[0:08] To the flag of the United States of
America, to the republic for which it
[0:13] stands, one nation under God,
[clears throat] indivisible, with
[0:18] liberty and justice for all.
[clears throat]
[0:28] » Mayor CD
>> here. Sarah Anson
[0:30] » here.
>> Pat Meet
[0:31] » here.
>> Caleb Olaf
[0:32] » here.
>> Will Roki,
[0:34] » Larry Roar,
>> hello.
[0:35] » Mike Tedman
>> here.
[0:36] » Isabelle Bson.
>> Right. And I did receive a call from Mr.
[0:41] Roki. He's under the weather, which is
why he's
[0:45] uh I'll entertain a motion to actually
before we u talk about adopting the
[0:50] agenda, I would like to add one item to
Mayor report.
[1:03] Second to adopt agenda discussion. All
those in favor say I.
[1:08] » I.
>> Anybody opposed? Motion carries.
[1:12] Uh we'll enterain a motion to approve
minutes from December 15th and then
[1:16] subsequently we'll take a second motion
for 30.
[1:20] » Motion to adopt December 15 regular
meeting minutes. Motion and second to
[1:25] approve the minutes from December 15,
2025.
[1:28] Any further discussion? All those in
favor say I.
[1:32] » Anybody opposed? Motion carries. Those
minutes are approved December 30th,
[1:36] 2025.
>> Motion to approve the December 30th
[1:39] special meeting minutes.
>> Second motion and second to approve the
[1:43] December 30, 2025 special meeting
minutes. Any further discussion? All
[1:49] those in favor say I. I.
>> Anybody opposed? Motion carries.
[1:54] Visitors to be heard
audience tonight.
[2:00] Public hearings one day temporary malt
beverage license for Pierce food
[2:04] volunteer fire department on 31st of
January 2026.
[2:09] So I have received the application
meeting and so it'll be at this time if
[2:12] anyone has any comments.
[2:24] January 31st.
[2:29] » Make a motion for the one day temporary
malt beverage license for volunteer fire
[2:34] department for January 31st, 2026.
Second
[2:39] motion is second to approve the one day
temporary malt beverage license for
[2:42] beers for volunteer volunteer fire
department on the 31st of January 2026.
[2:47] Any further discussion? Do
>> we need a time frame on that or
[2:52] Unless you want to restrict.
>> No.
[2:54] » Okay.
>> They would have to follow the law with
[2:58] » Okay. Yeah.
>> Can't sell alcohol between 2 and 7 and a
[3:02] Christmas day.
[3:06] » I had two people reach out to me ask me
about that. So for clarification and
[3:11] that Jason thankfully point me to the
ordinance quickly and
[3:17] » speak of that. Very pleased. Yeah, was
not
[3:22] » last year. Yeah, it was
>> just
[3:32] All right. Any other further discussion
about our firefighters in the casino
[3:36] night? All right. All those in favor say
I.
[3:40] » Anybody opposed? Motion carries. License
approved. Sale of property 11 North
[3:46] Street.
[3:50] So, we published a notice of intent to
sell at 101 North Third Street
[3:58] for public at this time.
Nobody reached out by email. No, stop
[4:04] by.
[4:07] All right. Um,
entertain a motion to stay.
[4:16] » Got it. Yes. All right. So, no no public
comment
[4:31] South Dakota's premier winter road race
which was highlighted by our friends at
[4:34] Southakota Public Broadcasting last
year, year before, two years ago. great
[4:39] little expose on pretty unique thing uh
I had heard about before we came to
[4:44] South Dakota and I was like why are
there people running in February um now
[4:49] that I've come to know the race a little
bit got a little closer to the action um
[4:54] it's a phenomenal thing there's people
from and if you I would encourage you to
[4:58] go back and watch the SDPB
uh expose because there are families
[5:03] that there's one lady that had never run
before it was her first race so she she
[5:07] has come back now 13 years in a row. Um
it's an opportunity for us in the
[5:11] community to highlight some great
people. It's of course volunteer le. Um
[5:15] I know the deputy race director pretty
well. Um she's when she's in a good
[5:20] mood. Uh fortunately she has been able
to continue to secure the services of
[5:25] former council member Troy B because he
is a he has a lot of insight in that
[5:30] space and he does a lot of benefit. So,
um I think Tom's been on the committee
[5:34] before. Um we identified that Jerry was
on the committee, the frostbite
[5:39] committee several years ago. Um so, I
mean there's quite a few of us that have
[5:43] been part of that for a while. Before
the frostbite that morning, we'll hold a
[5:46] mayor's mile. That's an opportunity for
myself and others to get in front of the
[5:51] kids and remind them that getting
outside and being healthy, even though
[5:54] it's nasty in February, is a good thing.
