Category: Local politics
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Rapid City Council Rundown for Monday Oct 19
Rapid City, SD – The state champion Stevens girls tennis team gets the first applause Monday night. After that, the Rapid City Council works through 35 items — two supplemental budget ordinances worth a combined $13.3 million, the Boomshockalocka floodplain rezones back from Planning Commission, a 15% raise for city bus drivers and a request…
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Rapid City Municipal Government Urges Residents To Attend Data Center Open House on Oct. 14
Rapid City SD – Wednesday evening, city planners will stand in the Council Chambers and walk residents through the rules for a kind of building most of them have never set foot in. The City of Rapid City is holding a public open house on its proposed data center ordinance from 5 to 7:30 p.m.…
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$13.3 Million in Budget Changes, A New Ambulance and a Contested Tree Bill – Rapid City Legal & Finance Committee Preview for Oct. 14
Rapid City SD – Somewhere at the Mountain View Water Treatment Plant sits a Hyster forklift so old the city’s own surplus form lists its year as “pre 1957?” It still runs, the form says, but it isn’t safe, and it’s headed to auction. That forklift is one of 14 items before Rapid City’s Legal…
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Zebra Mussels, Change Orders and Snow Removal on the Public Works Agenda for Oct. 13
Rapid City SD- The zebra mussels in Pactola Reservoir are striped and about the size of a fingernail, and they’ve been there since at least the summer of 2022. On Tuesday, Rapid City’s Public Works Committee will consider a $147,000 engineering contract to keep them out of the city’s water treatment plants. It’s one of…
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Block 8 Tower Sign Request Continued to Oct 22 After Staff Urged Denial
Rapid City SD – The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Thursday continued Block 8 LLC’s sign variance request for the seven-story building at 440 Mount Rushmore Road to Oct. 22. The board took no vote on the merits and asked the applicant to revise the proposal. What Block 8 wants Case 26VA028 asks to raise…
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Signage and Flood Plains fill Thursday Morning’s Planning & Zoning Meetings
Rapid City SD – The biggest item on Thursday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment agenda isn’t a development. It’s a sign, or rather several: a request to put up to 1,400 square feet of tenant signage and 850 square feet of electronic message centers on the 1982 Block 8 Tower at 440 Mount Rushmore Road. Staff…
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What’s on Rapid City’s October 5th City Council Meeting
Sixty items, a 6:30 p.m. start, and a consent calendar long enough that Council will pass most of the night in a single vote. Rapid City SD – Rapid City Council meets Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30 p.m. Forty-four items sit on the consent calendar, five are non-consent, seven carry public hearings, and two are…
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Rapid City Legal & Finance Committee Preview: AI, Bonds, and a $7.2 Million Budget Change
Rapid City SD – The Legal & Finance Committee meets at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in Council Chambers at 300 6th Street, and the agenda runs from two library drinking fountains to a bond authorization of up to $74 million. The Rundown General public comment comes first. Items 1-18 are on the consent calendar…
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What’s on the Tuesday, Sept 29 Rapid City Public Works Agenda
Rapid City SD – The Public Works Committee meets at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 300 6th Street. Fourteen items, eleven of them on consent. Here’s what’s in the packet, in the order the committee will hit it. CONSENT ITEMS (1–11) 5–7. Three bid-advertisement authorizations: 2027 Sanitary Sewer Televising…
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Northrop Grumman Lands in Rapid City’s Innovation District
Rapid City SD- Records show Elevate Rapid City had already set up a home for its next tenant before it told the public who that tenant was. On September 17, the organization quietly filed Articles of Organization for a new LLC — DLAB Holdings, LLC. Six days later, on September 23, Governor Larry Rhoden’s office,…