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[0:06] Comment meeting of the pure city commission order, please stand to join me for the pledge.
[0:16] 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.
[0:30] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Friends, let us join together for a word of prayer.
[0:34] Gracious and loving God, we give you thanks for this beloved community that we get to
[0:39] call home.
[0:40] For people who live and work here, and for all that makes our city a place of pride,
[0:45] possibility, and belonging.
[0:47] We give you thanks, especially, for our commissioners and the work that they have before
[0:50] them.
[0:51] Bless all of those who serve our community.
[0:54] Bless them in the heart and holy work of leadership.
[0:57] Grant them wisdom and difficult decisions.
[0:59] Patients, when answers are not easy.
[1:01] Courage to do what is right in the compassion to remember the people behind every decision they make.
[1:07] May we never take for granted the gift of our neighbors working together for the common good.
[1:12] Help us to celebrate what is good, strengthen the needs of others,
[1:17] and give attention to those places in our community where people can be proud to live,
[1:22] work, raise their families and call us home.
[1:25] Bless the work before us tonight and may all that we do serve our neighbors and our community that we love.
[1:30] for we ask it all in Jesus' name.
[1:32] All of us, children, said.
[1:35] Thank you, guys.
[1:41] Mr. Chair tonight.
[1:42] We can proceed.
[1:44] Are there any changes to the agenda?
[1:46] No changes tonight, Mayor.
[1:48] Thank you, ladies.
[1:49] We set aside at this time 15 minutes for public comment every week.
[1:54] If there's anybody that would like to come forward at this time, give us your name and tell us
[1:58] what you want to talk about.
[2:00] And you'll have three minutes.
[2:03] Seeing no one move forward to the mic,
[2:05] We can move on.
[2:07] We have no special business tonight.
[2:10] Next would be our consent calendar.
[2:12] The minutes for regular meeting August 18th, 2026,
[2:17] appointment to the Rollins Library Board of Terrace
[2:19] Sunshine and Cody Zilberberg.
[2:22] Cody's is effective to a first of 26.
[2:26] Raffle request for peer athletic booster club.
[2:29] Raffle request for Knights of Columbus Council 2686.
[2:33] And we have our claims.
[2:34] Do you have a motion? Who will approval of the consent calendar?
[2:38] I second.
[2:39] We have a motion in a second. Could you call the roll please, Lazy?
[2:42] Commissioner Hezinga.
[2:43] Where's that? I. Lewis.
[2:45] Right, so.
[2:46] Hi.
[2:46] Mayor Johnson.
[2:47] I consent calendar is approved.
[2:50] First item of unfinished business is a 545 public hearing, but it is not that time yet.
[2:58] So we will move on to the street department, chip seal, a mulch and purchase update.
[3:04] presented by Josh Bibles. Thank you.
[3:08] Good evening Mayor, commissioners.
[3:10] So yeah, so during the August 11 commission meeting,
[3:12] I had requested to purchase ship ceiling oils from Flint Hills resources.
[3:17] After the commission meeting, the finance officer discovered
[3:19] that there was a discrepancy in the paperwork,
[3:21] and that we cannot longer use the Flint Hills original cold.
[3:25] We have since worked with Flint Hills resources,
[3:27] and I haven't been able to receive a new cold.
[3:30] And this court was based off of bid,
[3:31] was accepted by McCook County in February of 2026.
[3:36] The new pricing is as follows.
[3:38] For the CRS 2P, we are looking at $645 per ton,
[3:43] the CSS-1HD50 is now $395 per ton.
[3:48] Both of these prices include delivery to the peer
[3:50] street department.
[3:52] The combined estimated cost for these materials
[3:54] is approximately $168,500.
[3:58] Funds for this purchase have been budgeted
[3:59] for the current fiscal year out of the street department.
[4:01] budget, and I am requesting commission approval for the quote provided by Flint Hills resources,
[4:08] for the purchase price of $645 a ton for the CRS 2P and $395 a ton for the CSS 1HD 50 for
[4:18] an estimated total of $168,500 and for the mayor to sign all the data documents.
[4:24] Thank you.
[4:25] Thank you, Josh.
[4:26] Any questions or comments from Commissioner?
[4:28] I'm going to share a high thing. Thank you, Mayor.
[4:31] I'm Joshua. I'm using the McCook County bid, which is perfectly fine.
[4:36] That's the end result. It's similar to what we have proved on August 11th.
[4:42] Is that fair to say? Correct.
[4:44] So we're actually saving $1,800.
[4:47] So it wasn't.
[4:48] It's a paperwork deal, but in the end it actually other than a little bit of timing
[4:52] Convenience. It wasn't like we went way up in price and actually went the other direction.
[4:57] So, yes, sir.
[4:58] Okay.
[4:59] Thank you.
[5:00] Any other questions or comments?
[5:03] Commissioner.
[5:03] No.
[5:04] Sorry about that.
[5:05] Thank you, Lacey.
[5:07] I think it was you found the error and made sure that we got things done correctly.
[5:12] So I appreciate that.
[5:13] Thank you.
[5:14] We do need to take action on this.
[5:17] I would move for us to approve the Flint Hills resource bit of CSS 1 HD 50 at 395 per
[5:25] and CRS of 2P at 645 per ton as presented and for Mary to sign all authorized documents.
[5:34] We have a motion in a second. Could we call the roll please, Lacey?
[5:38] Mr. Heisenga.
[5:39] What's that?
[5:40] I, Louis.
[5:41] Hi.
[5:41] Right, sir.
[5:42] Hi.
[5:43] Motion is passed.
[5:45] Thank you.
[5:47] Moving on to new business.
[5:50] First item is the street closure request.
[5:53] Thank you.
[6:02] Thank you.
[6:02] Thank you.
[6:03] Thank you.
[6:04] Thank you.
[6:04] Thank you.
[6:04] Thank you.
[6:04] Thank you.
[6:04] Thanks for giving us a few minutes tonight.
[6:07] So here we're representing Bank West.
[6:09] What we're requesting is that for our annual party on the Plaza, which is a customer
[6:15] and community celebration event that we've started having every September to kind of
[6:23] and just celebrate where we live in work.
[6:28] This year we'd like to request that we close the alley behind Bank West coming off of Dakota,
[6:35] and basically extending to the end of our building or our parking lot area,
[6:40] to make it safer for our customers who will be sitting out there, playing games,
[6:44] picnic, etc.
[6:47] We have talked to that the one business neighbor that this effects
[6:51] is Fisher-Round's insurance.