And so, I usually incentivize the kids
[6:00] to uh kids that have the highest
percentage, whichever elementary school
[6:04] class has the highest percentage
participation that day, I'll reward them
[6:08] with a pizza party. So, we have health
running
[6:11] » pizza not
it's a good and so not good. Well, we
[6:17] had I think almost 80% of the fourth
graders I believe that was Scott's
[6:23] class. So, that was well good time. Um,
so be looking for flyers. Please make
[6:30] sure endorse it. The u the folks that
putting on the race decision make a
[6:35] formal request for a pool pass. So I'll
submit that so that in writing we can
[6:39] approve that next meeting. Um but yeah
that is the first Saturday of February.
[6:46] So just happens to be the exact same
Saturday as conf.
[6:51] » Yes. So
[6:55] yeah. Yeah. Any questions?
[7:03] Yeah.
Yeah.
[7:07] Yeah. It's busy. It's funny. You would
think some of these weekends are slow
[7:10] enough, but yeah, we've had things in
every weekend in the winter. Same we do
[7:15] in the summer. So,
all right. Um, department head, city
[7:21] administrator, and engineering reports.
Elaine.
[7:26] » Um, so in the the council package, um,
there's a
[7:29] of the 2025 year and transfer to the
general fund. Um, and I would like to
[7:34] make the recommendation to transfer what
was budgeted from the electric, the
[7:39] telephone, and the solid waste um to the
general fund. The electric department
[7:43] was 391,000, the telephone was 325,000,
and the solid waste 30,000 for a total
[7:50] of 746,000
to the U general fund.
[7:57] And I just need to Have a motion to
approve.
[8:01] » Move to approve the transfer of funds
from electric telephone solid waste to
[8:06] the general fund.
>> Second
[8:10] » motion second on the table to authorize
year end transfers to the general fund
[8:15] both from the electric department
telephone and solid waste in a total
[8:19] amount of $746,000.
Any further discussion?
[8:25] All those in favor say I.
>> I. Anybody opposed? Motion carries.
[8:31] » Um I am recommending for the 2025 year
end transfer of reserve to South Dakota
[8:36] fit uh the fire department fund which we
have earmarked the 10% and the 2% liquor
[8:42] um every year to go into the fire
department fund of $40,000.
[9:08] I believe it was in 24, the fire
department purchased a uh 2006 E1 ladder
[9:15] book. And so between the electric
telephone and what the fire department
[9:21] South Dakota Fit, they bought this
truck. So each year instead of the
[9:26] liquor tap going back to the fire fund,
it's going to be divvied up between the
[9:31] payback for the Make sense or Okay. Um
and then also the budgeted $100,000 for
[9:39] the electric department and this would
be um the deposit number two of three
[9:43] for the new truck that they are looking
to get in 2027.
[9:49] and then the telephone fund. Um, looking
at their balance, it was not budgeted,
[9:53] but looking at their year and balance,
I'm making the recommendation of moving
[9:57] $300,000 to South Dakota.
[10:24] Motion second to authorize transfer fund
department
[10:34] any further discussion
[10:40] to fit give us
yearly projections. Do we get a
[10:44] perspectus like you would investment
or is it just
[10:49] » so I just wrote down well I don't know
where I put it whether I believe it's
[10:54] like 3.5%
that have written down somewhere
[10:58] » if they had fun but there past
>> yeah it actually went down
[11:05] » it's making more than our checking
account so instead of it sitting in the
[11:08] checking account
>> let's move it where it can some money
[11:12] and we can always if it we need it. It's
takes 24 hours to move it from
[11:28] » anyone
[11:41] as well as cyber
It's a good thing. This is really coming
[11:45] from a loss control audit we had through
our insurance provider and um they made
[11:50] some recommendations to us and one of
those was that we take advantage of
[11:55] project boundary fence which is a Dakota
State University project for um local
[12:00] entities nonprofits and government
entity. So kind of that we have
[12:08] recognized
training entities in our in our state.
