Sioux Falls

UPDATE: Triple Check the Charter press conference at 2 PM today!

l3wis August 5, 2019 7Comments

UPDATE: As you heard in the press conference, our city clerk is refusing to stamp the petition with a ‘Received’ stamp. It is common place for the receiving clerk to stamp a petition. Tom Greco’s excuse is he doesn’t want to be in the middle of what he was in 2016 and ‘stop the funding’ petition. It’s simple then, there are two other city clerks who can stamp it if you don’t want to do your job Tom. Hopefully it will be resolved tomorrow so they can start collecting signatures. We are not allowing this to go to court like it did in 2016. Enough of the games, let the process of petition gathering and an election take place, and let the voters decide.

PRESS RELEASE

Today, Monday, August 5, 2019, a group of voter in Sioux Falls SD announced their formation of Triple Check The Charter for the purpose of proposing a redefinition of the Sioux Falls City Council.

Press Conference Details:

Where: Just east of the Great Outdoors Store, 201 E 10th St, Sioux Falls, SD

Date: Monday, August 5, 2019

Time: 2:00 pm

25 years ago the voters passed the home rule form of government permitting the City Council and Mayor to operate without direct interference of the state government in its daily operation. It functions, but the growth has come without looking at the long term process implications. Sioux Falls is at a point where voter and taxpayer protections need to be in the Charter. Election games and strange tie-breaking votes have allowed unnecessary building projects to jeopardize taxpayers. Voters must periodically look at the charter and offer modifications. In charter, there is a way for voters to be involved, a petition.

A Sioux Falls group has formed, Triple Check the Charter, to ask the voters to approve home rule charter updates. The Triple Check the Charter petition drive and vote allows

(1) a return to simple Council elections,

(2) allows the Mayor to leave the Council to concentrate on managing the city plus

(3) require a super majority of members to pass bonding.

The charter amendment process requires at least 5% of Sioux Falls registered voters (5,250) to sign petitions and then vote, to improve the Home Rule by implementing positive functional changes to the Sioux Falls City Council. For more information, to sign petition or get one to circulate, call 376-8087. 

Bruce Danielson PO Box 491 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 Cell: (605) 376-8087 Email: bruce@brdan.com

Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, MONDAY, August 5, 2019

l3wis August 3, 2019 4Comments

Please note that the council meetings are on Monday next week, I believe it is National Night Out on Tuesday, so the council wanted to attend some neighborhood events per request of Councilor Stehly.

City Council 2020 (1st) Budget Hearing, 3 PM

Mayor’s Budget Presentation and also presentations on Finance, HR, Innovation and Entertainment taxes.

City Council Regular Meeting, 7 PM

Item #6, Approval of Contracts, 10-17 are park land acquisitions, I’m assuming these are the properties the city is buying due to flooding. We are paying $250K for a bookmobile, I wonder if the County is sharing the cost since Siouxland library is jointly funded. I also wonder if we got any Federal grants? Another $47K to the Pavilion for unknown interior projects. City to pay nearly $600K to remove snow from city owned properties to a private contractor – Huh?

Item #32, Lloyd Companies will be transferring a retail liquor license to their tenant, Severance Brewery. This will be interesting because it will be the only brewpub in Sioux Falls to have a liquor license. I have been to several brewpubs across the country and have NEVER been in one with a liquor license.

Item #47, a resolution to expand the city’s jurisdiction and development areas. I don’t know much about this, so it will be interesting to hear.

MORE INFO COMING

I like gifts!

l3wis August 2, 2019 12Comments

So I got this surprise anonymous gift t-shirt in the mail today! Thanks to whoever sent it! It is even my size. I guess one of the RS5 members was joking on FB the other day that they were going to make RS5 t-shirts. Maybe one of them sent it to me. LOL.

MAYOR PROPOSES 20 NEW FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES IN 2020 BUDGET.

I haven’t gotten all the details yet, but I guess one of the new employees will work for the mayor’s office has the title, ‘Chief Culture Officer’. Hopefully they will form a task force to determine the best restaurants in town.

I think he needs a ‘Common Sense Director’ so that when the council or mayor have stupid ideas they can tell them why they are stupid.