From last August 6, 2018, city council meeting Mayor ranted and raved about property maintenance and threatened with fines!
NON-AGENDA ITEM– Mayor Half-Glas’d whizzed on property maintenance, not stiff enough penalties and he wants to HIT offenders hard with still fines. Mayor Half-Glas’d says he feels like he is living in a slum! (01:09:48)
Mayor Half-Glas’d, I suggest sir, put your money and ‘mayoral (?) skills’ where your mouth is. If residents are required to abide by the ordinances, so is the city.That would be you, Mayor Glas.YOU and your minion FO have a problem, check out the photos:
Photo #1 CITY POOL WEED VIOLATION
Photo #2 CITY POOL WEED VIOLATION
Photo #3 CITY PARK HORSESHOE PIT
Photo #4 LOOKING SO DEPOT ALLEY
Photo #5 LOOKING NORTH DEPOT ALLEY
Photo #6 CITY PARK BACKSTOP WEEDS
Photo #7 CITY PARK BACKSTOP WEEDS
Photo #8 CITY PARK TREE VIOLATION
Photo #9 CITY PARK TREE VIOLATION
According to last meeting chit-chat Mayor, you and a couple of the boys had been inspecting the alley, the SRTS fiasco and scratching your collective heads other than to tell the residents experiencing SRTS down-stream flooding was their problem. Boys the city IS NOT IMMUNEto it’s own ordinances and that Councilman Lance Johnson IS YOUR PROBLEM!
The regular meeting of the Alcester City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Mayor Tom Glas with the following present: Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilwoman Linda Talbott, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, Councilman David Larsen, Councilman Lance Johnson and City Attorney Sam Nelson, Alcester Police Chief Jeff Christie, Alcester Police Officer Austin Schuller and residents Terry and Jessica Christenson, Kathy Behnke and Vickie Larsen in attendance.
The agenda was approve as posted with eighteen (18) agenda items listed. Folks, this is important to note.*
The meeting minutes from the July 10th meeting were approved without amendments.
Pool Updates were not presented as neither Brianna Walth nor Sam Jensen were present.
Agenda Item #6 – Kathy Behnke (corrected spelling from agenda) Ms. Behnke requested a variance from ordinance to use a modified fireworks kit for a gender reveal party in the park. Council gave permission for the fireworks.
Agenda Item #7- Mayor’s comments Mayor Glas commenced whining about the July 10th meeting was s-o-o-o long (00:03:56). Well Mayor Glas, you’re the dude allegedly in charge. Advice- Lose the one and three quarters hour personnel executive session and the quarter hour last minute personnel executive session you took in the July meeting. Mayor Glas your ad-nauseum, substance-abuse-like-addiction to excessive executive sessions for personnel wastes time and in my opinion violates the purpose of executive session. Perhaps Mayor Glas you should have an interpreter (Sam Nelson) school you on the proper use of executive session. Perhaps you could lose all those reminiscences’ of your alleged concrete days, too!
Agenda Item #8 – Input I responded to public input regarding the light installed on the roof of the auditorium for the purpose of lighting the flag after dark violates the quiet enjoyment of those homes down-light-range of the revolving light. I do believe there is an ordinance which deals with excessive light noise and sound affecting down-range homes. I also let Councilwoman Darla Reppe (Union County Fair Board Representative) know the document I placed upon the table in front of her seat was for the Fair Board regarding the willful trespass of two vehicles; a dark grey Peterbilt Semi-Tractor South Dakota P/R license 17608 and a Ford 250 crew-cab Super Duty King Ranch Truck with South Dakota license plate WGJ 95 on my business property.
Jessica Christenson and Terry Christenson were present to re-address the flooding, erosion and divots created by the city alteration of the alleyway on the west side of their property (00:03:56). Mayor Glas and Councilman Lance Johnson are dragging their heels in remedying this hydro-mud offensive result of the poor design of the SRTS project. Mayor Glas came up with a jewel of a remedy that is guaranteed to add insult to mud-misery. Please note the conversation (00:08:40) and in particular Alcester City Councilman Lance Johnson’s pontifical soliloquy on historical water issues. Pardon me—-Councilman Lance Johnson you are all of a four-going-on-five year transplant from the farm to the city under your belt, (00:11:08) whose main claim to advanced studies seems to be a Masters of Philosophy in Bovine Fecal Output and most notably lacking even a 4H white ribbon in hydrology and you come to the window-rattling, knee-jerk opinion the flooding from the poor SRTS design is the problem of the Christenson’s! Au contraire Councilman Lance, it is Your problem! (00:11:28) Mayor Half-Glas’s and et. al. idea to throw more cubic yards of dirt (from the landfill?), more culverts, screw with the horseshoe pit and oh yes, remove the fire hydrant (doesn’t that sound safe for the neighborhood–folks contact your councilperson)
Agenda items #9 Street updates, #10 Wastewater updates, #11 Police Department Updates, and #12 Golf Course Updates were all swiftly dealt with. One exception held a bit of interest and that was the 4′ X 4′ sign for the police department and the Tiny Tots-like chalk/paint easel to be placed on the corner of Union and Second street to point the way to the city offices.
One item of interest during the discussion of the sign was the removal of the storm shelter sign to a different position, gophers only know where that will be. The concern I have is that upon the finance office hasty exit at 5:00 p.m. weekdays, the building is locked up. SO, what happens in an after business hours storm? Anyone think about that? Think about folks climbing into their cars and racing down to the auditorium in a tornado alert only to find the doors locked and sorry Dorothy you ain’t in Kansas. Do we have a procedure, who unlocks the door. Finance Officer Pat? Really, most folks have trouble finding her there during business hours!
Agenda item #13-Finance Office – Most important action taken was on Agenda item #13, (b) SRTS payment. Councilman Dan Haeder moved to hold up $20K payment and sign off until all questions were answered and the Christenson water-run-off was solved, no action was taken. (00:38:35)
Agenda item #13 (c) – Shoshannah Avery re-designation of job description to include: meter reading, maintenance and general office which was approved by unanimous vote.
Agenda Item #15 – HRC Update It was announced the city is upside-down on the four-plex and there was a question on Shane Hill’s progress on selling the open lots. I do believe that at least one lot a year had to be peddled just to make the interest payment! Don’t take my observation, Ask your council person! Do we get to pay for that, too Mayor Glas?
Agenda Item #16 – Community Building blue prints need to be adjusted ’cause the concession stand in the AAB is not viable and the lower level golf cart storage is a no go due to cost. Mayor Glas thinks a pole building at roughly $13/foot is more appropriate than the approximate $100/ foot for the lower level building storage.
Agenda Item #18 – Adjournment OH WAIT, WAIT, MAYOR GLAS HAS MORE TO SAY!
*NON-AGENDA ITEM- FEMA Mayor Half-Glas’d doesn’t think FEMA is worthwhile (01:08:25) NO EMERGENCY!
*NON-AGENDA ITEM– Mayor Half-Glas’d whizzed on property maintenance, not stiff enough penalties and he wants to HIT offenders hard with still fines. (01:09:48) Mayor Half-Glas’d says he feels like he is living in a slum! (01:09:48) NEW FEES AND FINES LOSE YOUR HOUSE FOR AN 8 INCH WEED AND FINANCE OFFICER PAT THINKS YOUR TREE ENCROACHES HER STREET. LET EM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS! NO EMERGENCY!
*NON-AGENDA ITEM– STILL NO CITY WEBSITE – DISCUSSION-NO EMERGENCY!
MAYOR HALF-GLAS’D
YOU HAVE VIOLATED OPEN MEETING BY ADDING TO THE PUBLISHED AGENDA AND WHAT YOU ADDED TO THE AGENDA WAS NOT AN EMERGENCY!
The regular meeting of the Alcester City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Mayor Tom Glas with the following council present” Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilwoman Linda Talbott, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, City Attorney Sam Nelson and at 6:05 p.m. via Skype, Councilman David Larsen. AWOL Ward III Councilman Lance Johnson who was going to be late.
*Just prior to the start of the council meeting, Finance Officer Jurrens presented an envelope addressed to me. I slipped it into my bag without opening it.
The agenda was approved with the exception of the Agenda Item #8 Pool Update to be delivered by Pool Employee Sam Jensen to be moved to just after Agenda Item #4-Approval of June 4th and June 11th meeting minutes.
Agenda Item #8 Pool Update– Sam Jensen delivered the report stating things were going well. Mr. Jensen was asked the question, if the pool needed to do things differently what would he recommend. Mr. Jensen stated a new for a new pool vacuum. Note nothing was asked about the pool rules of Mr. Jensen. I will reiterate, “Folks nothing was introduced on pool slide rules or the imminent danger of injury due to the placement of the slide and rules of use, i.e. pool safety recommendations of feet first sliding, no head first or backwards sliding , no child under the age of 6 years old without parent in the pool catching, only one child on slide or slide ladder at a time, no toys on the slide and roped off to keep swimmers out of the splash down zone. I passed out pool slide rules from other sources including a national organization for safety last meeting for the council to read. Evidently it is not as Finance Officer/Bookkeeper Pat Jurrens puts it, a high priority. Alcester children it appears are not a high priority. Imagine your 8 year old or 10 year old suffering a spinal cord injury with the life-long result of tetraplegia or paraplegia because the pool rules were not set or enforced. Are you willing to bet your child’s future on FO Pat’s ability to distinguish high priority or ignorable priority. FO Pat’s, Mayor Hal-Glas’d and the city’s pocket are not deep enough to restore what may be lost through sheer ego and terminal stupidity!
