives by providing 5years of property tax exemption and to request the ND State Tax Department to grant 5 years of State income tax exemption for the purchase of a residence on Lot 6, Block 1, Lindberg Addition.
Committee members voted to recommend approval of the offer from Joel L. Anderson to purchase an approximately 4,248 sq. ft. of City property adjacent to the Southside Fire Station for $1,900.00, plus legal platting, zoning and closing costs.
Considered was the cost estimate and proposed assessment district to construct paving and needed utilities on 5th Street NE from 12th Ave NE to 27th Ave NE. The project cost is estimated at $2.47 million with the city providing 25 percent of the costs. The remaining 75 percent to be Special Assessed. No action was taken by the committee.
The committee recommends the acceptance of the 2014 City of Jamestown Audit Report as prepared by Schauer & Associates, PC.
Departmental and financial reports were presented.
Appointments to Fire Code Board of Appeals, James River Valley Library Board,
Regional Airport Authority and Shade Tree Committee will be made at the November City Council meeting.
BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE
Planning Commission minutes from October 12, 2015 was presented
CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE
No items at this time.
POLICE AND FIRE COMMITTEE
It was noted that the second reading of an Ordinance to amend and re-enact Sections of the City Code pertaining to regulations for the use of utility-task vehicles in the City of Jamestown, is scheduled for November 2, 2015. Council Member Kourajian said he’s received E-Mails and other comments concerning the safety of UTV’s on city streets.
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
The committee recommends approval of the direct purchase of a 4 Wheel Drive Mower and Accessories from Valley Plains Equipment in the amount of $40,672.00 with trade as there were no qualified bids received. Bid specs did not conform with policy, so the direct proposals were accepted, rather than re-bidding, with Valley Plains Equipment the lowest amount.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Valley City (CSi) CHI Mercy Health Foundation is excited to announce the upcoming 20th Annual Festival of Trees to be held on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at the Valley City Eagles Club.
With the support of individuals and area businesses, the CHI Mercy Health Foundation raised over $20,000 at last year’s event to purchase new equipment for the Physical Therapy Department! Funds raised at this year’s Festival of Trees will go towards purchasing new equipment for their Physical Therapy department. This year,they are raising funds to purchase a new (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry), also known as a DEXA Scanner, as their patients’ health depends on accurate diagnosis and preventive treatment. Currently, they provide over 400 DEXA scans per year at the hospital to diagnose osteoporosis. Osteoporosis involves a gradual loss of calcium, as well as structural changes, causing the bones to become thinner, more fragile and more likely to break. DEXA is also effective in tracking the effects of treatment for osteoporosis and other conditions that cause bone loss.
This year’s event will be extra special as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Festival of Trees Gala! The event will be upstairs at the Eagles Club this year for a served dinner and a live performance by Kat Perkins! The event will also include a Silent and Live Auction, Quilt Raffle, Deluxe Trip Raffle (valued at $5000), Wine Pull, and a Designer Purse (to be filled with an undetermined amount of cash!) featured on the live auction. New this year will be a Mystery Duffle Raffle with a chance to win one of three Duffle Bags filled with “Mystery” items totaling $250 each! The Hospital Staff create and donate many beautiful gift baskets for the Silent Auction along with terrific donations from local businesses. The Live Auction will feature uniquely decorated live and artificial Christmas trees, wreaths, center pieces, and mantle pieces. Other Live Auction items will be a New England Shrimp Boil Experience for a lucky bidder and 7 of their friends, a John Deere Kids Pedal Tractor, a stunning original canvas print from Dutton’s Valley Gallery, and a pair of Vikings Tickets!
Tickets are $50 per person and will go on sale Monday, October 26, at 10:00am in the Mercy Hospital lobby. Seats are assigned and will be limited to 400 tickets this year. The doors (and silent auction) will open at 5:00pm, dinner served at 6:00pm, the live auction begins at 7:30pm, Kat Perkins Holiday Concert at 8:00pm, and we’ll resume the live auction at 9:30pm.
Please contact Stephanie Mayfield in the CHI Mercy Health Foundation office (direct #845-6557 oor stephaniemayfield@catholichealth.net) with any questions you have regarding the event.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Montana-Dakota Utilities is warning customers about a utility scam in which a caller threatens disconnection if a utility bill is not paid immediately.
The company says customers have been receiving calls from someone representing themselves as a utility company representative stating that if the person’s utility bill is not paid immediately over the phone, their service will be disconnected.
Montana-Dakota Utilities says it does not operate in that manner, and those receiving such calls should not share information such as credit card or checking account numbers. The company asks that customers receiving such calls report the incidents by calling 1-800-638-3278.
