Minot Businesses to Weigh in on Tech Education Center

Jill Schramm with the Minot Daily continues her coverage of the proposed technical education center that will be — in part — financed with the City’s disaster resilience dollars. The next step, surveying local businesses to gather their input on needs.

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Dickinson City Commission revisits alcohol ordinance and license caps

The Dickinson City Commission is taking a ground up look at the City’s liquor licensing structure and regulations. Specifically, they’re holding a series of public meetings to see if they should restructure penalties for infractions that more properly incentivize license holders and consider adjusting or removing the license cap structure. We’re having the same discussion

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Training and technical center a worthy pursuit 

Jill Schramm with the Minot Daily News digs in deeper with the idea that a career and technical training center is an idea important for Minot and the region.

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The Grand Forks Model: City emails show quick response in Alerus Center suspensions

Last month, the City of Grand Forks placed two Alerus Center employees on suspension following allegations of workplace hostility. Now, following an open records request by the Grand Forks Herald, there is evidence as to how proactively the City responded to the allegations; it was the same day. Per the Herald article by Sam Easter, here’s the

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Liquor Licenses: Committee Discusses, Agrees to Discuss Further

An ad hoc committee formed to look at Minot’s liquor licenses with the hopes of finding policy more suited to the current needs of the city discussed the City’s license cap regulations yesterday. The current laws tie the number of available licenses to population; the committee tabled the issue for further discussion.

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News & Commentary: Will Minot Open for New Business? Liquor License Quotas Up For Discussion

It’s taken a few months to gather up the supporting information, but the discussion on Minot’s liquor license laws and the quota system which restricts the number of businesses that can sell alcohol is a set to start tomorrow. The ad hoc committee appointed by Mayor Barney is tasked with looking at our laws to

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Minot City Council Recap, November 7, 2016

Last night was the first Monday of the month which means City Council had their regularly scheduled meeting. It was a relatively quick meeting. A recap follows below, but if you want more detail the committee agendas are the place to find it. View those here: Planning Commission, Public Works, Finance, Liquor & Gaming And

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Ward County Green Light’s Spending Flood Protection Dollars in Minot

Six million dollars in unused flood recovery money intended for buyouts and allocated from the State Water Commission to Ward County will likely be spent within the City of Minot. The County Commission voted Tuesday to allow spending of those dollars within the City with the provision that they remain in the loop and provide

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Watch: Down Goes the Old Minot Airport Terminal

The work has been underway for weeks, but it became plainly obvious this morning. Minot’s old airport terminal is being demolished. Of the material, the steel and bricks will be recycled and much of the building was already salvaged. A brief video of the action is below and the full news release from the City

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Commentary: It’s time for a full accounting on Minot’s parking garages

Work is finally getting underway on the exteriors of Minot’s downtown parking garages. The City-hired contractor wasted no time getting to it, and it’s a welcome sign of progress. If you hadn’t heard, it’s going to cost the City approximately $573,000 because the original contract and drawings didn’t include the work. City Council was the

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New Hospital Clears Zoning Hurdle

Trinity Health’s efforts to build a hospital in Southwest Minot cleared a hurdle in the form of a zoning change and the issuance of conditional use permits needed to move the process forward. The Planning Commission’s recommendations will go the full City Council next Monday. Trinity’s news release follows below. — Official News Release, Trinity

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Army Corps of Engineers talks flood protection in Minot

The Corps of Engineers was in Minot last week to gather feedback on what they should be considering as study whether the Federal Government should be a participant in our flood protection efforts. The study is expected to take until 2019. If successful, we may see a federal appropriation in the years following. KMOT has

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Funding Flood Protection Through Sales Tax

Minot’s just starting the conversation on how to more fully fund our local share of flood protection, but in Fargo, the issue is already on the ballot. This article — while not directly about Minot — is a great primer on the factors that go into figuring how we’re going to come up with our

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Parking Uncertainty Remains: Cypress Development Parts Ways With Imagine Minot Architect

The downtown parking saga continues. Gary Reddick, the architect of Minot’s beleaguered parking structures and the more broad Imagine Minot downtown concept, has been released by Cypress Development, the primary developer of the projects. Mr. Reddick’s contract with Cypress was terminated just as another contract between the Portland-based architect and the City of Minot was

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Minot’s Acting City Manager & Finance Director to Step Down February

Per a Facebook post seeking applicants for the City of Minot’s Finance Director position and confirmation from the City’s Public Information Officer Derek Hacket, the City’s acting City Manager and Finance Director, Cindy Hemphill, will be stepping down as of February. We’ll have more on the story as released by the City of Minot.

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Council Reorganization Commitee Recommends Raises for Mayor and Alderman

The committee advising on Minot’s transition to a smaller, 7-member Modern Council next June is recommending raises be given to elected officials starting in the 2018 budget year. Alderman currently earn $595 per month; if approved by the full City Council, that wage would increase to $1,000 per month.  Joe Skurzewski with KMOT has more on

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