Agenda Item #5 Public Input– I responded for public input, I distributed spiral bound documents for each council member and distributed them to their usual seats at the council table prior to the meeting. Contained within the document was Safe Routes to School Issue which contained email transcripts between Mr. Kim McLaury of McLaury Engineering, Mr. Rod Gall of the Mitchell Region Office of the South Dakota Department of Transportation and Mr. Dustin DeBoer special Attorney General of the South Dakota Department of Transportation. I had asked for change orders issued for the substantial grade change, addition of culverts to discharge water build up on the upstream side of the earthen dam the grade change created. I addressed the unintended (?) consequences of an earthen dam which created a downstream water/flooding issue, the entrapment of standing water which created a breeding surface for insects, the attractive hazard created by a ramp in which children with bicycles were already Evel Knieviling over the new sidewalk with the added prospect of motorcycles, scooters and snow mobiles doing their own version of Dukes of Hazard maneuvers in the park, additional charges for increase thickness of concrete to allow for car and truck traffic implementation of the sidewalk through the park but the sharp grade increase would cause a regular car or truck to bottom out making it useless. In addition of grading changes in the construction of this project, the north/south alley on the west edge of the Alcester Park was constructively abandoned without public hearings , proper notification to affected residents and notification of abandonment and proper legal steps. I advised the council of the liability of the ramp, flooding situation and the loss of backyard access could cause lawsuits against the city and city council, jointly and severally.
The second part of the booklet of documents dealt with my Freedom of Information request of the City. These documents were a collection of FOIA requests and Alcester Finance Officer Pat Jurrens response which simply put was going to cost me $40 per hour for eight (8) hours research time in addition to copying costs. This maneuver by Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Jurrens has the effect of deliberately closing public records (00:06:13) and creates a violation of Federal and State open records statutes.
I finished up my public input with notification to the council that someone appeared to have vandalized the curb on Anderson Drive across the street from Alcester City Councilman Lance Johnson’s home. The upper part of the curb had been hacked away from the horizontal plane of the gutter which would allow water to collect and possibly wash away support compactions under the street creating a voids and street collapse.
Also presenting public input were Terry and Jessica Christiansen, owners of the former depot building. Due to the creation of the earthen dam related to the Safe Routes to School Sidewalk changes has caused flooding in their home and continues to create flooding with each rain event. It is the Christiansen’s understanding they will have to foot the bill of the poor engineering of the sidewalk which caused damage to their home. Please note Mayor Half-Glas’d “I (Mayor Glas) was in construction” comments on a cure for the Christiansens. (00:11:25)
Agenda Item #6 – Planning and Zoning This was the second reading of the Planning and Zoning Ordinance.
Agenda Item #7 – Street Updates Items of interest is the maintenance of the gravel on West Clark Street, that portion of street running north of the Fairgrounds parking lot. The grain hauling trucks are complaining the concrete has broken away and have sharp edges.
A one-time burn permit was approved on the 6th street property, I believe this is the future site for the community building and city offices (?) But as we the tax-payers have received very little information on the proposed community building, design, funding and our input-wise we are as usual in the financial dark.
Agenda Item #10 – Police Department Updates. Chief Christie brought the council up to speed on new locks, evidence lockers and storage and announced the new hire Kendra was no longer a part-time officer with the Alcester Police Department, she has accepted the open deputy position with the Union County Sheriff’s office created with the departure of Jeff Christie to take the position of Alcester Police Chief.
The council went into Executive session to discuss personnel at 7:10 p.m. pondered and pondered and pondered until they declared themselves out of Executive session at 8:33 p.m. just shy of an hour and a half. Sheesh! Either one is fit to be a police officer or not, and it really shouldn’t have taken one and half hours to make that determination.
A curious thing though Chief Christie and OfficerSchuller came out after about 20 minutes or so after the start of executive session. They were followed a couple of minutes later by Finance Office Jurrens, who remained in her office another 15-20 minutes or so until she was called back into the Executive session meeting. This finance officer exit was unusual, ’cause unless Finance Officer Pat comes out to retrieve documents, she simply does not come out of executive sessions until they declared out of executive session or…?
Agenda Item #11-Golf Course Councilman David Larsen gave a brief report via Skype. He announced the golf course had a health inspection and received a 98 out of 100.
There was an irrigation control issue and has been repaired. However there was an issue where duplicate control boards were purchased. One control board was purchased independently from the repair guy at $250 and the repair guy brought a second control board and charged the city for it but took a control board away with him. To be resolved in the future
Agenda Item #12 – Finance Office Update
Warrants were approved with the payment for the diving board was withheld by Finance Officer Pat due to funding.
Safe Routes To School (SRTS) Project sign off and payment of $20K was delayed due to the questions on, specifically who is financially responsible for the apparent omissions and errors.
CDBG Loans-Years ago the city of Alcester received a grant from the state of South Dakota secured by Alcester businessman/ South Dakota legislator Roger McKellips to finance the expansion of Alcester Meats. Alcester Meats repaid the loan with interest to the City of Alcester which was placed into a special account which the city could extend secondary loans to a primary bank loan by businesses relocating to Alcester or expanding into Alcester, to grow Alcester business district. These loans were to be repaid with interest to keep the fund alive to encourage new business. These loans should never have been guaranteed with perishable inventories such as alcohol or disposable commodities. Finance Officer Pat announced two businesses Alcester Tire and Alcester Steakhouse recipients of outstanding CDBG loans have closed their doors but at this time both extinct businesses are current in their loan payments.
Parking at Alcester City Park included a discussion on the properties immediately North of the Earthen Dam Sidewalk and their loss of access to the rear boundary of their properties. In other words, the failure of the city to comply with abandonment procedures set by statute.
Personnel Policy Manual-Committee members set as Councilman David Larsen and Councilwoman Melissa Kay with additional committee members to be comprised of employees. What About City residents input on Personnel Manual?
Consensus for the city to take over the Chamber Website and cause the new website to be the Official Alcester City Website with all the bells and whistles of a genuine city website including, agendas, minutes and city codes on line for residents.
Just before Agenda Item #10, Executive session was called AGAIN to discuss personnel which does not show up on the agenda. H-m-m! The council moved into Executive session at 9:15 p.m. and declared out of Executive session at 9:27 p.m.
NOTE: Alcester City Councilman Lance Johnson never did show up for the meeting. The late Ward III Councilman just couldn’t seem to come to the meeting to represent his ward.
Agenda Item #17-Adjournment
After motions and vote, Mayor Glas declared the regular meeting of the July 10, 2018, Alcester City Council meeting adjourned
Giving money and power to our city council is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O’Rourke quote
Thus begins the commencement of the June 4, 2018, Alcester City Council with Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilman David Larsen, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Council Candidate Linda Talbott, Alcester City Attorney Sam Nelson, and oh yeah councilman Lance Johnson.
We all stood and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Then all the agenda line items were figuratively tossed into a lottery hopper, spun around and Mayor Half-Glas’d proceeded to pluck the agenda balls off the top of the hopper much like a Saturday night lottery ball pick.
Agenda Item #3 – Approve the Agenda
Agenda Item #4 – Approve Minutes of 05/07/2018 and 05/21/2018
Agenda Item #5 – Administer Oath of Office Ward 1 Candidate Linda Talbott (00:02:18) – I do not recall the council ratifying Mayor Half-Glas’ appointment of Mrs. Talbott. According to SDCL 9-14-3,
“…Each appointive officer of a municipality governed by a mayor and common council shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council…”
So if I am correct, how does the vote of individual who has not been formally ratified and who has taken part in several council votes affect council business.
Agenda Item #6 – Mayor appointment of committee-Yup Mayor Half-Glas’d looked down at the list to see whom he appointed and to which committees.
Agenda Item #7 – Public Input- I spoke first advising the council the pool rules are no longer present at the pool. Prior to the beginning of the meeting I distributed copies of sample pool rules, highlighting rules which need to be instituted to conform to safety issues with a slide to each of the council members, council-candidate Talbott and City Attorney Sam Nelson. I formally advised them of pool slide uses which due to liability exposure should be prohibited. (00:04:29) NO Action.
(00:06:18) Mayor Glas took up space on public input (when he, as author of the agenda could have had an agenda item all to himself) complaining about properties in violation of green growth height and junk. Yo Mayor, did ya forget we have property maintenance ordinances? Did ya forget we have a code ordinance enforcement officer, Geoff Fillingsness? Have you not seen FO Pat wandering down the streets during city office business hours with her protégé and camera taking pictures of the weed realms? Sir didn’t ya’ll get FO Pat’s’ memo on that one?
Ostensibly the ‘need’ for outside code enforcement is to take heat off local employees doing the ticketing job. So when observant souls in Alcester see FO Pat and her entourage a haulin’ their fannies down the street and stopping in the weed realms to take pictures we are to assume they’re scrapbooking for the Alcester Historical Page of the Union? Really! I heard-tell of the golf-cart cortege and how the ‘girls’ were taking pictures of high-jump-sized weeds, drooping trees, eye-balling the height of over-hang and the Salvador Dali school of junk art. Since no one reported a jousting-style 14 foot pole with the golf-cart cadre or NBA basketball player with a l-o-n-g tape measure standing next to over-hanging trees, eyeball measurements are not best evidence and could be successfully challenged.
