City Council - Regular Meeting

of course right Good evening and welcome to the city council meeting for Monday, April 20th, 2026. Uh we will begin with a roll call and determination of quorum. Leman

here. Maher here. Roberts here. Strowman here. Pedigrew here. Crisis here. Bdorf here. Tang here. Evans Meyer, we have a quorum. Uh, thank you. Next, we'll have an invocation by Marshia Bossley, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. If you're able and willing, would you please rise?

Right now, oh Lord Jesus Christ, powerful Holy Spirit, precious, amazing, wonderful father God who has come to you now. We urge right now, we ask you right now for petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving to be made right now for all people more than even is in this building right now. God, we pray for the We pray for the state of South Dakota. We pray for the United States. We pray for the nations. Lord, we pray that they would know you in your powerful, wonderful um sacrificial love. Jesus, you say in your word, we do not have because we do not ask you. Lord, men strong in faith and in prayer subdued kingdoms. They wrought righteousness. They obtained promises. They stopped the mouths of lions. They quenched the power of fire. They escaped the edge of the sword. From weakness, were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. You choose God to work through Adam, to co-labor with man. You work through the prayers of your people who are made in your image, to labor and rule in the garden, to struggle together. We have sinned and done wrong, Lord. We have each gone to our own way. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations. We have refused to listen to your servants, the prophets who spoke in your authority. We pray now that out of your glorious riches, you would strengthen us with power through your spirit in our inner beings. We pray that we would um be filled with that spirit, that we would encourage one another and build each other up just as in fact you are doing. Father, we pray that we would con be continually filled with the knowledge of

your perfect will through all wisdom and understanding, the will that the spirit gives. that your majestic name would fill the earth as your glory is higher than the heavens. Teach your people, Lord, your children and your infants, your church, your body of uh believers to tell of your strength and silence your enemies and all who oppose you. Give your people wisdom, clarity, and discernment in complex times. Help us to desire what truly matters, not what is easiest or safe fa safest. Grant courage to your people to live for Christ without fear. Lord, we release the outcome of this meeting and this prayer into your hands. Shape us into a people who trust you completely. We declare, Lord, that our hope is not in preservation, comfort, and control, but in you. Be magnified in your people. Lord, strengthen your body. Thank you, Jesus.

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to theublic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next, we'll entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. Motion by Tang, second by layman. All in favor? Any opposed?

Motion carries. Uh, next we're going to have a proclamation for National Volunteer Week. So, I'm going to go right around here to the podium and we'll get that rolling. Anybody here? We have Brad here from Helpline 211. Great organization. Uh you know, if you never know where to go, just start there and they'll help you get to where you need to go. But uh we're so grateful for our volunteers in our community because our volunteers are really what make us make it happen. Uh it shows ownership in our community and makes things better. And I'm proud to read this proclamation tonight. Whereas every community member can affect positive change with any volunteer action, no matter how big or small. Whereas South Dakota ranks among the top six states for formal volunteering with more than 37% of South Dotans volunteering through organizations and over 57% providing some form of assistance to neighbors. Whereas thousands of volunteers working in the Rapid City community utilize their time and talent daily to make a real difference in the lives of children, adults, and of course the elderly. Whereas Helpline Center plays a crucial role as a volunteer center in organizing communitywide response efforts by dispatching volunteers and connecting them to service opportunities and organizations. And whereas major volunteer organizations such as West River Retired Senior Volunteer Program, United Way of the Black Hills, Senior Companions of South Dakota, and numerous others provide valuable service to the community. And whereas volunteers can connect with local community service

opportunities through hundreds of local nonprofits. And giving of oneself and service to others empowers the giver and the recipient. And whereas the month of April is set aside to honor volunteers with recognition events and tributes acknowledging those who step up and provide their time and talent to help their communities and citizens. Now therefore, I, Jason Solomon, mayor of Rapid City, South Dakota, do hereby proclaim April 19th through the 25th of 2026 as National Volunteer Week. We'll sign this, make it official.

