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Comment meeting of the pure city commission order, please stand to join me for the pledge.

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May the United States and America, and do a public for which it stands, one nation, under God, individual, with the energy and justice for all. Please stand for the invocation.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Friends, let us join together for a word of prayer.

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Gracious and loving God, we give you thanks for this beloved community that we get to

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call home.

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For people who live and work here, and for all that makes our city a place of pride,

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possibility, and belonging.

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We give you thanks, especially, for our commissioners and the work that they have before

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them.

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Bless all of those who serve our community.

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Bless them in the heart and holy work of leadership.

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Grant them wisdom and difficult decisions.

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Patients, when answers are not easy.

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Courage to do what is right in the compassion to remember the people behind every decision they make.

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May we never take for granted the gift of our neighbors working together for the common good.

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Help us to celebrate what is good, strengthen the needs of others,

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and give attention to those places in our community where people can be proud to live,

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work, raise their families and call us home.

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Bless the work before us tonight and may all that we do serve our neighbors and our community that we love.

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for we ask it all in Jesus' name.

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All of us, children, said.

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Thank you, guys.

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Mr. Chair tonight.

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We can proceed.

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Are there any changes to the agenda?

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No changes tonight, Mayor.

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Thank you, ladies.

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We set aside at this time 15 minutes for public comment every week.

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If there's anybody that would like to come forward at this time, give us your name and tell us

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what you want to talk about.

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And you'll have three minutes.

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Seeing no one move forward to the mic,

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We can move on.

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We have no special business tonight.

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Next would be our consent calendar.

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The minutes for regular meeting August 18th, 2026,

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appointment to the Rollins Library Board of Terrace

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Sunshine and Cody Zilberberg.

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Cody's is effective to a first of 26.

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Raffle request for peer athletic booster club.

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Raffle request for Knights of Columbus Council 2686.

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And we have our claims.

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Do you have a motion? Who will approval of the consent calendar?

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I second.

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We have a motion in a second. Could you call the roll please, Lazy?

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Commissioner Hezinga.

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Where's that? I. Lewis.

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Right, so.

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Hi.

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Mayor Johnson.

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I consent calendar is approved.

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First item of unfinished business is a 545 public hearing, but it is not that time yet.

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So we will move on to the street department, chip seal, a mulch and purchase update.

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presented by Josh Bibles. Thank you.

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Good evening Mayor, commissioners.

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So yeah, so during the August 11 commission meeting,

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I had requested to purchase ship ceiling oils from Flint Hills resources.

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After the commission meeting, the finance officer discovered

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that there was a discrepancy in the paperwork,

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and that we cannot longer use the Flint Hills original cold.

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We have since worked with Flint Hills resources,

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and I haven't been able to receive a new cold.

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And this court was based off of bid,

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was accepted by McCook County in February of 2026.

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The new pricing is as follows.

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For the CRS 2P, we are looking at $645 per ton,

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the CSS-1HD50 is now $395 per ton.

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Both of these prices include delivery to the peer

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street department.

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The combined estimated cost for these materials

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is approximately $168,500.

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Funds for this purchase have been budgeted

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for the current fiscal year out of the street department.

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budget, and I am requesting commission approval for the quote provided by Flint Hills resources,

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for the purchase price of $645 a ton for the CRS 2P and $395 a ton for the CSS 1HD 50 for

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an estimated total of $168,500 and for the mayor to sign all the data documents.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Josh.

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Any questions or comments from Commissioner?

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I'm going to share a high thing. Thank you, Mayor.

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I'm Joshua. I'm using the McCook County bid, which is perfectly fine.

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That's the end result. It's similar to what we have proved on August 11th.

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Is that fair to say? Correct.

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So we're actually saving $1,800.

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So it wasn't.

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It's a paperwork deal, but in the end it actually other than a little bit of timing

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Convenience. It wasn't like we went way up in price and actually went the other direction.

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So, yes, sir.

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Thank you.

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Any other questions or comments?

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Sorry about that.

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Thank you, Lacey.

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I think it was you found the error and made sure that we got things done correctly.

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So I appreciate that.

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We do need to take action on this.

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I would move for us to approve the Flint Hills resource bit of CSS 1 HD 50 at 395 per

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and CRS of 2P at 645 per ton as presented and for Mary to sign all authorized documents.

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We have a motion in a second. Could we call the roll please, Lacey?

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Mr. Heisenga.

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What's that?

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I, Louis.

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Hi.

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Right, sir.

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Motion is passed.

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Moving on to new business.

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First item is the street closure request.

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Thanks for giving us a few minutes tonight.

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So here we're representing Bank West.

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What we're requesting is that for our annual party on the Plaza, which is a customer

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and community celebration event that we've started having every September to kind of

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and just celebrate where we live in work.

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This year we'd like to request that we close the alley behind Bank West coming off of Dakota,

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and basically extending to the end of our building or our parking lot area,

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to make it safer for our customers who will be sitting out there, playing games,

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picnic, etc.

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We have talked to that the one business neighbor that this effects

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is Fisher-Round's insurance.

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We have stopped over and visited with them and Chris Rounds

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expressed that they can park on the other side of their building

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that afternoon or we can let them skinny out of there if they

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happen to park behind the building by accident.

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So that's what we're requesting.

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Awesome, thank you.

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Any questions or comments from Commissioner?

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Commissioner, I think thank you, Mayor.

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Well, this is a street recloser request, but it's really an alley recloser request, so it's really not a big inconvenience to the other businesses restaurants down in that area.

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Correct. Like I said, the only business that it will impact is fisharounds and being

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neighbors, we went over and visited with them about it. They're pretty easy to work with.

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They are really easy to work with, yes.

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Any other questions or comments?

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Thank you for all the work that's been done on that entire block. It has really been improved,

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it looks really nice and I hope you have a great party and the weather is good for you.

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And then it rains a lot afterwards.

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And that the wind doesn't boil with 60 miles an hour.

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I could say so.

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Thank you.

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We do need to take action on this.

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Thanks.

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I move a approval of the street closure request from the Bank West Community

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Met party on the Plaza for September a 2,026 as presented.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Lacy, could you call the roll please.

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Commissioner Hezinga.

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Hi, Lewis.

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So, Mayor Johnson.

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Hi.

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Motionist pass.

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And, again, I hope they have a good and safe party.

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The next item of new minutes, excuse me, business is a memorandum of understanding

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WH Prairie Bluff Apartments LLC.

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Thanks for being here, Quinn.

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Absolutely.

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Thank you for having me.

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So, the MOU really encompasses the former Edgewater apartment site.

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It's the plan is a 29-unit affordable housing apartment.

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That has 9-1 bedroom, 12-2 bedroom, 8-3 bedroom apartment units.

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So, it's being a low-income tax credit, so it's between 30 and 80 percent AMI.

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being that it is LITECH for the have to apply it by here this very soon in here in August.

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LITECH is low-income housing tax credits, it would allow for the property itself to have a taxable value.

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Therefore, moving into a tenth on a later date.

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being the, so the entity itself as we speak is a non-profit entity, so that's why the low-income tax credits come into play there for the tip as well later in the day.

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So, we don't have any real costs yet for that coming up, but that's part of the MOU.

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It's kind of due to diligence on the engineering side, the financing side, it all comes together.

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Once the MOU is built together, so that's really kind of the crux the MOU, MOU is kind of a handshake agreement, essentially for the developer to kind of move forth with those due diligence items, so in questions so far.

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comments or questions.

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Commissioner.

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Commissioner Lursa.

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Thank you.

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I just want to make sure I understand this.

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So we're entering into an MOU to pave the way to create a tiff district for an affordable housing apartment.

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Initially it's going to be for tax credits.

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That's going to help them in their competitive process of getting most tax credits.

