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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for Aug. 17, 2026

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Aug. 17, 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. 17, 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. 17, 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 8/17/2026 · posted Aug. 14, 2026
  • Agenda Packet · Updated City Council Regular Session Packet 8/17/2026 · posted Aug. 17, 2026
  • Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 8/17/2026 · posted Aug. 25, 2026

605Buzz does not summarise those documents. Minutes are produced after a meeting rather than before one; what they say is not reproduced here. Follow the link above to read them at the city's own page.

The city's agenda for this meeting lists 51 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 11 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. Grace Fellowship
    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. Items from Visitors
  • A. Mayor Senden to proclaim August 26, 2026 as Women's Equality Day in the City of Spearfish.
  • B. Mayor Senden to proclaim Spearfish Bike Week as August 30 through September 6, 2026.
    1. Consent Agenda
  • A. Approve the minutes of the July 29, 2026, City Council study session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the August 3, 2026, City Council regular session.
  • C. Approve the minutes of the August 3, 2026 Board of Adjustments meeting.
  • D. Approve the Treasurer's Report dated July 31st, 2026.
  • E. Approve Temporary Construction Easements for the Yellowstone Place Drainage project.
    1. Added or Adjusted Wages
  • A. Approve the following wage additions and adjustments as budgeted for 2026: Regular Position Budgeted Position Wage Communication Officer Yes $26.95 Police Officer Yes $32.84 Rec Asst (pt) Yes $22.67
    1. Community Development
    1. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1428 rezoning approximately 4.7 acres in Tax Increment District #8 from Heavy Industrial (IH) to Highway Service Commercial (C2).
    1. Finance
  • A. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1429 - An Ordinance Supplementing the 2026 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1408 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
  • B. Acknowledge the Assignment between Spearfish Multifamily, LLC and South Dakota Housing Development Authority for the assignment of tax increment revenues from Tax Increment Finance District #9.
  • C. Acknowledge the Assignment between Spearfish Multifamily, LLC and Minnwest Bank for the assignment of tax increment revenues from Tax Increment Finance District #9.
  • D. 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 Spearfish Museum
    1. Approve the application.
  • E. Approve an application from Lee Eddy with Sawyer Brewing for a special event malt beverage license at the Campground Trails Grand Opening and Dedication on August 29, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Spearfish City Campground near the ice skating rink.
  • F. Approve an application from John Williams with Spearfish Brewing Company for a special event malt beverage license at the Campground Trails Grand Opening and Dedication on August 29, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Spearfish City Campground near the ice skating rink.
  • G. Approve an application from Josh Fritz with Spearfish Public House for a special event on-sale liquor license for the Dakota Five-0 Pre-Party on September 4, 2026, from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Spearfish City Park.
    1. Human Resources
  • A. Approve the employment contract for City Attorney - Ashley McDonald.
  • B. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1430 - An Ordinance Adopting the Revisions to the City of Spearfish Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual.
    1. Police
  • A. Approve the proposal from Convergint to replace the City Hall/Police Department camera system at a cost of $123,107.97 plus $1,200 for software licenses.
    1. Public Works
  • A. Approve Mead & Hunt proposal for construction staking, materials testing and administration services for the Airport Water Main Extension Project at a cost not to exceed $78,000.
  • B. Approve Change Order #4 for the Colorado Boulevard Roadway Improvements project with an increase of $29,434.35.
  • C. Five motions will follow this summary, authorizing staff to order now various needed vehicles and equipment requested in the 2027 Public Works budget.
    1. Authorize staff to order a plow/dump truck for $272,980.00 from Sanitation Products Inc.

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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.

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