SF City Council
l3wis Sioux Falls City Councilors at Dem Forum • 4/5/2019
Janet Brekke, Theresa Stehly and Pat Starr bring their Sioux Falls SD citizen first messages to a joint Friday Democratic Forum lunch crowd on April 5, 2019.
The past TWO Parks Board meetings have been videotaped, you can’t watch them HERE under the RECENT tab. There has never been a formal press release or announcement of this to the public or city council. I found out from a personal email from Jason Reisdorfer.
Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, April 9, 2019
City Council Informational, 4 PM
Community Health Status Report. Let me sum it up. We are fat, we drink too much and we don’t eat enough veggies.
Recycling Education Program
Housing Summit, Tea city councilor . . . uh, I mean, Housing Manager Chellee Unruh will do a presentation about Tea . . . uh, I mean Sioux Falls Housing.
CASA program update. We find out about Stacy Tieszen’s new job.
Veterans Advocacy Report, I guess city councilor Brekke went to DC to find out about this program.
City Council Budget Priorities. I guess since last Tuesday the council re-voted on their priorities. New results coming.
City Council Regular Meeting, 7 PM
Item#17, 2nd Reading, Ordinance, first of multiple bonds for Water Reclamation, $26 Million.
Item #18, 2nd Reading, Ordinance, Changing the nominating procedures of city council chairs.
Item #20, 1st Reading, Ordinance, naming rights for a major developer at Levitt Pavilion. While they continue to rack up sponsors (which is good) they continue to deny people to allow BYOB to the concerts.
Click to Enlarge Agenda Calendar
UPDATE: Is Sioux Steel Development looking for a ‘Massive’ Record Breaking TIF?
UPDATE: Big Thanks to Snevelicious for following up on this story!
So this is taking place next Thursday, April 11 (City Council Meeting Calendar)
4 PM Architecture Ideas and Presentations
Held at the receiving building of Sioux Steel Company, 196 1/2 E. 6th St.
Please park on the west side of the Sioux Steel Building or in The Market
5 PM Heavy appetizers and drinks at The Market, 196 E. 6th St
The Sioux Steel Development folks have already mentioned they want to build a 900 stall parking ramp (or around that size) they have also mentioned using TIF. What they haven’t said is how much. I believe the largest TIF ever given out in Sioux Falls was for the Sanford Sports Complex (I can’t remember the actual dollar amount, but I think it was $9 million and I believe 20 years). The rumor going around is that the Sioux Steel will be asking for a TIF in the amount to cover the construction costs of the parking ramp a number that could range between $20-30 Million dollars. The largest TIF ever given out in the history of the city. It also seems the event next week is away to smooze the city council into this.
Some would look at this as an ‘opportunity’ for the city to get out of paying for a parking ramp like we did Downtown already, but as I look at it, we shouldn’t be contributing anything. TIFs are the largest form of corporate welfare. We should be focusing tax incentives on rebuilding our neighborhoods.
Oh, but it gets even better. Another developer is rumored to be offering the city to buy some of the RR redevelopment land. He said he doesn’t want any TIFs or tax reductions, but he is only willing to pay HALF of the appraised value. They always have to have something. This developer has already raked the city over the coals for other DT developments along the river greenway.
I think it is ironic that all these FREE market, ant-socialist Republican developers in town are the biggest socialists of them all. Maybe we should rename the area ‘Karl Marx Greenway’.