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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for Nov. 17, 2025

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Nov. 17, 2025. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.

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the City of Spearfish lists City Council Meeting for Nov. 17, 2025 on its public meeting portal.

The 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.

The portal gives the time as 17:30 on Nov. 17, 2025, printed exactly as published.

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.

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

  • Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 11/17/2025 · posted Nov. 14, 2025
  • Agenda Packet · Updated City Council Regular Session Packet 11/17/2025 · posted Nov. 17, 2025
  • Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 11/17/2025 · posted Nov. 21, 2025

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 37 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 36 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 1 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

    1. Call to Order
    1. Roll Call
    1. Invocation
  • A. Our Savior Lutheran Church
    1. Pledge of Allegiance
    1. Approve Agenda
    1. 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.
    1. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
    1. Consent Agenda
  • A. Approve the minutes of the October 29, 2025 City Council study session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the November 3, 2025 City Council regular session.
  • C. Approve the Treasurer's Report dated October 31, 2025.
  • D. Approve event sponsorships recommended by Visit Spearfish board.
    1. Items from Visitor
  • A. Mayor Senden to proclaim Spearfish, South Dakota, as an official America's 250th South Dakota Community.
    1. City Attorney
  • A. Request for City Council to approve a motion granting a special exception pursuant to City Ordinance § 154.023(A) allowing a delay in the completion of public improvements by the City within the McLaughlin Sawmill TIF District (e.g., Sawmill Road).
    1. Finance
  • C. Approve the Credit Card Acceptancy Policy.
    1. Planning and Zoning
  • A. Vacate a portion of the North Avenue Right of Way adjoining Lot C-1 of Lot C of Lots 9 and 13.
    1. Public Works
  • A. Award the lowest responsive and responsible bid for the Rainbow Road Box Culvert project to North Star Construction Inc in the amount of $479,324.32.
  • B. Approve Mead & Hunt proposal for engineering services to design the Airport Terminal Apron for a total of $421,475.00.
  • C. Approve Change Order #2 for the E Colorado Boulevard Roadway Improvements Project for a net increase of $100,781.17.
  • D. Approve the Final Under/Over Change Order #1 for the WWTP EQ Basin and Fencing with a $7,175.64 increase and a $0 decrease, for a net increase of $7,175.64 and a Certificate of Final Completion and Acceptance setting October 31st, 2025 as the start the two (2) year warranty.
  • E. Approve the purchase of two Mid-Size SUV's in 2026 for an increase of $90,000, canceling the budgeted purchase of one Large SUV for a decrease of $65,000, resulting in a net increase of $25,000 to the 2026 Motor Pool Budget.
  • F. Approve the purchase of new vehicles and equipment in 2026 for $558,100.
    1. Approve the Bills
  • A. Approve the Bill List dated November 17, 2025.
    1. Mayor and Council Discussion
  • A. Discussion on formulation of personnel committee.
    1. Departmental Discussion
    1. Executive Session
  • A. Hold an executive session pursuant to SDCL 1-25-2(3) for the sole purpose of consulting with legal counsel or reviewing communications from legal counsel about proposed or pending litigation or contractual matters.
    1. Adjournment

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.

This 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.

Meetings 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 before relying on anything here.

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