City Council Informational Meeting • 4 PM
The informational meeting is chocked full of great presentations, unfortunately there is NO links to the supporting documents.
• Committee/Commission report; Operations Committee & Municipal League Board of Directors. As we know, the city council continues to make the Operations Committee meetings secret, FOR NO GOOD REASON. Like other City Council Committee meetings, it should be open to the public and video recorded at Carnegie Hall. Often the excuse to keep these meetings silent is because they talk about employee policies. That is a moot argument, because if you are not talking about specific employees and only policy, there is no reason to keep these meetings quiet.
• Long-Range Transportation Plan Upcoming Process
• Consultant agreement for Triage Center
• Elections ordinance (Councilor Brekke). This essentially is about repealing the misguided, unwanted and unneeded election ordinance that now requires a city council candidate get a majority instead of a 34% plurality. This ordinance was not BROKEN, and NO citizen complained that it was. It’s time for the city council to FIX this ordinance that should have NEVER been changed. It will be interesting to see how the council votes on this. I know that Neitzert, Selberg and Erickson refused to sign onto to the repeal when councilor Brekke asked them to. Can’t wait to hear their excuses to keep the anti-voter, and expensive ordinance in place.
City Council Regular Meeting • 7 PM
Item#6, Approval of Contracts;
• $87K to hire a Triage Center Consultant (we need this, but I think if local officials put their heads together they could solve this).
• $300K for roof improvements to SF Stadium. I think this should be deferred until we decide what to do with the stadium. I think it needs to be bulldozed.
• $275K Handout to the SF Development Foundation. The taxpayers of Sioux Falls don’t need to fund this organization anymore. They have plenty of revenue sources. The Development Foundation needs to be funded by those who benefit, the Developers of Sioux Falls.
• $165K to Downtown Sioux Falls. As I understand this, it comes from the DT Bid Tax. But I do have a problem with Downtown becoming Snobville.
Item #12, 1st Reading, Repealing the Majority vote for council candidates.
Item #13, 1st Reading, Wedding Barn Debacle.
Item #14, Resolution, Vacating Elmwood Ave., This is the big party of the night!
More information coming.