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And then that'll move into once if and when they get those.

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That'll create them as a taxable entity.

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By the IRS and then so that makes them more I mean that makes you have it to

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Otherwise you can't have when it doesn't make any sense if you have no taxable value. So yes

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I'm going to try raising it. Thank you, Mayor

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So part of this location if anybody's watching is where that apartment burned down on edge water

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The one apartment that burned down on almost five years ago four years ago somewhere

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So this was this isn't like

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something new to that neighborhood. I mean, there was an apartment there it burned down and now this is

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the start of a process of potentially building

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another apartment. This is not a done deal because this entity is applying for these

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tax credits and then

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we're just part of that if it moved does move forward. Correct. Yep. Yep, you know, they have to get the tax credits before we even think about moving to the turf otherwise it doesn't make any sense the project probably won't happen

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And that's like competitive, you know, these credits are, and I don't understand all that,

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but I mean, it's a statewide, and most of these tax credits have gone to Sioux Falls,

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Rapid City, I think, Aberdeen, you know, different from the bigger communities in past years.

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Yeah, because I don't know that we, anything appears ever actually qualified for this up until this night.

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I don't, not to my knowledge, you know, I don't believe so. Yeah, this is, it is a competitive process.

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I don't, I think Jim had mentioned it was the 31st or something and I needed to be met the application is due for it so.

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Well, I mean, all we can, we, you can't do this.

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Don't facilitate this process.

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We would want to be a part of it.

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We're, we're tired to try and do housing.

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This isn't really costing us anything.

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But we are part of the equation if this were to take place.

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Thank you.

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Great.

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any other comments or questions.

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We do need to take action on this.

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I'd love to approve of the memorandum of understanding

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with the Prairie Bluff apartment LLC as presented.

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I second.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Call the roll, please, Lizzy.

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Commissioner Hesinger.

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Aye.

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Where's that?

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Lewis.

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Aye.

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Right, sir?

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Aye.

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Mayor Johnson.

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Aye.

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Motion has passed.

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Thank you.

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My watch says 545, so we'll go back to the 545 public hearing for the malt beverage licenses,

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transfer, R and N development, LLC doing business as Golden Isle Casino, to Golden Isle venture,

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LLC doing business as lucky landing.

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And Christie Moreland will come up and present.

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Yep. I can help kick it off too just to help get her started here. So they are the current

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orders of the building where gold and aisle currently resides and they are looking at taking

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over the business as part of it. That business currently has four Mount Beverage licenses to

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operate the lottery sweets. They are looking at transferring three of those licenses into their

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and then continuing operating those as the current business,

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and then they will be letting the fourth license dissolve

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at the end of that business and when your new business starts over.

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So they're looking here to get approval to transfer those licenses to them

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that are currently in existence, those three of the four.

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So then I'll let Kristi go a little bit over her business plan,

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and anything else she has to add to that.

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There's not much that will change all of this staff is agreed to stay on with this and everything like that.

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We've, I don't know, been in touch with several people and excited for the new change.

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Sure.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Any questions for Christy or Lacy from Commissioner.

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Commissioner Larissa.

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Thank you.

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So what's the fourth license that's dissolving?

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It's another lottery switch that they have.

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The multiverge license, you have to have a multiverge to have a lottery suite. But only currently has two lottery machines, so they're just going to close that room and no longer operate with that fourth license.

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Okay, you can have 10.

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Yes, you can have 10 lottery machines per multiverge license, so then they just want more than the 30 allowed it under them, so they had the option of having 40.

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There's not going to operate with that fourth license, so they'll only have a maximum of 30 lottery machines possible for that location.

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I don't know, what's interesting, thank you.

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And I know Kristi has been in touch with.

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Do you probably in the police department

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about any of the alcohol sales and everything

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because this would be new to them?

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Thank you.

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I'm going to start having a look.

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Thank you, Mayor Well, I also wear a different hat

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as a South Dakota lottery commissioner

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and there is a rule that you can only have 10 licenses

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which you touched based on per location.

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And so in this case, it's a big building,

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But it has to be carved up and it can't like you just can't just have one bar in the middle

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Everything has to be separate and there's a whole bunch of parameters that the lottery overseas and so I've been in touch with Trevor

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And now I can jam and I believe it's all you say the same a lot

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Kind of like place. Yeah, there's a lot to this. I mean even though you've been doing it, but I mean just to operate

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There's quite a process and so that's why there's four locations in one location, but that's

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Part of the process, and that's in state stage that you can only have ten, ten machines at any one location.

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So that's why we call them the different sweets within the one building is they each have their own

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different sales tax ID with a different malt beverage license to each one so they can have that next month and

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So, and that's the way they all operate any business that has a lot of your machines across the state.

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They all have to follow the same guidelines.

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And that's not an uncommon practice to have multiple sweets in one location.

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Correct.

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Yeah, that's not the only one impure that it's like that either.

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Okay.

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Now, this is a public hearing, so if there is anybody from the public,

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if it wants to come up and make a comment or ask a question,

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you're welcome to come to the podium and introduce yourself.

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I'm seeing nobody else come forward, and let's we have any other comments from commissioners.

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We do need to take action on that.

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I moved to approve the Malt Beverage License Transfer R and Development LLC,

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doing business as Golden Isle Casino to Golden Isle Venture LLC,

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doing business as lucky landing.

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Second, we have a motion in a second.

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Could you call the roll later?

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Mr. Hizzinger.

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Where's that?

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Lewis.

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All right.

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Right, so.

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Mayor Johnson.

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I am.

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Motion is passed.

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And good luck to you with your business.

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I'll get that sent to the Department of Revenue tonight.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Going back to new business.

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We have the TSA Law Enforcement Officer reimbursement program agreement.

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And Casey will be here presenting.

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Welcome.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Good evening.

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Commission.

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A few regional airport recently applied for TSA's law enforcement officer reimbursement program to help offset the cost of law enforcement officer support during passenger screening.

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This program dates back to the aviation and transportation security act of 2001 and is designed to provide airports with partial reimbursement for an onsite law enforcement support.

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the airport participated in this program in the past.

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However, it was discontinued for a couple years and so we're happy to see it back.

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The agreement the airport is requesting approval of is known as an OTA

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or other transaction agreement.

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We have been awarded up to $38,781.25 in reimbursable funding

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And the agreement will run from September 1st, 2026 through August 31st, 2027.

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I'd be happy to answer any questions about it.

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Any questions or comments from Commissioner Wright?

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Oh, I'm sorry. Commissioner Wright, thank you.

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So, would this hire a new person or just pay for someone who is already there?

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Yeah, so it would just be a reimbursement program for the officers that are already dedicated to helping with those screening activities.

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Thank you.

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Any other comment?

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Oh, Lacy.

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Thank you.

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I'll just make another comment that case you didn't quite touch on is we used to have a program like this in place a few years ago.

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And then the federal government just had not to go forward with this grant reimbursement at our airport.

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So, this will just be bringing back a program that we used to have years ago, and that we have

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that we have put into the budget 4, 20, 20, 7, and this revenue would be put into there for that.

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Thank you.

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Yes, Commissioner Larissa.

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Thank you.

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So these are not TSA agents, correct?

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They're performing other duties?

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That's correct.

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We currently have three part-time law enforcement officers that come out for each and every commercial

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operation.

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And so this would just be to help us pay for part of their per hour rate.

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We're allowed out to $25 per hour. So it's a partial reimbursement of the law enforcement officers

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that we already have.

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Okay, thank you.

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Mr. High- thing up.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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We're required to have law enforcement out there.

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That's essentially on our dime.

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And this is a way to help offset some of that cost.

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That's correct.

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It is part of the airport security program for law enforcement officers

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to be there during passenger screening.

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Nick, did you have a comment?

