Tag: City council
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Rapid City Is Writing Off $33,840 in Past Due Tzadik Utility Debt Deemed Uncollectable
Rapid City SD – Tucked into a routine, $125,642.10 citywide utility write-off headed to the Rapid City Council on Oct. 5 is $33,840.53 in unpaid bills tied to Tzadik, the Florida-based landlord. The debt is spread across 93 individual line items in Appendix A to Resolution No. 2026-077, ranging from a 17-cent credit to a…
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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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Rapid City Planning Commission Delays Vote on New Data Center Rules After Fractured Hearing
Rapid City SD – An ordinance rewriting how Rapid City regulates data centers — capping their water use, banning the largest of them outright, and imposing new noise and cooling standards — was supposed to get a recommendation from the Planning Commission on Sept. 10. Instead, after roughly an hour and a half of public…
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Hanover Drive Triplex Approved on 5-3 Vote after Contentious Planning Commission Hearing
Rapid City SD – A Rapid City Planning Commission meeting that opened with a routine consent calendar ended with commissioners defending themselves against members of the public who told them to shut up — and, in one case, a neighbor named Clayton Severson asked to leave the room by chair Erik Braun. The Sept. 10…
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The Sentinel’s Recap: Federal Mandates, Fiscal Shifts, and Growing Pains
Rapid City City Council Meeting – Sept. 8, 2026 Rapid City SD –Tuesday night’s City Council meeting highlighted the persistent tug-of-war between neighborhood transparency, fiscal management, and the looming threat of municipal liability. From contentious zoning amendments to shifting millions in management contracts, here is what happened on the dais. The Oxford House Dilemma: Neighborhoods…
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Also on the September 10th Rapid City Zoning/Planning Agenda: Variances, Right of Ways and Rezoning
Rapid City SD – The data center ordinance isn’t the only thing in front of Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission Thursday, September 10, at 7 a.m., City Council Meeting Room, 300 Sixth Street. Here’s the rest of it, in the order it appears on the agenda. Zoning Board of Adjustment Planning Commission –…
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Rapid City’s New Data Center Rules Go Before the Planning Commission Thursday Morning
Meeting starts at 7 a.m.; ordinance follows through on the Mayor’s July pledge that “no data center is worth our water. RAPID CITY, S.D. — An ordinance that would rewrite how the city treats data centers — capping their water use, banning the largest of them outright, and imposing new noise and cooling requirements —…
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The September 8th, 2026 Rapid City City Council Playbill
Rapid City SD — Tuesday’s meeting is a make-up date — Rapid City Council normally sits the first and third Monday of the month, but Labor Day bumped this session a day late. Don’t let the shifted date fool you into thinking it’s a light one. Two long-running stories close out tonight, the actual 2027…