[6:53] We have stopped over and visited with them and Chris Rounds
[6:56] expressed that they can park on the other side of their building
[7:01] that afternoon or we can let them skinny out of there if they
[7:06] happen to park behind the building by accident.
[7:10] So that's what we're requesting.
[7:12] Awesome, thank you.
[7:13] Any questions or comments from Commissioner?
[7:17] Commissioner, I think thank you, Mayor.
[7:18] 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.
[7:29] Correct.
[7:30] Correct. Like I said, the only business that it will impact is fisharounds and being
[7:35] neighbors, we went over and visited with them about it. They're pretty easy to work with.
[7:39] They are really easy to work with, yes.
[7:42] Any other questions or comments?
[7:45] Thank you for all the work that's been done on that entire block. It has really been improved,
[7:51] it looks really nice and I hope you have a great party and the weather is good for you.
[7:56] Okay.
[7:56] And then it rains a lot afterwards.
[7:59] And that the wind doesn't boil with 60 miles an hour.
[8:03] I could say so.
[8:05] Thank you.
[8:05] We do need to take action on this.
[8:07] All right.
[8:07] Thanks.
[8:09] I move a approval of the street closure request from the Bank West Community
[8:13] Met party on the Plaza for September a 2,026 as presented.
[8:18] I second.
[8:19] We have a motion in a second.
[8:21] Lacy, could you call the roll please.
[8:23] Commissioner Hezinga.
[8:24] All right.
[8:25] Hi, Lewis.
[8:26] Right.
[8:27] So, Mayor Johnson.
[8:28] Hi.
[8:29] Motionist pass.
[8:30] And, again, I hope they have a good and safe party.
[8:33] The next item of new minutes, excuse me, business is a memorandum of understanding
[8:41] WH Prairie Bluff Apartments LLC.
[8:47] Thanks for being here, Quinn.
[8:49] Absolutely.
[8:49] Thank you for having me.
[8:52] So, the MOU really encompasses the former Edgewater apartment site.
[9:01] It's the plan is a 29-unit affordable housing apartment.
[9:08] That has 9-1 bedroom, 12-2 bedroom, 8-3 bedroom apartment units.
[9:15] So, it's being a low-income tax credit, so it's between 30 and 80 percent AMI.
[9:29] being that it is LITECH for the have to apply it by here this very soon in here in August.
[9:37] LITECH is low-income housing tax credits, it would allow for the property itself to have a taxable value.
[9:47] Therefore, moving into a tenth on a later date.
[9:50] 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.
[10:03] So, we don't have any real costs yet for that coming up, but that's part of the MOU.
[10:10] It's kind of due to diligence on the engineering side, the financing side, it all comes together.
[10:18] 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.
[10:33] comments or questions.
[10:36] Commissioner.
[10:37] Commissioner Lursa.
[10:38] Thank you.
[10:38] I just want to make sure I understand this.
[10:40] So we're entering into an MOU to pave the way to create a tiff district for an affordable housing apartment.
[10:48] Correct.
[10:49] Initially it's going to be for tax credits.
[10:51] That's going to help them in their competitive process of getting most tax credits.
[10:56] And then that'll move into once if and when they get those.
[11:00] That'll create them as a taxable entity.
[11:02] By the IRS and then so that makes them more I mean that makes you have it to
[11:08] Otherwise you can't have when it doesn't make any sense if you have no taxable value. So yes
[11:13] I'm going to try raising it. Thank you, Mayor
[11:16] So part of this location if anybody's watching is where that apartment burned down on edge water
[11:22] The one apartment that burned down on almost five years ago four years ago somewhere
[11:26] So this was this isn't like
[11:29] something new to that neighborhood. I mean, there was an apartment there it burned down and now this is
[11:34] the start of a process of potentially building
[11:38] another apartment. This is not a done deal because this entity is applying for these
[11:44] tax credits and then
[11:46] 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
[11:58] And that's like competitive, you know, these credits are, and I don't understand all that,
[12:03] but I mean, it's a statewide, and most of these tax credits have gone to Sioux Falls,
[12:08] Rapid City, I think, Aberdeen, you know, different from the bigger communities in past years.
[12:13] Yeah, because I don't know that we, anything appears ever actually qualified for this up until this night.
[12:18] I don't, not to my knowledge, you know, I don't believe so. Yeah, this is, it is a competitive process.
[12:24] 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.
[12:32] Well, I mean, all we can, we, you can't do this.
[12:37] Don't facilitate this process.
[12:38] We would want to be a part of it.
[12:40] We're, we're tired to try and do housing.
[12:43] This isn't really costing us anything.
[12:44] But we are part of the equation if this were to take place.
[12:48] Okay.
[12:49] Thank you.
[12:50] Great.
[12:50] any other comments or questions.
[12:53] We do need to take action on this.
[12:56] I'd love to approve of the memorandum of understanding
[12:59] with the Prairie Bluff apartment LLC as presented.
[13:05] I second.
[13:05] We have a motion in a second.
[13:08] Call the roll, please, Lizzy.
[13:09] Commissioner Hesinger.
[13:10] Aye.
[13:10] Where's that?
[13:12] Lewis.
[13:12] Aye.
[13:13] Right, sir?
[13:13] Aye.
[13:14] Mayor Johnson.
[13:15] Aye.
[13:15] Motion has passed.
[13:17] Thank you.
[13:18] My watch says 545, so we'll go back to the 545 public hearing for the malt beverage licenses,
[13:28] transfer, R and N development, LLC doing business as Golden Isle Casino, to Golden Isle venture,
[13:37] LLC doing business as lucky landing.
[13:41] And Christie Moreland will come up and present.
[13:43] Yep. I can help kick it off too just to help get her started here. So they are the current
[13:50] orders of the building where gold and aisle currently resides and they are looking at taking
[13:56] over the business as part of it. That business currently has four Mount Beverage licenses to
[14:02] operate the lottery sweets. They are looking at transferring three of those licenses into their
[14:08] and then continuing operating those as the current business,
[14:12] and then they will be letting the fourth license dissolve
[14:16] at the end of that business and when your new business starts over.
[14:20] So they're looking here to get approval to transfer those licenses to them
[14:24] that are currently in existence, those three of the four.
[14:28] So then I'll let Kristi go a little bit over her business plan,
[14:31] and anything else she has to add to that.
[14:33] There's not much that will change all of this staff is agreed to stay on with this and everything like that.
[14:41] We've, I don't know, been in touch with several people and excited for the new change.
[14:47] Sure.
[14:48] Okay.
[14:48] Thank you.
