City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

Good evening and welcome to the City Council meeting for Monday, June 15th, 2026. We will begin with a roll call and determination of quorum.

Lehman. Here. Sorry, Lehman. Maher. Here. Roberts. Here. Stroman. Here. Pettigrew. Sechrist. Here. Beaverdorf. Here. Tamang. Here. Evans. Here. Meyer. Here. We have a quorum.

Thank you. Next, we'll have an invocation by Josie Sorenson, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. If you're able and willing, would you please rise?

Well, good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members. Would you all please join me in prayer? Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts, acknowledging that every good gift comes from you. We thank you for the privilege of living in this community and for the men and women of this council who have accepted the responsibility of serving our city. We ask that you grant them wisdom, discernment, and integrity as they consider the matters before them this evening. Give them clarity of mind, humility, and leadership, and a genuine desire to seek what is best for all the people they serve. Help them to listen well, work together respectfully, and make decisions that promote justice, safety, and the flourishing of our community. May this meeting be marked by civility, productivity, and mutual respect. Get every discussion and decision, and may your blessing rest upon our city and all who call it home. We ask these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation,

All right, next we'll entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. Second. A motion by Roberts with a second by Stroman to adopt. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next, we have a special presentation of the 2026 American Planning Association. Vernon Deans, I believe is how it's pronounced, Comprehensive Plan Honor Award for the Rapid City 2025 Comprehensive Plan. And I'm going to come around here to the front. And Vicki Fisher, our Community Development Director, would you and your team join me?

You guys can stay seated because this is what our world is really about.

Well, what we have up here are members of our community development team, as well as the city council members behind us. If you don't know, every 10 years, we do a comprehensive plan for the city. It kind of lays out the framework of what's going to happen in the city in the next decade. And we had a lot of community input. and worked very hard on this and it was instituted here in the last year and frankly we got some great recognition for it so i'm going to read our little speech here and miss fisher i'm going to turn it over to you after that to say a few words So, it is my honor to recognize the community development team as we celebrate receiving the 2026 American Planning Association, did I pronounce Vernon Dees or Dines? Is that right? All right, somebody tell me if I'm wrong. Comprehensive Plan Honor Award for 2025 Rapid City Comprehensive Plan. This award recognizes excellence in long range planning and the creation of a document that will serve and direct the city's future for the next 10 years. In addition to the hard work of our planning team, this achievement was the result of continued collaboration with the community and elected officials working with consultant partners, staff led a strong public engagement effort that invited residents and elected officials to share ideas and helped ensure the plan reflects the full range of perspectives in our community. Staff then took what they heard and turned it into a practical, forward-looking plan that builds on Rapid City's strengths, responses to emerging opportunities, and provides clear direction for the future. The American Planning Association Awards team recognized the strength of the public process, the clarity of the plan, and the ease of navigation and accessibility. As I present this plan back to the community, I want to thank the staff for their dedication in overcoming challenges along the way and congratulate the public. and elected officials whose input made this plan possible. This award serves as a celebration of our community's commitment to the vision of Rapid City. I want to add one item that was not in here. So you hire people to help you guide through this process. What I know about this team. is this team here and others did the heavy lifting. This was one that definitely had your fingerprints all over it. And we know the work that you had to do. And we greatly appreciate that. Also had the fingerprints of this great community on it. And so right here, we have the award. And I'd like to give this to our longstanding community development director, the legendary Vicki Fisher. Here you go, Vicki.

Thank you, Mayor. One of the reasons that I wanted council to stay seated, and the mayor did an excellent job pointing this out, this is my third comprehensive plan that I've been a part of, because I've been with the city for over 30 years. The inclusion that was incorporated into our end document was immense. And not that we didn't ask for it, but this go round, the participants stood up and said, I want to be heard. We had working sessions with many members of the city council who showed up and said, this is what is important to me. The mayor and his office participated, all of the directors. In fact, if Chief Hedrick was here tonight, I was going to jokingly make him come down and join us. Because when we wanted the language in there about the police department, the chief wrote it. And so when I had mentioned that we won this award, he teased me that he was going to join us. So that's for you, chief. But standing beside me are my division managers. And they all have team members that were every bit as important. But these three did an immense job in bringing this over the finish line. There was a lot of late night writing. We wanted this document to really capture the voice of the community. Our primary author of the document is Marlo Capsa. She's our project planning division manager. Jessica Olson, current planning division manager, and I think you all know Kip Harrington, our transportation planner. The great news is that as a result of this, we are now doing the same type of work that inclusion and collaboration with the community, with the elected officials, and with the directors to bring forward an updated future land use plan that really brings a sense of community to every neighborhood. We'll be holding open houses in each ward. We will be reaching out to each of you And we'll be doing work sessions with council again. So get excited. We are. You should also know that the great work that Marlo put into this document, she has been nominated for South Dakota Planner of the Year. And we wish her well on that one. Thank you.