All right, Brad, here you go. Let's take a picture and I'll give you a chance to say a few words. Well, those who know me know that I'm never had a lack of words, but I don't have anything prepared, so that's a good sigh for everybody. We just want to say thank you very much. Um, got to see this awesome guy twice in the same week. We just celebrated the spirit of volunteerism awards breakfast where he came and supported on behalf of the city. Every month we get to make grown grown adults cry because we surprised him with the volunteer of the month which he helps support and sign. So uh you as a city do way more than you than you know and he represents us very well as as we encourage and support volunteerism in a number of ways. So thank you for this and thank you for your support and encourage somebody to help somebody out. Thank you. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS. FOLKS, NOW IT'S TIME FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. A TIME for members of the public to discuss or express concerns to the council on any issue not on the agenda. Action will not be taken at the meeting on any issue not on the agenda except by placement on the agenda by unanimous vote of the council members present. I have number of speaker request forms. Some are for later on in the meeting, but for these general public comments, I got a few here. We'll begin with Chad Ellsworth.

Evening. Chad Ellsworth. I'm here in support of uh Taffy Howard and the push back that she's getting uh from uh Jason Green and Marty Jackly on on doing her job. Uh I kind of want to cite a office of bar counsel overview that uh kind of sets the framework of what I would like to say. The American legal system and the attorney client relationship are founded on trust. Although few attorneys ever betray that trust, when a breach occurs, damage to the individuals and the entire system may result. Of course, if it's intent, if the intent is to destroy the entire system, then we're we're talking about treasonous activity. So, how can you fault Taffy for doing her job when faced with recent events, accountability on missing money, and other events right here in Rapid City, uh the intent to censure and and uh leads to misprion, of treason, of censorship, and the things that we don't want. And I am fully in support of Taffy. And I know some of the folks that have come here in the last few weeks are are uh questioning her abilities and I fully support her. Thank you. All right. Next up, uh Andrea Lease. Andrea, thank you for sharing how to pronounce your name. I'm sure you get that. I get it.

Yeah. Well, you said that last time, too. I know. So, you're welcome. I always just appreciate little things. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

You're welcome. No, that's fine. Um, I just want to come here. I learned some interesting news on Friday that the men's mission, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the men's mission is closed for cleaning and renovating from May 5th through the 24th. I just found that out Friday. So, with making some calls today, I also found out that the women's and children's shelter or home is closed the entire month of May. So, I guess I'm just really concerned. It's like, so then where are the homeless supposed to go? I don't know if anything's been implemented. Who might even know that? So, it started to get implemented. Um, I did hear that some of the ladies from the women's shelter, they've already got those mainly figured out, but I don't know who at the men's mission has for resources out there to get them someplace to live, at least during that time. Um, I did call the men's mission and spoke with someone. I won't name any names, but they I asked them where are they supposed to go. They says, "Well, um, let's see here. Let me make sure I got my not wait. Maybe Care Campus will pick up the slack." So, I called Care Campus and they know nothing about it and was very pleased to know they were volunteered. So then I made some other calls and so at this point I believe the church response is still going to be available but I don't know about anything else. So I guess I just wanted to bring it to your attention that it's kind of ridiculous that something wasn't implemented to have a space for the homeless especially during a renovation which I know is deeply needed there but like I said I just where are they going to go? So that's pretty much all I had to say. Thank you.

Thanks for bringing that up. Thank you. Next up, Angelo Sherald.

Well, guess I better get used to this because I'm going to be showing up quite a bit. So, there seems to be an issue with some city ordinances and uh there's a lot of star decisis already because here in South Dakota, we have a thing. It's called maintaining your property, maintaining your land. And I've been cutting wood and burning fires and taking care of my land in this state for over 40 years. That's what we do in the spring because cleanliness is godliness. So, I happen to have some issues this winter with this big wild windstorm that just showed up. Two of them actually. And uh luckily I cut some of my tree last year. Otherwise, it would have fell down and probably would have killed a bunch of people. But luckily the the strong part stood. But I trimmed it down and I kept trimming and kept trimming and I built up a pretty big stack of wood. Okay. Well, come Easter, as always, the weather was just right. Nice and cold, no wind. Uh for three days, it would have been perfect to go ahead and just have a nice little fire all within the oh ordinances of a three-foot fire ring. Doesn't have to be a fancy Menard's one. Three-foot fire ring, two feet high, under no tree, on gravel or rock, concrete. Um, and um yeah, uh, pretty much not near any structure. Now, that's where you guys seem to have a problem is you got a ton of properties on Airbnb and all these other places where people

