Special City Council Sessions, Council Chambers, City Hall
Rapid City, SD | July 27–30, 2026 | Sessions begin 3:30 p.m. daily

Source Document:

All page numbers in the table and notes below refer to this document. Posted here for public reference; original presented to Rapid City Council, July 20, 2026.

Day	Time	Department	Presenter	Budget Book Pages
Mon, July 27	3:30 p.m.	Fire Department	Chief Culbertson	37–38
	4:30 p.m.	Police Department	Chief Hedrick	45–46
Tue, July 28	3:30 p.m.	The Monument	Exec. Dir. Craig Baltzer	57–58
	4:00 p.m.	Public Works	Director Mike Theis	49–50
Wed, July 29	3:30 p.m.	Human Resources	Director Amber Cornella	39–40
	4:00 p.m.	Information Technology	Director Jim Gilbert	41–42
	4:30 p.m.	Mayor’s Office	Mayor Jason Salamun	27–28
	5:00 p.m.	Parks & Recreation	Director Jeff Biegler	43–44
Thu, July 30	3:30 p.m.	City Attorney’s Office	Carla Cushman	31–32
	4:00 p.m.	Community Development *See Notes	Director Vicki Fisher	33–34
	4:30 p.m.	Airport	Exec. Dir. Patrick Dame	53–54
	5:00 p.m.	Public Library	Director Terri Davis	47–48
	5:30 p.m.	Finance Department	Director Daniel Ainslie	35–36

Schedule in plain text:

Monday, July 27
3:30 p.m. — Fire Department — Chief Culbertson (pp. 37–38)
4:30 p.m. — Police Department — Chief Hedrick (pp. 45–46)

Tuesday, July 28
3:30 p.m. — The Monument — Exec. Dir. Craig Baltzer (pp. 57–58)
4:00 p.m. — Public Works — Director Mike Theis (pp. 49–50)

Wednesday, July 29
3:30 p.m. — Human Resources — Director Amber Cornella (pp. 39–40)
4:00 p.m. — Information Technology — Director Jim Gilbert (pp. 41–42)
4:30 p.m. — Mayor’s Office — Mayor Jason Salamun (pp. 27–28)
5:00 p.m. — Parks & Recreation — Director Jeff Biegler (pp. 43–44)

Thursday, July 30
3:30 p.m. — City Attorney’s Office — Carla Cushman (pp. 31–32)
4:00 p.m. — Community Development — Director Vicki Fisher (pp. 33–34) *See notes below
4:30 p.m. — Airport — Exec. Dir. Patrick Dame (pp. 53–54)
5:00 p.m. — Public Library — Director Terri Davis (pp. 47–48)
5:30 p.m. — Finance Department — Director Daniel Ainslie (pp. 35–36)

Not Being Heard at These Sessions

City Council, Ambulance/EMS, Solid Waste, Water, Water Reclamation.

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Community Development Flags

Two things worth having in hand walking into this one:

1. General Fund support down 44% ($1,738,255 in 2027 vs. $3,106,214 in 2026 — a $1.37M cut), even though the department’s total budget is actually up 3.9% year-over-year ($11,187,163 vs. $10,762,248). The gap is backfilled by Downtown Parking revenue (up 51.5%) and Grants (up 36.8%).

2. Front-of-book figures don’t match the department’s own detail table. The “Day in the Life” infographic (p. 11) lists Community Development’s Annual Budget at $7,096,059. The department’s own numbers table (p. 34) shows $11,187,163. The $4,091,104 difference is exactly the Public Transportation/RTS line — the infographic keeps RTS separate; the department table folds it in. (Same pattern applies to the Library: $3,830,499 on p. 11 vs. $4,221,949 on p. 48 — the difference is County funding + private donations.)

Separately — Community Investments discrepancy: the “Day in the Life” page lists $5,962,118; the pie chart and the Community Investments detail page (p. 51) both say $6,152,118 — and that $6,152,118 figure ties out exactly to the sum of the individual grantee line items. The $190,000 gap doesn’t match any single program being added or dropped, so it looks like a plain data-entry error on the summary infographic rather than a categorization choice.