And Daryl, would you like to come out here? We get our pictures taken with this awesome team. And council members, do you want to stand up behind it? I'd like you to be in the picture if that's all right. Bring it in. All right. You should be holding this, by the way. Oh, thank you. We'll hold it today. All right. Thank you. Pretty sure John's eyes were closed. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, next we'll move on to 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 do have some speaker request forms. We will begin with Mark Thalicker.

Good evening. Before we start the clock, I would like to, oops. Sorry, it's three minutes flat. OK. So OK, real quick, point of order. I noticed on the agenda under the invocation, you say you are welcome to participate, but not required. I would also like that added to the Pledge of Allegiance. I think that is also not required, but if you're wanting to do it, feel free to join, but those two things are not required and it's amazing how strong peer pressure is in a group. I taught, I helped substitute at some of the schools around here, in elementary, middle school, and it's very hard for a child to see his friends all stand up during the Pledge of Allegiance, but he may not want to. for whatever reason, and it's very difficult for them to be able to do that with that kind of peer pressure. And so adding a line like that really helps people, everybody here, wherever, know that it's not required. You don't have to feel that peer pressure. So I got two minutes left for the rest of it. Gonna have to hurry. My last words to you the last time I was here was I'll be back. No God, no prophet, just common sense. That's all it took. And just before that, I talked about the separation of church and state as being a very important issue to me. And I know more than a few of you, when you heard those words, you thought, ah, we've got him. Those words aren't in the Constitution. We don't have to pay attention to that. It doesn't exist. If you look at Thomas Jefferson's words, he actually put the two together because in that first amendment, the Bill of Rights, it says that the government will not endorse or establish any religion and you have the right to practice your religion however you want or whatever it is. So there it is. If you put those two things together, you have the wall of separation between church and state. I read a book once by Richard Dawkins. It was called The God Delusion. I believe that is true, that that most people that believe in a God are deluded thinking that because it gives them comfort in many ways. If you read the Bible, it will give you lots of comfort. And the end is that Sinclair Lewis said, when fashion comes to this country, it will be wrapped in a flag and waving a Bible. And that's what's happening today in this country. You're seeing that slow slide.

Mr. Thalick, your time's up. Thank you. Next up, we have Jenny Alaska.

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Your water. Thank you. By the way, I'll be back.

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OK. All right. Thank you so much.

OK. All right. I want to first of all say thank you to those who responded to my email, excuse me, and my text. So thank you. That took a lot of work to send all those out. I come to you from Alaska, where I got a law passed. So that's kind of how I know a little bit of what to do when something is wrong. And that's what happened. I went, I needed a coffee pot, put in my phone, placed by a used coffee pot. And I ended up at Cornerstone Thrift Store on 11th. When I got there, it was about 1240 p.m. on a Wednesday. All I knew was there was nowhere to park. There was cars everywhere, like for two blocks everywhere. And I thought, what in the world is this store about? And so I ended up back in front of the store on 11th, and there's a store across the street called Dennis Supply. The front of his building said no parking, but there were cars along the side. So I went along the side, very close to the railroad tracks, praying I wouldn't pop my tires, got parked back there, didn't see any signs, walked in the store, bought my coffee pot, walked out, no car, completely gone. And so trying to gather my thoughts, I went back in the store, crying my eyes out, where's my car? Where's my car? And what happened was the girls behind that counter looked up with a deer in the headlight look because just 28 minutes before they all told me I could park there. They didn't only tell me I could park there. The customers all said, we always park there, right? So I thought I could park there. Well, that was wrong. After I finally got my car back, it cost me $142.20. With that, I'm a person that lives on SSI, Pennington, Medicaid, SNAP, I think that's it. That's those things. So to have $142.20 on May 27th taken out of my account for six days, I lived on $1.43. All because I bought a coffee pot at a store, right? What I'm asking all of you to do, because this is a huge problem, and for two years, that guy, Matt, at Dennis Supply, cannot walk out of his building at night because he's terrified. He whispered to me he had to buy a gun. So there is a huge problem there with the parking situation. What I would say is from Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 3, that 50% off sale stops until they can get ample parking. And the other thing is that I deserve to have my money back. There's a video of them telling me I could park there, and they refused to let me see it. So I need your help. Thank you.

