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Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, MONDAY, Feb 4, 2019

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Council will be going to Pierre on Tuesday for some kind of Municipal event. Hopefully Haugaard will let them in the Capital so they hang out with the rest of the buffoons and wackies.

City Council Informational Meeting, 4 PM

There will be a presentation about building code changes (sprinkler systems and deck footings).

LSS will also do a presentation about stats on Refugee resettlement in SD. The numbers are actually way down.

City Council Regular Meeting, 7 PM

Item #40, Ordinance, 2nd Reading, Audit Committee Changes.

Planning Commission Meeting, 6 PM (WED 2/6)

Item #3D, Re-Zoning for Slavery HS.

Item #6A, Ethiopian Restaurant (That will make THREE! Woot! Woot!)

Item #6B, Permit to build a Westside Banquet. Must be a lot of Federal Employees on that side of town. It is next to a couple large trailer parks . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Item #6C, Taco Hell converted into Taco Yummy!

Item #6D, Just what we need, another Casino in a Gas Station. NOT!

 

Mayor TenHaken Sioux Falls

Can the EC Campus Task Force ‘Legally’ meet in private?

l3wis 13Comments

According to State Law & the SD Municipal League’s website;

The open meeting law is contained in SDCL chapter 1-25.   Municipalities are required to hold open meetings.  This includes any association, authority, board, commission, committee, council, or task force which is created by statute, ordinance, resolution and is vested with the authority to exercise any sovereign power derived from state law. (SDCL 1-25-1)

So since the mayor appointed the task force AND there is one of his staffers and a city councilor on the task force, how can they NOT be violating state law by meeting in private? Unlike an RFP selection committee that has to do with confidential contract negotiations, according to Deputy COS, T.J. TypeOver, all they are doing is having a ‘candid conversation’ about ideas or recommendations. This definitely needs to be in a public setting. I guess their fear is that Cameraman Bruce will show up to get their brilliant ideas on the record.

Also, Mayor TenHaken is breaking a critical campaign promise that he would make city hall more transparent. Not only do I challenge him to open this meeting to the public, but they should have it in a City Center conference room where it can be filmed and live streamed. When ideas are being openly discussed sometimes the ear of the public can be helpful in correcting something or expanding on a good idea to make it even better. I think we are really short changing citizens by NOT having these important meetings in public. It kind of sounds like some supporters of the candidate TenHaken have some ideas of their own that they don’t want the public to know about until it is too late to stop the train. I think we learned from Mayor Ramrod we are NOT going to do things that way anymore. Someone needs to send Paul the memo.

UPDATE: I also see they are going to be discussing the future of the Orpheum’s management in the meetings. Which is a little odd, because the gossipers at SMG have said their contract with the Orpheum ends July 1st.

5G SF City Council Sioux Falls

Congressional House Committee Investigates FCC for Collusion in re 5G Small Cell Tower Legislation Which Eliminated Local Control Over Installation

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It’s about time, even though I am not holding my breath, especially with Ironic Johnny Thune-Bag’s chairmanship;

House committee investigates FCC over 5G infrastructure order

The House Energy and Commerce committee has asked the Federal Communications Commission to produce communications records between FCC employees and network operators related to the commission’s recent order preempting local control and pricing of infrastructure access, alleging that FCC representatives may have acted improperly in support of an initiative that is likely to save operators billions in 5G deployment costs.

“It has come to our attention that certain individuals at the FCC may have urged companies to challenge the order the commission adopted in order to game the judicial lottery procedure and intimated the agency would look unfavorably toward entities that were not helpful,” wrote committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-New Jersey) and Mike Doyle (D-Pennsylvania), chairman of the subcommittee on communications and technology, in aletter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. “If true, it would be inappropriate for the FCC to leverage its power as a regulator to influence regulated companies to further its agenda in seeking a more friendly court.”

Interesting some of the crap that was going on (that we have been pointing out);

The FCC order focused on easing deployment of 5G infrastructure. The primary tenets of the FCC’s order included:

  • Banning local regulations designed to prohibit wireless infrastructure deployment;
  • Standardizing the fee structure cities can charge for reviewing small cell projects;
  • Establishing a 60-day shot clock for attaching small cells to existing structures and 90 days for new builds;
  • And setting “modest guardrails on other municipal rules that may prohibit service.”

Well, Well, Well, seems that cool Million Thune-Bag got from the Telecoms paid off for them in billions. I wonder if our local media will pick up on this story. Oh that’s right, they are busy telling people it is cold out and you should wear a coat and hat.

SF School District Sioux Falls

Reifel Middle school name ‘Probably’ suggested by ONE person

l3wis 6Comments

Besides only ONE person showing up to the School Board meeting to protest the new HS being named after Jefferson (because he was a slave owner) there was a presentation by Dr. Boysen on how the names were chosen.

She talked about the super secret naming committee which consisted of 14 members (only 4 were named, apparently the other ten must be a part of the witness protection program).

She proudly stated that two-thirds surveyed suggested Slavery HS but when it came to the suggestion of Ben Reifel she said ‘Someone’ suggested the name. So as I suspected, it was suggested by ONE person, and we have NO idea who it was. No surprise, typical of elitist school administrators who know better than us. So basically the middle school was named after the School District administrators with NO suggestions from the actual public.

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