[0:00] 6th Street I'm sorry can you repeat your
Denton d n t o
[0:05] NK I want to know who is responsible for
the corner of Canton and 6 Street stop
[0:11] sign that was put on the lamp post where
more than 50% of the people run it every
[0:17] day and I'd like to know who's
responsible for the wheat Patches at the
[0:22] Dakota Mark gas station and the highway
Cottages cuz I got to look at those
[0:26] every day and last is uh who's
responsible for the six beautiful Street
[0:32] lamps on Canton and 385 that don't
[0:38] work um I I'm sorry I tried to get all
that but the weat
[0:43] sted all those weeds grow and those two
locations please yes uh theota Mark gal
[0:50] station and the Hideway
[0:55] [Music]
Cottages um and then who's responsible
[0:58] for the five street lights that
yeah six of them right there on 6th
[1:03] Street and
[1:06] 385 thanks I talked to Monty from do and
he told me that he didn't know so
[1:15] okay not going or you I'm writing down
to make sure I got all your
[1:20] questions uh stop sign at Canton and 6th
are you concern that there's one there
[1:25] or just the location of it the location
is actually on the on the Street Lamp is
[1:29] on a regular pole and I know that I
believe the tree is on the easement so
[1:35] as the traffic comes through they just
equip through in the winter time this
[1:39] last winter they were not stopping and
they turned right and they would spin so
[1:45] luckily no one got hit but that's one of
the things they can't see that stop sign
[1:51] okay so you're okay with this you're
okay with the stop sign being there you
[1:54] just want it more visible yeah and they
can put a pole next to it it's a little
[1:59] bit closer to the street where they can
see it something yeah a pole there is
[2:03] fine okay uh then you were talking about
the weeds uh on the other side of the
[2:09] intersection uh the person that would be
responsible for those would be the
[2:13] property owners so we'll follow up with
that okay and then you said six lights
[2:19] street lights yeah those big pretty
lights that they put up they worked I
[2:23] think a couple of times and they haven't
been on a long time okay how you went
[2:29] they they last time they were on are
those around the new island they're
[2:35] really pretty they they they are and I
asked from do and they said they didn't
[2:39] know okay go do they turn on every night
if they started to then they go on and
[2:45] off and now they just don't even turn
off okay so Deborah was asking about the
[2:49] new lights did I understand you to say
black lights no they're black lamps
[2:53] they're there are old the old street
lights yeah yeah okay all right so I
[2:59] know who ask about those we'll talk with
the uh Street folks and see what's going
[3:04] on
there yeah I noticed that they worked
[3:08] and then they didn't so I just thought
well maybe the electricians haven't
[3:12] finished something so I didn't say
anything either my
[3:16] [Music]
bad that's it did we answer your
[3:21] questions yes all right are you going to
find answer yeah how do we follow up
[3:25] with you how do you follow up yeah after
they fin the answer question to ask call
[3:31] City Hall or shall we call you call me
if you'd like to share your phone number
[3:36] with me you want down I'll make sure to
share it with mayor
[3:40] [Music]
[4:01] oh and
[4:04] Esther um Gary tried to get me to talk
to you so I want you to be aware of that
[4:09] in case yall want something to talk
about after the
[4:14] meeting you if I seen Larry seen driving
by L you would hon the horn and I would
[4:20] wait haven't seen maybe they mooved you
in a different I'm just trying to show
[4:25] support for Gary here thank you Esther
thank you eser thank you
[4:30] thank you
ma'am anyone
[4:34] else Esther showed you how to do it just
come on
[4:39] down all
right uh on to council updates executive
[4:45] director
Andrea uh with shedo
[4:50] [Music]
[5:00] good evening mayor city council can you
hear me a little louder hello louder I
[5:07] can hear you just fine can you I think I
can can you folks in the audience
[5:12] here okay I'll try to get as close as I
[Music]
[5:20] can this will be the quarterly report
report for June July and August um
[5:27] iore I parti ipated in a regional
accelerator program as a mentor for a
[5:33] new business startup which focused on
customer Discovery the program was a 5we
[5:39] course with 3 to four hour learning
sessions and office meetings with an
[5:43] advisor as well as extensive homework
and a final presentation the client that
[5:49] I've been working with knocked the whole
thing out of the ballpark I've received
[5:53] word that there's more funding available
for further customer Discovery and we
[5:57] met on August 14th with Beth Lambo she's
