PROCEEDINGS OF THE STURGIS CITY COUNCIL

 

The Common Council of the City of Sturgis met in regular session at 7:30 p.m. on Monday January 21, 2008 at the Sturgis Community Center. Present: Mayor Maury LaRue, Alderpersons Steve Anders, Roger Call, Mark Chaplin, David Hersrud, Jamie McVay, Sherry Scudder, Bernadette Usera and City Manager Dave Boone.  Absent: Tom Ferguson. 

 

Mayor LaRue led everyone present in the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Mayor LaRue made the following announcements:

Ø      Proclaimed  January 17, 2008 as “235th Military Police Day”

Ø      Recognition day at the Library will be held on February 1, 2008

Ø      There will be a public meeting held on February 11, 2008 with FEMA at 6:00 PM at the Community Center

Ø      Recognized Jordon Reynolds and Matthew Collins for their merit badge in communications

Ø      Proclaimed February 4, 2008 as “Old Glory’s Journey of Remembrance Day” for the Veterans Administration

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by McVay and carried with all members voting yes to approve the agenda with the addition of New Hire:  Desirae Ehlers, $7.00 – Community Center.

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by Scudder and carried with all members voting yes to approve the minutes from January 7, 2008 regular meeting.

 

Motion by Anders, seconded by Scudder, and carried with all members voting yes to approve the following claims:

GENERAL FUND – A&B Business, $141.87, maint; A&B Welding, $172.00, maint; Kevin Aga, $140.00, group ins; Alltel, $865.22, util; Amcon Distributing, $590.36, merch for resale; Associated Supply Co, $121.55, maint; Atco International, $80.00, sup; Shawn Barrows, $66.00, travel; Best Business Products, $2.39, maint; BHP&L, $19,007.30, util; Rick Bush, $30.00, other; Campbell Supply, $133.50, sup; Caselle, $480.00, prof fees; CCI Solutions, $24.34, sup; Century Business Products, $14.10, maint; Chemsearch, $159.60, sup; Mike Close, $10.00, cc prog exp; Coca Cola, $9.00, sup; Community Center Petty Cash, $3.49, cc prog exp; Devon Crowe, $30.00, cc prog exp; Dakota Backup, $193.64, sup; Early Childhood Connections, $40.00, travel; Dana Edlund, $84.80, refunds; Elan, $4,821.43, sup; Farmers Union Oil, $2,747.88, sup; Grocery Mart, $14.99,m sup; Rodney Heikes, $232.00, group ins; Hills Materials, $2,258.47, maint; Hillyard, $274.30, sup; Kade Huntington, $30.00, sup; IAFC Membership, $215.00, other; Jacobson First Western Ins., $18,009.00, insurance; Johnston Hardware, $25.28, sup; Kimball Midwest, $30.98, sup; Maury LaRue, $34.39, other; Kristen Legner, $150.00, cc prog exp; Steve Lensegrav, $20.00, cc prog exp; Mike Maxon, $234.00, group ins; David McCarthy, $96.00, other; Meade Co Auditor, $955.39, util; Meade Co Times, $342.00, publishing; MDU, $3,457.01, util; John Murphy, $66.00, travel; NAPA, $408.66, sup; Natl Volunteer fire Council, $50.00, other; Northern Hills Drug & Alcohol, $100.00, prof fees; Michael O’Bryan, $250.00, group ins; Officemax, $112.69, sup; Joel Ortiz, $30.00, other; Owens Interstate Sales, $47.66, sup; Pamida, $38.21, sup; Pete Pi Sr, $30.00, other; Pitney Bowes-Finance, $99.00, rent; Plumbmaster, $430.56, maint; Powerplan, $1,639.49, maint; Prairiewave, $1,830.30, util; Purchase Power-Finance, $200.00, sup; Rapid City YMCA, $150.00, travel; Roger Frye’s Paint & Supply, $163.90, sup; Fred Schmidt, $30.00, other; SD Chapter APWA, $70.00, travel; SD Dept of Transportation, $50.00, travel; SD Municipal League, $120.00, travel; Servall, $47.35, sup; Spearfish Extinguisher Service, $101.80, sup; Tee’s Plus, $318.77, other; Think! Toner & Ink, $191.18, sup; Tom Trigg, $66.00, travel; West Dakota Water Dev District, $46.00, sup; West River International, $136.17, sup.

