Tag: City council
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The Sidewalks to Nowhere: A Stroll through Rapid City’s Sidewalk Variance Routes
Rapid City SD- Tuesday’s Public Works Committee agenda is, for the most part, the routine business of running a city: a $129,450 tracked conveyor for the Solid Waste Division, a $21,102 change order for Well 13 pump equipment, $235,000 in advertised bids for upgrades at McKeague Field. Sixteen items, most of them numbers nobody will…
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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…
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With Sanford’s $10M Locked In For Rapid City’s Sports Complex, City Council Eyes Next Steps
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Rapid City officials and the Rapid City Sports Commission announced Thursday morning that Sanford Health will hold the naming rights for the city’s planned multipurpose sports complex. The multi-million-dollar corporate partnership is a significant milestone, but several major structural pieces are still slated to fall into place next week, when the…
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The Holding Cell Playbook: A Rezoning Batch That Passes the Paper Test, Not the Sniff Test
Rapid City SD- It doesn’t take a cloak and dagger to be underhanded. A rezoning can clear every procedural box — proper notice, staff recommendation, clean votes, mandatory oversight conditions — and still represent a use of the system that doesn’t survive a second look. Legal, but Is It Right? Here’s the timeline that matters.…
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What’s on Rapid City’s Table Monday Night 7/20/2026
Reprint after wp2shell rebuildRapid City SD- Rapid City’s Common Council has a packed evening ahead on July 20 — a special session on next year’s budget followed by a regular meeting carrying five separate storylines this outlet has been tracking. Here’s what’s known, what the documents say, and what’s still unanswered heading into the vote.5:30…
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What’s on Monday’s August 3rd Rapid City Council Agenda
Rapid City SD- Most of this agenda is standard municipal housekeeping. A handful of items connect to stories we’ve already been tracking, and we’ve flagged those below. Consent Items — Public Works Committee Fourteen items, almost all routine contract administration: change orders (a few thousand dollars up or down) on active projects like the Elk…
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The 2027 Budget Brief: The Software Squeeze, Stagnant Fees, and Maxed Out Services – The Last Two Days of the Special Council
Rapid City SD –If the first half of Rapid City’s Special City Council Budget Sessions highlighted physical infrastructure and public safety, the final two days (July 29 and 30) exposed the hidden structural costs of running a modern municipality—and the massive revenues left on the table by outdated policies. Here is how the IT, Mayors’s…
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The 2027 Budget Brief: Balancing the Thin Line and the Bottom Line – The First Two Special Council Sessions
Rapid City SD – The story of Rapid City’s proposed 2027 budget is a tale of two distinct ledgers. The first two days of the Special City Council Budget Sessions laid bare the growing pains of a rapidly expanding municipality. On one side, public safety departments are straining against historic call volumes and shifting workforce…