Mayor Half-Glas’d called upon the council for ideas TO FORCE ordinance compliance and as the character of Sergeant Schultz was often quoted in the TV series, Hogan’s Heroes, “…I know nothing…n-o-t-h-i-n-g…” Glas-knost nothin’ neither! But… but he is the mayor, he is supposed to know!
Since it wasn’t 6:30 pm yet, Mayor Half-Glas’d pulled Agenda item #9 from the top of the lottery tumbler. Lonnie Johnson gave a synopsis of street updates, flashing cross light with no push buttons and pool updates. Here was the perfect opportunity for the council to address potential changes in the pool rules or at least have the pool committee of Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilman David Larsen and councilman Lance Johnson set up a meeting to address the liability, insurance and pool rules as they apply to the new ‘used’ ‘slide’. NOPE-didn’t happen!
Still not 6:30 p.m. so Mayor Half-Glas’d moved onto Agenda Item 10 – Water/Wastewater Dale Pearson. OOPS Mayor didn’t get the memo Dale was not present, so Mayor Half-Glas’d had Lonnie Johnson give the water/wastewater synopsis.
Agenda Item #11 – Police Department-Police Chief Chris Doty was not able to be present so Mayor Glas hop-scotched onward.
Agenda Item #12 – Golf Course Updates – Councilman David Larsen gave an update on golf course. Items b and c were postponed until later in the meeting because they required executive session.
Agenda Item #13 – Finance Office Updates –
a) Parking at the Park – concrete bridge near horseshoe pit blocks access for the two northern most homes on Park Place. Evidently the alley of clown concreters ‘…did the city a favor…’ by what appears to be an unauthorized change order by building a Dukes of Hazard style ramp/bridge which ‘precipitated’ the flooding of a ‘down-stream’ home. Who let this pratfall of clowns out unsupervised? The council cemented their decision to delegate by handing this exercise in concrete off to Alcester City Attorney Sam Nelson so he could present them with a firm solution.
b) Fitting Madam’s door. Evidently Madam’s door was too short, so Mr. Pies was hired to lower the hem on her door. Councilman Haeder assured the Mayor and the council that Madam had been take care of.
IT IS 6:30 p.m. Now we go back in ‘Agenda time’ to Agenda Item #8 – City Council Public Hearing for 2018 Planning and Zoning. Alcester Councilman David Larsen moved to accept the changes in the Zoning Ordinance, Councilman Lance Johnson made the second and with no further discussion the council voted to accept the changes and officially accept the first reading of the 2018 Planning and Zoning Ordinance. Although the term ‘Planning’ in this context has been to date an oxymoron.
Mayor Half-Glas’d be-bopped back to Agenda Item #11 and Police chief candidate and part-time police officer candidate interviews. At 6:35 p.m. councilman Lance Johnson moved to go into executive session to conduct police department interviews, second came from Councilwoman Melissa Kay and with no discussion the group voted unanimously to enter executive session for the purpose stated.
(00:35:43) councilman Lance Johnson in response to your pronouncement that I am not a council member. That is true but neither is Pat Jurrens a member of the Alcester City Council, she gave that up to poach the position of Alcester Finance Officer. Finance Officer Jurrens has no special insight, no special employee interview talents nor does she have legal standing over any other resident of the City of Alcester to be included in executive session, therefore in your own words councilman Lance Johnson she needed to, “…get out!…”
In addition any historical information concerning wages, resumes, applications is contained within city records available to each and every council member.
Currently, the city of Alcester makes no record of executive session therefore the presence of the city attorney needed unless he is supplying legal advice or opinion. Should a written record be needed, the president of the council acts as recorder. Therefore councilman Lance Johnson if the meeting is open enough to support Pat Jurrens presence, it can support my presence as well as any other interested parties presence which in fact makes the meeting open.
At the conclusion of the executive session at 8:35 p.m., the mayor entertained council motions, seconds-to-the-motions and votes to hire Jeff Christie as Police Chief and Kendra Windeshausen as part time officer
The mayor re-called Agenda Item #12 (b) and (c). Golf Course Committee Chair David Larsen raised the questioned whether the council still needed to go into executive session for the golf course. FO Pat piped up and said yes. Curious the guy who is the Golf Course Committee Chairman having an active participation in the daily operations of the Alcester Golf Course questions the need for executive session and yet Finance Officer Pat Jurrens over-ruled him on the need for executive session. H-m-m!
The Council returned to Agenda Item #13 (c) (1) for the Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Training course. Date of Training and unlike the TV series, MASH character Five o’clock Charlie the group could not land on a time for the training just they felt they needed to be trained. The question was never called, so no action on the item.
Agenda Items 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 were superfluous and quickly dispatched, so finally Agenda Item #19 Adjournment was called and with all the alacrity of the last Amen after a two hour sermon in a non-air-conditioned church on a piping, hot day the council voted to adjourn.
After the meeting I questioned Mayor Glas what his reason for keeping Pat Jurrens in Executive sessions was, he hesitated but replied, “…it’s personal…” I replied how can it be personal, you are mayor, how can your inclusion of Pat Jurrens in executive sessionto interview Police Chief and part-time police officer be personal? I didn’t get a responsive answer, only that the city attorney told him he could keep Pat Jurrens in executive sessions a-n-d so the conversation devolved. I walked outside, came across the city attorney and ask him if he had told Mayor Glas that Finance Officer Pat Jurrens could stay in executive session that didn’t require her bookkeeping duties. I got a surprises, non responsive answer but did take part in a spirit debate on why FO Pat should not be included in executive session since she is no more a member of the Alcester city council than I am.
The May 21, 2018, special meeting to the Alcester City council was half-Glas’d called to order at 6:00 p.m. with the following council members present: Councilman David Larsen, Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilwoman Melissa Kay and Councilman Lance Johnson (got the beans out and deigned us with his presence). No lawyer present.
Prior to this meeting I distributed copies of the minutes of the May 7, 2018, meeting so the council could see Finance Officer Jurren’s published liberty with the truth of the May 7, 2018, regular meeting of the Alcester City Council meeting and the closure and bar of applicants for the Ward I vacancy, knowing that I would be barred from speaking and pointing out her abysmal failure to record and report the actions of the council. I also hand-served a FOIA (freedom of information request) on Mayor Glas via the Alcester Finance Officer Jurrens on May 18, 2018, requesting a true and complete copy of the May 7th minutes, a true and complete copy of the 2018 Lease and Operating Agreement between the City and Deem Enterprises, a line item accounting of all expenses attributed to the city asset described as the Alcester Bar for the years 2014 through 2018 and a line item accounting of all income attributable from the Lease and Operating agreement between the City of Alcester and Deem Enterprises for the years 2014 through 2018 (as explained in an amendment to the FOIA).
The purpose of the ‘special meeting’ was to interview candidates for police officer position. The meeting opened with the pledge, then straight into approval of the Agenda.
Agenda Item #5 – Alcester Bar. Madam Woolworth still didn’t have any stools. Councilman Dan Haeder had done some swivel stool research and found just replacing the ‘swivelly’ part wouldn’t work ’cause the screws wouldn’t match up with Madam’s bottoms. S-o-o-o the council decided to purchase two-part stools at $138.14 per patron butt times twelve (12) for a ‘bottom-line’ price of $1657.68 for twelve disassembled stools which would have a weight limit of 250 pounds each. Councilman Haeder stated they (to which Lance Johnson immediately volunteered) would have to assemble the ‘swivelly’ super-structures to the ‘base’ units.
Agenda Item#6 – Public Hearing for the Alcester Quickstop Malt Beverage License. Evidently a recent change in law created some additional work to issue license now.
Agenda Items #7 – Personnel. I am pleased to impart the information Alcester Finance Office Pat Jurrens and Mayor Glas were advised that FO Pat’s rendition of the minutes was not factual and needed to be corrected! Folks the original published minutes were not just incorrect but appeared to be surreptitiously corrected without notice to the council and its approval. These minutes are unapproved, yet Mayor Glas and Finance Officer patently refuse to publish them as unapproved as I have repeatedly suggested in public input. The county correctly publish their minutes as unapproved as well as the Alcester-Hudson School district correctly publish their minutes unapproved when the minutes are published before the meeting in which they are formally approved by the board, so why are Mayor Glas and FO Pat refusing to give true, complete and reliable, transparent information to the people of Alcester?
Agenda Item #8 – Police Department. And now the police interviews. With the exception of the interview of a female applicant in which the public safety committee (Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilwoman Melissa Kay and Councilman Lance Johnson) decided to interview without Alcester Police Chief Chris Doty. By-the-way was this the female applicant who was related to a council member as I hear by-the-grape-vine)? The absence of the Police Chief in this quasi police interview is amazing because these council members have (as is my understanding) absolutely no experience in police procedures and training unless one counts being arrested a couple of times). Candidates for the evening’s interviews were Austin Pickering, Austin Van Horn and Austin Schuller.
