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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Regular Session 8-4-2025" for Aug. 4, 2025

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Aug. 4, 2025. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.

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the City of Spearfish lists City Council Regular Session 8-4-2025 for Aug. 4, 2025 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 16:15 on Aug. 4, 2025, 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 Agenda 8-4-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025
  • Agenda Packet · City Council Packet 8-4-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025
  • Minutes · City Council Minutes 8-4-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025

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The city's agenda for this meeting lists 43 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 3 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

    1. Call to Order
    1. Roll Call
    1. Invocation (participation welcome, but not mandatory)
    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 21, 2025 City Council regular session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the July 30, 2025 City Council study session.
  • C. Added and Adjusted Wages – For Informational Purposes Only. Effective Employee Position Wage Stipend Date Reason Hess, Matt Police Officer $ 32.25 7/2/2025 Rehire
    1. City Attorney
  • A. Review the sealed bids for decision for Sandstone Parcel Lot 18 H-1 Block 14.
  • B. Approve Real Estate Purchase Agreement between City, SEDC and Platinum Investment, LLC for sale of real property in TIF District #8.
  • C. Approve Real Estate Purchase Agreement between City, SEDC, and Hills View Homes for twelve additional lots at Sky Ridge Subdivision.
  • D. Approve Resolution 2025-45 – A Resolution of Intent to Enter Into a Hayfield Lease Agreement for Certain Airport Property.
  • E. Approve Resolution 2025-46 to transfer Lots 3 – 7 of Block 3, and Lots 14 – 20 of Block 4 of Sky Ridge Subdivision to Spearfish Economic Development Corporation.
  • F. Approve amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Spearfish Trails Coalition.
    1. Finance
  • A. Hold public hearing to consider an applications from Brenda Thanh Vu with Spearfish Nail & Beauty House to receive a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license and a
  • 1) Approve the licenses.
  • B. Begin the process to sell two off-sale liquor and on on-sale liquor licenses.
  • C. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1403 – An Ordinance Supplementing the 2025 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1392 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
    1. Human Resources
  • A. Adopt the Condrey and Associates Job Classification and Compensation Plan for The City of Spearfish SD, dated July 2025, with an effective date of implementation retroactive to June 22, 2025.
    1. Parks
  • A. Adopt Phase 1 of the Spearfish Creek Preservation Plan.
    1. Planning and Zoning
  • A. Award a contract with Clarion Associates, for completion of a zoning and subdivision regulations analysis and recommendations report.
  • B. Ratify the Professional Services Agreement with SRF Consulting for the development of a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Safety Action Plan.
  • C. Approve the Water and Sewer Service Line Agreement with S&S Hospitality for Subdivision
    1. Public Works
  • A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-39 – A Resolution to Enter into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement.
  • 1) Approve Resolution 2025-39.
  • B. Approve HDR amendment proposal for additional design and contract administration services for the East Colorado Boulevard Roadway Improvements Project #2023-04 to extend the improvements west of the proposed Eastside Avenue intersection at an additional cost of $87,866.00.
  • C. Approve Resolution 2025-42 - A Resolution of Intent to Enter into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement.
  • D. Approve KLJ Engineering, LLC supplemental to agreement for engineering services for the Elkhorn Lift Station. The supplemental cost to the agreement is at a total of $14,000.00.
  • E. Approve Black Hills Power construction services agreement for removal of existing pole with meter loop and installation of stand alone meter pedestal at a cost of $3,917.66.
    1. Approve the bill list dated August 4, 2025.
    1. Mayor and Council Discussion

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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.

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