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Artesian Town Board proceedings

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Published March 14, 2013, in Public Notices

UNApproved Minutes
March 6, 2013
The Town of Artesian Council met on March 6, 2013 in regular session in the Artesian Community Center. Council Member Effling called the meeting to order with Council Members Danek and Finance Officer Ebersdorfer and Tom Fridley present.
The minutes of the February 6, 2013 meeting were read. Motion to approve by Danek, seconded by Effling, motion carried. Motion by Danek, second by Effling, to approve the Financial Statement and approval of vouchers as presented by Ebersdorfer. Motion carried.
The following vouchers were presented for the month:
Monthly Disbursements February 28, 2013:
Molly Ebersdorfer, General 500.00
USDA, Sanitation 341.67, Sanitation 774.33
Xcel Energy, General 1,209.65
USPO, General 32.00
Dawson Construction, Sanitation 1,018.96
Forestburg Elevator, General 132.78
Fire Department, General 125.00
Butler Machinery Co., Sanitation 565.51
Payroll Expense, General 82.16
Tom Fridley, General 420.00, Sanitation 154.00
Old Business:
Committee Reports:
Lagoon: No change.
Streets:
Sewer/Garbage: Reviewed accounts receivable and discussion was held on past due accounts.
Pool: Motion by Danek, second by Effling, to offer the lifeguard position to Lara Brink. Motion carried. Pool to open May 25, 2013.
New Business: Equalization meeting will be held March 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Artesian Community Center. Motion by Danek, seconded by Effling, to accept December 31, 2013 year end financial statements. Motion carried. Danek made a motion to accept lowest bid for mowing from Ryan Pearson, seconded by Effling. Motion carried. Motion by Danek for landlords to be responsible for utility charges on rental property, seconded by Effling; motion carried. No election to be held for 2013 year.
The next meeting will be April 3, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in the Artesian Community Center.
There being no further business brought before the Council, meeting adjourned.
Molly
Ebersdorfer
Finance Officer
Town of Artesian
Kurt Effling
Council Member

Woonsocket City Council proceedings

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Published March 14, 2013, in Public Notices

Woonsocket City Council proceedings
March 4, 2013
The regular meeting of the Woonsocket City Council was called to order by Mayor, Lindy Peterson at 7:00 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2013 in the Woonsocket City Council Room with the following members present: Richard Reider, Richard Regynski, John Ames, Don Schmidt, Brandon Goergen and Jim Steichen.
Motion by Goergen, seconded by Regynski, to approve the agenda. Motion carried.
The February 4, 2013 minutes were approved as written.
Motion by Reider, seconded by Schmidt, to approve the Financial Statement. Motion carried.
The Annual Report was accepted as written.
Motion by Ames, seconded by Steichen, to approve the following bills.
Farmers Alliance, $716.09 Propane
NAPA, $63.48 Shop
Express 2, $1,045.67 Shop
Department of Revenue, $230.00 Water
Darin’s Market, $35.66 Shop
Wheelers, $4.88 Supplies
Milbank Winwater, $18,500.00 Water Meters
Tara Weber Change Fund, $138.60 Postage/Misc.
Supplemental Retirement, $180.00 Steve
Santel Communications, $219.21 Phone
Menards, $112.15 Shop
Lawson Products, $186.69 Snow
KO’s Pro Service, $132.36 Shop
Hawkins, $20.00 Water
Sanborn Weekly Journal, $133.34 Publishing
Northwest Pipe Fitting, $157.94 Shop
Express Stop, $176.21 Shop
Todd Brueske Construction, $84.80 Streets
SD Retirement Plan, $882.32 Retirement
Department of Revenue, $176.67 Sales Tax
First National Bank South Dakota, $1,879.97 Payroll Tax
NorthWestern Power Service, $2,489.17 Utilities
Total: $27,565.21
Payroll
General   $2,197.17
Water       $2,413.12
Sewer       $1,569.06
Total:       $6,179.35
OLD BUSINESS
Council discussed the dock.
Council discussed the Employee Evaluations.
Council discussed the Audit. Motion by Regynski, seconded by Goergen, to accept the findings of ELO. Motion carried.
Council discussed the mowers up for surplus sale.
Council discussed the Cemetery Road.
Council discussed one in meters. The meters that are needed to have everyone on the same meter will be ordered.
Council discussed the pool.
Council discussed Christmas lights.
Motion by Goergen, seconded by Schmidt, to approve the second reading of the Finance Officer Ordinance. Motion carried.
NEW BUSINESS
Council discussed the 2012 Water Report.
Council will meet as a local Equalization Board on March 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Room.
Council discussed a central air unit.
Council approved a 5k walk/run which will be sponsored by the Methodist/Lutheran Youth Group.
Council discussed the old water tower.
Council discussed snow routes/truck routes.
Council discussed a new computer for the shop and water meters.
Council discussed a request from Active Bodies Creative Center. A letter of support was written for this program.
With no further business to be discussed, motion by Reider, seconded by Steichen to adjourn the meeting. Meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m.
Lindy Peterson
Mayor
(SEAL):
Tara Weber
Finance Officer

