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Minnehaha County's meeting portal lists "January 20 County Commission Meeting" for Jan. 20, 2026

Minnehaha County's meeting portal lists this entry under the category Board of Commissioners for Jan. 20, 2026. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.

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Key facts

What
Government
When
Record date Jan. 20, 2026; Added Aug. 8, 2026
Source
County commission meetings
Read time
About 4 minutes

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Minnehaha County lists January 20 County Commission Meeting for Jan. 20, 2026 on its public meeting portal.

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

The portal gives the time as 09:00 on Jan. 20, 2026. 605Buzz reads that as the county's own clock: 9 a.m. CST.

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

  • Agenda · January 20 County Commission Meeting Agenda · posted Jan. 16, 2026
  • Agenda Packet · January 20 County Commission Meeting Packet · posted Jan. 16, 2026
  • Minutes · Minutes from January 20, 2026 · posted Jan. 21, 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 county's own page.

The county's agenda for this meeting lists 27 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the county wrote them:

  • 1) Consider Motion to Approve Agenda
  • 2) Approve the Commission Meeting Minutes for January 6, 2026
  • 3) Bills to be Paid $4,757,840.93
  • 4) Reports
  • a) December 2025 Building Permit Report
  • b) Register of Deeds Statement of Revenue for December 2025
  • c) Mobile Crisis Team Statistics for December 2025
  • d) Sioux Falls Area Humane Society Service Report for December 2025
  • e) Highway Monthly Construction Updates for January 2026
  • 5) Personnel Actions
  • a) Memorandum of Personnel Actions for Approval and Notice
  • 6) Abatement Applications for Approval
  • a) Memorandum of 26 Abatement Applications for Approval
  • 7) Items within Policy Guidelines
  • a) Annual Review of the Power Outage Response Protocol
  • b) Resolution for Correction of DPNO 90657
  • c) Resolution for Release of Lien - DPNO 121313
  • 8) Consider a Motion to Authorize the Jail to Purchase a 2026 Dodge Durango from Wegner Auto off of South Dakota Bid Contract #17968 in the amount of $41,672 - Mike Mattson, Jail Warden
  • 9) Consider a Motion to Authorize the Chair to Sign the Jail Security Electronics Service Agreement and Addendum with Accurate Controls Inc. - Mike Mattson, Jail Warden
  • 10) Consider a Motion to Approve a Quote in the amount of $21,893.83 from Accurate Controls Inc. for Jail Electronic Security Updates - Mike Mattson, Jail Warden
  • 11) Consider a Motion to Authorize the Highway Department to Purchase a 2026 Ford F-550 under the State of South Dakota Procurement Contract #17966 in the Amount of $63,129.00 and Authorize Chair to Sign Purchase Agreement with Lamb Motor Company - Jacob Maras, Highway Superintendent
  • 12) Consider a Motion to Authorize the Highway Department to Purchase a JCB 3TS-8T Tracked Skid Loader in the Amount of $99,260.00 under Sourcewell RFP #020223 Contract and Authorize Chair to Sign Purchase Agreement with DMI (Diesel Machinery, Inc.) - Jacob Maras, Highway Superintendent
  • 13) Consider a Motion to Approve a Resolution Appointing a Member of the County Commission to the Sioux Empire Fair Association Board of Directors - Tom Greco, Commission Administrative Officer
  • 14) Consider a Petition to Compromise County Aid Lien DPNO 46902 - Sandy Kinder, Commission Assistant
  • 15) Briefing of 4th Quarter 2025 American Rescue Plan Expenditures - Susan Beaman, Finance & Budget Officer
  • 16) Annual Review of the Rules of Procedure - Meredith Jarchow, Assistant Commission AO
  • 17) Legislative Update - Meredith Jarchow, Assistant Commission AO

605Buzz reproduces the numbered item lines from that file and nothing else. Lines the county 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 county wrote, and it stands as written. The text is the plain-text rendering the county'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 county'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 — nor, unlike some city portals, any wording of its own in a title. So 605Buzz cannot report a cancellation the county has not stated, and does not infer one from a missing document. Check the county's own page for this meeting before relying on anything here.

This article was assembled from Minnehaha County's public meeting information page.

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