[14:49] Any questions for Christy or Lacy from Commissioner.
[14:53] Commissioner Larissa.
[14:54] Thank you.
[14:54] So what's the fourth license that's dissolving?
[14:57] It's another lottery switch that they have.
[15:00] 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.
[15:09] Okay, you can have 10.
[15:11] 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.
[15:21] 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.
[15:27] I don't know, what's interesting, thank you.
[15:30] And I know Kristi has been in touch with.
[15:33] Do you probably in the police department
[15:34] about any of the alcohol sales and everything
[15:38] because this would be new to them?
[15:40] Thank you.
[15:40] I'm going to start having a look.
[15:41] Thank you, Mayor Well, I also wear a different hat
[15:44] as a South Dakota lottery commissioner
[15:46] and there is a rule that you can only have 10 licenses
[15:50] which you touched based on per location.
[15:53] And so in this case, it's a big building,
[15:55] But it has to be carved up and it can't like you just can't just have one bar in the middle
[16:01] 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
[16:11] And now I can jam and I believe it's all you say the same a lot
[16:15] 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
[16:22] There's quite a process and so that's why there's four locations in one location, but that's
[16:29] Part of the process, and that's in state stage that you can only have ten, ten machines at any one location.
[16:38] So that's why we call them the different sweets within the one building is they each have their own
[16:43] different sales tax ID with a different malt beverage license to each one so they can have that next month and
[16:51] So, and that's the way they all operate any business that has a lot of your machines across the state.
[16:58] They all have to follow the same guidelines.
[17:00] And that's not an uncommon practice to have multiple sweets in one location.
[17:06] Correct.
[17:07] Yeah, that's not the only one impure that it's like that either.
[17:10] Okay.
[17:11] Now, this is a public hearing, so if there is anybody from the public,
[17:15] if it wants to come up and make a comment or ask a question,
[17:17] you're welcome to come to the podium and introduce yourself.
[17:23] I'm seeing nobody else come forward, and let's we have any other comments from commissioners.
[17:29] We do need to take action on that.
[17:31] I moved to approve the Malt Beverage License Transfer R and Development LLC,
[17:36] doing business as Golden Isle Casino to Golden Isle Venture LLC,
[17:42] doing business as lucky landing.
[17:44] Second, we have a motion in a second.
[17:47] Could you call the roll later?
[17:48] Mr. Hizzinger.
[17:49] Where's that?
[17:50] Lewis.
[17:51] All right.
[17:51] Right, so.
[17:53] Mayor Johnson.
[17:54] I am.
[17:54] Motion is passed.
[17:56] And good luck to you with your business.
[17:57] I'll get that sent to the Department of Revenue tonight.
[18:00] Thank you.
[18:01] All right.
[18:02] Going back to new business.
[18:04] We have the TSA Law Enforcement Officer reimbursement program agreement.
[18:09] And Casey will be here presenting.
[18:11] Welcome.
[18:12] Thank you, Mayor.
[18:14] Good evening.
[18:15] Commission.
[18:15] 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.
[18:29] 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.
[18:42] the airport participated in this program in the past.
[18:46] However, it was discontinued for a couple years and so we're happy to see it back.
[18:52] The agreement the airport is requesting approval of is known as an OTA
[18:57] or other transaction agreement.
[19:01] We have been awarded up to $38,781.25 in reimbursable funding
[19:08] And the agreement will run from September 1st, 2026 through August 31st, 2027.
[19:15] I'd be happy to answer any questions about it.
[19:19] Any questions or comments from Commissioner Wright?
[19:23] Oh, I'm sorry. Commissioner Wright, thank you.
[19:27] So, would this hire a new person or just pay for someone who is already there?
[19:32] Yeah, so it would just be a reimbursement program for the officers that are already dedicated to helping with those screening activities.
[19:45] Thank you.
[19:46] Any other comment?
[19:47] Oh, Lacy.
[19:48] Thank you.
[19:49] 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.
[19:55] And then the federal government just had not to go forward with this grant reimbursement at our airport.
[20:01] So, this will just be bringing back a program that we used to have years ago, and that we have
[20:08] that we have put into the budget 4, 20, 20, 7, and this revenue would be put into there for that.
[20:15] Thank you.
[20:18] Yes, Commissioner Larissa.
[20:19] Thank you.
[20:19] So these are not TSA agents, correct?
[20:21] They're performing other duties?
[20:23] That's correct.
[20:24] We currently have three part-time law enforcement officers that come out for each and every commercial
[20:30] operation.
[20:33] And so this would just be to help us pay for part of their per hour rate.
[20:43] We're allowed out to $25 per hour. So it's a partial reimbursement of the law enforcement officers
[20:53] that we already have.
[20:55] Okay, thank you.
[20:58] Mr. High- thing up.
[20:59] Thank you, Mayor.
[21:00] We're required to have law enforcement out there.
[21:03] That's essentially on our dime.
[21:06] And this is a way to help offset some of that cost.
[21:09] That's correct.
[21:10] It is part of the airport security program for law enforcement officers
[21:15] to be there during passenger screening.
[21:19] Nick, did you have a comment?
[21:21] I just Casey kind of followed up on it there.
[21:23] But it's a requirement to us to have law enforcement
[21:26] while the screening operations are occurring
[21:28] for the commercial flights.
[21:31] And then if something is discovered during those screenings,
[21:34] then TSA hands it off to our law enforcement agent
[21:37] that are present there.
[21:39] So that's part of our requirements to operate the airport.
[21:42] And in the past we used to get some reimbursement
[21:44] for that that went away.
[21:46] And now it's coming back.
[21:51] So here to you, all right.
[21:53] We do need to take action on that.
[21:55] I would move approval of the TSA law enforcement officer reimbursement program, other transaction
[22:02] agreement and authorize the city to enter into the agreement.
[22:06] Thank you.
[22:06] We have a motion in a second.
[22:09] Lacy, could you call the roll please.
[22:11] Mr. Haisingga.
[22:12] What's that?
[22:13] Louis.
[22:13] Right.
[22:14] Hi.
[22:15] Thank you.
[22:16] Thanks, Casey.
[22:20] The next item under new business is the business improvement district number one.
[22:26] 2027 budget and Jim Pro Texter and Miranda Pan.
[22:30] 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.
[22:51] bid number one is the occupancy tax adopted in 2014 of $2 per night per room. The bid
[23:00] number one board is appointed by the mayor and is responsible for planning and evaluating
[23:07] how the tax revenues can best be used to put more heads and bets. The board's actions are
[23:14] subject to approval from this commission, either through this annual budget process or as special funding requests are proposed.
