{"id":33471,"date":"2013-12-02T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33471"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:31:26","slug":"city-commission-gets-comments-on-liquor-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33471","title":{"rendered":"City Commission Gets Comments On Liquor Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VCcommission2\"<\/a>Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall.\u00a0 Commission member Nielson was not present.<\/p>\n

ORDINANCES<\/p>\n

Heard the first reading of an Ordinance recodifing the liquor ordinance. Comments from the audience, concerned competing businesses under the same reclassification,\u00a0along with required server training, including costs incurred.\u00a0 City officials said the costs would be picked up by the police department. The additional requirement of Dram Shop liability was also brought up, concerning the costs.\u00a0 Mayor Werkhoven suggested a meeting with the bar owners to get their input on the Ordinance, which the city will set up.<\/p>\n

RESOLUTIONS<\/p>\n

The City Commissioners approved a Resolution approving the Greenline Deere Addition replat.<\/p>\n

NEW BUSINESS<\/p>\n

Commissioners considered approving the Water Service Cooperative Agreement with Barnes Rural Water. City Administrator Schelkoph said he favors moving forward with the agreement as does Rural Water.\u00a0 The City Commissioners voted to approve the agreement.<\/p>\n

The commission reviewed and approved the appraised amount $142,000, for Phase 2 buy-out of property at 492 5th <\/span><\/span>Avenue SW. <\/span><\/p>\n

The commissioners approved a Renaissance Zone application for Scott and Kay Stanford for a 5 year income tax exemption and 5 year property tax exemption, and designate it VC-68 (transfer from Six D Construction).<\/p>\n

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The Commision approving Retail Image Enhancement Grant for Kirin House (the former Pizza Hut location) not to exceed the amount of $7,500.<\/p>\n

The Commissioners approved a Retail Image Enhancement Grant for Clark\u2019s Cake and Catering dba Mo*Eats not to exceed the amount of $7,500. In the former Broken Spoke location.<\/p>\n

The Commission approved additional wording to the Retail Image Enhancement Grant application and guidelines.<\/p>\n

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The City Commission approved a request from VCBC Development Corporation to de-obligate $9,612.20 dedicated to the economic development for the Practical Nursing or LPN program and return to the City Sales Tax fund.<\/p>\n

A presentation was made from BEK Communications concerning services they want to provide to the city.\u00a0 City Administrator David Schelkoph says the company is willing to make a $20 Million dollar investment.<\/p>\n

The Commissioners approved a bid to Border States Paving, Inc. in the amount of $1,387,271.76, with city share of $28,000.34, for NDDOT Project \u2013 Valley City I-94 Business Loop and Wolski Plaza Road.<\/p>\n

City Administrator Schelkoph Report ;<\/p>\n

The AMI meter installation has reached 575. He said Cooper Power\u2019s Load Control equipment has been delivered to be installed soon.<\/p>\n

City Updates & Commission Comments:<\/p>\n

City Attorney Russel Myhre announced that Barnes County States Attorney Lee Grossman will be resigning, and joining Myhre’s law office, in February of 2014.<\/p>\n

City Fire Chief Gary Retterath reminds residents to check heating systems, and chimneys, and use safe electrical cords, with Christmas decorations. He said nine new recruits have come on board at the Valley City Fire Department.<\/p>\n

Police Chief Fred Thompson asks motorists to slow down and use caution with winter driving conditions returning. He said, Monday the police department was responding to several traffic accidents.<\/p>\n

The meeting was shown live on CSi 68, followed by replays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Monday evening at City Hall.\u00a0 Commission member Nielson was not present. ORDINANCES Heard the first reading of an Ordinance recodifing the liquor ordinance. Comments from the audience, concerned competing businesses under the same reclassification,\u00a0along with required server training, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33471","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\/33471","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=33471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33541,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33471\/revisions\/33541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}