Councilman Lance Johnson moved to go into executive session to discussion personnel, Councilwoman Melissa Kay seconded the motion and with no further discussion and a unanimous aye times five vote council moved into executive session at 6:14 p.m. However, after shutting down, removing my camera but prior to leaving the council room I saw that Finance Officer Pat Jurrens was making NO move to leave the council room. WRONG! I promptly stated, “…It is not proper for the city bookkeeper to remain in executive session to interview police candidates. FO Pat is NOT the seventh council person, personnel interviews have absolutely no context with the city finance office and Finance Officer Pat Jurrens has absolutely NO relevant input, right to vote nor sway council opinions on police candidates. NONE! I watched as Pat looked toward Mayor Glas, Councilman David Larsen stated, “…I see no reason for Pat to stay…she can leave…” Again Pat stood looking at Mayor Glas and then to Councilman Lance Johnson. I exited the room, expecting to have Mayor Glas ask for my arrest if I did not. I had already had the council ask a police officer in a past executive session to be ready to arrest me, if I dared (my word) protest. So Pat stayed where she did not belong and we trouped out into the hallway.
So while Police Chief Doty, Mayor Glas, Councilman Larsen, Councilman Haeder, Councilman Johnson, Councilwoman Reppe, Councilwoman Kay and bookkeeper Jurrens remained in the council room with the door shut, it was the three Austins and me in the hallway. I told them Finance Officer Pat Jurrens did not have the right or authority to ask them any questions when they were interviewing in closed session and they did not have to answer any of her questions or comment. It was purely up to them whether to ignore her interference or answer her, it was not however a requirement of interview. We idly visited about training and procedures. Austin Pickering was the first candidate to go into interview, at 6:50 p.m. Austin Pickering came out and Austin Schuller went into interview, at 7:40 p.m. Austin Schuller came out and Austin VanHorn went into interview and exited his interview at 8:05 p.m. With all candidates out of executive session the Mayor, the Council, Police Chief Doty and bookkeeper Jurrens remained in Executive session until 8:29 p.m.
Agenda Item #8 (f) – -Police Chief Doty’s Resignation. Police Chief Chris Doty officially tendered his resignation as of June 5, 2018. The council accepted his resignation unanimously.
Agenda Item #9 – Banking. Pat wants to transfer $30K from the second (2nd) penny sales tax to the Community Building Fund Account. Needed a council vote to transfer the money. Now folks we have several accounts accessible to the finance office which begs the question, WHY? Too many accounts and lamentably half-Glas’d, poor oversight or duplication duties of oversight results in questionable accounting problems and ‘shortages’.
Agenda Item #10 – Council Vacancy. The Mayor at the urging of Bookkeeper Pat to appoint Ms. Talbott to the Ward I vacancy. This effectively shut down anyone who had not been hand-picked by bookkeeper Jurrens from applying for the vacancy and interview. There was no formal interview of Ms. Talbott, although Councilman Lance Johnson stated he had visited with her privately and gave his tacit approval. WOW! So the council dispensed with formal interview ’cause Councilman Bean Talker says he approves. Alcester Finance Officer Pat Jurrens when asked about the vacancy stated, (00:19:23) “…Ward I is hard to find people to seat…’cause they are old…or they are renters…” Really, tell me Councilman Dan Haeder was a renter, so he is not suitable as a councilman because he was a renter according to your statement? So how old is Mayor Glas, 77 years old? So FO Pat is 77 years too old, too infirm or too incognizant to be a credible Mayor? Really!
Agenda Item #11 – Executive Session. Called by Pat (00:20:31) for Personnel at 8:38 p.m. Really the bookkeeper calling for Personnel Executive Session? Remaining in the council room were Mayor Glas, Councilman Larsen, Councilman Haeder, Councilwoman Reppe, Councilwoman Kay, Bookkeeper Pat Jurrens and Councilman Johnson. I was relegated to the Hallway where I took up my usual post by the half-door of the Finance Office. So what in the world of personnel could they have yet to talk about, the Police interviews had already taken place, the misinformation regarding the pool employee had been corrected, so what else? It couldn’t be police department performance ’cause the council just hired personnel and Councilman Lance Johnson and Councilman Dan Haeder had already discussed the previous police officer, his finances and possible legal actions against him in OPEN SESSION and the council hasn’t had time to advertise for a Police Chief, although courtesy advertising a vacancy doesn’t seem to be a ‘high priority’ for Mayor Glas and FO Pat. Maybe they will down size and put FO Pat in charge of the Police Department, TOO. That way she can schedule police officers patrol times. Yup I can see this move,”…Whereas, the former software peddler who applied for the Finance Office vacancy caused in part by her council vote to sack the 30+ year finance office veteran, and with absolutely no training, background or expertise was awarded a starting $40+K salary with the expectation the outgoing finance officer would ‘train’ her at his exit wage of $38K+/-. Now in addition to her ‘expertise’ in police scheduling, I’ll bet she will want to control law enforcement performance, dictating who should be arrested and who shouldn’t? Similar to the Code Enforcement sorties where I have been told involved a golf cart cruising town, eye-ball judging tree hang-over and issuing ticketing letters. So what does Code Enforcement Officer Fillingsness do besides provide a form with his signature which the ill-trained golf-cart cadre fill out? Two ordinance complaints I know of have been filed, yet there is no discussion, no disposition or no courtesy acknowledgement of the complaint. Amazing! The council was called out of Executive session at 9:02 p.m. and before I could get completely into position, Councilman Lance Johnson called for adjournment and council was immediately adjourned around 9:05 p.m.
Ladies and Gentlemen of Alcester, the Alcester Ship of State is being dragged down by a cadre of milfoil-style barnacles.
At 6:00 p.m. Mayor Glas half-Glas’d the regular meeting of the Alcester City Council into session with Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, Councilman David Larsen, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilman Dan Haeder and Alcester City Attorney Sam Nelson present. Alcester City Councilman Lance Johnson was AWOL. I use the term half-Glas’d in place of the more colorful phrase half-a**’d describing the quality of performance of execution of duty.
Agenda item #3 Mayor Glas called for Agenda approval. Here is where it gets interesting ’cause listed on the agenda under new council agenda item #2 titled administer oaths of office which list: Linda Talbott, Ward I; Melissa Kay, Ward I; David Larsen, Ward II; Lance Johnson, Ward III; and Darla Reppe, Ward, III. When Mayor Glas called for agenda approval, Councilman Lance Johnson was AWOL and Linda Talbott was not present and from conversation in the hallway it appears Finance Officer Jurrens and Mayor Glas were aware these folks were not going to be present or had been put off with a whisper of-needing-a-notice-of-vacancy published. Interesting? You betch yer sweet bippy!
I saw the agenda item #2 entry and wondered at Ms. Talbott’s inclusion in the Oath of Office Administration because there was no notice of vacancy for Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom-Lyle’s Ward I seat. On Monday, May 7, 2018, I visited Alcester Union-Hudsonite publisher Shane Hill, asking him if the paper had published a notice of vacancy advertisement because I could not find any notice of vacancy in the paper. He checked his emails from Finance Officer Jurrens and found only the notice of vacancy received in January 2018 for publication January 18, 2018, and January 25, 2018, well in advance of the February 23, 2018, deadline for return of nomination petitions. That last-minute comment about notice-of-vacancy just prior to the start of council meeting makes my paranoid self wonder, had my seat belt even been clicked into place at the news office before Finance Officer Jurrens was given the heads up, she was found out! H-m-m
After I returned home from my visit with Publisher Hill, I remembered chit-chat immediately prior to the April 2, 2018, council meeting this was Councilwoman Sundstrom-Lyle’s last meeting and because Finance Officer Jurrens had announced in an earlier March meeting there would be no city election, I presumed Councilwoman Sundstrom-Lyle had resigned. That begged the questions
why no notice of vacancy and how was it Ms. Talbott’s name appeared on the agenda to be administered the oath of office?
I telephoned Mrs. Sundstrom-Lyle asking if she had resigned, she told me, “…no she had just run out her term of office…” So that left the only other legal option for Ms. Talbott’s name on the agenda for Oath of Office was Ms. Talbott presented a nomination petition. by deadline.
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, I delivered in-person a FOIA to the City of Alcester requesting a copy of the nomination petition presented to Finance Officer Jurrens before the deadline of February 23, 2018. Just in case, I also presented a simple form statement which stated that Finance Officer Pat Jurrens could not provide the requested election petition because_____which was to be filled out by Finance Officer Jurrens including her signature and date. Upon my presentation of the FOIA, Finance Officer Jurrens told me Ms. Talbott had not presented a nominating petition so she (Finance Officer Jurrens) could not honor my FOIA. I presented her the denial of FOIA document and asked her to please fill it out, sign and date it. After Finance Officer Jurrens asked the question, “why would I (FO Jurrens) do that…?”, I replied it was a denial condition of the FOIA and at which point she complied.
So folks, another shining, troubling example of half-Glas’d, government! Ms. Talbott DID NOT fill out a nominating petition, Ms. Talbott DID NOT submit a nominating petition prior to the February 23, 2018, deadline, Ms. Talbott was NOTappointed by Mayor Glas IN OPEN city council meeting, Ms. Talbott was NOTratified by the Alcester City Council in OPEN city council meeting, so how in bloody Hades can she be administered an oath of office. This begs the question,
Did the Alcester City Council Know?
Did Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Jurrens deliberately keep this information from the Alcester City council?
Why would the council knowingly approve an agenda (if they read it in advance) they knew to be in error?
Why didn’t the council ask questions why Ms. Talbott was not present? (00:00:15)
The Agenda was approved unanimously, five ayes without question or discussion.
