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The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Regular Session 8-18-2025" for Aug. 18, 2025

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  1. Version 4

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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.
    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 39 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 37 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 2 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Invocation \(participation welcome, but not mandatory\) Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pastor Luke Bluhm
    • - 4. Pledge of Allegiance
    • - 5. Approve Agenda
    • - 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.
    • - 7. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
    • - 8. Consent Agenda
    • - A. Approve the minutes of the August 4, 2025 City Council regular session.
    • - B. Approve the minutes of the August 13, 2025 City Council study session.
    • - C. Approve the Treasurer’s Report dated July 31, 2025
    • - 9. City Attorney
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-47 – A Resolution to Enter into a Hayfield Lease Agreement with Gerard Cuka and Justin Williams.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-47.
    • - 10. Finance
    • - A. Approve an application from Leland Ruzicka with B&B Bar for a special on-sale liquor license for a wedding on September 13, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at the Pavilion.
    • - D. Abatement of property taxes for 2025 taxes payable in 2026 for 5 lots in Miller Ranch Subdivision that were valued incorrectly.
    • - E. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1403 – An Ordinance Supplementing the 2025 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1392 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
    • - F. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1404 – An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Title XI: Business Regulations, Chapter 115 Alcoholic Beverages.
    • - 11. Planning and Zoning
    • - 12. Public Works
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-43 – A Resolution to Enter Into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement with Waconda Investment SD, LLLP Pursuant to SDCL §9-12-5.2.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-43.
    • - B. Approve Resolution 2025-44 - A Resolution Declaring Miscellaneous Personal Property Surplus.
    • - C. Approve HDR, Inc. proposal for engineering services to include conceptual and preliminary designs for the rehabilitation of the Maurice intake structure of the City’s Hydro Electric Plant for a not-to-exceed fee of $259,092.50.
    • - 13. Approve the bill list dated August 18, 2025.
    • - 14. Mayor and Council Discussion
    • - 15. Departmental Discussion
    • - A. 2026 Budgets – Building and Development and Public Safety Departments
    • - 16. Adjournment
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Approve Agenda
    • - 4. Finance
    • - A. Ketel Thorstenson LLP to present results of the 2024 financial statement audit during a special session on Monday, August 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.
    • - B. Approve the audited 2024 financial statements of the City of Spearfish.
    • - 5. 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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    • - Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 8-18-2025 · posted 2025-10-02
    • - Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 8-18-2025 · posted 2025-10-02
    • - Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes · posted 2025-10-02
    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 39 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 37 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 2 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Invocation \(participation welcome, but not mandatory\) Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pastor Luke Bluhm
    • - 4. Pledge of Allegiance
    • - 5. Approve Agenda
    • - 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.
    • - 7. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
    • - 8. Consent Agenda
    • - A. Approve the minutes of the August 4, 2025 City Council regular session.
    • - B. Approve the minutes of the August 13, 2025 City Council study session.
    • - C. Approve the Treasurer’s Report dated July 31, 2025
    • - 9. City Attorney
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-47 – A Resolution to Enter into a Hayfield Lease Agreement with Gerard Cuka and Justin Williams.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-47.
    • - 10. Finance
    • - A. Approve an application from Leland Ruzicka with B&B Bar for a special on-sale liquor license for a wedding on September 13, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at the Pavilion.
    • - D. Abatement of property taxes for 2025 taxes payable in 2026 for 5 lots in Miller Ranch Subdivision that were valued incorrectly.
    • - E. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1403 – An Ordinance Supplementing the 2025 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1392 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
    • - F. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1404 – An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Title XI: Business Regulations, Chapter 115 Alcoholic Beverages.
    • - 11. Planning and Zoning
    • - 12. Public Works
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-43 – A Resolution to Enter Into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement with Waconda Investment SD, LLLP Pursuant to SDCL §9-12-5.2.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-43.
    • - B. Approve Resolution 2025-44 - A Resolution Declaring Miscellaneous Personal Property Surplus.
    • - C. Approve HDR, Inc. proposal for engineering services to include conceptual and preliminary designs for the rehabilitation of the Maurice intake structure of the City’s Hydro Electric Plant for a not-to-exceed fee of $259,092.50.
    • - 13. Approve the bill list dated August 18, 2025.
    • - 14. Mayor and Council Discussion
    • - 15. Departmental Discussion
    • - A. 2026 Budgets – Building and Development and Public Safety Departments
    • - 16. Adjournment
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Approve Agenda
    • - 4. Finance
    • - A. Ketel Thorstenson LLP to present results of the 2024 financial statement audit during a special session on Monday, August 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.
    • - B. Approve the audited 2024 financial statements of the City of Spearfish.

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    • - Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 8-18-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · City Council Regular Session Packet 8-18-2025 · posted Oct. 2, 2025
    • - Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes · posted Oct. 2, 2025

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  3. Version 2

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    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 1)

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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 39 numbered items. 605Buzz reproduces 37 of them below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 2 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Invocation \(participation welcome, but not mandatory\) Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pastor Luke Bluhm
    • - 4. Pledge of Allegiance
    • - 5. Approve Agenda
    • - 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.
    • - 7. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
    • - 8. Consent Agenda
    • - A. Approve the minutes of the August 4, 2025 City Council regular session.
    • - B. Approve the minutes of the August 13, 2025 City Council study session.
    • - C. Approve the Treasurer’s Report dated July 31, 2025
    • - 9. City Attorney
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-47 – A Resolution to Enter into a Hayfield Lease Agreement with Gerard Cuka and Justin Williams.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-47.
    • - 10. Finance
    • - A. Approve an application from Leland Ruzicka with B&B Bar for a special on-sale liquor license for a wedding on September 13, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at the Pavilion.
    • - D. Abatement of property taxes for 2025 taxes payable in 2026 for 5 lots in Miller Ranch Subdivision that were valued incorrectly.
    • - E. Approve the second reading of Ordinance 1403 – An Ordinance Supplementing the 2025 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1392 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
    • - F. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1404 – An Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Title XI: Business Regulations, Chapter 115 Alcoholic Beverages.
    • - 11. Planning and Zoning
    • - 12. Public Works
    • - A. Hold a public hearing to consider Resolution 2025-43 – A Resolution to Enter Into a Private Hangar Ground Lease Agreement with Waconda Investment SD, LLLP Pursuant to SDCL §9-12-5.2.
    • - 1\) Approve Resolution 2025-43.
    • - B. Approve Resolution 2025-44 - A Resolution Declaring Miscellaneous Personal Property Surplus.
    • - C. Approve HDR, Inc. proposal for engineering services to include conceptual and preliminary designs for the rehabilitation of the Maurice intake structure of the City’s Hydro Electric Plant for a not-to-exceed fee of $259,092.50.
    • - 13. Approve the bill list dated August 18, 2025.
    • - 14. Mayor and Council Discussion
    • - 15. Departmental Discussion
    • - A. 2026 Budgets – Building and Development and Public Safety Departments
    • - 16. Adjournment
    • - 1. Call to Order
    • - 2. Roll Call
    • - 3. Approve Agenda
    • - 4. Finance
    • - A. Ketel Thorstenson LLP to present results of the 2024 financial statement audit during a special session on Monday, August 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.
    • - B. Approve the audited 2024 financial statements of the City of Spearfish.
    • - 5. 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.

    3 further added lines are not shown here.

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