Tag: Municipal government
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Rapid City Sidewalk Variance Requests Nearly Double; Committee Votes to Move Public Comment to End of Meetings
Rapid City SD – Requests to skip Rapid City’s sidewalk requirements have nearly doubled as a share of permits this year, and this week council members questioned what happens after those exceptions are granted, from who pays for sidewalks never built to whether the city ever orders them in later. Both the Public Works and…
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Rapid City Weekend Update: A free Halloween skate, clocks fall back and where the pumpkins go
Rapid City SD – Kids will be on the ice Saturday afternoon. The clocks fall back an hour early Sunday morning. And by Monday, the jack-o’-lanterns on Rapid City porches will be starting to sag. The city has something to say about all three. Saturday: Spooky Skate closes Red Ribbon Week Roosevelt Park Ice Arena,…
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Two Seats Open on Rapid City’s Community Relations Commission
Rapid City SD –Two chairs are waiting at Rapid City’s Community Relations Commission, and the window to fill them closes in 10 days. The city is accepting applications for two three-year terms on the commission, with a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, according to a release from the Mayor’s Office on Tuesday. How…
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Rapid City Legal & Finance Committee Agenda Rundown for Oct. 28
Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s Legal & Finance Committee meets at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in Council Chambers at the City Hall Administration Center, 300 Sixth Street. Sixteen items are on the agenda: 10 on the consent calendar and six that get their own discussion. The committee is chaired by Greg Strommen. Members…
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What’s on the Tuesday Oct. 27 Public Works Committee Agenda
Rapid City SD – Fifteen items fit on one agenda page for Tuesday’s Rapid City Public Works Committee meeting. One of them didn’t have a working link: the agenda’s link for the only contested action item went to the city’s “We’re sorry: we can’t find that page” screen. The item’s page and attachments do exist.…
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City employees host second chili cook-off to help residents with utility bills
Rapid City SD – Somewhere in Rapid City, a crockpot is about to come down off a high shelf. City of Rapid City employees will host their second annual community chili cook-off Tuesday, Oct. 27, raising money for City Utility Assist, a program that helps local households keep their water, sewer and garbage service on…
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Rapid City Council Cuts Contested Tree Bill to $600; City Absorbs the Difference
Rapid City SD – The Rapid City Council on Monday upheld a Legal & Finance Committee recommendation to reduce a contested tree-trimming assessment at 220 East Watertown Street to $600. The property owner, Don Hamm, who rents out the house, had argued that the city’s abatement contractor billed for more time than its crew spent…
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Rapid City Zoning/Planning Oct 22 – Block 8 Returns, Deadwood Avenue Street Plan Up for Change
Rapid City, SD – The Zoning Board of Adjustment meets at 7 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in the City Council Meeting Room, 300 Sixth St. The Planning Commission follows immediately after. ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT 26VA028 – Block 8 LLC, 440 Mount Rushmore Road This item was continued from Oct. 8 Billi Raker of Block…
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Rapid City Council Rundown for Monday Oct 19
Rapid City, SD – The state champion Stevens girls tennis team gets the first applause Monday night. After that, the Rapid City Council works through 35 items — two supplemental budget ordinances worth a combined $13.3 million, the Boomshockalocka floodplain rezones back from Planning Commission, a 15% raise for city bus drivers and a request…
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Rapid City Municipal Government Urges Residents To Attend Data Center Open House on Oct. 14
Rapid City SD – Wednesday evening, city planners will stand in the Council Chambers and walk residents through the rules for a kind of building most of them have never set foot in. The City of Rapid City is holding a public open house on its proposed data center ordinance from 5 to 7:30 p.m.…