have their fire pit like 5t away from the structure. So, if you're going to if you're going to trump state law of 10 foot from structure and you're going to arrest people for class 4 felonies because here in Rapid City it's 25 feet which just got passed, well, you're going to have a big problem. you're going to have a treason. It ends up being Well, that's a whole another thing of uh targeting people and uh maybe because you don't like the way they uh uh talk or like the way they look or uh like who they voted for. Well, too bad. So, you might want to start getting that uh little ordinance thing you got going and figure out how you're going to land this crashed plane because it's already crashed. This is just I honestly I was trying to sell my properties and get out of here and go sit on a beach somewhere, but always just keep coming back to South Dakota. Well, maybe it's good I'm going to stay and keep South Dakota South Dakota. Okay, that will conclude general public comment and we will move on to non-public hearing items 2 through 26. I have no speaker request forms for those items. Excuse me. We're opening the public comment for items 2 through 23. I have no speaker request forms for those items. So, we will close the public comment and move on to consent items 2 through 23. Would any council members like to pull any items for separate consideration? Councelor Layman.

Thank you, Mayor. Item 14. Okay. Any other items? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion to approve items 2 through 23 with the exception of 14. Motion by Maher with a second by Secret. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 14, approve resolution number 2026-024, a resolution levying assessment for abatement of nuisances. And believe councelor Layman's pulling this for finance director Daniel Anley.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, tax ID 74797, Gamma, uh, epsilon Corporation paid their assessment a few hours ago, so I'd ask that that would be removed and the rest would be, um, proceeded with. Good for them. That's good. Thank you. We got a motion by councelor Layman with a second by Strowman. All with to mark that change noted by the director. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. That takes us to non-consent items 23 through 26. And we will open the public comment for items 23 through 26. I have a number of speaker request forms regarding hens. As a reminder, we got three minutes. Um, what I'm going to do is say a name and then I'm going to call the name that's on deck so you can be ready to go and just crank right through this. Uh, first up, David Holland, followed by Hendrickx Jones. Oh, excuse me. Excuse me. Before you speak.

Uh, no, we're okay. Sorry, my council members were questioning me. Sometimes they're right, but not this time. All right, we are going with public comment. David, you're up first, followed by Hendrickx Jones.

Well, I'm going to keep this short tonight. I I know you've all heard uh enough from me about this issue. Um, but I'm part of the group that uh has spent a lot of time doing a lot of research, talking to a lot of other communities about uh what backyard hands has meant in their communities. They've had very few issues. Um, and we expect the same here in Rapid City. More than two dozen communities in South Dakota already allow them. Um, they are pets with benefits. They, uh, provide quality local supply of eggs and they also teach kids responsibility about where their food comes from. And I'm just going to be available if you guys have any questions. U, we basically researched every ordinance there is in a three-state area. So, if there's any questions about that, let me know. Thank you.

Thank you, David. Hendricks, you're up next, followed by Kimberly Wallace.

Hello. I am Hrix Isaiah Jones. I um am a 15year-old I mean 16, sorry, just turned 16 and I'm here uh because my teacher uh April Malik and for my human services class brought me in here and I think it was maybe a month or two ago there was a YCC meeting and David uh informed every single YCC many uh member and everybody present at the meeting of the chickens and there are so many benefits. There are so many benefits and really I stand as a firm advocate for chickens in Rapid City. I mean I've done a little bit of research beforehand. Aberdine, Sturgis, lead. There are six cities excluding Rapid City cuz technically we do it but it's outside of city limits that allow chickens. Why shouldn't we? We as a people of this country have stand in this country and we have made progress. And you know what? That progress has been inhibited by stigma. Chickens have plenty of stigma. And yet, there are so many benefits. The pros outweigh the cons. They really aren't that stinky if they're taken care of. And David has accounted for that with his plenty of regulation. There are, of course, the eggs. There are, of course, make of course make great pets and can be very docile if made into chicks uh if they're bought as chicks beforehand. And ultimately they can be a great lesson for the youth and adults. I see why there is no such reason why we shouldn't have chickens in Rapid City. I mean should do we discriminate against cats or dogs or hamsters or gerbles? We do not we do not stand discrimination above all those pets. And yet we discriminate against chickens because of stigma, because they're stinky, because they have disease, because they're loud. But all of that simply isn't true. So we

