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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for Oct. 6, 2025

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Oct. 6, 2025. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.

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Key facts

What
Government
When
Record date Oct. 6, 2025; Added Aug. 8, 2026
Where
Spearfish
Source
City meetings — Mitchell, Spearfish, Madison
Read time
About 6 minutes

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the City of Spearfish lists City Council Meeting for Oct. 6, 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 Oct. 6, 2025. 605Buzz reads that as the city's own clock: 5:30 p.m. MDT.

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

  • Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 10-6-2025 · posted Oct. 3, 2025
  • Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 10-6-2025 · posted Oct. 3, 2025
  • Minutes · City Council Draft minutes 10/06/2025 · posted Oct. 10, 2025

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The city's agenda for this meeting lists 51 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 11 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

    1. Call to Order
    1. Roll Call
    1. Invocation (participation welcomed, but not mandatory)
  • A. St. Joseph's Catholic 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 September 10, 2025 City Council study session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the September 15, 2025 City Council regular session minutes.
  • C. Added and Adjusted Wages "No Action Required — For Informational Purposes Only" Employee Position Wage Effective Date Reason Move from Recreation seasonal position Emily Franklin $21.54 8/31/2025 Assistant - PT to a regular position Daesha Erskin Police officer $31.97 10/06/2025 New hire
  • D. Ratify the signature of the mayor on the preapplication documents for the Black Hills Airport representing the City's desire to construct the Terminal Apron Expansion project with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant funding.
  • E. Approve the temporary sewer line easement agreement between City of Spearfish and 2- BAR-T Ranch East, L.L.C.
    1. Engineering
  • A. Approve West Plains Engineering Inc. design proposal for electrical design, bidding and construction administration services for the Fire Training Tower project at a cost of $12,250.
    1. Finance
  • A. Approve an application from Brian Clift with False Bottom Bar for a special on-sale liquor license for a wedding on June 13, 2026 from 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the Joy
  • B. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Brandon Flanagan for the transfer of a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license and a retail (on-off sale) wine and cider license from Michael Staeckeler of Berlin to Flanagan's Irish Pub located at
    1. Approve the transfer of a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license and a retail (on-off sale) wine and cider license.
  • C. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Daryl Knott of The Original Spearfish Breakfast House for a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license
    1. Approve the application from The Original Spearfish Breakfast House for a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license.
  • D. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Ryan Crotty for the transfer of a retail (on-off sale) malt beverage & SD farm wine license and a package (off-sale) liquor license from Speedy Mart, Inc. d/b/a Exit 8 Phillips 66 to Crotty Enterprises LLC d/b/a
    1. Approve the application to transfer a malt beverage and a package liquor license from Speedy Mart, Inc. to Crotty Enterprises LLC.
    1. Human Resources
  • A. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1405 - An Ordinance Adopting The Revisions To The City Of Spearfish Personnel Policies And Procedures Manual
    1. Parks and Recreation
  • A. Approve Resolution 2025-52. A Resolution of Intent to Enter into a Lease Agreement of certain City property with the Northern Hills Amateur Hockey Association.
    1. Planning and Zoning
  • A. Approve a final plat within the Extraterritorial Jurisdictional (ETJ) area.
  • B. Hold a public hearing for the second reading of Ordinance 1407 - An Ordinance Amending Appendix A - Zoning of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish by
    1. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1407 - An Ordinance Amending Appendix A - Zoning of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish by Zoning Certain Property.
    1. Public Safety
  • A. Approve the Memorandum of Understanding between City and Spearfish School District for the provision of School Resource Officers to school district
    1. Public Works
  • A. Approve Final Under-Over Change Order for a decrease of $3,132.25 and approve the Certificate of Completion for the 2025 Mainline Pavement Markings Project.
  • B. Amend the "not-to-exceed" amount for the Interstate Engineering contract for engineering services on the Rainbow Road Box Culvert project #2023-21 which was approved on September 15, 2025 to $84,000.00.
  • C. Approve HDR Amendment #1 to the contract for Stormwater Master Plan to include Task 3 for a total increase of $114,200.00.
  • D. Approve the proposal for the 2025 Fire Training Center Site Grading project received from Zanstra Construction, Inc. for a total of $96,126.
  • E. Approve Assignment and Assumption Agreement to assign Construction Contract from Journey Group to ANCO.

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