Thank you. That will conclude the general public comment. And we will move on to non-public hearing items 2 through 34 and open public comment for items 2 through 23. I do have some speaker request forms for item 19, but the note here says only if item 19 gets pulled. So we'll leave that there. And if you want to do that, we can certainly do it. So with that, we'll close the public comment. And we do have a presentation related to, I believe it is related to item 19, and that is the Catalyst TIF presentation. Mike Dugan will come up here and provide an overview of this item.

Good evening, Mike Dugan with City Finance. I have a very brief presentation for you tonight regarding item number 19, which is amendment number one of the project plan for the recently created Rapid City Catalyst District, Tax Increment Financing District. So a little background, the original approval on this district was in September of 2025. The total approval was a little over 84 million, which provides partial funding for the sports complex and public infrastructure. So for the phase one, increment is generated from the new Black Hills Energy Lang II generating station, and then also from any commercial construction along Mall Drive, which is adjacent to the sports complex, which is currently undeveloped. There's a phase two to this district with additional funds for the sports complex and additional public infrastructure. Those funds would only become available if additional developments would happen, be constructed within the TIF boundaries that would generate additional increment. At this time, there's no known future developments outside the sports complex. This is a special or a separate district from the Rapid City Destination District, which is more commonly known as Liberty Land. The Rapid City Destination District went to public vote and it was voted down and the project is no longer moving forward. So very important. This is separate from the Destination District. So the purpose of this tip amendment is to add elevate rapid city as developer two, which has requested a 25% increase in the costs to the originally approved project plan to construct 128 acre business park in north rapid city. which is located near the intersection of Haynes Avenue and Mall Drive. The funds will be used solely for infrastructure costs and grading, primarily for the extension of North Maple Street, which is a collector in the major street plan. It can also be used for intersection improvements at North Maple Street and Mall Drive and street utility improvements to Mall Drive The site does need extraordinary grading, which is necessary to develop this site. It's important to note there are no funds in this TIF amendment for land purchase or vertical construction of the property. The total increase of costs is $19.4 million. $10 million of that is capital costs for the public improvements and a little over $9.4 million of financing costs. Financing costs are TIF eligible per codified law. It is important to know developer costs are always up front and they can be self-funded by a developer, but typically a developer goes out for their up front costs for the public infrastructure and get bank financing. Those financing costs for the TIF loan are eligible to be reimbursed. So the current assessed value of this property proposed to be built on, it's a little over 30,000. At year 20, it's anticipated to be valued at a little over 120 million at full build out. So this will add or elevate Rapid City as developer two. Developer two will only receive the increment generated from the business park. This proposed project does not affect the increment generation for the sports complex. Important to know that the city of Rapid City is not a part of this amendment. The city is not providing any funding. If the business park does not create enough increment to pay back any loans, it is the responsibility of Elevate to fund the shortfall. This would create approximately 30 pad-ready sites to compete with other areas in the state that have this type of infrastructure and pad-ready sites available. Elevate is seeking financing and grants from the Governor's Office of Economic Development, which would leverage $1 million in future funds and $7.5 million of low-interest ready financing, the GOED. The TIF would complete the funding gap needed to move forward. The business park is located within the existing Rapid City TIF. A new overlapping district could not be formed since the increment generated from the business park would have to wait until the Catalyst District is fully paid before the business part could be repaid for the infrastructure. What that means is if a new district was formed, it would have to sit on top of the existing formed district, the catalyst district, which is allowable, which is allowed by codified law. But the reason why mathematically that does not work is the business park, the elevate new TIF, if it was to sit on top of the existing TIF would have to wait until the underlying catalyst TIF is paid in full. Like codified law, you have 20 years to be reimbursed for your upfront costs. The Catalyst TIF is anticipated to be paid in full at year 15 or year 16. That means that on top, the new district would only have approximately three to four years of increment generation years left, which it doesn't make this mathematically feasible for a new TIF. That's why the amendments are for you today. The public benefit, extending the public infrastructure to enable future development at