Tag: Municipal government
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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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Zebra Mussels, Change Orders and Snow Removal on the Public Works Agenda for Oct. 13
Rapid City SD- The zebra mussels in Pactola Reservoir are striped and about the size of a fingernail, and they’ve been there since at least the summer of 2022. On Tuesday, Rapid City’s Public Works Committee will consider a $147,000 engineering contract to keep them out of the city’s water treatment plants. It’s one of…
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Block 8 Tower Sign Request Continued to Oct 22 After Staff Urged Denial
Rapid City SD – The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Thursday continued Block 8 LLC’s sign variance request for the seven-story building at 440 Mount Rushmore Road to Oct. 22. The board took no vote on the merits and asked the applicant to revise the proposal. What Block 8 wants Case 26VA028 asks to raise…
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Signage and Flood Plains fill Thursday Morning’s Planning & Zoning Meetings
Rapid City SD – The biggest item on Thursday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment agenda isn’t a development. It’s a sign, or rather several: a request to put up to 1,400 square feet of tenant signage and 850 square feet of electronic message centers on the 1982 Block 8 Tower at 440 Mount Rushmore Road. Staff…
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What’s on Rapid City’s October 5th City Council Meeting
Sixty items, a 6:30 p.m. start, and a consent calendar long enough that Council will pass most of the night in a single vote. Rapid City SD – Rapid City Council meets Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30 p.m. Forty-four items sit on the consent calendar, five are non-consent, seven carry public hearings, and two are…
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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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What’s on the Tuesday, Sept 29 Rapid City Public Works Agenda
Rapid City SD – The Public Works Committee meets at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 300 6th Street. Fourteen items, eleven of them on consent. Here’s what’s in the packet, in the order the committee will hit it. CONSENT ITEMS (1–11) 5–7. Three bid-advertisement authorizations: 2027 Sanitary Sewer Televising…
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Rapid City Is Writing Off $33,840 in Past Due Tzadik Utility Debt Deemed Uncollectable
Rapid City SD – Tucked into a routine, $125,642.10 citywide utility write-off headed to the Rapid City Council on Oct. 5 is $33,840.53 in unpaid bills tied to Tzadik, the Florida-based landlord. The debt is spread across 93 individual line items in Appendix A to Resolution No. 2026-077, ranging from a 17-cent credit to a…
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Rapid Transit Seeks Public Input as On-Demand Rides Are Considered
Rapid City SD –Anyone who’s stood at a RapidRide stop wishing the bus went one block further, or waited twenty extra minutes because the route just doesn’t reach their street, is exactly who Rapid City Transit System wants to hear from this fall. RTS is hosting two public workshops next Thursday, October 1, as part…
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Preview: Rapid City Zoning Board/ Planning Commission – Sept. 24, 2026
Rapid City SD – Thursday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meeting opens with a stack of routine paperwork — a homeowner just trying to close a sale, a park that needs the right zoning label, a garage bigger than most studio apartments. But buried in the consent calendar, three items down, a familiar…