The City of Spearfish's meeting portal lists "City Council Meeting" for May 4, 2026

the City of Spearfish lists City Council Meeting for Monday, May 4, 2026 on its public meeting portal.

The portal files this entry under the category City Council. That is the city's own classification, reproduced as published and not re-sorted.

The portal gives the time as 5:30 p.m. MDT, on the city's own clock.

The portal is currently offering 3 documents for this entry, named here exactly as the city named them:

• Agenda · City Council Regular Session Agenda 5/4/2026 · posted May 1
• Agenda Packet · Updated City Council Regular Session Packet 5/4/2026 · posted May 4
• Minutes · City Council Regular Session Minutes 5/4/2026 · posted May 7

Those documents are not summarised here. Minutes are produced after a meeting rather than before one; what they say is not reproduced here. Follow the link above to read them at the city's own page.

The city's agenda for this meeting lists 38 numbered items. 37 of them are reproduced below, exactly as the city wrote them; the other 1 name a party or a location and are not reproduced here.

• 1. Call to Order
• 2. Roll Call
• 3. Invocation (participation welcomed, but not mandatory)
• 4. Pledge of Allegiance
• 5. Approve Agenda
• 6. Public Comment - Public comments are welcome; however, no action can be taken by the Council on comments received for items not on this agenda. Anyone wishing to have the Council consider a new item should complete a Citizen Request Form to be reviewed by city administration.
• 7. Declaration of Any Potential Conflicts of Interest
• 8. Items from Visitors
• A. High Plains Western Heritage Center - Retirement of Karla Scovell and welcome to Juliet Main as the new Executive Director.
• B. Mayor Senden to proclaim May 3rd through 9th, 2026 as National Small Business Week in the city of Spearfish, South Dakota.
• C. Mayor Senden to proclaim May 3rd through 9th, 2026 as National Travel and Tourism Week in the city of Spearfish, South Dakota.
• 9. Consent Agenda
• A. Approve the minutes of the April 15, 2026, City Council study session.
• B. Approve the minutes of the April 20, 2026, City Council regular session.
• C. Approve Temporary Construction Easement on Lot 9R, Block 6, Evans Addition for Spearfish Creek Stabilization Project #2339A.
• 10. Added or Adjusted Wages
• A. Approve the following wage additions and adjustments as budgeted for 2026. Regular Positions Budgeted Position Wage Parks Maintenance Forestry Yes $26.95 Tech Lead Rubble Site Operator Yes $26.29 Police Officer Yes $34.50 11. Community Development
• A. Adopt Resolution 2026-04 - A Resolution to establish Tax Increment Financing District Ten and District Boundary.
• B. Adopt Resolution 2026-13 - A Resolution to approve the Pines at Elkhorn Ridge Affordable Housing Development Project Plan for Tax Increment Financing District Ten, City of Spearfish.
• C. Approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 1426, an Ordinance Amending The Revised Ordinances Of The City Of Spearfish, Chapter 31: Organizations, Council On The Arts And Humanities, And Chapter 35: General Administrative Policies, Art In Public Places
• 12. Finance
• A. Approve the 2026-27 beer license renewal applications for businesses on the attached list.
• B. Approve the preliminary 2025 Financial Statements as required by SD Department of Legislative Audit.
• C. Approve the first reading of Ordinance 1418 - An Ordinance Supplementing the 2026 Appropriations Ordinance No. 1408 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Spearfish, South Dakota.
• 13. Public Works
• A. Award the lowest responsive and responsible bid for the 2026 Crosswalks, Stop Bars & Turn Arrows project to BH Striping, LLC at a total amount of $55,886.30.
• B. Approve Change Order 1 for the Rainbow Road Box Culvert Project with an increase of $4,840.00.
• C. Approve Foth proposal for engineering services including survey, preliminary and final design, bidding, and construction services for the Yukon Water Main Replacement Project for a total of $88,881.
• D. Approve Foth proposal for engineering services for a Water System Master Plan for a total of $205,926.
• E. Approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 1427, an Ordinance Amending the Revised Ordinances of the City of Spearfish, Chapter 31: Organizations, Black Hills Airport Task Force
• 14. Approve the Bills
• A. Approve the Bill List dated May 4, 2026.
• B. Approve the salary expense, bank fees and credit card fees for the month of April 2026.
• 15. Publication of wages per SDCL 6-1-10
• 16. Mayor and Council Discussion
• 17. Departmental Discussion
• 18. Adjournment

Only the numbered item lines from that file are reproduced here. Lines the city labels Petitioner, Property Owner, Location or Staff Report are not reproduced here, and neither is a street address; the agenda packet is not read at all. Where an item names a person — an official presenting it, or a resident being appointed to something — that name is part of the item the city wrote, and it stands as written. The text is the plain-text rendering the city's own portal returns for that file. Nothing above is a summary, and an item on an agenda is something a body may consider rather than something it did.

This article records only that the city's portal lists this meeting. It is not a record of what any meeting decided, it does not state that a meeting took place, and no outcome, vote or decision is implied. Nothing in any agenda, packet or minutes document is summarised here.

Meetings are cancelled, rescheduled and re-noticed, and the portal publishes no field for any of that. Where the city has said so, it says so inside the listing's own title, quoted above exactly as published — and where it has not, this article cannot report a cancellation the city has not stated, and does not infer one from a missing document. Check the city's own page for this meeting before relying on anything here.

This article was assembled from the City of Spearfish's public agendas and minutes page.