North Dakota
Grand Forks County Commission member to propose consolidating the local jail and sheriff's office
GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks County Commission member on Tuesday will propose merging the county jail and sheriff’s department — a move he admits will “raise some eyebrows” — with an added hope for future collaboration between the correctional center and state.
Mark Rustad will make the motion during the commission’s regular meeting Tuesday, Jan. 7. The purpose, he said, is to prevent a tax increase he believes is inevitable if significant changes aren’t made to reconcile a county budget that’s been stretched thin. On the pre-meeting agenda, available to the public, Rustad’s proposal is listed simply as “county department consolidation.”
Rustad believes a major issue with the county’s current financial state is
the Grand Forks County Correctional Center expansion project.
He calls it a financial anchor around the county’s ankle.
“(It) really never should have been built in the first place,” Rustad said. “But we need to figure out a way to make lemonade out of lemons.”
When the County Commission approved the 2025 budget, it did so by buying down its property tax levy with cash on hand — likely the last time the county will be able to do that, according to Grand Forks County Auditor Debbie Nelson’s budget report. The county is using cash on hand to keep the mill levy down by almost 10 mills, or around $4 million, based on July taxable values.
Without the cash, the county would be near the mill levy maximum of 60 mills, currently valued at around $23.6 million, for its general fund, which includes primarily operation and staffing expenses. The county is also currently levying 7.78 of its capital construction mills — most of its 10-mill limit. Over the last three budget years, the county has budgeted between seven and eight mills.
While the value of a mill has generally gone up over time, and increased by 5.38% between the 2024 and 2025 budgets, commissioners want to lessen the burden of property taxes on property owners.
A mill, or rather the mill levy, is the multiplier used to calculate what is owed in property taxes. It is determined by dividing the property tax levy revenue needed by the total taxable value in a taxing district. The mill levy is then multiplied by the taxable value of a property to determine the amount owed. Different taxing entities have different values for their mills. In the 2025 budget, a single Grand Forks County mill is valued at $394,096, while a city of Grand Forks’ single mill is $294,256.
“This is step one in trying to give us a financial forecast that is long term rather than trying to piecemeal our budget together to basically rely on increasing home values,” Rustad said. “That’s not a safe thing to rely on.”
Rustad proposes to put the sheriff’s office in charge of the correctional center, which would remove duplicative work that he believes exists in administrative roles. This would not necessarily be done by layoffs, but rather by choosing not to rehire openings as employees retire. Additionally, he believes the consolidation would save on transportation costs, since sheriff’s deputies perform inmate transportation for things like court hearings.
Rustad said it’s too early in the process to say what would become of Grand Forks County Correctional Center’s administrator position, currently held by Bret Burkholder. In his proposal, it could possibly be eliminated, he said, or it would remain and report to the sheriff. Rustad stressed that his proposal isn’t directed at Burkholder or the work he has done.
“I ran on this,” Rustad said, referring to his candidacy before he was elected. “It’s not something I just pulled from thin air.”
He added: “I wouldn’t really feel comfortable saying, ‘Yeah, that position is going away. That would have to be a real detailed conversation among the commission if, in fact, I have support (for the consolidation.)”
He doesn’t suspect the role would fall to Sheriff Andy Schneider, though, because the roles of jail administrator and sheriff are so different and each take a significant amount of time. One person can’t do both, Rustad said.
“This is not headhunting for Bret Burkholder,” he said. “He was doing exactly what he was told to do — and what his job description is — by previous county commissions.”
Rustad also believes the move could allow the county to work more closely with the state — perhaps to include leasing a portion of the expanded correctional facility for state use.
Commissioner Terry Bjerke said nothing can or should be off the table when considering the county’s budget.
“I think the majority of the commission wants to look and see if there are ways we can consolidate,” said Bjerke, who earned a seat on the commission in November after campaigning on a platform of budget reform. “Things change, technology improves. There are different things you can look at — like if you get a new piece of software and it can do things you normally got done by hand, why wouldn’t you look at that kind of thing?”
While both Bjerke and Rustad have said they are against any new taxes for county residents, others have said the county needs to look at diversifying its revenue streams.
“We can nickel-and-dime the budget, absolutely, I totally agree with you. But when it comes to the long-range plan, how can we broaden our resources instead of,
‘Well, we’re going to be capped off at 60 mills?’” Commissioner Cynthia Pic told commissioners in September.
“How can we broaden our revenue sources so that we continue to provide the services that are mandated in legislation?”
The county has tried. For example, a vote to raise the sales tax in the county narrowly failed in 2022. Funds generated by the tax would have gone toward capital improvement funding.
Due to construction delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,
there are numerous capital projects underway in the county at once.
Those also resulted in projects costing more because of inflation.