the associate vice president for
[6:03] research Innovation and
Entrepreneurship from South Dakota
[6:08] School of minds and Technology we met
with her to strategize research partners
[6:13] for this
project building one and Castle Manor
[6:17] I've met with three developers to show
building W and Castle Manor over the
[6:22] seever month summer months and I've also
sent the floor plans plat and our
[6:27] housing study to those interested
parties so I am trying to keep the
[6:32] interest up about our vacant
buildings engage South Dakota South
[6:37] Dakota newsat and the Cheesman Center
for democracy have partnered to examine
[6:41] significant issues for communities
across South Dakota they chose two
[6:46] communities Watertown and hot springs
for their pilot project this Cheesman
[6:51] Center is designing a survey to be
released to Hot Springs residents in the
[6:55] fall of 24 to learn what our primary
issues are I will be having a remote
[7:01] meeting with the group on August 20th
the group of organizers not the
[7:06] residents and South Dakota news watch
plans to be here the week of October
[7:11] 10th for
[7:15] pre-planning Rushmore region Alliance
education Round Table in lie of our
[7:21] bonly meeting on September 5th the
Rushmore region Alliance is going to
[7:26] host a round table for higher education
institutions to learn what each is doing
[7:31] to address our Workforce needs in the
area the School of Mines Western Dakota
[7:36] Tech Black Hill State and Shad State
have all been invited to this round
[7:40] table Western Dakota board of retreat
the retreat was held on July 19th
[7:45] facilitated by ACC consultant Ken
Foley we covered seven different topics
[7:52] I won't Bor you with them but they're in
the report and the retreat resulted in
[7:57] four pages of action items
Western Dakota Tech applied for a rural
[8:03] development Grant to become a hub for
registered apprentiship cooperatives in
[8:06] the Black Hills area they did not
receive the grant this round they're
[8:10] going to
reapply but I will pursue the program at
[8:13] the local level with our school
districts as well as set up facilitation
[8:17] of the Bild Dakota scholarship
applications for seniors fall is the
[8:21] time to begin work on these programs
with the school district
[8:28] [Music]
[8:36] historic preservation I submitted a a
memo of
[8:40] notification that was requested from Bob
Jr uh about a month ago it entails our
[8:46] efforts to assist in refurbishing and
maintaining our Historic downtown
[8:50] Sandstone structures there were many CR
questions that I had to leave blank such
[8:55] as what buildings would need to come
down in what order and in what year if
[8:59] we cannot find appropriate funding Bob
Nelson Jr is working to fill in the
[9:04] blanks on that letter I'm currently
helping a resident owner of one of our
[9:09] downtown buildings s in an application
for the out of Deadwood Grant fund which
[9:14] the next cycle comes due in January of
[9:20] 25 FAA report and Business Park
progress goed designation I met with the
[9:28] air committee and members of Hot Spring
City Council to discuss the results of
[9:33] the FAA findings of how the city
acquired the property for the airport
[9:37] the property was part of a land trade so
the farm Security Administration could
[9:42] complete a project they were working on
Brian shook with FAA sent an email to
[9:48] this effect and stated that the team
believes so
[9:52] far that the release of the property can
be handled is if the land was acquired
[9:57] with local funds rather than a federal
obligation this means we wouldn't have
[10:01] to go through any of the federal reviews
the Nea reviews The Arc reviews those
[10:06] kinds of things that are quite time
consuming mayor Nelson has sent the list
[10:10] of restrictions to their lawyers for
review and a decision will need to be
[10:14] made as to whether the restrictions
would be released this will be up to
[10:18] city
council I will attend an in-depth
[10:22] training session on land acquisition and
Business Park development on August 27th
[10:27] and 29 through the 29th sorry on August
9th I was informed by Jennifer sedma
[10:34] director of West River planning that hot
springs was chosen by goed as one of 17
[10:40] designated high impact Economic
Development locations with the goal of
[10:45] creating a business park so that dub
Tales quite nicely Mayor Bob Nelson city
[10:49] councilman bill lucans and I attended an
informational session on August 16th to
[10:55] learn more about what this designation
means ener
[10:59] report the data from the final report
was very proi positive with the
[11:04] exception of a few complaints about the
distances that residents had to walk 49
[11:10] of the