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I just Casey kind of followed up on it there.

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But it's a requirement to us to have law enforcement

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while the screening operations are occurring

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for the commercial flights.

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And then if something is discovered during those screenings,

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then TSA hands it off to our law enforcement agent

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that are present there.

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So that's part of our requirements to operate the airport.

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And in the past we used to get some reimbursement

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for that that went away.

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And now it's coming back.

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So here to you, all right.

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We do need to take action on that.

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I would move approval of the TSA law enforcement officer reimbursement program, other transaction

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agreement and authorize the city to enter into the agreement.

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Thank you.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Lacy, could you call the roll please.

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Mr. Haisingga.

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What's that?

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Louis.

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Right.

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Hi.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Casey.

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The next item under new business is the business improvement district number one.

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2027 budget and Jim Pro Texter and Miranda Pan.

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There are both here. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Johnson, commissioners. Every year, each year, you, as the commission, need to approve or accept adopt the business improvement district number one, budget for the following year, and that has been submitted.

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bid number one is the occupancy tax adopted in 2014 of $2 per night per room. The bid

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number one board is appointed by the mayor and is responsible for planning and evaluating

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how the tax revenues can best be used to put more heads and bets. The board's actions are

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subject to approval from this commission, either through this annual budget process or as special funding requests are proposed.

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In fact, we have two such grant approval or acceptance requests for you tonight.

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So three actions in total.

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As submitted, the budget projection for 2027 is $225,000.

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That amount is allocated as 60% to for marketing and events in promotion and 40% for developing

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or improving public facilities.

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And I already forgot to tell you that bid number one chairman of the board, Brian Beck,

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planned to be here until about a half an hour ago, he has dealing with a child with, that's

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not feeling well.

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So he sends his regrets.

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Miranda's going to cover some marketing stuff.

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Good evening.

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I'm Miranda Panzer.

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I'm the tourism director for visit peer and visit peer plays a huge part on the marketing

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event side for peer bid number one.

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We do a lot of the coordinating with the groups that are coming to town.

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For example, the National Fresh Water Spear Fish and Tournament, which is this weekend.

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We help them make sure that everything's going smoothly for them.

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We organize volunteers if needed.

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A lot of our staff will visit here in the peer area chamber of commerce step up and

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make sure that everything goes smoothly as possible.

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We also work with TravelSat Dakota with the community cooperative marketing program,

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which they use an outside agency to have better reach.

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They have the time the resources to produce effective marketing initiatives.

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We used to work with love communications.

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We have now switched back to our travel salt decoder,

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as now switched back to Lawrence and Schiller,

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which is based in Sioux Falls.

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They've used them previously,

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so looking forward to working with them in the coming years

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until they throw out another bid to see who comes in next.

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visit here has promoted peer at sportsman shows here in 2026. We went to Denver and then

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Chicago. We were going to go to Feasant Fest, but that was in Minneapolis, kind of during the

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times of the riots going on. So we kind of stood back from that one, but very excited for this upcoming

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year in 2027. We'll be going back to Denver in Chicago and then we're planning to attend two shows

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in Omaha, one being Feasant Fest, and one being

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others, Boarts, Travel, Boding, Expo.

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Going back to the National Fresh Water

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Spear Fishing Tournament, which

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will be taking place this weekend, August 28th,

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and 29th, they'll be able to fish on Lake Alahi

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and Lake Sharks, so that's pretty cool.

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We have 27 teams with 54 competitors coming from 15

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different states, including Hawaii.

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I'd like to throw that one out because it's kind of interesting

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that someone from Hawaii salt water would be coming doing some fresh water stuff, but very excited

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to welcome all those anglers to town this week and see what they can produce and hopefully

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they'll shine a little bit more light on like a while he and like sharp and bring more people

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to the area. Peer bid number one is also a sponsor of this South Dakota tourism coalition of South

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called a golf tournament to offer tourism, which is going to be taking place here in peer

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on September 17th. Very excited about that as it was held in Rapid last year. We're helping

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with the central location that we can draw more people to come in at 10. Maybe spend a night or two

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and just enjoy our community.

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In addition to that, with the small grants, the peer bed has also supported

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Legion 14 State Tournament, the baseball at Hyde Stadium, as well as several other soft

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alterments for adults, women's leagues and co-ed leagues.

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Media Exposure, we did a great project this year with Fishing the Midwest.

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They helped us produce an episode on Fishing on Lake Oahu and Lake Sharp, and that has great

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coverage.

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It's been on multiple outlets and a dedicated episode was being aired on multiple channels that can hopefully elevate our visibility and get people here to fish on like a hot hand like sure

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Looking ahead to twenty twenty seven will continue to invest in the co-op program and then

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with that recent media exposure hopefully see more people in the area will be attending

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the sports shows like I mentioned and we'll keep looking for new opportunities to

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strengthen tourism in the area and try to get more people to visit us. We are

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actually already have been reached out last year in 2025. We had the junior road

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vast championships here in town and they'd like to come back next year. So that's

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we had 68 teams and one team from South Dakota, the rest were traveling here. So we'll hopefully

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see them again next year. I'll pass it back to Jim now.

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In the area of public facilities this year

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bid number one paid the balance of its tenure commitment to the outdoor pool in just six years

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and then we attended the groundbreaking for the phase three edition at the ice barn

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to which bid number one had previously pledged $200,000.

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So the grants are take out financing, they have to get done and show us the bills and we all look at it and say it's what you said you were going to build and then they get those funds.

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But as I mentioned earlier, in addition to this 2027 budget, we are requesting your approval of two grants that were recommended by the board at their July meeting.

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The first is a $20,000 grant to the Central South Dakota Recreation Committee to conduct phase two of their feasibility study.

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If phase one is deemed just go ahead and Brian isn't here.

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Okay. And so that's, I guess, conditional on the consultant saying phase one looks really promising.

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You should do phase two then that would come into play and I haven't met a consultant that wouldn't say that yet.

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So planning on that. And then the second is a $5,000 grant to the South Dakota Cultural.

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Local heritage foundation to support their amazing renovations and improvements and additions at the South Dakota Museum.

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Very good. Thank you, Jim Ann Miranda. Any questions or comments from commissioners?

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Commissioner Hayes Nga.

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Thank you, Mayor. Well, Jim, you know, me and you are probably the only people in this room that were part of this deal back in 14.

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And that was quite a, quite a deal to get this, you know, to work with the bid in the city and the motel owners to get that across the finish line and it's been an amazing success.

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00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:51,820
You know, of course I'm always a big fan of the brick and mortar type deals to hide stadiums and some of that, but the promotion works really good and it kind of, it generates more money so that we can do more things and it's just been a great source of revenue.

482
00:30:52,860 --> 00:30:58,240
But it's the guests that are coming here to pay in this $2, which I believe is caped statewide.

483
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,740
I mean, you can't charge more than that.

484
00:31:00,780 --> 00:31:03,340
That's the maxest $2, is that correct?

485
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,740
As of today, yes.

486
00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:11,140
But since 2014, I mean, that's a tremendous amount of money.

487
00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:16,440
I mean, 2.85 million since 2014, at the end of this year.

488
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:25,420
So I mean, it's a very successful program, and our guests are paying it, and then we're able

489
00:31:25,420 --> 00:31:32,940
to use it to build things, and promote things out here in peer, and so it's really not

490
00:31:32,940 --> 00:31:35,020
too city tax dollars.

491
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:40,080
This is, you know, it funnels through the city, but it's really not, you know, general fund

492
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:40,580
money.

493
00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:46,500
So, and you've been kind of carrying the water on this deal since the beginning as far

494
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:53,720
getting it started, you know, selling the concept and then shepherding it through all these

495
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:58,620
and keeping that board staff, because there's a board, it's not just you and Miranda

496
00:31:58,620 --> 00:31:59,600
make these decisions.