While the county is near its capacity for capital expenditures, additional correctional staff for the jail expansion will add a projected $428,700 to the 2026 budget. The county budgeted for those roles to be filled around halfway through 2025 to save costs, as the facility isn’t expected to be fully ready until mid-2025.
The county simply cannot afford to staff the expanded portion of the jail long term, Rustad said.
“We could probably do it for something like five years – if we burn through our cash on hand,” he said.
Rustad’s hope, if his proposal is approved, is that the correctional center will immediately be turned over to the sheriff’s office, consolidating the two largest expenditures under the county general fund. He believes the transition could be completed by the end of the first quarter of the year.
Considering the 2025 budget, if combined, the two would cost nearly $16 million – more than four times the size of the next largest department under the general fund, which is the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Rustad believes money will be saved through his proposal, but when discussing it with the Herald he said he suspects a dollar estimate won’t be clear until after the change is made.
“I don’t know if there is a good way (to determine potential savings) until we pry open the departments,” he said.
He expressed confidence, though, in Schneider’s ability to create efficiency.
Though not directly related to Tuesday’s proposal, Rustad also has hopes for the county to lease a portion of its expanded correctional facility to the state and its prisoners. Capacity issues at all levels of North Dakota incarceration have been well documented; Rustad believes this could be a way to meet a need for the state and many needs for the county.
Leasing the space would bring funds into the county and, as a result, staffing it would be the state’s responsibility, taking the financial burden away from the county, Rustad believes. Though the intent of the expansion project was to address the county’s own capacity issues, Rustad said that, without the money to staff the space, it’s no good to the county.
“If we can’t staff the space, it’s irrelevant,” Rustad said. “It costs a lot less to rent back a few beds from the state … and, furthermore, it is pretty frequent that we have state and federal inmates in our jail that we’re renting space to.”
His hope is that cutting costs and adding a revenue stream would hopefully, down the line, allow the county to invest in resources for
its incarcerated population which, as previously reported by the Herald, is largely made up of people with mental health and substance use issues that need treatment to prevent recidivism
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North Dakota
Finding a hero: Efforts to identify North Dakota soldier Irvin C. Ellingson’s remains took years
DAHLEN, N.D. — Four years ago, Lon Enerson started writing a book about his uncle, Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, and the work to identify his remains.
As Enerson stood in front of the Dahlen Lutheran Church on Saturday, June 20, a casket inside waited for the
funeral and burial
of Ellingson, a soldier who waited 81 years to come home.
“I never thought I would get the final chapter,” Enerson said.
Enerson, along with scores of Ellingson relatives, waited to hear about the identification of Sgt. Ellingson from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii, where efforts took place to identify soldiers who died in a Tokyo prison fire during World War II. Ellingson was the third to be identified, with 10 successfully identified so far.
There were a number of Gold Star families — those whose relatives died in the line of duty — present at the Ellingson funeral. Enerson had attended a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery of the second person to be identified.
“We’re cheering for each other,” he said.
Ellingson was 25 and serving as a radar observer on a B-29 in the Pacific Theater when, on April 14, 1945, his plane was shot down during a bombing mission over mainland Japan. He was captured alongside 61 other Air Corps members, interrogated and held at a Tokyo prison. A few weeks later, on May 26, an Allied bombing run over Japan sparked a fire at the prison, killing Ellingson and the others.
The Ellingson family’s wait to bring home his remains began that year, and 81 years later, it finally happened. Enerson said the passion his grandparents felt when Ellingson died filtered down to him and his generation. It created, he said, a “common bond that we needed to get him home.”
In 2018, Enerson received a letter from Michael Krehl, instigator of the search to identify and recover the remains of the prison fire soldiers. Krehl was told by the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) about a process involving DNA that could identify the remains. To get the remains — interred at the American Cemetery in Manila — to Hawaii to start the identification process, 60% of the 62 families of the soldiers had to submit DNA, since the remains were commingled.
Enerson’s mother had died the year before, but two uncles, Bud and Dennis Ellingson, were still alive. They both gave their DNA, along with Enerson.
“I called them, and they were overwhelmed to tears,” Enerson said. “I said ‘I’m going to give the DPAA your address and they’re going to send you DNA sample kits.’ So we got three Ellingson DNA there. Sibling DNA is like gold.”
Barbara Geisler, a family genealogist who found Enerson so he could be sent the letter, prayed over Ellingson’s casket at Saturday’s funeral.
She said the group had to find the families for both missing and identified soldiers.
“We went for the missing first. We thought it was most important,” she said.
Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
Though the Ellingson family submitted their DNA, by November of 2021 the percentage of given DNA was stuck at 59.68%, Enerson said. The family went to Washington, D.C., to speak with 17 senators, including North Dakota Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, who signed a bipartisan letter to then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to get the remains.
As the letter went through, one more person submitted DNA to get over the 60% threshold, Enerson said. In spring 2022, the caskets were brought to the lab in Hawaii to begin the identification process.