[23:24] In fact, we have two such grant approval or acceptance requests for you tonight.
[23:29] So three actions in total.
[23:32] As submitted, the budget projection for 2027 is $225,000.
[23:39] That amount is allocated as 60% to for marketing and events in promotion and 40% for developing
[23:50] or improving public facilities.
[23:53] And I already forgot to tell you that bid number one chairman of the board, Brian Beck,
[24:00] planned to be here until about a half an hour ago, he has dealing with a child with, that's
[24:05] not feeling well.
[24:06] So he sends his regrets.
[24:09] Miranda's going to cover some marketing stuff.
[24:13] Good evening.
[24:13] I'm Miranda Panzer.
[24:14] I'm the tourism director for visit peer and visit peer plays a huge part on the marketing
[24:19] event side for peer bid number one.
[24:22] We do a lot of the coordinating with the groups that are coming to town.
[24:29] For example, the National Fresh Water Spear Fish and Tournament, which is this weekend.
[24:33] We help them make sure that everything's going smoothly for them.
[24:37] We organize volunteers if needed.
[24:40] A lot of our staff will visit here in the peer area chamber of commerce step up and
[24:45] make sure that everything goes smoothly as possible.
[24:49] We also work with TravelSat Dakota with the community cooperative marketing program,
[24:57] which they use an outside agency to have better reach.
[25:02] They have the time the resources to produce effective marketing initiatives.
[25:08] We used to work with love communications.
[25:12] We have now switched back to our travel salt decoder,
[25:15] as now switched back to Lawrence and Schiller,
[25:17] which is based in Sioux Falls.
[25:18] They've used them previously,
[25:20] so looking forward to working with them in the coming years
[25:23] until they throw out another bid to see who comes in next.
[25:28] visit here has promoted peer at sportsman shows here in 2026. We went to Denver and then
[25:36] Chicago. We were going to go to Feasant Fest, but that was in Minneapolis, kind of during the
[25:41] times of the riots going on. So we kind of stood back from that one, but very excited for this upcoming
[25:48] year in 2027. We'll be going back to Denver in Chicago and then we're planning to attend two shows
[25:53] in Omaha, one being Feasant Fest, and one being
[25:56] others, Boarts, Travel, Boding, Expo.
[26:01] Going back to the National Fresh Water
[26:03] Spear Fishing Tournament, which
[26:05] will be taking place this weekend, August 28th,
[26:08] and 29th, they'll be able to fish on Lake Alahi
[26:11] and Lake Sharks, so that's pretty cool.
[26:14] We have 27 teams with 54 competitors coming from 15
[26:18] different states, including Hawaii.
[26:21] I'd like to throw that one out because it's kind of interesting
[26:23] that someone from Hawaii salt water would be coming doing some fresh water stuff, but very excited
[26:28] to welcome all those anglers to town this week and see what they can produce and hopefully
[26:34] they'll shine a little bit more light on like a while he and like sharp and bring more people
[26:37] to the area. Peer bid number one is also a sponsor of this South Dakota tourism coalition of South
[26:48] called a golf tournament to offer tourism, which is going to be taking place here in peer
[26:53] on September 17th. Very excited about that as it was held in Rapid last year. We're helping
[26:58] with the central location that we can draw more people to come in at 10. Maybe spend a night or two
[27:03] and just enjoy our community.
[27:07] In addition to that, with the small grants, the peer bed has also supported
[27:13] Legion 14 State Tournament, the baseball at Hyde Stadium, as well as several other soft
[27:20] alterments for adults, women's leagues and co-ed leagues.
[27:24] Media Exposure, we did a great project this year with Fishing the Midwest.
[27:29] They helped us produce an episode on Fishing on Lake Oahu and Lake Sharp, and that has great
[27:36] coverage.
[27:36] 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
[27:52] Looking ahead to twenty twenty seven will continue to invest in the co-op program and then
[27:59] with that recent media exposure hopefully see more people in the area will be attending
[28:05] the sports shows like I mentioned and we'll keep looking for new opportunities to
[28:09] strengthen tourism in the area and try to get more people to visit us. We are
[28:15] actually already have been reached out last year in 2025. We had the junior road
[28:19] vast championships here in town and they'd like to come back next year. So that's
[28:23] we had 68 teams and one team from South Dakota, the rest were traveling here. So we'll hopefully
[28:30] see them again next year. I'll pass it back to Jim now.
[28:36] In the area of public facilities this year
[28:39] bid number one paid the balance of its tenure commitment to the outdoor pool in just six years
[28:46] and then we attended the groundbreaking for the phase three edition at the ice barn
[28:53] to which bid number one had previously pledged $200,000.
[28:59] 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.
[29:08] 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.
[29:18] The first is a $20,000 grant to the Central South Dakota Recreation Committee to conduct phase two of their feasibility study.
[29:28] If phase one is deemed just go ahead and Brian isn't here.
[29:37] Okay. And so that's, I guess, conditional on the consultant saying phase one looks really promising.
[29:47] You should do phase two then that would come into play and I haven't met a consultant that wouldn't say that yet.
[29:54] So planning on that. And then the second is a $5,000 grant to the South Dakota Cultural.
[30:00] Local heritage foundation to support their amazing renovations and improvements and additions at the South Dakota Museum.
[30:08] Very good. Thank you, Jim Ann Miranda. Any questions or comments from commissioners?
[30:16] Commissioner Hayes Nga.
[30:17] 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.
[30:23] 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.
[30:37] 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.
[30:52] But it's the guests that are coming here to pay in this $2, which I believe is caped statewide.
[30:58] I mean, you can't charge more than that.
[31:00] That's the maxest $2, is that correct?
[31:03] As of today, yes.
[31:06] But since 2014, I mean, that's a tremendous amount of money.
[31:11] I mean, 2.85 million since 2014, at the end of this year.
[31:17] So I mean, it's a very successful program, and our guests are paying it, and then we're able
[31:25] to use it to build things, and promote things out here in peer, and so it's really not
[31:32] too city tax dollars.
[31:35] This is, you know, it funnels through the city, but it's really not, you know, general fund
[31:40] money.
[31:41] So, and you've been kind of carrying the water on this deal since the beginning as far
[31:46] getting it started, you know, selling the concept and then shepherding it through all these
[31:53] and keeping that board staff, because there's a board, it's not just you and Miranda
[31:58] make these decisions.
[32:01] So it does work.
