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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for Aug. 3, 2026

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Aug. 3, 2026. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.

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the City of Spearfish lists City Council Meeting for Aug. 3, 2026 on its public meeting portal.

The portal files this entry under the category City Council. That is the city's own classification, reproduced as published; 605Buzz does not sort these listings itself.

The portal gives the time as 17:30 on Aug. 3, 2026, printed exactly as published.

The portal marks that time UTC, and it is not: the city's own records contradict the mark, because the plain-English posting time the portal prints for this meeting's agenda states the same clock reading as the machine-readable field that claims to be UTC. The time above is therefore the local wall clock the city published, reproduced without conversion.

The portal is currently offering 3 documents for this entry, named here exactly as the city named them:

  • Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 8/3/2026 · posted July 31, 2026
  • Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 8/3/2026 · posted July 31, 2026
  • Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 8/3/2026 · posted Aug. 25, 2026

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The city's agenda for this meeting lists 50 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 10 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

    1. Call to Order
    1. Roll Call
    1. Invocation (participation welcomed, but not mandatory)
  • A. New Covenant Presbyterian Church
    1. Pledge of Allegiance
    1. Approve Agenda
    1. Public Comment - Public comments are welcome; however, no action can be taken by the Council on comments received for items not on this agenda. Anyone wishing to have the Council consider a new item should complete a Citizen Request Form to be reviewed by city administration.
    1. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
    1. Consent Agenda
  • A. Approve the minutes of the July 15, 2026, City Council study session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the July 20, 2026, City Council regular session.
    1. Added or Adjusted Wages
  • A. Approve the following wage additions and adjustments as budgeted for 2026. Regular Position Budgeted Wage Facility Maintenance Tech yes $23.24
    1. Community Development
  • B. Hold a public hearing for a final plat located within the Extra Territorial Jurisdiction dividing 142.51 acres into 2 residential lots.
    1. Approve the final plat located within the Extra Territorial Jurisdiction dividing 142.51 acres into 2 residential lots.
    1. Finance
  • A. Approve an application from Isabelle Drumm with Crow Peak Brewing Company for a special event malt beverage license for the Dakota Five-0 on September 6, 2026, from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Spearfish City Park.
  • B. Approve an application from Isabelle Drumm with Crow Peak Brewing Company for a special event malt beverage license for the Black Hills Fly-In on September 19, 2026,
  • C. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Isabelle Drumm with Crow Peak Brewing Company for a special event malt beverage license for the Pit 14 Rally Event on August 12 and August 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m to 8:00 p.m. at the HomeSource
    1. Approve the application.
  • D. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1429 - An Ordinance Supplementing the 2026 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1408 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
  • E. Authorize Michelle DeNeui, Angelica Tyler, Rex McDonald, and Brett Rauterkus as signers for the City's bank account at Black Hills Community Bank.
    1. Parks and Recreation
  • A. Approve Second Amendment to Sports Field Memorandum of Agreement - Spearfish School District.
  • B. Approve First Amendment to Sports Field Memorandum of Agreement - BHSU - Ronnie Thiesz.
  • C. Approve First Amendment to Sports Field Memorandum of Agreement - BHSU - Black Hills Energy Sports Complex.
  • D. Authorize staff to continue to work with Spearfish Baseball Association (SBA) to construct an indoor training facility, bid documents, and lease agreement.
    1. Police
  • A. Approve the Memorandum of Understanding with Black Hills State University for staff.
  • B. Approve continued contract negotiations for consolidation of PSAP services with Lawrence County at a cost not to exceed $300,000 in 2027.
    1. Public Works
  • A. Approve Easement Agreement with Elkhorn Ridge @ Frawley Ranches, LLC for the purposes of constructing a sidewalk adjacent to Colorado Loop.
  • B. Approve Change Order #1 for the Mountain View Elementary project with an increase of $17,270.80 and a decrease of $3,247.20, with a net decrease of $14,023.60 (2.97%).
  • C. Approve the Certificate of Final Completion and Acceptance for the Airport Terminal Project setting November 14, 2025 as the start of the one (1) year warranty and authorizing the Mayor to sign all related documents.
  • D. Approve advertising for a replacement mechanic.
    1. Approve the Bills
  • A. Approve the Bill List dated August 3, 2026.
  • B. Approve the salary expense, bank fees and credit card fees for the month of July 2026.
    1. Publication of wages per SDCL 6-1-10

605Buzz reproduces the numbered item lines from that file and nothing else. Lines the city labels Petitioner, Property Owner, Location or Staff Report are not reproduced here, and neither is a street address; the agenda packet is not read at all. Where an item names a person — an official presenting it, or a resident being appointed to something — that name is part of the item the city wrote, and it stands as written. The text is the plain-text rendering the city's own portal returns for that file. Nothing above is a summary, and an item on an agenda is something a body may consider rather than something it did.

This article records only that the city's portal lists this meeting. It is not a record of what any meeting decided, it does not state that a meeting took place, and no outcome, vote or decision is implied. Nothing in any agenda, packet or minutes document is summarised here.

Meetings are cancelled, rescheduled and re-noticed, and the portal publishes no field for any of that. Where the city has said so, it says so inside the listing's own title, quoted above exactly as published — and where it has not, 605Buzz cannot report a cancellation the city has not stated, and does not infer one from a missing document. Check the city's own page for this meeting before relying on anything here.

This article was assembled from the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page.

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