497
00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:01,820
So it does work.

498
00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:07,680
Yes, what's the seven member board, they're fantastic, and yeah, I would just say, you

499
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:12,480
know, between the two of us, kind of the deal when we set it up was that we would donate

500
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:19,760
our time, you know. So we don't charge an admin fee most to do to the bid board to pay for some

501
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,320
of our time. We just know that it's the right thing to do and keep doing that.

502
00:32:26,610 --> 00:32:32,010
Well, appreciate it. You guys, and just the the concept of it, it does work.

503
00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:37,750
Yeah, and I would just say for those who maybe don't know, they're paying this same tax when they

504
00:32:37,750 --> 00:32:43,410
to Sioux Falls or Brookings, or here on or Rapid City, so bear us fair.

505
00:32:46,310 --> 00:32:46,470
All right.

506
00:32:46,610 --> 00:32:47,710
Any other commissioner?

507
00:32:47,970 --> 00:32:48,150
Right, sir.

508
00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:48,730
Thank you.

509
00:32:48,830 --> 00:32:49,750
Question for Lacy.

510
00:32:50,130 --> 00:32:57,830
Were we putting this into three different votes for, there's the business and prove it

511
00:32:57,830 --> 00:33:02,550
district one, the one for the central South Dakota wreck, and then the South Dakota

512
00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:03,570
Historical Society?

513
00:33:03,890 --> 00:33:05,530
That would be cleanest and preferred.

514
00:33:06,030 --> 00:33:06,410
Okay.

515
00:33:06,410 --> 00:33:12,650
I would also ask to recuse myself from the Historical Society grant.

516
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,080
Understood.

517
00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:16,660
Thank you.

518
00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:17,760
Any other comments?

519
00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:19,660
Lacy.

520
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:26,540
I just want to make a comment that for the 2027 estimated revenues you are predicting it decrease.

521
00:33:28,830 --> 00:33:31,450
Same as last year, 225.

522
00:33:32,730 --> 00:33:35,390
I have it just 245 from last year.

523
00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:39,970
It was 225 for 26, and it'll be the same.

524
00:33:42,030 --> 00:33:42,050
Okay.

525
00:33:42,050 --> 00:33:42,210
Okay.

526
00:33:43,410 --> 00:33:43,950
We're good?

527
00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:44,370
Yep.

528
00:33:44,870 --> 00:33:45,290
All right.

529
00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:49,570
So if we could take action on the budget first, please.

530
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:58,540
I mean, approval of the bid board number one budget request as presented.

531
00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,560
A second?

532
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,020
We've got a motion in a second.

533
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:01,920
Call the roll please.

534
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:03,200
Commissioner Heisenga.

535
00:34:03,820 --> 00:34:03,860
Right.

536
00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:04,520
Aye.

537
00:34:04,820 --> 00:34:05,100
Lewis?

538
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:06,280
Right, so.

539
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:07,420
Mayor Johnson.

540
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:08,000
Aye.

541
00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:09,240
Motion is passed.

542
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:15,600
The second one would be the grant for the Central South Dakota recreational

543
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,780
the 20,000 of motion in a second on that.

544
00:34:20,420 --> 00:34:24,900
I would move for the approval of the $20,000 grant to Central South Dakota

545
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:28,020
Recreation Committee to complete their feasibility study.

546
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:29,200
The second is presented.

547
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,460
Got a motion in a second.

548
00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:32,740
Callerola, please, Lacy.

549
00:34:33,220 --> 00:34:35,200
Commissioner Hezinga, where's that?

550
00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:36,280
I, Lewis.

551
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:36,840
Hi.

552
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:37,620
Right, so?

553
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:38,840
Mayor Johnson.

554
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:39,420
Hi.

555
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,100
Motion for that is passed.

556
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,820
And if we could get a motion for the $5,000 grant

557
00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:48,680
for the cultural heritage.

558
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,860
I moved to approve the $5,000 grant

559
00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:55,060
to the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center.

560
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:55,940
Second.

561
00:34:56,580 --> 00:34:57,440
And a motion in a second.

562
00:34:57,580 --> 00:34:58,580
Please, callerola, please.

563
00:34:59,020 --> 00:35:00,860
Commissioner Hezinga, where's that?

564
00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:01,700
Hi, Lewis.

565
00:35:02,540 --> 00:35:02,720
All right.

566
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,040
Those were skew, recused, and Mayor Johnson.

567
00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:05,640
Hi.

568
00:35:06,060 --> 00:35:06,820
Motion is passed.

569
00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:07,960
Thank you for that.

570
00:35:08,140 --> 00:35:09,800
We really appreciate everything you do.

571
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:11,280
Thank you.

572
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,080
And that moves us on to the next.

573
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:21,360
We have four presentations for our outside agencies today.

574
00:35:21,580 --> 00:35:27,060
And we have the peer economic development cooperation first by Jim Pro Texter.

575
00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:30,240
Thank you very much.

576
00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:31,680
Very pleased to be here.

577
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:43,320
Thank you for your partnership, this year we are requesting the same amount of funding support from the City Commission City of Peer as we requested last year.

578
00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:58,180
Petco has been around for 43 years this year we're at 110 business nonprofit and individual members and that's down just a touch and I'll tell you why last year and every year really we train.

579
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:05,400
communicate to you that we get it, we're pretty dependent on the city of Peer and we work

580
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:11,520
to not be as dependent on the city of Peer for funding as a percentage of our operating

581
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:18,540
budget. So we're down 15 members, but we did increase our dues structure. It was the first

582
00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:26,260
increase in 10 years and I have no doubt that that is part and parcel of why we are down a little

583
00:36:26,260 --> 00:36:35,180
in the number of members or investors, as we like to call them, however, revenues are up 35%.

584
00:36:35,180 --> 00:36:37,340
And it's a $30,000 number.

585
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:38,380
It's not huge.

586
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:47,760
But it's, again, our commitment is to not just ask for more all the time from you.

587
00:36:49,780 --> 00:36:55,560
All of our activities, projects, and programs are driven by a 16-member volunteer board

588
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:02,740
directors, and the purpose is generally to obtain favorable management decisions to

589
00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:07,260
investor reinvest in jobs and her facilities in peer and use county. I'd like to get

590
00:37:07,260 --> 00:37:14,700
there out some quick statistics. Unemployment in June was 1.7 last year. It was 1.4, you

591
00:37:15,940 --> 00:37:19,440
know, a little 6.7, is that what they say? You wouldn't know. You're hang out with the young

592
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,380
kids, six, seven, same thing.

593
00:37:22,620 --> 00:37:23,460
Half a dozen.

594
00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:27,220
Everybody that really wants a job, I think, can find one in peer

595
00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:28,260
in this area.

596
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:29,960
Building permits, I focus on...

597
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:38,260
On those, I'd said last year, they're down, and they're typically cyclical, and I have seen that for

598
00:37:38,260 --> 00:37:43,600
because I've been doing this for quite a while. We have kind of years where we build, and then we have to kind

599
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:50,720
of fill in what we built, and then, so the next year, the permit values kind of go down, and then it's

600
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:59,160
cycle and to attest to that last year we were down 56% in new commercial permitting when I was

601
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:07,100
up here and in fact we did finish down 51% in value of new buildings and down 69% in the

602
00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:14,100
value of commercial improvements. In fact overall the total permit values of everything was

603
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:25,760
But through July this year, we are up 38% for new commercial, building permits, up 241% for commercial improvements,

604
00:38:26,660 --> 00:38:33,760
and just everything thrown in together, we're up so far through June 42% in total permit value.

