City Council Informational • 4 PM
Update on Fire training center and the transit core team.
City Council Regular Meeting • 7 PM
Item #6, Approval of Contracts. The EC is only a few years old and they are already planning a HVAC upgrade. This was one of my contentions when we were building the facility, if you go on the cheap on the front end, it will cost you millions in maintenance later. I believe the Pavilion was supposed to cost us around $19 million. With maintenance and upgrades over the past 20 years it has far exceeded $50 million. This is why we had to keep the entertainment tax.
Item #28, 2nd Reading, State Theatre funding (this is tied in with Item #35, resolution to authorize the contract. Basically the council approves the supplement in ordinance then they later approve the contract in resolution (I know, confusing) I have attached the contract. While the document is 110 pages long, the contract itself is about 11 pages. This will most likely pass 6-0 (Stehly and Soehl are expected to be absent). While I can see the payoff in tax revenue (eventually) I still take issue with where we are taking the money from and by the whims and demands of one man. It’s a piss poor way to govern a city, whether it is a $20 gift or $1.5 million dollar gift, the well to do of our town shouldn’t be able to put demands on citizens to gift money.
As you can see in the chart below, we will be paying for ‘specific’ things, and if I understand the contract correctly, we will be paying the contractor who does the work as it is completed. In other words, we are not handing the State Theatre Company directly. It is very similar to the Facade easement program (something PTH has eliminated).
Charter Revision Commission • 4 PM (Thur, July 18)
They will discuss council pay.
Events Center Campus Study Group, Public Input;
Wednesday, July 17th – 7am Upstairs Club Room, HyVee on Minnesota and 38th
Wednesday, July 17th – 6pm Falls West Room, Holiday Inn Sioux Falls-City Centre
Thursday, July 18th – 11:30am The Center for Active Generations
Thursday, July 18th – 6pm Rooms 8, 9 and 10, Sioux Falls Convention Center
