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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Study Session" for Nov. 12, 2025

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Article identifier: meeting-spearfish-civicclerk-1997

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  1. Version 4

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    The body text changed; the headline did not. (compared against version 3)

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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.
    • 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.
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.spearfish.gov/AgendaCenter).

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    • - Agenda · City Council Study Session 11/12/2025 Agenda · posted 2025-11-10
    • - Agenda Packet · City Council Study Session Packet 11/12/2025 · posted 2025-11-10
    • - Minutes · City Council Study Session Minutes 11-12-2025 · posted 2025-11-17

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    • - Agenda · City Council Study Session 11/12/2025 Agenda · posted Nov. 10, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · City Council Study Session Packet 11/12/2025 · posted Nov. 10, 2025
    • - Minutes · City Council Study Session Minutes 11-12-2025 · posted Nov. 17, 2025

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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 9 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 11/17/2025.
    • - 3. Items for Discussion
    • - A. Discussion on the Special Maintenance Fee for 2026 taxes payable in 2027.
    • - B. Discussion and determination of election date for the City for implementation of HB1130 from the 2025 SD legislative session.
    • - 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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