Category: Sports complex
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Sports Facility Management Fee Increase Passes Unanimously- But Council President Tamang Made the City Show their Math
Rapid City SD- The First Amendment to Sports Facilities Management’s contract didn’t slide through on consent the way its placement on the September 2 Legal & Finance agenda suggested it might. Council President Stephen Tamang pulled it for separate discussion before the vote — the committee’s motion covered items 1 through 14, item 10 excluded…
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Before the Sports Complex even Opens, Its Manager’s Fee Went Up 67%
A quiet contract amendment also puts the operator’s affiliate inside construction change-order reviews — a role it wasn’t paid for in July. Rapid City SD – Sports Facilities Management, LLC hasn’t opened the Rapid City Fieldhouse yet. It hasn’t hired a General Manager, sold a sponsorship, or hosted an event. But as of a First…
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Your Rundown: Rapid City’s Legal & Finance Committee, September 2nd
12:30 p.m., Council Chambers, City Hall Administration Center — 18 items, one lunch hour Rapid City SD – Fourteen of these items are on consent, meaning they’re bundled into a single vote unless someone pulls one out for discussion. Four are non-consent, meaning they get their own debate. Here’s what’s actually inside each one, in…
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Special Council Rundown: DOJ Grants and Heated Budget Debates
Rapid City SD- The special council meeting opened with a major infrastructure approval. As the first item of business, the council authorized the Mayor and Finance Director to sign the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) agreements between the City of Rapid City and Scull Construction for the new sports complex. Chief Hedrick & DOJ Model…
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Sanford Bought the Microphone- Paying for its own Q&A about its own Deal
Rapid City SD- On August 13, Mayor Jason Salamun sat on a stage at an Elevate Rapid City luncheon, one of several panelists arranged across a small riser, answering questions about the Indoor Sports Complex rising off Mall Drive. Also on the panel: Domico Rodriguez, executive director of the Rapid City Sports Commission. Caleb Arceneaux,…
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August 12th Legal And Finance Committee Rundown: Contracts After the Naming Ceremony, Single – Serve Alcohol Restrictions proposed and Tzadik on the Nuisance List
Rapid City SD –The Rapid City Legal and Finance Committee meets Wednesday, August 12, at 12:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. From high-dollar sports complex agreements to serious municipal code enforcement against absentee landlords, tomorrow’s agenda offers a wide window into city priorities and administrative spending. The Sports Complex: Formalizing the Photo-Op The committee is slated…
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Filed Under a Hotel Tax Board: How Rapid City’s Sports Complex Financing Hid in Plain Sight
Rapid City SD- For nearly a year, the entity actually bonding money for Rapid City’s new sports complex has not been the City Council, not Parks and Recreation, not even the Rapid City Sports Commission whose name is on the original feasibility study. It’s been the Business Improvement District No. 2 District Board — a…
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The Sports Complex, Full Circle? What’s Coming to Wednesday’s Legal and Finance Committee and the History that Got it this Far
Rapid City SD- Next Wednesday, the Legal and Finance Committee will take up a naming rights agreement that would lock Sanford Health’s name onto the city’s new sports complex for the next 21 years. It’s a small procedural step on its face — an origination at Legal and Finance on August 12, ahead of a…
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The Optics Check: A $10 Million Trial Balloon and the Shadow Over Rapid City’s Youth Sports Complex
Rapid City SD – Running the 20-minute game clock on a municipal maneuver — and a name barely three weeks in the ground. 20:00 — The Premature Celebration On Thursday, Aug. 6, at 10:30 a.m., Mayor Jason Salamun and Sanford Health officials stood in a parking lot along East Mall Drive to celebrate a $10…