605
00:38:35,860 --> 00:38:41,980
Sales tax, I guess June was kind of rough, so we're kind of flat on that, but we

606
00:38:42,580 --> 00:38:52,100
June itself pulled it down from a decent number increase through the year, so it will bounce back,

607
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:53,720
we have no doubt about that.

608
00:38:54,100 --> 00:39:00,660
As an organization, we still do small business loans, so we have three outstanding right

609
00:39:00,660 --> 00:39:05,780
of for a total of about $45,000 in loans receivable.

610
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,400
This last year workforce housing was a big part of our year.

611
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:17,020
We did play a part in the average new home permit cost decreasing substantially last year.

612
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:22,560
I see this year through July an 88% increase in new home value.

613
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,960
Even though there's the number is one less.

614
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:32,300
So I'd just say as a reminder, seven of the 10 Prairie Ridge Homes that Petco is construct

615
00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:34,720
developing were permitted in 2025.

616
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:43,940
So it was only in January this year that we closed out our last portion of our $564,000 state

617
00:39:43,940 --> 00:39:47,980
grant for Prairie Ridge and we have 10 homes in place.

618
00:39:48,540 --> 00:39:54,080
Our lots are discounted thanks to the state housing infrastructure improvement program grant.

619
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Looking for opportunities for that development, we're talking to Habitat for Humanity.

620
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:09,560
They're managed now by Brookings Habitat for Humanity, and they have a home-on-order

621
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:14,400
and a family ready to go, and that'll come in about September.

622
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:21,720
And we are the board, our board met today, and we're going to give them all the hope that

623
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:30,820
can that we will make it work for them to put their home in Prairie Ridge and that's their

624
00:40:30,820 --> 00:40:35,880
intent at this point. So that would be exciting and that'd be the 11th lot, hopefully, that

625
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,300
we can sell.

626
00:40:39,740 --> 00:40:43,700
It's if you don't know habitat, you know, it used to be Jimmy Carter days

627
00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:47,820
you went and showed up and you've pounded the sighting on the side of the house and so now

628
00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:51,040
when they have governor's houses or modular homes come in,

629
00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:55,000
they have just done a little sidestep

630
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,440
and the family that now would volunteer in the community,

631
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,160
do community service, volunteer hours

632
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,460
to kind of match what the sweat equity used to be into a home.

633
00:41:04,820 --> 00:41:08,320
But they would probably not have a garage on this,

634
00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:09,520
and that could be something later

635
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,380
where they could, everybody could pitch in.

636
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,160
Because that's pretty fun.

637
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,660
I know I did it one time in Fort Peer.

638
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,380
We do have more governors' houses on order, but don't expect to see those due to the timing

639
00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:27,880
for another year, but we do continue to look for ways to build on-site or find module

640
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:33,440
homes that are anywhere near the cost of those, it's extremely difficult.

641
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:40,660
As for multi-family housing, we're happy to see the Nate stencil construction doing businesses

642
00:41:40,660 --> 00:41:47,600
any S Meridian holdings that is doing the downtown apartments and actually added 30 units.

643
00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:59,660
And we were pleased to play a role in that in the transaction that transferred a rarely

644
00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:05,280
used city parking lot to any S Meridian so that they could meet their Austrian parking

645
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:06,420
requirements.

646
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:20,320
Quinn Rymer talked about the Lloyd company's affordable project, 29 units, that has a long

647
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:27,360
way to go, and they have a short time to do it in, but that would be a fantastic addition.

648
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:35,100
And I look back into our comprehensive housing study that we did in 2022 and it indicated

649
00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:38,820
at that time, we had none in peer.

650
00:42:39,260 --> 00:42:44,760
There had been two, one was, I

651
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:52,500
have written down somewhere, up on the hill by the donut shop

652
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:54,380
and they just did a huge remodel.

653
00:42:54,380 --> 00:43:02,460
if you notice that complex up there, and that's because they had been in existence long enough

654
00:43:02,460 --> 00:43:09,240
to now they're out of the income requirements, so they have, they can reinvest in those

655
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:10,760
in charge more.

656
00:43:13,180 --> 00:43:17,400
So, gosh, I had both of those properties in my head. Can't remember them.

657
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:27,660
But Denali Ridge, the other one started with an A, but according to the 22 study, we don't have any.

658
00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:29,620
Yankton has like 74.

659
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:36,400
So it's a big deal if we can get something like that going and appreciate your support of that.

660
00:43:37,140 --> 00:43:39,200
We do different partnerships with the city.

661
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:48,390
build the code has been a big one. It's been around since 2020. We match the city to match the

662
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:56,340
industry provider or industry partner with scholarships for students to go to any of the

663
00:43:56,340 --> 00:44:01,700
four tech schools get their one or two years certificates and then come back and work in

664
00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:08,620
for three years. And we have three students currently enrolled in two of the states, universities,

665
00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:18,400
and so far we've supported seven such scholarships with your support and but just expanded 29%

666
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:26,080
of the available funds. So it's a good program. It's those kids. I don't know the world a little bit

667
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:32,700
gives the employer employee with the skills that they need and they're locked in for three years.

668
00:44:35,140 --> 00:44:40,260
I'm very involved in these fairly new state-wide economic development professionals association.

669
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,420
Why that matters a little bit to the city of peer is we were very active in

670
00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:55,100
lobbying for the CAPS bill that did pass this last year and that would allow if a city was so

671
00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:59,920
inclined to identify a community project.

672
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:15,220
Or many projects and perhaps bundle them together and implement a 1% sales tax for up to five years to capture the dollars needed for the community projects.

673
00:45:16,140 --> 00:45:26,640
And then once the dollars are all generated in the account, then the construction can begin and you save all this interest, you know, for doing it that way.

674
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:39,140
And so the hook on that is it does require that it goes to a public vote, which it would make sense it's a city tax, so it would have to anyway.

675
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:47,140
But it would be required to meet the 60% threshold for approval, but it's a big deal.

676
00:45:47,140 --> 00:45:52,720
It's, uh, would generate if the city of Peer found a project or projects that the community

677
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:59,020
could really get behind that would generate an excellent revenue over a five year period.

678
00:45:59,660 --> 00:46:04,460
And the other thing that we are going to do through EDPA, and that's why we, Miranda and

679
00:46:04,460 --> 00:46:12,640
I were smirking about the $2, there's another effort to revive a 2023 bill on the bid number

680
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,280
one occupancy tax, it's been at $2 for 30 years,

681
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,500
the effort is to have the flexibility

682
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:30,660
for communities like peer to make it $3 or even $4 flat or up to 4% of the room charge.

683
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:40,600
So we as EDPA and as the bid number one board would support that, it's been a long time,

684
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:50,960
And then actually in 2023 it passed all the way to the Governor's desk, Governor-Nome did veto it, and then he was hurt, and it was in hand.

685
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:57,980
They got vetoed in 2023, and didn't have the votes to override the veto.

686
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:08,560
So we're hopeful that the legislature, this spring, will give us some more flexibility in generating funds for that,

687
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,560
because it just helps so much with what the city is really

688
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,080
can't afford to be doing anymore.

689
00:47:15,740 --> 00:47:20,240
So instead of in 225, maybe it's 450, you know,

690
00:47:22,580 --> 00:47:23,100
But okay.

691
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:24,940
And then

692
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,540
by November, we're going to announce

693
00:47:29,540 --> 00:47:31,460
our rollout a new website.

694
00:47:31,780 --> 00:47:33,940
We did a add-in business view magazine.

695
00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:36,500
That was a partnership with the city of peer this year.

696
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,660
Great article and a trade magazine that featured

697
00:47:39,660 --> 00:47:46,800
the city and we advertised in that. One thing that I guess Christy and I talked about

698
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:54,440
today a little bit, we are going to look at an update to our ten-year-old retail

699
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:00,880
analysis for peer. We did one twenty years ago, ten years ago, and it's time to

700
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:06,580
look at that again. I've had some requests from some developers, also some property

701
00:48:06,580 --> 00:48:14,480
owners in town, do we have good data to share with retail, retailers, national retailers,

702
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,320
and the answer is well, it's 10-year-old data.

