PROCEEDINGS OF THE STURGIS
CITY COUNCIL –
The Common Council of the City of
Mayor Zeigler made the following announcements: a) City officials had a productive meeting in
Motion by Chaplin, second by Meland & carried to
approve the agenda as presented.
Motion by Anders, second by Chaplin & carried to
approve the minutes of the
Motion by Chaplin, second by Jensen & carried
unanimously to approve the following wages, transfers & claims:
Wages –
Transfers
Out (first for 2006) - General Fund $33,998.50; Capital Impr $61,585.09;
UDAG $2,500.00; Liquor $6,250.00; Water $3,333.33; Wastewater $26,575.00; Rally
$6,250.00
Transfers
In (first for 2006) – Parks $33,998.50; General Fund $12,500.00; Debt
Accounting
Street
Overlay Out (first for 2006 – all to Capital Impr) – Sanitation $4,166.67
GENERAL FUND – BHP&L, $15,917.77, util; MDU, $5,323.12, util;
Prairiewave, $1,508.43, util; Verizon, $1,299.17, util.
PARK – MDU, $464.17, util; Prairiewave, $129.99, util;
Verizon, $44.91, util.
AMBULANCE SERVICE – Cellular One, $14.29, util; MDU, $611.09, util.
SPECIAL
SALES TAX – BHP&L, $388.27, city
promotion.
LIQUOR – BHP&L, $779.01, util; MDU, $104.78, util;
Prairiewave, $186.74, util.
WATER SYSTEM
OPERATIONS – BHP&L, $1,503.45,
util; MDU, $65.20, util; Prairiewave, $331.87, util; Verizon, $179.64, util.
WASTEWATER
FACILITIES – BHP&L, $9.50, util;
Verizon, $134.82, util.
SANITARY
SERVICE – Verizon, $44.91, util.
RALLY – Prairiewave, $149.24, util; Verizon, $44.91, util.
GENERAL – A&B Business, $78.20, maint; All American
Publishing, $295.00, other; Amcon Distributing, $490.91, resale; American
Business Directories, $141.34, sup; American Red Cross, $416.00, cc prog exp;
Gary Anderson, $96.04, group ins; APWA-Black Hills Branch, $40.00, prof fees;
Armstrong Extinguisher, $124.00, maint; Associated Supply, $257.25, maint;
Baker & Taylor, $167.34, sup; Banyon Data Systems, $1,540.00, maint; Best
Business Products, $13.73, maint; Best Western Ramkota Inn, $483.25, travel; BH
Council of Local Government, $4,044.00, other; BH Elevator, $102.04, maint; BH
Finance Officers Assn, $100.00, travel; BH Jerkey Dist Co, $48.00, util; BH
P&L, $1,070.82, util; Leo Bridgers, $367.50, maint; Sean Briscoe, $50.00,
travel;
PARK – Gary Anderson, $96.04, group ins; BHP&L,
$378.64, util;
BRICK
PROJECT FUND – Farmers Union Oil,
$40.55, sup; Lamar, $400.00, city promotion.
LIBRARY
BUILDING FUND – Demco, $518.70, sup.
AMBULANCE
SERVICE – Alliance Medical, $322.67,
sup; BHP&L, $548.95, util;
SPECIAL
SALES TAX – Chamber of Commerce,
$7,500.00, chamber; SIEC, $6,416.67,
CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT – Leo Bestgen,
$60,000.00, cap imp; DM&E Railroad, $1,200.00, cap imp; Iverson
Construction, $13,924.78, cap imp.
CERT POLICE
GRANT – Chamber of Commerce, $55.00,
sup.
UDAG – SIEC, $2,750.00,
CAPITAL
PROJECTS – Ainsworth Benning
Construction, $206,418.00, cap imp.
LIQUOR –
WATER SYSTEM
OPERATIONS – Gary Anderson, $96.03,
group ins; BHP&L, $5,550.66, util; Butte Electric, $183.60, util;
WASTEWATER
FACILITIES – BHP&L, $1,704.89,
util; Dan Cass, $125.00, group ins; Eddies Truck Sales, $273.63, maint; Ferber
Engineering, $17,365.64, cap imp; Hach Co, $54.10, maint; Hills Materials,
$11,535.19, sup; Jim’s Auto Salvage, $35.00, maint; Johnston Hardware, $11.67,
maint; Morman Law Firm, $82.59, prof fees; Rapid Delivery, $7.48, maint; Lance
Stansbury, $250.00, group ins; USA Blue Book, $169.61, prof fees.
SANITARY
SERVICE – A&B Business, $104.66,
sup; BHP&L, $231.17, util; Dan Cass, $125.00, group ins; Farmers Union Oil,
$1,888.71, sup; Johnston Hardware, $4.20, maint; Qwest Communications, $45.43,
util; Rose’s Sanitation, $18.00, prof fees; Street Dept Petty Cash, $6.00,
other.
