{"id":36654,"date":"2020-12-14T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=36654"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:38:37","slug":"jamestown-city-council-to-hold-special-voting-session-on-budget-vetoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-city-council-to-hold-special-voting-session-on-budget-vetoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown City Council to Hold Special Voting Session on Budget Vetoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown City Council<\/strong> will be holding a special voting session Monday at 7 p.m. to consider two budget vetoes that were issued by Mayor Eddie Sundquist<\/strong> last week.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 30, the council approved a $35.5 million city budget<\/a> that included several amendments to the spending plan originally presented by Sundquistd in October. Among the amendments was a decision to cut the city recreation coordinator position out of the budget, a move that would save the city nearly $55,000 next year.<\/p>\n

In voting for the cut, the council offered no discussion or explanation on the move. However, during the Dec. 7 work session, over two dozen members of the public voiced disapproval of the cut<\/a>, with members of the council then explaining they cut the position due to little to no recreation programming in next year’s budget, and also said it was not a permanent cut.<\/p>\n

Sundquist vetoed the cut, explaining the city relies on the position for more than just coordinating recreation activities – including helping with communications as well as grant writing.<\/p>\n

The council will meet at 7 p.m. to consider the veto and vote on an override. At least six of the nine council members need to approve an override for it to go into effect.<\/p>\n

The meeting will be held remotely due to COVID-19 and will be streamed live at the city website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown City Council will be holding a special voting session Monday at 7 p.m. to consider two budget vetoes that were issued by Mayor Eddie Sundquist last week. On Nov. 30, the council approved a $35.5 million city budget that included several amendments to the spending plan originally presented by Sundquistd in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":36296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10224,7652,1122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2021-city-budget-feature.jpg?fit=677%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-9xc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36656,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36654\/revisions\/36656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}