need to break the stigma, break the status quo, and we need chickens for Rapid City. Thank you. Thank you. Well, you be internet famous. Kimberly Wallace, followed by Nick Schmidt. I mean, obviously we have a 16-year-old here talking. I know. It's great.

Is there much more I can say to that? Not much. Um, it's funny it's volunteer coordinator, uh, volunteer week because I was a volunteer coordinator in this community for eight years, starting out with Habitat for Humanity and then working with Feeding South Dakota. So, I recognize when people in this community come together to make a difference. Um, and that's really what I want to say about Rapid City Hens. think we've said all the facts we can say about chickens, but I do want to take the minute um to say if you are thinking about opposing this, I want you to remember, are the people calling you putting the same amount of effort that Rapid City Hens is? Are they like Dave Holland? Are they calling everyone? Are they checking with other ordinances? Is it just an opinion or are they backing it up with their actions? Um I really appreciate everyone taking the time for this. Um, and I hope you consider approving it tonight. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, Nick, you're up next, followed by April Malik.

Good evening, council. My name is Nick Schmidt. I am a veterinarian here in Rapid City, and I urge the council to pass this ordinance. Uh, working at a veterinary clinic, I see how people care about their pets and their animals. At my clinic and several others in town, we see more than just cats and dogs. We see the lizards, snakes, rats, rabbits, I think you mentioned hamsters, um, and even chickens occasionally. Regardless of the species, the people that come in with these animals, they have a high care for their animals. They they really care about them. They're willing to put in the effort for them. Um, our clinic has already had discussions about further staff training for chicken health should this ordinance be passed. Uh, my wife and I, she's also a veterinarian. We moved out here from Elkpoint, South Dakota, where at the time a few years ago, chickens are allowed with very, very few rules. Um, I reached out to the police chief earlier this morning, and he said he used to get calls every day because there were just no rules. Um, and it was about the chickens. Since then, they have most of the calls that he would get were chickens in the streets because they didn't they weren't required to be in any coops or anything like that or noise because of roosters were allowed. Um, since we've left, those ordinance have been passed and changed, so now they can't have roosters, and now they have to be in a coupe. He says he rarely gets any calls. Uh, he says the occasional call that he does get is u a dog getting into the coupe, and this ordinance has already made this these coupoops predator proof, so that shouldn't be an issue, and that's more of a dog owner problem than the chicken problem. Um, I also want to reiterate the other people's comments on the matter of the importance of local sustainability as well as the importance for kids growth and responsibility. And I'd love to be able to raise my kids with a little bit of a little bit of in town work as well. And that's really what we push for. So, please vote yes and and approve this moving forward. Thank you.

Thank you. April's up next, followed by uh Laura Ping. Peing pining. Pining. You'll tell you'll correct me when you get up there. All right, April.

Hi. Yep. Hello. My name is April Malik. I am a teacher of culinary arts and intro to human services at the high school level. Um, first of all, thank you all for your time. Thank you to everyone that has done so much work on this uh issue. I'm speaking of course in to promote the for your passage of the ordinance for the hens. Um, as we know, food sovereignty and food security is a big topic uh all over the world and in the United States as well. Um, so the raising of hens in the back in a backyard in a town will only help invite lower income people to be able to teach their young a little bit about raising their own uh food. Ideally, also growing food in gardens, urban egg and urban farming at one point was going to be um I don't know where it stands right now, but the USDA was going to um supplement it or help with that. I don't know where the grants are now, but it is a trend in the United States and including restaurants trying to produce more of their own ingredients. Um so I just wanted to say as an educator um you always looking we always look for activities and topics that are grounding and centering and connecting to the natural processes outside of our man-made ones um is known to be very beneficial um connecting with the um cycles out there. I would say mental health I don't have all the data but um it is very popular right now um in the restaurant industry. So, thank you for your time and I hope you pass this.

