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27-03-2025
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Approval recommended for purchase agreement on lot for indoor baseball, softball facility
Mar. 27—JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown Finance and Legal Committee recommended approval on a 4-0 vote to have the city of Jamestown enter into a purchase agreement with Eagles Nest LLC for a city-owned lot that will be developed into an indoor practice facility for youth baseball and softball. Councilman David Schloegel was not present at the meeting on Tuesday, March 25. The property is on lot one and block two at the Harold P. Bensch Addition and is adjacent to 12th Avenue and 5th Street Southeast. The purchase price is about $76,000 for the property. Matt Perkins with Eagles Nest said he had a couple of concerns with the purchase agreement but didn't want those concerns to derail the project. His concerns included needing Jamestown City Council approval to sell the property within the first 30 months after the purchase agreement and city staff being able to request records from Eagles Nest of the indoor practice facility's operations. Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said the city needs to ensure that the project in the request for proposal is what happens at the location. Abbagail Geroux, assistant city attorney, said the city would actually need a valid reason to look into the records of Eagles Nest regarding the performance of the purchase agreement. The purchaser must agree to sell the property back to the city at the original purchase price if development does not occur within 30 months of the purchase in accordance with the development plan submitted as part of the original purchase proposal. The indoor practice facility for youth baseball and softball was originally planned to be on 2 acres in the JMS Aviation Park near Jamestown Regional Airport before changing its location, Perkins told The Jamestown Sun after the meeting. The Finance and Legal Committee unanimously recommended approval of a request from the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. for a forgivable loan of $1 million to the city of Jamestown that will be used as matching dollars for a grant program that helps create residential housing development. Heinrich said $500,000 is also being deobligated for a JSDC housing program for the development of residential lots within Jamestown city limits. The $500,000 will be reallocated to use as matching dollars for the Housing for Opportunity, Mobility and Empowerment (HOME) grant program in the North Dakota Department of Commerce if Senate Bill 2225 is approved. Senate Bill 2225 would create the Housing for Opportunity, Mobility and Empowerment grant program. It would appropriate $50 million to the program. If SB 2225 is approved, the Commerce Department would award grants to political subdivisions to build infrastructure to support affordable market-rate housing. The grant program would be funded one time and ends on June 30, 2027. The Commerce Department would allocate $10 million for communities with a population of 5,000 or less, $20 million for communities with a population of 5,001 to 20,000 and $5 million for rural metropolitan areas located within 20 miles of city limits of a community with more than 20,000 people. The program would provide grant dollars for one-third of the infrastructure costs for residential development projects. The local political subdivision and the developer of the residential lots would each provide one-third of the costs for residential development projects. A minimum of five residential lots would need to be developed using the HOME program and the agreements for residential lot development would be between the city of Jamestown and the developer. The Finance and Legal Committee unanimously recommended approval to introduce the first reading of an ordinance to prohibit camping on public property within Jamestown city limits. The ordinance would add Article 53 of Chapter 22 to Jamestown city code and amend the existing city code — Section 21-16-04.1 — regarding campers. Geroux said the ordinance would prohibit camping on city streets, boulevards, parks and other publicly-owned property. She said camping would be allowed in designated areas for camping. She said a camper or recreational vehicle is still allowed to be placed adjacent to a property owner's property for up to 14 days. The Jamestown City Council will make the first reading of the ordinance at its meeting on April 7. In other business, the Finance and Legal Committee unanimously recommended approval to introduce the first reading of an ordinance to amend Section 1-10 of the city code to increase Jamestown Municipal Court fees. The administration fee will increase from $30 to $125 and the facility fee will increase from $25 to $100. Heinrich said the intent was to have the Municipal Court fees match the fees at Southeast District Court in Jamestown.
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21-02-2025
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City to be responsible entity for environmental assessment for Gardenette
Feb. 21—JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown Finance and Legal Committee on Thursday, Feb. 20, unanimously recommended approval of a request from Stride Development to name the city of Jamestown as the responsible entity for an environmental assessment for the Gardenette. The environmental assessment will be done for the Gardenette properties located at 902-1514 Gardenette Drive in Jamestown. "What we're being asked to do here is very similar to what we did for Eagle Flats and probably some others," Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said. " ... It requires some government agency to be the responsible entity for this type of assessment, and whatever costs that would be incurred would be charged back to the developer." Heinrich was also authorized to sign the environmental assessment after the city staff reviews and approves it. The Gardenette project, also known as the Riverside Cottages project, is a multiphase rehabilitation project led by Stride Development. The $48 million project comprises three phases which will acquire and rehabilitate the 168-single-bedroom unit development into 150 units providing one-, two- and three-bedroom options. Phase 1 secured $1.1 million of 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credits. Phase 2 received $1.08 million of 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and Phase 3 was awarded $1.03 million of 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credits and $3 million in state Housing Incentive Fund dollars. The environmental assessment is expected to be complete this week or early next week, said Brent Eckstrom, executive director of the Lewis and Clark Development Group out of Mandan, North Dakota, which is a co-general partner with Stride Development. Once the Gardenette units are rehabilitated, those units will be leased out, Eckstrom said. "We are working with the Great Plains Housing Authority to get rental assistance vouchers for the tenants," he said. "They have a project-based voucher, so they stay with the units there." In order to get the rental assistance vouchers from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an environmental assessment needs to be completed, Eckstrom said. Eckstrom said Terracon has been hired to complete the environmental assessment. "They put that package together, they do all the notifications, all that, and then they will submit that to the city for the city's review," he said. "Once the city reviews it and the mayor signs off on it, once the mayor signs off on that, then we can go back to Great Plains Housing Authority with that assessment, and then sign the contracts to get those vouchers." In other business, the Finance and Legal Committee unanimously recommended approval of the plans and specifications to reroof and reskin a city-owned storage building located at 1100 Railroad Drive. City staff would also be authorized to advertise for bids on the project. The building is where LeFevre Sales was formerly located. Heinrich said the building will be used as a storage facility for various city departments.