Agenda Item #5- Alcester Bar. The great stool discussion would be funny if it was not your and my tax dollars being wasted on Madam Woolworth. It appears the City of Alcester is subsidizing the Deems with tax dollars to the detriment and direct competition with other three Alcester City liquor sellers. (00:02:30)
The was a prolonged discussion of should we (taxpayers) pay for stools, shouldn’t we (taxpayers) pay for stools, what kinds of stools, should we buy two-part stools, should they swivel, should they not swivel and if we get stools that don’t swivel how are the bar belles going to stay on their stools. Seat-belts? The great stool debate, are ya kidding me? Oh I know, “Let’s buy elevated versions of ‘them speshal’ office chairs they got in the Alcester finance office!” Ya know one of ‘them’ chairs with them bouncy balls instead of ‘reglar’ seats, so’s to take pressure off the brain?” Why them ol’ bartenders could tell for ‘sartin’ they over-served a customer ’cause that ol’ bar beau or bar belle couldn’t stay on the stool. ‘Cause you know in the past Madam seemed ‘to think’ our police officers were Uber drivers and 911 was the Uber ‘quik’ call number!
Not once has the council asked for the financials of the Deems on what they had spent on bar upkeep unlike their stiff, rooster legged reaction to Agenda Item #7 in the new council session (00:17:30). Ya sure don’t see the council getting testy about Madam coming to them on a regular basis with her hand out, hollerin’, ‘hey buddy can ya spare a dime?’ an’ ladies and gents, Madam sure doesn’t mean ten cents!
Agenda Item #6-Planning and Zoning Hearing. The gallery had questions on parking on the grass, no longer a light industrial class, and once again the great semantic corrugated debate. (00:24:30) Mayor Glas arguing the metal roof on house were not corrugate and that galvanized was a kind of metal. I pointed out corrugation was process much like extrusion which shapes the steel, copper or aluminum sheets into stronger and ascetically attractive roofing. I also explained to Mayor Glas that galvanization was a secondary process to metal. (00:26:12) Changes to wording were discussed and handed off to the planning committee to correct the wording. One word here, the council seemed inclined to half-glas’d the issue with the wording on a case-by-case basis. Translation: ifwe like you, if you’re our good ‘bud’, or if your nose is placed between our posteriors and the big, inflated, bouncy ball of my office chair, I will find in your favor.
Agenda Item #2-Oath of Office The Oath of Office was administered to Councilwoman Melissa Kay, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, and Councilman David Larsen.
Agenda Item #5-Public Input
Derek Lykken asked, “… how people were expected to know when the city council met and how they could find out about city business…” Council responses to Mr. Lykken’s questions were via the internet (?), the front door of the auditorium, and the city offices.
Mike Kezar asked the question, “in the event of the mayor’s (non-voting member) absence and the president of the council (voting member of the council) took the meeting over, did the president of the council retain his vote while he was presiding in the absence of the mayor and what would happen in the event of a tie. Council members just looked at each other in confusion. It had been practiced, in the council president’s position as mayor pro tem in the mayor’s absence, he would not have a vote with the exception of a tie. Per Roberts Rules, “…The chair cannot, however, vote twice, first to make a tie and then give the casting vote…”
I distributed documents as to procedure for the ‘special assessment’ aka the curb tax with which we were served. According the South Dakota Municipal League’s, Guide to Special Assessments the city must include certain information to the property owners.
In my opinion Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Jurrens office half- Glas’d the municipal checkbook and budget by failing to observe the restriction on the second penny sales tax which protected the property tax paying residents of Alcester from municipal pick-pockets.
Agenda Item #7 – Alcester Fire Department request. This agenda item dealt with the Alcester Volunteer Fire Department’s request for additional funding support to the fire department for five of the department’s volunteers to go to Fire School. The question was raised how much do we give the Fire Department, where do they spend their money, do we have financial statements from the Fire Department. We need financial statements from the Fire Department. It seemed to me the council was under the delusion the Fire Department could exist nicely on the stipend the city was providing to them. Finance Officer Pat Jurrens again played the seventh council member by injecting her opinion that she had suggested several fund-raising options to Chief Kast and expressed her irritation at his response to her suggestions. (00:15:56)
Agenda Item #8(c)-Slide (pool) discussion. It is to be noted here the free slide being offered by Beresford is a mobile (on wheels) contraption and the pool for safety reasons needs to be roped off at the point of drop in order to protect swimmers in the water from the body dropping off the slide. What I see is one more toy the city is going have to store because it was not appropriate for our pool size and design. The other question is WHY did Beresford permanently remove this slide from their pool?
Agenda Item #10 (b)(f) – Police Department. Two things under this agenda item, first in spite of Mayor Glas’ penchant of Executive session/personnel the council proceeded to discuss in open session Officer Nelson’s Resignation, Certification Reimbursement, how much he should pay, how long he had to pay it back and possible garnishment of his wages (01:30:47) including reference to a former officer Tim Peete. BIG NO-NO.
Secondly the discussion of police officer interviews. A young candidate was present to schedule an interview because she was going to be out of the state at the time of interviews. Chief Doty’s plan was to interview prospective officer candidates and submit his pared-down choices for council interview. Unfortunately Police Chief Doty was called away prior to the meeting which ultimately became Mayor Glas, Finance Officer Jurrens and certain council members opening for aggressive micro-management of the police department. The group was busy making arrangements to interview all 8 or so candidates and then let Chief Doty know what their choice was. (01:46:26)
Agenda Item #10 (f)(2)-Set date for Special Police Meeting.
Meeting was set for May 21, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Agenda Item #12 (a)1-6 – Renovating the auditorium. Finance Officer Jurrens wants to put in new carpeting, new tile, stalls and flooring in the men’s room downstairs. There was talk of ADA compliant changes, yo how are those folks ADA gonna get down those steps? Duh?
Agenda Item #12 (b) – Lifeguards. A discussion took place about the hiring of Ms. Abby Walth as lifeguard. Councilman David Larsen moved to hire Ms. Walth at minimum wage, at which point Councilman Larsen asked FO Pat Jurrens the minimum wage amount per hour, FO Jurrens replied, “$8.81/hour” AMAZING The South Dakota minimum wage of $8.85/hour took effect on January 1, 2018. Another half-Glas’d job of disseminating important inFOrmation Councilwoman Darla Reppe seconded the motion, NO DISCUSSION and the council voted unanimous to hire Abby Walth at $8.81/per hour. Now the council is going to have a ‘DO-OVER!’ so Abby will be paid the proper wage. (02:23:27) So how many other minimum wage city employees have been short-paid since January 1, 2018?
Agenda Item #12(f)-Executive session. PERSONNEL 1-25-2.1 Go figure!
Well of course! Executive session began at 8:33 p.m. and ended at 9:08 p.m.
Agenda Item #12(h) – Set July meeting date.
Date for the regular Alcester Council meeting was changed from July 2, 2018, to July 10, 2018, at 6:00 p.m.
Agenda Item #17 Executive Session-PersonnelAGAIN!
Evidently the council was not done bashing personnel. The past four to five years council have gone into Executive council more times in two months that previous councils went into Executive session in four years barring a lawsuit session. Check the minutes see for yourselves how many executive sessions and how many times it was for PERSONNEL!
Council went into closed session for ‘personnel’ at 9:22 p.m. and back in open session at 9:35 p.m.
Immediately after opening the session and before the gallery could get back into the room, Mayor Glas appointed Councilwoman Melissa Kay to the Public Safety Committee. I did not hear the entire appointment because I was just approaching and entering the room and only caught part of the action. Since it did not appear on the agenda, I legitimately questioned the ‘appointment’ and received some short, terse, and snarky replies that it was for a committee appointment. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Council, YOU did not do the patiently waiting gallery the courtesy of allowing them back into the room and seated before you resumed business, effectively maintaining closed meeting because the public was not yet present in the room!
Motion to Adjourn
MEETING WAS ADJOURNED APPROXIMATELY 9:40 P.M.
Note: Certain council actions just after the council comes back into session from closed session are not always captured on camera. Upon the executive session declared, I remove my camera from its tripod taking it with me into the hallway. Upon the executive session declared back in open session, I return and re-attach the camera back to the tripod. A process which sometimes takes moments of council time that is not recorded.
Once again Mayor Glas failed to open the meeting properly (00:00:15), he just announced it’s time, let’s say the pledge and so the April 2, 2018, regular meeting of the Alcester City Council began with the presence of Mayor Glas, Councilman David Larsen, Councilman Lance Johnson, Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom-Lyle, Councilwoman Darla Reppe, City Attorney Tom Frieberg and his colleague Sam Nelson of Beresford.
The council unanimously and with no discussion approved the agenda and minutes of the March 5th regular city council meeting and the March 19th Special/ Equalization meeting with no changes or corrections.
Agenda Item #5-Alcester Bar/Theresa Deem After a far too short respite Madam Woolworth has returned with her hand out to the Alcester taxpayers wallet. It seems her stools are over-stapled, ‘tipsy’ and because, “…a lot of heavier people are sitting on them…” (00:01:50) she is afraid her stools cannot handle the ‘loads’ placed upon them and Madam, “don’t want nobody gettin’ hurt…”. Madam wants new stools at what she speculates to be $100-$150 a ‘plop’.