All right, Laura, you're up next, followed by Julie. Oh, boy. Julie, you know what? Juliet S. Yeah, really. She'll You also should tell me how that's pronounced when it's your turn. And and Laura Peening is correct. That was right on. Good. Um, I've been here four times. I still think you should approve hens. And everybody said all the right things, so please. Thank you. All right. Go ahead,

Julie noted. Thank you, Julie. You're up next, followed by Kathy Thrash. Thank you, mayor and council members. I've been here before, too. I think one of the things I'd like to highlight tonight is really just the access to healthy food. We know that in 20120 um during COVID, we had shortages of food. We know that we've had shortages of eggs um dur due to bird flu and disease. Um in South Dakota, we have a number of chicken producers. Um, in 2015, one of those chicken producers because of bird flu lost 1.3 million hens. That would have equated to half of the eggs produced in the entire state just two years ago. There are no largescale producers in western South Dakota. Um, passing this ordinance will allow people to generate a bit more food security by having hens and eggs. Again, there are lots of other benefits. We also know that we have issues with food cost and with the co current issues with um fuel. There are countries, there was an article in the New York Times today that indicated some countries now have food that's rotting in the fields because not only can't they afford to pay for fuel, they also simply don't have access to it. We are in a precarious situation and I think providing our citizens a chance for a bit more of food security is really important. And in closing, I would just urge each council member to be a good egg and vote yes tonight. The citizens of Rapid City deserve the same rights that dozens of communities across the state provide. The ability to place eggs from our own hens, in our own baskets, on our own tables, and in the baskets, and on the tables of our neighbors. There may be a few citizens who are cackling and crowing about backyard hens, but ordinances um with far fewer

restrictions have worked um with minimal issue in many many communities across South Dakota. Um please give the ordinance a chance and if council finds it isn't working, council has the opportunity to amend it in the future. Thank you. Julie, before you leave, would you for the record state your full name? Yes. Julie Smorgitz. Think of Smoresborg. Gotcha. All right, Kathy, you're up next, followed by, uh, Jillian Kazmala.

Thank you everyone. Kathy Thrash, um, citizen, member of the sustainability committee, National Volunteer Week and Cleanup Week and Earth Day, like what a perfect time to pass this ordinance. Thank you all for your effort that you have done for all of it. I think you've looked at this 19 ways and back forward and all of the things and I think it's very well written now and I would appreciate a couple um points um just just that it would show your forward movement and your leadership especially during this time for a sustainable um local reliable food source. Um, and I don't know about you, but my fight or flight, pardon the pun, response is about fried chicken, right? Because, um, every time the news pops up and the markets and the weather and all the things, it just can can create a sense of I can't control what's going on. Well, we can control what's going on in our backyard. We can fix it. We can change it. And this allows a lot of us to have that opportunity to have that sustainable local food source. Um, one last thing I will mention too is it's easy to um, imagine the worst case scenario, but it's why can't we equally put the effort into imagining the best case scenario? So, thank you for having a look at this. Again, I hope you pass this ordinance. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, Jillian, you're up next, followed by Andrew. And Andrew, I can't read your last name, so you're here.

All right. My name is Jillian Gazmala. This is my very first city council meeting as a longtime resident of Rapid City, but this is also the first thing I've given two hoots about or two clocks if we're going off the puns. Overall, I do believe chickens are a great thing for our community. Even they would just consume the vegetable scraps from my kitchen and my garden and lessen the burden on our landfill. Obviously, there's many myths about them that have been reputed. I haven't been able to hear all of David's arguments because I am a waitress full-time and this is costing me about 20% of my paycheck this week to be here. So, chickens, they eat ticks and mosquitoes. They easily contribute to a lack of disease such as Lyme disease, such as West Nile virus, rather than perpetuating more disease like they're known as a a myth. Um, they're also not noisy without roosters. Obviously, there are so many dogs in my neighborhood, you will not be able to tell who has chickens in the neighborhood because every time you walk by, the dogs will let you know they are there. Obviously, chickens won't get out and start breeding with other chickens because they'll all be hens unlike the cats and dogs that get taken in by the humane society. You also won't have to worry about being attacked by a wild chicken if they get out.

