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Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session, Tuesday evening at City Hall.\u00a0 Commissioner Magnuson was not present.<\/p>\nValley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session, Tuesday evening at City Hall.\u00a0 Commissioner Magnuson was not present.<\/p>\n
APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA: <\/strong><\/p>\n A Raffle Permit for American Fisheries Society Student Sub-unit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Raffle permit for the Valley City Fire Department.<\/p>\n A Permit for the Parade of Lights, and street block off for the parade.<\/p>\n PUBLIC COMMENTS \u2026 No one spoke.<\/strong><\/p>\n RESOLUTION: <\/strong><\/p>\n Approved was Resolution Approving the Oxbow Addition Plat.<\/p>\n Approved was a Resolution Authorizing Filing of Addition with North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality for a Loan under the Clean Water Act and\/or Safewater Drinking Act.\u00a0 It replaces a refunding bond at a lower rate, and will be reimbursed from special assessments.<\/p>\n NEW BUSINESS <\/strong><\/p>\n Commissioners approved City Recommendations for Streetscape II on Main Street and Central Avenue, improvements to be submitted to the NDDOT. The city\u2019s share of the $2.2 million costs is $500,000, previously approved by commissioners.<\/p>\n City Commissioners approved a Contract between Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) and the City of Valley City regarding Scheduling & Payment.<\/p>\n Approved was the Annual Blue Cross Blue Shield Contract for 2020.\u00a0 City Attorney Martineck said a committee decided to look at another provider for next year, due to premium increases, but stay with the 2020 contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield.<\/p>\n CITY ADMINISTRATOR\u2019S REPORT:<\/strong><\/p>\n David Schelkoph said flood mitigation accomplished over the past few years, including permanent flood walls, and property buyouts protected the city to a river rise of 18 feet, this fall which included two feet of free board.\u00a0 The river level this fall rose to about 16 feet.<\/p>\n He said the city incurred a flood fight cost of $487,000 including erosion control.\u00a0 Without that additional cost, the flood fight itself cost the city about $160,000.\u00a0 The costs have been submitted to FEMA for reimbursement.<\/p>\n He added that energy efficient lights bulbs, two each, are being distributed to Valley City electric utility users, in an effort to show energy usage reduction.<\/p>\n CITY UPDATES & COMMISSION REPORTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mayor Carlsrud reported that the Corps of Engineers is lowering the elevation of Lake Ashtabula, in an effort to lower the lake\u2019s level and increase flood control storage.<\/p>\n The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session, Tuesday evening at City Hall.\u00a0 Commissioner Magnuson was not present. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA: A Raffle Permit for American Fisheries Society Student Sub-unit. A Raffle permit for the Valley City Fire Department. A Permit for the Parade of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185353,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185349\/revisions\/185353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}