{"id":8931,"date":"2012-12-14T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2012-12-14T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T21:15:39","slug":"mayor-bctf-exec-board-review-2013-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"Mayor, BCTF Exec. Board Review 2013 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitebuffalo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7620\" title=\"whitebuffalo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitebuffalo-150x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; Meeting Friday (Dec 14, 2012) The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation (BCTF) Executive Board, met with Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen regarding a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>During the Decmeber 4, 2012, Jamestown City Council meeting the Council approved a four-year contract with BCTF that funds BCTF at $299,320 a year for two years, with further funding to be negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At Friday\u2019s Executive Board meeting the BCTF and Mayor discussed some revisions to the proposed contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor said the city has no intent to disolve the BCTF, and that she has trust in the board.<\/p>\n<p>Incoming President Aldon Kollman said the Executive Board wants a written document in hand, regarding a new contract before the full board can vote on any approval.<\/p>\n<p>He said BCTF board members watched the CSi recording of the December 2012 City Council meeting to get an idea of where the city stands for contract proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The present contract runs out December 31, 2012, and Mayor Andersen indicted the present contract could be extended if a new final agreement is not worked out before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor said in her view the contract centers around tourism\u2019s use of city sales tax dollars, adding there is a potential for more economic development in the city with additional revenues for more events and activitties, and better tourist sites.<\/p>\n<p>BCTF Board President Dave Smette said the board intends to revisit tourisms Strategic Plan in the next two year, and capitalize on strengths in Jamestown and review any weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Andersen said, City Attorney Ken Dalsted will review all revisions of the proposed contract, possibly as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>Smette said hiring potential candidates to succeed Nina Sneider as Tourism Director, is impeded somewhat with the contract for next year unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>The contract for 2013 is expected to be reviewed at Tuesday\u2019s (Dec 18, 2012) City Council, Finance and Legal Committee meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; Meeting Friday (Dec 14, 2012) The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation (BCTF) Executive Board, met with Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen regarding a new contract. During the Decmeber 4, 2012, Jamestown City Council meeting the Council approved a four-year contract with BCTF that funds BCTF at $299,320 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","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\/8931","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=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}