Final consideration of Sunday liquor sales scheduled at City Council meeting

The Mitchell City Council will give final consideration to a Sunday-liquor-sales ordinance and witness the installation of new council member Mel Olson this evening at City Hall.

The council’s Finance Committee will meet at 7:20 p.m., followed by the regular council meeting at 7:30 p.m.

In scheduled business, council members plan to:

• Review, during the Finance Committee meeting prior to the council meeting, the January-to-June sales-tax collections and a proposed supplemental appropriations ordinance.

• Call the meeting to order with the Pledge of Allegiance, invocation, roll call, and approval of the agenda and prior meeting’s minutes.

• Invite citizens’ input on nonagenda items.

• Hear a report from the Finance Committee.

• Award a bid for the Pleasant Hills Steel tax increment finance district.

• Conduct the second reading and final vote on the Sunday liquor-sales ordinance.

• Conduct the second reading and final vote on an ordinance that would supplement the finance portion of the general fund with $3,000 for a fabricator’s sales-tax rebate, with funding from the general fund cash balance; the police portion of the general fund with $3,500 for an in-car video system and $6,000 for minor equipment, with funding from grant funds; the street and sidewalk portion of the general fund with $224,000 for a previously approved acquisition of Mitchell Technical Institute utilities, with funding from the general fund cash balance; the culture and recreation portion of the general fund with $19,000 for the middle school swimming pool, to cover 33.3 percent of the pool’s expected operating expenses with funding from the general fund cash balance; and the Corn Palace fund with $38,300 for shows and advertising, with funding from grant funds and a donation from the Mitchell Convention and Visitors Bureau.

• Consider paying estimates.

• Adjourn temporarily and reconvene.

• Call upon Judge Patrick Kiner administer the oath of office to Mayor Lou Sebert and city councilmen Marty Barington, Travis Carpenter and Jeff Smith, who all ran unopposed for re-election in June, and Mel Olson, who ousted Councilman Allen Lepke.

• Consider Mayor Sebert’s recommended appointments for department heads and the city attorney.

• Call upon Judge Kiner to administer the oath of office to the city attorney and department heads.

• Conduct an election for the president and vice president of the council.

• Adjourn the City Council and sit as the Board of Adjustment to set July 20 as the date for hearings on the application of Jamie Grosdidier for a variance to construct a house/garage at 3100 Canal Circle; the application of Rolyn Wieczorek for a conditional use permit to operate a construction business at 100 W. Havens Ave.; the application of Winfred N. and Douglas Jelden for a conditional use permit to operate an automotive repair garage at 1104 W. Havens Ave.; the application of Canndi Balsius for a conditional use permit to operate a doggrooming business located at 809 E. Hanson Ave.; the application of Val Fredrich for a conditional use permit to operate a day-care center in her home at 809 E. 12th Ave.; the application of Maureen Koch for a conditional use permit to operate a day-care canter in her home at 1420 Ridge Road; and the application of Lisa Shippy for a conditional use permit to operate a day-care center in her home at 808 E. 12th Ave.

• Consider adopting a resolution authorizing the mayor to sign an application for a low-interest loan of $2.36 million for a watertower project on the south side of the city.

• Consider adopting a resolution authorizing a contingency transfer of $12,000 for an irrigation system at the cemetery.

• Consider adopting a resolution that would establish a threeyear contract with Randy Stiles and Doug Papendick for their services as city attorney, with Stiles receiving $48,000 per year and Papendick receiving $3,650 per year.

• Consider a resolution that would authorize the city’s purchase of MTI’s utilities to assist with MTI’s south campus expansion, with the purchase to be paid back at a later date.

• Conduct the first reading of an ordinance that would supplement the traffic portion of the general fund with $7,800 to upgrade signal lights, with funding from the general fund cash balance; the street and sidewalk portion of the general fund with $65,000 for “TID No. 11 street construction”; the MADC business park portion of the debt service fund with $500,000, from the sale of “district real property”; and the concessions portion of the Corn Palace enterprise fund with $10,000 for ATM cash change; the golf course fund with $110,000 for golf carts “lease/purchase.”

• Conduct the first reading of an ordinance that would amend the process for employment disputes.

• Conduct the first reading of an ordinance that would amend the portion of the city code pertaining to dog control.

• Set July 20 as the date to conduct a hearing on the application of the Exchange Club for a special-event malt beverage license for the rodeo ground for the Miller Lite Bull Bash on Aug. 19; the application of the Palace City Lions Club for a special-event malt beverage license for Hitchcock Park for the Tour de Corn on Aug. 29; and the application of Hay Company Partnership, doing business as Steak ’N More, to transfer an on-sale liquor license from V.V. Inc., doing business as Steak ’N More, to Hay Company Partnership, doing business as Steak ’N More.

• Set July 28 as the date to receive and consider bids for a golf-car fleet project.

• Consider declaring 40, 2003-model golf carts as surplus.

• Consider approving an automatic supplement to the general fund for the Traffic Department in the amount of $65,200, from grant funds, for the LED signalized intersection upgrade project.

• Consider approving an automatic supplement to the capital project fund for the MADC business park in the amount of $128,496 from bond proceeds.

• Consider approving a construction change-order for the North Highway 37 lighting project that would increase the contract by $1,504, raising the contract to $26,347.50.

• Consider approving requests to conduct raffles from the Davison County Democrats and the James River Gobblers NWTF.

• Consider paying bills.

• Consider ending the public meeting to conduct two closed, non-public “executive sessions” described only as “permitted by SDCL 1-25-2(3)” and “permitted by SDCL 1-25-2(4)” — the portions of state law that allow but do not require executive sessions for “consulting with legal counsel or reviewing communications from legal counsel about proposed or pending litigation or contractual matters” and “preparing for contract negotiations or negotiating with employees or employee representatives.”

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