{"id":224452,"date":"2021-04-28T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224452"},"modified":"2021-04-29T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:19:36","slug":"lawmakers-object-to-5-million-grant-buffalo-city-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224452","title":{"rendered":"Senate Removes Seed Funds for Buffalo City Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update:\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-204485 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BuffaloCityParkConcept-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BuffaloCityParkConcept-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BuffaloCityParkConcept-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BuffaloCityParkConcept.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 Prairie Public Radio reports, the ND\u00a0 Senate on Weds passed the budget bill for the state\u2019s Commerce Department without a proposed expenditure for a state-backed theme and amusement park, planned for Jamestown. (Buffalo City Park).<\/p>\n<p>It would have been built on state owned land next to the National Buffalo Museum. $5 million was added for \u201cseed money,\u201d and the project would ask for $60 million in Legacy Fund Loan money.<\/p>\n<p>A legislative conference committee of three House members and three senators scrapped the provision Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>SB 2018 passed 44 to 3. The House will now take a look at the amended bill.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the facility envisioned bison-related attractions, a museum and kid-friendly activities. Backers believed it would provide and economic boost to a region with little else to offer. The proposal was quietly put into the state Commerce Department\u2019s budget in the waning weeks of the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously<\/p>\n<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (Prairie Public Radio) \u2013 \u00a0Prairie Public Radio (Audio on CSi Cable 77)\u00a0 reports, that the \u00a0North Dakota State Senate has rejected the conference committee report on the Commerce Department budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the areas lawmakers objected to was a $5 million one-time grant towards the development of an amusement park in Jamestown\u00a0 (Buffalo City Park).<\/strong> \u00a0The $5 million would have to be matched, and the developer could then approach the state Investment Board for further money, through loans or grants.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Forks Republican Senator Ray Holmberg told the senate he\u2019s concerned about the precedent this sets, after the Legislature approved a bill setting up the Legacy Infrastructure Loan Fund, to invest in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the facility envisioned bison-related attractions, a museum and kid-friendly activities. Backers believed it would provide and economic boost to a region with little else to offer. The proposal was quietly put into the state Commerce Department\u2019s budget in the waning weeks of the legislative session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update:\u00a0\u00a0Bismarck\u00a0 Prairie Public Radio reports, the ND\u00a0 Senate on Weds passed the budget bill for the state\u2019s Commerce Department without a proposed expenditure for a state-backed theme and amusement park, planned for Jamestown. (Buffalo City Park). It would have been built on state owned land next to the National Buffalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452","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=224452"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224546,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224452\/revisions\/224546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}