Planning & Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

started at any time. All righty, let's go ahead and call the meeting to order. Roll call. Okay. Miles here. Graham here. Poodle here. Espinosa here. Wheelie here. Um Anderson is absent with notice and Randall said he would be late if he makes it. I will look for approval of tonight's agenda. I would make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. I'll second that. Got a motion and a second to approve tonight's agenda. All in favor say I. I. Okay. I'll look for a motion to approve the minutes of the March 10th, 2026 meeting.

I'll make a motion to approve the March 10th meeting. Second. I got a motion and a second to approve the amendments of the March 10th, 2026 meeting. All in favor say I. I. Perfect. Oh, it might be a small correction. Oh, because it's the United States 250th birthday, not South Dakota's um there's a South Dakota committee. Did I put South Dakota America 250? Uh that's the way I read it was South Dakota's 250th birthday. Oh. Oh, just I will that's just I don't change content. I will change that to America's.

There we go. Official minutes. Got it. Jeez, that was a big That's in there. That's in there twice. Just do a try. And I It was the second part was where you just do a word find. You should be able to find it twice.

Okay. Well, work. I only see this one spot, but Okay. Yep. Yep. All right. Perfect. All right. Public comments. Is there any public comments for non-aggenda items? Guessing no. So, we'll go past that. We've got a few minutes before 7:05. So, Kyle, if you got an update,

uh, code enforcement since our last meeting, dealing with pet licenses again, rubbish and junk, uh, garbage cans on the street, talking with, uh, the haulers, making sure they put them back, get them off the street when they empty the trashes every week. uh inoperable vehicles, parking on grass, and then no building permit. Any questions on that?

I know that Tony mentioned that that permit that that got permit got renewed. Yeah. And he was not pleased about the permit getting renewed. Well, and I talked with the city attorney, so he is a year expired on his permit. So, um, he is not finished with the project. It was going to be a long haul for him. Um, so he hasn't I mean, it hasn't progressed at all since

I don't think over the winter he did much work in it just cuz it doesn't have heat and winter. So, but he did when he came in to renew the permits is now that the weather's turning nice again, uh he plans to yeah, he wanted to renew it, plans to continue work on it, and he plans to be in this fall is what he's hoping he'll allow it completed and done this fall because I asked him what his timeline was on it. So, and Joe, we're talking about um the house Kitty Corner from city hall here agree with her um clean up condemnation. He had to several code violations. He had to get it up to code and so we've been working with him to get it up. I did talk to the city attorney um because Tony didn't want it renewed um until we come to the board. We don't have any legal reason not to renew it. It's our regulations we can renew. It's an ongoing project. He

we did do we lifted the condemnation. He's not under that anymore. Any regulations with that? He brought the code violations up and now it's just a regular doesn't permit somebody working on their house and he's not living in it. So I mean it's there's no Is that something that needs to get looked at as far as deadlines or something again? And I guess I don't you know I No, we lifted the condemnation. So that's done and gone. Um, so yeah, unless you and I don't know that we have any like as far as extensions, how far can you keep continue to extend it and things like that?

So, I'm working with Levi. He's got some inoperable vehicles in his driveway. One of them's got one car is missing a windshield and both of them need their the tags updated. So, he's working on those. Other than that, yeah, it's as long as he's not occupying the building without approval, it's not much we can do on our end. Yeah. I mean, he's he's doing it the legal way. He's not living in it. He's It might not be ideal, but it's legal.

Right. Exactly. I mean, I know we wanted him to get it done as soon as possible, but I think we all knew though when as bad a shape as it was that it was going to take time to get it time and financing and I don't know if financing had anything to do with Yeah. Um he when I asked him about his timeline, he indicated he wasn't working on it through the winter time just cuz Yeah. Well, it's just one of those things that the neighbors have to, you know, the neighbors have to deal with it for as long as it takes him that one person to do it. So, right now it's all just interior work though going on. Any update on that other house that Tony, you know, the garage door that fell down on top to pick up and um you talked to Paul about that, right?

