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The Spearfish City Council held a study session on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, beginning at 4:15 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Mayor Senden presided. Council members Hafner, Jacobs, Klarenbeek, Myers, and Rath were present; Hourigan was absent. City staff present included Finance Officer DeNeui, Public Works Director McMahon, Community Development Director Wysocki, Police Chief Smith, Parks and Recreation Director McDonald, and Assistant Planning Director Ecker. The primary agenda items were a staff review of the July 6, 2026 City Council agenda, a presentation by the Spearfish Baseball Association (SBA) on a proposed indoor baseball facility, public comments, and a departmental discussion on motorized bike enforcement.
The council reviewed the draft agenda for the July 6, 2026, regular session, and staff responded to questions from council and residents.
Alright, uh good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for attending tonight's study session. I will uh go ahead and call this meeting to order. Thanks for the conversation as we got ready to start the meeting tonight. Before us tonight, council, we have a agenda to review. I don't have any changes to the study session agenda. Is there a motion to approve it as presenta, please? So we have a motion and a second, all in favor. Okay. Motion carries. Good afternoon, Pam. Good to hear you. We will move on to item number two, review the city council agenda for Monday evening of July 6th. So Michelle will pull that up on the screen and we'll start to go through the review of it. Okay, we'll start off on our consent agenda. We have minutes for the last three meetings, a special session, regular session of council, and our last study session, one volunteer for the rec center for work comp purposes. And then we have a temporary construction easement agreement that's between uh property owner in the city for the Mountain View Elementary Alley Waterline Project for the construction of that. Added and adjusted wages as shown there. And then I'll turn it over to community development. Council, good evening. The first seven items are the public hearing and second reading of all the ordinances related to the engineering design standards. So you've approved all those on first readings two weeks ago. So these are the public hearings and second reading of those ordinances. So that's where you do go forward. Of course, it's a resolution, so only one hearing. So any improvements, um updates uh need to be uh done uh through the encroachment permit. They are also seeking to be allowed to place temporary seating in uh some of the parking stalls in front of the wine bar. So when the weather's nice, uh one twice a week, they want to have ability to seat their patrons outside the wine bar. Uh an item uh 10 D, you've seen these before. It's a special uh or uh an exception to allow um the developers of the uh Stone Ridge Commons affordable housing project, tip number nine, uh, to be able to record uh the plat, creating the lot uh before the public improvements are completed. Um they are in the process of submitting a financial assurance of about two million dollars for all the public infrastructure, which includes uh completing the loop between Paramount and Platinum. If you recall there was a loop that was to be completed, and I know you see these quite a bit uh lately. I guess that's an indication that uh developers are preferring to file a financial assurance, get their lots recorded, uh so they can get in this case uh recording or creating the lot is critical for them to obtain uh funding, uh including uh a grant uh from Black Hills Area Community Foundation, because right now that lot doesn't exist, so no one's lending them or approving the grants until they have a legal description uh for that lot. So this is by code. Um they're not being deobligated from completing any improvements. It simply changes the sequence of the process to allow them to record the plat, start construction of the public rights of way and uh of the project itself.