Tag: Municipal government
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Rapid City Moves to Collect $643,000 from Tzadik – Linked LLC’s Already Headed to Auction
Rapid City SD – The City of Rapid City is preparing to go to court over more than $643,000 in unpaid utility bills owed by five LLCs tied to embattled landlord Adam Hendry’s Tzadik real estate portfolio — money that, in several cases, is attached to properties already moving through court-ordered liquidation. The request is…
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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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Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun Will Not Seek Reelection in 2027
Rapid City SD – Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun announced Sunday evening that he will not run for another term in 2027, ending what will be a decade of service in city government when his current term concludes. Salamun made the announcement in a personal Facebook post. In a statement accompanying the post, he described…
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Rapid City’s September 15th Public Works Agenda Cheat Sheet
Rapid City SD – Ten items are on Rapid City’s Public Works Committee this week — nine of them routine enough to pass without a word of discussion, and one a developer’s second attempt to get out of building a city-standard road next to Sanford Health’s new Medical Mile campus. When: 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept.…
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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…