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  "slug": "meeting-mitchell-civicclerk-1476",
  "url": "https://605buzz.com/articles/meeting-mitchell-civicclerk-1476",
  "title": "The City of Mitchell's meeting portal lists \"City Council Meeting\" for Jan. 5, 2026",
  "dek": "The City of Mitchell's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Jan. 5, 2026. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-08-08T12:03:22.662Z",
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  "bodyMd": "the City of Mitchell lists [**City Council Meeting**](https://mitchellsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1476/overview) for Jan. 5, 2026 on its public meeting portal.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe portal gives the time as 18:00 on Jan. 5, 2026, printed exactly as published.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe portal is currently offering 3 documents for this entry, named here exactly as the city named them:\n\n- Agenda · January 5, 2026 Agenda · posted Jan. 2, 2026\n- Agenda Packet · January 5, 2026 Agenda Packet · posted Jan. 2, 2026\n- Minutes · January 5, 2026 Council Minutes · posted Jan. 7, 2026\n\n605Buzz 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.\n\nThe city's agenda for this meeting lists 31 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 30 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 1 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.\n\n- 1. 6:00 PM Call to Order\n- 2. Pledge Of Allegiance\n- 3. Invocation: United Church of Christ\n- 4. Roll Call\n- 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.\n- A. City Council Minutes\n- B. Mitchell Republic as the Newspaper Designation for 2026\n- C. Donation of Suppressors in Exchange for Officers Used in Promotional Video\n- D. Change Order \\#1 for AIP '34 Airport Hangar Construction to Pro Contracting\n- E. Set date for January 20, 2026 for Hearing and Action on the Application to Transfer RL-5353 Retail \\(on-sale\\) Liquor License from LAB LLC, 501 South Sanborn to FUPA Adventures LLC dba Double D's, 512 South Sanborn\n- F. Approval of Gasoline & Fuel Quotes\n- G. Pay Estimates\n- H. Approve Bills, Payroll, Salary Adjustments and New Hires, and Authorize Payment of Recurring and Other Expenses in Advance as Approved by the Finance Officer\n- 6. Motion To Approve, Request Public Comment, Roll Call\n- 8. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT: Entertain a Motion For The City Council To Recess And Sit As The Board Of Adjustment\n- A. Action to Set Date for Board of Adjustment Hearing 1-20-26 Bart & Nikki Fredericksen have applied for a Variance Permit for front yard \\(lake side\\) setback of 8’ vs 35’ for the existing addition in 2019 and a new addition of\n- 9. RECONVENE AS CITY COUNCIL: Entertain a Motion For The Board of Adjustment To Adjourn And The City Council To Reconvene In Regular Session\n- 10. Hearing and Action on the following Alcohol License Application to Transfer RL- 19079 Retail \\(on-sale\\) Liquor License from Anisa Deinert dba Jades, 107 North Main\n- 11. Action to Approve 2026 Official Depositories\n- 12. Action to Approve Agreement \\#A2026-01 with designArc Group, LLC for Mitchell Fire Station\n- 13. Action to Approve Agreement \\#A2026-02 with designArc Group, LLC for Mitchell Ice Arena Roof Replacement\n- 14. Action to Approve Agreement \\#A2026-03, Design and Bidding for 12th & Rowley LIft Station Engineering with SPN & Associates Project \\#2026-14\n- 15. Action to Approve Agreement \\#A2026-04, An Agreement Between the City of Mitchell and IAFF Mitchell Firefighters Association Local 4166, Amending the 2026- 2028 Collective Bargaining Agreement\n- 16. Action to Approve Resolution \\#R2026-01, Dissolving Tax Increment District \\#9\n- 17. Action to Approve Resolution \\#R2026-02, A Resolution Amending the 2026 Compensation Plan for the City of Mitchell\n- 18. Action to Approve Resolution \\#R2026-03, Approval of Agreement \\#A2026-06 with South Dakota Department of Transportation and Authorize Mayor to Sign\n- 19. Action to Approve Resolution \\#R2026-04, Vacation of Public Right-of Way, South\n- 20. First Reading on Ordinance \\#O2026-01, Modifying Redevelopment Neighborhood Boundaries for Discretionary Formula Purposes\n- 21. Motion to Enter into Executive Session According to SDCL 1-25-2 \\(3\\) Legal, SDCL 9- 34-19 Trade Secrets or Commercial or Financial Information, and SDCL 19-19-502 Lawyer-Client Communications\n- 22. Adjourn\n\n605Buzz 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nMeetings 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](https://mitchellsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1476/overview) before relying on anything here.\n\nThis article was assembled from [the City of Mitchell's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.cityofmitchellsd.gov/AgendaCenter).",
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