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  "slug": "meeting-spearfish-civicclerk-2139",
  "url": "https://605buzz.com/articles/meeting-spearfish-civicclerk-2139",
  "title": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists \"City Council Regular Session 8-18-2025\" for Aug. 18, 2025",
  "dek": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Aug. 18, 2025. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.",
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  "bodyMd": "the City of Spearfish lists [**City Council Regular Session 8-18-2025**](https://spearfishsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/2139/overview) for Aug. 18, 2025 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 17:30 on Aug. 18, 2025, 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 · City Council Regular Session Agenda 8-18-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025\n- Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 8-18-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025\n- Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes · posted Oct. 2, 2025\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 39 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 37 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 2 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.\n\n- 1. Call to Order\n- 2. Roll Call\n- 3. Invocation \\(participation welcome, but not mandatory\\) Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pastor Luke Bluhm\n- 4. Pledge of Allegiance\n- 5. Approve Agenda\n- 6. 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.\n- 7. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest\n- 8. Consent Agenda\n- A. Approve the minutes of the August 4, 2025 City Council regular session.\n- B. Approve the minutes of the August 13, 2025 City Council study session.\n- C. Approve the Treasurer’s Report dated July 31, 2025\n- 9. City Attorney\n- A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-47 – A Resolution to Enter into a Hayfield Lease Agreement with Gerard Cuka and Justin Williams.\n- 1\\) Approve Resolution 2025-47.\n- 10. Finance\n- A. Approve an application from Leland Ruzicka with B&B Bar for a special on-sale liquor license for a wedding on September 13, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at the Pavilion.\n- D. Abatement of property taxes for 2025 taxes payable in 2026 for 5 lots in Miller Ranch Subdivision that were valued incorrectly.\n- E. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1403 – An Ordinance Supplementing the 2025 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1392 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.\n- F. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1404 – An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Title XI: Business Regulations, Chapter 115 Alcoholic Beverages.\n- 11. Planning and Zoning\n- 12. Public Works\n- A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-43 – A Resolution to Enter Into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement with Waconda Investment SD, LLLP Pursuant to SDCL §9-12-5.2.\n- 1\\) Approve Resolution 2025-43.\n- B. Approve Resolution 2025-44 - A Resolution Declaring Miscellaneous Personal Property Surplus.\n- C. Approve HDR, Inc. proposal for engineering services to include conceptual and preliminary designs for the rehabilitation of the Maurice intake structure of the City’s Hydro Electric Plant for a not-to-exceed fee of $259,092.50.\n- 13. Approve the bill list dated August 18, 2025.\n- 14. Mayor and Council Discussion\n- 15. Departmental Discussion\n- A. 2026 Budgets – Building and Development and Public Safety Departments\n- 16. Adjournment\n- 1. Call to Order\n- 2. Roll Call\n- 3. Approve Agenda\n- 4. Finance\n- A. Ketel Thorstenson LLP to present results of the 2024 financial statement audit during a special session on Monday, August 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.\n- B. Approve the audited 2024 financial statements of the City of Spearfish.\n- 5. Adjournment\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://spearfishsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/2139/overview) before relying on anything here.\n\nThis article was assembled from [the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.spearfish.gov/AgendaCenter).",
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