Tag: City council
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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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Star Village and Aspen Park Diverge as Landlord’s Refinancing Bid Heads to an August 31st Hearing
Rapid City SD – For more than a year, Star Village and Aspen Park have moved through federal bankruptcy court as a single unit. That’s about to change. A refinancing deal now pending before a Florida bankruptcy judge would send the two properties down separate paths, with one likely refinanced into stable new ownership and…
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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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Four Items, One Wednesday: What’s Really in Rapid City’s Special Council Agenda
A $55 million construction contract, a $75 million federal ask, and two different price tags for the same city budget. Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s Common Council meets in special session Wednesday, August 26, at 6:30 p.m. It’s not a regular Monday meeting, and the agenda is short — but the four items on…
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A Chosen Family, Federal Mandates, Oxford Houses, and the End of Public Hearings for Reasonable Accomodations
Rapid City SD- The tension between a neighborhood’s “right to know” and a citizen’s federal right to privacy collided at city hall this month. The result? A fundamental change to how Rapid City handles group living accommodations is now one vote away from final passage — conveniently ending the exact kind of scrutiny that had…
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Cone-troversy on Main Street – Editorial Cartoon
Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
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Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
Rapid City SD – Public comment opened the night with its usual range — a resident pushing to beautify the city with flowers, a few of the meeting’s regulars returning to familiar themes, a man asking in apparent earnest whether he’d be arrested for putting a traffic cone on a president’s head downtown, a speaker…
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The Recap Prior to Monday’s City Council: Split Decisions and Supplemental Funds
What’s on the Rapid City Council Agenda for Aug. 17, 2026: Council takes up the Reasonable Accommodation ordinance, a $1.28M appropriation, and decides who actually wins the sidewalk waiver argument. Consent Agenda Highlights Council opens Monday with 20 consent items — five sets of minutes going back to late July. A string of Public Works…
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Shooters on the Sidewalk: Why Rapid City Council President Tamang is Taking a Second Look at Single-Serve Alcohol
Rapid City SD – It started with a walk. Council President Stephen Tamang posted on Facebook about what he found on a recent neighborhood walk: empty vodka shooters, scattered along the route like they’d become part of the landscape. It read like a small, personal observation. It wasn’t. That Facebook post has become the starting…
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Two Sidewalk Waivers, One Agenda: Committee Grills Corporate Request, Punts the Other to September
Rapid City SD – The Rapid City Public Works Committee meeting opened with a chaotic public comment period. Concerned citizen Mark Millar was first to the microphone, telling the committee they were starting to look like a “bunch of clowns” before noting the state is stepping in to fix the deck of the bridge that…