JSDCJamestown (CSi) Changes approved by Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Executive Committee, means that businesses seeking incentives from JSDC will meet just once with its board  in the future.

The executive committee, made up of five members of the 15-member board of directors, will still exist but only meet in special meetings called by the board chairman.

In the past, businesses requesting incentives met first with the executive committee and then with the board of directors.

Then, if the project was approved by the JSDC, the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission would also have had to approve the project before the incentives were granted.

JSDC, CEO Connie Ova said eliminating the executive committee step in the review process would streamline the applications for incentives and engage more board members in the decision-making process.

The executive committee, made up of five members of the 15-member board of directors, will still exist but only meet in special meetings called by the board chairman.

In other business, the JSDC deobligated $4.7 million in Stutsman County job incentive funds and $470,000 in Jamestown economic incentive funds that had been pledged for future tax breaks for the planned $3 billion CHS nitrogen fertilizer plant.

Deobligating the funds returns the money to the incentive funds where it could be utilized in future projects.

CHS announced in August it would not proceed with the construction of the planned plant.