Yeah, he's Is that on our list? What's that? I asked Paul about that house and he worked in he got the garage door and then the doors back up. It's falling down again though. He's he's requesting from the property owner a definitive because he told him it'd be he wants to look at reszoning the property this summer maybe late spring to reszone it to that high density residential and then potentially building I think a twin home on there that's what he kind of indicated

and I kind of I kind of talking with Paul eyes I suggested we maybe need to look at a definitive date not just a season he's going to I haven't heard back from Paul on that one. And Paul says he will be back for the main meetings. He had a few family things the last couple of months, but he should be back at the next meeting. So, I'll just kind of follow up with him on that. He's the one who's addressing it with the owner of that property. So,

all righty. That's 707. We will go ahead and get into our 705 conditional use hearing for 600 North Sage Horn exemption request for accessory building material. Teresa.

Okay. So, this is for um it's a property owners are asking for a conditional use hearing for an accessory building at 600 North Sagehorn. Um basically they come in for a building permit to place a 10x6 accessory building. That's 160 square ft. Um our regulations note that um any building over 150 square feet, so this be 10 square feet larger have to be of light kind of material as the principal building. Um the property owners noted that the shed the the siding of it would comply, but the roof would be a metal roof. Um, so that is why they're coming in asking for an exemption or or should I say a conditional use permit to allow the the metal roofing for that accessory building. um when we were going through this meeting and kind of talked a little bit and of course our current regulations are 150 square feet, but he noted that the actual building codes, which you know, we can be stricter than the building codes um allow exemptions are um accessory buildings up to 200 square ft before having to be, you know, comply with this. So that might be something we want to look at in the future to kind of make those um be the same, but currently right now it's at 150 square feet. So, in order to proceed with placing the accessory building, they would need a conditional use permit. As far as placing it, where and whatnot, it complies with all the regulations. It is just the material on the roof. Um um I did talk to the property owner. They did um I I think check with the who where they got it at to see if asphalt shingles could go on. Obviously, that's going to be a higher expense. It's going to need to be changed over. So, it comes with the metal roof though.

So, can I just back up and ask just a basic question?

Why a conditional use permit? What is the condition and what's the use? So for our regulations and I've added them in there basically it has all the regulations for an accessory use building um under B10 access it says it says that accessory buildings not meeting these requirements shall be allowed only as a conditional use. So that's why it's going through a conditional use permit. Um it's not a variance. It's a conditional use permit. So, it doesn't have to meet those requirements of a variance as far as hardship, you know, uh or property of a, you know, goofy design and whatnot. It does. Yeah. It's a little bit more lenient than a variance is. A variance is in state law and has to meet those certain requirements we have. Conditional use is really up to the board if you'd want to allow it or not. Have you checked out what Google has to say about the difference between a variance and a conditional use permit?

I have not checked Google. We I just spoke with Secog and our attorney. I believe we are wrong. I think we should be looking at a variance. It was originally a variance. We changed it. The board changed it about five years ago, six years ago. Yeah. On accessory buildings. So, yeah. On accessory buildings only. get into variances on like bigger you get over variances if like a setback they want back height of the building whatotarian this is just for accessory buildings and it's a variance from that defined rule yes

a conditional use permit is a use of land a condition on the use of land if you look at definition here that's what it is and if you look at our variance definition though it specifically states like setbacks height the building what not the materials on a building materials that's when it gets that's when it gets a little I know it seems a little gray right between a conditional use because usually on conditional use you can add condition yes so so which the conditions for the use I don't see any use definition here at all right

all is we can't do a shingle. We have to do a metal roof because that's what we bought. Right. And it's up to you whether request. Well, we got to go by our regulations though, not what Google has currently. If our regulations on set 10 said variance, then we'd be having a variance hearing. We have a whole different discussion. Yes. But it doesn't. It doesn't. So that's what we're that's what we're we're not having a variance hearing on the conditional use hearing. Right. So my next point then is I think we should change our ordinance and that's something for the board to discuss because it used to be a variance. The board changed it to allowing them as conditional uses just for accessory buildings.

Square footage. We should change. We thought you were the problem child. You're not the problem child today. Um you're always So we're at 150 now. I mean there's really no conditions. Can't see that off my desk. The condition you're going to allow is allow them to have a metal roof versus an asphalt roof. Great. And Kyle is one raising up to Is the color the same as the color of your roof? The color of the metal is Yes. Welcome.

Hi, Tony. So, where did these square foot come from? I mean, why 150 versus 200? Um, I think originally came from 200. I'd say let's change our ordinance.