[32:01] Yes, what's the seven member board, they're fantastic, and yeah, I would just say, you
[32:07] know, between the two of us, kind of the deal when we set it up was that we would donate
[32:12] our time, you know. So we don't charge an admin fee most to do to the bid board to pay for some
[32:19] of our time. We just know that it's the right thing to do and keep doing that.
[32:26] Well, appreciate it. You guys, and just the the concept of it, it does work.
[32:32] Yeah, and I would just say for those who maybe don't know, they're paying this same tax when they
[32:37] to Sioux Falls or Brookings, or here on or Rapid City, so bear us fair.
[32:46] All right.
[32:46] Any other commissioner?
[32:47] Right, sir.
[32:48] Thank you.
[32:48] Question for Lacy.
[32:50] Were we putting this into three different votes for, there's the business and prove it
[32:57] district one, the one for the central South Dakota wreck, and then the South Dakota
[33:02] Historical Society?
[33:03] That would be cleanest and preferred.
[33:06] Okay.
[33:06] I would also ask to recuse myself from the Historical Society grant.
[33:14] Understood.
[33:15] Thank you.
[33:16] Any other comments?
[33:19] Lacy.
[33:20] I just want to make a comment that for the 2027 estimated revenues you are predicting it decrease.
[33:28] Same as last year, 225.
[33:32] I have it just 245 from last year.
[33:35] It was 225 for 26, and it'll be the same.
[33:42] Okay.
[33:42] Okay.
[33:43] We're good?
[33:44] Yep.
[33:44] All right.
[33:45] So if we could take action on the budget first, please.
[33:52] I mean, approval of the bid board number one budget request as presented.
[33:58] A second?
[33:59] We've got a motion in a second.
[34:01] Call the roll please.
[34:02] Commissioner Heisenga.
[34:03] Right.
[34:03] Aye.
[34:04] Lewis?
[34:05] Right, so.
[34:06] Mayor Johnson.
[34:07] Aye.
[34:08] Motion is passed.
[34:10] The second one would be the grant for the Central South Dakota recreational
[34:15] the 20,000 of motion in a second on that.
[34:20] I would move for the approval of the $20,000 grant to Central South Dakota
[34:24] Recreation Committee to complete their feasibility study.
[34:28] The second is presented.
[34:29] Got a motion in a second.
[34:31] Callerola, please, Lacy.
[34:33] Commissioner Hezinga, where's that?
[34:35] I, Lewis.
[34:36] Hi.
[34:37] Right, so?
[34:38] Mayor Johnson.
[34:39] Hi.
[34:39] Motion for that is passed.
[34:41] And if we could get a motion for the $5,000 grant
[34:45] for the cultural heritage.
[34:49] I moved to approve the $5,000 grant
[34:51] to the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center.
[34:55] Second.
[34:56] And a motion in a second.
[34:57] Please, callerola, please.
[34:59] Commissioner Hezinga, where's that?
[35:00] Hi, Lewis.
[35:02] All right.
[35:02] Those were skew, recused, and Mayor Johnson.
[35:05] Hi.
[35:06] Motion is passed.
[35:07] Thank you for that.
[35:08] We really appreciate everything you do.
[35:10] Thank you.
[35:13] And that moves us on to the next.
[35:16] We have four presentations for our outside agencies today.
[35:21] And we have the peer economic development cooperation first by Jim Pro Texter.
[35:29] Thank you very much.
[35:30] Very pleased to be here.
[35:31] 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.
[35:44] 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.
[35:59] communicate to you that we get it, we're pretty dependent on the city of Peer and we work
[36:05] to not be as dependent on the city of Peer for funding as a percentage of our operating
[36:11] budget. So we're down 15 members, but we did increase our dues structure. It was the first
[36:18] increase in 10 years and I have no doubt that that is part and parcel of why we are down a little
[36:26] in the number of members or investors, as we like to call them, however, revenues are up 35%.
[36:35] And it's a $30,000 number.
[36:37] It's not huge.
[36:40] But it's, again, our commitment is to not just ask for more all the time from you.
[36:49] All of our activities, projects, and programs are driven by a 16-member volunteer board
[36:55] directors, and the purpose is generally to obtain favorable management decisions to
[37:02] investor reinvest in jobs and her facilities in peer and use county. I'd like to get
[37:07] there out some quick statistics. Unemployment in June was 1.7 last year. It was 1.4, you
[37:15] know, a little 6.7, is that what they say? You wouldn't know. You're hang out with the young
[37:19] kids, six, seven, same thing.
[37:22] Half a dozen.
[37:24] Everybody that really wants a job, I think, can find one in peer
[37:27] in this area.
[37:28] Building permits, I focus on...
[37:30] On those, I'd said last year, they're down, and they're typically cyclical, and I have seen that for
[37:38] because I've been doing this for quite a while. We have kind of years where we build, and then we have to kind
[37:43] of fill in what we built, and then, so the next year, the permit values kind of go down, and then it's
[37:50] cycle and to attest to that last year we were down 56% in new commercial permitting when I was
[37:59] up here and in fact we did finish down 51% in value of new buildings and down 69% in the
[38:07] value of commercial improvements. In fact overall the total permit values of everything was
[38:14] But through July this year, we are up 38% for new commercial, building permits, up 241% for commercial improvements,
[38:26] and just everything thrown in together, we're up so far through June 42% in total permit value.
[38:35] Sales tax, I guess June was kind of rough, so we're kind of flat on that, but we
[38:42] June itself pulled it down from a decent number increase through the year, so it will bounce back,
[38:52] we have no doubt about that.
[38:54] As an organization, we still do small business loans, so we have three outstanding right
[39:00] of for a total of about $45,000 in loans receivable.
[39:06] This last year workforce housing was a big part of our year.
[39:10] We did play a part in the average new home permit cost decreasing substantially last year.
[39:17] I see this year through July an 88% increase in new home value.
[39:23] Even though there's the number is one less.
[39:25] So I'd just say as a reminder, seven of the 10 Prairie Ridge Homes that Petco is construct
[39:32] developing were permitted in 2025.
[39:36] So it was only in January this year that we closed out our last portion of our $564,000 state
[39:43] grant for Prairie Ridge and we have 10 homes in place.
[39:48] Our lots are discounted thanks to the state housing infrastructure improvement program grant.
[39:57] Looking for opportunities for that development, we're talking to Habitat for Humanity.
[40:03] They're managed now by Brookings Habitat for Humanity, and they have a home-on-order
[40:09] and a family ready to go, and that'll come in about September.