RALLY – A&B Business, $82.00, maint;
TIF
#2-BESTGEN – First Western Bank,
$5,258.38, other.
Motion by Chaplin, second by Green & carried set
a public hearing date of
v
Carolyn Erickson –
v
RIASH, LLC – 1855 Ballpark Road – to rezone from General Residential 2
to Office Commercial/Residential
Motion by Chaplin, second by Jacobson & carried
unanimously to authorize the Mayor to sign the Certificate of Substantial
Completion on Phase 3 of the Library/Municipal Offices Complex.
There are 1500 raffle tickets at a cost of $100
each. This could mean more than a
$100,000 return if all of the tickets were sold. The Foundation is also partnering with Von Dutch
to market and promote this raffle and motorcycle. Von Dutch has taken the motorcycle to various
venues around the
If this location were approved, they would display the
motorcycle & sell the remaining raffle tickets there. Kinney reiterated that 100% of the benefits are
retuned to the residents of Sturgis.
Mayor Zeigler advised that he had heard concerns
with taking up additional parking in the r-o-w.
However, he learned Thursday that the Army & National Guard would not
be coming back. Currently there is no
plan on placing sponsors on
When this proposal was first brought up, he was
concerned with having another charity competing with the Charities. For the good of the community, he asked that
the Foundation combine their efforts with the Charities, which they agreed to
do. The City doesn’t need multiple
charities, just one good one. Zeigler
was also concerned with the placement of the raffle in the r-o-w. However, he discussed it with the various committees,
which decided that they would be comfortable with this setup. If there is any issue with traffic or safety,
the City will immediately intervene.
Zeigler also advised that he spoke with City Attorney Keith Smit
regarding liability issues if the City were to allow this raffle to be in the
r-o-w and not others.
Smit advised that he is not worried about liability issues
concerning this situation. As long as it
is basically the City’s charity, and the City owns the streets, the council can
authorize this placement. If the other
non-profit entities would give 100% of their raffle profit to the City of
Mayor Zeigler reminded everyone that he was criticized
for giving the old post office to the Museum because it was an exception to the
norm and that he should have sold it instead of giving it away. However, the council took a risk because they
believed it was the right thing to do.
Jack Hoel questioned if some other group would get
this, had they been the one to ask for the favor. He did not think that they would; a policy
should be set and should be the same for everyone.
Kathy Hersrud, President of the Charities, advised
that she thought it was about time that a little favoritism is shown for the
citizens of Sturgis so that they are getting something back from the rally.
Roger Schieman advised that he was not in favor of
this request. When raffles were on the
street at first, there were not that many people in attendance. Schieman also had helped with the water give-a-way
project on
Marcia Johnston, Foundation President, advised that
this raffle idea was the brainchild of her and her husband Dan. They wanted to do this to put something back
into the
Mimi Shewey, treasurer of the Charities, listed some
of the organizations that received money from the last raffle. The Charities was able to provide over $35,000
back to different agencies. This is up
from $17,000 the year before.
Skip Smith suggested that the council challenge itself
to dedicate a block of land located in the prime real estate area for
utilization of charities to benefit the community or parts of
Al Colton advised that he had been following discussions
of parking, traffic control and marking off
Bob Davis clarified that, at the last meeting, he
never said that he was opposed to the Chamber Foundation and its raffle. He was just questioning how the raffle fit in
with the City ordinances. There is nobody
in Sturgis that takes issue with the work of the Foundation.
Marcia Johnston advised that she was not against the
Museum. However they already have a
prime location at the corner on
Mayor Zeigler advised that he would work with the
Museum to see what the City could do.
Motion by Chaplin and second by Jensen to approve
the proposed raffle location.
Green advised that she knows how congested it could
get with the selling of raffle tickets on
Green further advised that she thought that the sale
of licensed products were to give money back to the residents of Sturgis. She felt that this raffle would now be taking
its place. However, she feels it’s a
double standard. She wants the Charities
to succeed but they would have had lots of money
had the licensed product money been disbursed as originally intended. Green also had concerns that the raffle
request was in the name of the Foundation but the location request is now in
the name of the Charities.
City
Attorney Smit advised that, should this location be approved, the Chamber is going
to enter into an agreement to turn all of the proceeds over to the Charities
for it to distribute to the various entities.
Patterson
questioned the amount given to the Charities because three different figures
had been used.
Marcia
Johnston advised that the Charities received two checks from the Chamber, one
from the Foundation and one from logo funds, plus checks from the
Jacobson
advised that she does not have a problem with either the Charities or the
Vicky
Steely noted that she keeps hearing talk about parking concerns but with a city
of the size of Sturgis having that many people, there are always to be parking
issues no matter what.