The council discussed Madam’s conundrum and none of the current council members had an idea of past council practices as it related to Madam Woolworth. In the past lease agreements, Deem Enterprises, LLC, managing member Theresa Deem affixed her signature to the Lease and Operating Agreement acknowledging her responsibilities as lessee under
Title XI REPAIRS – Page 5, “Operator (Theresa Deem) shall maintain the building premises and any improvements, additions or alterations thereto in a good, safe and substantially similar condition existing at the commencement of this Lease and Operating Agreement…Operator shall also, at her own cost and expense, put, and maintain in thorough repair and in good, safe, and substantial order and condition…Operator shall be responsible for all repairs of equipment…”
So when Madam, ‘re-tires’ from the bar, she can take her stools and ‘sit on them’ and save the city money spent hauling them away. The city needs to sell the bar building, get that Central Business property back on the tax rolls and stop the hemorrhage of cash spent to ‘float’ Madam’s booze boat. I believe Madam’s monthly lease went up to $1300 last operating agreement so she pays the $1300 then holds her right hand out for $1200-$3000 for ‘stools’. Where is our records custodian? Finance Officer Jurrens is the custodian of city records and she didn’t know to look at the Lease and Operating Agreement for the obligations and restrictions of the parties to the Lease? By-the-way have the Lease terms and Conditions named Title XIX, Title XXV and Title XXVI been complied with by the Deems and been verified by the city for 2018?
It was still early for the scheduled Planning Commission Public Hearing, the Seal Coat Bid Opening and Mr. Jones representing Alcester Townhouse Apartments was not yet present so the Mayor Glas called Public Input.
Agenda Item #9-Public Input was called. I responded. Prior to the meeting I provided the council members with a re-presentation of documents I presented to them in Public Input on June 5, 2017, and to which they failed to respond. Highlighted on the document was the establishment of an official city website on March 3, 2014, which included the members who made the motion, the members who voted aye which included the Alcester Councilwoman Pat Jurrens and Rick Johnson was Mayor.
This time there was a discussion but the discussion was a little troubling. Councilwoman Darla Reppe asked the question, “…are we required to have an official website?”(00:19:33) Finance Officer Pat Jurrens responded (00:20:33), “…as long as (minutes) are published in paper”
(SDCL 1-25-1.1 “…Also, if the public body has its own website, the notice must be posted on the public body’s website upon dissemination of the notice…The notice must be delivered in person, by mail, by email, or by telephone to all local news media who have asked to be notified…” and SDCL 1-27-1.17 “requires that draft minutes of public meetings must be made available to the public at the principal place of business for the public body within ten business days after the meeting (or made available on the website for the public body within five business days…”))
Councilwoman Reppe since you were not present at the March 3, 2014, council meeting when that council decision was made and along with your lack of gallery presence at subsequent Alcester City Council meetings until the evening of your interview and appointment as Ward III representative which could have bolstered your insight into how our municipalities operate, I understand your global ignorance of council procedures and how our municipality operates. Yeah Councilwoman Reppe and Finance Officer Jurrens, we are required because a previous council approved the official Alcester website and provided for taxpayer moneys to be used! Madam Finance Officer it fell to you (then Councilwoman Jurrens) who voted on the website to act upon the ratification of that council vote and later when you were appointed as Alcester Finance Officer it became your duty to work at or cause to be implemented the establishment the official city website as voted by the representatives of the people of Alcester! What were those definitions again, mal-feasance, mis-feasance and non-feasance as it relates to councilwoman oath/duty and finance officer job performance? Mayor Glas you have thrice been apprised of the website situation and you failed to enact the website directive. You have the duty to carry out that council vote once you were made aware of the website vote, failure to implement and proof of vote! Are you aware Mayor Glas of those definitions of mal-feasance, mis-feasance and non-feasance as they apply to your failure to act? On March 3, 2014, Alcester Councilwoman Kama Johnson moved to establish an official city website, Alcester Councilman Mike Burke made the second to the motion and Councilman David Larsen, Councilman Steve Johannsen, Councilman Mark Dykstra and Councilwoman Pat Jurrens voted unanimously to establish an official city website! Period! Councilman Dan Haeder responded, “…verify with legal if we have to have a website…vote not relevant to a past council…requirements…?” (00:21:04) So with all due respect Councilman Haeder if we drag our feet long enough, prior decisions of the council are automatically repealed by sitting council declaration? Is that what you are saying? So what is the time frame, a month, several months, a year? How long before we can ignore votes of the current council? I know ‘we the people’ can already refer, initiate or just move to compel compliance but how long must we wait to come up to an acceptable or widely practiced standard, a website?
Another part of my documentation to the city council was a formal complaint made on June 1, 2017, regarding the roll-off container with flammable materials located at 102 E Second Street violating Fire Code 2803.2, 2808.1, 2808.5, 2809.1, 5904.2, 5904.2.1, Alcester Municipal Code 3.0102E and 6.0212. I have had no response from Code Enforcement Officer Fillingsness or the city of Alcester. I have heard from other sources Finance Office has been saying, “…the city sidewalk in front of the bank doesn’t have the same restrictions as the residential sidewalks…” BALONEY! I have also heard reports of comments to the effect that, “…well if they make an effort to clean it up… it is discretionary…” BALONEY! Violations are violations, Period! It makes no difference whether it is the Alcester Tire and Service place (2015-CDBG Loan $15,000.00-Teri Metcalf) or the assistant finance officer’s son-in-law who is operating light industrial in the central business zone. Nepotistic discretion or Chamber discretion hold weight? Too many years of, “…it’s on our radar…” allowed a older gentleman by the name of Andrew to perpetrate a municipal nightmare. Well gents, your radar ain’t pingin’ right! Maybe, just maybe, that pingin’ on your radar is a UFO or UCO. Ya know one of them there Un-responsive Finance Officer or Un-responsive Code Officer zippin’ around the grid.
During Public Input I also addressed the Planning and Zoning revision noting the district map had an error on it, as well as and I addressed pages 23 and 32 which dealt with the construction materials. These pages prohibited corrugated metal, “…corrugated metal is not a permitted roofing material…”. NOTE: Both the 01/29/2018 nor the 04/02/2018 draft of the Planning and Zoning Revisions fail to define corrugated metal. Mayor Glas reveling in his ‘expertise’ undertook the task of educating me on the definition of corrugated metal. (00:41:58) Mayor Glas the definition of corrugated metal quite simply put is, metal sheeting which has been extruded (if you will) with a texture of ridges and grooves which provide strength to the metal sheet. Copper, aluminum and stainless steel are the most commonly available corrugated metals and Mayor Glas, these corrugated metals are recognized as an excellent form of residential roofing (corrugatedmetalroofing.net) so endeth the lesson Mayor Glas. Several Alcester residential homes have corrugated metal roofs, drive down Lincoln Drive some time Mayor. By-the-way check out the pot holes in the street while you are at it! In addition I told the council the Planning and Zoning revision failed to recognise and/or deal with global solar roofs and panels. It is easier to fix omissions in an ordinance update before the printing than after the printing and ratification.
Agenda Item #8-Alcester Townhouse Apartments-Dennis Jones At the conclusion of public input, Mr. Dennis Jones had arrived and his agenda item was moved up in the line-up. Mr. Jones was present to address a Property Maintenance Complaint on the property located at 101 SD Hwy 11. The property violates Property Maintenance Code and has done so for quite some time. Mr. Jones had voiced his concerns in the past with no action taken and he was concerned because he had seen a posting that the business was going to start taking used oil and batteries. So if the business is going to be put up for sale (per a 01-09-2018 Facebook posting) when will the property be cleaned up? The CDBG Loan balance due $10,377.05 to Teri Metcalf appears to be the same as Alcester Tire and Service?
Agenda Item #7-Open seal coat bids. The city received three bids for seal coat select streets in Alcester. Bid criteria was 20,000 square yards of CRS-2P to be put in place between June 15, 2018, and September 1, 2018.
Councilman Lance Johnson moved to accept the bid from Road Guys at $1.75/square yard of CRS-2P based upon 20,000 square yard purchase. Second by Julia Sundstrom-Lyle and a unanimous vote x 6 aye ratification.
Agenda Item #6-Planning Commission Public Hearing Upon the arrival of Mr. Patrick Andrews SECOG representative, the Planning Commission Public Hearing commenced. Discussions involving the telecommunication towers addition to the Planning and Zoning document, semantics discussion of appropriate use and conditional use definitions.
Councilman Dan Haeder moved to approve the first reading of the April 2, 2018, revision of the Alcester Planning and Zoning Regulations, with the second to his motion coming from Councilman David Larsen. No further discussion followed and vote was called with a unanimous X 6 Aye vote, affirming and ratifying the First Reading of the April 2, 2018, Alcester Planning and Zoning Regulation Revision.
Councilman Lance Johnson moved to set the Second reading of the April 2, 2018, Alcester Planning and Zoning Regulation Revision on the May 7, 2018, regular meeting agenda of the Alcester City Council (I presume under old business) with the second to Councilman Johnson’s motion from Councilwoman Darla Reppe, with no further discussion the vote was called with a unanimous X 6 Aye vote.
Agenda Item #10-City Employee Updates-Street Department-Pool Lonnie Johnson of the Alcester street department gave an update on asphalt repairs and requested a concrete pad be poured near the city shop to control water flow down grade away from the building. Concrete slab would be .5 X 16 X 30 with rebar reinforcement requiring 9.778 cubic yards of concrete. Bid from Larsen Construction was $2203.20. Councilman Lance Johnson moved to approve the project and the Larson Construction Bid of $2203.20 with a second to his motion coming from Councilwoman Darla Reppe and with no further discussion the vote was called with the council voting unanimously X 6 Aye.