703
00:48:18,100 --> 00:48:20,420
So we would like to renew that.

704
00:48:20,740 --> 00:48:24,640
The beauty of studies really is that they're faster and cheaper.

705
00:48:24,980 --> 00:48:25,640
They really are.

706
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:34,340
So 20 years ago, we spent $60,000, $60,000, $60,000, 10 years ago, it was $19,000.

707
00:48:34,340 --> 00:48:37,620
We have a really good proposal for 15,000.

708
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:45,860
I'll work with Christy to maybe come to you for a partnership on a separate one-time supplemental deal,

709
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,660
like we have typically done in the past.

710
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:57,660
If you think it's important that we continue to recruit a new retail and, of course, the sales tax and property tax that jobs that come with that.

711
00:48:58,220 --> 00:49:01,680
Finally, we have an annual meeting every year.

712
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,940
It'll be in November 10th, you will all be invited.

713
00:49:04,940 --> 00:49:07,620
It's at the cattleman's, and we'll have a great speaker.

714
00:49:09,060 --> 00:49:12,060
And all members in good standing, and of course,

715
00:49:12,260 --> 00:49:13,100
you are, we'll be invited.

716
00:49:14,860 --> 00:49:15,740
That's all I have.

717
00:49:16,260 --> 00:49:17,100
Thank you, Jim.

718
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,760
Any questions or comments for it, Jim?

719
00:49:23,820 --> 00:49:24,460
You're good to go.

720
00:49:29,830 --> 00:49:32,750
The second outside agency, we have down as Missouri

721
00:49:32,750 --> 00:49:34,950
Shores Domestic Violence Center.

722
00:49:37,580 --> 00:49:39,960
And Shelby's here to talk about it.

723
00:49:40,340 --> 00:49:41,160
Hello, everybody.

724
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:47,760
So thank you for allowing me the opportunity to provide a brief update on Missouri shores and request your continued support.

725
00:49:48,660 --> 00:49:54,040
So this past year has brought a great deal of transition from Missouri shores, including a change in leadership.

726
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:58,700
I stepped into the role of executive director after six and a half years with Missouri shores.

727
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,980
So while I was new to the role, I was not new to the organization or our mission.

728
00:50:02,980 --> 00:50:11,580
And I got off to unexpected start, my very first day in the role we experienced a major flood at the new house of hope.

729
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:18,640
The flood reduced the number of rooms we could use and required extensive repairs, including replacing our entire HVAC system.

730
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:24,940
We had three rooms that were damaged, that were being reconstructed and damaged to our basement.

731
00:50:24,940 --> 00:50:36,180
So while navigating insurance claims and reconstruction, our team continued to provide services and we made sure that every survivor that requested services still had somewhere to turn in a place to go.

732
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:43,440
Despite these challenges, Missouri Shore still provided more than 1,100 services to individuals and families over the past year.

733
00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:46,460
Looking at our clients, it was a little bit less.

734
00:50:46,660 --> 00:50:54,760
We on average, we serve 300 clients a year with reduced rooms and helping people get to other shelters while we navigated the flood.

735
00:50:54,760 --> 00:51:01,240
It was around 200, but we still serve each one of those families to the best of our abilities.

736
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:10,780
So, since opening the House of Hope and February 2025, we've expanded the ability to provide safe shelter and support to women, men and children,

737
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,780
including violence, increased capacity, also means increased operating cost.

738
00:51:16,220 --> 00:51:22,460
Federal Boca funding historically, one of our largest funding sources has declined by 76% since 2021,

739
00:51:22,460 --> 00:51:31,500
Which makes local support more important than ever and we recently found out that for our funding request along with many other shelters in the state of South Dakota

740
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:35,840
Our funds were reduced by 50% for upcoming fiscal year

741
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:41,320
Because there just isn't enough funding to go around to the domestic violence shelters in our area

742
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:46,480
Chamberlain's domestic violence shelter actually closed recently and they will no longer be operating

743
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:51,060
which means that our service area, which is currently used hide, Hawkins, Stanley,

744
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:56,920
Sully, and Jones counties may expand to also include the counties that Chamberlain

745
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,880
shelter was serving. This year, we're a specular question, $9,000 from the city of

746
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:06,040
peer and unrestricted funding. These funds allow us to respond to needs that don't always

747
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:11,100
sit neatly into a grant category. Things like transportation, clothing, medication for clients

748
00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:15,840
and children, emergency assistance, a cell phone, or other basic necessities that can help

749
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,620
someone take the next step toward safety.

750
00:52:18,180 --> 00:52:20,120
They also help us keep the house of hope open,

751
00:52:20,260 --> 00:52:22,860
staffed and ready when someone in our community needs us.

752
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,680
This past year has reminded us that we cannot always predict

753
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,660
the challenge as a head, but we can be prepared to respond.

754
00:52:29,100 --> 00:52:29,980
Through a leadership transition.

755
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,040
Transition, a flood, funding, reductions, and increased demand we have continued and will continue to show

756
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:39,580
it for the people who need us. Your continued investment helps ensure that when someone in our community

757
00:52:39,580 --> 00:52:43,800
is ready to ask for help we will be there with safety, compassion and the support needed to begin building

758
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:48,960
a future for you from violence. Thank you for your continued partnership, and thank you for your consideration

759
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:56,960
of our request. Thank you, Shelby. Any comments or questions for Shelby? Just on my part, working with the school

760
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:06,180
district. It's such a huge benefit to a lot of people, families that need help and need a place

761
00:53:06,180 --> 00:53:11,600
and need a place quick. So it's a great resource for us and we're lucky to have you.

762
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,660
So thank you so much for everything you do.

763
00:53:13,820 --> 00:53:14,700
Yes, thank you.

764
00:53:18,370 --> 00:53:22,490
The next other agency is the right turn.

765
00:53:22,530 --> 00:53:23,430
I don't believe.

766
00:53:23,750 --> 00:53:25,550
See, brandy here.

767
00:53:26,090 --> 00:53:31,450
we'll come back to that if she comes in. River City Public Transit then.

768
00:53:36,430 --> 00:53:37,170
Adam and Mallory.

769
00:53:37,810 --> 00:53:44,950
Yes. Thank you. Thank you Mayor, commissioners. I guess we want to first thank you for the opportunity

770
00:53:44,950 --> 00:54:00,010
for allowing us to come up and speak to you today. We also want to thank you guys for your support and

771
00:54:00,010 --> 00:54:05,270
a big capital investment river cities and you know we truly appreciate that and so

772
00:54:05,270 --> 00:54:10,450
thank you. We do have construction going on right now and so we're looking forward to

773
00:54:10,450 --> 00:54:16,110
that and it'll be a really good addition to helping keep those big 80 passenger buses

774
00:54:16,110 --> 00:54:23,130
safe for many years to come. So thank you guys for that. We do appreciate it. Why does

775
00:54:23,130 --> 00:54:28,670
your local support matter? River cities receive federal and state funding. These funds must

776
00:54:28,670 --> 00:54:35,350
match at a 50-50 or an 80-20 split, that's 50 percent federal, 50 percent local, 80 percent

777
00:54:35,350 --> 00:54:42,230
federal, 20 percent local. Federal government will not fully support public transit. They

778
00:54:42,230 --> 00:54:46,170
require us to go out and get the local match. And a big reason for that is they want to see

779
00:54:46,170 --> 00:54:51,970
that your community is invested in the public transit. And so that is a big thing to them is that

780
00:54:51,970 --> 00:54:58,690
go out and we get local match. This last year we found out it was about October and November.

