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City, N.D. – Valley City businessman Bob Drake wants the city to answer a few more questions as the city attorney works on revising several city ordinances.

Drake is concerned about a city plan to have the city administrator become the supervisor of all department heads including the police department.

Drake does not favor having the city administrator be the supervisor of the police department. Drake supported eliminating the position in the October 4 election.

The city was to have a final reading on the ordinance recodification, but city attorney Russell Myhre recommended to wait another two weeks before finalizing the ordinances due to grammatical errors, spelling and punctuation. The city commission tabled the item until all those errors have been corrected.

Myhre said he would be willing to discuss the issues of contention with Mr. Drake in the next few days to clarify the city’s position on the revised city ordinances.

In other action the city voted to approve a Valley Development Group Request for funds in the amount of $50,000 for 3 years totaling $150,000 dollars for the Valley Development Roundtable.

Economic Development Director Jennifer Feist says the funds are part of economic development monies dedicated to Roundtable projects like Ft. Ransom State Park and Clausen Springs Park improvements, North Country Trail Expansion, the city of Kathryn and several VCSU projects along with the Sheyenne Valley Growth Alliance which runs from Lisbon to Cooperstown.

Valley City resident Lloyd Nelson said the money should be used for street repair projects being there is a strong need to get those completed.

But city officials and Valley Development Group President George Gaukler said that city voters already approved of using seven-tenths of 1 percent of sales tax collections toward this type of economic development in previous elections.

Also at Monday’s meeting, several city commissioners and city officials wished City Administrator Jon Cameron all the best as he moves to Perry, Oklahoma to become the city manager for that city.

Cameron  thanked the city commission, staff members and the citizens for the opportunity to have served this fine community.

Cameron said he and his wife Joan will be closer to the children and their first grandchild. He said we will always have fond memories of Valley City and plan to keep in touch with many friends and relatives.