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  "title": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists \"City Council Meeting\" for Feb. 2, 2026",
  "dek": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for Feb. 2, 2026. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.",
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  "bodyMd": "the City of Spearfish lists [**City Council Meeting**](https://spearfishsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/49/overview) for Feb. 2, 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 17:30 on Feb. 2, 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 · City Council Regular Session Agenda 2/2/2026 · posted Jan. 30, 2026\n- Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 2/2/2026 · posted Jan. 30, 2026\n- Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 02/02/2026 · posted Feb. 6, 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 41 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 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. Call to Order\n- 2. Roll Call\n- 3. Invocation \\(participation welcomed, but not mandatory\\)\n- A. Countryside Church\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. Items from Visitors\n- A. Presentation on improvements at Exit 10 by SDDOT.\n- 9. Consent Agenda\n- A. Approve the minutes of the January 14, 2026, City Council study session.\n- B. Approve the minutes of the January 20, 2026, City Council regular session.\n- C. Approve the 2025 Spearfish Community Pantry Annual Report.\n- D. Added and Adjusted Wages \"No Action Required — For Informational Purposes Only\" Employee Position Wage Effective Reason Date Lita Eddy executive assistant $32.04 1/22/2026 new hire Abbey Larson pw project 1/19/2026 lateral transfer engineer Sean Davis firefighter $31.25 2/2/2026 New hire\n- E. Approve the 2026 Volunteer List for workers' compensation coverage.\n- G. Request authorization to hire the following 2026 budgeted regular positions. Regular Positions Budgeted Position Wage utilities operator yes G12/S5 - $28.32 \\(lateral transfer\\) utilities operator yes G12/S3 - $26.95 customer service asst yes G9/S1- $22.12\n- 10. City Attorney\n- A. Approve first amendment of development agreement with Stencil Group II, LLC.\n- B. Present Attorney General Official Opinion 26-02 responding to City Council's questions regarding City Ordinance § 32.08\n- C. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1416 - An Ordinance Amending Title III: Administration, Chapter 32 Officers and Employees of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish\n- D. Approve Separation, General Release and Waiver, and Settlement Agreement between the City and Robert J. Falcon\n- 11. Finance\n- A. Hold a public hearing to consider an application from Doug Markworth of Northern Hills Cinema for the transfer of a retail \\(on-off sale\\) malt beverage & SD farm wine license from Steele Inc. dba Northern Hills Cinema to Northern Hills Cinema LLC dba\n- 1. Approve the application from Doug Markworth of Northern Hills Cinema for the transfer of a retail \\(on-off sale\\) malt beverage & SD farm wine license from Steele Inc. dba Northern Hills Cinema to Northern Hills Cinema LLC dba Northern Hills\n- B. Ratify the change of location for the special event on-sale liquor licenses for Spearfish Public House and Spearfish Canyon Lodge for the January 24, 2026 ChinookFest BeerFest from the Lookout Amphitheater to the Tretheway Pavilion.\n- C. Approve abatements for 10 months of property taxes on 10 parcels in Sky Ridge Subdivison.\n- D. Approve the engagement agreement with Ketel Thorstenson, LLP for 2025 audit services.\n- 12. Public Safety\n- A. Authorize the funding for three police officer positions not currently funded within the 2026 Police Department budget, at a maximum cost of $309,765, with final budget supplement amount to be determined after filling the positions.\n- B. Approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 1415 - An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 92: Health and Sanitation; Nuisances.\n- 13. Public Works\n- A. Approve Resolution 2026-03 - A Resolution Authorizing the Submission of an Application to the Federal Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development \\(BUILD\\) Grant Program.\n- 14. Approve the Bills\n- A. Approve the Bill List dated February 2, 2026.\n- B. Approve the salary expense, bank fees and credit card fees for the month of January 2026.\n- 15. Mayor and Council Discussion\n- A. Discuss the snow removal options from the Snow Removal Committee that were presented to council at the 1/14/26 Study Session and provide direction to staff on what items to bring forward for council approval.\n- 16. Departmental Discussion\n- 17. 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/49/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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