[40:15] And we are the board, our board met today, and we're going to give them all the hope that
[40:21] can that we will make it work for them to put their home in Prairie Ridge and that's their
[40:30] intent at this point. So that would be exciting and that'd be the 11th lot, hopefully, that
[40:35] we can sell.
[40:39] It's if you don't know habitat, you know, it used to be Jimmy Carter days
[40:43] you went and showed up and you've pounded the sighting on the side of the house and so now
[40:47] when they have governor's houses or modular homes come in,
[40:51] they have just done a little sidestep
[40:55] and the family that now would volunteer in the community,
[40:58] do community service, volunteer hours
[41:01] to kind of match what the sweat equity used to be into a home.
[41:04] But they would probably not have a garage on this,
[41:08] and that could be something later
[41:09] where they could, everybody could pitch in.
[41:11] Because that's pretty fun.
[41:12] I know I did it one time in Fort Peer.
[41:15] We do have more governors' houses on order, but don't expect to see those due to the timing
[41:20] for another year, but we do continue to look for ways to build on-site or find module
[41:27] homes that are anywhere near the cost of those, it's extremely difficult.
[41:34] As for multi-family housing, we're happy to see the Nate stencil construction doing businesses
[41:40] any S Meridian holdings that is doing the downtown apartments and actually added 30 units.
[41:49] And we were pleased to play a role in that in the transaction that transferred a rarely
[41:59] used city parking lot to any S Meridian so that they could meet their Austrian parking
[42:05] requirements.
[42:08] Quinn Rymer talked about the Lloyd company's affordable project, 29 units, that has a long
[42:20] way to go, and they have a short time to do it in, but that would be a fantastic addition.
[42:27] And I look back into our comprehensive housing study that we did in 2022 and it indicated
[42:35] at that time, we had none in peer.
[42:39] There had been two, one was, I
[42:46] have written down somewhere, up on the hill by the donut shop
[42:52] and they just did a huge remodel.
[42:54] if you notice that complex up there, and that's because they had been in existence long enough
[43:02] to now they're out of the income requirements, so they have, they can reinvest in those
[43:09] in charge more.
[43:13] So, gosh, I had both of those properties in my head. Can't remember them.
[43:17] But Denali Ridge, the other one started with an A, but according to the 22 study, we don't have any.
[43:28] Yankton has like 74.
[43:31] So it's a big deal if we can get something like that going and appreciate your support of that.
[43:37] We do different partnerships with the city.
[43:39] build the code has been a big one. It's been around since 2020. We match the city to match the
[43:48] industry provider or industry partner with scholarships for students to go to any of the
[43:56] four tech schools get their one or two years certificates and then come back and work in
[44:01] for three years. And we have three students currently enrolled in two of the states, universities,
[44:10] and so far we've supported seven such scholarships with your support and but just expanded 29%
[44:18] of the available funds. So it's a good program. It's those kids. I don't know the world a little bit
[44:26] gives the employer employee with the skills that they need and they're locked in for three years.
[44:35] I'm very involved in these fairly new state-wide economic development professionals association.
[44:41] Why that matters a little bit to the city of peer is we were very active in
[44:47] lobbying for the CAPS bill that did pass this last year and that would allow if a city was so
[44:55] inclined to identify a community project.
[45:00] 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.
[45:16] 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.
[45:26] 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.
[45:40] But it would be required to meet the 60% threshold for approval, but it's a big deal.
[45:47] It's, uh, would generate if the city of Peer found a project or projects that the community
[45:52] could really get behind that would generate an excellent revenue over a five year period.
[45:59] And the other thing that we are going to do through EDPA, and that's why we, Miranda and
[46:04] I were smirking about the $2, there's another effort to revive a 2023 bill on the bid number
[46:12] one occupancy tax, it's been at $2 for 30 years,
[46:19] the effort is to have the flexibility
[46:21] for communities like peer to make it $3 or even $4 flat or up to 4% of the room charge.
[46:32] So we as EDPA and as the bid number one board would support that, it's been a long time,
[46:40] 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.
[46:51] They got vetoed in 2023, and didn't have the votes to override the veto.
[46:58] So we're hopeful that the legislature, this spring, will give us some more flexibility in generating funds for that,
[47:08] because it just helps so much with what the city is really
[47:11] can't afford to be doing anymore.
[47:15] So instead of in 225, maybe it's 450, you know,
[47:22] But okay.
[47:23] And then
[47:27] by November, we're going to announce
[47:29] our rollout a new website.
[47:31] We did a add-in business view magazine.
[47:33] That was a partnership with the city of peer this year.
[47:36] Great article and a trade magazine that featured
[47:39] the city and we advertised in that. One thing that I guess Christy and I talked about
[47:46] today a little bit, we are going to look at an update to our ten-year-old retail
[47:55] analysis for peer. We did one twenty years ago, ten years ago, and it's time to
[48:00] look at that again. I've had some requests from some developers, also some property
[48:06] owners in town, do we have good data to share with retail, retailers, national retailers,
[48:15] and the answer is well, it's 10-year-old data.
[48:18] So we would like to renew that.
[48:20] The beauty of studies really is that they're faster and cheaper.
[48:24] They really are.
[48:26] So 20 years ago, we spent $60,000, $60,000, $60,000, 10 years ago, it was $19,000.
[48:34] We have a really good proposal for 15,000.
[48:37] I'll work with Christy to maybe come to you for a partnership on a separate one-time supplemental deal,
[48:46] like we have typically done in the past.
[48:48] 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.
[48:58] Finally, we have an annual meeting every year.
[49:01] It'll be in November 10th, you will all be invited.
[49:04] It's at the cattleman's, and we'll have a great speaker.
[49:09] And all members in good standing, and of course,
[49:12] you are, we'll be invited.
[49:14] That's all I have.
[49:16] Thank you, Jim.
[49:21] Any questions or comments for it, Jim?
[49:23] You're good to go.
[49:29] The second outside agency, we have down as Missouri
[49:32] Shores Domestic Violence Center.
[49:37] And Shelby's here to talk about it.
[49:40] Hello, everybody.
[49:41] So thank you for allowing me the opportunity to provide a brief update on Missouri shores and request your continued support.
[49:48] So this past year has brought a great deal of transition from Missouri shores, including a change in leadership.
[49:54] I stepped into the role of executive director after six and a half years with Missouri shores.
[49:58] So while I was new to the role, I was not new to the organization or our mission.
[50:02] 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.
[50:11] The flood reduced the number of rooms we could use and required extensive repairs, including replacing our entire HVAC system.
[50:19] We had three rooms that were damaged, that were being reconstructed and damaged to our basement.
[50:24] 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.