neighboring sites, to construct shovel-ready sites to allow new high-income job prospects to locate in Rapid City, provide new higher-paid job opportunities in North Rapid City, allow the Rapid City community to have access to millions of dollars in investment from the state of South Dakota to construct the business park. If the TIF amendment fails, The Elevate is held responsible to repay their loan. The public and or the city is not guaranteeing or providing any of these funds. And then also the Newmark Research and Sanchez Barrel have confirmed that industrial parks and business parks usually require public investment to support the infrastructure necessary to develop a park. The potential sales price for shovel-ready sites is usually insufficient to recoup the significant cost to develop a business park. and also the rate of public investment for infrastructure in business and industrial parks has more than doubled across America in the years 2014 to 2024. This is the current Catalyst District boundaries, which is outlined in blue. What you can see in Northern Rapid City along Mall Drive, outlined in pink there, it's a proposed site for the business park. This is a proposed layout of the business park. The approximately 30 give or take would be pad ready sites that could be developed in the future. This is a proposed zoning. What you see on the southern portion of this proposed site along Mall Drive is office commercial spots or sites. And then the large portion of this would be light and gray there, light industrial. And then to the north in the pink there is proposed zoning of office commercial sites. This is proposed sources and uses for the project. The total project cost, this is infrastructure only to get it ready to go vertical, is a little over 31.4 million. So Elevate would be using cash and then using the GOD future fund grant and the ready loans. And then the TIF would fill the net needed gap in order to make this a possibility to move forward. So per a codified law developer has up to 20 years to be reimbursed for their upfront expenses. This is anticipated once again, only from their vertical construction of the business park to be paid in full in year 19, which is 2043. So you can see there in the increment column that's anticipated the vertical construction, which creates that additional property taxes in each year. and that's what's used to repay the developer for their upfront costs. This is the projected economic impact at full build out. So the diagram at the top, this is projected to bring 450 new jobs to the community with your average annual wages from $45,000 to $75,000 per year. So that the estimated direct payroll is a little over 27 million per year. So your diagram on the bottom there has your the jobs that would be created from this business park, but also the anticipated indirect jobs which would be additional suppliers and vendors and then additional retail because of this business park that would be needed in support of this project. The fiscal return so at year 20 this is a The project is anticipated to bring in an additional 1.6 million in annual property taxes to the community. And then the middle column there, 4.6 million in sales tax revenue to the city, and then 10.3 million in sales tax revenue to the state. The middle column there, the 4.6 million in sales tax revenue to the city, that's important. The reason being is for every dollar of property tax that's collected, the city gets 15 to 20% of that. So 15 to 20 cents of that goes back to the city. The sales tax, the 4.6 million, when that goes back to the city, that primarily what goes in to fill in the capital improvement fund. And the capital improvement fund is important to the community because that is there for new infrastructure and then also to take care of our existing infrastructure. So that 4.6 million in new sales tax revenue would go back to backfill that fund each year. And then lastly here, this is just a slide. This is a letter that was provided to each council member here recently. This is from the Governor's Office of Economic Development just showing support for the project. That concludes my presentation. I am available for any questions, and then the applicants are in attendance as well if there's any question.

Thank you. Thank you for that overview, Mike. Excuse me. We will now move on to consent items 2 through 23. Would the council like to remove any item for separate consideration? Councillor Lehman.

Thank you, Mayor. Item 11. Okay.

Councillor Roberts. Item 19. All right, I have item 11 and 19 pulled. I will entertain a motion to approve items two through 23 with the exception of 11 and 19. Move to approve. Got a motion by Tamang with a second by Roberts. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 11. Approve resolution number 2026-032A, a resolution fixing time and place for a hearing on assessment role for Business Improvement District 2026. And it looks like Councillor Lehman has pulled this item for Finance Director Daniel Ainslie.

thank you mr mayor i just want to know for the council that we are required to provide rounding of assessments to the county and so the document that is included in here actually goes to the penny we need to round it to the closest dollar and then there was also one parcel that is a single family home that according to the ordinance would be exempt from and so that one parcel will also be omitted i just want to make sure that the council is aware of that thank you Thank you. Duly noted.