And overall, they're just such a great thing. We want to know where our food comes from. South Dakota is built on a can do spirit. Rapid City is built on a can do spirit. Who else would put faces on a mountain than us, right? We can do these things because we do them together and because we desire to improve each other as a whole as a community. And I appreciate your consideration of our, you know, of this ordinance that we are all so passionate about. I had a great conversation with Mr. Evans back in January about this on the phone. I left a a hopefully kind voicemail with Lindsay to around the same time because I knew I would not be able to be at the council meetings, but this ordinance has had my whole family's support and many of my friends who can't easily make it to a 6:30 meeting just for the last four months. So, thank you so much for all of your time and consideration and wisdom in this matter.

Jillian, thank you for sacrificing to be here tonight. Uh, Andrew from Boxelder, are you here? Andrew from Boxelder. I can't quite read the last. It's not difficult, but cop. Cop. Okay. Okay. Thank you. That'll be followed by Dana Foreman.

Thank you for letting me talk. I live between Boxelder and New Wonderwood. And I have a hen house that's capable of holding about 6 or 700 birds. Um, currently I have about 90 birds every from everything from guinea falls to pee fall, roosters and hens. And hens are by far by far the quietest. I won't go into the benefits of um hens because the previous speakers have covered that well. Um, I did provide the Facebook group Rapid City Hands my contact information to give out to the Humane Society in the event that there's escapes. Hopefully that will alleviate some concerns.

Um, thank you. All right. and Dana Foreman. Uh Dana's here for item 25,

but you're welcome to talk about chickens if you'd like. All right. Did you want to say or are you just here for questions? I'm for 25. Okay. Uh we are here for 25. We're done with 24. We're on a 25. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Um Dana Foreman with DGR Engineering 910 Fifth Street and uh here to discuss item number 25 which is the uh the county tiff and um here primarily for questions for the agenda item but I just wanted to also express that uh this project is unique in terms of it's a large development and with that there's arterial roads on three sides of the development which makes it unique and those those items really have a lot of um need a lot of tiff support with it where um we're looking at turning lanes on Catron and signal improvements and a roundabout um and then those arterial roads of Black Hills Boulevard and Fifth Street and then then some major drainage items within that development and and really for the developer um looking for your support of that TIFF where it's needed to make make the development viable and Um, as somebody that lives in Ward One, I'm excited for a development of this sort being multi-use and um, looking for your support and um, if there's any questions when during that agenda item, I'll be here to answer those.

Great. Thank you, Dana. Well, that concludes our comment period. So, we will close public comment and move on to item 24, the second reading and recommendation of ordinance number 6713, an ordinance authorizing the keeping of hens on certain residential properties in the city. Okay, we got a motion by Tamang with a second by secret to approve. Any comments, questions? All right. Uh because we have two people calling in, I need to do a roll call vote. uh to make sure that Mr. Roberts and Pedigrew their vote is accounted for. So with that, Heidi, can you take a roll call, please?

Pedigrew, no. Crisis, yes. Baverdorf, yes. Tang, hi. Evans, hi. Meer, hi. Leman, no. Maher, yes. Roberts, no. Strowman. No. Motion passes six to four.

Okay. Okay. Well, we got we got to calm the chicken joy down as councelor Tang would say. Thank you all and good work everybody. Item 25, approve resolution number 2026-031, the creation by Pennington County of a tax increment financing district tiff number eight, tiff district, excuse me, number eight within the city of Rapid City pursuant to SDCL 11-9-8. And we will begin with councelor Maher. Uh, thank you, mayor. I'd I'd like to make a motion to approve this resolution. If I could keep the get a second, I keep the floor. Okay, we got a motion by Maher with a second by Layman. The floor is yours.

