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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Study Session" for Oct. 29, 2025

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Article identifier: meeting-spearfish-civicclerk-1995

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    Expanded reading — 605Buzz began publishing part of this record it had not published before; the record itself did not change

    605Buzz began publishing the numbered item lines from the agenda file this article already linked to

    The body text changed; the headline did not. (compared against version 2)

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    • 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. South Dakota keeps two time zones — Central east of the Missouri River, Mountain west of it — so 605Buzz prints the city's own wall clock rather than converting it for anyone.
    • - Agenda · City Council Study Session Agenda 10/29/2025. · posted 2025-10-28
    • - Agenda Packet · Updated City Council Study Session Packet 10-29-2025 · posted 2025-10-29
    • - Minutes · City Council Study Session Minutes 10/29/2025 · posted 2025-11-03
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.spearfish.gov/AgendaCenter). See the [corrections ledger](/corrections) if a field is wrong.

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    • 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.
    • - Agenda · City Council Study Session Agenda 10/29/2025. · posted Oct. 28, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · Updated City Council Study Session Packet 10-29-2025 · posted Oct. 29, 2025
    • - Minutes · City Council Study Session Minutes 10/29/2025 · posted Nov. 3, 2025
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.spearfish.gov/AgendaCenter).

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    • 605Buzz does not fetch, parse or 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.

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    • 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 10 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1. Approve Agenda
    • - 2. Review City Council Agenda
    • - A. Review the City Council Agenda for 11/3/2025.
    • - 3. Items for Discussion
    • - A. Discuss the two off-sale liquor licenses and one on-off sale liquor license available.
    • - B. Spearfish Safety Action Plan Update
    • - C. Review on the Clarion Contract with an update on progess.
    • - 4. Public Comment
    • - 5. Departmental Discussion
    • - 6. 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.

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