141 um attendees said that they were
[11:14] going to stay an extra night so that was
a
[11:17] third several people said they were
going to bring their families back for a
[11:22] vacation so that was really good no news
the final expenditures during the
[11:27] conference
I want you to know that these are margin
[11:31] of error numbers so they're a span of
numbers so for food and drinks
[11:38] 3,822 to
5,19 I'm going to skip I've got the
[11:42] whole list of everything but I'm going
to skip
[11:45] [Music]
through sure absolutely the total of
[11:51] expenditures while the register will
here is between
[11:56] [Music]
34888 and 50,
[12:02] 564 that spread accounts for a margin of
error we don't know an exact total
[12:08] because these are estimated based on
actual spending of those who completed
[12:12] the survey and then averaged out among
all of the attendees that number doesn't
[12:18] include what we paid for food for meals
and breaks during the conference that
[12:23] includes
$255 to wandering bison $59 to two Cal
[12:29] scaryy
$2,300 to smoking Mexican 665 to Dave
[12:34] the superfood truck
$1,330 to the chamber for
[12:42] the extensions half of the chamber bucks
and that total amounts to $
[12:50] 5,529
64 those are actual dollar spent so if I
[12:57] take out the margin of error between
the total number 34888 to
[13:03] 50564 what the report showed with that
amount
[13:09] 5529 was $4 48,2
5564 now that is of the people who
[13:16] reported that's the actual number that
they got before they factored in the
[13:20] margin of
error any questions about that and that
[13:25] was just for two days worth of
conference that was less that was $26 2
[13:30] yes not two
days remote women's group in late spring
[13:34] I formed a masterminds group for female
workers with remote positions we've met
[13:39] five times over the summer and we've
helped each other work through some of
[13:42] the barriers and challenges of working
at distance from other employees and
[13:46] offices will also be exploring the
possibility of a local project Health
[13:50] conference I've applied for a
scholarship to cover the cost of travel
[13:53] and hotel for the creating Healthy and
Wealthy communities workshop on October
[13:59] 1 and two presented by the South Dakota
Department of
[14:08] [Music]
Health
[14:12] everybody I think that's
everything all the big stuff any
[14:17] questions about any of
that I just want to say thank you Andrea
[14:23] it's given
the size of the city staff and the the
[14:29] already very significant workload I
don't see how we could do what you're
[14:35] doing with our existing Staffing so
thank you
[14:39] for for being a part thank you you
man I did I
[14:51] did also include the hospital part the
old hospital in addition to the castle
[14:57] the old hospital not just the Castle
Manor
[15:00] right and then building one is up at the
state that's
[15:03] home
we it's a fantastic building I would
[15:08] love to find someone to convert it into
Apartments Andrea recently in the news
[15:14] it talked about uh $3 million being
brought to the Black Hills and hot
[15:22] springs being one of the recipients of
some of the funding for housing uh can
[15:28] you enlighten on that
can so Black Hills area Community
[15:35] Foundation approached us about forming a
housing
[15:40] committee and it's been over a year ago
it was in the fall of
[15:47] 23 and we were the first group to
complete
[15:52] it and they had not applied Black Hills
Community area foundation had not
[15:59] applied for3 million in federal funding
yet they did this with the help of
[16:04] Senator rounds they got the funding on
the first
[16:09] try the funds will be used for low
interest interest loans for developers
[16:14] to do
housing and the housing has to be for
[16:18] folks who are 80% of Ami and Ami is a
funny funny number
[16:25] because 80% of Ami for one one single
person in Far rer county is about
[16:32] 50,000 for two people it's about
[Music]
[16:38] 57,000 for three it's about 62 so if you
have kids you get about 6,000 more
[16:45] dollars accredited so it really
diminishes as the number of people in
[16:51] your household goes up so it's uh it'll
be interesting how it's
[16:57] utilized but we decided as a a committee
as a housing committee to go ahead and
[17:04] participate in the event that we would
needed in the future we at least wanted
[17:08] to have a place at the
table okay does that answer your
[17:12] question it sure did thank you very much
Andrea um so we're just talking about
[17:18] getting funding and grants for how come
we don't have private investors how come
[17:22] we don't have real estate Moguls coming
in and looking to develop on their own
[17:26] with why do we have to rely on
government