Yeah. And that's for future discussion. Like I said, has nothing to do with this condition. I just put it in there as food for thought that we can talk at future. We can't change any of our regulations during this meeting. But that just might be something we want to look at in the future that the building code kind of allows anything under 200 square ft and we have 150. So that like I said that's a f and future discussion just like variance versus conditional use future discussion but this is strictly just on this conditional use.

Tony you got anything you want to add or get caught up on? Well, all I'm going to add is what's 50 square feet amongst friends. I mean, what's Okay, even more so. What's 10 square feet amongst friends? And it's the size of a bathtub. It's less than the size of a bathtub. the amount the amount of sheds and shed placements and everything else around town that I see in the course of a day, a week, and a month. I don't see any reason not to give a conditional use for this with steel on that road.

Yeah. I guess the only condition would be is that the color be similar to the Yep. the same. There's no neighbors in here to complain. Yeah. That to me, you know, so it's not like Yeah. right here. Right there. All the neighbors are here. We're on the We're on this side. Yeah. I don't I mean Yeah. I don't have problem not a rule at all. I have a problem with our ordinance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The only condition for me it would just be if just so it's not, you know, yellow or And I'm sure you guys go. It's not Trojan blue.

No, it's not. It's gray. I mean, not that I'm not a fan, but you'd be surprised what we run across. So, yeah, I I that would be the only thing for me. I got no problem with it, especially if the IBC code is 200 and it's 10 square feet. Well, I think we need to discuss ordinance eventually. Well, probably not. You know, where did 150 square feet come from? cuz somebody Yeah. Well, I spent enough time at this table to know that somebody someplace said, "Well, that's like a 10 by 15 building, right?" Right.

So, let's So, 10 x 15 building, let's put it 150 in whatever town it was. And then every time somebody asked Secog about it, they pulled up 15. That's a back, right? It came from Seock. They look at other towns and it just got copied along to everybody else. It can be changed. Let's see. 15 is a goofy number. 16 is 10 or 15. Multiple of eight. Yeah. 8 ft sheet rock 8 ft. Yeah. Yeah, that does make sense. 15 is goofy. That's exactly where it came from. See cog that just copied from other towns. So, it can be changed, but like I said, that'd be a item. That's all you got? That's all I got.

Yeah, that's the only thing that I have and I'm sure they're going to they're not. So, I would make a motion as it time to approve this. you conditional use permit providing that the uh color matches the shingles of your current home. Second. I got a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? Well, we don't need to discuss this order. On a future agenda, it is not on the agenda. Future agenda. No, but we need to put it on the agenda and we can put that on a future one.

All right. So, no further discussion on the cup. So, we'll go ahead and vote. Graham, yes. Stacy, yes. Espinosa, yes. Wheelie, yes. Rand Randall, yes. And Miles, yes. Okay. Pretty painless. Go away. more down here. We got behind somebody. Probably a golf cart. No, it was a truck with a killer in the back. Says either golf cart golf cart or scooter.

Scooters. Darn golf carts with these kids. Okay. Old business. Those darn kids. Review current building permit fee. like this old dead horse again. You should only one meeting. I think we've had it a couple meetings. You shouldn't.

This at least has some context. Contact the pool was a disaster. Okay. All right. So, I think the last time we were here, we asked for what was a commercial.

Yep. asked for some additional information. Um, basically some comparison of commercial properties. Um, we kind of wanted a comparison on dollar amount. It was kind of hard to do as Kyle was looking at because so many cities do it by the type of structure it was going up versus dollar. So he put in there three compares of similar structures like a commercial property. So you use like the dairy room we have coming up here and then compared it with other cities. And then he used uh an industrial black tie and then then a large project like our wastewater plant. So those are all in your packet. You want me to make you a copy, Tony? No, I'm good.

Miss Espinosa, you're sharing. Plus, I read all through it the other day. Okay. I'm just I just just want to get it for you if you needed it. So, that was added in there. And I don't