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Police have arrested a second suspect in the killing of a Moorhead man last weekend.
The 20-year-old suspect from Moorhead was arrested without incident just after 1 p.m. Wednesday in Fargo, North Dakota. Police say tips from the public led to the man’s arrest. He’s being held in the Cass County Jail in North Dakota pending extradition to Minnesota.
Earlier, a 16-year-old boy was arrested in the death of 55-year-old Bradley William Carrington. Carrington was found dead in a mobile home he was renovating and staying in.
Police say the investigation continues.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general’s office has been given more time ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state’s law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) last week said he would ask the nation’s high court to review an appeals court ruling that found the state law unconstitutional.
The deadline for the state to petition the Supreme Court was Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Stenehjem says the state asked for an extension and got it. It was not immediately clear how much longer the state has to petition the high court.
The Republican-dominated Legislature passed the law in 2013, though it was quickly put on hold after the state’s lone abortion clinic sued.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State Auditor Robert Peterson says he won’t seek a sixth term.
Peterson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he’s decided to retire next year.
His departure will spell the end of a remarkable family dynasty in the office that monitors the finances and management of state departments. Peterson’s father, Robert W. Peterson, held the job for 24 years before his son was elected in 1996 as his successor.
That’s more than four decades of a Peterson controlling the office.
The 64-year-old Peterson says he’s announcing his plans to give both parties time to recruit candidates. He says he’s looking forward to traveling and doing yard work at his home in Bismarck.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A three-judge federal appeals panel posed tough questions as the states of North Dakota and Minnesota faced off in a legal battle over regulating coal-generated electricity.
Minnesota regulators are appealing a lower court decision last April to bar the state from enforcing key sections of its 2007 Next Generation Energy Act that restrict new power generation from coal. The lower court found the law illegally regulates out-of-state utilities in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause.
The Star Tribune reports that Thomas Boyd, a Minneapolis attorney representing North Dakota interests, told the appeals court that the law hampers their utilities’ ability to find buyers for power from existing coal-fired generating plants or to plan for new ones. He said federal law, not state law, should govern interstate power sales.
SOLEN, N.D. (AP) – The student body at the high school in Solen on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has nearly tripled in size.
The 115 students from the elementary school in Cannon Ball are attending classes in Solen while their school is repaired and cleaned following a large grass fire. The Oct. 11 blaze melted playground equipment and filled the school with smoke and soot.
Solen High School Principal Jeff Brandt says some of the younger students were a bit scared to be in the same building with the older kids, but he says “they’re really resilient.”
He says the elementary school teachers also have had to adapt, because most of their teaching materials are in Cannon Ball.
Brandt says Cannon Ball Elementary is scheduled to reopen Thursday, Oct. 29.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple is seeking applications from groups interested in being the official state band or orchestra and the official state chorus.
School and community bands, as well as orchestras and choirs from across the state can apply.
The governor and First Lady Betsy Dalrymple will select groups based on musical talent, achievement and community involvement.
The band or orchestra and chorus may be invited to perform at official state functions.
Applications are due Nov. 9.
In world an national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden has announced that he will not make a third run for president. With President Barack Obama and wife Jill at his side in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon, Biden said he had run out of time to mount a viable campaign. The decision bolsters Hillary Rodham Clinton’s standing as the front-runner, though Biden made no endorsement in his announcement.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s military says a Palestinian has rammed his car into a group of Israelis in the West Bank, injuring four people. Channel 2 TV reports that an Israeli car was pelted with rocks, prompting the passengers to get out of the vehicle and that’s when car driven by a Palestinian hit them. The military says soldiers at the scene opened fire on the assailant. Palestinians have killed 10 Israelis in a month of attacks, while 47 Palestinians – including 26 identified by Israel as attackers – have been killed.
NEW YORK (AP) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the fatal shooting of a New York City police officer Tuesday is another example of the growing crisis of gun violence. Speaking to reporters, Cuomo says the slayings of police officers “has to stop.” Officer Randolph Holder was shot in the head during a gunfight after he responded to a call of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood. The suspect is in police custody.
DETROIT (AP) – Police say one of the two Detroit emergency medical technicians attacked with a box cutter has been released from a hospital. Alfredo Rojas was released Tuesday night, and Kelly Adams could be released today. They were stabbed and slashed in the face and hands early Tuesday while helping a woman with an injured ankle on a Detroit street. Police say the suspect attacked the EMTs after they refused to allow him to ride in the ambulance. He’s in custody, also facing charges in two other cases.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian have called off their divorce. The former NBA star continues to recover in Los Angeles after being found unconscious at a Nevada brothel. Kardashian has been by Odom’s side since he was found in critical condition at the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, last week.
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