Swimming pool issue was called with input from Councilwoman Melissa Kay and Councilman Dan Haeder on the opinion poll. Since the criteria of the original opinion poll changed with the advent of the notification from Beresford on the possibility of Alcester acquiring their projected surplus pool slide making the opinion poll irrelevant and redundant the council addressed the purchase of a diving board. Councilwoman Melissa Kay moved to purchase the diving board as presented by MCR at the quoted cost, the second came from Councilman David Larsen and with no further discussion the vote was called with the council voting unanimous X 6 Aye to approve the purchase of the diving board.
The slide issue was put off in order to gather more information about the slide. Unfortunately when I searched for Seawave model by Aqua Thrill, I found the domain name was lapsed and Seawave was now listed under Lincoln Aquatics and the Seawave model is a portable slide. In addition the criteria for slide installation and operation was sketchy. Particularly the operational and safety aspects. I found the suggested rules listed below, some are common sense but others will not allow certain children on the apparatus.
WATER SLIDE RULES:
Make sure the slide is mounted per the manufacture recommended specs for the slide and the pool size.
Children younger than six years old and shorter than three feet tall should not use pool slides.
Don’t push or scuffle on the latter or stairs of the slide. Only one person on the ladder at a time.
Wait your turn. Do not try to slide until you see the child before your has cleared the slide land area or left the pool.
Don’t slide holding objects that can get caught on the slide and cause injury.
Only One person at a time should be on the slide.
Slide down feet first only.
Never apply oils or lotions to the slide.
Never throw anything at anyone on a pool slide.
SPECIAL NOTES AND RULES:
The splash down area in the swimming pool must be clearly separated from the general recreational pool with buoy lines if the pool is not a dedicated slide land pool. Additional methods of egress may be required if the pool is separated with a buoy line.
A lifeguard shall be on duty at the slide whenever it is in use. Where possible one (1) attendant shall be stationed at the top of the tower, and one lifeguard at the splashdown area.
Agenda Item #11-City Employee Updates Water/Wastewater- No report. Finance Officer Pat Jurrens announced that assistant finance officer Wanda Halverson was updating sewer rates.
Agenda Item 12-City Employee Updates-Police Chief Police Chief Doty gave a statistics update, mentioning a break-in at the bar. No update on a parking issue. Police Chief Doty did ask for an executive session regarding police personnel issues. Councilman Lance Johnson moved to go into executive session to discuss police department personnel issues, the second came from Councilwoman Melissa Kay and with no discussion the vote was called with the council vote X 6 unanimously Aye. The Council went into executive session at 7:22 p.m. At 7:35 p.m. the council was declared out of executive session. Upon which Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom-Lyle moved to send Police Chief Chris Doty to Police Chief Convention with the second coming from Councilwoman Melissa Kay, with no public discussion the vote was called with the council voting X 6 unanimously Aye to approve the motion.
Skipping down the agenda to Agenda Item 15- Fair Board Update– City Councilwoman Darla Reppe and secondary Alcester City Council Fair Board representative was absent from the March 19, 2018, Alcester City Council meeting which was the Equalization meeting. Councilwoman Reppe announced (01:34:12) in the April 2, 2018, regular meeting of the Alcester City Council she failed to represent her constituents in Ward III with her presence in the March 19, 2018, meeting because she felt it was more important to debunk rumors about the Union County Fair and was instead addressing the Lions Club on behalf of the Fair Board. WOW!
Councilman Lance Johnson moved to adjourn the meeting, second from Councilwoman Darla Reppe and with no discussion the question was called with a unanimous X 6 Aye vote. Meeting adjourned at 8:17 p.m.
On Monday, March 19, 2018, Mayor Glas waited until Councilman Lance Johnson wandered back into the council room, jumped up and announced the pledge. Really again? Alcester City Council members present and quorum; Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilman David Larsen, Councilwoman Melissa Kay, and Councilman Lance Johnson. Absent Councilwoman Darla Reppe, Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom-Lyle and city attorney representative. Action taken during any meeting that is not properly opened or has not been properly noticed could, if challenged, be declared null and void. It could even result in personal liability for members of the governing body involved, depending upon the action taken. It appears Mayor Glas does need cue cards!
Agenda Item #3 was called and with no corrections Councilman David Larsen moved to approve the agenda as presented with the second coming from Councilman Lance Johnson, no discussion and unanimous vote times 4 approved the agenda.
Agenda Item #4 has no appointments for review of valuations within the city limits of Alcester had been received or documented. It was noted Beresford would be going through a full evaluation in 2019, but it was unknown when Alcester would be going through a city-wide re-assessment. It was also noted the assessment logs were not in a logical order, making it difficult to locate certain properties. In addition it was noted certain properties with tax exempt status or there was a question of tax exempt status.
Agenda Item #5 Public Input. I asked the council if they were familiar with Beacon-Schneider which could provide property information by rolling over the city map. In addition, to the questions of tax exempt status can be obtained by review the entity name via the South Dakota Secretary of State website.
Agenda Item #6 Executive session Again another executive session for personnel. This is ONLY to discuss SPECIFIC employees, not whether the finance office needs another $10K spending money for yoga ball chairs. Executive session began at 6:07 p.m. and lasted until 6:27 p.m. Really 20 minutes to discuss what batteries to use in the Police department tasers?
NOTE: I must apologise here, a technical glitch (me not properly activating a button, ya’ll would think I would know how to push buttons by now). Immediately after entering the council room, placing the camera back onto the tripod and hitting the record button, I was engaged in entering the 6:27 p.m. time back in session and didn’t realise the camera was not activated. The council was called back into session, I just didn’t get the last two minutes of the meeting on video.
Agenda Item #7 was called with updates the Landfill would be Open Monday April 2, 2018, and Spring clean-u[ would commence on April 13, 2018 and run through April 29, 2018.
Agenda Item #8 Adjournment was called with a motion to adjourn coming from Alcester City Councilman Lance Johnson and the second from Alcester Councilwoman Melissa Kay, no discussion and a unanimous times 4 vote of aye. Alcester Equalization meeting was adjourned at 6:29 p.m.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING IS APRIL 2, 2018, AT 6:00 p.m.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video with audio is priceless and it makes it tough to call me a liar-Vickie Larsen
On Monday, March 5, 2018, Mayor Tom Glas announced it was 6:00 p.m. let’s open the meeting. (video 00: 00:11). Really again? Alcester City Council members present; Councilman Dan Haeder, Councilman David Larsen, Councilwoman Julia Sundstrom-Lyle, Councilman Lance Johnson, Councilwoman Darla Reppe and Councilwoman Melissa Kay. Absent city attorney representative. Action taken during any meeting that is not open or has not been properly noticed could, if challenged, be declared null and void. It could even result in personal liability for members of the governing body involved, depending upon the action taken. (CONDUCTING THE PUBLIC’S BUSINESS IN PUBLIC, A guide to South Dakota’s Open Meetings Law (Revised Fall 2015),Prepared by representatives of the: S.D. Attorney General’s Office S.D. Municipal League Associated School Boards of S.D. S.D. Association of County Commissioners S.D. Association of County Officials S.D. Newspaper Association S.D. Broadcasters Association S.D. Association of Towns and Townships, Published by: South Dakota Newspaper Association 1125 32nd Ave. Brookings, SD 57006)
John Wooden said, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
Mayor Glas, here is an abbreviated script of calling a meeting to order, “Good evening! It’s 6:00 p.m. and I’d like to call the March 5, 2018, regular meeting of the Alcester City Council meeting to order.” You could have cue cards made and have someone hold up the appropriate card, whenever you need prompting.
Agenda Item #3-Approve the agenda– Mayor Glas upon calling for approval of agenda announced the meeting agenda once again needed to be amended by adding item (d) bid for chip sealing to Agenda Item #8. Once an agenda has been posted no changes can be made unless they are emergencies. Folks, chip sealing was already discussed in the February 5, 2018, regular meeting under City Employee updates under street updates referencing a collaboration with the city of Beresford. The February 5 agenda regular meeting agenda change of a one-time burn at the golf course was not an emergency nor was the chip sealing issue an emergency on the March 5 agenda regular meeting change. Agenda’s must be posted no later than 24 hours in advance of the meeting.
SDCL 1-25-1.1.”Notice of meetings of public bodies other than the state and its boards, commissions, and departments–Violation as misdemeanor. All public bodies, except the state and each state board, commission, or department as provided in § 1-25-1.3, shall provide public notice, with proposed agenda, that is visible, readable, and accessible for at least an entire, continuous twenty-four hours immediately preceding any meeting, by posting a copy of the notice, visible to the public, at the principal office of the public body holding the meeting…”
Agenda Item #4-Approve minutes – Mayor Glas called the question to approve minutes, Councilwoman Darla Reppe moved to accept the minutes (as provided to the council by Finance Officer Pat Jurrens) Councilman David Larsen called for correction to the minutes. Councilman Larsen pointed out the regular city council meeting was held on Monday, February 5, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. not Sunday, February 4, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. In addition he pointed out the Masthead date on the city’s official paper, The Alcester Union-Hudsonite was inaccurate. The Masthead date showed the date of Thursday, February 18, 2018. February 18 was a Sunday not a Thursday. Please note here that Finance Officer Pat Jurrens failed to inform the council she did not have the correct date of the regular meeting, thereby allowing the council to approve an error. The council approved the corrected minutes of February 5, 2018.
