Sioux Falls City Councilors Starr, Stehly & Brekke at Dem Forum
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SF City Council
Stehly Report • April 2019
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Suddenly the Sioux Falls city council funding the State Theater is 4th on their priority list
The council had a working session a few weeks ago to talk about their ‘budget priorities’. As I mentioned then, two councilors didn’t even bother showing up (Kiley and Soehl) and Council Chair Erickson said she was ‘working with the mayor’s office’ and Selberg said ‘he was just listening’. During the discussion I didn’t hear anyone mention the State Theater (maybe Brekke). If you go to the informational meeting page today you will see a link to the council discussion. About 30 minutes ago I clicked on the link and a PDF showed up with the council rating budget priorities but from what I remember road repair ranked #1 and the State Theater ranked #4 on priorities.
DOC: 022719 Work Session Results.pdf
How in the heck did the State Theatre get on this ranking? I haven’t heard a peep out of the council about the State Theater.
As I mentioned before the flood occurred, there was a rumor going around that the Mayor was negotiating a sponsorship between a big donor and the city for the State Theatre.
Did someone on the council ‘slip’ this into the priority list? Weird stuff. It will be interesting to hear the discussion at 4 PM.
Sioux Falls City Council Agenda • April 2, 2019
City Council Informational Meeting • 4 PM
Presentations on;
• CVB Strategic Plan
• Administrative Goals from COS Beck (I guess after almost a year in office PTH has goals)
• City Council Budget Discussion (wonder if anyone will have anything to add this time around?)
• City Council Leadership Election Ordinance (There is an attached PDF of the proposed changes by Councilor Brekke). I don’t know all the details, but it seems now there will be public council discussion about the nominations instead of it getting all decided ahead of time thru private phone calls and emails.
City Council Regular Meeting • 7 PM
Item #7, Approval of Contracts, while I understand that we have to dispose of the sandbags & we will probably be reimbursed by FEMA. I betcha if you asked the public they would take care of those bags real quick for FREE.
Item #8, Change Orders, apparently now we are giving contractors (who work on outdoor infrastructure projects) extra money due to ‘weather’. Isn’t that something you would pad in your bid? “Oh, I didn’t realize it would be harder to work in the winter than in the summer. Who knew?”
Item #56, Ordinance, 1st Reading, the first set of bonds for Water Reclamation
Item #57, Ordinance, 1st Reading, Changing ominations and election for council leadership
Item #61, Notice of Appropriation Transfers, there seems to be a lot of money being transferred from arterial road repairs.
Planning Commission Meeting • Wed, April 3 • 6 PM
