Every year Sanford holds a big party for it’s employees, they usually bring in a well known performer.
UPDATE: Employees had to pay $10 a ticket with a limit of two. It was a fundraiser for Sanford’s Employee Emergency fund. Tickets were available to Sanford employees as well as First Premier, Unity Point and GSS.
This year apparently they brought in Dave Matthews and Grace Potter (which I was told was fantastic). While I am not really a fan anymore (because all his stuff sounds the same) when he first got popular about 20 years ago, I did like some of that early stuff.
But what is disappointing is that Sanford kept this all to themselves. What would have been the harm in selling tickets to a public concert? Could Matthews sell out the Denty? Probably not, but heck, I guarantee he could have sold out the Pavilion.
Once again we see the sword Sanford wields on us. I was at a family event yesterday and one of my second cousins from Yankton asked me, “When is Sioux Falls going to rename itself to Sanford Falls?” It may be sooner then we think.
Oh, the bar business in Sioux Falls. Apparently it is so competitive that competing bars and patrons start rumors.
When the Bonus Round opened their tally ho second location downtown, they had a fantastic idea – pay 10 bucks at the door and get a free beer and unlimited pinball play. Pretty good deal. I would say a great deal if you are a pinball maniac.
Well apparently a bunch monkeys around town decided to turn this into the classic elementary school game of ‘around the world’. It’s an interesting game where you whisper a FACT into the person next to you and it travels around the room and the last one proclaims what they heard.
It never turns out well or truthful.
You can walk into either location and NOT pay a cover. It was a marketing idea, and a good one that turned into a vicious rumor.
I have a special place in my heart for Ike and Cricket who opened a cool bar in my neighborhood and now downtown. They are hardworking people who started a grassroots business that makes people happy. Micro brews and pinball. They love what they do, and they literally would give the shirts off their backs to patrons, and I have seen it.
So please, stop the BS rumors. They are just trying to irk out a living just like the rest of us working stiffs.
The defenders of open government often miss some important points, mainly delivering information uninterrupted.
As if SIRE used by the city of Sioux Falls wasn’t built on absolute crap, we now can’t get anything off the SIRE system without annoying pauses, spinning arrows or plain dead links. The Tuesday October 16th, 2019 meetings were bad enough but now we get to see the Charter Revision Meeting prove it again.Â
The system just proves the system is built on crap and will continue to be crap. The IT and Innovation Department must be in place just to find innovative ways to kill public involvement in Sioux Falls city government. Sure am glad the city spent a lot of hard cash to get this upgrade.
This was the response from City Clerk Greco in an email;
Gentlemen,
I appreciate your bringing up the streaming issue from Tuesday night; we also noted the same issue during the meeting. We contacted the vendor asking them to review any issues they may have had Tuesday night or last night.  There were no issues associated with recording the meeting and it was uploaded immediately after the meeting adjourned.Â
Of the 125 or so meetings we’ve streamed since deploying the new software, we’ve had great success particularly when compared to the previous system. To date, we’ve experienced one other streaming issue in December for an informational immediately after deployment. Our protocol is to conduct a web streaming test prior to each meeting. We also intend to upload videos at the conclusion of each meeting– there were short interruptions in 2 recordings a few weeks ago requiring additional time for upload to ensure the complete video was posted online; Tuesday night I stopped the informational upload so I could begin the City Council meeting recording.
Despite the problem Tuesday night, we’ve found great benefits from the new software. Among those are the ability to view meetings on all types of devices, a significantly better search capability through the agenda program of the more than 1,800 meetings online, and closed captioning during the streaming of City Council Meetings. Additionally, the software has provided for public access to over 26,000 original ordinances, resolutions, minutes, election returns– some of which date back to 1907–  campaign finance documents, and raffle notifications.  This can now be found through our webpage under “records†and I hope you find it useful.
Thanks, Thomas Greco • City Clerk • City of Sioux Falls
I actually thanked Greco for his ‘in depth’ explanation. But when it comes to open government, and failures a simple ‘sorry’ would suffice
I have been enjoying Dave Baumeister’s columns on Cory’s blog as of late. Dave touches on a lot of topics I do, and puts a different twist on them. I guess it is probably because he is a real journalist and I’m a hack.
Dave’s latest column is about having local non-partisan races, particularly the county commission;
Two of the local governing bodies, school and city, exist as non-political positions. Why doesn’t the same hold true for county elections?
I totally agree with Dave on this issue, but . . .
The city council and school board have become very politically motivated. Did you know that the city council has only ONE Democrat and NO indys? The Minnehaha County Commission isn’t much different, one Dem, no indys. You can do the math on the other members. I actually believe one of the top reasons councilor Starr wasn’t elected to leadership this past year was because of his blueness. I don’t know what the make up of the school board is, but I will say that Mickelson would have never gotten elected if it wasn’t for the Republican Party throwing oodles of money at her (and putting yard signs in the Tea School district).
So while Dave’s sentiment is nice, and noted, living in a red state, non partisan races don’t really matter, because you are still going to end up with a basket of deplorables on your local boards.
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