[50:36] Despite these challenges, Missouri Shore still provided more than 1,100 services to individuals and families over the past year.
[50:43] Looking at our clients, it was a little bit less.
[50:46] We on average, we serve 300 clients a year with reduced rooms and helping people get to other shelters while we navigated the flood.
[50:54] It was around 200, but we still serve each one of those families to the best of our abilities.
[51:03] 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,
[51:11] including violence, increased capacity, also means increased operating cost.
[51:16] Federal Boca funding historically, one of our largest funding sources has declined by 76% since 2021,
[51:22] 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
[51:31] Our funds were reduced by 50% for upcoming fiscal year
[51:35] Because there just isn't enough funding to go around to the domestic violence shelters in our area
[51:41] Chamberlain's domestic violence shelter actually closed recently and they will no longer be operating
[51:46] which means that our service area, which is currently used hide, Hawkins, Stanley,
[51:51] Sully, and Jones counties may expand to also include the counties that Chamberlain
[51:56] shelter was serving. This year, we're a specular question, $9,000 from the city of
[52:01] peer and unrestricted funding. These funds allow us to respond to needs that don't always
[52:06] sit neatly into a grant category. Things like transportation, clothing, medication for clients
[52:11] and children, emergency assistance, a cell phone, or other basic necessities that can help
[52:15] someone take the next step toward safety.
[52:18] They also help us keep the house of hope open,
[52:20] staffed and ready when someone in our community needs us.
[52:23] This past year has reminded us that we cannot always predict
[52:25] the challenge as a head, but we can be prepared to respond.
[52:29] Through a leadership transition.
[52:30] Transition, a flood, funding, reductions, and increased demand we have continued and will continue to show
[52:35] it for the people who need us. Your continued investment helps ensure that when someone in our community
[52:39] is ready to ask for help we will be there with safety, compassion and the support needed to begin building
[52:43] a future for you from violence. Thank you for your continued partnership, and thank you for your consideration
[52:48] of our request. Thank you, Shelby. Any comments or questions for Shelby? Just on my part, working with the school
[52:56] district. It's such a huge benefit to a lot of people, families that need help and need a place
[53:06] and need a place quick. So it's a great resource for us and we're lucky to have you.
[53:11] So thank you so much for everything you do.
[53:13] Yes, thank you.
[53:18] The next other agency is the right turn.
[53:22] I don't believe.
[53:23] See, brandy here.
[53:26] we'll come back to that if she comes in. River City Public Transit then.
[53:36] Adam and Mallory.
[53:37] Yes. Thank you. Thank you Mayor, commissioners. I guess we want to first thank you for the opportunity
[53:44] for allowing us to come up and speak to you today. We also want to thank you guys for your support and
[54:00] a big capital investment river cities and you know we truly appreciate that and so
[54:05] thank you. We do have construction going on right now and so we're looking forward to
[54:10] that and it'll be a really good addition to helping keep those big 80 passenger buses
[54:16] safe for many years to come. So thank you guys for that. We do appreciate it. Why does
[54:23] your local support matter? River cities receive federal and state funding. These funds must
[54:28] match at a 50-50 or an 80-20 split, that's 50 percent federal, 50 percent local, 80 percent
[54:35] federal, 20 percent local. Federal government will not fully support public transit. They
[54:42] require us to go out and get the local match. And a big reason for that is they want to see
[54:46] that your community is invested in the public transit. And so that is a big thing to them is that
[54:51] go out and we get local match. This last year we found out it was about October and November.
[54:59] We took about a 10% federal budget hit. That's kind of roughly about 450,000 and what that
[55:06] did does is it informed us that we were probably about three months short from our federal funds
[55:11] and we're going to have to take that on 100% and so the local match was very key to us to keep
[55:17] operating. And this wasn't just a river cities issue either. This was a statewide issue.
[55:24] Transits all across the state received the same hit and they're all doing the same thing
[55:29] we are trying to find other means of funding to help operate. And so this wasn't just a river
[55:34] cities. This was a statewide throughout the transit. A lot of people ask what we can use for
[55:40] local match. And they limit public transit and what we get to use. And so the four areas they
[55:46] to use local match in our 80-250 is in donations, contracts, advertisements, and Medicaid.
[55:55] A lot of people think fairs is one fairs isn't one that we get to use for that either.
[55:59] 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.
[56:07] No, and there's no way of keeping the cost down.
[56:09] Yeah, and which is also why I think many of you, many people know River City's is in
[56:14] peer, but we also branch out into many other communities.
[56:18] Many of them are high-more, wall, fill-up, cadoka.
[56:23] We also do contract with the Cheyenne Reservation.
[56:26] We also contract with a small pair of transit operation in Sioux Falls, and we also contract
[56:33] to manage the Southeast public transit,
[56:36] which is vermilion in Yankton.
[56:38] And I'm going to show you, we don't do that,
[56:40] just because we like the addition board.
[56:44] We do that because those contracts,
[56:46] that comes back to peer and it helps keep us funding.
[56:49] And so that's why we keep doing those.
[56:50] That's why we're unique in the transit area,
[56:53] everyone tells us because we don't just stop
[56:56] with what we do, we try to grow.
[56:57] We try to find more to bring back here,
[57:00] so we can keep public transit rolling.
[57:01] And so that's why we take on those challenges,
[57:04] that's why you see those contracts
[57:05] and that's why you guys see us
[57:07] and more than just in peer.
[57:10] A lot of people ask, you know,
[57:12] why does this really matter?
[57:13] Well, quite frankly, public transit helps
[57:15] keep seniors and individuals with the disabilities,
[57:19] to keep their independence
[57:20] while also helping getting them to their medical points.
[57:23] It helps individuals get to work.
[57:25] It helps youth kids get to school.
[57:28] It helps families have access to groceries
[57:30] and then assess these they need. It also helps veterans get the rise that they
[57:35] so deserve when they come back. And one of the things we're extremely proud of
[57:40] is we work hard on a highly rural transportation grant. And in 2016 we started
[57:46] down that with it the first one it was not. We had too many barriers and it
[57:50] didn't. It wasn't as successful as we would like. And I can honestly say this is
[57:55] we found out about a month ago where our tenth year applying for the
[57:58] application and we were just granted the 2026-27 grant for the high-level transportation grant
[58:06] which allows free rise for veterans and all the rural county and 39 rural counties in
[58:12] South Dakota and eight counties in Wyoming and we added 39 counties or 39 counties in Nebraska
[58:19] and again we do that to help not just the veterans but to help keep River City going and so
[58:25] 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,
[58:32] they don't have to worry about funding to get to those appointments, and that's really important to us to keep that going.
