Informational Meeting • 4 PM
Presentations on October financials and City Council legislative priorities for the 2022 legislative session (notice the City Council continues to support TIFs without any evidence of their economic benefit since NO independent study has been done).
Item #7, Approval of Contracts, Sub-Item #12, Centralized Facilities, Public Works Street Division Administration Building Remodel; Agreement for professional services, Stone Group Architects, Inc., $143K (So now we are already remodeling a brand new building? How about we get payment on the de-funk HVAC system first? Or are we still not supposed to be talking about that?)
Item #28, 2nd Reading, Ordinance, AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF ITS WASTEWATER SYSTEMÂ REVENUE BOND, $123 Million.
Item #30, 2nd Reading, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SD, AMENDING CHAPTER 57: GARBAGE AND RECYCLYING OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY PERTAINING TO THE COLLECTION REGULATIONS. (This is going to be a S-Show. I would suggest leaving it as is, and if people want to kindly take their cans down to the end of the driveway, let them. No matter how this goes, the garbage companies have already vowed to raise rates due to inflation, gas prices, labor costs etc. The irony is we can save on all that stuff if we just mandated hauler zones so we don’t have 27 different hauler company trucks driving down the same street on a Wednesday to pick up one can from one house.)
Item #32, 1st Reading, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SD, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY BY AMENDING CHAPTER 111: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. (Due to the Census, this stuff gets changed, or something like that. Anyway, I found it interesting that they increase the initial license fee for full service restaurant $157 and the initial license fee for On-sale dealers $48,286. Huh? I guess you can’t get as drunk at a restaurant? And we wonder why no one wants to get a MJ Med dispensary license in Sioux Falls?)
Item #39, 1st Reading, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SD, APPROVING OFFER TO PURCHASE REAL ESTATE FROM THE CITY. (Another fire sale to the city’s favorite welfare developer, and this time cleverly done behind closed doors . . . wait. Who appraised this property? Kassidy Peters? Nope, it is THIS COMPANY, interesting that the city used the same appraiser that has the developer buying this as a regular client;
Private Individuals who own apartment complexes, businesses and other independently managed organizations such as The Lloyd Companies, Costello Company, Hefty Seed Company, Sioux Steel Company
That shouldn’t throw up any red flags . . .
#7 Fix it because it got built broke. #28 Handle some crap. #30 Take out the garbage. #32 Happy hour at restaurants. Airport prices everywhere else. #39 Pay something but far less than retail. Wink Wink
Easy Peezy
“Sorry, not too germane here, but I wonder if USD alumnus Senator Thune will still keep wearing State blue after this play?”….:
https://espnsiouxfalls.com/watch-usd-tosses-miraculous-hail-mary-to-stun-sdsu/
Items 21 & 40 have already been twice deferred. Now I see Count Jensen’s sister-in-law has taken a PR job with the applicant, Empire Homes. Last week, Jensen said he supports the applicant. This week, given the in-law’s new job, he should recuse himself.
It sure seems there’s focus on appeasing special interests more than infrastructure or social services. Except for city officers and personnel, we still live here.