Kristen Grow and Melissa Menschel were two forensic anthropologists involved in the process. Grow led the Tokyo Prison Fire project in 2024 and Menschel joined last year. They said the process involves an inventory of the remains, taking samples, finding what remains go together and looking at chemical signatures of the bones. There are also forensic odontologists who analyze teeth.
Both Grow and Menschel were present for the funeral and burial.
From 2022 to 2025 seven groups of Ellingsons visited the lab to “potentially be in that same place as Irvin would be,” Enerson said.
“There was no guarantee all along, but we always told them that the Ellingson family does have one guarantee — and that is that we’re not going to stop looking for him,” he said.
Last summer, the family got the call that Ellingson had been identified. The family was told his remains would be escorted home and a full military honors funeral would be provided all at government expense. In September, the family formed a committee made up of family members to map out the details. Enerson said the family decided upon three days of celebration.
Terry Ellingson, Enerson’s cousin, said it “takes a village to get this done.”
“Everybody decided to take care of a certain area,” he said Saturday. “It all got done, but it took a lot of contacts. Even this morning, we were short of buses for people to go to the cemetery. (And then came) a call that Midway Public Schools would provide a couple more buses for us.”
Through it all, Enerson held tight to one sentence within a deceased personnel file he received. It contained all the information the government went through to locate Ellingson.
“The sentence goes like this: ‘Sgt. McGrath saw Staff Sgt. Irvin Ellingson being interrogated at the Kempeitai military headquarters in Tokyo, leaving with 2nd Lt. Andrew Litz, to the Tokyo Military Prison,’” Enerson said. “That was a sentence that I hung onto, and we all hung onto.”
Enerson noted that 2nd Lt. Litz’s nephew and niece were at the Saturday funeral, too.
Enerson has been collecting information through the eight-plus years it took to get Ellingson home. Four years ago, people told him, “Lon, if something happens to you, no one’s going to know (this information),” he said.
“So, I started writing a book,” he said.
His sister, Jane Wood, is editing.
“He’s almost to 400 pages,” she said.
Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
BISMARCK — Landowners in Dickey, LaMoure and Stutsman counties made their plea to the North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 23, to fight a massive powerline project.
The 90-mile-long “Jamestown to Ellendale” transmission line, also known as JETx, would use towers up to 150 feet tall.
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March 31, 1957 – June 5, 2026
Timothy Paul Ganyo, 69, passed away on Friday, June 5, 2026, after a courageous six-and-a-half-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer.
Tim was born on March 31, 1957, in Grafton, North Dakota, to Willard Paul and Marlene Frances Ganyo. He grew up in Grafton, where he attended school and was active in both hockey and football. During his high school years, he also worked as a lifeguard at the local swimming pool.
Tim proudly served his country for more than three decades. He enlisted in the United States Air Force on December 4, 1977, and served until 1981, with an assignment at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
Following his active-duty service, he joined the Air National Guard while attending North Dakota State University. Later, seeking a new opportunity, Tim joined the Air Force Reserve and relocated to Northern California, where he served at Travis Air Force Base as a flight engineer aboard the C-5 aircraft.
Throughout his distinguished military career, Tim was activated numerous times and served in support of multiple military operations around the world, often flying into war zones. He treasured the friendships he made with his fellow airmen and took great pride in serving alongside the members of the 312th. Tim retired from the United States Air Force Reserve on June 1, 2010.
Committed to lifelong learning, Tim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology in August 2003. Following his military retirement, he worked in the laboratory at Shell Oil Company in Martinez, California.
Tim spent more than 40 years in Northern California, where he met his wife, Roxanne. They shared 34 wonderful years of marriage. He was a devoted husband, a supportive stepdad, and a loving grandpa who cherished time spent with his family.
Tim was a passionate fan of University of North Dakota hockey and proudly remained loyal to the Fighting Sioux throughout his life. He was also a member of the Solano Yacht Club and enjoyed the friendships and camaraderie he found there.
Tim is survived by his mother, Marlene Dvorak; his beloved wife, Roxanne Ganyo; his stepchildren, Ryan Brown, Chad (Tonya) Brown, Jaime Wolf (Dave), and Kristy Brown (Devin); his grandchildren, Calleigh Brown, Jaxon Brown, Taya Wolf, and Jordyn Brown; his brothers, Mark (Rhonda) Ganyo and Michael Ganyo; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Willard Paul Ganyo; and his brothers, Ray Ganyo and Philip Ganyo. Tim will be remembered for his strength, dedication, patriotism, sense of adventure, and unwavering love for his family and friends. His presence will be deeply missed and forever cherished by all who knew him.
Family and friends are invited to attend a funeral service on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home Chapel, 1850 West Texas Street, Fairfield, CA
A ceremony with military honors will be held at 12:30 p.m. at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, California, where Tim will be laid to rest.
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