[17:30] funding can can you be can you elaborate
I don't understand what you're are we
[17:35] are we friendly to entrepreneurs are we
friendly to business people how come we
[17:39] why do we have to rely on grants for
housing why can't we
[17:42] get you know just regular developers
coming in and buying land and dividing
[17:48] it and
building I I just want do you know why
[17:52] any any insight on speculate okay okay
um
[17:57] [Music]
and that's not a grant that was a loan
[18:01] okay the state loves
loans and they like 50 match loans too
[18:07] um so one of the developers that I had
come and look at building one and Castle
[18:15] Manor works for a company that's in
Rapid in sou Falls in Minnesota and
[18:22] Wisconsin and he told me that labor and
materials costs are 30% higher in Rapid
[18:29] City in the Hills than they are in those
other two states and the eastern part of
[18:34] South Dakota I know that's not a
complete answer right okay so it's it's
[18:40] just it's just a little more expensive
to do everything here in the Black Hills
[18:44] yes okay it is and refurbishing a
building has its own set of I'm sure you
[18:51] know is okay are there any any prospects
for manufacturing technology anything
[18:58] that like pays a like a wages for a
family afford to live here like a
[19:03] family yeah
um there are and uh the issue will be
[19:09] finding a place to put them and building
the infrastructure and
[19:15] capacity for any of those companies who
would like to come here I get rfis
[19:20] requests for
information on a monthly basis sometimes
[19:25] several a week it it just depends on the
year and one of the things that I find
[19:30] interesting that people don't know about
hot springs in farer County they always
[19:35] want to be within 10 Mi of I90 well
guess what 79 is a super highway too you
[19:42] can access that thing with a double semi
anything you want but people just don't
[19:48] know it so they never request that in
their
[19:52] rfis and that's probably something that
we need to rectify and I think that was
[19:56] part of the reason we were included in
this 17 communities as a potential high
[20:01] impact Economic Development Area because
they came down and saw what we had in
[20:08] terms of Transportation
options and we also have a rail railroad
[20:13] that runs two two
railroads so it's a matter
[20:19] of making the investment on the front
end to host those people and I don't
[20:25] mean through incentives I just mean
being able to house the business being
[20:31] able to house the manufacturing
operation or the research operation we
[20:37] don't have that
capacity yet all right okay thank you
[20:43] yeah anyone
else um several things Andrea um
[20:49] building one and we've been talking
about it for a while and the the folks
[20:53] that uh
initially put together a great plan
[20:56] financing was a problem for them are
they kind of out of the picture anymore
[21:01] no not
necessarily um those folks have a a deep
[21:05] love for that building and they're
hoping that the interest rates go down
[21:09] still the financing with them then yeah
it's still a financing issue okay the um
[21:14] airport property that you talked a
little bit about FAA and everything uh
[21:18] we need to sit down and have a little
more detailed conversation about that
[21:23] yes and then the energized conference I
appreciate you uh sharing the dollar
[21:28] figure
for our budget meetings um I did share
[21:32] with Council the
um uh email that Rachel I believe sent
[21:38] out yes uh so they were aware of some of
that information but for you to share it
[21:42] publicly that
$48,000 came into the
[21:46] community uh with a two-day conference
uh and all of that was possible by
[21:51] Council thank you for uh making the the
MU Center available at no cost and I yes
[21:58] thank you and thank you to all the city
C council members who helped me uh bring
[22:04] that together it was really very easy
and fluid and went quite smoothly so so
[22:11] she says she makes i' do it again she
makes it look
[22:16] easy and we had many many compliments on
our town on the Mueller Center people
[22:22] were shocked in the town the size of
3,800 whatever we are right now has a
[22:28] facility
that can handle this many people in
[22:31] seats with a theater venue like this
there there was nothing but compliments
[22:37] for Hot Springs we we underestimate
ourselves and that was in the midst of
[22:43] all of the construction as well
yes so again thank you um you're the the
[22:51] reason that energized conference came to
Hot Springs and thank you Council again
[22:54] for recognizing that U it it was a a
good thing to do to make theer Center
[22:59] available to have that many people come
app thank
[23:03] [Music]