Week Nine of the 88th Legislative Session

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Published March 14, 2013, in Opinion

By Rep. Scott Parsley, Dist. 8
The main run of the first year of the 88th session of the South Dakota Legislature came to an end late on Friday evening, March 8.
This year’s legislative session had two very significant accomplishments, but we could have done better in some areas.
The two pillars of the session were the passage of the “Criminal Reform Act,” SB 70 and the “Building South Dakota” economic development plan for the future, SB 235.
SB 70, the Criminal Reform Act, will provide resources for the establishments of Drug Courts and Alcohol Courts. Both of these courts will allow judges to sentence those who committed non-violent crimes where alcohol or drugs are involved to one of these two alternatives rather than jail. Today the law requires jail sentences for any crime, violent or non-violent, even when it is plain to see that alcohol or drugs played a major role in the crime.
These courts have been used with great success in many other states. The results elsewhere have been reduced recidivism as well as significant reductions in criminal court costs and reduced need for new prisons.
The second pillar of this year’s legislative session was SB 235, the Building South Dakota Act, which was passed the last day of the session. SB 235 is a very unique approach to economic development incentives for large business while providing resources for developing South Dakota.
In order for a large business to receive an incentive it must be determined that the business would not come to South Dakota without the incentive. If the business is awarded an incentive, the form of the incentive will be a forgiveness of one to four percent of the sales tax paid during construction. All of the contractors excise tax paid by this business during construction along with a portion of the Unclaimed Bank Property will fund the Building South Dakota Fund. This fund will be used for five different purposes, 25 percent for the South Dakota Housing Trust fund, 25 percent for infrastructure development, 15 percent for grants to local economic development efforts, five percent REDI reinvestment and 30 percent to K-12 workforce education.
This is a very unique approach to economic development by using resources from big projects to fund other economic development efforts in the state. In particular this is unique in its funding of K-12 education, one of the most important aspects of economic development, outside of the education funding formula.
While some very positive things were accomplished in this session, there were things that we could have done better. In funding education and Medicaid, two areas of the budget that had significant cuts in 2011, received minor increases in the 2014 budget.
The Governor’s budget proposal for 2014 called for a three percent increase in funding to education and Medicaid, both of which were approved in the 2014 budget. However these were not real three percent increases as both education and Medicaid received one time monies in 2013 which was included when the calculations were made. Effectively this means that education received a real increase of about 1.8 percent and Medicaid received an increase of slightly under one percent. With this increase we are funding education at $7 per student less than five years ago.
All in all, the 88th session of the South Dakota Legislature had some very significant accomplishments as well as leaving funding for education and Medicaid not yet fully resolved.
I would like to thank the voters of District 8 for trusting me to represent you in Pierre. I enjoyed hearing from you during the session and ask that you would stay in touch with me and share ideas you may have for the upcoming legislative session. Thank you for your confidence and support.

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