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Thursday, April 8
Jamestown Public School District School Improvement Committee meeting, 3:30 p.m., Thompson Community Room, Jamestown Middle School, 203 2nd Ave. SE.
Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. Executive Committee, noon, JSDC lower level conference room, 120 2nd St. SE.
Jamestown Forestry Committee, 3:30 p.m., access by phone, 1-701-566-9575, conference ID 152 395 480#.
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One proposed part of the Buffalo City Park is a photo opportunity where visitors can pose with sculpted buffalo that have crashed through the wall of a building. Submitted photo
House Bill 1425 unanimously passed the North Dakota Senate on Monday, March 29, and is expected to be signed by the governor, opening up the North Dakota Legacy Fund to invest more money in the state, according to Jon Godfread, North Dakota insurance commissioner and one of the leaders of the effort to pass the bill.
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Jamestown area leaders are monitoring several bills in the North Dakota Legislature. Written By: Keith Norman | ×
Local officials are monitoring several bills in the North Dakota Legislature at crossover.
Crossover occurs about halfway through the session and marks the point where each house must have acted on bills that originated in its house. The bills then cross over to the other house for consideration.
Jamestown Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said he was monitoring some of the bonding bills where the state would issue bonds for infrastructure but was also paying close attention to House Bill 1425. The bill uses a portion of the Legacy Fund to invest in North Dakota, he said. It is of major interest in the state and received overwhelming support in the House.