[23:15] you thank you for everything you do
Andrea thank you thank
[23:21] you all
[23:24] right going to get a motion to approve
Personnel actions a through G I make a
[23:29] motion to approve Personnel actions a
through G second
[23:35] [Music]
discussion all in favor I
[23:40] opposed the motion
passes uh can I get a motion for new
[23:45] business item a a motion to approve a
contract or contract
[23:50] 20241 between Evans Plunge Mineral
Springs and Laura Barner I'll make a
[23:55] motion to approve contract 20241
between Evans plune Mineral Springs and
[24:01] Lura Barner for Fitness instruction at
the Evans Plunge mineral epms facility
[24:07] September 2024 May 2025
second
[24:14] discussion all in favor I
opposed the motion passes going to get a
[24:21] motion for new business Item B approve
and authorize the mayor to sign
[24:25] amendment number two make a motion to
approve and authorize a mayor to sign
[24:29] amendment number two to the AES I'm
sorry
[24:33] ae2s water Master Plan update agreement
first approved by Council on 1141
[24:40] 1821 original agreement
$15,800 First Amendment $1
[24:46] [Music]
17,745
[24:50] new adjusted agreement amount
51540 to be spent I'm sorry to be paid
[24:58] paid by Future supplemental
appropriation from water fund services
[25:02] and fees 602-
43350 D
[25:07] 422000
second
[25:11] discussion can we get an explanation of
those amendments amendments and how we
[25:17] ended up where we
[25:21] are you have that on the top of your
head sorry well looking uh at the
[25:27] paperwork that's on the agenda or in the
packet the original
[25:32] agreement um the amount was to and Bill
steer me straight where I get off um was
[25:41] to
update uh our water master plan
[25:45] initially
yes uh and then there was uh so that
[25:51] original one was
15,800 uh there were some uh changes to
[25:55] Prior amendments for 17,7
40 uh significant change in the plan
[26:02] after a public hearing so we drastically
change the plan after public hearing on
[26:09] the matter of whether or not we were
going to drill a well it changed from
[26:15] that to wanting to pipe right okay so
that was a big
[26:20] change so this one for
18,000 um you recall a couple of meeting
[26:27] number of meetings ago when um Council
you approved um funding to do a
[26:33] distribution study throughout Hot
Springs to make sure that we had uh
[26:37] adequate size lines to get water
especially to the um Southwest side of
[26:42] town where the U Martin tract is being
developed and ideally um some homes uh
[26:49] in relation to F Health System so we're
just looking at all of the distribution
[26:54] system um and found out that we're we're
great there so the other side of that is
[27:00] um do we have capacity do we have the
supply and that's what this particular
[27:05] one is doing is um doing the necessary
work to uh design of piping layout for
[27:12] Evans uh well pumping tests so they're
going to go in and um design the the
[27:19] necessary changes to the to the piping
out there and conduct a capacity test
[27:24] from the Evans pump pumping station to
make sure we have enough water and that
[27:28] one is going to be
18,000 uh what I highlighted in the U
[27:35] the contract and design of piping layout
for Evans well pumping test provide
[27:40] proposals uh to the city of Hot Springs
with a uh
[27:45] ae2 s's
recommendations uh attend the pumping
[27:49] test and collecting data throughout the
test
[27:54] so that's what this particular
amendment's for
[27:58] and if I recall right or remind me if
I'm right um all this started because we
[28:04] wanted to be able to get on the
state's uh list
[28:12] for grants for the new um tank to store
all the water in for that part of town
[28:20] right well that that's certainly part of
it as far as the uh our water master
[28:24] plan uh identifies you know our current
condition future needs um right so all
[28:32] of this surrounds that is what got it
going we've known for a number of years
[28:37] that we need to have it updated and we
started two years ago maybe yes three
[28:41] years ago with with the initial
conversations and we're taking the
[28:46] necessary steps to get everything
wrapped up and I guess the only thing I
[28:51] would either remind Council or inform
councel
[28:55] is this amendment is for a2s engineering
work they'll go out and they'll identify
[29:04] the contractors and such this does not
cover the actual contractor work that
[29:09] modifies the piping so that the pumping
test can be conducted so there will be
[29:15] another
charge
[29:18] once they have done their work or part
of their
[29:24] work so we're spending a lot of money up
front just to be on a list to get grants
[29:29] um and for a plan we can't build
anything if we don't know what we need