[12:13] So Austin H and I started looking into
this and whether it made sense to do by
[12:18] Tom made sure that we were in a legal
manner available to do that. Really what
[12:22] they do is they provide a cyber security
assessment to take a look at our vulner
[12:28] vulnerabilities you know where I'm
translating and see how our existing
[12:33] infrastructure really is taking place.
So Austin on the telecom side they've
[12:38] done quite a bit us maybe not as much as
them but this is looking at us as an
[12:42] entirety and so um Austin was pretty
excited about it for them but we were as
[12:47] well for for our operations here at city
hall. So, they will come in, take a look
[12:53] at our our place, see what our
assessment looks like. Um, I hope that
[12:57] eventually they maybe can give us a
little presentation on what this product
[13:01] looks like and then they'll give us the
results in the future. I would think
[13:04] with our electric
system
[13:27] they're looking to come February second.
they reached out to you said that you
[13:31] wanted to come have a conversation with
us and um I think it's a great thing
[13:35] especially for me being new I think some
of you are fairly new as well but what
[13:38] they're looking to do is kind of give us
a little bit of update on what the
[13:42] assessor's office does how they actually
come and the values that they do then
[13:47] what we can do with the equalization
process in March is when we start that
[13:52] time frame so we're going to do this
>> one month
[13:55] » February
a little
[13:59] understanding education and then in
March we'll have that actual process for
[14:05] » I was excited that they reached out
it's just helpful
[14:11] » when usually they send someone down for
the actual one entertain request for
[14:19] a recommendation of
reducing the amount overall amount
[14:25] because I remember the bill was to come
So I guess I don't
[14:31] school comes from county.
[14:44] I think the more tools we have in our
toolkit to handle those requests,
[14:50] I feel like the property tax, the huge
jumps in personal property tax, that was
[14:57] a few years ago. Obviously, it's still a
significant point of contention. It's
[15:01] going to be something discussed in our
South Dakota legislature in the next few
[15:05] weeks, but um fortunately, I feel like
we've gotten over the hump, but there
[15:11] are quite a few eyes that are looking at
it looking at ways to potentially reduce
[15:14] it. So
that's all I have.
[15:18] » Awesome. Thanks, Jason.
>> Thank you.
[15:21] » No old business, new business purch.
[15:27] So this uh as you're aware, we discussed
this last council meeting came to us
[15:31] through Jim Weber at Weber Realy, an
individual that is providing an all cash
[15:37] offer. Um, no inspection property as is,
no appraisal or survey. Um, they're
[15:45] asking us to split the insurance and
closing fees 50/50
[15:50] and that we would then close the space
in between the two buildings of both
[15:55] city hall and the council chambers. Um,
I did reach out to Dave White and um, he
[16:01] thinks we can put a lock on that door
that's existing and talking to Jim. His
[16:06] client was comfortable with doing that.
That would be sufficient. So, that would
[16:10] be a step that we have. If you accept
this offer, um, it is $90,000.
[16:17] » That's all we would have to do is put a
lock on the door.
[16:20] » That is only accessible through
>> Oh,
[16:23] okay.
>> I would make the recommendation we sell
[16:26] the old
or the council chambers that we then put
[16:29] a door like a hotel has. There's two of
them.
[16:33] » Sure.
>> Okay.
[16:40] Be aware.
>> So they they did agree with the bank.
[16:46] They know that
restrictions. So closing date.
[16:54] Um we have servers in that vault that we
need to move over to city hall here. Um
[17:02] and some some different things that we
want through a little bit, but we need
[17:05] to make sure that we have the records
and pieces that we need out of there
[17:09] before. So, February 7, give us the time
to do that.
[17:18] » Do we need a motion?
Motion to accept the purchase agreement
[17:23] for $90,000
for 101 North Third Street, the Old City
[17:28] Hall.
[17:32] » Sorry.
>> Motion and second on the table to
[17:35] authorize the approval of purchase
agreement for 113 Street in the amount
[17:40] of 90,000.
Any further discussion?
[17:47] We ever get a business plan or
Did he say he's going to run a business
[17:52] or
[18:00] all those in favor say I?
>> I.
[18:02] » Anybody opposed?
>> Motion carries.
[18:06] Next item on the agenda I believe is
acknowledging the
[18:13] Alice Hudson Republic newspaper official
the legal newspaper of the city.
[18:24] do this everywhere.
>> Make a motion to declare Alcru for
[18:30] Hudson Republic the legal newspaper for
the city of Br.
[18:35] » Motion and second on the table to
declare the Alister Bruce for Hudson
[18:38] Republic legal newspaper the legal
newspaper for the city. Any further
[18:42] discussion?