I hopefully the members of the council have had the opportunity to meet the developer. He was in town last week. I met with them. The plans are pretty amazing for this area putting in u you know widening putting in fifth street and um Black Hills Boulevard on the south side of the uh Catron. It's going to be a tremendous development. It opens up future development. So, we don't have to go to Boxelder or um Piedmont. So, this would produce uh some great retail space for that side of town, which today we don't have retail space other than the Walmart, but this would be a great development for that part of town. The developer is very strong. They're from Omaha. They they have big plans for Rapid City and I just uh think we should turn this over to the county uh with a strong strong support from the city council. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Otherwise, we'll entertain a motion to approve. Again, we will do a roll call vote uh because of Councelor Pedigrew and Roberts being on the line. Um Heidi, let's go to a roll call, please. The motion on the floor is to approve. Meyer.

Hi Evans. Hi Tamang. Hi Bdorf. Hi Cris. Hi Pedigrew. No Strowman. Hi Roberts. Yes. Maher. Yes. Leman. Yes. Motion passes 9 to1.

Okay. Thank you. Uh now uh moving on to item 26. uh approve the attached list of 2026- or excuse me 2026 and 2027 malt beverage and South Dakota farm wine renewals upon approval from Rapid City Police Department and Rapid City Fire Department. I don't have anything from them. So we'll got a motion by layman with a second by Evans to approve item 26. All in favor? Any opposed? I.

All right. Thanks, John. Motion carries. uh public hearing items 27 through 30. We will open the public hearing for items 27 through 30. I have uh one uh speaker request forms and Will Vanderland. He says he's available for to answer any questions. Will are you here? Okay. You don't have to speak right now, but you're just here for questions. Okay. So, that's for item 30, folks. So, we have Will here for item 30. Uh so we will close the public hearing for items 27 through 30 and move on to non-consent public hearing items 27 through 30. Item 27 uh second reading of ordinance number 6701 an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rap City Municipal Code. A request by Rener Associates LLC for S7 LLC for resoning requests from no use no use district to low density residential district 1 for property jolly described as being located at 3050 Jolly Lane.

Got a motion by Cris and a second by Layman. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion car. Thank you. I need to let give them a chance to talk, don't I? All right. Item 28, second reading of ordinance number 6710, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rap City Municipal Code. A request by Rener Associates LLC for S7 LLC for reszoning request from No District to General Commercial District for property generally described as being located at 3050 Jolly Lane. Motion by Secrets with a second by TA. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 29, second reading of ordinance number 6711, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rap City Municipal Code. A request by Advanced Design Engineering and Surveying Inc. for BH Capital LLC for reszoning request from General Agricultural District to Lowdensity Residential District 2 for property gen described as being located at south of the intersection of Cadillac Drive and Diamond Ridge Boulevard. Motion by Tang with a second by Layman to approve. All in favor? I I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 30, a second reading of ordinance number 6712, an ordinance amending section 17.06 06 of the Rap City Municipal Code. A request by V4 Properties LLC for reszoning requests from general commercial district to light industrial district for property generally described as being located at 2526 Marlin Drive. Second. Motion by layman with a second by Tang. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. We have need for an executive session to discuss the qualifications, competence, performance, character or fitness of any public officer and employee or prospective public officer or employee employee in accordance to SDCL1-25-21. Do we have a motion to go into executive session? All right. Motion by Layman. Second by Beaverdorf. All in favor?

Any opposed? We're we're in executive session. Thanks, everyone. All right, guys. I'm going to end the call.

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Thank you. I'll entertain a motion to come out of executive session. Motion by Maher, second by Strowman. All in favor? Any opposed? We're out of executive session. Uh now we're moving on to the bill list uh with item 31 and we're going to go to finance director Daniel Aninsley. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The bill list for Main Street Square and Visit Rapid City total $101,710.95. Motion by Tamang with a second by Beverdorf. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries with one abstension from Cali Meyer. Item 32, back to finance director Daniel Aninsley.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Again, the uh remaining bills total 12,259,2244.

Okay, we got a motion by Councelor Meyer, followed by Cris. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? Motion by Strowman, second by Cris. All in favor? Any opposed? We're thanks everyone.