Some of these numbers are way over the map, aren't they? Yeah. From city to city. It is. I It really depends on the project with the commercial. Well, I wonder if you know, you see the big changes in the water hookup fees and that's where that's why I wonder if that's coming from having to Harrisburg having to hook on to Sou Falls and then they Sou Falls does charge. Yeah. But but how does that affect us? Because if we're um I think we should be charging more. We're not going to drive people away by charging more to hook up and to help pay for the um

waste water treatment. Yeah, and that and like I said, that is I think one thing I kind of noted the first go around and one thing that I think me and Kyle talked about, we could look at our hookup fees, you know, but right now we're at 750 for water sewer because we can easily bump them up, that's kind of in line with other cities. Here's here's my problem with that theory, Stacy, is you can bump the lookup fees up as high as you want to. It won't go to pay off the wastewater treatment plant because it will just go in the water and sewer budget and the payments are already all set up. Yeah, but you know wastewater treat

uh if there comes be a big surplus in the sewer fund, the city council can make a motion to then they can also make they can also make a motion to spend it on something else. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I I there's no guarantee. I mean, but that's all a council or the Harrisburg and Brandon are required to do that. I'm guessing required to do what? To have that hookup fee where it's at. I'm guessing that was part of guaranteeing there's a loan on the plants or that's part of Sou Falls's requirement to come through their plant. Sou Falls makes them charge that makes them charge that. Yep. Well, and I've talked with them

not it's gerine to this but not 100% and that your discussion about having conversations of getting new water sources for Hartford and that was a little bit later in the packet mainream. So either is there is there any way to earmark those funds to either go to the wastewater treatment plan or back to that? We're municipality. We can't earmark funds. No, it has to go in the general fund. That has to be

the general fund and um current councils can't buy future councils. There's something said it. So trust in your leadership from your councils, but there's nothing you can't even look at. See, even correct me if I'm wrong, Teresa, even the search charges on the water bills now just go into the sewer fund and then the payment is made out of the sewer fund, but the state required that as in effect collateral. Yes. To make the Exactly right. Y part of getting the loan was that we had to collect those search charges, but those go into the sewer fund and then the payments come out of the sewer fund. So

So even even those are not quote earmarked. it just goes in and then

right it's just was the requirement of the loan that we need to collect that much in sir charges and and then we'll have to make our loan payments that kind of like you said kind of guarantees that we'll make our loan payments that we'll have funds to do it but um also in the packet uh we put um Kyle did kind of do some estimate of administrative time like we talked before it kind of really depends on the project obviously larger projects take more time for planning reviews, several inspections or whatnot, but he did kind of put together just kind of an estimate of um administrative time that um projects take. Currently, we do not charge any kind of administrative fee. It's all part of the building permit fee. You know, if we got we got to do two inspections or 10 inspections, it's just all part of that building permit fee and review of the plans and everything else associated with it. We don't charge an administrative fee like a couple of the cities do. So, we can put that in there for you. Um, I did note um I did talk with Amy with the HADF and asked if she could ask around to developers about our building permit fees and kind of what I expected. She didn't have any hard numbers, but she said, "Well, some say they're a little too high, but the rest say they're okay." So, I think you're always going to have somebody say they're going high on any fees.

Upon upon further review of surrounding communities, I don't think anybody can say we're too high.

No, I say I I think it I think those are just the typical They're always going to say everything's high because they don't want to pay. I mean, you know, but I think comparing it with other cities, I I think we're really kind of in the ballpark. you know, there's a lot of variables with building permits and like you can see, every city does it a little bit differently. I don't think we're out of whack as far as, like I said, overcharging. Um, we're not the lowest either, but I think we're kind of mid-range, which I was happy to see because we hadn't reviewed this in a while. You just want to make sure you're staying in there cuz number one, you you don't want to scare off developers by being too high, but two, you want to be able to cover, you know, expenses and and, you know, use those funds for development

increase that scares everybody off, right? Exactly. At least current. Well, the two fastest growing communities around here are the two highest. Yeah. Pretty much when you look at building the building permit costs across the board, T and Harrisburg are the highest and Brandon gets right up there. Mhm. Yeah. If you look at the commercial, uh, we're considerably lower than T, Brandon, Harrisburg, Krooks, Krooks. Yeah. But T and Brandon are they they have a note here about a one-time charge for connection to regional wastewater system. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's hooking on to that Saul system that's required. So if you take that charge out then then we and it kind of puts it in the ballpark. We're still a little higher but however Krooks is way higher. They're triple what we are for commercial. Have you noticed how many new commercial buildings have gone in circuit

that was going to that get built no matter what the building up there and they probably got it way. I know higher than Linux.

