JmstnAirport3Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Regional Airport Authority held a special meeting Wednesday to discuss and review how it wants to proceed concerning presenting a counter offer to Reimers General Partnership concerning a lease of 798 acres of airport property for farmland use.

That, after the authority declined an unsolicited lease renewal request from Dale Reimers at the October 21st meeting.

Authority Vice Chairman Jeff Wilhelm said Mayor Katie Andersen and City Attorney Leo Ryan, the Airport Authority’s legal counsel, will put together terms for a new lease, including the lease rate per acre. Chairman Jim Boyd and Airport Manager Sam Seafeldt will present the proposed new lease and terms to Reimers by Nov. 13.

Reimers has leased 798 acres from the airport since October 1st, 2005. The first lease expired in 2010. The Airport Authority then accepted a renewal offer from Reimers in 2010 that extended the lease through 2015. Reimers paid $78.32 an acre in the first lease renewal that expired at the end of the 2015 growing season.

An option is considering putting it up for bid or auction.

The Airport Authority expects to take action on this matter at its November 18the meeting.