{"id":45800,"date":"2022-07-27T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=45800"},"modified":"2022-07-27T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T11:24:12","slug":"jamestown-city-council-approves-moving-forward-with-vision-zero-traffic-safety-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-city-council-approves-moving-forward-with-vision-zero-traffic-safety-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown City Council Approves Moving Forward with Vision Zero Traffic Safety Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Sellstrom takes oath of office as City of Jamestown’s new Comptroller (July 25, 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n

Jamestown City Council<\/strong> has approved the city moving forward with a pedestrian and traffic safety strategy.<\/p>\n

Mayor Eddie Sundquist<\/strong> said the city is applying for a federal grant to help create the Vision Zero<\/strong> Plan for the city, “It is essentially an added amount, added bonus, to Complete Streets<\/strong> which the City already has and says ‘How do we educate the public? How do we also redesign not only our streets but other components of the city to provide zero fatalities over the course of ten years?’ So there’s a lot of things that have come up over the past several years with City Council, including stop-arm cameras for school buses which we’re moving forward with as well as school speed zone cameras.”<\/p>\n

Sundquist said the plan would also be used in designing streets and sidewalks. As part of the approved resolution by Council, the city also would develop an annual progress report on the Vision Zero goals and outcomes that would be presented to City Council.<\/p>\n

Council has approved the shared services agreement with Jamestown Public Schools<\/strong> regarding sidewalk plowing.<\/p>\n

Sundquist said the approval was needed so the school district could purchase the sidewalk plows, and that the city was continuing to work on how staffing would be done of those plows, “We’re still working with the union to determine how we’re going to handle the personnel power for that. Whether that’s going to be a seasonal position, part-time position, or full-time position, there’s a lot of factors and as you probably know in this job market right now, we’re not quite sure what we’re going to get as we start to get closer.”<\/p>\n

The shared services agreement initially proposed hiring two Parks employees using American Rescue Plan<\/strong> funds at an estimated cost through 2026 of $689,672.<\/p>\n

The Jamestown School Board<\/strong> passed the agreement at its meeting earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Council has approved funding to do a Zoning Code<\/strong> update.<\/p>\n

Sundquist said the city’s zoning code was originally created in the 1960s, “We wanted to provide this opportunity and the funding for the zoning so we could do both the Strategic Plan, the Comprehensive Plan<\/strong>, at the same time as Zoning. It is actually cheaper for the city to do that. So we’re looking at about $200,000 to do both. $100,000 comes directly from the State. The other $100,000 will come from federal ARPA funding, Rescue Plan funding.”<\/p>\n

Sundquist said a request for proposals to do the updates will go out in August.<\/p>\n

Council also approved four appointments to a new Broadband Ad-Hoc Committee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sundquist said the ad-hoc committee will determine if the city should move forward with municipal broadband or a municipal fiber network, “In the meantime, we are also working on working with our federal partners to determine what grants are out there. We know that in talking with the State Broadband Office, the City of Jamestown is probably the furthest ahead of any city or municipality. So they’re very excited about our work and are currently creating the grants that they received from the Federal funding for us to apply for.”<\/p>\n

Brendan Fagan<\/strong>, Phillip Zimmerman<\/strong>, Dan Swackhammer<\/strong>, and Bill Johnston<\/strong> are the citizen appointments with Sundquist adding the committee will also feature representatives from local foundations, the Jamestown Public Schools District, Jamestown Board of Public Utilities<\/strong>, and City Council.<\/p>\n

Council also approved appointing John LaMancuso<\/strong> as chair of the Jamestown Planning Commission<\/strong>. He replaces Greg Rabb<\/strong>, who resigned in June. His term expires on December 31, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown City Council has approved the city moving forward with a pedestrian and traffic safety strategy. Mayor Eddie Sundquist said the city is applying for a federal grant to help create the Vision Zero Plan for the city, “It is essentially an added amount, added bonus, to Complete Streets which the City already has and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45784,"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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10348,223,11837,11836,10860,3826,612,7652,979,1118,1122,1156,1158,1168,1267,11838,11821,11798],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John-Sellstrom-Oath-7-25-22.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-bUI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42388,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/mayor-sundquist-releases-annual-state-of-the-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":45800,"position":0},"title":"Mayor Sundquist Releases Annual State of the City","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"February 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist wants to \"think big for the future of Jamestown\" in his annual State of the City Address. 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