Well, entertaining motion. Motion by Roberts with a second by layman to approve item 11. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 19, resolution number 2026-045, a resolution approving amendment number 1 to the project plan for the Rapid City Catalyst District, TIF district number 101. And Councilor Roberts, you pulled this item. Thank you very much.

Where'd Mike go? Mike. He's in the audience.

There he is, okay.

You said you'd stand by for questions, so. I just have one question. Can you explain how this TIF is gonna be guaranteed through Elevate?

Elevate would be receiving or they have applied and just pending approval from the governor's office of economic development So the city's not involved in this whatsoever. So just typically when a developer goes out If they're approved for a district their funds are upfront So they'll be leveraging those state funds and if they have to obtain any bank financing for their upfront costs so How increment works and how the repayment works is elevate.

I think you're misunderstanding my question. That wasn't my question. How are they going to guarantee that this pays off over 20 years? Who's the guarantor on it?

Elevate. Go ahead. It would be elevate Rapid City.

Do you mind if Finance Director Daniel Ainslie weighs in on that?

Absolutely. Go ahead, Daniel. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any of the financing for this project will be taken out by Elevate. Elevate will be the one guaranteeing that if the council does approve this amendment, We will have a further MOU that we will bring before the council that will state that the increment that is generated just on these parcels within Elevate's project area, that increment, when the city receives it, we will provide it to Elevate to pay off their loans, but that's it. And so that's the only funding that Elevate will get from the TIF. is going to be from any property taxes, any increment that's generated within their project area, not within the entire project area of the Catalyst District.

Thank you. But my question still is, if the TIF does not succeed, who's guaranteeing it?

Elevate will. So Elevate will have to use their other assets to repay whatever loans they took out.

Any other TIF that I've ever seen come across this council has some type of a personal guarantee to it. There's no guarantee Elevate's going to be in business in 20 years. And if that happened, then the taxpayers would be the ones that would pay any increment that may be left over. So that's my only concern. That's the only concern I have on this is the guarantee in the future. There's a lot of people I see sitting out there on Elevate that got quite a bit of money. You could guarantee this personally. So that's how a TIF usually works. So anyway, that's just my only concern.

If we let Finance Director Ainslie address that.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any financing that Elevate's going to get, they're going to have to provide a corporate guarantee. You're right that usually whatever bank would require a personal guarantee as well. I'm not sure what Elevate's financing package is with their lending institutions, that they're requiring some sort of personal guarantee, but I do know that Elevate has a fairly substantial asset pool that they would be able to pledge if...

And that is not what I'm talking about, Daniel. I've seen a lot of nonprofits. They got a lot of money right now. And 20 years from now, they have nothing. So I'm just looking for some kind of guarantee for the citizens of Rapid City. And like I said, it's my only concern. I don't think the project's bad. I think the project has a lot of merit. I just want to make sure 20 years from now, If this doesn't succeed, the taxpayers are not on the hook. That's my only concern. Thank you.

OK. Any other questions or comments from the council? Councillor Maher.

Yes, I would like to make a motion to approve this amendment.

We got a motion by Maher with a second by Biberdorf. Did you want to retain the floor? Sure.

As most of us know, and if you, again, I wish that every council member had the opportunity to watch the planning commission when they heard these presentations. It was an excellent explanation. We have in here from a commercial realtor saying there's just no property, light industrial property available in North Rapid, maybe a couple lots. The Rushmore Business Park is about full. When East Anamosa is completed, that might open up a couple more lots. But this is for our future. We're not going to see a lot going on out there in the next five years, but our kids will. And the future of Rapid City needs another business park. And even the one, Black Hills Industrial Center, first phase is sold out. I think this is a good move. I don't think there's a lot of risk for the city or the taxpayer Elevate is quite a track record of success. So I would ask my fellow council members to vote. Yes.