You know, my my total look at it all across the board looks to me like we're pretty much mid-range no matter what category you're into. Um, mid-range is a good place to be, but I think it's it's a good exercise for us once a year to have staff provide us with the comparison, update the comparisons, make the calls, find out what changed with anybody, and just once a year have on the agenda that, hey, here's the update on comparisons on building permits. from. Yeah, that's the whole thing. We just don't want to get too out of whack one way or another. We want to stay that.

If all of a sudden we see that everybody is going up and we haven't gone up, then it's time. But I think it's I think it's a good yearly practice to just Yep. make a review, look at comparisons and say, "Hey, are we still in the middle? Cool. We're in the middle. We're good." Well, for reference, so I did I didn't do this for Linux last year, and I want to say T was the only one I updated. I mean I verified all the data I had was up was up to date. TE's is the only one Brandon I guess. So TE's and Brandon's did an update but everyone pretty much the same from last year. Like I said it's good thing to look at it every year. We Yeah, I think it's just it's a it's a review and

it's an agenda. That's an agenda review item and maybe make put it in your notes there to plan in February and March when before we before the building season. Yeah. Yep. Before the building season. It's probably a good February review time. Yep. They can just for staff that's that's kind of a quiet time for inspections and that kind of stuff. It's a chance for them to be able to Yeah. get the numbers put together and bring it into us and then we can make decisions before the permits start. Yeah. Like that second would you say like the second or first meeting in last meeting in February, first meeting in March type deal. Yep. Have it ready. Yep. I think that's a good good plan going forward

because I don't know when city set budgets, you know, when they review this, right? To update for the budgets are all going to be August. Yeah. Because by state statute they have to be done by 1st of September. Tracy, we have to have September county by October 1st, but we have to have two readings of an ordinance. So that's got to be that's why we got to have it in August. We have the two readings in September and get the budget to the county by August 1. October 1st, sorry. Okay. So yeah, that makes the most sense to me. I Yeah, I think that everything lifted.

Good plan. I can't disagree. I don't I don't you know if we I I'm comfortable with where we're at too, but I don't think we'll bring back anything. So it's comfortable. We'll just um continue as is and just do a yearly review then going forward. All right, we go into new business then. Review slash approved county plat track nine of the love code edition. So this is a county plaque partially. It's a little goofy of a plat. It's the first pl we've had come through. Um basically the love co property is along western avenue. It's Warren Luke's property on the west side of there. Um he is uh wanting to replant all his pasture land into one parcel. Right now it's kind of divided up in couple different parcels. Um he thinks for the ease of just renting it or whatnot. It's one property, one parcel, whatnot. Half of the parcel, the other half is in the county and part of the parcel is in the city. Since part of it is in the county, we are going to cover our bases and go through approving this as a county plan, making them go through them as well. So, um that's why it's before you just like every other county plan, you know, they submit it, we review it. The engineers have reviewed it. It does meet our regulation. He has signed a pre-anation agreement as required by our regulations. Do have that signed agreement with me. Um,

how does it work to have a parcel? So, he's replotting, then he'll have a parcel that's partially in the city and partially in the county. How does that work? I I I mean, again, it's just the parcel. I mean, the county is the one who's going to have um to figure out the assessment for the taxes as far as part of for the whole parcel or huh? They'll figure out the taxes for the whole parcel. They'll break it down by percentages basically when they assess it. I mean, I'm sure I'm sure somebody's going to look at me goofy when I say this, but why doesn't he just deanex those couple little chunks and put them back in?

He did ask about that and I actually had to call our city attorney on it. If he deanexes the city's portion, it only leaves them a connection of 200 ft. Um, that's the lawyer doesn't think that's a good enough connection for um touching the city. It would be kind of like a flakeful annexation. Um, okay. Well, why doesn't he just deanex the whole everything that he put in? Because he's not building an event center out there and that's the only reason he did it to start with.

Well, um, he has submitted another, um, flat that is in the city. So, right where the event center was going to go, he's parceling that off and I think he wants to sell it for either residential or commercial. He's advertising that. So I like I mean he could could have deanicked all that. He hasn't asked for that. I'd love to see that whole chunk deanexed out. In fact, I'd love to see everything on that side of the road to Mickelson deanexed because then the county gets paid for that road street. True. True. Yeah. Arguing there. Anybody from the county watching? This is what his land is. No, this Oh,

well, this is what this is his land that's in. So, all this yellow portion that's in all this yellow portion down to here. Okay. They're going out there going down his That's his That's going to be the new parcel now. Oh. So, these yellow chunks here are in the city. Oh, okay. And then the tan part in the county. Yep. Didn't you say something was on Western? It's west of Western. Oh, west of Western. Okay, now I got you. God, I was lost. But he owns it up to Western. Yes. Yes. He starts right at Western's here. He parcel goes all the way west and then down to Mickelson. Just like Tony said. That's all.