>> All those in favor say I.
[18:46] » Anybody opposed?
Motion carries.
[18:52] Clear the official depository city for
savings first national first bank and
[18:57] trust South Dakota public fit investment
trust and US bank.
[19:03] » So move
>> second
[19:06] » motion second on the table to declare
our official deposit for city of Gree
[19:10] first savings first national first bank
and trust South Dakota public
[19:16] and US
Any further discussion?
[19:20] All those in favor say I.
>> Anybody opposed? Motion carries.
[19:26] Next item 226 for your volunteer fire
roster for workers compensation
[19:44] for volunteer fire department.
[19:52] Motion second on the table to accept the
2026 volunteer fireworks
[19:57] coverage. Any further discussion?
All those in favor say I. Anybody
[20:02] opposed? Motion carries.
IRS increase mileage rate to 725 per
[20:09] month.
[20:23] You would need to make approved
by
[20:28] » move to approve the IRS
[20:41] signal tipped off the
[20:45] to 725 per month. Any further
discussion?
[20:51] All those in favor say I.
>> Anybody opposed? Motion carries
[20:56] for the next items probably going to
take a few minutes.
[21:00] Okay. Join us. N just came to launch.
>> Okay.
[21:06] Glad to have glad to have an invested
party. Um resolution 20261 which 2026
[21:13] employee wages.
[21:17] » So this would be the wages with the
approved union agreement increases and
[21:21] then the department heads would be the
wages held over from 25 be determined
[21:47] This is just specifically for
>> Union. Yeah.
[21:53] For everyone.
[22:04] » So, which one do we pass first?
Ordinance or the resolution?
[22:07] » The resolution. 601. establishing the
salary.
[22:11] » I'll make a motion for resolution
2026-01
[22:15] to establish the 2026 salaries.
[22:21] » Motion second on the table to authorize
resolution 2026-1 a resolution
[22:25] establishing salaries 2026.
Further discussion
[22:33] the rates that we talked about.
[22:42] No further discussion. All those in
favor say I.
[22:45] » I.
>> Anybody opposed?
[22:47] » Motion carries.
[22:54] I think it's going to be resolution
20262.
[22:58] » Oh,
>> for the contingency fund transfers.
[23:00] » Got it. Y resolution 22602 contingency
fund transfers.
[23:04] » So in 2025 we said $30,000 in the
council fund for the unknown. Um turns
[23:11] out it's the council that needs it.
>> Um due to um so I'll just go line by
[23:18] line. the elected official salaries. We
ended up um having six special council
[23:24] meetings.
[23:32] We would need to increase that budget by
$2,50.
[23:38] And so since we went over on the elected
official salaries and the also pushes
[23:43] the FICA over, so we would need to
increase that by $152.
[23:48] Um the line item of miscellaneous
insurance when we transferred to the
[23:53] South Dakota Public Assurance Alliance,
there was not this category in the
[23:57] council fund and so I added it. Um so we
would need to add $1,000 to that budget.
[24:05] The other professional services is the
banner associates tap application.
[24:10] Um so we would need to add $4,500
that pushed that line item over by
[24:17] because of the tab application. And then
the other current expenses is back in
[24:23] September if everyone remembers PMC
offered to provide an extended reporting
[24:29] endorsement. So we would need to add
$3,400
[24:33] and and membership fees. This is 100%
me. I completely missed to add the South
[24:38] Dakota Municipal League membership news
to it. So, we would need to add $2,275.
[24:45] Um, and then the community subsidies,
the fireworks display came in over what
[24:51] was budgeted by 667.
[24:59] Oxygen.
[25:38] All in favor say
>> anybody opposed
[25:45] six additional meetings like there were
12
[26:07] would be the first reading. Um, so to
explain the 75,62
[26:13] shortage, um,
I have worked my way through all the
[26:18] year end numbers. Um,
the administrator, the full-time salary
[26:24] is just due to Jerry's final payout in
October and bringing Jason on. So, I am
[26:30] proposing an additional $25,800 to that
line item.
[26:35] Um also underneath city administrator
the group insurance um with Jerry's
[26:40] retirement he receives health insurance
and then Jason's on top of that um
[26:46] requesting $5,350
for that a line item furniture and
[26:51] office equipment. Um we purchased a new
PC and monitor and additional office
[26:57] furniture for Jason's office for $6,50.
