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ATTENTION TAXPAYERS: Notice of Property Tax Increase of $5,000

RESOLUTION FOR OPT OUT AND VOTE TO BE HELD

THE GOVERNING BOARD OF Benedict Township do state that the above said board is unable to operate under the tax limitation measure currently in statute. We therefore OPT OUT of such tax limitation in the amount of $5,000 starting with the calendar year 2024 taxes payable in the calendar year 2025. This opt out will be for five (5) years, which will be through taxes payable in the calendar year 2029. This action has been taken by the board and approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the board.

Also, be it resolved that the GOVERNING BOARD OF Benedict Township will conduct an election to approve or disapprove the tax levy opt out pursuant to SDCL 10-13-36. The election will be held on March 5, 2024.

Signed: 

Robert Hetland III, 

Board Chairman

Tyler Hoffman, 

Board Member

Ryan Olson, 

Board Member

Don Klinkner, 

Board Member

Date: March 5, 2024

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Mayor Mark Chada called the meeting to order with Sean Gromer, Angie Larson, and Angie Meier in attendance. A visitor to the meeting was Andy Ettswold.

A motion was made by Gromer, seconded by Larson, carried, to approve the February 26th, 2024, minutes as read.

A motion was made by Gromer, seconded by Larson, carried, to approve the financials as presented.

Old Business: 

Update on the ballfield: Chada contacted Pro-Contracting, and they will be coming up in the next week to lay cement in the dugouts. Chada contacted Tanner Cross about getting prices for posts and installing the posts as he did the backstops in Mount Vernon and Salem. The Board is waiting to hear back from Cross. Discussion was also held on the lights at the ballpark. Morris Electric has ordered the lights. 

Meier talked to the board for Janet Maeschen as she was unable to attend about the 4-H group planting some trees throughout the Town of Letcher for Arbor Day. A motion was made by Gromer, seconded by Larson, carried, to approve the 4-H group to plant trees.  

New Business: 

Discussion was held on placing an ad in the paper for summer help. The Board will place the ad in the paper the end of March.  

A motion was made by Gromer, seconded by Larson, carried, to approve the following claims for payment:

GENERAL AND WATER/SEWER: Ed Hoffman – $544.10 – Wages – Water Superintendent, Santel Communications – $252.35: Utilities – Office – Phone and Internet: $125.94, Community Center – Phone and Internet – $80.17, Lift Station – Phone – $46.24, South Dakota Rural Water Association – $385.00 – Annual Dues, Letcher Fireman’s Reserve – $2,100.00 – Annual Dues, Health Pool of South Dakota – $1,604.91 – Health Insurance, Tori Hoffman – $92.35 – Wages – Meter Reader, Sean Gromer – $554.10 – Wages – Maintenance Worker, Angie Meier – $1,243.20 – Wages: $700.00 for Annual Report and $543.20 – Wages – Finance Officer, CorTrust Bank – $5.00 – Fees for Safe Deposit Box. 

The next board meeting will be held on March 18th, 2024, at 7 p.m. at the town office.  

Angie Meier

Finance Officer

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A special meeting of Benedict Township was held Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 6:45 p.m. at the Artesian Community Center.

Members attending were Bob Hetland III, Tyler Hoffman, Ryan Olson, Don Klinkner and Margaret Spelbring.

Motion by Don Klinkner and seconded by Bob Hetland III to vacate two miles of Benedict Township road:

That existing public right-of-way which includes the statutory right-of-way and any right-of-way acquired by Deed(s) lying on the section line highway running east and west commonly known as 231st Street bordered by 413th Avenue on the east and 412th Avenue on the west, and bordered on the north by Section 30, Township 107 North, Range 59, Benedict Township, Sanborn County, South Dakota, and bordered on the south by Section 31, Township 107 North, Range 59, Benedict Township, Sanborn County, South Dakota; said road being approximately 66 feet in width and approximately one (1) mile in length.

That existing public right-of-way which includes the statutory right-of-way and any right-of-way acquired by Deed(s) lying on the section line highway running east and west commonly known as 232nd Street bordered by 413th Avenue on the east and 412th Avenue, and bordered on the north by Section 31, Township 107 North, Range 59, Benedict Township, Sanborn County, South Dakota, and bordered on the south by Section 6, Township 106 North, Range 59, Diana Township, Sanborn County, South Dakota; said road being approximately 66 feet in width and approximately one (1) mile in length.

Meeting adjourned.

Margaret Spelbring, 

Clerk, 

Benedict Township

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