            PARK – Alltel, $31.80, util; BHP&L, $53.11, util; Elan-City, $64.97, sup; Meade Co Times, $157.50, publishing; MDU, $251.57, util; Prairiewave, $113.41, util;

            BRICK PROJECT FUND – Elan-City, $20.84, sup.

            AMBULANCE SERVICE – Alltel, $66.14, util; Dakota Backup, $14.41, prof fees; DB Billing Co, $618.47, prof fees; Enning Propane, $642.20, util; Farmers Union Oil, $831.54, sup; Farmers Union-Union Center, $22.07, sup; Jacobson First Western Ins, $9,941.00, ins; Owens Interstate Sales, $16.30, sup; Think! Toner & Ink, $191.18, sup.

            CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT – Brosz Engineering, $3,587.50, cap imp; Meade Co Auditor, $2,837.93, principal.

            2005 SERIES REVENUE BOND – Rural Development, $9,773.00, principal.

            LIQUOR – 5-Star Audio Video Systems, $1,266.06, maint; BHP&L, $793.38, util; Frito-Lay, $20.89, snacks for resale; Heartland Paper, $31.56, sup; Johnson Western Wholesale, $28,350.10, off sale liquor; Liquor Dept, $57.09, sup; M&B Enterprises, $60.30, snacks for resale; Meade Co Times, $40.00, publishing; MDU, $89.48, util; Nash Finch, $60.00, other; Prairiewave, $156.96, util; Republic Beverage Co, $3,600.26, off sale liquor; Rushmore News, $50.40, snacks for resale; The Homeslice Group, $42.00, publishing; Universal Publication, $240.00, publishing.

            WATER SYSTEM OPERATIONS – Alltel, $78.72, util; BHP&L, $740.24, util; Meade Co Times, $227.85, publishing; Prairiewave, $190.60, util; Russ Scheckel, $250.00, group ins; SD Municipal League, $30.00, util; West Dakota Water Dev District, $50.50, sup.

            WASTEWATER FACILITIES – Alltel, $136.29, util; BHP&L, $2,145.26, util; Kimball Midwest, $208.57, sup; Mike W. Plaggemeyer, $250.00, maint; Postmaster, $41.00, sup.

            SANITARY SERVICE – Adams Machining, Inc., $2,359.50, maint; Alltel, $27.26, util; Butler Machinery, $72.23, maint; Meade Co times, $157.50, publishing; NAPA, $168.56, sup; Orwak USA, $340.25, sup; Owens Interstate Sales, $66.27, maint; Product Stewardship Institute, $60.00, travel; Sanitation Products, $562.92, maint.

            RALLY – A&B Business, $74.46, maint; Alltel, $279.29, util; BH Rally & Gold, $1,000.00, merch for resale; BH Technologies, $243.75, maint; Coca Cola, $12.00, rent; Elan-City, $1,208.00, travel; Soutsource Solutions, $6,756.18, sup; Pitney Bowes-Rally, $342.00, rent; Pizza Ranch, $27.27, sup; SD Office of Tourism, $75.00, city promotion.        

 

This was the designated time for committee reports:

v      Public Safety—Cleaning up ordinances

v      Public Works—Travel issues and minor items          

v      Community Center—Meeting to be held on January 25th at 7:00 a.m.

v      Liquor—nothing to report

v      Legal and Finance—will be meeting soon

v      Rally—working on visitors CD and attended Tourism Conference in Pierre

v      Park Board—nothing to report

v      Planning Commission—nothing to report

v      Library Board—Recognition day on February 1, 2008

v      Airport Board—Went over policies

City Manger Report:

Attended ICS 300 classes for emergency management last Friday and Saturday

Working on Snow Removal Policy and updating Sign Ordinance

 

Bob Kaufman presented the council with the Major Street Plan.  This 3 mile boundary around Sturgis of major arterial streets will help with future development and annexation.  This is a supplement to part 7 of the City’s Comprehensive Plan.  The plan would give us joint jurisdiction with Meade County to approve plats within this 3 mile territory. 

 

Hersrud introduced the following written resolution and moved its adoption:

 

RESOLUTION 2008 - 03

A RESOLUTION approving and adopting a major streetS plan

 

WHEREAS SDCL 11-6-26 requires the adoption of a comprehensive plan that includes at least a major streets plan before a plat or subdivision of land lying within the municipality, or of land within three miles of its corporate limits and not located within any other municipality may be filed or recorded.