Agenda Item #5-Public Input– I(Vickie Larsen) answered the call for public input. I pointed out the council had approved the Alcester Union-Hudsonite newspaper as the official city newspaper and published legal documents and notices with time sensitive dates. Any Masthead date errors such as the February 18, 2018, could have consequences regarding the time period to refer ordinances, resolutions and etc. For example the flowery prosy Extract of Minutes of Meeting of the City Common Council of City of Alcester, dear sweet Aunt Polly. In what archaic book of forms did the finance office find that one? This creative alliterative prose wasn’t drawn up by the former city attorney and I checked with the office of the new city attorney and they said they didn’t write this piece of ye olde prose (my words not theirs), so I must assume the finance office put on their round conical lawyer hat and ‘writ’ their own resolution. Now this resolution from the date of publication, February 18, 2018, we the people have 20 days to refer this assault on our collective wallets. Oh but February 18, 2018, was on a Sunday. I recommended the council confer with their legal counsel. After some discussion the council decided to contact the publisher of The Alcester Union-Hudsonite for a correction in the next issue of the newspaper which in my opinion could have the effect of adding another seven days on to the already three day late publish date. In other words, it could have the effect of adding another ten days in which to refer Ye olde sales tax revenue bond. I also recommended the Finance Officer indicate the whether the minutes were council approved or unapproved minutes. It is important for the citizens of Alcester to understand current practice has been to publish the unapproved minutes with any corrections MAYBE coming the month later publication of minutes and again in unapproved publication form!
Agenda Item #6 Road Safety Improvement Project DOT 929-08/2015 Joint Powers PH0020 (187) PCN-06JK – this involved sign replacements as translated by Finance Officer Pat Jurrens. The council was provided a copy of the contract required for participation in this project for replacing street signs. Alcester Finance Officer Pat Jurrens prefaced her explanation (video 00:08:35) with reference to the Alcester City Council of Four years ago took the line that they were unwilling to cover the liability of sign replacement if for some reason the signs were destroyed. H-m-m so who was on that council? Let’s see Mayor Rick Johnson, Mark Dykstra, Mike Burke, Kama Johnson, David Larsen and of course COUNCILWOMAN PAT JURRENS!
The story goes like this, “In the May 5, 2014, regular meeting of the Alcester City council…MAYOR RICK JOHNSON announced he signed up for ‘free street signs and wanted council permission to sign an agreement ASAP. Councilman Larsen and Councilman Dykstra asked to see the agreement since MAYOR RICK JOHNSON failed to share advance information with the council. Upon reading the city would be liable for the cost of materials and engineering if it didn’t maintain the signs and records. The council said NO! Given his responses to questions, it became clear MAYOR RICK JOHNSON failed to ‘read’ the agreement he was so anxious to sign because apparently he missed the payback clause and the cost of payback! WOW…”*
Imagine Finance Office Pat Jurrens ‘FORGOT’ all about her starring role as Alcester Councilwoman during that discussion. Imagine that! WATCH OUT FOR THE FO BUS BOYS! Mayor Glas and FO Pat want those street signs up to code and BY Golly Gummed Up catastrophe it NEEDS to be done! Now folks the council voted to approve this time but the scary thing is Councilman Lance Johnson voted to do the visual sign replacement with the second coming from Councilwoman Melissa Kay, discussion happened and the good folks realised they needed to amend the motion to allow Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Pat Jurrens to sign the document (presumably) WITHOUT presenting the final document to the council for approval. Watch video of this (video 00:23:51) Anyone have a problem with this scenario? We really want to trust a pair that have trouble getting the agenda right not once but at least twice. Or get the date of the regular city council meeting correct BEFORE putting it out for publication?
*Vickie A. Larsen, a View from the Gallery, published May 15, 2014, The Alcester Union-Hudsonite newspaper.
Agenda Item #7 Planning and Zoning– Set meeting for public hearing for the next council meeting on April 2, 2018, 6:15 p.m.
Agenda Item #8-Street Department – (c) parking on 4th street and feuding neighbors. Yup folks it is true. Finance Officer Pat brought up an incident where two parties were creating a bottleneck on a narrow street and FO Pat thought the city might need to another parking ordinance limiting parking on one side of the street only. ONE INCIDENT and she was questioning a need for an ordinance? Ya Kiddin’ me. Leave it to the police department!
Agenda Item #10-Police Department – Alcester Police Chief Chris Doty gave an update on department activities in the past month specifically referencing a mutual aid call to Beresford on the ‘trunk jumper’ in Beresford on Thursday, February 22, 2018. There was NO agenda item involving an Executive session for the Police Department. At the conclusion of Chief Doty’s updates, council members briefly talked among themselves with Councilman Lance Johnson asking, “… about that Thursday conversation with Chief Doty and whether it was common knowledge”, (video 01:02:25)Chief Doty replied, “no”. At which Councilman Dan Haeder moved to go into Executive session for personnel, the second came from Councilman Lance Johnson, council approved and Mayor Glas declared the council in Executive session and Pat Jurrens remained in the Executive session with the council. At this point Pat Jurrens has no privileged standing, therefore she should not be included in the Executive session unless she is the focus of allegations. Since Pat Jurrens is not a member of the Police Department she is not entitled to be a part of the discussion. If notes are required, the president of the council is called upon to take any session notes, not the city bookkeeper!
I QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL.
Alcester Councilman Lance Johnson asked about some information Chief Chris Doty shared with him on Thursday night. Councilman Lance Johnson asked the question, “IS THIS COMMON KNOWLEDGE?” If Councilman Lance Johnson is asking this question, it means a specific named employee of the city was not the focus of the Executive session! A Violation of Executive session!SDCL 1-25-2 allows a public body to close a meeting for the following purposes: 1) to discuss personnel issues pertaining to officers or employees;… Any official action based on discussions in executive session must, however, be made at an open meeting.”
Agenda Item 12 (h) Employee Updates-Finance Office – Executive session Now folks this generic Executive session operates as a JUST-IN-CASE-WE NEED-IT-EXECUTIVE-SESSION because as I explained above if it is not included on the agenda, it cannot happen! (i.e. the police department executive session).
Mayor Glas called Executive session agenda item, asking if anyone needed an Executive session. (video 01:36:28 ) Councilwoman Melissa Kay raised her hand and commented, ” I would like to discuss some things in the employee manual (waving what appeared to be the employee manual) and police manual…” Councilwoman Melissa Kay moved to go into Executive session to discussion personnel issues, second came from Councilman Dan Haeder. Vote Aye times 6. The council entered into Executive session at 7:56 p.m. and exited the session at 8:26 p.m.
I AGAIN QUESTION THE VALIDITY OF EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL.
A Violation of Executive session!SDCL 1-25-2 allows a public body to close a meeting for the following purposes: 1) to discuss personnel issues pertaining to officers or employees; Specific employees or officers! First, any Employee Manual employee violation and any Police Manual violations cannot be dealt within ONE Executive session. VIOLATION It is not an appropriate discussion if employees should be allowed to take their PTO for illness to take care of children under school age when the spouse is sick. Or even when employees can or cannot take PTO, Leave or Comp time—NOT Executive session material. Second, the Police Manual in and of itself is not Executive session material valid. What cannot be discussed in open session is specific investigations or events.
Agenda Item #14-HRC UPDATE-Mayor Glas is upset ’cause the HRC committee said the little Beck Drive lot sign on SD Hwy 46 was ineffective and needed to be moved. I told the Mayor and council this some time ago. The rule of thumb in Highway advertising is the traveling speed on the highway, the number of seconds a person has to view the sign at that speed, eye or above eye level and complexity of the sign. One must KISS it for highway advertising. Keep the design simple, 3-5 second readability and eye level or above. The Beck drive sign on Highway 46 is down in the ditch, complex design and the lettering is so small one has to stand on the highway for full readability. Mayor Glas had already purchased the signs, they were a sittin’ in the basement for a year and by golly they needed to be put up and he finally got the job done. Five signs at (just guessing here) $150-$200 a pop and totally worthless for outside city limits advertising. Salute Mayor Glas! Check out ( video 01:39:54)
Agenda Item #15-Alcester Community Building-Real Estate Purchase Agreement. Agreement needs changes regarding dates, liability and etc. The council authorised Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Pat Jurrens to sign the final draft. I feel the council should review the final draft of any agreement before Mayor Glas and Finance Officer Jurrens sign it, we have had too many revisions and amendments because the Mayor and city bookkeeper cannot accurately proof read legal documents as to dates and contexts. These signatures could bind the city inextricably to conditions Alcester city residents/taxpayers cannot afford.
Agenda Item #18 Adjourn Meeting was adjourned at 8:39 p.m.
Board of Equalization appeal deadline: March 15, 2018
Board of Equalization meeting: March 19, 2018 6:00 p.m.
Regular Alcester City Council Meeting April 2, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Planning and Zoning Public Hearing: April 2, 2018 6:15 p.m.
CITY POOL WEED VIOLATION
CITY POOL WEED VIOLATION
CITY PARK HORSESHOE PIT
LOOKING SO DEPOT ALLEY
LOOKING NORTH DEPOT ALLEY
CITY PARK BACKSTOP WEEDS
CITY PARK BACKSTOP WEEDS
CITY PARK TREE VIOLATION
CITY PARK TREE VIOLATION
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