[58:38] 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.
[58:46] 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,
[58:52] what to keep helping individuals that need help.
[58:58] Got that pamphlet, I laid on your desk.
[59:01] You're the first page.
[59:02] This is just recap of what we've done so far this year.
[59:05] I've told you to do July, I can tell you
[59:09] that we have over 450 students registered
[59:12] in the first week of school.
[59:14] So that's pretty great too.
[59:16] There's this little bit of facts on here.
[59:19] We did two, 278,000, 852 rides,
[59:23] that's not full work. That's pretty great. Your next page here is our
[59:30] we get a survey. Just to see how public transit was doing. I'm not going to go
[59:34] for everything here, but it does. What we took out of this most is that we are not
[59:39] marketing ourselves enough because people do not know that we're open for the
[59:44] process. They don't know what routes we have. They want us to be open more. They want
[59:49] more service days of the week. We open 217. So. So we are working on the
[59:56] and then that third page is just all the things we do.
[1:00:00] 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.
[1:00:18] Yeah, I guess we wanted to open it up for any questions.
[1:00:21] I guess the last thing is we do work every angle we can to get contracts with the entities
[1:00:28] in our communities, in every community that we serve.
[1:00:31] We do work very hard on getting as much advertisers as we can,
[1:00:37] so every little bit helps us.
[1:00:38] So we just want to thank you guys and open it up for any questions.
[1:00:42] Thank you.
[1:00:44] Any questions?
[1:00:44] for,
[1:00:47] I see your vehicles all over place, even when I run to Sioux Falls, sometimes I'll meet
[1:00:52] one coming back. So, definitely, your vehicles are easy to see. So, thank you, and you're
[1:00:58] out there. So, appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate you all. Thank you.
[1:01:06] I believe that is it. So,
[1:01:09] we will go ahead and move on to dialogue, and we will start with Commissioner Raetzel. Thank you,
[1:01:16] The state course you tournament will be held August 29th and 30th with approximately 60
[1:01:24] pitchers expected to participate.
[1:01:27] Doubles competition will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. singles competition
[1:01:32] will follow Sunday with sessions from 8 30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 30 to good luck
[1:01:38] to all the competitors this weekend.
[1:01:41] I'm in the next slide.
[1:01:44] It's a peer parks and rec department, maintains several practice locations to use by local
[1:01:49] athletes, including the soccer field tennis courts and golf course, just wishing everyone
[1:01:54] a good luck to all the peer athletes who are competing this fall.
[1:01:59] That's all.
[1:01:59] Thank you.
[1:02:01] Commissioner Lewis.
[1:02:03] We have worked that is underway to address a significant erosion issue along Chris Drive.
[1:02:10] This project uses a high quality erosion control blanket and it helps stabilize and protect the slope.
[1:02:17] The material has an anticipated lifespan of approximately 75 years, so a nice long lifespan for that.
[1:02:23] It will provide a durable and long-term solution in that area.
[1:02:31] Thank you.
[1:02:37] Thank you.
[1:02:38] and author Steve Steele.
[1:02:40] Steele will discuss his book, Building an Empire, which shares the history of Pierce 7 consecutive
[1:02:44] state football championships.
[1:02:47] The event begins at 6 p.m. Monday, August 31st.
[1:02:51] An author signing will follow and books will be available for purchase.
[1:02:56] Thank you.
[1:02:57] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:02:58] There should be a slide here.
[1:03:00] Construction is underway on a new parallel taxiway for the runway 725 project at the
[1:03:08] pre-regional airport. It should not affect the runways. This is a taxiway that doesn't exist
[1:03:16] next to the actual east-west running runways. So that part is good. We don't have to shut
[1:03:24] anything down. Work will continue through this fall. This is a two-year project. So the will
[1:03:30] pause during the winter and resume next spring with completion anticipated in the summer
[1:03:37] of 2027, once completed the taxiway, we'll provide aircraft with a dedicated route alongside
[1:03:44] the runway, reducing the need to taxi or back taxi on the runway itself. This project will improve
[1:03:52] safety and efficiency at the airport. At the current time, there is no on the east west,
[1:03:58] runway 725, there is no taxiway. So the runway is the taxiway and we always want to get planes
[1:04:06] off of an active runway as soon as possible and so that that is why we're working on that and that's
[1:04:12] mostly federal funding for that project but it is underway and it's a two-year project and so we're
[1:04:18] pretty excited about making yet another improvement out at our airport and the other thing I was going to
[1:04:23] touch base on I don't have any slides but Miranda touched base on it and this is freshwater fishing
[1:04:30] tournament this weekend. It's on Sharp and on on Hawaii. These are literally the best
[1:04:38] divers, scuba divers and freed divers in America that are going to be in the pure area this weekend
[1:04:46] competing in a tournament. It's never been here before and so Michael Schopp at a while he
[1:04:52] dive played a big part in getting them out here and so hopefully hopefully it's a success. We've got
[1:04:57] a bunch of people coming in from out of town.
[1:05:00] And hopefully they have a good, good weekend of diving up
[1:05:05] on our reverse system here.
[1:05:08] That's all I have there.
[1:05:09] Thank you, Commissioner.
[1:05:11] You might not have mentioned it, but as far as the taxiway,
[1:05:14] it happened about a year ago, but we had a commercial claim
[1:05:17] that had to do the reverse taxi, and that it up running
[1:05:20] a main gear off into the mud.
[1:05:22] So it's definitely nice that they're getting this done
[1:05:25] and got the grant and got follow through and we'll get this done after next year so that'll be a great
[1:05:31] and cute improvement. Anything? I have nothing to say.
[1:05:37] Lacy? I just want to say our last twenty twenty seven budget workshop is scheduled for Thursday
[1:05:42] morning at seven a.m. at River City for the transit and then we'll be looking forward to wrapping up
[1:05:47] the twenty twenty seven budget discussions with ordinance coming up soon. Awesome, thank you. Lindsay?
[1:05:53] I'll see you tonight.
[1:05:54] Awesome.
[1:05:55] All right.
[1:05:55] We were done with our dialogue and we're ready to adjourn.
[1:06:00] Move to adjourn.
[1:06:01] I second.
[1:06:02] Got a motion in a second.
[1:06:03] Could you call the roll please, please?
[1:06:05] Commissioner Hezinga.
[1:06:06] Aye.
[1:06:06] Where's that?
[1:06:07] Who was?
[1:06:08] Aye.
[1:06:08] Right.