I mean, if the if the county's culture with the fact that he can make one parcel that's Yeah. to different Yeah. I just Yeah. I was just wondering how it's going to affect. He's going to have to go through the county and they're going to have to prove it, too. Bas basically, I believe what you've got going on there is the lines down through there. I think that's where Skunk Creek meanders down through that pasture. He He's All pasture land is going around the creek, which kind of like you said, meanders kind of through here, right? Yep. It's following that. So, that's I mean, that's his reason for wanting to do that. then he can rent because he knows it's only going to be pasture

and then that past then the pasture goes out and it's in a flood plane. I mean all of these things are a reason that he's not going to build something on that. Yep. Exactly. He knows that going to continue to just be pasture land and Yep. Exactly. or parkland or whatever. Yeah. Right. I mean, at some point in time, if somebody gets a building into there and decides that they want to do something with it, then he can reparsel it and cut it off square again or whatever cuz the where where it is right now, that's where the old railroad bed is. So, where the dotted line is between the county and the city, that's the old railroad bed.

And then Skunk Creek or when the creek is, Turtle Creek is right down below that. And I think that pretty much matches up the meandering that goes on with the creek there. Yep.

You don't see it affecting our revenues for the city by doing that? We'll still get our portion, our percentage of the portion that's in the city. We'll still get the county assessor's got to be able to divide that out. We'll still get our $18 worth of ad ground taxes, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The county is going to I'm sure just approaches it, you know, such and such percentage is county and then taxed at that and the other percentage is, you know, city and taxed at that. Well, he's met all the requirements that we would have. Yeah. I was going to say he meets our requirements. reason why I'm not personally but yes

no if I'm with you on that Brad it's so again what what is this pre-anexation agreement that you sign so per our subdivision regulations

um if there is property in our growth area not in the city but in our growth area so it's um that's in our comp plan uh basically it states that if you want to plat or replplat any property in our growth area you've got to sign a pre-anexation agreement and really the agreement just basically says that um as owner of the property that once the city goes out and touches that parcel cuz this might be you know half a mile out you know some of parcels are once we touch it if we decide we going to ask you to annex you won't fight it you'll voluntarily annex um we've never forced anybody to annex I mean it basically it's kind of a security measure so

you can't so the city doesn't get all around one part par parcel, you know, and then they're a little island all by themselves in the middle of town, you know, it's kind of just a precaution thing. Um, doesn't mean that when we touch it, cuz like this property, we're touching it. We're not we're not going to ask them to annex them. I mean, look at our city. Look at right next to you. I mean, there's county parcels right along Colted Road. We haven't asked them to annex. So, it's Yeah. I mean um but if at some point the city deems that you know this parcel should be in they won't fight it you know it's so we don't get those donut holes in the city continuous growth

it's just it gives for continuous growth right it having any little holes yep

All right I'm going to look for a motion to approve county plat track 9 of the left co edition. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it. Got a motion in a second to approve the county plan for track 9 love coalition. Any other discussion on it? We'll go to vote. Tim, yes. Stacy, yes. Key, yes. Yes. Jeez. Tony. Yes. Yes. All right.

I do have a little update from Paul. Um, I don't think you were here, Tony. But Paul is going to start coming in the next phase. He's had a few family out with the agency the last couple of months, but he'll be at the next ones in May. Um he says there are eight currently open single family home permits, two twin home permits that are open. Um commercial work updates. The um quick start um obviously you can tell um site excavation work is going on. Footings are tenatively scheduled for April. He noted April 20th actually. Oh you got an actual date. He just said April. So we found that today. Okay. For seeing the weather

in the 1205 North Oak Avenue, it's new commercial building going out, you know, in the HADF up um addition. Um they're finishing up some final inspection items and should be able to close that out soon. And the city's park bathroom by the pickle ball courts was final out and approved and we got it open today. So there you go. My daughter was very excited. That's We're at 12:05 North Oaks. That's the one at the corner of Oaks and 12 Street. Yes. The white building. Yes. South appropriating mean. Yeah. They're not final jobs.