And other current expense um we were not
[27:04] planning to advertise for a new city
administrator. So, that put us over. So,
[27:08] I'm proposing $600 to be added
underneath general um government
[27:13] buildings. The first part of 2025, we
paid for the carpet for this building.
[27:19] Um so, I'm proposing to add $27,000 to
that one. And then the electric because
[27:25] we are paying the electricity for well
the old city hall and this building. So,
[27:30] add $500 to that.
the library. Um, they received a
[27:36] thousand dollar grant to host um, 2025
summer reading training. Jane and I kind
[27:43] of went back and forth with can her
budget absorb it or not. At the end, it
[27:48] cannot. So, I'm proposing to move the
revenue received for the grant to host
[27:54] the summer reading to be moved into her
fund to make um, the library positive.
[28:01] In the end, the police received a
highway safety grant of um $8,763
[28:09] and I am proposing to move that to the
full-time salaries to bring their fund
[28:14] to the positive.
There any questions?
[28:24] Then I think
the first
[28:30] meeting
[28:34] » there any questions?
All right. Discussion community
[28:38] information on the event calendar.
[28:46] There was one point in time I know Kathy
and you and I were looking at it
[28:51] and it was truncating that
calendar.
[28:59] And so there have been a couple folks
that have asked about school events and
[29:03] others, library events, because they
have quite a few activities. There's a
[29:07] pass through those you can't see what
I'm looking at. Um,
[29:11] so actually looks Oh, I like this view a
lot better. It's got a calendar view now
[29:15] versus the it was just stacked. So,
so looks like Miss Cely has taken up a
[29:22] lot of space on the calendar with her
sale class stay active and independent.
[29:27] Um, Feeding South Dakota, those events
are on there. Planning and zoning, city
[29:31] council,
anything that anybody sees that we're
[29:35] missing?
[29:39] Uh, we should ask the VFW to make the
proposal that they have their
[29:44] fundraiser.
[30:02] Yeah, I think it's um we did a policy
together. It's nonprofit community
[30:09] benefit.
So for the church and there's a few
[30:14] other churches
that would be something
[30:21] often times like
whatever
[30:29] » Rachel did make a bunch of flyers and
laminated them and put them all over
[30:33] bulletin board.
>> Yeah.
[30:35] » Hopefully that QR code will be like oh
that
[30:38] » we should have somebody monitor the
traffic and It's picked up a little bit.
[30:42] So,
[30:45] all right. Any questions about that?
[30:51] Agenda America 250. So, um for those of
you that haven't seen in our nation's
[30:57] capital, there's a 555 foot obelisk in
the middle of the uh National Mall uh
[31:05] National Monument. It's got 3D
each side of it. Now you can see really
[31:10] really patriotic that's actually part of
America's 250th celebration. So uh
[31:15] they're building out a way to celebrate
250 years of existence. Um I would like
[31:21] to propose that we build a 250th
committee. I've had several members of
[31:25] the community step forward that are
interested in helping promote that. I
[31:30] think there are things that we can do on
the 4th of July
[31:33] 2026
to help help effectively celebrate our
[31:38] 250th anniversary.
Everybody agrees. I don't know that this
[31:42] requires an official action or anything
like that. There are obviously
[31:45] expenditures we want to make. We'll come
back to table.
[31:49] Um, I'm going to call for volunteers,
additional volunteers to step forward in
[31:53] the next few weeks, try to get some
ideas on what's feasible and what's not
[31:56] feasible for
July 4th.
[32:02] Uh, there is a grant out there that
we're going to probably that dollar to
[32:06] the American Revolution grant that
specifically has set money aside for
[32:10] America's 250th birthday.
[32:16] questions, recommendations.
Moose to step forward because he wants
[32:21] to redo the mural. Uh he in a senior
class or junior class, they did the
[32:25] mural many many moons ago and he wants
to redo that. So, we're going to look at
[32:31] opportunities to It was a patriotic
mural with Statue of Liberty, the uh
[32:36] independence bell, declar Declaration of
Independence.
[32:44] ego. Yep. Yep. And so we got to find the
right place
[32:50] to do that. But as we get closer,
hopefully we'll have some people step
[32:54] forward with some we'll find a way that
people can potentially donate. They want
[32:57] to help us celebrate. Find the right way
to do that. So
[33:38] Second top payment bill. All those in
favor say I.
[33:42] » Anybody opposed?
Any further business for the council?
[33:48] Hearing none. biggest church.