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City and county meeting notices

676 notices 605Buzz has published from 8 South Dakota governments .

This counts what 605Buzz has published from the seven cities' and one county's meeting feeds and portals — not what the seven cities' and one county's meeting feeds and portals contains. A fetch that falls short yields fewer articles, and the most recent run of this desk did not record that it read the source in full — either it could not finish, or this source offers no signal that would prove it — so this page does not claim to be the whole record.

Everything here is a notice that a city or the county PUBLISHED something. None of it is a record of what a meeting decided, none of it states that a meeting took place, and no outcome, vote or decision is implied. Agendas get amended and meetings get cancelled; none of these systems publishes a field for either, so 605Buzz cannot report a cancellation a government has not stated.

Times on this page are shown exactly as each government published them. South Dakota keeps two time zones — Central east of the Missouri River, Mountain west of it — so 605Buzz does not convert them for anyone. Check the government's own page before setting out. What each system says about its own clock differs, and where that matters it is said here:

A notice on this page last changed: . That is the last time stored facts moved — not how recently the feeds were read, since a re-read that finds nothing changed leaves every row as it was.

Updated automatically from cities’ own published feeds — not yet reviewed by an editor.

Documents posted to an Agenda Center

Newest posting first. The date below is the date the CITY POSTED the document. These feeds state no meeting date at all — any date inside a title is the city’s own text, reproduced without interpretation.

Listed on a city’s governing-body calendar

Entries a city files on a calendar it names for its council, boards or committees. The date and time are reproduced exactly as the city published them — including ranges, which the feeds publish as free text and 605Buzz does not parse.

Listed on the Sioux Falls agenda portal

Newest meeting first. Unlike the sections above, this source states the MEETING date and time, so that is what is shown — exactly as the city published it. The label under each entry is the city’s own meeting type, not 605Buzz’s reading of the title.

Listed on the Minnehaha County meeting portal

Newest meeting first. The only COUNTY on this page — its commission handles zoning outside city limits, the jail, county highways, tax abatements and the election canvas, none of which a city hall answers for. Like the section above, this source states the MEETING date and time; unlike it, the portal marks those times UTC and its own records show that mark is wrong, so what is shown is the county’s own clock reading, unconverted. The label under each entry is the county’s own category, not 605Buzz’s reading of the title.

Listed on the Madison, Mitchell and Spearfish meeting portals

Newest meeting first, three cities in one list. They run the same portal software as the county above and state the same kind of fact — a MEETING date, the city’s own category, and the documents currently posted — which is why they share a section rather than getting one each. Each city’s category vocabulary is its own; 605Buzz reproduces it and does not map it onto anything. Where one of these portals gives a time it is shown unconverted, and where its time field reads midnight no time is shown at all, because none can be read off it.

What this page covers, government by government

605Buzz does not decide which of a government’s listings is a public meeting, and it does not decide which body is meeting. Each city sorts its own calendar into named categories or its own meetings into named types, and the county sorts its meetings into its own categories; this desk uses those. Where a government offers neither, this page says so rather than guessing from the wording of a title.

These eight governments do not all run the same software. Aberdeen, Pierre and Watertown publish through a CivicPlus Agenda Center ; Sioux Falls publishes through an OnBase agenda portal, which states a time zone and was measured to state it correctly ; Minnehaha County, Mitchell, Spearfish and Madison publish through CivicClerk portals, which mark every time UTC and are not . That is why the sections above say different things about dates: an Agenda Center states when a DOCUMENT was posted and never when the meeting is, while the meeting portals state when the MEETING is.