The
vote was taken with all voting in favor of, with the exception of Patterson
& Green, who voted no. Motion carried.
Mayor
Zeigler thanked everyone for their input whether pro or con. He also advised that, when he, Anders &
Meland met with the Governor, he said that the community needs to get creative
& find a way to capitalize on the motorcycle rally and to think out of the
box.
Kathie
Grant appeared before the council to discuss emergency management terrorism
preparedness. She gave a brief overview
of a brochure that she handed out, which outlined the process of actions needing
to take place in order to have a situation declared a disaster.
Grant
advised that FEMA actually provides funding for half of the salary & office
costs of the emergency managers if the county is part of the state agreement. Because
There
are training requirements from the federal government based on the National
Incident Management System to be able to continue receiving FEMA grant
funding. This training is required for
elected & appointed officials as well as department heads and emergency
personnel.
Motion
by Green, second by Patterson & carried to approve the Bull Riding Events
of the Knuckle Saloon on June 10 &
Motion
by Patterson, second by Chaplin & carried to approve the special events
license for the Turkey Federation Banquet to be held at the Auditorium on
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Meland & carried to approve the raffle request of
Easter Seals of South Dakota and Grace Lutheran Church Youth. The Easter Seals is raffling a motorcycle
during the 2006 raffle and Grace Youth are raffling
off a framed cross-stitch Thomas Kinkade picture on
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Anders & carried unanimously to authorize to
advertise for bids on the Woodle Field concession stand/restroom facility.
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Anders & carried unanimously to authorize to
advertise for bids on the Whitewood Service Road project. Mayor Zeigler noted that the City appreciates
SD DOT’s support as well as that of the Governor’s.
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Meland & carried to approve the following Mayoral
appointments to the Lazelle Street Steering Committee: Mark Chaplin, Terry Jensen, Jennifer Gabriel,
Randy Hallock, Bob Davis, Diane Johnson, Deb Matzko, John Parham (or his
representative), Ed Lee, Marlin Martin & Ken McNenney.
Motion
by Green, second by Patterson & carried unanimously to authorize the
acceptance of the Library Project Grant, CDBG No. 0304-119 as satisfactorily
complete.
Motion
by Anders, second by Chaplin & carried unanimously the Mayor to sign the
agreement between the City and LPS Engineering for the lights at Strong Field.
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Anders & carried unanimously to authorize the Mayor
to sign the approval for SD DOT to go under Highway 34 for the placement of
sewer lines. This is by Lion’s
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Meland & carried unanimously to authorize the Mayor
to sign the Duffield Construction agreement to bore the hole under Junction to
place sewer lines to Lion’s
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Jacobson & carried, with Anders voting no, to approve
second reading of Ordinance 2006-02 – Ordinance Amending 16.04 Speed
Regulations. The ordinance reads as
follows:
ORDINANCE
2006 - 02
ORDINANCE
AMENDING 16.04 SPEED REGULATIONS
BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of
14. The
speed limited on
Dated this 6th day of
February 2006.
First reading:
Second reading:
Adopted:
Published:
Effective:
Motion
by Meland, second by Chaplin & carried to approve first reading of
Ordinance 2006-03 – Revised Ordinance Replacing Title 25 Lotteries.
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Jensen & carried unanimously to approve the following
salary matters: Volunteers - a) Jeanie Shyne, Anne Bodman & Patricia Byers –
Library; b) Ketura Veal – VIPS; Wages – a)
Shannon Heikes – CC Front Desk, $.25/hr increase to $6.50/hr, effective
1/26/06; b) Wendy Skinner – CC Front Desk, $.50/hr increase to $6.50/hr,
effective 1/26/06; c) Robert Looby – CC Front Desk, $.25/hr increase to
$8.25/hr, effective 1/26/06; d) Maxine Cordes – CC Front Desk, $.50/hr increase
to $8.75/hr, effective 1/26/06.
OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE
COUNCIL
Roger
Schieman, who is on Board of Directors for the
Mayor
Zeigler advised that he would speak with Pepper Massey-Swan regarding this.
Motion
by Anders, second by Chaplin & carried to adjourn to executive session for
the purpose of discussing legal & contract matters.
Motion
by Jensen, second by Meland & carried to return to regular session.
Motion
Meland, second by Green & carried unanimously to authorize the Mayor to
enter into an agreement to purchase
Motion
by Anders, second by Chaplin & carried unanimously to make the final contract
payment to Tim Bestgen in the amount of $30,000 by
Motion
by Chaplin, second by Green & carried to adjourn the meeting at
ATTEST:
____________________________ APPROVED: _____________________________
Pauline Sumption, Finance Officer Mark T. Zeigler, Mayor