781
00:54:59,310 --> 00:55:06,970
We took about a 10% federal budget hit. That's kind of roughly about 450,000 and what that

782
00:55:06,970 --> 00:55:11,170
did does is it informed us that we were probably about three months short from our federal funds

783
00:55:11,170 --> 00:55:17,430
and we're going to have to take that on 100% and so the local match was very key to us to keep

784
00:55:17,430 --> 00:55:23,810
operating. And this wasn't just a river cities issue either. This was a statewide issue.

785
00:55:24,530 --> 00:55:29,150
Transits all across the state received the same hit and they're all doing the same thing

786
00:55:29,150 --> 00:55:34,830
we are trying to find other means of funding to help operate. And so this wasn't just a river

787
00:55:34,830 --> 00:55:40,190
cities. This was a statewide throughout the transit. A lot of people ask what we can use for

788
00:55:40,190 --> 00:55:46,570
local match. And they limit public transit and what we get to use. And so the four areas they

789
00:55:46,570 --> 00:55:54,230
to use local match in our 80-250 is in donations, contracts, advertisements, and Medicaid.

790
00:55:55,630 --> 00:55:59,330
A lot of people think fairs is one fairs isn't one that we get to use for that either.

791
00:55:59,810 --> 00:56:06,510
That's to keep the fairs down. If we did more money, we could up the fairs, and that's not right to low income families.

792
00:56:07,350 --> 00:56:09,670
No, and there's no way of keeping the cost down.

793
00:56:09,670 --> 00:56:14,590
Yeah, and which is also why I think many of you, many people know River City's is in

794
00:56:14,590 --> 00:56:17,270
peer, but we also branch out into many other communities.

795
00:56:18,090 --> 00:56:22,150
Many of them are high-more, wall, fill-up, cadoka.

796
00:56:23,150 --> 00:56:26,130
We also do contract with the Cheyenne Reservation.

797
00:56:26,430 --> 00:56:33,070
We also contract with a small pair of transit operation in Sioux Falls, and we also contract

798
00:56:33,070 --> 00:56:36,970
to manage the Southeast public transit,

799
00:56:36,990 --> 00:56:38,310
which is vermilion in Yankton.

800
00:56:38,870 --> 00:56:40,330
And I'm going to show you, we don't do that,

801
00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:43,610
just because we like the addition board.

802
00:56:44,130 --> 00:56:46,310
We do that because those contracts,

803
00:56:46,650 --> 00:56:49,250
that comes back to peer and it helps keep us funding.

804
00:56:49,550 --> 00:56:50,890
And so that's why we keep doing those.

805
00:56:50,950 --> 00:56:53,850
That's why we're unique in the transit area,

806
00:56:53,850 --> 00:56:56,010
everyone tells us because we don't just stop

807
00:56:56,010 --> 00:56:57,530
with what we do, we try to grow.

808
00:56:57,710 --> 00:57:00,010
We try to find more to bring back here,

809
00:57:00,010 --> 00:57:01,690
so we can keep public transit rolling.

810
00:57:01,690 --> 00:57:04,190
And so that's why we take on those challenges,

811
00:57:04,430 --> 00:57:05,610
that's why you see those contracts

812
00:57:05,610 --> 00:57:07,150
and that's why you guys see us

813
00:57:07,150 --> 00:57:08,950
and more than just in peer.

814
00:57:10,250 --> 00:57:12,110
A lot of people ask, you know,

815
00:57:12,290 --> 00:57:13,370
why does this really matter?

816
00:57:13,850 --> 00:57:15,830
Well, quite frankly, public transit helps

817
00:57:15,830 --> 00:57:18,250
keep seniors and individuals with the disabilities,

818
00:57:19,910 --> 00:57:20,870
to keep their independence

819
00:57:20,870 --> 00:57:23,270
while also helping getting them to their medical points.

820
00:57:23,570 --> 00:57:25,330
It helps individuals get to work.

821
00:57:25,630 --> 00:57:27,870
It helps youth kids get to school.

822
00:57:28,270 --> 00:57:30,330
It helps families have access to groceries

823
00:57:30,330 --> 00:57:35,470
and then assess these they need. It also helps veterans get the rise that they

824
00:57:35,470 --> 00:57:40,490
so deserve when they come back. And one of the things we're extremely proud of

825
00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:46,410
is we work hard on a highly rural transportation grant. And in 2016 we started

826
00:57:46,410 --> 00:57:50,890
down that with it the first one it was not. We had too many barriers and it

827
00:57:50,890 --> 00:57:55,110
didn't. It wasn't as successful as we would like. And I can honestly say this is

828
00:57:55,110 --> 00:57:58,970
we found out about a month ago where our tenth year applying for the

829
00:57:58,970 --> 00:58:06,530
application and we were just granted the 2026-27 grant for the high-level transportation grant

830
00:58:06,530 --> 00:58:12,010
which allows free rise for veterans and all the rural county and 39 rural counties in

831
00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:19,030
South Dakota and eight counties in Wyoming and we added 39 counties or 39 counties in Nebraska

832
00:58:19,030 --> 00:58:25,590
and again we do that to help not just the veterans but to help keep River City going and so

833
00:58:25,590 --> 00:58:32,170
If the least that we can do is writing these grants helps us and it's helping the veterans get all the support they need,

834
00:58:32,270 --> 00:58:38,750
they don't have to worry about funding to get to those appointments, and that's really important to us to keep that going.

835
00:58:38,990 --> 00:58:45,690
And so we did find that out about a month ago and we're extremely proud of that and we'll always continue to do that.

836
00:58:46,030 --> 00:58:52,810
And so there's not much that we don't do when it comes to public transit and finding different angles to not just grow,

837
00:58:52,810 --> 00:58:56,010
what to keep helping individuals that need help.

838
00:58:58,090 --> 00:58:59,790
Got that pamphlet, I laid on your desk.

839
00:59:01,490 --> 00:59:02,610
You're the first page.

840
00:59:02,690 --> 00:59:05,630
This is just recap of what we've done so far this year.

841
00:59:05,910 --> 00:59:09,430
I've told you to do July, I can tell you

842
00:59:09,430 --> 00:59:12,070
that we have over 450 students registered

843
00:59:12,070 --> 00:59:13,550
in the first week of school.

844
00:59:14,370 --> 00:59:16,290
So that's pretty great too.

845
00:59:16,930 --> 00:59:19,210
There's this little bit of facts on here.

846
00:59:19,830 --> 00:59:23,390
We did two, 278,000, 852 rides,

847
00:59:23,390 --> 00:59:30,200
that's not full work. That's pretty great. Your next page here is our

848
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:34,860
we get a survey. Just to see how public transit was doing. I'm not going to go

849
00:59:34,860 --> 00:59:39,480
for everything here, but it does. What we took out of this most is that we are not

850
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:44,140
marketing ourselves enough because people do not know that we're open for the

851
00:59:44,140 --> 00:59:49,040
process. They don't know what routes we have. They want us to be open more. They want

852
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:54,920
more service days of the week. We open 217. So. So we are working on the

853
00:59:56,140 --> 00:59:59,980
and then that third page is just all the things we do.

854
01:00:00,110 --> 01:00:17,190
And then we also have our little at the bottom middle. We have a book or write on my option. You can track your rides, you can track kids rides, you can schedule a ride, cancel a ride, however you want to do it. But that function is available and open to everybody.

855
01:00:18,550 --> 01:00:21,350
Yeah, I guess we wanted to open it up for any questions.

856
01:00:21,390 --> 01:00:28,510
I guess the last thing is we do work every angle we can to get contracts with the entities

857
01:00:28,510 --> 01:00:31,570
in our communities, in every community that we serve.