 

WHEREAS the City of Sturgis acknowledges and recognizes that the City of Sturgis’ Comprehensive Plan of 1998 included a Major Streets Plan and said Comprehensive Plan included in addition to a map setting out the major street plans, a detailed analysis of the:

 

·          existing transportation services;

·          existing street system;

·          functional classification of streets including the categories of highway, arterial, residential collector and local streets

·          traffic flow patterns; and

·          future traffic generators.

 

WHEREAS the City of Sturgis desires to supplement the Major Streets Plan included in the City of Sturgis Comprehensive Plan of 1998 to include the area set forth in the City of Sturgis’ Major Streets Plan map prepared by Engineering and Inspections dated January 2008 with the specific intent of supplementing the Major Streets Plan to include those arterial streets located outside of the City limits but within three miles of the City limits as set forth in said map.

 

WHEREAS it is the intent of the City of Sturgis that said Major Streets Plan shall be recorded with the Register of Deeds of the county or counties in which the municipality and any proposed area is located.

 

NOW  THEREFORE the City of Sturgis having acknowledged the Major Streets Plan set forth in the City of Sturgis’ Comprehensive Plan of 1998 and the January 2008 map setting forth the major streets and proposed major streets and the City does hereby approve and adopt said Major Streets Plan.

 

Dated this 21st day of January, 2008.

 

                                                                         

 

 

Call seconded the motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution.  All those present voted in favor of and the resolution was declared passed & adopted.

 

Motion by Call, seconded by Chaplin and carried with Anders, Call, Chaplin, LaRue, McVay, Scudder, and Usera voting yes and Hersrud abstaining to award the bid for the brush chipper to Hersruds of Sturgis for $41,950.

 

Motion by Anders, seconded by Chaplin and carried with all members voting yes to allow the Meade County “Relay for Life” to have a monthly raffle for the year 2008.

 

At this time David Boone gave a power point presentation of his purchasing policy.  This policy will be proposed by resolution and be on the agenda at the next regular meeting.

 

Motion by Hersrud, seconded by Scudder, and carried with all members voting yes to purchase tickets for the Sturgis Chamber of Commerce Banquet.

 

Motion by Anders, seconded by Chaplin, and carried with all members voting yes to approve first reading of Ordinance 2008-01 amending Title 11, Chapter 11.05, section 11.05.32, “cost per gallon”.

 

Motion by Anders, seconded by Chaplin, and carried with all members voting yes to approve first reading of Ordinance 2008-02 a supplemental ordinance amending ordinance 2007-33 annual appropriations.

 

Council member Anders stepped out.

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by McVay and carried with all members voting yes to authorize the Mayor to sign the written permission for the hangar lease with Gary Lippold to be assigned to Jerry Burnham.

 

Motion by McVay, seconded by Chaplin and carried with all members voting yes to authorize First Western Bank to take a security interest in the hangar building that is being assigned to Jerry Burnham from Gary Lippold.

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by Call and carried with all members voting yes to approve the following wages and new hires: Maxine Cordes – .25 cent increase from $9.25 to $9.50, Bob Looby - .25 cents increase from $8.75 to $9.00 – Community Center

Daniel Meirose – Fun & Fitness - $6.25 – Community Center, Diane Moravec – Front Desk - $6.25 – Community Center - Desirae Ehlers – Lifeguard - $7.00 – Community Center

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by Call and carried with all members voting yes to approve travel for Lance Stanbury and Bob Moser to Sioux Falls Wastewater training class on January 28-31, 2008.

 

Anders returned to the meeting.

 

ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE COUNCIL

 

·         Council member Chaplin announced that he will be making a career change

·         Council member Scudder reported to the council about the Tourism Conference

·         There will be a Cracker Barrel on Saturday January 26th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at the Community Center

 

Motion by Chaplin, seconded by Anders and carried with all members voting yes to go into executive session at 8:34 p.m. for legal advice.

 

Motion by McVay, seconded by Hersrud and carried with all members voting yes to come out of executive session at 9:44 p.m.

 

 Motion by Hersrud, seconded by Scudder, and carried with all members voting yes to adjourn the meeting at 9:45 p.m.

 

 

ATTEST: ___________________________ APPROVED: ______________________________

               Fay Bueno, Finance Officer                                   Maury LaRue, Mayor