Tag: Legal & Finance
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$13.3 Million in Budget Changes, A New Ambulance and a Contested Tree Bill – Rapid City Legal & Finance Committee Preview for Oct. 14
Rapid City SD – Somewhere at the Mountain View Water Treatment Plant sits a Hyster forklift so old the city’s own surplus form lists its year as “pre 1957?” It still runs, the form says, but it isn’t safe, and it’s headed to auction. That forklift is one of 14 items before Rapid City’s Legal…
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Rapid City Legal & Finance Committee Preview: AI, Bonds, and a $7.2 Million Budget Change
Rapid City SD – The Legal & Finance Committee meets at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in Council Chambers at 300 6th Street, and the agenda runs from two library drinking fountains to a bond authorization of up to $74 million. The Rundown General public comment comes first. Items 1-18 are on the consent calendar…
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The Rapid City Legal and Finance Committee Reject Tzadik’s Offer to Delay $643,000 Collection Suit
Mitch Richter — the same lobbyist Council President Stephen Tamang named on the record at the July 20 council meeting — stood before the Legal and Finance Committee Wednesday and asked it to hold off on suing Tzadik-linked LLCs over unpaid utility bills. The committee said no, and sent the item to full Council unanimously.…
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Everything Is on Consent? The Eight Items on Rapid City’s Sept. 16 Legal & Finance Agenda
Rapid City SD – The Legal and Finance Committee agenda lists eight items under Consent, and zero under Non-Consent. That means everything from routine minutes to a repeat finding in the city’s own audit is set to pass through Committee together in one vote Wednesday, unless someone pulls an item out for separate discussion first.…
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Flagged Again: A Look at Rapid City’s FY2025 Audit and Its TIF Debt
Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s outside auditor gave the city’s FY2025 financial statements a clean bill of health overall — but flagged the same internal-control problem it flagged the year before, tracing this year’s version to a correction involving one of the city’s tax increment districts. By The Numbers Ketel Thorstenson, LLP, the Rapid…
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Nine Seats at the Table: Rapid City’s New Charitable Endowment Board Looks A Lot Like City Hall’s Rolodex
Rapid City SD –The City of Rapid City has quietly seated the board that will eventually decide which local nonprofits get a share of a permanent, multi-million-dollar endowment — and the nine people on it read less like a cross-section of the community than a directory of the interests already shaping what gets built here.…
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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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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…