[29:32] to
build it's a very necessary the water
[29:37] the water master plan is is is a
critical document for us
[29:42] to to do anything as and we have to have
grants to do anything we can't build a
[29:49] one or two or three million gallon tank
on our own so that would be mostly
[29:54] funded from uh by grants and so we can't
even apply for those grants until this
[30:00] water master plan is updated and we've
got to have this
[30:04] information because this would likely be
the water source to fill that new
[30:11] tank so yes it's
uh I guess it's our water reality yeah
[30:19] and Travis as you were asking about you
know why can't U developers just come to
[30:24] Hot Springs and you know begin throwing
up uh homes without grants uh this is
[30:29] the one thing that they're asking the
city about is if we come here and we
[30:33] want to put up 10 15 20 homes in a
Development Area do you have the
[30:38] utilities uh necessary to support those
those homes um we know that uh sewer
[30:46] wise we're fine we found out with the
last distribution study we're fine there
[30:51] uh we just need to make sure that we can
put enough water into the into the lines
[30:56] this is all necessary to assure develop
ERS that uh if you want to come here we
[31:00] can meet your
[31:03] needs any other
questions all in favor I
[31:10] opposed the motion
passes can I get a motion to approve the
[31:15] business item C approve and authorize
the city administrator to sign the
[31:19] Engineering Services
proposal I make a motion to approve and
[31:24] authorize the city administrator to sign
the engineering Services proposal from
[31:29] West Plains engineering Inc to provide
mechanical and electrical Design
[31:35] Services for a propane generator at the
wastewater treatment facility for a
[31:41] fixed rate of
$9,750 to be paid by Future supplemental
[31:47] appropriation Wastewater fund services
and fees 64-
[31:54] 43250 d422
[31:59] second
discussion Bill JR could you kind of
[32:06] give us an update on this please yeah
uh actually these next two items I'm
[32:12] going to speak to at once if I
can the if you recall when um the uh not
[32:23] Parish sorry
flashback uh County Emergency manager
[32:28] has come and talked to us several times
about the county pre- disaster
[32:32] mitigation plan that's where a team of
people go through and they identify the
[32:38] major hazards facing the county as a
whole and communities
[32:45] specifically for at least the last two
of those pred disaster mitigation
[32:52] plans emergency power generation for
critical facilities has been on that
[32:59] and we are finally making progress
on getting grants to install those
[33:05] generators and so this is the first step
to install an emergency uh backup
[33:12] generator for both the hot Brook pumping
station and the wastewater treatment
[33:17] facility uh if you're wondering why hot
Brook versus Evans Plunge pumping
[33:24] station uh hot Brook pumping St
actually fills the 2 million gallon tank
[33:32] which can then gravity feed the 1
million gallon tank so if
[33:37] we as a region suffer a significant
power outage that would be the best
[33:43] place to to have emergency power to
maintain pumping capacity to keep our
[33:49] tanks
fill um I'm looking at Misty cuz what
[33:55] I'm about to say may or may not be
correct
[33:58] typically the grants for these types of
things whether it's a Homeland Security
[34:04] Grant or uh something else through the
state is typically at
[34:09] 90% I thought they were 80 20 or 5050 I
think it depend I think they're at least
[34:15] 80%
and what I'm about to say I'm kind of
[34:20] guessing at is this engineering study
can count as uh
[34:27] what's the term payment in kind or
service some contribution yeah anyway
[34:32] this could go this engineering study
could probably be used as part of our
[34:39] percentage for the actual installation
Grant that's an assumption and a guess
[34:44] and a hope and because it is just a plan
this yeah this is just being proposed or
[34:50] again just engineer PL not
any and if I remember correct you are
[34:56] right it is a
20 if I remember correctly and
[35:02] so you know these are not cheap pieces
equipment I I wish we could go down and
[35:07] buy a
uh a pull start generator with a plugin
[35:13] but this is you know installing new
switch gear and the tanks and the
[35:18] foundations and so there is a lot of
engineering that goes into it I was
[35:22] concerned with how long the plans were
good for knowing what we're facing in
[35:26] these two funds
and they're good not forever I mean t
[35:31] out with it but for a good long time so
if we can't get to these projects
[35:36] because you don't get the first round
grant funding or something um