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Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, Monday Nov 5, 2018
The SFCC will meet again on a Monday instead of Tuesday next week.
City Council Informational Meeting • 4 PM • 11/5/2018
Lots of interesting presentations without any SIRE docs or attachments at the present time. I guess they want it to feel like Christmas morning Monday afternoon.
Presentations include;
• Update on Cascade Project (who cares)
• Levitt Shell update
• Population projections (this should be good, wonder if they will bring back ol’ bowl cut to inflate them?)
• Legislative priorities (what kind of anti-citizen legislative have they cooked up this time?)
City Council Regular Meeting • 7 PM • 11/5/2018
Some more Siouxper Hero awards.
Planning Academy Graduates (wonder if they will all get a Sanford or Lloyd shirt?)
Item#1, Approval of contracts;
Apparently it costs $32K to fill a couple holes at the Pavilion. Could have given me $500 and a few sheets of sub flooring and call it good. Oh and BTW, the $32K is for ‘design and engineering’ of filling the holes. It will cost more to do that.
Items #25-26, 2nd Reading. Both controversial zoning items in which the neighbors oppose. Both have apparent drainage issues, and one they want the building turned around. I expect a lot of testimony on these and probably some yipping back and forth between councilors on allowing enough public input. As I have said, they could solve all of this by making it unlimited as long as they are NOT repeating themselves, saying what others have said or being offensive. Works for the MCC. I think both will pass, but I do expect some votes of dissent on them. So I guess Mickelson will get his apartment building, but probably not his tobacco tax.
Item #34, 1st Reading, Woot! Woot! An extra million left over for streets!
Item #35, 1st Reading, There the SFCC goes again, taking care of the important business, gas fire pits Downtown!
Items #36-37, 1st Readings, more naming rights to the indoor pool. Ironically one is sponsoring greasy pizza, the other healthcare. LOL. Maybe the place will eventually break even.
Item #40, Resolution, Union Agreement with the SF Firefighters. (Summary Report: Summary-union-agree)
I found it interesting that if a FF performs ALS they get an extra $1 an hour;
While I don’t have an issue with that, I find it interesting that we don’t just pursue a public ambulance service where the taxpayers of SF would get some kind of reimbursement instead consistently subsidizing a private ambulance company. If we are showing up FIRST and provide life saving care, we might as well just haul the patient to the hospital. It’s insane that we are now subsidizing a private company because we can’t depend on them to show up in time.
SF Planning Commission • 6 PM • WED 11/7/2018
There is only one item that planning staff made NO recommendation, a Casino next to Wells Fargo on 26th & Minnesota (Item#6) it may have something to do with the plans being written on a bar napkin?
Why didn’t the SD ACLU look into the SFSD bond election?
Hoorah! The SD ACLU is going to give you a ride to the polls. Yet, they have no intention to investigate those same polls.
We told the ACLU before the school bond vote that the election should be looked into, especially how district employees were using taxpayer resources to promote a YES vote.
No response.
We told them about having NO precincts in the Northern part of the SFSD.
No response.
We told them that the election could be held with the general election (which would save taxpayers money) and use all available precincts.
No response.
We told them that the E-Poll books don’t work and super precincts are a way to sway the vote.
No response.
After the election we discovered that IPC employees, mostly Finance Department counted the vote. NO independent volunteers, NO teachers and NO poll watchers.
No response.
If the ACLU wants to promote fair, equal and open elections, they would be investigating the school bond vote. But they haven’t.
Why?
My guess is because it is about the free public education of kids. Which I would agree. But this wasn’t about the education of children, this was about running an election above board. We don’t know if it was, because the key piece of evidence that the ACLU could pressure to get, the ballots, are being withheld from us for 60 days.
Ironically the $300 million in bond debt doesn’t educate one single child, it doesn’t even raise teacher pay. Almost 75% of it goes towards East Coast bond investors and the rest to contractors who build the buildings.
If the ACLU wants to promote equality during elections, I would agree. This is why they should use their resources to look into the school bond election.
Could school for the deaf still become a new Whittier school?
There have been plenty of rumors swirling around the purchase of the former school for the deaf by a large church in Sioux Falls wanting to add a third location, but they may run into a snag.
According to one of South Dacola’s sources there may be something written into state law that if they sell it, the money goes back to the general fund and the Board of Regents loses it. But if they do a complicated transaction where the church buys a building for CSD, they can do a 1031 exchange and BOR can maintain control of those financial resources.
Another source told me that they may only be able to buy some of the private buildings but would have to lease the land (long term) from the state and BOR.
This may be why Lloyd companies backed out on a previous deal. We’ll see if the church succeeds, if it gets too complicated for them, we may be able to use the space for it’s intended use EDUCATION and a new Whittier school.
Could NOEM be knocked off her pedestal?
In this story, Sutton pretty much sums up NOEM’s climb of nothingness;
It also helps that he’s a young politician who has stayed in South Dakota while his opponent is a congresswoman who has spent the last seven years casting votes in Congress ― a body that is not popular in any state. He has hammered Noem as an ambitious Washington insider who is running a campaign with money that she transferred from her federal campaign account. This was a practice that was banned in the referendum passed by voters in 2016 and reversed by the Republican Legislature almost immediately after.
“She’s just been climbing the ladder, one elected office at a time,†Sutton said.
She also has been pretty good at wearing trucker hats.