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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Jamestown Finance & Legal Committee met during a regular committee meeting on Tuesday, August 23rd.

The committee approved a real estate lease between the JSDC and Secretarial Solutions. The business will now be located inside a smaller space in the Center for Economic Development in Downtown Jamestown. The committee also approved a request from the JSDC for $7,992.90 from Economic Development Funds to reimburse the JSDC for 2015 Real Estate Taxes and Special Assessments paid on various properties.

The committee also approved a First Reading of an ordinance to amend and re-enact a section of city code concerning fees for violation in the purchase of possession of tobacco products. Mayor Katie Andersen.

Councilman Steve Brubakken asked about youth under the age of 14. City Attorney Leo Ryan pointed out that in that case, the youth would be brought into juvenile court.

Final items for the committee included Jamestown Tourism. The first item was for permission to repaint the Buffalo monument and Tourism would need $8,500 to complete the project. Click here to read more about the project.

Executive Director Searle Swedlund stated that this would be the final time they could just repaint the buffalo. The next time it will need work, the monument will need to be stripped of it’s 10 coats of paint in order to be finished and Swedlund stated that it will cost significantly more. He brought up a “feed the buffalo” collection box that they would like to put next to the monument for that project.

The council approved of the funds for the repainting and the collection box. The final item from the council regarding Tourism was the enterprise agreement between the City and Tourism. City Administrator Jeff Fuchs reported that tax collections were down across the community.

Fuchs also reported that motel tax income was also down.

Swedlund pointed out that 2016 had been a good year so far and 2015 was a better year. The topic of the enterprise agreement will be forwarded to the next City Budget Committee meeting with a request of $429,250 from the Jamestown Tourism department to have allotted in the next budget.