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The Spearfish City Council held a study session on July 15, 2026, at 4:15 PM in the City Council Chambers. The meeting focused on reviewing the upcoming regular council agenda for July 20, discussing the early payoff of the 2015 Sales Tax Revenue Refunding Bonds, and offering three liquor licenses for sale via sealed bids. No public comments were received. The session adjourned at 4:44 PM.
Finance Officer DeNeui led a discussion on paying off the bonds early. Key details:
DeNeui discussed offering one on-sale (bar) liquor license (minimum bid $300,000) and two package (off-sale) liquor licenses (minimum bid $100,000 each) via sealed bids. Since the last sale six months ago, interest has increased, particularly for package licenses. Some interested parties for the on-sale license can qualify for a restaurant liquor license (fee $130,000, unlimited quantity) and are exploring that option. DeNeui recommended keeping minimum bids unchanged. Council agreed to add the item to the July 20 regular agenda.
Afternoon, everyone. Welcome to this evening's study session. I appreciate everyone being here timely. I'll call this meeting to order. Uh item one on the agenda for the tonight is to approve the agenda as presented. There's no changes that I have. And if there's a motion to move to approved agenda for July fifteenth. Second. We have a motion of the second. All in favor? I opposed. That motion carries. Thank you very much. And we'll move on to item two, reviewing the council agenda for uh July twentieth. Um so Michelle's getting that pulled up for us. Go ahead and we got consent agenda, a few things there to start with. So under consent agenda, we do have minutes for our last round of meetings, and then two volunteers, one for the fire department and one in the parks department. And then the treasure's report for June thirtieth is also a new packet for approval. Then under added or adjusted wages, we do have two uh staff members uh coming on board. Uh their wages are listed there. And then under the wild land rate, so annually um, we do update what we pay our wild land uh firefighters, whether they're volunteers or seasonal staff. And they get paid the current federal AD rate um based on their certification. Uh I did find these items for the seasonal staff, these two different rates, that's actually the rates we bill for their services. These are our hired summer people that work 40 hours every week, whether they're here or deployed. The red carded firefighters, these are volunteers. So they will be at the twenty-two eighty-four, they're all firefighter two level. Um, so they will be paid the twenty-two eighty-four for any wildland calls they go on. Um, and then the rest of them are listed there. We do have uh, I think this is a paramedic, and then the other two are engine bosses. Wanna make a point to those two of the three wildland fires, I think were here the previous year. And what one I think is on its third year. So correct. Yep. Those guys in really good shape. So that's important. And then I'll turn it over to Peter for the community development. So the first item. That is to update our zoning and subdivision chapter of city code. If you recall during our March 17 joint planning commission meeting, um to members of the Clarion team were here to present their assessment of our code. So this is basically phase two of that entire project. The cost would be about 152,000 dollars in your packet for next week.