Thank you All right coming back in the queue is council Roberts

Thank you very much. This probably could have been real quiet if it just went through, but if we want to talk about properties that are on the market out there right now, I can talk about them all day long, including some of my own that I have for sale that I've had for sale for years within a mile of this property. So saying that we don't have enough properties out there, what about the new park that's going into Fifth Street, which is at Tiff? I mean, like I said, I'm just concerned about the taxpayers in the future. I think that, I think that, There's a lot of property out there, and it concerns me to put more out in the market. I think it's a good idea. I think Elevate had the opportunity a few years ago to buy the other industrial park. I wish they would have done that. You know, then we're not creating more competition for the developers in Rapid City that already have lots and have had lots for years and years and years that they haven't sold. So anyway, and of course, their commercial realtor said that we need it because he's their commercial realtor. So anyway, that's all I have to say.

Thank you, Councillor Roberts. Now we'll go to Councillor Strommen.

Thank you, Mayor. May I ask Director Ainslie a question? Absolutely. So Daniel, according to this letter from the governor's Office of Economic Development, there's is it already 9 million that that elevate has available out of the 19 that there that we're looking at for the stiff. Is that, am I reading that right? Garth, can you set me straight?

Okay. I believe you're correct, but I defer to Garth. Garth Wadsworth from Elevate Rapid City.

Mr. Mayor, members of the council, thanks for the time. So the entire project will cost more than the 19.4 that is included in the TIF. So we have seven and a half million in ready financing, plus another million in future funds from the Governor's Office of Economic Development. That is in addition to the TIF financing. So we're still going to have to go out and finance the 19.4 that's being included in the TIF. So that is in addition to not part of the 19.4.

Thank you. And I would just like to say I understand John's point regarding guarantees. But I also agree with Councilman Maher that this is another move. Our economy is gonna have to grow somehow and I think that the leadership at Elevate, the business people who are spearheading this, they have done their research. They have a pretty good idea of what direction we're going to go and what we need to go and what we need to provide so that we can have a stable economy moving forward. So I am in complete support of this proposal, I yield.

Thank you. Mr. Millar, we already passed the public comment period for this item. So we're now just entertaining the motion to approve. Just as an update, I saw your comment form. All right, any other comments? All right, the motion on the floor is to approve. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. That takes us to the end of the consent items. We are on to non-consent items 24 through 34, and we will open public comment for items 24 through 34. I have one speaker request forms for 28, but that's just, they're here to answer questions if anybody has them. So with that, we will close the public comment and move on to item 24, second reading and recommendation of ordinance number 6717, an ordinance amending certain chapters and sections of the Rapp City Municipal Code regarding common council and the mayor. Okay, so we got a motion from C. Chris with a second by Roberts. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 25, second reading and recommendation of ordinance number 6727, an ordinance amending the Rapp City Municipal Code section 3.26 regarding the tax increment financing district review process.

Motion by Layman with a second by Evans.

All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 26, first reading of ordinance number 6733, an ordinance amending clerical errors in the sections of 2.47.050 and 2.47.060 of the Rapp City Municipal Code. OK. We've got a motion by Sechrist with a second by Stroman. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 27, first reading of ordinance number 6726, an ordinance amending title 17 of the Rapp City Municipal Code to create a reasonable accommodation procedure. Councillor Sechrist.

Thank you. I move to move this item to the July 20th City Council meeting at the request of Director Fischer for a little additional time on this matter. Thank you.

All right. The motion on the floor is to continue to the July 20th City Council meeting. And the second was by Roberts. All right. Councillor Temang.

I'll be abstaining from this vote, thank you.

Duly noted. All right, so the motion on the floor is to continue to July 20th. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries with one abstention from Councilor Tamang. And that moves us on to item 28, a request by DGR Engineering for Woodsonia Real Estate Inc. for preliminary subdivision plan for proposed lots, lots one through 19 of block one, lots one through 126 of block two, and lots one and two of block three of Black Hills Marketplace subdivision, generally described as being located south of Catron Boulevard between Black Hills Boulevard and Fifth Street. With stipulations? All right. All right, we got a motion by Roberts and a second by Sechrist to approve with stipulations. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 29, a request by Davis Engineering Inc. for Mitch Morris for preliminary subdivision plan for proposed lots one through three of block one and lot one through three of block two of Morris Ranch Estates, generally described as being located south of intersection of Old Folsom Road and Lamb Road. The recommendation is to approve the stipulations. Motion by layman, second by Roberts. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 30, a request by Jim Bickett for a preliminary subdivision plan for proposed tracks A, B, and C of Bickett Subdivision, generally described as being located lying east of Eden Lane and north of Garden Lane. The recommendation is to approve with stipulations. We've got a motion by Stroman with a second by Roberts to approve his stipulations. And we have Councilor Evans chiming in.

