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  "slug": "meeting-spearfish-civicclerk-54",
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  "title": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists \"City Council Meeting\" for July 6, 2026",
  "dek": "The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists this entry under the category City Council for July 6, 2026. A listing is a notice, not a record of anything that happened.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-08-08T01:14:22.867Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-08T12:04:47.079Z",
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  "bodyMd": "the City of Spearfish lists [**City Council Meeting**](https://spearfishsd.portal.civicclerk.com/event/54/overview) for July 6, 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 July 6, 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 7/6/2026 · posted July 2, 2026\n- Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 7/6/2026 · posted July 2, 2026\n- Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 7/6/2026 · posted July 9, 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 49 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 40 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 9 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- 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 June 10, 2026, City Council study session.\n- B. Approve the minutes of the June 15, 2026, City Council regular session.\n- C. Approve the minutes of the June 22, 2026 City Council special session.\n- D. Add Grant Koening to the 2026 Rec Center volunteer list.\n- E. Approve a Temporary Construction Easement Agreement, between the property owner\n- 9. Items From Visitors\n- A. BHSU Foundation — Request all building permit fees, tap fees, meter costs, and fire suppression fees be waived for the construction of a new 10-plex unit at an amount not to exceed $30,000.\n- 10. Added or Adjusted Wages\n- 11. Community Development\n- A. Ordinance Revisions Associated with Engineering Design Standards.\n- 1. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1419 — An Ordinance Amending The Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 50: Utilities Generally.\n- 2. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1420 — An Ordinance Amending The Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 52: Water.\n- 3. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1421 — An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 53: Sanitary Sewer Service.\n- 4. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1422 — An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 96: Parks and Recreation.\n- 5. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1423 — An Ordinance Repealing and Replacing The Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 151: Flood Prevention and Protection.\n- 6. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1424 - An Ordinance amending The Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 153: Public Ways and Property.\n- 7. Hold a public hearing and approve the second reading of Ordinance 1425 — An Ordinance Repealing and Replacing The Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 154: Subdivisions.\n- B. Approve Resolution 2026-09 - A Resolution to Adopt the Engineering Design Standards.\n- D. Approve a special exception for completing public infrastructure before recording of a final plat pursuant to City Code Section 154.023.\n- 12. Finance\n- A. Adopt Resolution 2026-17 - A Resolution Levying an Annual Special Maintenance Fee for Street Surfaces.\n- 13. Police\n- A. Authorize staff to continue discussions with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office to begin the consolidation process for our dispatch centers.\n- B. Follow up on the Spearfish Police Department enforcement approach for motorized bikes in Spearfish\n- 14. Public Works\n- A. Award the lowest responsive and responsible bid for the Airport Apron project to North Star Construction, at a total amount of $4,505,800.77.\n- B. Award the lowest responsive and responsible bid for the Campground Water Line Project to AusCar X, LLC at a total amount of $450,020.30.\n- C. Award the lowest responsive and responsible bid for the Yellowstone Place & Wyoming Ct Drainage Project to American Contracting and Consulting, LLC at a total amount of $372,568.10.\n- D. Approve the Temporary Construction Agreement with Hills View Homes for temporary use of the City-owned property in and adjacent to Sky Ridge Subdivision.\n- E. Approve the Final Under/Over Change Order \\#3 for the Rainbow Road Box Culvert project with a net increase of $9,698.82.\n- 15. Approve the Bills\n- A. Approve the Bill List dated July 6, 2026.\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/54/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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