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The City of Mitchell's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for July 21, 2025

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Article identifier: meeting-mitchell-civicclerk-1415

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  1. Version 3

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    operator: moved this desk's methodology out of the article text into the collapsed 'How this desk works' footer, where the rest of the desk already carries it. The same explanations are still on the page. No fact about the road changed, and no sentence was newly written.

    The body text changed; the headline did not. (compared against version 2)

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    • 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. South Dakota keeps two time zones — Central east of the Missouri River, Mountain west of it — so 605Buzz prints the city's own wall clock rather than converting it for anyone.
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Mitchell's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.cityofmitchellsd.gov/AgendaCenter). See the [corrections ledger](/corrections) if a field is wrong.

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    • 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.
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Mitchell's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.cityofmitchellsd.gov/AgendaCenter).

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    605Buzz began publishing the numbered item lines from the agenda file this article already linked to

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    • 605Buzz does not fetch, parse or 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.

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    • 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 39 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 33 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 6 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.
    • - 1. 6:00 PM Call to Order
    • - 2. Pledge Of Allegiance
    • - 3. Invocation: United Church of Christ
    • - 4. Roll Call
    • - 5. Approval Of Consent Agenda Items Items appearing on the Consent Agenda may be removed by a City Council Member for discussion at the beginning of the formal agenda items.
    • - A. City Council Minutes
    • - B. Committee Reports
    • - C. Department Reports
    • - D. Raffle Permits
    • - F. Special Event Permit Application Tour de Corn on August 16, 2025 Parking Lot Closure \($50 Fee\) Street Closure \($100 Fee\) Parade Permit \($50 Fee\)
    • - G. Declare Surplus Existing Corn Palace Seats to be Sold on Purple Wave or Destroyed
    • - I. Volunteer List
    • - J. Volunteer Board Appointments • Appoint Ed Goff to the Parks & Recreation Board for a Term Running From July 2025-June 2028
    • - K. Set Date 1:30 PM, July 29, 2025 for Bid Opening for Corn Palace Murals Project \#2025-40
    • - L. Approval of Gasoline & Fuel Quotes
    • - M. Pay Estimates
    • - N. Approve Bills, Payroll, Salary Adjustments and New Hires, and Authorize Payment of Recurring and Other Expenses in Advance as Approved by the Finance Officer
    • - 6. Motion To Approve, Request Public Comment, Roll Call
    • - 8. Mayor & City Council Discussion Items
    • - 9. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT: Entertain a Motion For The City Council To Recess And Sit As The Board Of Adjustment
    • - A. Action to Set Date for Board of Adjustment Hearing 8-4-25 James Bauder has applied for a Variance Permit for a rear yard setback of 14’ vs
    • - 10. RECONVENE AS CITY COUNCIL: Entertain a Motion For The Board of Adjustment To Adjourn And The City Council To Reconvene In Regular Session
    • - 11. Hearing and Action on the following Alcohol License Applications
    • - c. Transfer of RB-26966 Retail \(on-off sale\) Malt Beverage & SD Farm Wine License
    • - d. Transfer of RB-26967 Retail \(on-off sale\) Malt Beverage & SD Farm Wine License
    • - 12. Action to Award Bid for Cadwell Infield Improvements \#2025-23 \(Tabled from the July 7, 2025 City Council Meeting\)
    • - 13. Action to Award Bid for Street Sweeper Project \#2025-38
    • - 14. Action to Approve Moving Forward with the Corn Palace Renovation Project at a Cost of up to $23,000,000 to be Financed and Paid by the City of Mitchell
    • - 15. Action to Approve Agreement \#A2025-43, Level III Cultural Resources Survey at Firesteel Park with Kogel Archaeological Consulting Services \(KACS\)
    • - 16. Action to Approve Agreement \#A2025-44, Lifequest Microhome Village Project with District III Planning & Development
    • - 17. Action to Approve Agreement \#A2025-45, Tax Increment District 43 Developer Agreement-Peaceful Pines
    • - 19. Motion to Enter into Executive Session According to SDCL 1-25-2 \(3\) Legal and \(4\) Employee Negotiations
    • - 20. Adjourn
    • 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.

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