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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for Nov. 3, 2025

The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Nov. 3, 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. 3, 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. 3, 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 · Agenda City Council Regular Session 11-3-2025 · posted Oct. 31, 2025
  • Agenda Packet · Packet City Council Regular Session 11-3-2025 · posted Oct. 31, 2025
  • Minutes · City Council Minutes 11-3-2025 · posted Nov. 5, 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 46 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 6 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

    1. Call to Order
    1. Roll Call
    1. Invocation
    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 15, 2025 City Council study session.
  • B. Approve the minutes of the October 20, 2025, City Council regular session.
    1. Items from Visitor
  • A. Mayor Senden to proclaim November 11, 2025, as VFW Buddy Poppy Day in Spearfish, South Dakota.
  • B. Heath Johnson, Executive Director of The Matthew's Opera House and Arts Center, request a $35,500 matching grant and waiving of the building permit fees for the Back Exit Stairwell Reconstruction project.
    1. City Attorney
  • A. Approve Real Estate Purchase Agreement between City, SEDC and Hills View Homes for the sale of ten additional lots in Sky Ridge Subdivision to Hills View Homes for the construction of new homes.
  • B. Approve Resolution 2025-55 authorizing the transfer of ten lots from the City to SEDC
    1. Finance
  • B. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Emmett Reistroffer of Genesis
    1. Approve the application from Genesis Farms, LLC for a cannabis establishment license.
  • C. Approve the 2026 liquor and wine license renewal applications for businesses on the attached list.
  • D. Approve Resolution 2025-56 - A Resolution in Support of an Application for Financial Assistance to the South Dakota Housing and Development Authority by Elkhorn Ridge Apartments, LLC, and/or its Affiliates, Agents, or Assigns, for the Benefit of Multifamily Development.
  • E. Set bid opening for January 20, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. for two off-sale liquor licenses, with a minimum bid of $100,000 each, and one on-sale liquor license, with a minimum bid of $300,000.
    1. Human Resources
  • A. Approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 1405 An Ordinance Adopting the Revisions to the City of Spearfish Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual.
    1. Parks and Recreation
  • A. Approve Resolution 2025-54: A Resolution to Set Fees Charged by the City, effective December 1st 2025.
  • B. Approve the first amendment to the skate park construction agreement.
  • C. Approve the certificate of completion and the final change order in the amount of $0, and set the date of the three-year warranty as October 1st, 2025.
    1. Planning and Zoning
  • A. Approve a preliminary plat of Lots 2 through 6 of Tract R, False Bottom Addition.
    1. Public Works
  • A. Approve Change Order #2 for the Airport Terminal Building project for a net increase of $14,708.97.
  • B. Approve IMS proposal for roadway pavement condition survey services to include pavement data collection, analysis, and management report for a total of $64,807.69.
  • C. Approve the Joint Powers Maintenance and Financial Agreement with SD DOT for the weather cameras at Black Hills Airport and authorize Mayor Senden and staff to sign all documents relating to the project grant funding.
  • D. Approve the Joint Powers Financial Agreement with SD DOT for the funding for the Black Hills Flyin event and authorize Mayor and staff to sign all documents necessary for the project.
  • E. Approve Change Order # 1 for the Fire Training Center Grading project for a net increase of $1,470.00.
    1. Approve the Bills
  • A. Approve the Bill list dated November 3, 2025.
  • B. Approve the salary expense, bank fees, and credit card fees for the month of October 2025
    1. Mayor and Council Discussion

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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