Category: Local politics
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Preview: Rapid City Zoning Board/ Planning Commission – Sept. 24, 2026
Rapid City SD – Thursday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meeting opens with a stack of routine paperwork — a homeowner just trying to close a sale, a park that needs the right zoning label, a garage bigger than most studio apartments. But buried in the consent calendar, three items down, a familiar…
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The Impact Endowment Fund Board is Seated – Here’s What Was Said During City Council Regarding It
Rapid City SD – The Rapid City Impact Fund Endowment’s nine-member board is now officially seated. City Council approved it Monday night, but not before a public commenter called it a “slush fund,” two Council members voted against it, and the Mayor had to walk through, in detail, exactly how those nine names got there.…
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“We’re Going To Have a Hill Filled With Luxury Homes and Apartments”, Alderman Evans States As Council Splits on Chasing Tzadik Utility Debt
A motion to table failed. A council member couldn’t get a straight answer on how a debt ballooned into six figures. And by the end, one alderman had already told the room how this ends. Rapid City SD – Rapid City Council’s Monday night vote to authorize outside counsel against several Tzadik-linked LLCs was never…
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Rapid City: City Council PlayBill for Sept. 21, 2026
Rapid City SD – Monday’s council meeting has budget approvals, board appointments, and a stack of bills nobody outside City Hall usually looks at twice. Council convenes at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. Fall Prevention Awareness Week and Suicide Prevention Month proclamations open the meeting. Item 3’s presentation has been postponed to Oct. 5. Consent…
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Everything Is on Consent? The Eight Items on Rapid City’s Sept. 16 Legal & Finance Agenda
Rapid City SD – The Legal and Finance Committee agenda lists eight items under Consent, and zero under Non-Consent. That means everything from routine minutes to a repeat finding in the city’s own audit is set to pass through Committee together in one vote Wednesday, unless someone pulls an item out for separate discussion first.…
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Flagged Again: A Look at Rapid City’s FY2025 Audit and Its TIF Debt
Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s outside auditor gave the city’s FY2025 financial statements a clean bill of health overall — but flagged the same internal-control problem it flagged the year before, tracing this year’s version to a correction involving one of the city’s tax increment districts. By The Numbers Ketel Thorstenson, LLP, the Rapid…
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Rapid City Moves to Collect $643,000 from Tzadik – Linked LLC’s Already Headed to Auction
Rapid City SD – The City of Rapid City is preparing to go to court over more than $643,000 in unpaid utility bills owed by five LLCs tied to embattled landlord Adam Hendry’s Tzadik real estate portfolio — money that, in several cases, is attached to properties already moving through court-ordered liquidation. The request is…
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Nine Seats at the Table: Rapid City’s New Charitable Endowment Board Looks A Lot Like City Hall’s Rolodex
Rapid City SD –The City of Rapid City has quietly seated the board that will eventually decide which local nonprofits get a share of a permanent, multi-million-dollar endowment — and the nine people on it read less like a cross-section of the community than a directory of the interests already shaping what gets built here.…
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Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun Will Not Seek Reelection in 2027
Rapid City SD – Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun announced Sunday evening that he will not run for another term in 2027, ending what will be a decade of service in city government when his current term concludes. Salamun made the announcement in a personal Facebook post. In a statement accompanying the post, he described…
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Rapid City’s September 15th Public Works Agenda Cheat Sheet
Rapid City SD – Ten items are on Rapid City’s Public Works Committee this week — nine of them routine enough to pass without a word of discussion, and one a developer’s second attempt to get out of building a city-standard road next to Sanford Health’s new Medical Mile campus. When: 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept.…