858
01:00:31,750 --> 01:00:34,870
We do work very hard on getting as much advertisers as we can,

859
01:00:37,470 --> 01:00:38,790
so every little bit helps us.

860
01:00:38,910 --> 01:00:41,890
So we just want to thank you guys and open it up for any questions.

861
01:00:42,970 --> 01:00:43,870
Thank you.

862
01:00:44,350 --> 01:00:44,950
Any questions?

863
01:00:44,950 --> 01:00:45,290
for,

864
01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:52,310
I see your vehicles all over place, even when I run to Sioux Falls, sometimes I'll meet

865
01:00:52,310 --> 01:00:58,090
one coming back. So, definitely, your vehicles are easy to see. So, thank you, and you're

866
01:00:58,090 --> 01:01:01,390
out there. So, appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate you all. Thank you.

867
01:01:06,310 --> 01:01:09,770
I believe that is it. So,

868
01:01:09,770 --> 01:01:16,560
we will go ahead and move on to dialogue, and we will start with Commissioner Raetzel. Thank you,

869
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:24,420
The state course you tournament will be held August 29th and 30th with approximately 60

870
01:01:24,420 --> 01:01:27,000
pitchers expected to participate.

871
01:01:27,620 --> 01:01:32,720
Doubles competition will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. singles competition

872
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:38,880
will follow Sunday with sessions from 8 30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 30 to good luck

873
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,340
to all the competitors this weekend.

874
01:01:41,340 --> 01:01:43,700
I'm in the next slide.

875
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:49,940
It's a peer parks and rec department, maintains several practice locations to use by local

876
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:54,720
athletes, including the soccer field tennis courts and golf course, just wishing everyone

877
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,560
a good luck to all the peer athletes who are competing this fall.

878
01:01:59,320 --> 01:01:59,880
That's all.

879
01:01:59,940 --> 01:02:00,440
Thank you.

880
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:02,420
Commissioner Lewis.

881
01:02:03,580 --> 01:02:10,300
We have worked that is underway to address a significant erosion issue along Chris Drive.

882
01:02:10,300 --> 01:02:16,560
This project uses a high quality erosion control blanket and it helps stabilize and protect the slope.

883
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:23,480
The material has an anticipated lifespan of approximately 75 years, so a nice long lifespan for that.

884
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,140
It will provide a durable and long-term solution in that area.

885
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,650
Thank you.

886
01:02:37,270 --> 01:02:38,710
Thank you.

887
01:02:38,710 --> 01:02:40,310
and author Steve Steele.

888
01:02:40,470 --> 01:02:44,970
Steele will discuss his book, Building an Empire, which shares the history of Pierce 7 consecutive

889
01:02:44,970 --> 01:02:46,310
state football championships.

890
01:02:47,490 --> 01:02:51,050
The event begins at 6 p.m. Monday, August 31st.

891
01:02:51,270 --> 01:02:54,150
An author signing will follow and books will be available for purchase.

892
01:02:56,050 --> 01:02:56,790
Thank you.

893
01:02:57,710 --> 01:02:58,310
Thank you, Mayor.

894
01:02:58,410 --> 01:03:00,110
There should be a slide here.

895
01:03:00,790 --> 01:03:08,770
Construction is underway on a new parallel taxiway for the runway 725 project at the

896
01:03:08,770 --> 01:03:16,270
pre-regional airport. It should not affect the runways. This is a taxiway that doesn't exist

897
01:03:16,270 --> 01:03:24,470
next to the actual east-west running runways. So that part is good. We don't have to shut

898
01:03:24,470 --> 01:03:30,570
anything down. Work will continue through this fall. This is a two-year project. So the will

899
01:03:30,570 --> 01:03:37,570
pause during the winter and resume next spring with completion anticipated in the summer

900
01:03:37,570 --> 01:03:44,970
of 2027, once completed the taxiway, we'll provide aircraft with a dedicated route alongside

901
01:03:44,970 --> 01:03:52,110
the runway, reducing the need to taxi or back taxi on the runway itself. This project will improve

902
01:03:52,110 --> 01:03:58,470
safety and efficiency at the airport. At the current time, there is no on the east west,

903
01:03:58,670 --> 01:04:06,570
runway 725, there is no taxiway. So the runway is the taxiway and we always want to get planes

904
01:04:06,570 --> 01:04:12,510
off of an active runway as soon as possible and so that that is why we're working on that and that's

905
01:04:12,510 --> 01:04:18,070
mostly federal funding for that project but it is underway and it's a two-year project and so we're

906
01:04:18,070 --> 01:04:23,590
pretty excited about making yet another improvement out at our airport and the other thing I was going to

907
01:04:23,590 --> 01:04:30,190
touch base on I don't have any slides but Miranda touched base on it and this is freshwater fishing

908
01:04:30,190 --> 01:04:37,710
tournament this weekend. It's on Sharp and on on Hawaii. These are literally the best

909
01:04:38,690 --> 01:04:46,510
divers, scuba divers and freed divers in America that are going to be in the pure area this weekend

910
01:04:46,510 --> 01:04:52,050
competing in a tournament. It's never been here before and so Michael Schopp at a while he

911
01:04:52,050 --> 01:04:57,190
dive played a big part in getting them out here and so hopefully hopefully it's a success. We've got

912
01:04:57,190 --> 01:05:00,590
a bunch of people coming in from out of town.

913
01:05:00,630 --> 01:05:05,650
And hopefully they have a good, good weekend of diving up

914
01:05:05,650 --> 01:05:08,090
on our reverse system here.

915
01:05:08,310 --> 01:05:09,010
That's all I have there.

916
01:05:09,110 --> 01:05:09,910
Thank you, Commissioner.

917
01:05:11,190 --> 01:05:14,270
You might not have mentioned it, but as far as the taxiway,

918
01:05:14,490 --> 01:05:17,170
it happened about a year ago, but we had a commercial claim

919
01:05:17,170 --> 01:05:20,130
that had to do the reverse taxi, and that it up running

920
01:05:20,130 --> 01:05:22,070
a main gear off into the mud.

921
01:05:22,550 --> 01:05:25,430
So it's definitely nice that they're getting this done

922
01:05:25,430 --> 01:05:31,870
and got the grant and got follow through and we'll get this done after next year so that'll be a great

923
01:05:31,870 --> 01:05:36,690
and cute improvement. Anything? I have nothing to say.

924
01:05:37,230 --> 01:05:42,070
Lacy? I just want to say our last twenty twenty seven budget workshop is scheduled for Thursday

925
01:05:42,070 --> 01:05:47,510
morning at seven a.m. at River City for the transit and then we'll be looking forward to wrapping up

926
01:05:47,510 --> 01:05:53,170
the twenty twenty seven budget discussions with ordinance coming up soon. Awesome, thank you. Lindsay?

927
01:05:53,170 --> 01:05:54,310
I'll see you tonight.

928
01:05:54,490 --> 01:05:54,670
Awesome.

929
01:05:55,130 --> 01:05:55,470
All right.

930
01:05:55,810 --> 01:06:00,650
We were done with our dialogue and we're ready to adjourn.

931
01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:01,550
Move to adjourn.

932
01:06:01,570 --> 01:06:02,290
I second.

933
01:06:02,630 --> 01:06:03,770
Got a motion in a second.

934
01:06:03,950 --> 01:06:05,170
Could you call the roll please, please?

935
01:06:05,370 --> 01:06:06,230
Commissioner Hezinga.

936
01:06:06,330 --> 01:06:06,430
Aye.

937
01:06:06,670 --> 01:06:07,210
Where's that?

938
01:06:07,770 --> 01:06:08,050
Who was?

939
01:06:08,250 --> 01:06:08,530
Aye.

940
01:06:08,650 --> 01:06:08,830
Right.