Aberdeen
Agenda Center document postings, plus the calendar the city names “City of Aberdeen Calendar” — where it files its City Council, Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Adjustment meetings.
Pierre
Agenda Center document postings only. Pierre publishes no calendar category named for a governing body: the calendar it does put commission meetings on is called “Home Page Calendar,” which describes where the city renders it rather than what is on it, and 605Buzz will not file a listing as a government meeting on that basis. One consequence is worth knowing: Pierre's calendar carries notice of a commission meeting before the agenda is posted for it, and that forward notice is not here.
Watertown
The calendar the city names “Council, Boards, & Committees.” Watertown's Agenda Center published nothing at all when 605Buzz last read it — its meetings go on the calendar instead — and the empty Agenda Center feed stays subscribed so the day it fills is the day it appears here.
Sioux Falls
The city's OnBase agenda portal, which is a different system from the other three and lists meetings rather than documents. It states a meeting date and time, and it sorts every entry into the city's own meeting types — City Council Meeting, Planning Commission Meetings, Zoning Board of Adjustment, Local Board of Equalization Hearings and a dozen more — which is the classification shown below. 605Buzz reads the window the portal serves by default, which reached back about six months when it was last checked; the portal offers no way to prove that window is everything the city has.
Minnehaha County
The only county here, and a third system again — the county's meeting portal, which lists meetings with a date, a time, and the documents the county has posted for each. It sorts every entry into the county's own categories: Board of Commissioners, Planning Commission, Building Committee, Board of Equalization, Board of Adjustment, Board of Appeals, and three JOINT bodies it shares with Sioux Falls and Dell Rapids. Those joint meetings can appear twice on this page — once because the county gave notice and once because the city did — and 605Buzz does not merge them, because two governments noticing a meeting is two facts. 605Buzz reads the last 400 days rather than the county's whole archive; the county keeps agendas, minutes and video from before 2022 in a separate Archive Center that this portal does not carry.
Mitchell
The city's CivicClerk meeting portal — the same system the county above runs, listing meetings with a date, the city's own category, and the documents currently posted for each. Mitchell also still runs a CivicPlus Agenda Center, which published nothing when 605Buzz last read it. The portal's time field reads exactly midnight on some entries, and where it does no time is shown, because none can be read off it.
Spearfish
The city's CivicClerk meeting portal, on the same terms as Mitchell — and the one government on this page west of the Missouri, which is why no time here is converted for anyone. Most of Spearfish's archive carries a midnight time field rather than a meeting time; those entries show a date and no time.
Madison
The city's CivicClerk meeting portal, on the same terms as Mitchell. Madison's own category list carries both “City Commission” and “Board of Commissioners” and 605Buzz reproduces whichever the city filed an entry under rather than reconciling the two.

What is this?

Every row here is something a South Dakota city or county published on its own website — a document posted to an Agenda Center, an entry on a calendar it files its governing bodies under, or a meeting listed on a meeting portal. Titles are reproduced as the government wrote them and are never summarized, shortened or characterized: one city’s Agenda Center currently carries items titled “No meeting in September 2026.” and a full paragraph of prose, and reading either as a document name would be inventing meaning on the city’s behalf.

That applies to cancellations too. None of these systems has a field for one. Where a city writes it into a title — Sioux Falls has entries reading “(Canceled)” and “- CANCELLED” — those are the city’s own words and you are reading them unaltered. The county’s portal does not even do that: nothing in its titles mentions a cancellation at all. 605Buzz never adds a cancellation of its own, never reads one out of a title, and never concludes one from a missing agenda: an agenda can be missing because a meeting was called off, or simply because next week’s has not been posted yet, and nothing in these sources tells the two apart.

Some meetings are held jointly — Minnehaha County shares planning bodies with Sioux Falls and Dell Rapids — and both governments give notice of them. Those can appear twice on this page. 605Buzz does not merge them, because each row is a record of one government publishing a notice, and dropping either would make a real notice disappear.

The library talks, parks programs and senior-centre activities these same cities publish are a different desk, at /community. They used to be on this one, which is what this split fixed.

See something wrong? Suggest a correction — every correction ships with a diff + timestamp.

This page holds four sources, so it takes a feed each. The CivicPlus cities are JSON or /search. The Sioux Falls portal is JSON or /search.

Minnehaha County is JSON . It is not yet offered as a filter on /search: that page names only desks 605Buzz counts as live, and the county desk is still awaiting its first reviewed run.

Madison, Mitchell and Spearfish share one feed: JSON . Like the county above, it is not yet offered as a filter on /search.