I think they got a few They've got their occupancy, but I think they had a few minor things that didn't interfere with occupancy that needed to clean up. So, yeah, he did issue an occupancy permit a month ago or so. It's been a little while. Yeah. That's what he's got. Okay. Teresa, do you got anything to add to your report?

Um, I put in my report gave you a little update. You know, we had a little discussion about election signs. So, I did check into that a little bit with our attorney um as far as how long they can be there. What you know, we discussed what our regulations were. We did check with the state. They do have time limits on it, but the state has minimum time limits. Basically, they put that out there that cities can't reduce it any further when the state says they're not maximum time limits. They're minimum. So, just FYI for you on that. Um, we're still looking for wastewater treatment operator. There's not minimum. There's a minimum time. You have to let the

You have to let somebody let them stay there for let's just say 14 days. Yes. But they can stay there as long as they want. Well, up to the city's up to the cities then because we up to the city's regulation. Yeah. And do you have a regulation? We do have for temporary signs to collection signs but temporary signs which these would consider just in general. We took out Kyle's report you sent after you found all that out then you sent a letter about the sign in question. Okay. Just let them know the ordinance. Yep. Okay. So they are aware of it now. So okay now I know. Um I have totally You were said you were still looking for a wastewater.

We are still looking for a wastewater treatment operator that search. So, anybody um I didn't put in in here, but um we are doing interviewing put in for the summer positions. Um I think we've got um pretty much um enough applicants to cover our public works assistance and for the pool. We do not have a director for our park and Rex program. So, um unless somebody applies for that, we'll have to have discussion of what we're going to do with that. Luckily, that's not until July. So, uh, we have a little time here to get somebody. But, uh, Laura Johnson is not going to come back as a director, and I don't have any other applicants at this point.

She's been saying that for years. I know. And then she finally pulled the trigger and did. Good for her. Good. What's the timeline on that? Like since July.

So, basically, we run the program just for the month of July in the morning. So, it starts the first week in July and runs just to the the last week in July, just in the mornings, Monday through Friday. So, the program is just a month-long program. Um, we probably would need to have a director like a month prior because there are supplies to order, whatnot, and know if we're going to have the program or whatnot. So, um, I hope by June, if we don't have anything by June, the council will have to be having a discussion of what if we could do anything and go from there. I could think I got so bad. Well, if you know somebody's she's a teacher. She's a teacher

and I'm sure Laura would give her lots of advice. I bet she would been doing it for years. You know, basically it's so you know they get assistance. They get like Yeah. Yeah. We have assistance to help them with but mainly with the director is planning the activities just having the activities planned out whether it's a craft activity or whatnot. So it's just having that good teacher. Yeah. I mean so it is very good for teachers. Okay. And it's just in the mornings. Okay. And it's just Monday through Friday, so it won't take her weekends or nights. So, not slow. Hope you didn't just throw her into the She said she was going to watch one.

They hope this wasn't the night. Um I'm just going to point out too, um we did submit a grant. We just with the deadline was the 10th. So we got it in uh the game fish and parks for a bike trial going from 12th Street up to the sports complex. So um we should hear by June usually through July time frame if we get that awarded or not. So we'll see from there. Um the rest of the dates for shoots up ATS just north of ATS center. Yeah. Running east. Yeah. So hopefully that'd be nice.

Kids don't want to go up western to get the sponsor park, you know. Yes. Yes. We really tried to push the safety aspect of it. You don't want kids driving on Western scooters. Yeah.

Found the other South Dakota 250. So um and then I just kind of gave you an update um on retriization. They're still working on the study that they need to do before we can continue talks on that. And then an update on Dakota Mainston had their annual meeting. So, you know, if you have any questions regarding that, but that's moving forward as well. to go mainst um basically their assessment study done and now they're working on the feasibility study which is going to probably take a couple of years and then they got to pursue financing and like originally told you I mean this is this is a Louiswis and Clark this is a 20 30 year project before you're actually going to see infrastructure in but um way um groundwater is getting scarce and scarce and the only way to really secure water for eastern South Dakota is from the river. So this um it is moving forward. Hopefully we'll have it before we run out.

Okay. Any questions? All righty. Look for a motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second. I have a motion a second to adjurnn. All in favor? I oppose. So my mother Yes.