BuffaloMuseumJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant/Executive Advisory Board Friday, heard grant requests from several organizations.

At the meeting, held at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School, in Downtown Jamestown, a majority of the meeting was addressing and discussing grant requests from Frontier Village.

Frontier Village:

The overall request of $37,856 for summer staffing was approved.

The board voted to cut the manager’s salary request of just over $9,000 in half, with the balance of the salary request to be distributed in the areas, of Head Maintenance, Assistant Maintenance, Head Greeter, and Greeters.

The Request of $4,471 for Pioneer Days (Aug 13,14, 2016) funding was denied. The board also discussed recommendations for other activities during Pioneer Days, and that the Frontier Village come back and possibly asks for funds for other activities, such as blacksmith demonstrations.

Requested $11,700, for a “horse grant,” including support for the stagecoach rides, pony rides, boarding for two teams of horses, and five ponies, year round feeding, veterinary bills and transportation. The board voted to approve.

A request for $3,014 for an assistant to Karen George was denied.

Fort Seward: Dale Marks Requested $10,275 for staffing, this year, for 109 days, 8-hours per day (a 50-cent per hour wage increase.) Other sources of funding include brick sales, and donations. The board voted to approve $10,150.

Stutsman County Memorial Museum: Harold Sahr requested $6,750 for summer staffing.

Other funding sources, Stutsman County, donations, and dues. The board approved the request.

National Buffalo Museum: Ilana Xinos Requested $2,700 for funding for the 20th Annual White Cloud Days, with events at the National Buffalo Museum, Frontier Village, and McElroy Park, which was approved, along with $14,652 for staffing.

The board was excited that White Cloud Days activities in large part will be at McElroy Park this year, bring activities to a more central location in town.

Arts Center: Angela Martini…Requested, $4,950 to upgrade and redesign the web site for better event promotions, data collection, online ticketing, for this spring. Another source of funding is $1,650 from TellWell. The board approved the request.

Jamestown Drag Racing Association: Requested $6,000 for advertising including posters and billboards, for Drag Races at Jamestown Regional Airport on July 16-17, 2016.

Other sources of funding include: gate admissions, racer entry fees, and event t-shirt sales.

Another request for $4,000 was approved for equipment including $3,000 to purchase a generator, and $1,000 to purchase canopies for sun protection.

Tourism Director Searle Swedlund told the board that Tourism’s primary emphasis is on the “visitors experience,” adding funding grants need to be based in large part on that scenario.