I'm in favor of this, but I do have a question for Ms. Fisher. Four, five, maybe six years ago, we talked about that land adjacent to this that is sunken near the trailer courts and everything, sits below grade. Talking about an area park for that neighborhood. At the time, the land was not for sale. I'm just curious as to what is, has anything transpired concerning that? Particular partials since this is going to be developed right adjacent to that.

Thank you All right community development director Fisher I

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Great memory, Councilman Evans. You may recall the mobile home park was actually wanting to do an expansion, and they came before you for that. We've not seen any movement on that land since then or any request to reach out to see if the city would be interested in acquiring any of that parkland either.

Well, I just want to say this.

Well, we'll get you back on. We'll get you back on. Well, we need to think about that because there is not a neighborhood park for like three miles from that area. And it's something we need to acquire and make happen before somebody else wants to do it. I think it's inappropriate for development since it really would have been in the flood zone anyhow had the city limits been out there in the first place when the flood zone was created. So I think we should be taking a look at that for the future. Thank you.

Okay, the motion on the floor is to approve. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. For the record, that was approved with stipulations, but I believe I've stated that. Item 31, first reading of ordinance number 6718, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rapid City Municipal Code, a request by the City of Rapid City Community Development for GCC Dakota Inc. for rezoning request from South Dakota Codified Law 11-4-30 District to Cement Plant District for property generally described as being located north of West Chicago Street, west of Cement Plant Road to the terminus of Lean Street. Motion by Roberts with a second by Evans to approve. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 32, first reading of ordinance number 6719, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rapid City Municipal Code, a request by City of Rapid City Community Development for GCC Dakota Inc. for rezoning requests from South Dakota Codified Law 11-4-30 District to Mining and Earth Resources Extraction District. For property generally described as being located between Sturgis Road and Railroad Right-of-Way, south of Pennington County Line, and north of West Chicago Street, and southwest of the intersection of Sturgis Road and Hidden Valley Road, the recommendation is to approve with revised legal description. Motion by Layman, second by Sechrist. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Was that a no or an aye? It was a no. Okay, that's one no from Evans. All right, item 33, first reading of ordinance number 6720, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rapid City Municipal Code. A request by City of Rapid City Community Development for GCC Dakota Inc. for rezoning requests from Light Industrial District to Cement Plant District for property generally described as being located northwest of the intersection of Industrial Avenue and Cement Plant Road. Motion by Roberts with a second by Sechrest. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 34, first reading of ordinance number 6725, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rapp City Municipal Code. A request by FMG Engineering for rezoning requests from Low Density Residential District 1 to General Commercial District for property generally described as being located south of the intersection of Addison Avenue and Healing Way. A motion by Roberts with a second by Evans. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. That takes us to public hearing items 35 through 37. And we will open the public hearing for items 35 through 37. I have no speaker request form, so we will close the public hearing and move on to consent public hearing item 35. That's alcohol license. Do we have a motion? All right, we got a motion by Roberts with a second by Sechrist. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. That takes us to the end of the consent public hearing calendar. We will move on to non-consent public hearing items 36 and 37, beginning with 36. Resolution number 2026-041, a resolution for vacation of right-of-way property generally described as being located at Nowood Drive and Racine Street. Motion by Layman, second by Roberts to approve. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item 37, second reading of ordinance number 6722, an ordinance amending section 17.06 of the Rapp City Municipal Code. A request by April Malik for zoning request from low density residential district one to low density residential district two for property generally described as being located at 619 37th Street. Motion by Evans. Second by Roberts to approve. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. That takes us to the bill list. With that, we're going to go to Finance Director Daniel Ainslie.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The bills for Main Street Square and Visit Rapid City total $106,616.88.

Motion by Sechrist with a second by Lehman to approve. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries with one abstention from Meyer.

Now on to 39. Thank you again. The remaining bills total $10,955,701.72.

Motion by Meyer with a second by Maher. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion is approved. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion by Tamang with a second by Biberdorf to adjourn. All in favor? Any opposed? We're adjourned. Thanks, everyone.